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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
BEHIND TIE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER.

WASHINGTON. - Whether the
w government is competent to
sit in as referee on the problems
of an industry is a question very
much bound up in the new effort
Of the National Bituminous Coal:
Commission to start out and DO it's
job all over again after an initial
fiaSco.
The commission is sometimes
known as the "Goofy Board" be-,
cause it operates under the Guffey
coal act and for numerous other
good and sufficient reasons. It's
job is to set minimum coal prices
so that mine owners ina each of
10 soft coal areas will receive APP
proXimately the average cost of
production per ton in their area.
Many piecemeal stories about
the commission have appeared.
Here's a brief roundup:
Senator Guffey of PENNSYLVANIA
and his political ally John L.
Lewis of the mine workers, along
with coal operators and other coal
state operators, got a coal stabilia
cation law through after an earlier,
different one had been killed by
the Supreme Court. The industry
has an active productive capacity
of 500,000,000 tons a year, which
could be pushed up to 100000, goo,
and a demand fol-" about 100000
600 tons.
Conditions had been fercely,
often ruinously, competitive. The
measure skinned through the
House only after certain members
had been assured the public
would be protected from gouging.
BituminouS consumers include
railroads which burn 10 per cent
of it, manufacturing and miscel-
laneous" (including cities, states,
schools and so on) 81 per cent,
utilities and domestic users Is per
cent, the last figure covering no
tells and apartment houses. No
body knows how many house
holders use soft coal. The act
set up a Consumers Counsel en-
powered to learn all pertinent
facts, to advise, to protest and to
spread information.
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Marriages Fall,
Divorces Grow
In French Nation
Births Also Decrease as
Country Worries About
GO Million Germans

PARIS. liar. II. (UP)-Thc
French are worried again. It is
not about another Fuchrer Adolf
Hitler 'ultimatum" to Austria or
new outbreak of piracy in the
Mediterranean, however. 1t IS
much closer to home than that.
Statistics just released giving
figures on births, deaths, mar
riageS and divorces for the first
thrce-quarters of 1887 show de-
creaSeS and increases in the re-
verse order of what they are de-
sired.
Always pointing to the 10000
600 across the German border AS
the biggest reason for bigger and
better families. the French al
ways concentrate agitation for
more marriages and more chill
dren following the release OF
such statistics.
For the first nine months Of
1887, according to ministry of fl
nance figures, there were fewer
marriages and more divorces than
during the corresponding period
Of 1886. For 1887 marriages to-.
tailed 202,811 compared with 200
573 in 1886; divorces for the
same period numbered l7,6! I
compared with 1G,O26 for the
previous year
The number Of births Of living
children also decreased. \ total
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17

Guffey got his man" in as
chairman-CharleS S. HoSford, Jr.,
of Pittsburgh, Princeton and Har-
ward Law graduate, eX-coal OPP
orator. eX-coal salesman. Senator
Neeley of bituminous West Vir-
GINA obtained appointment Of c.
E. Ned" Smith, Fairmont pub
Usher. and of F. w. Mccullough
as the commissions $9000-a-year
secretary. Thomas S. Raymond
Kentucky operator, was named
and Boss Tom Pendergast of Kan
sas City found a place for law
yer named Walter II. Maloney.
The miners had Percy Tetlow of
Ohio and John G. Lewis of Iowa
and Senator Minton of Indiana
drafted his old friend Pleas
Greenlee as the seventh member.
Hosford undertook to rule the
roost, working closely with Smith,
who took over personnel problems
with Guffey's approval.
Six months of internal war was
mixed with some investigation,
statistical work and hearings on
certain questions. Then suddenly
coal operators began a barrage of
kilograms for prices at time
when congressman were intro
ducing resolutions for an investi-
CATION.
The law says the commission
can't make an order without Civ
| ing interested persons chance
TO be heard, 10 examine and
cross-eXamine, and without max
ling finding of fact-which would
explain the order. But there was
no hearing and the committee at
the end of November announced
prices-somc 10000 of them-ef-
fective Dec. Is. There were many
protests.
But soon the courts got their
hands on the commission and
granted injunctions against the
prices to the railroads, to the city
of Cleveland, to the Associated
industries of New York. So the
commission called it all off, can
| celed the prices, and the public
will have its day in court.
| downright 1885, NEA Service Incl
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to do so means certain death?
The Soviets have a system
which is, | understand, to prom
Use the accused persons that if
they do not confess, their loved
ones will be prosecuted with all
the devilish ingenuity of which
the Soviets are capable.
And over here in the United
States our highest tribunal has
decreed that law enforcement OF
ficers must not even tap a tele-
phone wire to get the goods on
criminal. no matter how despcr-
ate. But gentle as it is on the
enemies of our domestic peace
and safety, I prefer the American
way. Yet VIC could Stiffen up a
bit and still temper justice with
mercy.
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they done!
"Then what did we do? What
could we do? We turned that
banker loose. He wasn't no good
to us if we couldn't collect no
ransom off'n him. We was afraid
even to kill him. Up there in Can
ada they hang you for KILN
folks!-they don't play with you
like they do in the United States.
Up there politicians won't go in
rardners with you; and you can't
hire no lawyer to buy off the dis
trIct attorney, or buy you jury,
OF a parole, or a pardon like you
can in the United States. l
wouldn't live in no such burned
country as Canada"
But" went on Mr.. Snatcher
reflectively, "kidnapin' ain It
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
MR.. JEFFERSON PROBABLY HAD IT RIGHT

The Communist revolution iii Russia was sup
posed to be popular revolution and so are re-
gines in Germany and Italy, but who would have
the gall to call these governments liberal or dem
Ocratic? You can no more call them that, than you
can call democratic and liberal the new farm bill
which empowers Mr.. Wallace to tell every farmer
how much of his own crop he can plant, sell or
store.
There ic nothing, liberal or democratic about all
these tendencies here and elsewhere. They are all
big6ted, dogmatic and dictatOrial, They are all
hampers on production business and employment.
They bring happiness to few. They do not create
or distribute wealth. They bath create and dis
tribute poverty If it be said that their tendency
is toward equality, it seems to be principally an
equality of misery. ...... 80.
l think your real liberal was Thomas Jefferson,
who believed in no more governmental regulation
than is necessary to keep men from inJuring each
other.-Gen. Hugh Johnson in Charlotte News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
VIOLIN MADE OF PAPER

LONDON. (UP).-Sapper Her
bert Wratton, Sind Field CO.,
Royal Engineers, stationed as Is
MALTA, Egypt, has been granted
three months special leave to
come to England to patent a pa
per violin. Wratton made the
violin in his spare time from COM
pressed sheets of cartridge paper.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
SLIPS SAY 1T FOR JUDGE

CLEVELAND. (UP). - When
Municipal Judge Henry j. Will
hams, OF suburban Lakewood, sits
on his bench he has stacked at his
elbow printed slips which explain
that the state law makes it man.
datory to- suspend the license of a
motorlst who has driven his auto
mobile while intoxicated.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17

Duncn OF us went
up t h e + e and
snatched a ban
ker, W h a t d d
them Canadians
do? Did they let
us collect our
! a n S o m, then
give us a fair
start the W y
they do in the
United States?
No, they didn't,
They put that
bankers family
under guard so
t h e y couldn't
pay us no ran
som. that's what
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
,NEAIp To HJDNkpERS

UNFAIR TO KIDNAPERS
"Them Canadians is the Un-
fairest people I ever seem" COM
planned Mr.. Snawley Snatcher,
kidnaper. "Last year when a
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17

LIFE AT 40: Life begins at
40" was the title Of Sinclair's
book, if memory does not trick
me. Ostrex tonic tablets, inquire:
"Men old at 4O?" Wheatamin
advises, Begin Life at 40"
Why pick on these a0-year-old
people? Extensive Investigations
proved that they are more eff
cient and methodical than those
with half their years, despite the
fact that industry is rapidly lay
ing them on the shelf. Don't give
up at 40. That's Just little more
than the half way mark of the
allotted three score and ten.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17

LIKES HIS ROSES: Editor c,
NJ. Douglass of the Pennsylvania
Times, when out in public gather
ings away from home, wears a
fresh rose in the lapel of his coat
if any florist is near and the sea-
son is against home production.
Mr.. Douglass says he has succeed
ed in growing q few during win
ter in the basement of his home
but that they didn't get the nat
ural coloring, due to lack of light.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
FARM.DEBT ADJUSTMENTS:


A few years ago committee was
organized in each county in the
state to assist the supervisors of
the district in the adjustment Of
debts when a farmer was swamp
ed with debts but didn't want his
home sold from under him. Sta
tistics reveal that 1887 cases
were considered, 1858 being adj
iusted, resulting in debt reduc-
ton of $S53,483 and the pay
ment of $77,067 in taxes that
might have been lost, at least par
TALLY.
Henderson county had compar-
atively little of this adjustment
work to do, especially in the face
of many debts created during the
BOOM. 49,. ...- .... ...
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

what it was in the United States
before them Omen got goin' so
strong. You can't buy them fell
lows the way you can policemens
and sheriffs. | don't know what
this blamed country is comm to!
Us kidnapers got to have them
senators and congressman we
spend our money helpin' elect, do
somethin' about them G-men"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17

Eighty-five year old William Brown of Round
Rock, Texas can walk on his hands and stand on
his head.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17

Belgium expects an early re-
sumption of its business improve
ment.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17

Fhe GREAT Shepherd, the Lord brought again
from the dead,
Gusrds His sleep as He feeds them the true LIVING
Bread;
In green pastures, beside the still waters de Ieaas
Into paths where His love satisfies all their needs
A ITO be continued
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17

IS THE SHEPHERD OF MEN
'.our Lord Jesus, that GREAT Shepherd OF the
'hsf0' brought again from VIC Heb. 1920.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
STRANGE, ISN'T IT!

STRANGE, ISN'T 1T!
During the past month right
here in my own community three
grown persons have been swim
died out Of sums ranging from
thirty to seven-hundred dollars by
strangers-fakers-who got the
money under the pretense of
blessing it so it would multiply!
In each instance the scheme was
to wrap up the money in some
thing or other and instruct its
owner not to unwrap it until a
certain time. A little sleight-of-
hand work and when the victim
opened the package at the APP
pointed time the money was miss
ing.
1t is incomprehensible in this
day of extensive information and
knowledge thrust at us from ev-
cry direction that anybody could
be so gullible as those takers vic
Tins! Is it any wonder that poll
ticians get away with so much?
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az PLEAD GUILTY"

II PLEAD GUILTY
It is remarkable, isn't it, The
way the persons in Soviet Russia
accused Of crimes against Com
munism get right up on the wit
ness stand and readily proclaim
their guilt, though they know that
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-03-17
BIBLE THOUGHT

THURSDAY, MARCH II, 1888
Evening star., 1938-06-30
Girdles, Foundations
WOmen's Lingerie, Gowns

So indies; regular sizes !,
tsiIk-ond-royon sotin; che
mise, ponties, donce sets)
200 Printed 6otiste Gowns; IS,
Is, ~ !.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thfr,
Evening star., 1938-06-30
Just for Juniors! New
5.95 TUB FROCKS
3.79

Bissfuly cool sun-ond-oir royon
crepes. Hond-bIocked linen prints.
Printed royon sotins. White, postels.
Sizes 9 to II in the group.
Collegienne Shop-Second Floor
Evening star., 1938-06-30
a!ns!14!.:,g;Iy! =! !!!.:! Z! Friday Bargain

STAYNG Home Going Awoyhers everything
- the grand old doy should be- Fine vocation and
for for for children for the hos
these unuuol values when the doors 9:3O
Evening star., 1938-06-30
Regular I.95 TO S.95
SILK LINGERIE
B to A off
nnp I.3O to 3.o7

noW $50 to 3.V
Gowns, slips, pontles, many beouti-
fully hand tailored. Samples and
"dseontinueds. Regular ond extro
sizes included in the group.
Ltrgerte-Thtrd Floor
Evening star., 1938-06-30
Girls Apparel Reduced

10 Dressnoker Bothino Suits;
sizes 10 to l6--
10 Wool 5othino Suits; Sizes
s TO Ia
7 Wool Bathing Suits; brok-
Is PIoy Suits; shorts, skirt, shirt
10 Printed Royon Crepe Dresses;
broken sizes to l2-
Ldnsburrh'-Air-Cooled
Evening star., 1938-06-30
Girls, Boys Shoes Red

500 Prs. ChiIdren's Convos Ok
fords, Strop Slippers
(snoII 5 to Jorge 81
400 Prs. Chi!dren's, Jr. Miss 6
Boys Oxfords
(broken sizes small 812 to
large 9; white, tan, block
Children's Shoes-Air-Coole
Evening star., 1938-06-30
Juniors Coats and Suits
Economy Shop Coats and Sui,
Clearance! Cotton Dres

300 Fost Color Sheers II Lowns,
din,ities, dotted Swisses, voiIes,
seersuckers, prints. flock dots
Broken sizes Z to a. 80 6 |
Ldnsburgh's-Cotton Shop-Thrd III
Evening star., 1938-06-30
CSC Portfolio
Writing Paper
l9c
Pod form, 3e sheets poper. "a
envelopes. White, ivory, blue.
Decorated portfolio cover.
Ah-Cooled street Floor
100 Sum ,ner
Lamp Shades
79c

Colorful pleoted chintz and
washable Clair de lune Sum-
ner eoIors. Sizes for all lomps.
Lamp Shddes-Sirth Floor
Evening star., 1938-06-30

CoIorfuI prints and soft posteIs. Cool
and crisp. Beautifully detoIed Wosh-
obIe. II to 20; SO to "A.
Cotton Shop-Thrd Floor
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It's Up to the Doctors

~ ERTAIN leaders in the highly ethical American
~ Medical Association have been invited to attend the
Interdepartmental Committee Conference to Coordinate
Health and Welfare Activtesa long but intended
to cover matters of tremendous national Importance The
conference, arranged by Miss Josephine Roche chair
man of the executive committee of the National Youth
Administration, will meet in Washington July 18, 10
and 20.
1t to be hoped that the A. NJ A. leaders will be asked
for and that they will in turn supply adequate reasons for
the associations opposition to group medical service
operative purchase of medical advice health insurance
public clinics established by State health authorities
and Government grants to stimulate research and i'm
prove medical education.
In these respects the American Medical Association
has absolutely failed to adapt itself to changing social
order 1t refuses to accept the nescapab fact that to-
day the problem of medical is not the concern of
physicians alone Doctors, enlightened in all other
respects should keep abreast of the times in social prob
lens as we'll as in the quality of their bedside service If
they don't they merely hasten the type of Government
control they prophesy with dread and SEEK in wrong
fashion, to block
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there were some commendable
things about the Administration
program such as the AAA, the
social security plans, and the
Securities and Exchange Com
missions efforts to correct spec
ulation and fraud, tended to
limit my criticism.
But now we are seeing the re-
suit Of that ill-advised bitterness.
that refusal to reach compro-
mise, that made itself apparent
in the court bill fight. It was
bad enough when Hopkins and
Jimmy Roosevelt stuck their
necks out to oppose New Dealer
ette-independent New
Dealer that he was. But now, it
appears that the Presidents
western trip has turned into an
effort to help the primary races
of "the boys,"-the boys who
can be depended on to swallow
anything.
One can only consider, with
some apprehension, the possible
results of such a determined
and ruthless, thoughtless and
inefficient-dictatorship.
R. F. c. A
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
Warns Clergy

Advising the well-meaning
clergy who are going to call
for a national boycott against
Japan, I suggest the clergy at
tend to their own vocation and
not do anything that may be
the forerunner of war.
I would also advise the minis
ters that China is getting just
what she asked for; there has
been an insidious boycott wag-
ing against Japan in China for
Is years, of course supported
by France and England, while
these two nations were exploit
ing and milking China dry.
Christian preachers who may
desire to take action against
Japan can do so to their hearts
content by taking a ship to
China and joining the army.
Any attempt to force America
into action that will cost bill
lions in wealth and millions in
lives will not receive the sup
port of the greater masses Of
America; for, after all, it is the
masses who shoulder the guns.
I have just recently returned
from a tour Of the nation and
I can truthfully state this is
"Disunited States of America"
on subjects dealing with wars or
rumors of wars. And I also warn
those who are so intensely in
terested in events thousands of
miles from our shoreS-they
would do well to give serious
thought to our own institutions
which are in dire danger of de-
struction by the un-American
and European menaceS within
our borders. I refer to Com
munists and their Subversive ele-
ment.
All those who are so anxious
to embroil our nation in diff
ficulties with other nations
should know that one more war
unless our shores are invaded
will mean the end Of our
democracy for the simple reason
anarchy and revolution will be
here. DONALD SHEA.
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speeches which seemed to me to
indicate a certain instability.

speeches which seemed to me to
indicate certain instability.
Eight months later it was
with the air of one confessing a
major crime that admitted the
way I had cast my ballot. By
that time the NRA was spread
ing a lot of ballyhoo which I,
along with most of the other
propaganda victims of this coun-
try, swallowed. Farm prices were
going up, and it looked as
though the Administration, by
main force, was going to drive
through to a more prosperous
and happy condition.
BY now, I'm proud Of my 1892
vote. Il didn't vote in 1852 I
no longer avoid the subject
when brought up in converse
ton. I boast Of it on every oc-
casion, including this one.
The waste of my own small
tax contribution in such non
sensical maneuvers as the Re
settlement Administration had a
dampening effect. The Civil
Works Administration probably
meant well, but it certainly had
features that didn't look so hot.
Those things were not the most
destructive forces in the Ad-
ministration's activities, but they
contributed to the inevitable
disappointment.
But the court plan became the
beginning of the end. Could
anything have showed more con-
clusiveIy that the Administra-
ton has fallen into the hands OF
a supremely self-centered group,
whose ineptitudeS of administra-
ton are equaled only by their
utter disregard of the inevitably
destructive effect of a govern
ment bankrupt and inefficient?
But even then, the fact that
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Illinois and over there was Ala
bama. He may have been with
Reynolds, Sickles, Sedgwick or
Meade; or, just as possibly, with
A. P. Hill, Ewell, Longstreet or
Pickett. Here the blood Of
Massachusetts, had soddened
the grass, there the glorious
dead of Georgia had piled high.
And so, at long last, he would
come to the scene Of his own
particular part in this great
battle. Around him his school
fellows-for he had been a mere
boy-had fought, bled and died.
Here he killed so that he him
self was not killed. Kind Of
sorry for that now-particularly
after this pleasant visit with
those old men Of the other side.
The grass is right soft and
this great marble slab sort Of
cool to a tired old mans back.
Funny that marble should feel
so comfortable like a pillow full
of feathers! There's a bugle
blowing back there at the can
tonments! The Last Post!
Tired Of being so very, very
old; tired of being alone.
Time he joined the rest Of the
boys.
If I were one of these brave
old soldiers that's the way I
would like to go.
60 FAR 7,400 Union veterans
~ have accepted invitations.
And 500 Confederates have al
ready promised to be there,
come hell or high water. More
acceptances are pouring in every
day and those in charge hope
for 1000 Northerners, 1000
Southerners. Three million men
were engaged in the conflict dur.
ing the four years it lasted.
Roughly, about 5000 are alive
today and the ranks are thin.
ming as each hour passes.
1t will be the grandest, most
inspiring spectacle you or will
ever watch. It will begin June
30, and last over the Fourth.
Copyright, 1898, by Washington Times, }
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uShb y pPNNShs
All this, however, will be
dwarfed by the presence of sew.
eral hundred very old men
those survivors of the battles
of 81 to IS who are able to
make the journey. Each one
will be provided with an able
bodied escort and all expenses
are being paid by the Federal
Government. :,
How near these ancient heroes
are to the last roll call is empha-
sized in some of the wording Of
the bill which made possible
this grand reunion of the Blue
and the Gray. Medical atten-
ton 10 to be provided and Gin
case of death provision of a cof-
fin, preparation of the body for
interment and transportation
to the home of the deceased"
$**
7 SHALL go to the reunion for
L. the purpose of writing, as well
as I am able, about these splen-
did old men. I don't go around
desiring death for any person.
but had I been privileged to
take part in the Civil War and
if I had lived for 80 years and
more, I believe I would like
greatly to lay me down on the
field of Gettysburg-and fall
asleep for always.
I would like to be able to write
to do my poor best-concern-
ing such an old soldier. He had
come from far away and was
on the battlefield once again
after three-quarters of a CEN
tury had passed by. He had
come knowing of himself-and
with pleasurable anticipation
that this was his second rendez-
vous with death and that this
time there was to be no escape.
He would not want it otherwise.
X X X
LIE WOULD in some fashion
Al elude his escort and wander
out alone over the parklike
stretches of the battlefield. He
would totter past monument
after monument. Here stood
The Washington times., 1938-06-18
BY SHIRLEY SPENCER

Score 10 for the information
questions and 20 for No. 8, the
brainteaser.
1."Tally-ho!" is an exclama-
tion used in what sport?
2. Which of these words best
describes the character Becky
Sharp"
(a) sweet CD unprincipled
Co dull-Witted.
3. How did the ancients decide
that the earth was a globe from
the shadow cast by the earth on
the moon?
4. Who was Queen Elizabeth's
mother?
5. Who established the Francis
can order of monks?
6. Give within a century the
time when Sappho, Greek
poetess, lived.
7. What was the pen name Of
Charles Lamb?
8. Where is the oregon Trail?
9. BRAINTEASER: What is
the least number that can be
divided by the nine digits with
out a remainder?
ANSWERS on Page III