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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-19
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

In 1888 a horse thief detecting
association dissolved, saying there
was no further need for it's ser
vices. But the stealing of auto
mobiles has become a large ma
tional industry.
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APPLY N. CHAMBERLAIN

Doesn't someone else want
something from little Czechoslo-
vakia? There still remains in its
possession considerable rich land.
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Mr.. Chamberlain says he has
entered into an agreement with
Mr.. Hitler whereby England and
Germany will never go to war.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-19

In the United States it requires
about eight years and $4,000 to
develop one acre of date palms to
the point where the grower begins
reaping returns.
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GOOD CROSS SECTIONS: The
annual Chamber of Commerce
dinner tomorrow night affords an
excellent opportunity for the par
Elephants to get fair cross-sec-
ton of the mind of our civic lead
erS.
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BIBLE THOUGHT

HAVE YOU TAKEN 1T TO JESUS?
Casting all your care upon Him for he earetf
for you" Il Pet. SD
Have you taken it to Jesus
Just the thing that's pressing now?
Are you trusting Him completely
With the when and where and how?
Oh, the Joy of full surrender
Of your life, our plans, our all;
Proving, far above our asking,
That God answers when We call!
ITO be continued) ---- $3.50.
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WHERE ARE THEY? What

WHERE ARE THEY? What
has become Of the politicians, OF
is politics dead? Haven't heard
whimper about any campaign
right here in the face of an cleo
ton. Two years ago we were
RECALLED with much blood and
thunder stuff about the absentee
ballots, which we trust will not be
so popular this year. :
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Inc. United States holds the market for auto.
MOBILES IN almost every country which does not
make its own cars.
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In the present situation there's only one gea
America can shift into from neutral, and that
reverse.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-19

A California man was elected constable the other
day by flip of the CON- flip of the coin in the
right direction has elected lots of people to office
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-19
OCCASION FOR PRIDE: Farm

Agents White anu Bennett mad
occasion to feel proud of the num-
Der and character of prizes won
by Henderson county exhibits at
the State fair last week. A farmer
has to get up on his tip toes to
win such prizes. This success
speaks we'll for Henderson county
agriculture and it's leaders.
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Now that Hitler has been hit by bouquet from
one OF MS frenzied worshipers they're not going to
give the frenzied worshipers any more bouquets to
throw @
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PENSION RACKET

Promoters OF the California pension plan, the
$50 Every Thursday idea, are collecting $4,000 a
DAY m small contributions from old people who
nope TO benefit from the proposed system, Golfers
magazine reports
lne magazine says that one of the promoters
was convicted In 1894 in federal court of using
'ne mans to defraud in connection with the sale of
1ake halr restorer. He and his associates have
enrolled 100000 Californians in their pension plan
ana the TACT that the flighty plan is impossible
seems TO interfere only slightly with their colec-
tionS. -.
va age pensions on the proper basis are sound
III principle and necessary under the modern eco
nomc system but lots of old age pension plans are
raekets from which nobody can hope to profit ex-
eept their promoters.--Greenville Piedmont
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned commu'
nications 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.
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SMALL FRUITS: Major B. c.
Washington, who shows much in
terest in the progress of Hender-
son county apple growers, whisp-
ers soft and low that some of our
apples this year were sold at least
by one grower for So bushel. He
believes cherries escape freezes
with sufficient frequency to just
ify our farmers in planting for an
early cash fruit crop, probably
calling into service the use Of our
canneries at the peak of the sea-
son. | believe our trucking bust
ness has been built up to the point
that the crop would be trucked
south without a marketing prob
lem, provided enough growers
planted cherries to make the crop
of sufficient size to attract truck
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EVANGELISTIC NOTES: c. C.


Collins was over at Spindale
Monday night and said that the
Rev. Harold Smith was going
strong with $50 conversions and
reclamations in less than week
Mr.. Smith recently returned
from a radio engagement in
Chicago -. Evangelist Ham is
now holding a meeting at Mr..
Smiths tabernacle in Greenville
Mr.. Smith is building a home
in the Howard Gap-Ridge road
section Plans are under way
to have him for a few days soon
at Calvary Baptist church, under
the auspices of which he held a
successful tent meeting here last
summer.
The Washington times., 1938-08-11
ALI IN LIFETIME

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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THIS is DETERMINATION

Fverybody has their worries these days, whether
an individual business industry. We are
rrone TO think that worries and burdens are
heaviest but get this threat which hangs over the
chain stores
The Patman bill was introduced at the last ses,
sion of congress with IA co-spensors, but did not
come TO vote Mr.. Patman says publicly that the
Soma hill will be introduced at the next January
session of congress as Bill No. l. He avows that
tho nruose of the bill is to put chain stores out of
business Its purpose is not regulation; it is ex-
termination
4 certain grocery chain not operating in Shelby,
brt maintaining about 4500 retail units in the mid
,yast saws ''by method of graduated taxes, based
On +be number of stores multiplied by the number
f states in which we do business, this tax, if I'M
nosed would levy your company in addition to
oil other taxes the fantastic sum of S72,456OOO
annually, This sum is more than double our an
nua1 payro; is $15,000,0O0 in excess of our gross
assets which have been accumulated during %
wars and is 25 times the aggregate of dividends
paid in 1881.
This COMPANY has approximately $4,000 en-
nIoves with approximately $4,000 individuals de-
nendent on their earnings which have been main
tanned in the aggregate and as to numbers, during
the eight depression years. 1t has 2o,S9l stock
holders few of them large, most of them with 100
shares or less individuals who have entrusted their
savings to the company's management confident
that their principal will be carefully handled and
reasonable interest returned on their investment.
If the Patman bill passes, it means determination
not only of this particular grocery chain, but of
practically every nationwide chain. 1t means idle
ness for their employees financial loss to their stock
holders and loss to landlords who rent their busi
ness property to chains in every city and town
throughout the nation.-Shelby Star.
The times-news., 1938-11-12
HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS

At the election two years ago an amendment to
the State Constitution passed providing for an
exemption from taxation to maximum OF $1,000
on homesteads. The next Legislature will have the
duty of deciding the amount, at present undeter-
mined. 1t will be S5OO,$ $50 or 1000 on homes
owned and occupied by each and every individual
family rich or poor white or black
We agree with the Shelby Daily Stars comment
on the proposition. Certainly the motive is good
and there is little doubt but that it will encourage
home ownership. 1t is not to be doubted either
that people who their own homes are better
and more dependable citizens.
However, there is another thought in connection
with this matter of tax exemption in any direction
certain amount of taxes must be raised, If not
from one source, from some other AS the Star
points out in the editorial to which reference was
made above, it was but natural that they should
desire tax relief but is it not true that the clt-
zens of this commonwealth are as "one big fam
ily' and that our obligations rest upon all OF u.s.
A homestead exemption does not mean that the
home owner would be excused from paying. taxes
The tax burden would simply be lifted from one
item and imposed on another.
The Shelby papers observation in the cOnclud-
ing paragraph, is as follows:
"The usual political office seeker likes to cham
pion the cause of the masses. That means votes
The homestead exemption idea is popular because
it relieves the taxpayer from direct tax paid to
the tax collector, but it also that some in
direct tax must be substituted on the same people
North Carolina must have approximately S70,000,
900 annually to meet its obligations Cleveland
county must have about $270,000. If 20 per cent
of the owner occupied homes are exempt, the
money must come through some other source from
the very same people, less painless perhaps be-
cause it is hidden"
The same sort of situation will exist in Burke
and throughout the state 1t will be matter of
real concern to those officials on whose shoulders
rest the responsibility of raising taxes and fixing
budgets-Morganton News-Herald
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PRICE-FIXING

As indicating an increasing farmer opinion
throughout the country in opposition to the regi-
menting theories of the New Deal, it will be not
only interesting but informative to read the highly
significant criticism of proposed schemes for price
fixing which appeared in the most recent official
bulletin of the National Grange of the Patrons of
Industry, one of the leading and most representa-
tive organizations of farmers in the United States.
also the oldest and one of the most widely spread
over the country
Said the editor of the bulletin:
Those who advocate government price fixing as
a cure for the ills of agriculture should bear in
mind that while the farmers constituted ninety per
cent of the population at the beginning of our ma
tional Gfe today they number only about twenty
tlve per cent of the total.
while the consuming three-fourths of our peo-
pie wish the farmer we'll in general way, they are
nevertheless primarily interested in getung 'hen
food as cheaply possible What three-1ourths OF
the people want, if it is within the power OF the
government to grant it, will in the long run prevail
This being true no labored argument Is neceS-
sary to prove that under government price-hNlns
the farmers of the country would IN shor' ''ihe oe
reduced to peonage or sertdom'
"The moral therefore is that all quaek remedies
calling for government price-hxlng curing tnese
times of peace should be thrown out oi 'he VIM
dow
And this opinion, coming from portion of the
people to which the government has been trying to
hand something ON a silver platter, is most sgnif-
can't and is worth thinking about seriously
For if. the farmers are in danger of peonage or
serdom under any certain political social or indus.
trial system, will it be possible for any other pOr-
tion of, the people to escape similar fate? Rock
Hill Is. CO. Herald
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cents a week, and this week |
amt got the fifty cents. was
thinkin' maybe / could borrow it
off of YOU"
"How much are you paying for
your sheets?" asked the woman,
who is of thrifty turn.
"a dollar and forty-nine cents
apiece" replied the man.
"Mv goodness calculated the
woman. "At Soenso's store you
can buy excellent unhemmed
sheets for thirty eight cents! Tell
your wife to turn back those
sheets she bought and get some of
those thirty-eight cents sheets
she can hem them herself and they
will serve every purpose"
"Tll jest do that" agreed the
man.
A few days later, meeting the
man, the woman asked him if his
wife had done what she had sug-
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

gested about the sheets.
"No'm," he answered, "she
didn't. She traded them sheets
to the fellow she bought 'em from
for some curtains. They're mighty
pretty curtains too, with ruffles
all around the aidges."
"But," expostulated the woman,
"your wife didn't need curtains,
while she does need sheets"'
"Yes'm, that's right" admitted
the man with the air of one whose
executive problems were too great
for him-and they are.
If the woman the man was talk
ing to had run her affairs as he
and his wife have run theirs, she
wouldn't have any more fifty
centses than they.
Folks who pay a dollar and
forty-nine cents for sheets at fifty
cents a week, are likely getting
thirty-eight cent sheets, or there
abouts, for dollar-and-forty-nine
cents. That is the most expensive
way to buy stuff. And the irony
of it is that the person who buys
his goods in that costly way is the
one who can least afford to do it.
John D. Rockefeller could afford
to pay dollar-and-forty-nine
cents, or a hundred-and-forty-nine
dollars, for thirty-eight cent
sheets, were he crazy enough to
do it; but Danny D. Ditchdigger
can't.
The times-news., 1938-11-12
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
RY RODNEY BUTCHER

the top group. a Boston survey
showed half the families on relief
buying no milk. When milk was
given them the relief families
bought just as much milk as be-
fore but increased their consump-
ton from $4,000 to $4,000 quarts
a day.
SEEKING to define professional"
~ employees, as required under
the wage-hour act, lawyers of the
Wages and Hours Division agreed
the word was impossible of def
nition." Nevertheless, there was
the law and it was further agreed
that if no definition were made
the omission would be equivalent
to saying there was no such thing
as a professional"
For protection of employers
who hired professionals" a def
milton must be made. The job OF
drafting it was handed to 27-year-
old ice Rauh, brilliant Harvard
Law School graduate who served
the late Supreme Court Justice
Cardozo as secretary.
Rauh protested on grounds OF
extreme youth but was overruled
(Another lawyer, asked to define
"area of production" as required
by the act, struggled with it e
few days and resigned.)
The result was a four-part
definition" which in effect sale
professional was an employe
qualified as to knowledge-includ.
ing something beyond academic
reducation and doing work moi
entirely of a routine nature. Al
a conference of employers anc
labor representatives called by the
Business Advisory Council the EN-.
ployers said this was fine and the
labor people said it was "too am.
biguous." Rauh and his associate,
promise further separate defini.
tons for various classes of EN-,
ployeS.
| tConyrieht- ls22 NEA Serviaa Inc
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MILLS RIVER

MILLS RIVER, Nov. 12.-Rev.
H. +. Jones. newly appointed pas
tor of the Methodist church here,
preached his first sermon on last
Sunday, Nov. s, his text being He
brcws I2:l.' He is young IN the
ministry and was sent here from
the GaStonia district.
Kenneth Williamson, son Of ;.
P. Williamson, who has been seri-
ously sick with pneumonia is re-
ported to be some better. Hp IS IN
Illinois and his father was called
to his bedside last week.
l.. / .Burgin, is just back from
a business trip to New Mexico.
The November meeting Of the
Grange which was held at the
school building on the night OF
November = was we'll attended.
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HORSE SHOE

HORSE SHOE, Nov. l2.-
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Hewitt
Moffitt, on Thursday, November
3, a son.
Mrs. J. D. Osborne of Marion
and Mrs. Mark Osborne OF hen
dersonville were visitors in this
community Saturday.
Misses Willie Heffner and Nlr-
ginia Cash had company from
Charlotte on Sunday.
Coy Blythe is now managing
the Banks Grocery store.
Mrs. Laxton Davenport spent
last Thursday in Asheville.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. f. Daniels OF
Spartanburg were guests of Mrs
c. VI. fireman last week.
The children had a holiday on
election day. School was not IN
session at Etowah because the
school building is used as a polling
place.
The times-news., 1938-11-12
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Secretary of
w Agriculture Henry A. Wallace
sticks doggedly to his espousal of
"two-price" system for agricul-
tural products with which poor
people are inadequately supplied.
He talks mostly about cotton mat
tresses, but his mind concentrates
on "two-price" milk.
From the beginning Of the New
Deal there has been vague dis
cussion in AAA and the Depart-
ment of Agriculture of making
milk a public utility"
Wallace's ideas don't carry him
that far, but he does contemplate
cheap distribution for families
which can't buy at regular prices
plus larger market for farmers
VINO often peddle their surplus
milk for a fourth that price.
1t was On WaIlace's order that
he department press service sig
nncantly mimeographed copies of
consumers Guide article on op-
Grafton OF the New York system
through which poor families buy
milk at 8 cents a quart.
Evidence is indisputable tha.
low income families don't get
enough milk and that with each
reduction of a cent a quart these
families buy more.
The nutritionists say adults
should have a pint day, children
nearly a quart. (Ipcluding eouiva-
tents such as cheese and butter)
All surveys have shown con-
sumption far below this standard
IN one city so per cent of the fam
iiies bought more milk when sales
IN gallon jugs began to cut the
price from 10 to 7la cents a quart
IN another a 2-cent price cut
meant a las per cent increase in
consumption by low income fam
neS. Ill per cent in the inter
mediate group and 6.2 per cent in
The times-news., 1938-11-12
THE TWO-PRICE SYSTEM

That two-price system idea now
being talked of in some official
circles, whereby the man with low
er means may buy our surpluses
at lower prices than the man with
higher means, has merit. As it is
now, there is in effect a two-price
system in reverse, for it gives the
chap who can pay cash lower
The times-news., 1938-11-12
WHOM TO RE-ARM AGAINST? FIRST
PROBLEM OF u. S.
tBv BRUCE CATTONJ

Before this re-armament talk goes any
farther, the American people ought to take
time out to decide exactly whom and what
they are going to re-arm against t..r-
President Roosevelt speaks Of an army
of 100000 men. Plans for substantially
enlarged fleet are being discussed. Con-
greSs will undoubtedly be asked to con-
slider "draft-capital" plans which, IN the
event of war, would turn the land into the
tightest of totaltarian states.
We can't hope to discuss these things in
telligently until We know precisely what
we want our armaments to do.
Part of the answer is obvious enough.
We want our own continent made secure
against any possibility of attack. There
can be no doubt that the American people
will unanimously support whatever degree
of re-armament is necessary to attain that
end.
1t is probable also that the citizens would
agree to support any armament necessary
to keep the aggressOr nations out of the
new world. For a great variety of reasons,
Americans could not look on unconcerned
if some predatory European power set out
to gain a sfo0thold in Latin-America. Most
Americans are quite aware of our response
bility in that connection.
We also have interests in the Pacific.
Even the most peace-loving American can
hardly fail to see that we must arm with
one eye on Japan. There can be no Ques-
tlOn put that America will pay for the
strength necessary to make japanese in
reference with our vital interests unlikely.
But beyond those things-do we want
or need anything further? That is the
question which we must answer before we
draft our program. For the degree of pre-
paredness which would be ample to cover
those ends would be quite inadequate if
we contemplated any adventures in Eu-
rope.
To protect our own country, keep trou-
bie-makers out of Latin-America and guard
our interests in the Pacific, we need more
than We now haye-but not such a great
deal more. We need navy second to none,
somewhat larger air force, "a compact
army able to garrison such island outposts
as We might seize in, case of war, an aug
mented coast defense systme-and7 nothing
more. ...q
But if we are going to fight in Europe
again, some day, we need ever so much
more than that. We need the framework
for an army such as we raised in the last
war-plus ships to transport it in, plus the
industrial layout to equip and supply it
plus the machinery for enrolling and train
ing it, -H--.
Now, it is nonsense to say that we qshal
inevitably" be drawn into any future Eu
ropean war. We shan't if we make up oul
minds not to be, and stick to it; and there
is no reason, on earth why We can't make
such choice. e., ., e. 80. g.
So let's makeup our minds, once anc
for all. Then, and only then, can,we gc
ahead intelligently and buy exactly wha
We need, in the way of defense We Ger
tainly won't-be satisfied with anything less
than we need-but there is no, reason why
we should pay for anything more, either
Dallas News. EsTimes haven't obooOos
The times-news., 1938-11-12

Denison Herald: Zone thing we must
say for those candidates who have been
elected with the help of the federal treas
ury-they are the best that money car
buy"
The times-news., 1938-11-12
"OIR BOB" LOSING? Sena,

tor Reynolds led congressman
Weaver in only two precincts, III
Henderson county, Raven Rock by
only one vote and Bat Cave by
only two. Both received the same
vote in several boxes but why did
all four boxes in Hendersonville
90 back on Our Bob" by letting
Weaver lead in each? That's for
the political statisticians.
The times-news., 1938-11-12

A man appeared at the door of
a woman from whom he was rent
ing his house and wanted to bor-
row fifty cents.
What do you want with fifty
The times-news., 1938-11-12

SSIIlS iLiN ~
the woman who,
though generous
and kindly, likes
to know what it
is all about.
"Well, it's this
w a Y, explained
the man, fishing
a toothpick out
of a vest pocket
and putting i to
work, Ta1 fellow
was to my house
last week selling
sheets, and my
wife bought her
some. All we got
to pay is fifty
The times-news., 1938-11-12
MRS. JEWEL BOX THERE

ASHLAND, Ore. (UP)-The
register of visitors of the Cham
Der OF Commerce shows a few odd
names. One is Harry G. Wisker
OF California and another is Mrs.
Jewel Box.
The times-news., 1938-11-12

"When the courtipg was done on the old hair.
cloth sofa in the settn room, divorce LAWYERS wsrs
kept as busy as clerks in store that doesn't sd
vertise. Cincinnati Enquirer
The times-news., 1938-11-12

Dallas News: Times haven't changed
much. The: two-car family still lives in a
one-mortgage house" ,,. .,.;
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price than the one who can't.
LESSONS COME HIGH: |

takes a tragedy with all its grief
and vain regrets to bring close
home the folly of permitting chill
dren to play with guns-mostly
the "unloaded" kind.