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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
WHAT 1T TAKES TO MAKE THE REPORTS co

This -being the reporting season, the last few
,yooIs bafora the general assembly conveneS, docu
ment after document is being presented to Cover
nor Hoev who will in turn transmit them to the
legislature along with any recommendations which
he may see fit to make in his executive capacity
The report of the public school Improvement
commission. for example hardly reached the COVER
nor's desk before it was followed by the biennial
report of the state board of charities and public
welfare. Both these reports, and we cite them
merely by way of example, are progressive, Tor
ward-looking, humane and commendable contrl0u-
tions to statecraft They project plans and pro-
grams which, to the Daily News, seem highly desr-
able and earnestly to be striven for
YET in each instance, there Is the bothersome
matter of costs. Just what expenditure would be
entailed in effectuation of the school Improvement
commissions report has not been determined, al
though estimates appearing in the public prints
from different sources placed the added cost at
from one to five million dollars. In the report of
the state board of charities and public welfare there
are specific recommendations which would necessi-
tate an increase of approximately S5OO,OOO IN APP
preparations. Thus the proposals, the recommends
tons and the demands become cumulative all along
the governmental front.
However much these additions may be desired,
their sponsors cannot gloss over the challenging
question of where the money is coming FROM OBJ
.iousy it can come from only one source, In the
final analysis, consumption. Thus there is emphasis
upon proper perspective, panoramic view of the
entire governmental structure in the relative WORTH
value and efficiency of its component parts,
searching inquiry to how much revenue the traf-
v will bear without institution of the law of dmn-
ishing returns or collapse which would jeopardize
the entire governmental and economic systems as
We now know them.
To be sure the state and federal credit structure
can stand more, but how much more nobody seems
to know-and shall we add care?-although each
additional appropriation necessarily sends us cor
respondingly nearer to that Observation-Disclosures
News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
WELCOME, DUKE POWER

The Star, on behalf of itself and the citizens of
Cleveland county welcomes Duke Power company,
which is definitely coming to make an investment in
an electric generating plant the cost of which will
probably exceed that of any other single industry
in the county. . ...
The Duke company asked no concession or in
ducement None was offered. We did point out to
this public service corporation that we in Cleveland
are a conservative group that we appreciate what
power expansion and especially Duke Power has
done toward the development of this section, that
our tax rate is the second lowest of any county
North Carolina that our bonded indebtedness is
low and that we are wisely and economically man.
aged as a county government.
Some sections of the country entertain distaste
and distrust for "bg business and especially
public utilities. Fortunately this prejudice does not
prevail in Cleveland county against the Duke Pow
en- It's record stands out above that of many other
public utilities in the nation.
Dukes investment will be great source of tax
revenue to the county, but in all fairness we should
and will not impose property tax burdens on it's
plant that we do not impose on ourselves.
This attitude on the part of our county no doubt
had it's weight with the officials in selecting site
within our borders.
Again, we welcome Duke Power-Shelby Star
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
THE PUBLIc's RIGHT TO KNOW

Harry Hopkins has asked the New York Times
if the public does not have right to know who in
formed Arthur Krock Washington correspondent,
that ne (Hopkins) had said that eve will spend
and spend and tax and tax, and elect and elect"
Hopkins has denied that he said it, but Krock in
sists that the information was from an unimpeach-
able source.
1t is interesting that Hopkins Should have the
lace TO try to stand on the public's right to know
1or ne mas been suppressing records to which the
puohc certainly should have access. The Hopkins
records relate to the spending of public funds. He
has said that these records are none of the publcs
BUSINESS not In those words perhaps, but with that
meaning Senator Holt, of West Virginia, will con-
nrm this There is a reason for suppression, and
that reason is political
The pubhc's right to know in the case of all
apecdarlan reports and records is indisputable.
Suppression of them is arbitrary, indefensibe. Hop
klns fears to let the public know the names many
persons on his WPA rolls and the salaries they re-
eelVe from his spending agency for boondoggling,
eurythmlc dancing, and the ct ceteras. -
In view of Hopkins's own record with respect to
the rights of the public, it comes with very poor
grace for him to say what somebody else should
tell the public. The truth at bottom is that Arthur
hroek has placed Hopkins is predicament He
cannot laugh this one off-Charleston News and
Courier. Is
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
BY JOHN L. FLYNN
NEA Service staff Correspondent

THE principle of incentive taxa
i ton now being discussed by a
Senate committee is almost as old
as the government. Tariff legisla-
ton is, of course, incentive taxa
ton. It is taxation imposed in such
a way as to encourage production.
But a more direct type of incen-
tive taxation is in effect in New
York State and New York City
now. AS far back as 1921 the City
IF New York, under state statute,
passed a tax exemption law to en-
courage new building. At that time
residence building had come to a
standstill. The city was faced with
an acute housing shortage. But
labor rates and labor rackets, ma
terial prices and material rackets
and contractor agreements had
tied the building business in such a
knot that building ceased.t
To encourage building the city
exempted from taxation for a
period of 10 years the improve
ments in the case Of any dwelling
structure to the extent of $4,000
per dwelling unit. The effect on
home building was immediate. The
day following the passage of that
tax exempt law the builders lined
up in droves with their plans be-
fore all the building offices of the
city to file their blueprints. The
city went off on such flight Of
house and apartment building as
it had never seen before.
The law was far frc.n perfect
law. It was not passed to stimulate
business but to get the city out OF
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

ize in obstetrics.
The other evening at an enter
tainment woman standing with
a group called Charles over.
"Charles," she said, teasingly,
81 understand that when you
grow up you are going to be an
obstetrician." (Smiles from the
group
Charles said gravely he guess
ed it would be something like
that.
"That's fne~ continued the
teaser. GAS soon as you are ready
to practice I'll employ you"
daughter from the group
ooh" answered Charles casual
ly, sit will be fifteen years before
| shall be prepared to practice.
By that time you will be too old
to have baby" (Convulsed
laughter from the group
That same Charles when twelve
years old had friend spending
the night with him. Before climb
ing into bed, Charles-as was his
custom-knelt by the side of it.
The friend began to plague him.
Lifting his head and looking
around, Charles said sternly,
Damn you! Can't you see | am
saying my prayers"
There was no further Interrupt
ton.
THE WRONG ANSWER
"Mister." said collector Of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
} JOHN. 7. FLYNN

the most serious housing Jam II
had ever known.
Later that law was amended
and improved several times so as
to limit the tax benefits to low
cost tenements and then only for
limited dividend corpora lions. But
the law is still in existence.
The idea, of course, is to extend
this plan to other lines Of industry.
The New York City tax exemption
law amounted to 212 per cent
subsidy for 10 years and made a
considerable difference, OF course,
in the cost of the house.
One may well doubt if the tax
exempt law would have done so
much if at the same time Samuel
Untermyer had not broken up the
labor and contractor rings that
stranded the building business.
One idea proposed now for all
industry is to divide the fed
eral taxes into three grades-nor.
NAL, surtax and super-surtax. The
normal and surtax taxes Woulc
apply to all. But the super
surtaxes would be subject TO nu-
merous deductions for the purpose
of encouraging manufacturers ano
builders to engage in new enter
prises.
Like the building business in
New York, it may well be queS,
toned whether tax relief would
do the trick unless many other adj
iustments were made. And tlen
there is always the question
whether a tax exemption on one
group of enterprises would not be
a tax penalty on all othe;s who
have to compete.
| Copyright. 1888. NEA Service tnc''
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
MILLS RIVER

MILLS RIVER. Dec. 20. A
meeting Of the Grange was held
at the school building one night
recently when the officers for the
coming year were elected. An
enjoyable feature Of the program
was the showing Of several pic
lures of thorough bred cattle, tur-
keys and related items by County
Agent G. D. White.
Alec Barnett, who has been
very sick at his home here is some
better.
The Woman's Missionary So
ciety Of the Methodist church vii!
hold their December meeting at
the home Of Mrs. B. D. Wright on
the afternoon of December q.
H. c. Jones, who recently I'M
derwent tonsil operation in Pat
ton Memorial hospital, is slowly
improving.
Dr.. S. E. Greenwood and Dr..
Sumner have gone on a hunting
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
OPIUM REVENUE
49, DECLINE REPORTED

SINGAPORE, Dec. 20. (UP)-
Revenue from the state opium
monopoly, largest single item of
revenue of the Straits Settlement
government, continues to decline,
the annual budget estimate of H.
Weisberg, financial secretary of
this British colony, revealed to-
day.
In submitting budget estimates
for the 1899 fiscal year, Weisberg
estimated the governments reve-
nue. from opium sales would drop
from the present years estimated
100000 Straits dollars to T.
600 dollars.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
NEW BRUNSWICK MAY
BETTER SOCIAL LAWS

FREDERICTON, N. B., Dec.
20. (UP)-The New Brunswick
government is planning to take
new measures to improve social
legislation in the province.
The governments fair wage
board has announced after sur
vey of wages and hours in retail
establishments throughout the
province that it would ask for
legislation to allow cities. and
municipalities to regulate work
ing conditions in their respective
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
BIBLE THOUGHT
mo ROOM FOR THEM
in the inn" Matt. 2:T)

We might even inquire whether there is always
room for Him in our CHURCHES. Behold stand
at the door and knock" (Rev. 3:20) was addressed
by Christ to church. Do you get the picture
There is a church that was built in His Name; it
was dedicated to His worship the people were meet
inc in it from Sabbath to Sabbath and going
through form of worship; and yet the Christ was
standing on the outside of the fast closed door.
That might be your church or mine.-Rev. Walter
L. Linge, ID.
Ito be contnued)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

millions of money of the tax payers have
been hijacked to finance these experiments
1t is known only that they have failed and
that the nation has been caught for the
cash to pay the costs. ~ ay ed rs
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

1aCnef.
But since the
progress of sci
e nc e indicates
less and less de-
p e II d e n c e on
drugs and fewer
and fewer surgi-
C al operations,
and since women
will always be
having b 4 b i e S
and there must
always be ex7
perts to help the
newcomers safe
ly into the world,
Charles has de-
cided to special
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
DON'T GET EXCITED: l don't

get wrought up over the alarm
often raised about cutting young
trees for Christmas decorations,
so long as a person stays on his
own land. People should not tres
pass on the premises of others
in order to cut a tree for their
own use or for commercial pur-
poses.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

An economic royalist wants to borrow
the leaning tower of Pisa from Mussolinl.
He'll use it for local headquarters OF the
WPA.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

By digging hundreds of tiny
holes in trees, the sapsucker
causes injuries which, in the ma
pie, produces the peculiarly grain
ed wood known as "bird's-eye ma
ple."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

In Europe, it's wise child that knows
his own fatherland.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
CHRISTMAS EVERGREENS:

Holiday decorations have become
quite an industry. The forests are
yielding plentifully and their
products are made into many at
tractive designs.
/ have never been able to wax
enthusiastic over a pine bush, a
small cedar or other evergreen IN
the home, as attractive as they
can be made. Such admiration is
against my country raising"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

Paw YOUR taxes with smile as urged by
an editorial writer prompts the immediate
question, where will they take smiles for
taxes?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
THEATER ANNEX FOR
SYDNEY CRY BABIES

SYDNEY, Australia. (UP) =
Australians latest contribution to
the advancement of civilization
is a sound-proof crying baby
theater."
1t is built in connection with
the regular theater so that if a
baby starts crying the mother can
enter Immediately the smaller
one.
From there she can watch the
play with glasses and hear the dia-
logue through a sound equipment
arrangement, while baby continu-
es to cry without disturbing the
outside audience.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

It is untrue that Ringing Brothers are
considering trading Gargantua for Goe-
ring.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

areas.
The wages and working condi-
tions of workers throughout the
province now are regulated by the
board itself.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
MODERN YOUTH

MODERN YOUTH
My young friend, Charles, fiji
teen years old, has already de-
termined on his life work. He is
going to be a physician-like his
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

William the Coaqucror =.
mated the custom of ringh, . u !.
to signal all hou<choIacr>' T.
tineuish their hearth fire., "
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
LESS" VS.. FEWER"

In a recent nationwide broad
cast three university professors
in round table discussion used
repeatedly the phrase "le S S
hours" The educated layman
knows that "less hours" is not
good usage; so there is scant ex-
cuse for the professors. "Less"
applies to that which is more or
less indefinite in scope-like wa
ter, sunshine, mist. LESS" refers
to degree, value, amount-less
confusion, less expensive, less
money.
"Fewer" refers to number.
Fewer hours" not "less hours, y
is what the professors should
have said. And several times in
that broadcast occurred the words
"more or less; but they were so
run together they sounded like
"moralless." Thus again we are
reminded that too often the
American school seems to regard
the English language as not
worth the time required to learn
to use it correctly.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
LIFE DAY BY DAY
5p nIlCKEg MAMR0LDT

aims, accosting a passerby, 81
amt had nothin' to eat all day;
won't you please gimme a quar-
ter?"
The passerby looked at the
supplicant searchingly and asked,
"You are a Nazi, aren't you?"
eyes, sir" replied the suppl
cant, thinking that the right an
SWer.
"No quarter to the Nazisw pro
claimed the passerby as he passed
by.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
Dislike FOR HOLLY: With

it's numerous clusters of berries,
holly is beautiful but | have held
it in contempt from the time |
romped barefooted as boy thru
the woods where holly was so
plentiful tender, bare feet were
unable to escape the fallen, dry,
brittle leaves with their numerous
puncturing thorns.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

MORE EVERGREENS: Other
evergreens consisted of pine, gall
berry, myrtle and yeopon tea. We
didn't have the spruce and bal
sam.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20

Nib lie Tue: I FeBdrucu tHdt
something curious growing mostly
on gums in the swamps. During
my boyhood our section learned
that there was a market for such,
and an appreciate income was
made by gathering and shipping
by the barrel to markets like
Washington, Philadelphia a n d
New York.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-20
CEDAR: 1t served only two

CEDAR: 1t served only two
purposes in my circumscribed
Youthful experience. They made
fence and gate posts and bridge
bearers that would last life
time. Cedars with berries provided
food for birds when the ground
had been covered with snow for
several days and they were forced
to eat holly berries, cedar ber-
ries, china berries and gall ber-
ries, or starve. And | was fond of
hiding around nearby to shoot
the birds, especially the robins.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-11-10
NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS.

Notice is hereby given that the
board of county commissioners of
Lincoln County, Montana, will re-
ceive sealed bids for the furnish
ing of a Christian and respectable
burial of the county poor, meaning
thereby the INDECENT sick and in
firm referred to in section 4525, r.
C. M, 1895, for the year beginning
January /, 1889, and ending De
cember 81, 1889. Bids for the furn-
ishing of such burials shall be SUBJ
mitted for the entire county. Per-
sons bidding to furnish such burials
must be residents of Lincoln Coun-
ty, Montana, and licensed and prac-
ticing morticians and funeral di-
rectors therein under the laws of
Montana.
Said bids must be submitted on
or before 10 o'clock A. M. on the
9th day of December 1888, at which
time said bids will be opened by said
board in the commissioners room
in the court house at Libby, and a
contract will be IN to the lowest
responsible bidder; provided, how
ever, that the board of county COM
missioners reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids. Bids shall be
addressed to the county clerk Of
Lincoln County.
By order of the board of county
commissioners of Lincoln County.
(SEAL) ELDON j. SCHUCK,
nl0-d1 At. County Clerk.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-11-10

periority of the German air force.
This is the more interesting because
in the first place it seems to have
been a cock and bull story.
Lady Astor, at whose party Lind
bergh was alleged to have made
the statement, has denied that he
was even at the party. Lindbergh
himself has not denied it, but that is
not significant, because as every
newspaper man who has contacted
him knows, he bitterly resents any
intrusion by the press into what
he regards as his private life. This
was true long before the tragic kid
mapping and murder of his child.
But the Russians, though they
must have known that there was no
basis in fact for the alleged Lind
bergh statement, rushed out state
ment signed by many OF their avia-
ton experts characterizing the al
legged Lindbergh statement as lie.
No. II looks as though the arma-
ment race would continue for long
time
Ben Syndicate wNu Service.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-11-10
Divers Reach 500 Feet
Using Synthetic Air

WASHINGTON.-The navy de-
partment has revealed that the pos
sible depth to which deep-sea div
ers can descend safely has been
extended to 500 feet by the use OF
synthetic air.
World record sea dives-to 500
feet under artificial conditions and
to more than 400 under actual con-
ditions-have been made by navy
divers using standard rubber diving
suits and a new mixture of helium
and oxygen for breathing purposes.
Navy officials said the new sym
thetic atmosphere is the result of
more than 10 years research. They
said that the oxygen-helium mix
ture considerably advances the art
of deep diving and has no harmful
effects upon the diver.
The 500-foot depth was attained
by Master Divers J. II. Mcdonald,
Las Animas, Colo, and William
Badders, Annapolis, Md, in the
Washington navy yard diving tank.
Sea conditions were simulated by
applying air pressure to the water
in the tank equivalent to sea pres
sure at 500 feet.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-11-10
SHERIFF'S SALE.

P. G Lilly, plaintiff, against L. A.
White, Ray Kuhns, A. K. Johnson.
Charles White, c. A. Smith, other
wise known as c. A. Cone and Glenn
Succetti, Trustees of the Black Dia-
mond Mining Syndicate, a common
law trust, James K. Lang, II. E.
Blackburn, c. A. Cone, John
Thomas, Jake B. Ferris, Ray Gun
derson and Walt Casey, defendants.
To Be Sold at Sheriff's Sale:
On the 18th day of November,
A. D. 1893, at two o'clock P NJ,
at the front door of the Court House,
in the City of Libby, County of Lin
coin, State of Montana, to the high
est and best bidder for cash in
hand, the following described real
estate lying and being in the County
of Lincoln and State of Montana to-
wit The Northwest Quarter of the
Southwest Quarter of the Northeast
Quarter (NWASWl4NEA), and
Lots One ~, Two (2) and Five (5)
of Section Three CD in Township
Thirty-three 1881 North of Range
Thirty -four. (34) West, NJ M, to-
gether with all buildings and i'm
provements thereon, but exclusive
of machinery and equipment, being
the mill site of Mortgagor, also all
those certain unpatented Mining
Claims of Mortgagor situate in Pine
Creek Unorganized Mining District
in Lincoln County. Montana, as more
fully described in mining location
therefor and which said claims and
mining locations are more particu-
larly designated and described as
follows:
Black Diamond, location notice re-
corded in Book 43, Page 81; Big
Dixie, location notice recorded in
Book 43, page so; Black Diamond
No 3, location notice recorded in
Book 40, page rs; Yellow Gold, 10
cation notice recorded in Book &c.
page 352; Tip, location notice record
ed in Book SO, page 35l, Grant, To-
cation notice recorded in Book SO,
page $50; Edith, location notice re-
corded in Book SO, page 400; Spruce,
location notice recorded i'm Book
SO, page 1893;
Together with all and singular the
tenements, hereditaments and APP
purtenances thereunto belonging or
in anyWise appertaining,
Dated this 18th day of October,
A. D. 1888.
F. r. BANEY,
Sheriff of Lincoln County, Montana.
BY c. O. HOISINGTON,
oc20-nl0-4t Deputy Sheriff.