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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-06-09
IAN FORMAL
OPENING NEXT
(ONDAY NIGHT
Idern Lighting System
I Tennis, Shuttle Board
Bert BOyd's Gift
INg FOLKS WEEK
| WILL OPEN SEASON

IOyi Park. Hendersonville's
4 popular play ground spot for
T. and old, will open formally
me summer season on next
kday night with many new i'm
[ements, and plans have been
] for the observance of all of
| week as Home Folks week.
fOrk on improvements is now
\ forward rapidly and will be
feted in time for the formal
Ing on Monday.
lar new SWITCHBOARD courts
being constructed, doubling
number now in the park, a
| lighting system will be in
led for all Shlfflebroad courts,
two of the tennis courts will
fshted with modern equipment
hight playing. ,
kghting of the SWITCHBOARD
|.ennis courts is made possible
|ugh the generosity of Bert A.
|. retired Indianapolis bust
man. who has made his home
J for several years, and who
knally made the park possible
|Cgh a gift of 81, 500.
In OUTDOOR NIGHT
INIS COURT IN WING z
sghting OF the tennis courts
| place Hendersonville in the
| in Western North Carolina in
Ifeld Of night sports since
Of the other cities in this
lon affords night tennis.
be two courts will be lighted
The most modern system
ahls today. A nine-pole sys-
vii be used, affording eight
g.S for each court, each
L-g 1000 watts power and
at a height of 80 feet
the playing courts.
FeOrting to Paul Tysinger, IL
hating expert of the Duke
b company, who designed the
lahOn, this system is the most
n possible at the present
and is designed to light the
5 with sufficient power for
A tennis. In the event what
rmed as championship tennis
esired, the l,00O-watt bulbs
be replaced with l,500-watt
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-06-10
FLORIDA TEACHER SIZES
FOR SALARY equality

TituSviM, Fla, June Sth. =
John Gilbert, teacher and rrin-
cipal III the Cocoa junior high
school (colored) of Brevard
county, has filed petition with
the circuit court of the county.
seeking writ of mandamus to
compel the board of public in
Struction to establish equal sal
TRY schedules for white and the
colOred teachers.
The petition was filed May "a
by the law firm of McGii and
McGill of Jacksonville. s. d.
McGill of the firm receiving adj
vice and assistance from the
legal staff of the National Assn.
for the Advancement of Colored
People in New York.
The petition of Principal Gil
bert states further that he holds
a second grade certificate from
the state department of cducat'n
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-06-10

and is IN his eleventh year of
TEACHING. His salary is $50 a
for a nine-monthS term.
MNGilbert also receives an addi-
tional 1888 per year as princi-
pal of the school, making total
of 1898. White teachers with
the same grade certificate an d
$ a m e teaching experience re-
ceive 800 a month or 5000 per
year. White teaching principals
are paid an additional amount
above the 5000.
Pointing out that the salary
diirerential for teaching is 100
per cent, the petition asSerts
that the said ditferential is baS-
cd solely on the race and color
of the teachers and denies to
petitioner and others Of his race
the equal protection of the laws
guaranteed by the 18th amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States"
AT first the petition was filed
in the supreme court of Florida
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-06-10

my part. In fact ! hate to spoil
such a beautiful tribute to the
Institute choir by adding any
thing at all.
Naturally it is matter of
pride to me to be able to send
you such fine compliment. You
can conjurc in your mind what
il means to the prestiagc of your
college and of the young men
and women IN that choir to have
business men of Kansas, twelve
hundred miles away, have such
Il fine and lasting impression of
the ability of the young people
i'm the Institute Chorus.
lam going to make Il request
that you. personally, read this
before the assembly of all the
students of Institute at their
next convocation, because | ann
anxious for all Of the student
body to hear this fine and sim
cerc expression, unsolicited,
coming one week after the visit
ors had returned to their homes.
| really believe that have re-
ceivcd az much of thrill out of
it as the members of the Choir
will get when they hear it.
] congratulate you and the
institution, the choir director,
and each member of the organi-
cation. You as.l they have made
Il splendid contribution to the
cultural life of this state, and we
here in the Charleston Chamber
Of Commerce are very glad, in
decd, of every opportunity to
exploit il.
Sincerely Yours,
tSiRncO Chas. T.. Hodges,
Managing Director.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-06-10
KANSAS {. of {. GIVES
4 CAPELLA CHOIR OF
INSTITUTE HIGH PRAISE
Charleston Chamber Of
Commerce
Chnl.lnSt on W Va

Charleston Chamber Of
Commerce
Charleston, w. Va.
May 81, 1898
DR.. John w. Davis
West Virginia State College
Institute, w. Va.
My Dear President Davis:
| am IN receipt of letter
from Mr.. Samuel Wilson, Topeka,
Kansas, Sccretary-ManaEcr Of
t h G Kansas State Chamber Of
Commerce, the last two para
graphs from whose letter ]
quote to you herewith:
Naturally, each Individual
on the trip got different impress
slons. One incident Of your en-
tcrtainment left an impression
on me which / doubt will ever
he erased from memory. I re-
fer to the a Capella chorus which
appeared on the program of the
evening banquet.
"Their singing of the Hallelu-
iah Chorus seemed to my UNI
trained mind and ear TO be per-
lection. Their attack, the rcpist-
er Of their voices and the tempo,
everything which it takes, was
there. If ] knew to- w h o m o
write 10 express my appreciation,
! would do so directly. Not 80
Knowing, wish you would do
it for me and for the members
Of the Kansas delegation"
There would seem to be little
room for additional comment on
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-06-10

which has concurrent jurisdic-
ton with the circuit courts in
mandamuS atoms. The supreme
court, however, can refuse to
take original jurisdiction and in
this case it did SO, referring the
petitioner to the circuit court.
If the circuit court dismisses
the petition for any reason, it
will be taken then to the supreme
court of the state.
Court attaches were frank in
stating that no petition of this
kind had ever been filed and the
court would have to make re-
search into the legal question
involved. The petition is similar
to those which have been filed
by lawyers in several counties
in Maryland. In three of the
Maryland counties. the boards of
education cQualiZed salaries by
an agreement out of court.
The Florida case is the first III
the Deep South W h ere Negro
teachers have challenged the
great difference between the
salaries paid them and those paid
white teachers of the same
training and same experience
and performing the same duties.
The Florida action is being
watched keenly by other south
crn states for if ii is successful
it will have a profound effect up
ON the fortunes Of Negro teach
CrS in the South.
N -lr~iI.y
Evening star., 1938-05-02
Radical DOgmatism.

Now that Andrew w. Mellon has gone
to his rest there can be little If any harm
in telling a story about him which illus
trates something definitely characteristic
Of his temperament. The time was 1885
and the place the new Federal Building
in Pittsburgh, whose corner stone he had
laid but in which at the moment Tax
Appeal Board was considering charges
that he had falsified his income reports.
Reporters were interviewing the former
Secretary Of the Treasury. Their ques-
tions ran a wide gamut of interrogation.
Inevitably in the circumstances, some
one demanded: What do you think of
President ROOSEVELT"
Mr.. Mellon might have replied with a
natural bitterness. It lay within his
right to strike back at the New Deal,
which, in effect, had put him on trial
for his life" Instead, he answered quiet
ly: Il can sympathize with any man
in the White House. You see, it's i'm
possible to please everybody"
The elemental charity Of his utterance,
1t seemed to a bystander, was note
worthy. Mr.. Mellon was talking of the
record" None of his hearers would
have blamed him if he had been in
tolerant OF ilhberal. Yet he chose to
Evening star., 1938-05-02
High Cost of Travel.

Although the grand manner of recent
years has reduced to a minimum the
moral value of a gesture toward public
economy involving as little as $173 100,
It is intriguing to speculate on the reali-
cation that Congress since 1866 has been
allowing itself total travelling expenses
of about $219, 900 each session for public
transportation that now costs something
less than $460O0.
For it can be shown by use of the
Official Table of Distances prepared by
the War Department and the train
rates, with customary surcharges, Of
railroads serving all Congressional dis
tricts, that the average cost for q round
trip between Washington and the home
of our average legislator is only 1854
instead of the $461 allowable by law.
In figures that are perhaps more
easily Understandable, it costs a mem
ber Of Congress only about five cents
per mile, including Pullman charges and
lower berth, to hasten back to his con-
stituents afer gruelling session in
Washington. Actually. however, he
draws 20 cents per mile and is merely
complying with the law when he does So
Appended to the legislative appropri-
alton bill now on the Senate calendar
Evening star., 1938-05-02
Ill Effects Sure From
Political Squandering
To the Editor of The Star

TO the Editor OF The Star:
In just what particular do the diff
cultieS in which I'VE, q successful de-
mocracy." are involved, differ from those
OF the troubled world" which, by i'm
plicatlon, Is not SO successful? And in
what form can we retain freedom of
speech and press if, as the President
alleges, our salvation from economic ruin
is provisional upon agreement with him
to the end Of united action? Must we,
upon his expressed insistence, be so
trained to distinguish fact from false
hood" as to unanimously recognize"
his Interpretation of public finance as
correct?
If the President is really eyidencinp
skill Of hand and head" in directing
all the energies of Government
to putting more people into private Jobs"
how does it happen that the money
which might be thus employed is taken
out OF private hands by taxes, present
ana even future, and thrown into a re-
newed program Of such political squan-
dering as has already been proven to
produce nothing but election results?
AS to fact VS.. fiction, we are told that
the Federal Reserve Board "curtailed
banking credit" in the spring of 1887.
This the board denies, for there is a
basic difference between curtailing credit
facilities (Which curtailment has no real
effect on money as long as excess re-
serves are available) and curtailing
credit" itself. Changes in reserve re-
quirements have been and still are an
empty gesture, calculated to obscure the
true situation, The adminiseRations
Evening star., 1938-05-02
Maryland, My Maryland.

Governor Nice, without doubt, believes
in Maryland, my Maryland.
His latest proposal envisions the de-
velopment Of Maryland as self sustain
ing State for the purpose of finding work
for most, If not all, of the 75,OOO jobless
Marylanders.
He would accomplish this objective by
having the Free States labor and indus
try supply "the every need" of it's citizens.
but still feed into the channels of ma
tional commerce nearly everything
needed by human beings"
How he would do this without running
afoul the Constitution by preventing the
flow Of interstate commerce is not ex-
planned. Neither is it clear how he would
get around the more inexorable laws of
human behavior. For ''the channels Of
national commerce." which now consume
many Maryland products such as to-
bacco, oysters, tomatoes, Frank Kent and
H. L. Mencken. would soon be closed
when word got around that there was
an effective buy Maryland" policy in
effect.
Furthermore it is doubtful whether
Maryland's 1 500 900 citizens would forego
the policy they have followed for gener-
ations of buying where they get the best
price just for the sake of My Maryland.
1t is true that 300 years ago Maryland
was sustaining colony. 1t had to be.
Many no doubt would, if they could, 90
back to manorial days when even the
slaves had more social security than
many wage earners do today.
Perhaps the Governors bright idea is
Just another election year illusion. Ger
tainly, in their buying policies, $500 900
Marylanders cannot be wrong.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
Shooting Stars.
Examining the Human Race,
By PHnANDER JOHNSON.

Examining the Human Race.
A benefactor once arose.
He had most impressive pose
And said he meant to set a pace
And elevate the human race,
In tones persuasive first he spoke
The human race said hes a joke!"
And then he spoke in terms severe.
The human race refused to hear.
In great excitement then he roared.
The human race looked mildly bored.
At last his disposition failed.
He yelled profanely and he rallied
Like one who was completely daft.
And then the human race Just laughed
And said, I'VE had your number when
You first approached your fellow men
With such a patronizng smile
The fellow men you now revile!
This human race, 'twixt you and me,
Has lived since centuries B. c.,
Observing how the tricks are done
BY which ambition has its fun.
And though we sometimes get in wrong,
The error never prospers long.
This human race, twixt me and you,
Knows what is what and who is who.'
Evening star., 1938-05-02

1t is limited that an eminent statesman
has been known to play poker until two
or three o'clock in the morning. Scath-
ing remonstrance naturally springs to
critical lips, yet it should be remembered
that a well conducted poker game does
not invite the participation of more than
seven mutually trusted acquaintances
and is free from the hours of applica-
game. It must be remembered that
Uncle Joe Cannon was a famous poker
player and was never known to allow the
game to interfere with his duties of
craftsmanship or with his facility in
quick retort.
Evening star., 1938-05-02

express generous and kindly point Of
view. Those who knew him best under
stood that he was . gentle and mannerly
person.
But 1t is exactly such elemental virtues
that radical dogmatists habitually deny
to their conservative opposition. The
pattern Of socialist and communist
philosophy is supposed to be humane.
Brotherhood and harmony are loudly
praised by revolutionaries as class. In
practice, however, it may be wondered
II professional reformers Of society are
not rather more bankrupt of good will
than the economic royalists" and
princes Of privilege" they so consistently
and caustically Wlify.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
minds Of those forced to contend with


him.
Perhaps that is the worst thing about
him, that he compels others to be like
him.
Who would want to be, unless de-
termined to take up the study of law?
Surely the dissentiou3 man, whose
mind naturally runs along such lines,
makes the best lawyer, because he is
forever trying to get the best of some one
else, or trying to make him say what the
poor fellow never meant to say. That is
why any honest lawyer will tell you, See
lawyer before you talk to your friends. -
\ X
Argument has little place in matters
artistic, especially music.
If we listen to music, there is no need
to have the mouth open.
And If the mouth is closed, as it should
be. there will be no argument.
The ears direct the destinies of music
as we know it. They play the biggest
part, with the heart and mind coming
next.
Heart and mind, of course, are simply
terms for emotion and intelligence.
Music Is sound. If it were poured out
upon the desert air, with no one at all
to hear it, it still would be music.
The ears got ahead of radio by some
millions Of years; they were the original
receiving instruments for sounds. They
grew as they are today because sounds
Influenced them to be as they are
The ear is the prime instrument in
music, the receiving set. All that the
members of the great symphony orches-
ira or chorus do is for the ear. Without
the ear, music is theory, meat for argu-
ment, not listening. With the ear music
is what it is, sound, something to listen
to, not argue about
Yet We must like" this, and not "like"
something else. We are forever arguing
about music, under the lead of the con-
tentlous person. who cannot ever hear
OF Beethoven without thinking of Mozart,
and instantly asking if the latter is
not far. far better.
y *
Let us talk about music, for it is well
worth talking about, but let us argue
very little about it, for a concert hall or
ones own living room is, thank heaven,
no court Of law.
In daily life, it is not always possible
TO be fair, but in music it is
AS listeners we may DO away wholly
with common interests, and for once be
upon a divine plane, where there is no
high or low, in very good sense, but
only difference.
This difference is not one to grow red
in the face at, but one for which we may
be devoutedly thankful, that there are so
many kinds of music, so many instru-
ments, so many voices, so many COM
posers, 80 many moods, so many ways
of being musically happy and satisfied
desires bound by what one has at the
moment.
Moment MUSICAL" Name of one tiny
composition, indication of all musical
moments and moods.
How to pronounce the name of a COM
poser is nothing. How to listen to him
is great deal
How to be fair to him. as COMPOSER
and fair to ones self, as listener, is
everything.
Evening star., 1938-05-02
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

The dissentious person-every one
knows him, perhaps may even be him
at times, such Is the frailty Of human
nature.
He Is content with nothing any one
else has, is or does.
He is contentious about them, is quar-
relsome, pugnacious, wrangling, ltigiouS.
perverse, peevish.
Significantly, he is more or less content
with himself, what he has. is. does.
Now, how does he get that way?
A clear case of the interesting bipsd
Is we'll worth studying. A close perusal
may give light on a moot topic, as well
as instill little lessons in word construc-
tion.
It is a curious thing that to be content
and to be contentious mean almost the
opposite Of each other, although all
that Is changed in the latter word is
the addition of "iouS."
They come from different Latin roots,
one from contentum, meaning to contain
or hold together, the other from con-
tentioSuS, to quarrel.
To be content is to be satisfied. Orig
inally it meant to be bounded in desires
by what one has.
The contentious person is really con-
tent with what he has. SO he is content
as we'll as contentious.
He is SO satisfied with himself that
he augments his content
He builds up his own esteem trying to
tear down the esteem of others.
Dlssentious he is. to a degree-he
dissents from the opinions, involving the
likes and admirations, of others.
Especially when it comes to artistic
matters this strange person always looks
for blood.
All one has to do is to express ad-
miration for the music of Beethoven, let
us say, to have him state instantly that
Mozart was far, far greater musician
Inere is, OF course, some matter for
dispute here. Mozart gave us perfect
music but its very perfection adds a
tinge of cold.
The music of Beethoven is human.
aspiring. reaching out and up for things
as yet unseen and unknown.
~ *
Yet express simple admiration for
Beethoven. our friend makes an argu-
ment out of it.
He lugs in Mozart by the back of the
neck. He demands that we put him on
a higher pedestal.
We had not been talking about ped
estals. We had been talking about
music. and only the music of the master.
Comparison was the last thing in the
world he wished. What has COM
pariSon to do with listening?
Music is not theory, it is sound; and
any one who does not understand that
must listen until he does.
The contentious person. really the
dlSsentlous person, is responsible for
many of the ills of this world.
There are enough legitimate argu-
ments. without making many more. and
about subjects which demand something
else.
The perpetually quarrelsome person
IN time becomes peevish and perverse,
at least in the ears and eyes, hearts and
Evening star., 1938-05-02
Unanswerable Argument.

The suffrage referendum on Saturday
is a remarkable and dramatic demon
stration of the right Of the people of
Washington to vote-not to vote in un-
official plebiscites, but to participate in
the councils of their Government
through the express sanction, written
into the Constitution of the United
States, of their fellow Americans in the
States.
The volume of the vote was remark
able. Communities long accustomed to
the vote and assisted by the organized
machinery of voting and the whip Of
organized parties would have made no
greater demonstration.
The preponderance of sentiment in
favor of the vote was even more remark
able. There has never been much doubt
that healthy majority of Washington
citizens believed in the right of WASH
ingtonians to vote, demanded that WASH
ingtonians be given the right to vote.
But it would have been an optimist in
deed who predicted in advance of Satur-
days demonstration such a huge and
forceful majority of such sentiment.
This sentiment is at once an indict-
ment of the voteless, unrepresented con-
dition Of this community today and an
overwhelming demand that the condi-
tion be rectified.
Analysis of the vote on the two ques-
tions submitted points the direction of
the next move. Citizens of Washington,
encouraged by this overwhelming victory
at the unofficial polls, must now press
on to complete victory represented in
proper amendment of the Constitution
Washlngtonlans, after the vote on Satur-
day. are not going to be content with any
halfway measures that might be offered
in lien of Constitutional amendment.
Both the pending Capper-Norton and
the LewiS-R Randolph amendments re-
celved overwhelming Endorsement in the
unofficial referendum.
The thirteen-to-one vote in favor of
the right to vote for President of the
United States and for members of Con-
gress from the District of Columbia
gives forceful backing to both amend
ments. This was distinctly vote for ma
tional representation
The Seven-to-one vote in favor of the
right to vote for officials of the city
government of the District of Colum-
bia gives forceful backing to that Sec
tion Of the Randolph amend
ment, which adds the specific provision
empowering the Congress to delegate its
power Of exclusive legislation in respect
to the District of Columbia.
The citizens committee in charge of
the referendum performed a difficult
task under trying circumstances and
came out with flying colors The citi-
zens who responded in such large num-
bers to the vote-citizens representing
every section of the population-have
given gratifying evidence of their patri-
otism, their interest in their govern
ment and their demand that they be
given the rights of citizenship to which
residence in the Nations Capital should
entitle them.
Evening star., 1938-05-02

Colleges are widely commended for
insisting on the privileges of discussion
among their students and providing them
with examples from the past which stim-
ulate inclinations of the human mind to
busy itself with all kinds of problems.
Even the baseball season does not pass
without liberal share of arithmetical
attention from our great institutions of
learning.
Evening star., 1938-05-02

is committee amendment which would
restrict such liberal reimbursements to
cases where the journey actually Is
made, rather than making the money
automatically available each session
even II members choose to remain in
Washington. It is difficult to see on
what grounds this amendment can be
opposed. If it Is eventually enacted, 1t
might justify hopes that another Con-
gress will have the courage to bring
its mileage allowances down to the point
of costs of today rather than those of
1865.
Evening star., 1938-05-02

Spain does not occupy large amount
of territory as compared with it's neigh
bors. 1t has provided evidence of the
fact that warfare is more intensive than
it used to be and that the universal Ian
guage employed by mechanicians has to a
large degree superseded native dialects
on which ntercommunication used to de-
pend. Spain has been almost unique in
assembling so many warriors who speak
the same language and its experience has
perhaps been the more distressing on
that account.