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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24
EYE DEFECTS OF FIRST
GRADERS, Is PERCENT

STATE COLLEGE. Pa, Mar
24.-CUP)-Worried parents who
think their offspring are not get
ting along well enough in school
should have the chiIdrcn's eyes
examined, DR.. Emmett A. Belts,
research professor in education at
the Pennsylvania State college,
believes. =,
"Onc-third TO one-fourth of all
pupils fail in first grade reading
because they are not physically
ready to learn to read ut the age
of G." Dr.. Belts said. Sometimes,
too, children are not mentally or
emotionally ready to read when
they enter the first grade. They
have not had the proper expert
ence with books at home, and
they cannot adjust themselves So
cially to groups.
For some first grade children,
it is more convenient to read
from right to left than from left
to right. Such things block the
general educational progress OF
the child" =,
DR.. Belts reading clinic, de-
signed to correct reading Difficult
ties which 1etard children and
adults in their educational proc
esses, is one Of the few such elm
les in the United States. He has
evolved q few simple, tests for
Dcrsons who are not sure they
have eve troubles. One of the
things he has learned is that II
your eyes jump more than tve
times as you read Il line Of ordi-
nary newspaper type, chances are
YOU have reading. trouble.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24
So6 WORLD GROUPS
ARE ENDEAVORlNG TO
MAKE LIFE BETTER

GENEVA, Mar. 2i.-'-fuf)
,rbc,c are 1877 more international
., an;zations aimed ut making
,h,. world 4 better place to live
- todov than there were two
years ago.
The League of Nations Hand
hook Of International Organiza-
fans lust issued here, reveals
49, there are now SOC such in
st;tnt;ons as compared to the to-
tal Of coo in 1886 when the last
previous figures were compiled.
The largest increase was SHOWN
IN international organizations de-
voted TO humanitarian reforms,
Of which there were lO2 in 1886
as against 1913 today.
The second largest rise was
marked in the domain OF femin-
ism with an increase Of IT over
the nine listed in 1886. Organiza-
tions aimed at establishment of
neace throughout the world were
ranked third, jumping from SO to
IS. The only decrease recorded
concerned those international
bodies given over to improving
communications and transit facil-
tiles, which dropped from 49 to
As.
The fostering of arts and sci
cnces moved up by three, while
international press associations
remained almost unchanged at II
in the previous census TO II to-
day.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24
WILL FIX CENTER OF
CANDY BRIDGE FOR
TAX, LEGAL PURPOSES


TAMPA. Flu, Mar. 81 ltID,
Where is the middle oil Candy
bridge, srven-mile long structure
spanning Tampa bay between 81
Petersburg and Tampa?
HiIlsborough county tTampa)
Tax Assessor W. 5. SparNman
would like 10 know.
Under 1881 and 1917 acts OF
the Florida legislature, the bragg
i assessed Us railroad tfacKaSe:
IL pays taxes on 4 valuation o.
S66 900.
SnarAman said he had been go
ina ON "uesswork since the bridge
wal ourncd more than 10 years
ago. The county line become IN
Vowed i'm litigation when PineiIaS
county (St. PetcrSburgl was
created and Sparkman said there
was still considerable confusion
"a to where the line lies in Tampa
bay. -. .
'.Ir we can get another mile or
half mile of the bridge in this
county" Sparkman said, Il want
it"
In addition to the taxing prob
lem. Sparkman told the county
line ought to be definitely eSta0-
hshed.
"YOu might have = murder or
some traffic case On the bridge,
and then who would know IN
which county it happened" he
said
The board agreed, and instruct
ed the county engineer and coun-
~ attorneys to confer and settle
the pcrplexing problem.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24
AUSTRALIAN PINES
TO BE GUARD RAIL
ALONG EVERGLADES

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla,
Mar. l.-tUPt Traffic authori-
ties believe trey nave found ii
way to halt the alarming toll Of
lives taken by automobile acct
dents along the roads running in
TO the Everglades to the west of
this city.
They have found that Austria
il;.n pine trees, which grow rap
idly and require little care. will
form an effective guard rail
alony the roads.
Casualties along the Ever =
yladeS highways chiefly on the
road leading from West Palm
Beach To Belle Glade--were due
mainly To the fact that the high
way parallels = canal. In wet
weather there was danger OF
ykidding off into the water and,
Que 10 the Scant population along
the highway. aid WAS seldom
close ut hand.
\ little over I year ago the
s.atc road department launched
. safety campaign by planting
the Australian pines ScNera! feet
arart along the roads paralleling
aunls. Some OF the young trees
.,lrcadv are six inches iii diameter
NJ the base and serve as an Ell
fcctivc guard rail a. we'll us beau
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! Some bitterly criticized him.
Everything depended upon what
they thought Of him.
ca The Right Idea in Aim,
Had come-had seen" The dele
cation from Jerusalem came u
good distance. But their purpose
was not sincere. Their object was
sinister. Hence, their vision was
blurred and rcfracted. They saw,
but could not see straight.
CD The Right Idea in Action.
His disciples ate their bread with
-unwaShcn handS-the Jews, eX-
cept they wash their hands dill
gently, eat not" 1t was not a
question of sanitation, but cere-
monialiSm. The Jews were bound
by tradition. But the disciples had
been liberated from the letters
of Journalism. Sincerely surpasscS
fOrmality.
ca The Right Idea in Inquiry.
THE Pharisees and the scribes
ask him." They were inquirerS
who did not wish to know the
truth. They were quibblers who
wanted to entangle Jesus in his
talk. Their question was tinged
with scorn. But who can learn
the truth unless he seeks it with
whole heart?
CD The Right Idea in Speech.
This people honoreth me with
their lips" They could speak
beautiful words. They could sub
scribe to lovely sentiments. Their
voices, however, were like the
Changing cymbal. There was about
them the hollowness Of hypocrisy.
Let no word be hypocrtical.
CO The Right Idea in Spirit;
Their heart is far from me-"
This is the one supreme thing IN
our lesson both to God and to
men. When the heart is distant
and cold, nothing else can be ac-
ceptable. "S0n, give me thy
heart" Then the conSecrated
heart will go into everything we
think or say or do.
CD The Right Idea in Worship:
"ln vain do they worship. me.
The exercises may have been or
nate. The forms may have been
correct. External commands may
have been carried out. But the
spirit Of worship was lacking.
Hence, it was vain. To worship
God at all, we must worship him
in spirit and in truth.
60 The Right Idea in ObserV-
ancc 1.-The commandment of God
the tradition of the elders. vi
course, it is wrong to substitute
human tradition for divine COM
mand. But we may even obey
divine command without putting
heart into it. Therefore, sincerity
is required in even the forms of
religion or they become mockery
in the sight of God.
90 The Right Idea in Doctrine.
Teaching as their doctrines the
precepts of men," Our beliefs
profoundly react upon our char
acter and conduct. We never be-
lieve wrong and do right. Happily
we can believe right and live &C
cordingly. But sincerity will be
required.
QO) The Right Idea in Obe-
dience. "Moses said--but ye say
making void the word of God
| by your tradition" In other
, words, their obedience was not
obedience. In seeming compliance
with the word of the law they ut
terly destroyed its spirit. Such
obedience is actual disobedience.
| 1t lacks heart power. 1t is insin-
| rarp
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| hands," 1t was not that they car
cd so much for the ceremony Of
cleanliness and still less that they
wished to reclaim the disciples
from their supposed hayward
ness. 1t was, rather, Il thrust at
Jesus and subtle attempt to dis
credit him in the eyes of the ira
! dition-bound people.
RELIGION OUTRAGED BY
CONDUCT
MARK 7: 6-l3)
THE COMMENT of Jesus show
ed how religion may be outraged
by conduct. In reply to the scribes
Jesus first quoted an apt asser-
, ton from Isaiah: This people
honoreth me with their lips, but
their heart is far from me-" Spir-
ituality had been displaced by
formality. And at the bottom Of
this detection was the promulga-
ton Of false doctrine, namely, the
teaching of the commandments OF
men instead of the doctrines OF
God. They laid aside the divine
commandment and put in its place
the traditions of men as illustrat-
ed in their minute and multiplied
ceremonial additions. Truly and
strongly he turned upon his crit
les with the declaration: Fail
well do We reject the command
mcnt of God, that We keep your
tradition" Then Jesus follows the
quotation with an illustration and
it's application. He takes the fifth
commandment as an example. Mo-
ses commanded, "Honor thy IA
Their and thy mother" and the
penalty of disObedience was
death. But these critics had so
covered up the original command
with the commandments OF men
that they had actually nullified
the ancient and ever-bindlng law.
They taught that if a son wished
to escape the duty of parental
support ne could merely label his
property as "Corban," that is,
gift of God; but he could keep
the property as long as he would
and use it for whatever ne chose
except the one thing of support
inc his parents. 1t was a most
shocking and perverSe equivoca-
ton performed in the very name
of God, whose primal law was
thereby trampled under foot.
Thus the hypocrites were, as
Jesus said, guilty of making void
the word of God by your tradi-
ton, which we have delivered:
and many such like things We do"
These critics were thus shown to
be quibblers of the Smost childish
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24
PILOT VIEW

PILOT VIEW, Mar, 24.-Mrs.
Hattie Pace of North Blue Ridge
spent the past week here with her
mother, Mrs. Sam SearSey.
Rosco Stepp and Gene Justice
of East Flat Rock were visitors
in this section Sunday.
Bill Wells visited at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Young of
Union Hill Sunday night.
Mrs. Rud Lyday and Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard LYDIA of Fruitland
spent Sunday afternoon here with
Mr.. and Mrs. Andy Stepp.
Mrs. Bob Jones and children
spent Monday afternoon with Mr..
and Mrs. Sam Searsey.
James Young of East Blue
Ridge and Miss Willie Johnson
were supper guests of Mr.: and
Mrs. Blaine Stepp Sunday night.
Miss Carrie Lee Ruff, who has
had the measles, is able to return
to school.
j. w. Beddingfeld and r. f.
Paris and Mrs. Bill Pittillo, all
of Fruitland, were visitors in this
section Saturday. 40 .,-.'.,,e a
Manney Williams visited Mr..
and Mrs. Hicks Jones of East
Blue Ridge section recently.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24

Palm Beach county estimated that
in only four months at least %
persons were saved from drown
ing in roadside canals by the
program that has been worked
out.
While the effectiveness of the
Australian pine barrier cannot be
checked positively, it was pointed
out by traffic and highway Off
GERS that almost daily trees are
damaged or destroyed by automo-
biles - indicating that if the
trees had not been there the cars
might have gone into canals.
The cost of replacing the dam
aged trees is comparatively slight,
officials said.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24
SEEK AND SPREAD RIGHT
IDEA IN RELIGION

O The Right idea in Att
tude. The Pharisees-certain Of
the scribeS - some of his dis
ciples." Christ was in his world.
Their relation to him was a mat
ter of attitude first of all. Some
accepted him as Saviour and
Lord. Some stood al0of from him.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24

Stores in papama having fix,
prices will display signs 10 h
effect.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24

Ecnador's principal export is
balsa wood, lightest wood in the
world.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24

Attempting to dodge pho,ogr,,
ers, Stanley JaSoky, -. is shc,
Us he was arraigncd in Frt,
Court in Newark, y. j., chno
with writing SIX ransom notes /,
handing 100000 from Nun.
Levine, of New Rochelle, iats
Of long-miSsing l2-ycar.o.i Pa
Levine. Authorizes say Ja>osGy
were only IA few hundred,
notes received which attempted!
"chiScI in" OH the kiinapn.
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only about $500 Of the 100
members regularly pay then
cents a month dues. Eut."r y
he drew only 5000 in salary
president Of the union last yea
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24
RELIGION OPPOSED BY
CRITICISM
MARX Z. 81

THE QUESTION of the Phari-
sees showed how religion may be
opposed by criticism. 1t so hap
pened that the Scribes from Je-
rusalem saw some of the disciples
partaking of Il meal with hands
not ceremonially purified as ira
ditiOn demanded. At once they
found fault and they raised the
query, asking Jesus direct: why
walk not thy disciples according
to the traditions of the elders,
but eat their bread with defiled
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24

USE THE WANT ABS.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24

Sunday School Lesson fol
March 27.
Scripture: Mark 7:l-l&.
Golden Text: This people hon
oureth me with their lips, but
their heart is far from me-
Mark 7:G.
Certain Of the ecclesiastical au-
thorities from Jerusalem had
come to Galilec and were on the
track of Jesus seeking TO cntrap
him in his teaching, to diScrcdit
his work, and to countcract his
Influence. On the traditions Of the
elders they based their charge
that the disciples, contrary to
custom, were eating with unwaSh-
en- hands. But Jesus brushed aside
the film Of ceremonialism and re-
vealed to them the unworldly ma
ture OF the kingdom of God.
RELIGION OBSCURED BY
CEREMONIALISM
mark l. Id
THE CUSTOM of the Jews
showed how religion may be OBJ
scured by ceremonialism. Among
the Jews it was the custom never
to eat with unwashen hands. The
habit was based less upon SAM
tary reasons. though the Oriental
ate with his fingers, than upon
ceremonial grounds, for Il system
of minute and exact publications
enslaved the people in every
movement of their daily lives. So
the orthodox jew would not eat
unless he had ceremonially wash
ed his hands; and this washing
even extended to the cups and
pots, the brazen vessels and the
tables.
pEiIcInN OPPOSED RY
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-24
WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Correcting Wrong Ideas Of Religion
BY HIGHT {. MOORE

School Lesson for
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
Had Many arguments
But No Real Fights

He did have a lot of arguments,
right after he hit the rock. but
none of them ever amounted to
anything. One of them was with
Creepy Karpis, when both were
working in the tailor-shop. !
never did know just what it was
all about, but do know that
Robinson used to go around with
a big, heavy pair of shears and
tell everybody:
There's a guy in this shop I
haven't any use for, and may
have to use these on him"
Nothing more ever came of it
except that he and Karpis used to
dog-eye each other. Karpis
wouldn't fight, and Robinson was
glad of it.
Before Robinson became such
poison to the other cons, he had
sung about his caper so often that
everybody knew it by heart. Most
Of it's been printed, but there are
a few angles that might be worth
talking about.
For instance, Robinson used to
do plenty loud-mouthing about the
way he cooled off his hot ransom
money. He said he got rid of as
much as $4,000 in one day, with
out paying off one cent to any con-
nectionS.
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
Woman Got Most
Of $4,000 Ransom

And although the broad saved
Robby there, she cost him plenty,
otherwise. From what he said,
she got just about everything he
got out Of the 50-G touch; she
took him for almost every cent
of it.
He told me he set her brother
up in business in Chicago small
restaurant, and then set him up
in a bookie business, and then
helped him out after he hit Glen
dale. After thinking the thing
over very carefully on The Rock,
Robby is beginning to wonder
about that brother.
He's just about ready to give in
and admit that the guy was a boy
friend instead of a brother, that
he went broke in Chicago on pur.
pose, that he followed Robby and
his SISTER" to Glendale for a par
ticular reason and that that
reason had something to do with
the G-Men busting into the Glen
dale hideout just about the time
that the broad was getting into
Robby's last five G's.
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
Rx P. F. REED

(Copyright. 1898, Hearst Publications. Inc }
The Rocks loneliest prisoner
bar none, is Thomas H. Robinson
jr. He's the pretty boy who
Snatched that society dame in
Louisville and stayed on the lam
for 1s months getting rid Of the
80 G'S.
No con wants any part Of him
not even the other kidnapers will
have anything to do with him,
and that's just about rock bottom
They figure he's wrong, clear
through; he's got the name OF
being wrong and the way he buzzes
the bulls doesn't help him shake
that name. He's always talking
to the guards. Showing all his
teeth to them. singing about his
capers: he's just a back-slapper
for the screws.
When he first hit the Rock, he
had plenty of chance to make
friends; his caper was the kind
that didn't have the cons down
on him because, after all, he'd
snatched a full-grown woman. not
a kid, and he had been pretty
smart in fooling the G's for IL
months.
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
RObby's Getting
All Wised Up

That's just one of the things
that Robby has gotten wised up
to since he made The Rock.
Another one of them may have
had a lot to do with his beef with
Creepy Karpis.
Robby hadn't been on the Rock
more than week or two, and he
was pulling that crack about how
smart he was-how much smarter
than the other snatch artists who
had had to bounce back their ran
som dough.
Karpis just looked at him and
said something that may explain
a lot to the Omen who went look
ing for Karpis and his gang So
long. Karpis' crack meant that
while the G'S were looking for
Karpis, Karpis was looking for
Robinson.
KarpiS said:
"Yes! You spent your dough,
and you don't know how lucky
you was. I was out looking for
you. If I could have found you,
you wouldn't have had no
money, because I'd have took it
all Of it,"
Karpis was letting him know
that the big-shot kidnapers had
him figured for a cream puff and
an easy touch! And that they
spent more than a year trying to
pick up his trail, so they could
walk in on him and hijack him
for his ransom dough.
Well, what they didn't do, q
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
.RidicuIed Others
For Returning Money

Anyway, he got tired Of hear
ing how smart Karpis, and Bailey,
and Bates, and some Of the other
big shots were, and he used to
tell them to their faces:
II admit that I'm just q big
farmer boy and you fellows are
very smart. I was such chump
that I got SO G's and spent
every cent of it; you wise guys
gave yours back"
And then he used to make
another crack that didn't make
him any more solid with the ma
chinegun Kellys and the creepy
Karpises. He used to say about
all those big-shot kidnaperS:
eyes, I guess they're swell
people, and I'm just a louise. But
/ didn't bring anybody in here
with me, and they've all got
their partners with them"
The majority Of the cons get
a kick out of these cracks, but
they couldn't get around to liking
the gee who made them. He used
to drive them away by crying
about his time. He never did quit
whining about it, and pretty
nearly every con in the joint has
told him at one time or another:
Listen, punk, I got time OF
my own to worry about; I don't
want to hear about yours"
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
Considered Himself
Too Good For Others

But right away Robinson
showed he was too good for the
other cons and too good to do the
kind Of work they do; he couldn {
forget that he'd gone to college
for q couple Of years ana tnat
he'd studied law
At first, he talked to the
strangers who buzzed him, and
he'd keep talking and get along
with them fine as long as they'd
listen to him sing about his
capers, But after they'd heard
his song four or five times they
stopped 1istening-and then he'd
20 around talking about them be-
cause they wouldn't listen. That's
a good way to get hurt, on the
Rock.
He might have teamed up with
some of the other kidnapers, who
haven't many more friends than
he has, but he took care OF that
with that tongue of his. He
burned them to a crisp with one
crack that he repeated to every
body who'd listen.
I guess he was sore at them
because they had bigger reputa-
lions than he did, and had got
ten bigger writeups. He was very
vain about that caper Of his, and
used to talk about fan mail his
father had received on account
of his caper. He was always talk
ing about it, as I've said, always
living it over, keeping right in
the middle of it.
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
ALVIN "CREEPY" KARPIS
"Wouldn't Fight"

ter. He told the foreman he
couldn't work, because he's never
learned to work.
They put him in the guards
dining room. waiting table for the
screws. That gives him a chance
to buzz his head off, to tell the
clowns every thing he knows and
a whole lot he doesn't know.
At yard time he's usually in his
cell; he seldom goes into the
yard at recreation periods. Maybe
he's afraid of something, maybe
he's too good to mix with the
cons, maybe he's studying some
thing or other. I know he's al
ways reading.
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
'Robby' LonIiest
Of FeIonS at
AIcatraz

ing, too, about the arsenal he col.
lected and lugged around the coun-
try with him. He said he had two
.45-automatics, with special clips
to carry 20 Slugs each, and a Tom
my gun, and a high-powdered rifle,
and he'd get very proud of them.
But he never had much to say
about not using them when the
G'S caught up with him down in
Glendale.
Once, he told me, he nearly got
picked up at a bug station when
coming into California from Ari-
zona. He had his broad with him
and she thought fast. The bug
inspectors were going through
their baggage, and were getting
pretty close to a lot of hot stuff,
when she reared up and began
bawling out the inspectors and
telling them that if they messed
up any of her lingerie they'd pay
for it.
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
Thrilling
FACTS
'Snatcher' Wrona
Even to Cons
On Rock

p. =. Reed, recently dis
charged AlcGtrGz convict, con-
ttnNeS his thrilling "inSide"
story of life on the Rock today
BY ciUirl0 closeup OF one con-
Otct tDho tDGS once in the line
light as Public Enemy No. /.
He talks about Thomas H.
Robinson, jr., 1Dho kidnapped
Mrs. Alice Speed StoH in Louis
oille, got GWGy ,Oith $4,000 in
ransom money, and remained
at liberty for 18 months ,Uhile
being hunted dotDn By G-ne1l
all oUer the nation. His story
on Robinson is complete in it,
self; you may read it without
reference to prior inStdInIentS
OF Reeds second series, "AlcG-
tTdx Is HELL"
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
Went to Banks
As if Messenger

He did it like this-he said: In
New York, he would park his hat
in his room, and he'd open his
shirt collar at the neck, and he'd
gallop into a bank, and stand in
line, and, lookirN like some mes
senger from big store, would
shove a package of tens and twen-
ties at the teller and ask him to
change it into big notes-usually
half-C notes.
He used to do plenty loud.mouth.
The Washington times., 1938-11-11
Vain As a Peacock
And AIlUays Primping

Another thing about him that
the cons didn't have any use for
was his feminine ways. There was
no doubt that the gee was in love
with himself. He used to stand
before mirrors primping just like
q broad. He was always sticking
his hair back, and he kept his nails
sharpened and shined. He used
tooth powder to shine them with.
A gee like that had a very tough
time getting along, no matter
where they put him. They first
put him to work in the laundry,
but he didn't get along very well;
then they tried him in the tailor
shop, where he didn't do any bet