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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12

but the defense is that it is essen
tial, that for many years the bor-
rowing does actually produce a
widespread condition of relief and
even makes profits for the we'll
to-do. While devaluation will
hurt their investments, failure
to borrow would hurt them-in
fact, destroy them very much
quicker.
I am also in disagreement with
this school, though I believe it to
be more logical than the first.
The fact is that it is impossible
to pile up public debts without
also biling up an immense debt
service load which is oppressive.
And it is impossible to distribute
the debt among the masses of the
people without destroying the verq
effect sought by creating the debt
In the last six years we have
added billions to the national
debt. But most of this is in the
possession of the banks. The banke
belong to a very limited number
of stockholders. The taxes to pay
the interest come out of the
masses of the people but the inter-
est is paid. to this limited number
of stockholders. 1t may not be
heavy interest but certainly, what,
ever it is, the masses do not coll
lect it.
It's only a matter of time when
we will have to fund this depres-
sion debt. When we do the in
terest charge on the whole debt
will be around a billion and a hall.
Thereafter that sum will be dis
turbing factor in every budget.
Because we have too heavy a
charge we shall hear that we cam
not do this and cannot do that.
The activities of the government
will be circumscribed. The theory
of the perpetual debt and its per
petual expansion is an alluring
one. But it won't work.
downright. 1898. NEA Service. Inc.)
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had been ordered by the board Oh
deaepns to appear before the con-
gre(htion to answer charges OF
conduct unbecoming a pastor.
When the trial opened, with the
church filled to oyerflowing, the
first thing that happened was that
Nose stood up and said, "Yo' is
here to make charges agin me.
Now, befo' yo' makes yo' charges,
I'se goin' to make what is called
counter charges Pse been round
'mong de white folks an aXed 'em
to put in writin' all de debilment
dey knows bout ye' niggahs. Use
,goin' to read right now what dey
say" And Nose impressively I'M
rolled a sheaf of papers two
inches thick.
"Stop him! Stop him! yelled a
brother, leaping to his feet. obs
is de house of de Lawd! Dis amt
no place fo' a battle-ground! Dis
is de place fo' brotherly love! l
moves we draps dem charges agin
Brother Mosew The motion pre-
vailed.
The next day a white man who
had heard about the matter asked
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12
FAUX PAS FROM THE RIGHT

Senator Bailey made speech to the Wake Coun-
ty Schoomasters club this week in which he said
that everything was all set and ready to go in the
matter of Federal support for public schools ex'
cept the one little detail of where the money was
coming from.
This attitude completes the Characterization of
Senator Bailey as reactionary Liberals, dyed-in-
the-wool liberals of the 1933-19- model consider it
extremely bad taste to talk about the cost of any
thing, and sheer obstructonism to raise the ques-
ton OF where the money is coming from.-Char-
lotte News
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WHY?

Why did grow old, I wonder?
+ wish hadn't by thunder,
Then they couldn't put me undeE
Nor sever friendship asunder, q
Nor pin on me many a blunder, q
Because I'm growing old.
To part with life is but ascending,
Is gaining heights that need no
mending,
Is reaching realms where is no
ending,
Where light and beauty, eyer
= blending, : T. },.. /: 80
Make 3 paradise, we're told,
1t must be so, for we are yearn-
ing
For land of love and learning
Where evil We'll be ever spurning,
Where to the light be ever turn
ing, .. -.s
And all its paths are gold.
Out Of the old house into the new,
From lowly earth to skies OF
blue,
From trials sore our faith renew
Loved by many, hated by few,
Wen tread the highway of gold.
So we grow old with resignation
And await with JOY, translation
From the Mount, TRANSPORTATION,
Where shall be no subjugation,
In a land where we never grow
old.
BY J. w. Johnson,
Hendersonville, n. C..
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, JOHN T. FLYNN
BY JOHN T. FLYNN
NEA Service staff Correspondent

SOMETIME ago I /. reported a
plan for an economic program
for democracy proposed by a
group of Harvard and Tufts pro-.
fessors. Readers have written to-
ask if I approved the proposal for
a continuing policy of government
borrowing. For some reason they
had the impression that l did. The
answer, of course, is that l do not.
But the subject is one of grow
ing Importance as are the facts
out of which that Importance
grows. Our pr$ent capitalist sys-
tenn must have, investment func-
tioning actively in order to keep
alive. And, for a variety of rea-
sons, active investment has been
growing steadily less. Certain
economists who recognize this say
the only way out is for the gov
eminent to take over the function
of investment. They therefore in
Sist that the government must do
the borrowing. This. being more
Or less frightening prospect they
defend it on the ground that it is
not as important or serious as It
seems, if the government will see
that the bonds are distributed
among the people. Under these
circumstances the government will
tax the people to pay the interest
but it will pay the interest to
them, one operation cancelling the
other.
With this theory I am in COM
plete disagreement. Il
There is another theory that
the government ought not to
hesitate to borrow since that is
the only way to keep the system
afioat. And although after while
the debt will become oppressive,
the government will shake it off
~ devaluation. This seems cruel.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12
SAYS ANTHEM DRIVE
WOULD DESTROY ALL
LIBERTY In THE, END

WASHINGTON, Dec. 70. (UP)
Frank j. Hogan, president of the
American Bar association and an
outstanding Catholic layman, last
night warned the nation that Nazi
persecution of Jews is part of a
gigantic campaign to destroy "ev-
cry last shred of liberty and
Christianity" in the democracies
of the world. -
He defined Jews as "barome-
tiers of democracy" and branded
as Stupid" charges that thew fl
nanced the Russian revolution and
communism.
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
Ry WECKES WAMBOLDT

Nose what kind Of evidence ne
had had in that sheaf Of papers.
81 didn't have nothin'H grin
ned Nose. "Dem papers was all
blank"
Has Mr.. Hopkins really kept a
record of requests, suggestions,
and proposals received from mem
bers of congress? Or will it sut--
flee that the rumor get abroad
that he has?
l once heard a man propose at
a large public meeting that if the
local bar association would Sc
cure immunity from punishment
for his witnesses, he would prove
that jurors had been bribed by
lawyers in that community. But
though great excitement was kick
ed up by the challenge, it was
never accepted. No one knew
what might be brought out. A
guilty conscience is sometimes a
powerful factor.
IN DUE TIME
Here is a passage that should
put heart in those who, year after
year, see effort after effort
seemingly fail to overcome wrong
conditions: "Let us not be weary
in well-doing, for in due season
we shall reap if we faint not"
; 1t takes a long time to change
human thought. 1t took more
than a hundred years to teach WIS.,
itors to the White House not to
spit tobacco juice on the walls.
Think then how persistently pa
tient the human family should be
in working to correct inborn
faults in its nature.
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ldhSH lilS ~ Y
caution to have
a stenog'rap h e L
listen in a n d
make notes every
time a member
of congress tele-
phoned to try to
do a little poll
tic kin g with
WPA. T h o S e
notes, it is said,
would make jul
cy reading.
And that re-
minds me of the
case of Nose
White, a colored
preacher, w h o
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12
NAVAJO ECONOMICS MUCH LIKE
OUR OWN
(Bv BRUCE CATION

1t seems that the Navajo Indians are go
ing broke because of their riches. And
somehow this topsy-turvey world of ours
ought to be able to draw useful little
moral or two out of this odd situation.
Among the Navahos, ownership of a
horse is the one infallible sign of wealth
and social position. The horse needn't
amount to much, as beast of burden; he
can be NANCY, spawned, sway-backed and
generally run down, but if he is just an in
disputable, unmistakable horse he fills the
bill.
So the Navajo who has made his mark
on the-reservation range land must acquire
. and maintain herd of horses. He may
not care to ride on them, or hitch them to
wagons; so long as he owns them he is
happy. And the young buck who goes a.
counting finds his path much smoother if
he can present his sweetheart's parents
with string of 10 or dozen ponies.
Because of all of this, the Navajo ranges
are supporting at least 100000 more horses
than the tribe actually needs. Furthermore,
these horses are eating grass and other for
age which might we'll be supporting vast
flocks of sheep-possessio of which would
actually enrich the Indians in the sense that
it would mean more food, more cash money
and better living quarters.
Indian Commissioner John Collier hopes
to persuade the Navahos to reduce the
number of their horses, and increase the
size of their sheep flockS. But until he can
persuade them that "a worthless horse is
not an asset, but rather liability" he is
likely to make scant Roadway.
1t is easy enough for the white world to
look down with amused contempt on the
red man who is so ignorant that he doesn't
know real wealth when he sees it. Yet
perhaps the same sort of condition, under
some other guise, is commoner than we
generally realize.
The innocent Navajo, for instance, might
wonder why we look on it as a national
calamity every time our farmers manage
to produce more than usually ample
crop. Foodstuffs have been the most tam
gible and universally accepted form of
wealth since the first hunter lugged home
the first arrow-pierced deer; if we consid-
er ourselves unfortunate because we have
an abundance, the Navajo could hardly be
blamed for being bit puzzled. -
Nor is it likely that he could quite under
stand our difficulties with cover produc-
ton IN other lines. For here, again, the
things we produce are wealth - wealth
pure and simple. If large numbers of us
must do without them because we are pro.
duclng too many of them, the situation is
hardly one which would commend white
mans economics to the red man.
Somewhat similar is the complaint that
we have put too much money into produc
tive machinery during the last decade OF
so.-This machinery produces wealth; why
should our ability to produce more wealth
get us into trouble? --
When Mr.. Collier undertakes to explain
the ms and outs of wealth to the Nayahos
perhaps he had best confine himself strict
ly to horses and sheep. -.,-.s ----,o,
The. DaOaltV for Surro,,,, J;,,,,,.. -, !,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12
AUTO DRIVEN II YEARS

AKRON, O. (UP)-Lee Clough
has driven his 17-year-old auto
mobile a distance equivalent to
more than II times around the
earth at the equator since 1921.
Clough still drives it daily, win
ter and summer, from his coun-
try home IS miles to the rubber
plant where he is employed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12
MOUSE TRAINED TO SING

BORING, Ore. (UP)-Mrs. H.
A. Monncr has a singing mouse.
She found it in the basement,
captured it. taught it to sing
without fea. while persons were
about.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12

The penalty for surrounding yourself
with yes-men is that your conscience learns
to behave the same way.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12

Majority rule in the AAA scheme sounds
fair, but would you be free man if you
had to wear a ring in your nose because
the majority voted for it? stso ,.,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12

The minimum age requirement
for a private license is 16 wears
and for a commercial pilots Ii
cense Is years.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12
BIBLE THOUGHT
FRIENDSHIPS OBLIGATION

FKlEIND1lIIr OI'-ISa7& I01~
preach the gospel to every creature" mark
16I5)
The gospel committed to my trust
Il Tim I'D =
In the words of the hymn, "Friepds of mine are
lost in sin and cannot find their way" How solemn
the reminder! Friends of mine lost"-and
what have l done about it? The very friendship
we bear places us under obligation to share with
him. Eternal life is my greatest possession, and
dare remain silent longer when my friend doesn't
know, Him Moody Monthly. .@
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12
CONTEMPORARIES

A certain columnist asserts
that there will be no congression-
al investigation Of WPA for the
reason that Harry L. Hopkins has
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12

Barber poles first came into
use during the middle ages.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12
LISTEN TO. THE LIONS: Hen

Jacksonville and community are to
have further civic service through
the organization of Lions club.
Kiwanis and Rotary, serving
the community for years, have
rendered valuable service in the
things they have accomplished but
even greater service, one that
can't be related in terms Of
specific activities, tan be credited
to them. They have fostered
through the lean years of the de-
preston a spirit to- dare, to do, to
serve unselfishly and one can
never tell what this. has meant
materially for }Aenderaouvhle and
Henderson county.
There's room for more cour-
age, more optimism, more COM
munity faith and may the Lions
foster such most literally.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12
WHAT TITHING WOULD DO:

WHAT TITHING WOULD DO:
l often think of the remark of
the late J. Adger Smyth when he
was wrestling with church fl
nances, to the effect that if all
the members of the Presbyterian
church would 1.-THE the church's
main financial problem would be
that of wisely spending the in
come.
Roy C. Bennett, chairman of
the finance committee of about
90 tithers of the First Baptist
church, is enthusiastic about the
possibilities of tithing. He says
his church, if all members tithed,
would have an annual income of
twenty to thirty thousand dol
lars.
l believe the Lords Acre plan
is about the best financial pro-
Queer for the rural church.
SICKNESS IN SCHOOLS:
! Dana's unfortunate plight serves
to show how far reaching the
schools influence is in the matter
of health as we'll as learning.
School was discontinued three
weeks ago. Last Monday. it re-
sumed 200 pupils missing. The
school took vacation until after
the Christmas holidays in the
hope that sickness. would be abat-
ed where there is illness from
measles, mumps and chicken pox.
Of course 200 were not sick, but
fear kept some from school.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-12

APPLES IN BOXES: A few
apple growers in Henderson coun-
ty used boxes for packing fruit
this year. Earl Marshall says his
boxed apples have kept better on
cold storage than those in bas-
ketS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-02
BY WiIIord
TRADEMARK q pulled
For q s. Patent Once
BY Bud Fisher

sure there was something to run
from.
Peter continued to hear that faint
sound, and presently he just had to
try to see who was making it. Care
fully, very, very carefully, taking
care not to rustic a Leaf, he crept
into that thicket step at time.
Presently he discovered familiar
shape lying there. 1t was Lightfoot
the Deer. 1t was Lightfoot who was
making those queer sounds, LITTLE
gasping means. Lightf1ot was II
great trouble.
Copyright, 1850
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-02

Perhaps if his ears had been less
long, Peter wouldn't have caught
it. But he did catch it and he
stopped abruptly to sit up and listen
intently.
There it was again, very faint,
strange noise such as Peter never
had heard before. 1t came from
the middle of that little hemlock
thicket. Peter made ready to run.
That strange noise, faint though it
was, frightened him. A strange
noise always frightens him. But he
didn't run. He waited to hear it
again. Curiosity was stronger than
fear. He would run when he was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-02

this particular evening as he scam
pered along, Ipperty-lipperty- lip,
through the Green Forest. He was
wishing that all his friends would
learn to stay on Farmer rBown's land
all the time through the dreadful
hunting season. With his head
filled with such thoughts he was
passing a little thicket of young
hemlock trees, growing SO near to-
gether that their spreading branches
quite hid the ground. and made a
splendid hiding place. Into the
midst Of Peters thoughts q faint
sound broke. It was very faint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-02

small and of little account. How
any one can want to harm such q
glorious creature is more than Peter
can understand.
Now had come the dreadful season
when 1t seemed as if men with ter
rible guns were everywhere. From
daylight to dark those terrible guns
banged and banged on the Green
Meadows, in the Green Forest, and
along the Big River. No one knew
what minute he might have to run
or fly for his life. Only on the land
which belonged to Farmer Brown
was there safety, for Farmer Browns
boy had posted al this land with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-02
Bedtime Stories
Fontoine Fox
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.

For some time Peter Rabbit had
seen nothing of Lightfoot thu Deer.
In fact he had had only one glimpse
of him since the feast of beechnuts.
Peter is a great admirer of Light
foot. To Peters way of thinking
Lightfoot is the most beautiful OF
all four-footed people. He never
tires of admiring him, his magnifi-
cent spreading antlers browning his
handsome head, his great, soft eyes,
his trim form, his slender legs, his
dainty steps and wonderful leaps
Beside him Peter always feels very
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-02
pleasure of hunting them.

But # Peter had little to fear,
many of his friends and neighbors
were not SO fortunate, for their
travels in quest of food often took
them beyond Farmer Browns land.
Not a day passed that Peter did
not hear tales of frightful things
happening, of narrow escapes, and
all too often of surprises which left
no chance for escape. So every time
Peter heard the bang of a gun, no
matter how distant, he jumped
nervously and hoped that no friend
Of his had suffered.
Peter was thinking Of these things
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-02
signs forbidding hunting thereon

signs forbidding hunting thereon.
So Peter Rabbit, who never travels
beyond Farmer Browns land any,
way, had little to fear from those
terrible guns. Nevertheless, every
time he heard one he had a queer
sinking feeling at the pit of his
stomach. You see, there had been
time when even Farmer Brown
land had not been safe place, and
Peter had known what it means to
be hunted. That was before Farmer
Browns boy had learned how much
greater is the JOY of friendship with
the people of the Green Forest and
Green Meadows than the cruel
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-17
Dean Olson is Attending
Junior College COncLdUe

Dean Sigurd F. Olson of the Junior
College leaves today to attend a con-
ference of the Deans of all State Junior
Colleges at the University of Minnesota.
This meeting is called for the ex-
press purpose of studying programs of
student counSelling and vocational
guidance, with the object in view of
establishing such programs in the
Junior Colleges.
Dean Royal R. Shumway of the Uni
versity is in charge and has enlisted the
staffs of the University Testing Bur-
eau and Student Counselling to work
with representatives from the various
colleges.
Vocational Guidance and Counselling
is field of work receiving great deal
of attention in all colleges and univer-
sites today 1t has as its primary OBJ
jective, helping students to orient them
selves SO that they can choose lines
of work fitting to their own particular
abilities. One of the major problems
any student contemplating college work
is the choice of major field of in
terest and guidance programs through
personal counselling as we'll as individ-
ual analysis have been found exceed
ingly valuable
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-17
PIT. A. COUNCIL
MEETS Mar. ~
Selection of Nominating Group
to Present Slate of Officers
Feature of Session.

March %, is the date for the regu-
lar meeting of the Ely Parent Teacher
Council. The meeting will be held in
Room LOG, Memorial building at 7:30
in the evening.
Among the important business mat
tiers to come before the body is the
selection of a nominating committee
who will present a slate of officers for
the year. Other matters of Importance
will also be disposed Of.
Mrs. Saima Kayute, dance chairman,
has announced that Tiny Specht's
seven-piece orchestra has been engaged
for the annual Easter Ball, held for the
benefit funds for the eye-glass pro-
ject of the Council.
The Pioneer-Savoy study group met
Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs.
Louis Gordon. The topic for study was
Health for Growing Children" Mrs.
Emil Koski, council program chairman
of study clubs, was guest at the
meeting
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-17
Former Elyites Assemble
in California and Florida
Mr. and Mrs. S. Chesney Hosts Reunion of Former Ely
Residents Pasadena; C. Deane, Luther Brockway
Reminisce al Miami, Florida

for the day the letter was written,
causing considerable anxiety on the part
of residents in the flooded territory.
She also wrote Of the presence of
kelly" Schreck, well known here where
he was with the forest service, who was
visiting his brother at Santa Anna.
Mrs. Chesney sends her regards to all
her old Ely friends.
In the same mail we received a letter
from Elbridge G.. Deane of st. Peters
burg, Florida, who was in Miami for a
visit and where he spent some time
with Luther Brockway. Both will be
remembered by many in this city. Mr.
Of the Oliver Iron Mining company
while Mr.. Brockway was in the First
National Bank here as assistant cashier
under F. L. Cowan.
Mr.. Deane stated that they talked
over their narrow escape from drowning
near Dollar Island in BURNSIDE lake in
the big wind which swept over this Sec
ton on July Is, 1904 Mr. Brockway
was very much pleased with the copies
of the Miner he received from Mr..
Deane and stated that the head looked
familiar but that the names in the
news were somewhat out of his memory.
In speaking of the climate, Mr.. Deane
stated that one of the papers in st.
Petersburg sends, out their paper free
every day the sun does not shine before
press time, o'clock He stated that
it is sometimes over a year when no
free paper is issued, but that they get
three or four in some years.
He also wishes to be remembered to
all his old Ely friends.