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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THINK 1T OVER

At Grand Ledge on Sunday, Senator Arthur h.
Vandenberg stressed point which many people,
who speak lightly of the Constitution, appear to
overlook
'You have just one warrant for religious free
DOM Senator Vandenberg declared and that is
IAN involate Constitution and an involate Supreme
Court to give it voice. When the spirit of the Con-
stitution dies religious freedom pershes"
The right to worship Cod and the right to find
consolation and inspiration in the Scriptures which
are the foundation of moral code, are not
sources of personal comfort and solace alone.
They are also the rock upon which our national
morals and ethics rest. Where these rights have
been suppressed in Europe, national ethics and
morals have reverted to paganism.
Contracts are no longer honored, promises
kept or persons property respected, or even
the common decencieS of private public life OBJ
served where freedom of religion has been sup
pressed and the will Of human and therefore,
fallible dictator alone must be obeyed
We have already departed widely from the moral
and ethical concepts that in the past gave strength
and decency to the life of this nation.
What this nation needs is to get back closer to
the God of our fathers.
And in order that the way back may not be
against any attempt, through assaults on the Con-
stitution and Supreme Court, to close the door of
the church to worshipers, the Scriptures to those
in need of spiritual refreshment or inspiration or
a strengthening of their conception of right and
their determination to defend it.--Detroit Free
Press.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
BABSON'S APPEAL

South Cardinals political elections are over
Still it is interesting to note the attitude taken by
one of the cOuntry's most famous financial adVlS-
ers Roger W. Babson, who states simply The
saving of the nation depends not upon politics, nor
industry. nor economics nor legislation, but pr-
marilv and basically upon character for without
character the finest political system under Heaven
is bankrupt"
Continuing further, Mr.. Babson urges that the
great need of today is IAN active church, Says
Mr.. Babson, 1.-THE crying need of this hour is Tor
an active and militant church. The choice is not
between Washington and Moscow nor between
Wall Street and Main Street The real choice IS
between Christ and collapse"
Somehow or other, these words coming from a
financial adviser strike to the core. We would
expect such words-and rightly believe them
from a preacher but coming from one whose world
is financial facts and figures, it rings with the SIN
cerity of one who has stepped from his every -day
role to express himself in no uncertain terms on a
great need of the day.
Mr.. BabSonS financial advice is followed by
thousands upon thousands. May this advice have
its true effect upon country that is too prone to
forget the source of all things that are good. Mr..
Babson has never spoken truer words than that
the real choice is between "Christ and collapse -
Newberry IS. CO. Observer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
COTTON FLOORS

The first cotton floor in the world will be dis
PLAYED by North Carolina in that states exhibit at
the New York Worlds Fair next year.
Coleman Roberts, who is to direct the TarheeI
booth feels that this new for cotton may pro
vide for the profitable disposition Of millions OF
pounds annually.
Eve have chemists engineers and others work
ing on it now" he says, "but we ave not yet ready
to reveal the details of this new floor
Folks at the Worlds Fair will be complaining
of tired, sore feet, but when they step into the
North Carolina exhibit they will find they are on
a new sort of floor, one that will be easy on the
feet, yet be strong and durable"
Mr.. Roberts already has conferred on the cot
ton flooring possibilities with Dr. Claudius T. Muir
Gibson of the Cotton-Textile Institute and reports
that he and other textile experts are optimistic.
Greenville, as a textile center, naturally will
look with considerable interest any feasible
plan to profitably consume cotton and we hope
that North Carolina has, to put it slangily got
something there.-Greenville Piedmont.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29

glOnfy bad career and Willy Il
good career. For instance, just
why should Napoleon be held up
TO- praise? Napoleon was the
scOurage of Europe. Today We
denounce that kind of leadership.
Napoleon died in penal exile. He
should have been hanged.
And on the other hand, why
should we spend much time read
ing Of the faults some writer for
profit has dug up or manufacture
ed out of the life Of George
Washington, whose entire Splen-
did career manifested sincere, I'M
selfish interest and effort in the
highest and finest democratic prin-
ciples? While it does encourage
us to learn that great persons too
have weaknesses, yet rise glori-
ously in spite of them, we should
not give too much weight to
small faults as against great win
tues. We should be careful too
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
GARAGE WAS ONCE
INGERSOLL'S OFFICE

RALEIGH, H., Sept. 30. (UP)
The garage of the Hiram Mus
grave home here has a disting-
uished background. 1t is the for
mer law office of the late Robert
G. lngersoll, Civil War veteran
and Illinois attorney general from
1867 to 1869.
Ingersoll practiced law here
when Raleigh was the Saline
county seat. His office, measur-
ing IA by II feet and constructed
of hewn timbers, stood where the
Raleigh post office is now located.
Nine years after lngersolps
death in 1899, Musgrave obtained
possession Of the building and
used it for a corn crib, later for
a garage. Musgrave plans to erect
a new garage but said he will. pre-
serve IngersolPs office.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
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.-EDlTOR.

Editor, The Times-NcwS:
The world gets more strange.
The crisis in europe brings us
back to barbarity, and across over
on this side Of the ocean the
Globe and Mail, a Canadian news
paper, makes US the C.S.A. look
nearly so bad, and the Strangest
thing is that that back scrambled
stuff could find its way across
this continent.
want to tell little Of my OK
periencc. Through these 50 years
that | have been living ] never
have taken on wanted anything of
the other fellow that ! would not
give or do the same for him.
I have never been confined, sick
or otherwise to my bed on IN the
house. Been friendly and had
friends all the way through and
the happiest Of all my thoughts
have thousands of good friends.
Now | have never had Il case in
the higher court. Bound once to Il
higher court from a magistrates
court by five Of one family swear
ing to 4 statement made by one
of them which had no truth in
it. 1t was dropped.
may not write any more. |
wish everybody well and thank
the postmaster for the nice letter
when We were having our ups on
the street dances and the movies.
Say, everybody, the election is
close on Us. Go to the election and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
WOMAN ODDLY SAVED
BY DEADLY MALADY

TULSA, Okla, Sept. %. (UP)
Typhoid fever, once considered a
hopeIessly deadly disease, was
credited with saving the life of
Mrs. Viola Belle ZoIlcr, who has
celebrated her S0th birthday.
She was an Illinois farm girl at
the time of the Civil War She
contracted the fever shortly after
ward and was believed to be on
her "dcathbed" when party Of
guerilla bushwhackerS swarmed
out Of the woods and onto the
farm.
The raiders came to rob and
kill, but they stayed TO help with
nursing the weakened girl. She
recovered.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
BROADENING THE TAX BASE

There is drive to make the next con-
gress broaden the tax base which would awaken
larger number of people to what governmental
finance means to them by levying direct taxes OF
nominal amounts in the lower income brackets.
This drive can't be dismissed insidouS
plan by 'rich reactonaries" to make the poor pay
the national bills It's principal sponsor is Senator
LaFolette, who belongs to the leftwing bloc Of the
senate. And great many congressman of radical
as we'll as conservative tendencies, behind it.
We have reached the point where taxing the
rich is no solution to the fiscal problem. If the
entire taxable incomes of all persons earning $685.,
900 year or more confscated, the revenue
derived would hardly make dent in swollen
budget. At the present time, though relatively few
seem to realize it, the person Of small and mod
crate means contributes the great bulk Of all reve-
nue. through hidden taxes that are part of the
cost of every necessity as well as every luxury.
Lowering the income tax base would both increase
revenue and shock millions of people who now
mistakenly think they taxfree, into the realiza-
ton that every man has tremendous stake IN the
tax problem.
We have been lodging the issue too long
GAINESVILLE (Tenn.) Leaf-Chroniee.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
nv RODNEY BUTCHER

VCSugauOnS mo inc nncvIdIIsI"
Of proxy control Of corporations
will be available.
All these will be fitted into a
general picture of how business
is conducted. From such a plat
form of facts may spring many
business reforms beyond O'Ma-
honcy'S original bill.
i :
A MERICA, which still likes to
Il be biggest and best" in every
respect, may take what satisfac-
ton it can from the fact that 1t
leads the world in labor disputes.
World data from the Inter-
national Labor Office show that of
10 countries for which it had 1881
figures, 10,267 strikes and lockouts
occurred, involving 4,223,9S4
workers and involving loss of
5O.755,A54 working days. The
United States led with 4740 dis
putes involving 1.86G.62l workers
and IcSs of 28,424,S57 working
days. Poland was next, Great
Britain third.
ONE element that is going to
" clutter up the coming session
OF Congress is the large number
of extension bills that must be
passed merely to prevent eXpira-
ton of emergency measures which
expire next spring unless renewed.
The sterilization fund and the
mower to alter the gold weight of
the dollar, the RFC, the Hot Oil
law. the guarantee Of FILA deben-
lures, the neutrality law, all re-
ouire action by Congress merely
TO be continued on an "as is
basis.
What with the annual appro-
priation bills, that makes pretty
full schedule even without new
legislation, and argues that Con-
eress made more independent than
ever by the negative results OF the
"purge" may accomplish even less
than the last one.
copyright 1898. NEA Service lne'I
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
BY WILLIS THOkNEOS
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON. = Because the
" National Economic Committee
worked so quietly, the far-reach-
ing possibilities of its inveStlga-
tons are not yet generally realized.
Yet from this committees find
ingS may come the blueprintS for
u new industrial sctup.
The scope Of its. work has been
gradually widening. Begun simply
as an investigation of monopoly
to get material on which to base
Senator O'Mahoney'S pet fed
eral incorporation law, this quiet
study is becoming a giant clinic
for the whole business system OF
the country.
Because its working basis is six
federal departments and commits
siCnS, the committee IS getting
more facts quicker than many Of
the more sensational open hear
ings:
TT now seems certain no opcn
l. hearings will be held by the
National Economic Committee I'M
tik after the November elections.
No big shots have been called
in for public panning, no sensa-
tional news has evolved. But the
committee already, by subpenaing
books and records, has amasSed
enough material to conduct first
class public hearing.
A questionable has been sent
to legal-reServe insurance COM
panies. Another is about to 60
TO trade associations. The COM
mittee is working closely with
such agencies as the Securities and
Exchange Commission, swapping
data which may be useful.
The inquiry into unused and
suppressed patents has already re-
ceived the support of inventors,
who are being urged through their
organization to make known cases
of inventions patented and then
shelved by the buyer. SEC in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
BIBLE THOUGHT
IF MY PEOPLE

which are called by My name. shall humble them
selves and pray . and turn from their wicked
ways -. | will forgive their sin, and heal their
Land" - ChrOn)
a back-to-God movement is sorey needed in our
country and Christians must lead the way. God
does not seem to be working today through any
ore great world leader such Luther or Wesley
or Moody. but rather through the hosts of conSe-
Grated men and women of His church around the
world; and He is counting Christian America to
lead her own civilization back to God.-From Cir
g.p Bible Readings.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
MONETARY AMUSEMENT FOR A
PUZZLED POSTERITY
by BRUCE CATION

Assuming that 5000 years from now
there is alive a civilized race interested in
the doingS Of its fOrebearS, you can have an
amusing time figuring out what that race
is Going to think when it opens the time
capsule" buried recently on the grounds
Oh the New York worlds fair
The outfit that put this capsule together
WAS thorough, if nothing else. 1t set out
To bury 4 collection of odds and ends
which would give the people of so GEN.
.uries hence a good cross-section view of
oar civilization, and it got in practically
everything (aS they say except the kitch-
EN- sink.
There was a Bible, a woman's hat, and
q can opener. A toothbrush nestled along
side a paper of safety pins, thanked by a
boz Of childrenS blocks on one side and
camera on the other Samples of modern
textiles were wedged in with pipe and a
boz of cigaretS. Seeds from the grain belt
were put in, along with hunks of coal, bits
Of asbestos and an 1100-foOt microflm
essay" which included 100 books and a
thousand pictures.
Altogether, the collection ought to make
4 fine stew, if stirred sufficiently. But al
though it ought to give our descendants an
interesting half hour or so. it is doubtful
that it will really tell them what the world
OF 1888 was like.
The important things seem to have been
left out, principally because no capsule
ever made would contain them.
Where are the intolerance of peoples,
the brutal craftinesS of dictatOrs, the cow
ardice of statesmen, and the jealousy and
suspicion of great nations? These are the
things that set the key for tOday's civiliza-
J.On. Without knowing about them, one
"cannot get even a glimmering of the true
state of things in the world today. But
how are you going to put them in test
tube for examination 5000 years from
now?
Where is the blindness and the division
Of spirit that makes separate classes with
in a nation seek their own good rather
than the good of the whole? Where is the
folly which leads people to put up with
scarcity in an age of abundance, with I'M
employment in land crying to heaven for
needed repairs, with hunger in time of
bumper crops?
You can't put those things in a capsule
and you can't understand this world of
ours unless you know about them.
The truth is that while we are race of
matchleSS gadget-makers, technicians and
=. inventors we don't know much more than
the ancient Romans knew about the bust
Hess Of running society inteligently. We
live in what ought to be matchIess, in
comparable age of promise-and we have
miSmanaged it so that it looks remarkably
like a prelude to new dark age.
And it is that fact that will be interest
ing to historians of the future. They will
want to know how it was that a world so
marvelOusly equipped for living in happi-
ness, peace and plenty managed to travel
, 80 fast in the opposite direction.
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vote your own sentiments or con-
victions. If you be biased at all,
let it be by the Rev. w. A. Vro-
man, who had the best letter to
the editor last Friday that | have
seen
/ won't let anyone, no, not the
president. tell me how to vote.
He and | are on good terms.
.IftI had been in South Carolina
| would have voted for Smith but
if the president had not asked the
people to vote for Johnson ! would
have voted for Johnston. Johnston
was once a Fruitland boy. and a
nice boy was he.
X. NJ. PRYOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
SPEED BARBER, ii, RETlRES

MELBOURNE. (UP).-George
Washington Chadwick, 74-year-
old barber, has retired after hav-
ing. according to his estimate,
shaved 100000 chins and cut
100000 heads of hair. He insists
he can still shave man in two
minutes and cut the average head
of hair in six minutes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
FOR MEN ONLY: Our wives

FOR MEN ONLY: Our wives
talk in tongues foreign to us in
spring and fall and you have to
open up and shell out to the tune
of their fashion prattlc. Why not
wise-up yourself on the days lam
guage as it pertains to hat style
trends? Here's some Of the jargon,
but you must use sensitive I'M
agination as to which top piece it
applies!
Doll size hats =. tricornes . D..
profile brims berets . pill
boxes high roll brimS . .
drapcd tOrqueS rich tUrbanS
dramatic brims sports
feltS caps VclvctS . . .
fclts vclourS suedcS .
top lofty poke bonnets . .
cXactinG profile hats high and
forward hats tOp-sizc topperS
and halo-off-faccrs.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29

lcllCcN VI HINH
q n d w 0 m e n,
showing W h a t
they put into life
and what they
got out of it.
By reading of
the behavior of
worthy perSo n $
we learn what to
do, and by read
ing Of the beha-
vior of unworthy
persons we learn
what not to do.
But we should
discriminate be-
tween the biOg-
raphies w h c h
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
FOOD BOUGHT WITH MUSIC

FREMONT, o. (UP).-A way
farer offered to play a selection
on his violin in payment for a
meal which Mrs. John Nitschke
gave him. Mrs. Nitschke accept
ed the offer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29

Weavers in Jamaica are now making
sport coats out of banana fibers. Doubt
less this makes them easier not only to
peel but to slip on. ,.,..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29

Biography, it seems to me, Is
the best all round type of Iltera-
ture. 1t covers the entire range Of
human life; it portrays the eXper-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29

Comes news that motorcycle show in
London will have exhibits of walking
equipment. We're still of the opinion that
legs are here to stay. ..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29

At least two dozen different kinds of steel are
used in modern airplane, but most important of
ALL from the tonnage viewpoint, are the chrome
molybdenum and stainless steels 4.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
THE FIRST REQUIREMENT

OUdlItS L lllClS .NuSllllS WHY
American minister to England
wrote to his son: a StatcSman'S
first and greatest qualification in
my estimation is the mastery Of
the whole theory Of morals, which
makes the foundation of all hu-
man society; the great and ever
lasting question Of the right and
wrong Of every act, whether OF
individual men or Of collective
bodies. The next is the applica-
ton of the knowledge thus gained
to the events of his time in a con-
tinuous and systematic way. 1t is
in this last particular that the
greatest number Of failures are
observed to occur. Many men new
er acquire sufficient certainty of
purpose to guide their steps at
all; they thus become the mere
sport Of fortune
1t should be entirely possible
for us--130,O00,O0O pcople-to
find Il sufficient number Of per
sons possessing the qualifications
described by Charles Francis
Adams to fill all our public of
fees. Then our democracy would
work giuriously.
A patriotic principle and spirit
which we should get going and
foster continually is that no citi-
zen should refuse to accept pub
lie office when called on by his
fellows to serve.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29

The Henkel No. 112 monopane, using a 600
horsepower Junkers engine, will fly 292 miles an
hour, and is reported to be Germany's fastest
squadron service plane.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29

The largest citrus crop in the history of thu
lower Rio Grande valley is in prospect.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
POTATO HARVESTING: II. J.

Pace, who announces the opening
of the sweet potato curing house
at Dana on October ). unless
there is Il killing frost earlier, re-
vcalS some Of the secrets Of sue
ccssful potato curing, which IS
governed in a large measure by
careful harvesting. He says:
'Cratc potatoes in the field so as
to reduce handling to Il minimum.
Bruises cause rotting. Avoid sack
ing because that means more
handling and bruising. Don't
crate cut, bruised or skinned po-
tatoes for they will not keep.
Avoid drying or curing in sun be-
fore taking to curing house. Po-
tatocs are handled more satisfac-
torily when not dug in the mud"
Mr.. Pace says he can look at
potatoes taken to the curing
house and predict the outcome.
He usually knows whose potatoes
will keep well because he knows
Of their care in handling.
Mr.. Pace cured about $500
bushels last year for more than
400 growers. The most Of these
were cured and stored for home
consumption.
MEMS STYLE NOTE: James
&. Barnes, Penney sales clerk
who must. "know his stuff" for
which he has received wide recog-
milton as a salesman, says the
sports backs in mems coats are
fading out somewhat in popula.~
ity. In other words, they are still
stylish but not necessary in order
TO be well prOompd
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-29
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

that we do not copy the faults
instead of the virtues Of the
great.
II is AN inspirational challenge
to Us to read the lives Of men and
women morally and intellectually
sturdy.
The Bible is largely biography.
The Washington times., 1938-07-27
B. G. Forbes Says

CONTRAST the tyranny exercised by Hitler
with the freedom enjoyed in democratic
countries.
What American would prefer to migrate to
Russia and undergo all the tnhibitions re.
strictions, hardships prevalent there? Firing
squads are an established feature Of the Soviet
regime. No Russian, high or low, military or
civilian, executive or workman, can regard him.
self as wholly free from danger Of being sub
jected to one Of the frequent fatal purges.
Mussolini has proved himself an amazingly
adept administrator But his military ambitions
and exploits have cost and are costing Italians
dearly. The perennial call to them by n Duce is
to tighten their belts, suffer fresh hardships.
Here, again, the national finances are in par
lous state.
AbsOlutisn1 in Japan
WHAT Of Japan? The people there, while
theoretically enjoying freedom, are under
absolutism. The high caste military CLIQUE has
become allpowerful.
Perhaps no other people OF this moment are
suffering so much distress, so seething with dis
satisfaction liable to revolt into open rebellion,
The attempt to conquer China is entailing cruel
financial burdens and uncomfortable loss Of life.
One lesson Americans should learn from events
abroad: They ought to think twice before indors.
ing anything attempted by their own Admtnistra-
ton, by their own Chief Executive, or by anyone
else, to encroach upon their inherited cherished
rights and liberties.