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of governmental power in Washington.
The term has meaning all its own
in the Southland many Southerners
are asserting that the Federal Gov
ernment is seeking to impose its
will on the people of that section
just as surely as it sought to i'm
pose its will on them in the recon-
struction days after the Civil War.
They see the President Of the United
States interfering in their party pri-
maries; they see the Presidents close
advisers doing the same thing. To
them this interference is akin to the
carpet bagging" Of earlier days.
Custom Violated.
On his recent swing across the con-
tinent the President handed Gov.
James v. Alfred Of Texas commission
to be Federal judge Of the southern
district of the Lone Star State. Gov.
Allred's home is not in the southern
district. 1t has been customary to
appoint residents Of the judicial dis
tricts to Federal judgeships. Texans
are hot under the collar-some of
them--because OF this disregard by
the President Of the old rule. They
say it is a species of carpet bagging,"
and they add that the appointment of
Gov. Alfred to this judgeship is no
more nor less than a reward to q
political leader who has played ball
with the President
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas
has indicated he will go right along
with the President in this appointment
OF Gov. Alfred. although the Senator
had recommended another man for
the job. What Senator Tom" Con-
nally may do has not yet been dis
closed. Senator Connally urged the
President to appoint w D. Taylor
of Houston, who lives in the southern
district, to the judgeship.
number of years ago, before Mr..
Roosevelt became President, it was
proposed to appoint to the Office of
United States attorney for the east
ern district of Texas a lawyer whose
home was in the southern district.
At that time vigorous protest was
made by Senator Connally, who char
acterized the proposed appointment as
an old Republican trick which had
been commonly used in the South.
The proposal was abandoned. Wheth-
er the same kind Of trick" practiced
by Democratic President will rouse
Senator Connally to the point where
he will fight confirmation has not
been disclosed One thing the ap-
pointment of Gov. Alfred to the bench
may do is to remove him from the
field as possible contender for sena-
torial honors. However, there would
be nothing to prevent his retirement
from the bench If he really wished to
dispute Senator Connallys right to be
renominated in l940
New Dealers Fight Smith.
The New Dealers are doing their best
to defeat Representative Howard w.
Smith in the eighth congressional dis
trict in Virginia-just across the Po-
tomac River from Washington. They
do not like Smith because he would
not support the Presidents program
right down the line and because as
a member of the House Rules Com
mittee he helped to block early con-
sideration of the WageHour Act. To
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The battle between
ern Democratic organization being publicly fought
where the President hopes
ton 1t began long however, when such
Maverick representing the
assault the enrenched
leadership
predict the battles
liberalism
frightened
the
the face Of Southern politics.
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The Capital Parade
South Is Great Unknown Factor in the Developing
Struggle to Control the Democratic Party.
By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.

By JOSEPH ALSOP
THE approachng struggle for control
Ganers and Farleys Hagu City
Kelys Chicago follow
the President believe
file the GnerFey SIDE Recently
has been talking privately coalition
Republican politicians the
"1f stop voting Democratic you're going
Democratic party"
For those, like Mr. Hoover, who Walter
Cotton Ed Smith South Carolina
Southern leader slowly
concealed the chambers
time they will be
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which cares more about politics and
relief and spending" than it does
about administering efficiently the
multitude of so-called reforms" which
it claims under the name of liberal
ism"
In England they say the liberals"
have the ideas, but the conservatives
know how to make them work. Maybe
that's what America needs - some
practical business men to overhaul the
entire relief and unemployment insur-
ance system and make it work.
tCopyright, 1881
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U. S. Lacks Pyrethrum.

The United States has been obliged
to depend almost entirely on Japan
as source for the important insecti-
eide, pyrethrum. Efforts to grow
pyrethrum flowers commercially have
been made in many countries, but only
in Kenya, Africa. has better pyrethrum
than the japanese product been
raised. it is reported in Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry.
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FIGHTS ANTI-UNI0NISM
D. C. Council of U. F. W. A. Urges
Nation Wide Cooperation.

A resolution condemning 'laWless
anti-union activities" has been adopt
ed by the District of Columbia Coun-
Gil of the United Federal Workers of
America, composed of delegates from
some 35 Washington locals.
The resolution urges the Committee
for Industrial Organization to call
upon its national and local unions
and State and city councils to CO.
operate with all trade unions and
liberal organizations "in protesting
these outrages against the American
worker" and to demand Federal guar
antee of the right to organize.
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character. Now
it is becoming in
creasingly clear
that the New
Deal aims at a
reconstruction of
government a S
well as recon-
struction of social
economy.
T eSe a re
"reconstruc t | on
days" according
to critics of the
Roosevelt admin
istration and its
lnsiStence upon
the concentration
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Tourists can live much cheaper
in Italy Germany and France than
the natives themselves. In order to
attract tourists from the Western
Hemisphere especially. who are all
worried lest they may be trapped
by another war, the respective gov
ernments are making all kinds Of
concessions to the foreign traveller.
Railroad fares are cut down by So
so per cent, hotels are cheaper for
the bona fide tourists and cur
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The substance of the final re-
port has already been prepared with
the aid of Southern Policy Com
mittee members While it is un-
likely to contain recommendations,
it will describe Southern prob
lens in such terms as to make the
need for action plainly apparent.
And the kind of action toward
which it will point will not be the
kind of action favored by the Cot
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BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,

7THE political character OF the
New Deal is coming more and
more into the open. For long
a time the New Deal was
wrapped in its economic swaddling
clothes-and the impression was given
out that it was entirely economic in
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security system.
Pay roll taxes
have b e e n ex-
tracted for more
than a year and
a half now from
t h e workers of
the Nation and
from employers
at such a rapid
rate as to cause
a severe economic
depression begin
nlng in the lat
ter part of 1887,
but all criticism
mas u n t i ! now
been Shoute d
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These new men may be seen
at work in the story behind the
Presidents recent request for a
report on economic conditions in
the South. Officially, the report
is to be prepared by the National
Emergency Council and to be used
as a sort of touchstone for policies
concerning the South. The report
is almost finished and will be used
as major weapon in the Presi-
dents effort to capture the South
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Two Of Southern Dealers
executive branch formed
number of similar discussion
foregahered informally
Lister Hill the Alabama
Black IN the Senate of the Another
Foreman grandson
Columbia
and the Negro problem
still a leading and
among the others who have attended meetings
Pepper Florida Administrator
Representatives Maury Maverick Texas
Lyndon Johnson Texas
the r. F. Clifford
the committee has about 40 members
AT their meetings. discussed
lens from the New Deal The Colonial
Southern the scales
tiona
Clark Foreman House Justice
backed
directed the National Emergency Council responsibility
study and issued his public command the Nations
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b o o m ers were
washing gold out
Of the coastal
beaches at Nome.
The Geological
Survey prophesied
that more gold
could be found
in a three-mile
pl a t e au back
from the original
discovery. Seven
ty-hve feet below
the plateau sur
face old beaches
were discovered.
When DR.. Smith
q r-,.iy,nI - N1-
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An American
You Should
Know
Chief Alaskan Geologist
Sees Great Future
in That Country.
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

BY DELLA PYNCHON.
THIRTY-TWO years ago the
United States Geological Sur
vey called DR.. Philip Smith
u away from the snug harbor of
geological teaching at Harvard Uni
versity into the turbulent, uncharted
wastes OF an awakened Alaska.
The spilled-over Klondike gold
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THE opinions OF the 0ers page are their on not
n sa TIE Stars Such opinions presented
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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11UVI1ICeS' TO UeBIH WICN, Lne
japanese have their hands full
with the Chinese resistance and do
not contemplate becoming involved
in a war with the Soviets at the
present moment. Then, the Mos
cow government has gradually re-
placed some Of the old veterans in
Siberia with troops more reliable
to the pure Communist cause. A
large number Of officers, too, have
replaced the old guard which
Rlllecher had formed arn11nd hin,
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England's Mistake Repeated.

England's system of unemployment
insurance broke down and the dole
followed. Mr.. Roosevelt often prides
himself on copying British experience.
Here is an error of tremendous pro-
portions which he copied, and. so far
as can be seen now, only an aroused
public opinion can force this scandal
to the attention of an administration
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together rather than continued in
competition, billions of dollars will
continue to be wasted. Here is
Government problem of first magni-
tude-a job for any President who is
humanitarian to lose some sleep
over, mistake to be corrected at the
earliest possible moment. But-ah,
the objectives they are the only
things mentioned in the cross s-country
campaign by Mr. Roosevelt Not a
word was heard about the tragic meth
DDS used and the incapacity and
ineptitude of the present administra-
ton in failing to think through the
fulflllment part of the job it has
undertaken
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This Changing World
Stain Attempts to Capture Bluecher in Purge,
but China War Prevents It.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN,

By CONSTANTINE BROWN.
TAIIN
~ heretofore Field Marshal Bueher supreme
The military commander Of the
the u S. s.
conquest Of China it
Buecher
ranking Soviet officers But the
posthase
Since that many developments in the Maritime
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question the worst administrative
breakdown and clerical mess of all |
times-a virtual collapse of the social
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Social Security
Breaks Down
in Test
Red Tape of System
Puts Jobless Burden
on W. P. A.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has
gone fishing and vacationing,
but behind him here in the
National Canital Is Without
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ern Democracy from its present conservative owners
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OBSCENE MAGAZINES

Catholic women, meeting in Biloxi, Miss, fol-
lowing the eighth annual Eucharstic conference at
New Orleans, urged concerted action by Catholics,
Protestants and Jews in the United States to stop
the circulation of lewd magazines. Bishop Emmett
Walsh of Charleston made the statement that in
this country $50 such magazines are published and
that their monthly circulation is large enough to
reach one-half the homes in the United States.
Such publications come under the head of OBJ
scene literature and there are laws, federal and
state we believe, to prevent circulation, yet it is
amazing to be told that so many of them are ap-
parenty thriving and that their distribution is SO
great.
Drug stores in the city of Tampa, Fla, recently
announced that no sales of this obscene literature
would be permitted in future in the news stands
connected with their establishments The Tampa
Tribune says of this policy of the drug store as
ISOLATION of Hillsboro county:
"The druggists object, as all right-mnided deal
ers should, the display on their magazine racks of
indecent publications, where children have access
to them and where they bring into question the
character and standing of their stores. Hence they
haze gone out of the magazine business altogether
and refuse to handle any magazine if thew are re-
CURED to distributors to handle the bad along with
the good Druggists say that distributors require
dealers to accept and pay for any publications sent
them, regardless of their Glass; . ... .. o..
Two years ago this newspaper directed attention
10 the sale OF obscene pictures by travelling agents
we were not aware that the publication and sale
Oh IeWd magazines had grown to such proportions
we nave not heard it said that these magazines are
SOLD anywhere in this community but, since then
distribution IS so widespread, The Herald Suggest
That the authorities of the city and schools be OF
the lookout for them.-Spartanburg Herald.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
az RODNEY BUTCHER

I is substantially impaired by age,
mental or physical deficiency or
injury. Applications for exemp-
ton, which must bear employees
signatures, need not be filed before
December if these conditions arc
met meanwhile.
A Pennsylvania cigar manufac-
turer writes that IL of his % en-
ployes just cant make more than
| Is cents an hour" and that he will
have to let them go. Another
sends a long list of women be-
tween "a and So years old who
cannot under any circumstances
make the minimum wage because
they are too slow" These stories
come frequently from makers of
two-for-five or three-for-five cent
cigars.
MIGHT WATCHMEN all over
~ the country presumably have
been celebrating since Andrews
ruled that they were essential to
factories operating interstate COM
merce and hence covered by the
acts 44-hour week section.
For a while the mail was eSpe-
cially heavy with their requests
often roughly written in pencil
for information. Many employers
wrote to ask, too. Watchmen
often work ~ hours a week or
more.
The regulations defining execu-
tive, administrative, professional
and local retailing employees and
outside statesmen are subject to re-
view and Interpretation by the
courts. First, however, they must
be interpreted by the employer
and applied. But in case an en-
ploye feels he is being done out
of 44-hour week unfairly, he
himself is entitled to interpret the
definition and appeal to
the administrator.
Copyright 1898. NEA Service, Incl
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
NOTE-No unsigned commu'
nieations are published by The
Times-News. All letters must be
signed with the real name OF
the author. No communications
signed with a fictitious name
will be published.-EDITOR.

Editor, The Times-NewS:
Next Sunday is international
Temperance Sunday. So we have
our usual temperance lesson IN
Sunday school. The theme for
this temperance lesson is Person.
al Rights and Where They End. "
Coming as this lesson does in the
midst Of the Ten Commandments:
following the four just studied,
which gives us our relation 10
God, and just preceding the re-
manning six, which give us our re-
lation to men: this lesson occu-
pies a very fitting place. In the
following lines / am giving neither
an exposition Of the selected
Scripture texts, nor discourse on
the lesson theme. Rather, L am
asking you to look with me at the
reason why the liquor traffic IS
so hard to control by any method,
and from any angle.
Let me say that temperance
means much more than the solv-
ing Of our liquor problems. My
definition of temperance is Illus
trated by the woodchopper's axe:
If his axe is well-tempered, it will
cut through the hardest knot,
without either bunting because 1t
is too soft, or breaking because
it is too hard and brittle. And IN
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-27
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
SEA Service Stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON-One employer
w asked officials for blanket ex-
cmption of his ITO female en-
ployes from the wage-hour act on
the ground that they were handi-
capped
They're all crazy!" he insisted.
The employees turned out to be
elderly colored women engaged in
sorting rags. New regulations re-
quire that applications for exemp-
ton of handicapped workers from
the 25-cent minimum wage must
be signed by both employer and
employe, state the extent of handi-
cap and assert that it definitely
impairS earning power.
The Wage and Hour Division &c
glad to leave to the employer the
problem of persuading ITO elder
iy colored women to sign a state
ment that they shouldn't get more
+ statements made by EMPLOY
ers IN some of the many letters
received by Administrator Elmer
:. Andrews are to be believed
lui!e few unfortunates will lose
thelr Jobs when the act is applied,
especially marked for discharge
apparently, are workers alleged by
.heir employers to be too SLOW"
70 earn rs cents an hour. An
orewS has ruled that no handican
exemption certificates will be is
sued for a worker because he is
Sno"n to be SLOW or inexperi-
enced."
PROBABLY the danger of wide
spread hardship has been lessened
oy a last minute Qualification of
previous rules which permits ex.
elnption OF handicapped workers
untii February, subject to several
conoitions-Such as an EMPLOYERS
uohess belief that earning capacity
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UPWARD

UPWARD, Oct. 26.-Mr. and
Mrs. H. H. Jackson and daughter,
Miss Usula, were recent callers
in this section.
Quite a large crowd of this
community attended the revival
at the Barker Heights church
which closed last Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Walden, Mr..
and Mrs. John Jackson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Jackson and daugh-
ter, Beverly, Mrs. Maude Dill,
Winford and Marvin Dill motored
to Asheville, Enka, Canton, Syl-
va, Highlands, Dillsboro, Cashiers,
Brevard and several other points.
All enjoyed their trips Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Henderson
moved recently from this commun-
ity to Hendersonville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller Steppe
have moved into the house with
Mrs. Grant Arledge of this COM
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Walden and
E. D. Walden were dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Jackson
Sunday.
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the hands of an expert cs,,,,
it will do a smooth ioL '"Gpper
to the line, because It i " c. cut
of taking and holding - a.. rsPa6Ie
under all circumstances a. "a" ecge
tempered axe and the n r"T We'll.
pered life are alike in ~ "eL!,tem.
listed above. viz things
Now, let us 90 on with ,,,
started to say: "A&t |
Still the liquor traffic ,......
The liquor traffic !, = , ,."%!,>
problem, since it is lirmr, ,"o-io.d
in the human race laroI,,s rooted
worldwide human wrS'n.iT o
The first weakncsS is the f" @',S, S
the liquor traffic is . way ' r'',. TIA,
money. And many aru af, r. I% III
money, no matter what thew w H.. 'ae
to do in the realm Of moS.j AaHe
get it. They will sell ,b. 3."N %
souls to get the money, Will 0"N
thought Of the souls Of ,hn;|, Ao
toners. The second wc.'., ~ Gus
the proneness Of the VAST n., j.
ity Of the people to forr, % r.i'
that are not always hes, fnr ' 80
These will do almost any,b;"~sL
get what their habit calls fn, I"
as those who sell the ,bina,, w. y,
habit demands. Both ylonn NM '"''
purely selfish in their cno ,s ''s
life. 'S "
Habits, whether good or l.,
are formed by two pulls umor ' q
individual. These two pulls rs We
hand in hand in building ~ r"A
condition that We call hab;,%
the habit grows both these nj. ~
become stronger. and harder ''
change or break. At the ,.,,
time, especially with evil and f" .'
full habits. the power To rc.i, =
weakened. and seems <omr,i,
to be almost destroyed. The r. D
pulls are: First. the rcpc,ifior wy .,
the same act, or the partak;cn y.
the same thing, with 2 rc.,'@,i !.
Continued on page fycl
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TAX COLLECTOR HATREDS MAY CUT
EXPENDITURES NAY ....
(By BRUCE CATION

The United States government is great
institution, and it does things which no
other government in all history ever did
before. AS for instance: during the fiscal
year 1888 it collected in internal revenue
taxes approximately $3.50, ,OOO-the
largest sum which any government ever
collected in any 12-month period. be.
After figure gets about so high it
ceases to have any meaning. Perhaps we
can better understand it by realizing that
this amounts to just about quarter of the
entire worlds stock of monetary gold-all
of the metal that has been mined since the
discovery of America, the product of Inca
mines and California and Alaska gold
boons, o. Australian PUSHES and South AT
rican bonanzas. Four centuries of gold
hunting would pay for inst four years like
this last onc And With all of that, our
government still operates at a deficit!
Nor is the end in sight. Relief and pub
lie works are still with US, to say nothing
Of agricultural s,rpluses and the army and
navy. We are about to launch a new pre-
our air force. No, we can hardly hope that
this particular kind of record-breaking
finance is going to end in the immediate
future
BJy perhaps it will be worth all it costs
If ij -oUptss Us to re-eXamine the whole
question oi the relationship between gov
eminent and citizen. For the world today
seems to be sweeping along a road which
leads to greater and greater subordination
of the individual to the state. In some
lands that subordination is complete; man
exists for the state, he may read and speak
and act and even think only as the state
directs, and his life and property are in
every detail at the disposal of the state
We have not reached or even approached
that point in this country. Given halfway
decent luck and the exercise of ordinary
intelligence, we need not approach it. Yet
this colossal tax collection may help US to
understand that the tendency to approach
it does exist, that the trend in human af-
fairs is running that way.
The remedy, unfortunately, is not SIM
pie. 1t is easy to say, "Cut down the cost
of government" but very hard to suit &C
ton to the words. And in the long run we
can protect ourselves against this trend
only by remembering constantly the oldest
truth OF American democracy-that gov
eminent exists to serve the citizen, and
that as general thing it serves him best
by leaving him alone. -.
There may be emergencies in which it
can't leave him alone; times when it must
spend huge sums to give him service or
protection that he can't get for himself
Then costs go up and taxes mount. But
we can keep government from developing.
through these emergency activities, into a
colossus that is Our master rather than our
servant. And our natural antipathy to the
tax-collector ought to help US keep that in
mind
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a > SNAL
foe" Now isn't
that a | ov G ! Y
spirit to promote
and foster among
folks who must
live and work to-
gether in a COM
munity? A damn
a b e principle
and unfortunate
ly not unusual
in party politics.
There you see
the party spirit
in its most evil
aspect. 1t is the
very thing Geo.
Washington fore
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INARTICULATE MAMMALS

A question recently appearing
in the daily press was: Name the
only kind of mammal that has no
voice.
Actually there are two kinds:
The giraffe and any person be-
longing to the opposition in Ger
many, Italy, or Russia.