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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29
LONE WOLF BAD MANA MINOR
MENACE
tBy BRUCE CATTONl


What shoddy desperate this Floyd
Hamilton turned out to be?
riazoncd in the headlines as Public
E..nr Number One Hamilton looked
rr,n more like discouraged, pennilesS
chicken thief when he finally fell into the
bands Of the law. Instead of going down
.aooring. he surrendered very meekly
when the cOppers caught up with him.
..G might note. too, that at the time of his
...,s. he was trying to bum his way out
- town ON freight train and he had Just
80 to his name.
obviously. crime didn't pay for this
chan. Unless he gets some satisfaction out
81 his brief prominence, he must be re-
fl,cfin. sadly that he would be happier,
bg,.2y dressed. better fed and more re-
,,,,etcd il he had gone to work for NPA
s teaI Of trying to carve our career as
p BAD man.
There would be little point, however, IN
roin. to sermonize heavily on the wages
of sin. For the bad man of the Hamilton
iypc never was anything very special in
.he way of menace to our Institutions
I,rn i'm the hcyday of crime, the outlaw OF
;har stripe led short life and suffered an
iuglorious end. 1t was the city gangSter
d so vas the real difficulty.
And when VIC reach that point we begin
g., touch sore spot-the extent to which
the. bublic itself is responsible for its real
public enemies.
The big city gangstcrs--thC Al Capone.
F"tch Schultz type of fellowS-had moth
Dr. whatever in common with bad men OF
1.,r kind Floyd Hamilton tried to initiate,
except for the fact that they were ready
Il, resort to murder whenever necessary.
jbcv weren't lone wOlveS--far from it. In
.nad Of defying society, they sought out
i..irtv'S corrupt elements and formed an
alliance.
Rscausr those alliances were possible,
gh1.r men were genuine menaceS; not so
much for themselves AS for the things they
stood for.
they operated with the Connlvance OF
officials sworn to enforce the law. They
z"ppied the public with divers cOmmodl-
&C.; aud services which the public had
..1dc illegal but nevertheless wanted.
Thcv were by-HroductS of very bad po-
Utcal system. Their mere existence 1ndl-
Gated or whole scheme of big city society.
There was no lodging from pillar to
rort for thcm-no frantic attempts to leave
TOWN via blind baggage, no stumbling
dawn alleys to cludc the police, no forlorn
reduction to d handful of small change,
They numbered big-shot politicians among
taeir friends. came and went openly, and
asyer had TO run away from anybody eX-
ccpt business rivals. ..
We always have had our Floyd Hamil-
TONS, and we always will. They aren't i'm
partant The time to worry is when we
start producing big city gangsters instead
of smail-timc bad men.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29
ANOTHER LONG SOONER:

ANOTHER LONG SOONER:
Mrs. Nancy Mac Carakcr of West
Palm Beach, with home on the
Brcvard highway, has been com,
ing to HcndcrsOnvillc tor ~
years. $780,.
We are now closing this feature
unless some ono can beat the rec
ord of Major Isaac +. Brown, WIN"
has visited IendersouvllIc reg
ularly for sc years and has MIS-.
I'd only ono summer IN IL year.
Have YOU anything to beat that!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29
WHY NOT ?

The practice Of persons remcm
horil- faithful servants in their
wills seems To b" spreading. And
why shouldn't it? When 4 servant
has given long years of loyal scr
vice to Il master or mistress, why
should he not be included in the
last will and testament? Some
times such a servant is the most
devoted friend the master or mis-
trcSS has.
Why shouldn't it generally be
the custom to remember good old
servants in wills? And why should
not servants be encouraged to be
good and faithful in the hope and
expectancy Of being treated like
one of the family when those they
have faithfully served pass on. FL
deity with reward for fidelity is
Il beautiful arrangement.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29

MY FRIEND-BUT-
Gle is my FRIEND" Wham. "Hc
is my dear friend Wham
Wham! He is my very dear
FRIEND" Wham! Wham! Wham
Suggested by the presidents re-
cent campaign speech at Barnes
Vile. Georgia.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29
BIBLE THOUGHT
WHEN NATURE FAILS

rntsc into tf,s courts with praise" NP9, 100 Al.
Can't worship in tho green fields. plously
-,- the Sunday hiker. You can was the answer
bot you don't The truth is nature never, of IT.
-.E1. lcd- 10 God, The african savage sits at his
.taribal feast surrounded by natural scenery
~ u,,a SURPRISES in splendor and glory anything we
Cd. England have ever seen. Nature has not led HIM
i. ,;.t" Sunday School Times
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29

Everybody was surprised when the Jap
anese and the Russians suddenly stopped
lighting, The world found it truce that
was stranger than fiction.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29

When a candidate seeking TO
represent the people says, IF
elected | shall support Such y.
Man in the program he has out
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29

Comes news Of a man in Australia who
has just ridden 578 miles on child's trl-
cycle. Now what office do you suppose
hes running for?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29

1t is estimated that the priml-
tive herds of buffalo roaming the
American plains numbered about
100000 animals. .r:
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-29

> Explorers have hoisted the flag of New
York's World Fair in the Arctic. That
ought to draw the crowds down to the
Show!
The times-news., 1938-12-30
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
JANE BARLEYCORN

The disturbing news of recent day related not
only to a growing disafection in Europe nor; OF
labor difficulties in America, ner didTit treat Of
sangunary events in China, nor yet of SPANS civil
strife It came from the head of Chicago institu-
tion having to do with the rehabilitation of habitual
drinkers and was to the effect that the number Of
women, especially wives, who were trying to rid
themselves of the liquor habit showed, for the first
II months of 1888, gain of 80 per cent oyer the
corresponding period of 1888. ..... ...
His explanation is typical of the adder-like way
in which this again unleashed evil worms its way
into the heart of a household: prohibition Grams
fered liquor from the bar room to the living room
and wives learned to drink Repeal returned drink
ing to the bar rooms and wives followed their nus
bands there. Today public compacency about wo-
men drinking at bars is making the problem of the
woman inebriate tragically serious"
No doubt many a mother who tolerated repeal
because she had been assured that it would bring
q return of so-called "good tines and make avail
able beverages of less dubious quality has been
disillusoned through the derelction of a daughter
or other near relative as the result of habit form
ed during prohibition, when it was considered
Smart to drink, and continued following repeal.
Instead of the promised prosperity" these moth
ers have witnessed a gradual tightening of eco
nonic life, an increase of drunken driving with its
frequently fatal consequences, and a drifting TO-
ward the same conditions which inspired the enact
ment of the 18th Amendment.
sTe One wonders how the distillers, who so sagely
counseled the drinking public to see to it that all
bills were paid before partaking of the cup that
ieers, viii gloss this newest problem Will it,
following the lines of liquor logic indulge in
mock-solemn admonition to the housewife to as
sure herself that the home life is functoning
smoothly and that the little ones are in charge of.
I competent substitute mother before she starts
tipping? Christian Science Monitor.
The times-news., 1938-12-30
KEY VESTS STAND

The following editorial is from the Rotarial
magazine: '.'
Civic apathy has no hold on Key West, Fla.
vire public spirit fends it off. The chief
stimulus to the city's enthusiasm is the new ST.
million-dollar Overseas Highway which connects
it to the Florida mainland. Its recent compile
ton, townsfolk believe, presages new era OF
prosperity for the famous winter-resort city.
But the great bridge has also brought prob
lem. Down the cleaning concrete ribbon kaVe
come many fine home-seeking families and vaca-
tionists. The town has welcomed them. But
along with such folk have come others seeking
to set up gaming tables and race tracks, with an
eve on "easy money" For these the city has no
room no welcome. 1t made that plain q few
months ago in A Key West Declaration on the
subject, sponsored by all civic organizations.
Mayor Willard NJ. Albury drew up the statement
to give representative groups means OF eX-
preston on the vital issue. The following ex-
cerpts make the fact eloquently clear that the
voice of decency can be heard-if enough decent
people raise it: ... ....
&c. The problem before US is Shall Key
West be shining example of city rightly gov
erned which offers in addition to its unsurpassed
natural advantages an abode of peace and safe
ty or shall it accept the wages of prostitu
ton and, for false and transient show of
money, harbor underworld expoiters, great and
small?' --' d.. ~ Ii.
''We welcome the stranger who would come
among us and exchange money for service, or
service for money; who would add homes and
enterprises to our commonwealth, who comes TO
Key West seeking more abundant life.
eve have no welcome for any of that multi
farious class who are on the make . whose
aim is to find easy money without rendering an
equivalent therefor and who can only offer dis
honorable employment to our young people :. :.
"Key West has always, even in the days of
tribulation, been a proud city. Now, when the
future of incalculable service to the finest peo-
pie of our countries lies before it, more than
ever BEFORE let US highly resolve that the soul of
Key West is not for SALE"
The times-news., 1938-12-30
AT YOUR OWN RISK

Business leaders are said to think the proposal
has merit, and Harry Hopkins is no mere wisher
But honestly, are We to start all over again with
the ballyhoo method of putting people back to
work?
As much IS indicated in the stories from Wash
ington. The new secretary of commerce yet to be
confirmed, is said to be considering nationwide
driye, reaching into every city and town, aimed at
getting employers to make as many jobs as pos
sible.
Try this on the first employer you meet Explain
TO him that there is nationwide drive on to re-
ducc unemployment Ask him to put on couple
of men, and when he asks you, getting his hackles
up, "a couple of men doing what and at how much
week.! why that, if you are wise, will be signal
for you to discover that you have pressing en-
gagement elsewhere ..-.,-
For II you tarry too long, you are likely to hear
him explode He'll tell you that you've got the
cart before the horse that business makes jobs not
jobs business He'll tell you that if he should put
on couple of unemployed persons he didn't need
he'd Immediately have to start paying out OF his
pocket per cent of their wages for their unem-
ployment insurance and another per cent Tor Ola
tage. He'll tell you that for these two supertluous
employees he'd have to keep exhaustive RECORDS ana
make complete reports in order to prove that tney
were drawing not less than so much week Tor not
more than so many hours of work week
! He'd tell you that his labor cost had already
zoomed up to the point where prices were zoo nlgh
for volume and his margin of 'proht TOO small Tor
the risk involved He'd tell you, in short and in
sum- that Harry Hopkins could go to plazes, and
with him take his nationwide drive aimed at get
ing employers to make as many JOBS as possible
Charlotte News.
The times-news., 1938-12-30
HORSE SHOE

HORSE SHOE, Dec. 30.-Both
churches here had Christmas trees
and programs. The Methodist
church held its exercises Thurs
day evening. The program was
directed by Mesdames c. M. Free
man and Sue G. Hendricks. The
Baptist church tree was Sunday
evening. The program was di-
rected by Miss Sylvia Banks.
Mrs. Beckwith, who has been
quite i'll, is somewhat improved.
"Yap" Case and mother, Mrs.
Mary Case, also Mr.. and Mrs,
Frank Case and Frank, Jr., have
returned to Horse Shoe after sew
eral years absence and are oc-
cupying their home here.
Mrs. C. NJ. Freeman spent q
part of this week in Spartanburg
with her aunt, Mrs. R. K. Daniels,
who is very i'll.
Miss Virginia Cash of Hender-
sonville, spent Christmas with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Cash.
j. P. Ammons, who worked in
the Asheville postoffice during
the holidays, spent Christmas with
his wife and little son at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Duncan. ..
Mrs. Garland Plemmons and
sons, Garland, Jr., and Mike,
spent Christmas visiting relatives
in South Carolina.
The times-news., 1938-12-30
=
NAMES2AIDES
Harlee And Texter To Be
With WPA On War
Dept. Assignment !

WASHINGTON, Dec. 80. (UP)
Colonel F. C. Harrington, Works
Progress administrator, has ap'
pointed Major B. NJ. Harlee a:
his assistant and chief engineer
of the agency.
Capt. G. E. TeXtor was desig-
mated as Hairless executive assist.
ant. Dallas bort, who was associ-
ated with the Civil Work admin
istration, the Federal Emergency
Relief administration and later
with WPA, was named as tempo
rary executive assistant to Har-
rington.
Harlee, a native of Brooklyn,
N. Y, served in the World war
as a captain in the engineer corps.
In 1920 and 1921 he engaged in
the construction Of Notifications
in the Philippines and in 1929
1881 participated in a survey of
an inter-oceanic canal route in
Nicaragua.
He was chief regional engineer
Of WPA projects in II western
states until 1897 when he enroll
ed in the Command General
Staff school at Fort Leavenworth,
Kans. He has served as Harring-
toms executive assistant since
last summer.
Textor was born in Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, in 1902, and gradual
ed from U. S. Military academy
in 1924. He did tour of duty
The times-news., 1938-12-30
bY JOHN L. FLYNN
NEA Service Staff Correspondent


ALMOST everything has been
IA said about the amazing episode
Of McKesson and Robbins. but
there remains one important OBJ
servstion.
Fabulous, rascally as the whole
adventure seems as ititakes form
it is not one of the things we have
really to be greatly disturbed
ABOUT.
The McKeSson & Robbins loot-
ing was different wholly from all
of the great financial disasters of
the last 10 years. II was quite an
old-fashioned crime. y
In Its essential features it was
Just plain stealing. The criminals
merely looted the great drug COM
pany OF its physical stocks-took
them out like any burglar and
carried them away. -N
ABOUT that kind of crime we do
NOT nOt nave to trouble so greatly.
Inc public is absolutely opposed
70 II. The laws denouncing it are
pam and there is district at
.orneyS Office and a police force
winch goes to work on it sooner
OF later with inevitable vigor. '.
ihere will be demands for this
reform and that one, this amend
ment and that to the law. And
tne laws will be slightly i'm
proved and the way of the burglar
the fellow who steals physical
assets or who actually rifles a safe
The times-news., 1938-12-30
. JOHN 7. FLYNN

Will De maze a little naruer,
which is as it she uld he, IN spite
of the fact that it is already quite
hard.
But when all is said and done
the McKesson & Robbins crime
amounted in the end to 10 or Is
or 20 million dollars yet to be
determined - but merely a flea
bite.
What really is serious are those
far more intricate, more subtle
forms of stealing which are not
against the law, which are, indeed,
more or less respectable snd
which run the national loss into
perhaps billions of dollars each
year.
It is all the difference between
the fellow who breaks into q bank
at night and makes off with the
cash and the insider who, by Gle ,er,
legal but deadly devices, manages
to permit the banks assets to
trickle slowly into his hands.
1t is still unlawful and messy
and rude to go into a store, hold
up the owner at the point Of gun
and loot his cash register.
But there are ways of going
into a store, pointing a stock GER
tificate at the owner and making
him hard over the cash with a
smile, but which deprives the
owner of his cash as effectively
and essentially as crimina)ly-
as if it were dor& With black
jack. - ~~ a-.1- ,s"
tCopyright. 1888. NEA Service, Inc.)
The times-news., 1938-12-30

in the Panama Cana! zo.
he had charge Of S,iiSa;e fiSae sae.,
road CONSTRUCTION. He ""'nS ,,.. al
ed to WPA in 1886 sn5 a si assia
asa as assistant B to the chief ,''p a,S: se'Ta 4
until December, 1891 v.s .Sneiass
became e director Of ,sa %afa S j
of project control. vac diyi&r
Both Harlec and rnvt.
continue to serve with 'Tr n%ol.
assignment from the ,' r'., "PA h
ment, Harrington said ""' deDs...
bort entered gayn'n,..
vice vice in the CWA in .,Y,.SHi Ya,i s..
1888: He was made cbi@s s'etobe.
division Of special iao"i,. ,';vn Of Il
FERA on January ]. I9%;; I9; o. ID
July 18, 1885. became '0o'' and q
Of the FERA diyi,.G, y, !Istct1.
cation. At the time Of If IN S&ye&
pointment today ru was % nus H's app
to s5ministrsfo GGfrinsfon Gil Gil asissaat' aa'siG: n:
rector of the WpA n.o: %:v''a2 4;
troll division. '.'c' co.,
The times-news., 1938-12-30
French Warship,
One Battalion,
Off For Africa
Press Seeks To Ease The
French-Italian
Tension

- PARIS, Dec. 3O-(UP)-The
destroyer Epervier sailed yester-
day to join another French war
ship at Djibouti and battalion of
Senegalese troops was ordered to
embark for the East African trou-
ble-spot as reports reached Paris
that Italy was speeding up mill
tary preparations to "face coming
events"
Along. the desert boundary of
French Tuhisia sand Italian Libya
in northern Africa French troops
began war maneuvers in the sandy
hills near Gabes under the eyes of
Marshal Italo Balboa's Fascist
forces on the other side of the
frontier.
The ministry of colonies an
nounced that the 2,441-ton Eper-
vier with her crew of 220 men and
nine guns ranging up to 5 1-2
inch size was en- eroute to Djibouti
in French Somaliland, strategic
terminus of the railroad to Adds
Ababa and coaling station for the
Gulf of. Alden.
At Diibouti the Epervier will
ioin the naval dispatch boat
D'Tberrille, already en- route from
Beirut in the Lebanese republic.
The D'Iberville also carries 5 1-2
inch guns and a seaplane.
A battalion of 800 Senegalese
colonial infantry will sail from
Marseilles Saturday noon aboard
the steamers Sphinx and Chantilly
for Djibouti to strengthen the g.
600 troops garrisoned there fol-
lowing unofficial reports that Italy
is moving up troops to the border
between French Somaliland and
italian Ethiopia. .
The government denied these
reports but admitted that land and
sea reinforcements were being
rushed TO Djihouti. .
French newspapers reported, in
the face Of obviously inspired de-
mails by which the government
sought to prevent aggravation Of
the 1taio-French tension, that Pre-
mier Renito Mussolini of Italy was
preparing to call up large num-
hers of individual army and avia-
ton reservists for duty beginning
January 1. He was said to be put
ting his navy on war footing and
to be stepping up defense produc-
ton.
Nearly all French newspapers
warned their readers of dangers
ahead.
The times-news., 1938-12-30
FREEDOM is NOT UNLIMITED
(BY BRUCE CATTON)

One of the most intelligent of az the re-
cent comments on the free-speech-on-the-
radio issue came the other. day from New
lille Miller, president of the National Asso-
citation of Broadcasters.
The American guarantee OF freedom OF
speech, said Mr.. Miller, does not compel
any radio station to turn its air waves over
to an orator who appeals to racial or re-
ligious prejudice. There is nothing in
radios social responsibilities, he added,
which requires it to contribute to an assault
on the harmony of the nation.
Mr.. Miller mentioned no names and re-
ferred to no specific cases, but he pretty
obviously had in mind the case of the New
York station which refused to carry Fa-
ther Coughhn's speeches and got picketed
for its pains by crowd of angry people
who accused it of infringing on the right OF
free speech.
The particular problem which we con-
front today is that of preserving the pre-
cious right of freedom of speech" re-
marked Mr.. Miller. However, the same
constitution which guaranteed us freedom
of speech also guaranteed us other rights,
such as freedom of religion, and in protect
ing one right we must not violate other
rights"
Mr.. Miller has made an excellent point
there, and the nation might we'll take time
off to ponder over it little.
Freedom such as we Americans enjoy is
abroad thing with no sharply-defned linn
its. Perhaps the simplest way to define it
is to say that it gives every man the right
to. speak or act absolutely as he pleases,
provided that in so doing he does not in
fringe on the rights of others.
That means that freedom is not quite
unlimited Freedom of the press, for in
stance, does not give an editor the right to
commit libel without paying for it. Politi-
cal freedom does not give any citizen the
right to get down on the floor of Congress
and disrupt business by yelling his head off.
The citizens freedom to do as he pleases
with his own property does not permit him
to erect a slaughterhouse in his back yard,
or..to maintain a commercial building with
out due regard for the fire regulations. "
And so it is with freedom of speech. You
may have the right to say what you please;
but if You elect to stir up race hatred and
religious prejudice, YOU have no business
trying to hide behind the freedom of
speech clause. For you are using your kind
Of freedom to try to destroy another kind
Of freedom-and both are equally vital to
the maintenance of the liberty we are used
to:
Let that point be clearly understood.
Fhe American kind of liberty simply can
not survive if anti-Semitism is to be foment-
ed here in the way it has been fomented in
Germany. Tolerance is the greatest funda-
mental of our democracy. No conceivable
right of free. speech gives any man the
right to try to destroy it. r, '".
The times-news., 1938-12-30
BIBLE THOUGHT
COULD YE NOT WATCH -. ONE HoUR'"

Praying" the old year out is better than seeing
it out When the new year dawns, which OF these
words will best describe out attitudes and actions
during the previous midnight hours: reyelry or rev.
erence. harty or humiliation, thoughtless talk or
thankful testimony, frivolty or fervor, parties or
praying. compromise with the world or peace with
God? .
The passing of a year should be solemn re-
minder to Christians of the approach of eternity
Sunday School Times.
The times-news., 1938-12-30
SOUTH CAROLINA'S
DEBT SHOWS GAIN

COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 80
(UP)-The state treasurer's an.
nual report Wednesday showed
South Cardinals bonded indebted
ness totaled $44,5G4,7S7 June 80,
1888. '- ..-. .-
This is approximately. 4,000,-
600 more than at the end of the
previous fiscal year. Treasurer E.
P. Miller said the issuance of
$4,000,000 of highway certificate
Indebtedness and $1,350,000 Of
state certificates for construction
work on state institutions late in
the year was responsible for the
increase, .,
The times-news., 1938-12-30
THE WEAKER SEX

She rises "beforc soon," gets
breakfast, dresses the children,
shooes them off to school, does
her housework, gets the MONDAY
meal, tides up the kitchen, shops
all the afternoon in the Christ
mas rush and jam, rides home in
a crowded bus, prepares the even
ing m al, does the dishes, helps
the children with their homework,
puts them to bed, does the family
mending; then perhaps is up the
rest of the night with a sick baby.
A man does not realize what
his wife accomplishes until he
loses her, and has to hire half a
dozen persons to do her work.
The times-news., 1938-12-30

SbSl . NAApAAAhN w
be re eferred to as
yellow I a t S
and our neWspa-
pers generally
have adopted the
policy of show
ing up criminals
for exactly what
they are with
out any glamor-
Gus adjectives-
such as sd a l.
ing" :" "dashing, "
fearless, a n d
the like.
The outspoken
co m m e n is on
Hitler indie a t e