The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-24
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
!, ,wurRE bio WE GO FROM HERE ?"

IF 7 were TO 90 from "The Land of the Skies
as these Blue Ridge mountains OF the oaroiiiiaS
are named, where would | rather go? am pa
tiently waiting until 1910 so | can LOOK through
the 200 inch lens on MI" Paornar, Calf, and de-
termine II there is any better place to go Some
people may be able to sight the highway to heaVeh'
when that glass is done, but it will be those VINO
have heaven within them as was wisely answered
by the greatest Of all Teachers: ""rhe Kingdom OF
Heaven is within you"
1t is not fiction am giving out when ! make
this statement: ! have spent several winters In
California, two in Florida, in Texas on the
Rio Grande, one in Colorado, one in Connecticut
and New York, fourteen in Ohio and at least fifty
in Iowa. and ! have never experienced more
comfortable, pleasant winter than in this mountain
land of the Carolinas. There has not been snow
enough the entire season, in Hendersonville' to
make one SNOWFALL.
The very coolest for part of one day was 10
above and that for only few hours They pro-
bide for comfort by heating their houses with
steam hot water or hot air.
North Carolina can be ranked among the pro-
gressive states of the Union, in education, econom
ice and farming, and the main reason why the cot
ton surplus is so large (and unproftable) is that
people wear too little cotton and too much silk
from Japan, made by japanese help instead of our
own. Use home labor and wear American fabrics
A wife complained to her husband that "she had
nothing to wear he looked her over and replied
ga blind man could see that" ...
The lending spending never ending orgie is now
in full blast, The NaziF Fascist Communist threat
TO our national peace and safety goes on apace
The farmers are in revolt against the 'grow-less
get-rich-quick" program. The Labor Unions are up
in arms against each other. The government is
"agin' the 90 rich families The small faction of
Methodists that opposes church union is rocking
the boat and likely to make shipwreck of the craft
and they have just found out that Judge Hugo
Black lacks judicial acumen and foresight and the
League of Nations has struck an iceberg and is
sinking and democracy is trial for her life and
with a trimuvirate jury like Berlin Rome Tokyo
for trial-court. Where are we at?
1t was this that suggested the title to my friendly
letter to The Herald Register: "Where Do We Go
From Here?" Mr.. Editor, do you think America
has any concern? Are we interested? Let us not
forget that Nero sat on hill and hddled while
Rome burned (and he started the fire. the old
reprobate) and Belshazzar was drunk (and thou
sand of his lords) the night that Jehovah entered
his banquet hall and wrote upon the WALL, "Thou
art weighed in the balance and found wanting"
America is playing politics while the termites are
eating away the foundation of our civil liberties
and we seem not to know it.
Cyrus the Great and his soldiers were digging
new channel for the Euphrates river outside the
walls of Babylon and then he marched his con-
quering army in through the channel to capture
the imperial city, the capital of the ancient world
We have the greatest democracy the foremost
civilization, the richest and most powerful nation
on earth. viii we keep it or where Do We Go
From Here?"-J, W, Johnson in Grinnell Uowa)
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