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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
GOVERNMENT BY BUREAUcRATS

The charge against despotism by federal boards
which Arthur T. Vanderbilt made at the annual
meeting of the American Bar Association can bear
constant repetition, says the New York Sun.
"Those who established the American form of
democracy with it's division of executive from leg
slative and of both from judicial power, would
shudder at the distortion of their framework under
the blows of bureaucrats in the last five years.
1.-The strong drift to government by boards and
commissions began some years before the New
Deal appeared, of course; but under no previous
tendency toward despotism have the abuses of such
dangerous, system multiplied so rapidly. The diff
ference between government by elected officials
and their legitimate Apprentices vested with spec
fc powers, and government by despotic agencies
such as the Labor Relations Board, the SEC, the
AAA and others, lies often in subtle legalistic
forms. But in the ultimate safety of the citizenry
the difference is as great between black and
white.
Whether an agency be called hoard
thority or an administration, it may combine, as
Mr. Vanderbilt said, executive, Legislative and Ju-
dicial powers operate under its rules, and
Cypress individuals no less than business enter
prises following a pattern of autocracy utterly
foreign to the American ideal of a balance of
powers
This expanded and expanding bureaucracy has
been developed Notwithstanding assurances that
the Roosevelt administration would abolish many
boards bureaus and commissions the ground
that they were un-American. Mr.. Roosevelt is on
record in bitter opposition to the Hoover bu-
reaucracy. He decorticated Mr.. Hoover for foist-
ing his battalions of bureaucrats on the American
people
At bottom, great bureaucracy is formidable
political machine. 1t matters not whether the bu-
reaucrat belongs to Mr.. HOpkins's WPA, Mr.
Ickes's WPA, Mr. Wallace's AAA, or to an agency
of the regular establishment he is expected to vote
right and to use his influence in behalf OF the
administration
The Sun is right in saying that charges of des-
potism by federal boards can staGd constant repe-
titon, for it is only through constant repetition
that the American people can be aroused to the
stripping of their liberty which is going forward
An ordinary citizen has chance in dispute
with a federal bureaucrat. The bureaucrat is al
ways right The bureaucrat brooks no opposition
Charleston News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
WITHOUT TRIMMINGS

Shelby's own Clyde R. Hoey governor of North
Carolina, has the unusual faculty-perhapS gift is
the better word-of stripping situation OF It's
trimmings and revealing bare facts.
That gift was in evidence IN his address at
Charlotte Saturday when he pointed out that low
standards of living conditions are by no means
peculiar to the South. He finds that substantial
portion of the population of this nation live under
low standards and that the South has been magni~
fed in this respect. The governor has just COM
pleted trip through New England and of that
he said: 81 have never seen in North Carolina as
many people who are ill-housed, ill-fed and i'll
clothed as l saw in the North"
The per capita wealth of the South is low GER
tainly and should be raised rapidly possible.
But it must be remembered that the per capita
cost of living in the fortunate South also is low
as compared with more populous centers of the
North and East In plain language dollar goes
further in the purchase of the necessities of life
in the South Because there is a slight advantage
in the per capita wealth of the North and East
does not mean that those sections are more for
tunate for the difference is taken up in the pur-
chase ofNthe Identical necessities that may be OBJ
tanned at lower figure in. the South
Stripped of it's fancy trimmings and seen in its
true form then the phrase "ill-fed, ihoused, i'll
clothed" may, be applied with like accuracy in this
nation north, south, east and west 1t was applied
directly to the South and thereby focused atten-
ton upon conditions, which without question,
should be remedied But to picture the South alone
as AN area of squalor. and peopled by the under
nourished is unfair 1t is general aiment in this
nation 1t is not localized to the South-Sheby
Star. ,.ssss
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
BEHIND THE SCENES
I'M WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

an RFC director, became. a WASH
ngton lawyer-lobbyist.
You must know all this to APP
nreciate such humor as there may
be in the fact. that Thorp lately
has been recognizing the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce. The last leader of the bu-
reau's political gang which helped
cut Thorp'S throat four years ago
is out now-after period in
which the bureau fell apart from
inefficiency and lack of leadership,
More bureau shakeups are imml-
nant.
Z The real secretary of COM
,nerce now is Assistant Secretary
Richard c. Patterson, Jr., recently
executive vice president OF the
National Broadcasting Company
Roper took long summer vaca-
ton. He left Patterson with the
worst-run department in Wash
|ington and the job of doing some
thing about the bureau.
Then on to Patterson was piled
the departments assigned part IN
the so-called monopoly investiga-
ton. 3,
lust before NRA was busted
Thorp had been chairman OF It's
important Advisory Council. A
D. Whiteside, a member of the
MIRA administrative board ano
president of the famous New
York firm Of DUN & Bradstreet
was pulling out to return to his
business and persuaded Thorp te
become his firms director OF eco
nomic research as we'll as editor
of Dun's Review. Thorp left tt
accept a salary far in excess o
ANYTHING paid by the government
| downright. 1888, NEA Service Inc
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
A CONSTRUCTIVE SUCCESS
.TlON FOR HENDERS ONVILLE

Editor, The Times-News:
Who builds Il better mousetrap
or a better city than his neigh
bors, the world will find you out,
and will make a beaten path to
your door. That is a rather liber-
al translation of Emerson's fa-
nous sentiment.
1t is recognized by all thinking
people that, "In the beginning
God created the heavens and the
earth" No chance about it, not a
mere mappenstancc, but plan,
Il creation, q divine system.
Cities are built by planning
Why not then have a planning
committee for HenderSonViIlc and
Henderson county? This commit
tee to meet once each month or
more oftcn if desired.
Its duties and accomplishments
would not all be material wealth.
Ideas would be at Il premium. But
ideas without action would not
count for 50 much.
How should this committee be
made up? Merely as suggestion,
| would have the personnel like
this:
Mayor A. Y. Edwards, chair
man; the manager of the Farmers
Market, secretary: the editor Of
The Times-Ncws. the executive
secretary of the Chamber Of
Commerce, the president Of Wo-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26

mems Federated clubs, publicity.
Then | would. have county su-
perintendent and city superin-
tendent of schools aided by lady
teacher from the grades, educa-
ton.
There should be committee OH
transportation and roads, ore on
civic beauty and sanitation, one
on traffic rules Safety first.
| would have one member from
Rotarians, one from kiwanis, one
to represent the churches. ! would
have County Agent White, or
Bennett, and one Master Farmer
of Henderson county and young
Hooper, the All lad who beat the
world on corn yield, one to rep
resent the tourist hotels and one
on how to make our city attrac-
tive and inviting to strangers. If
YOU get 'em once, they're bound
to come again. But they will NOT
come twice if they are not want
ed. and they won't stay if we do
not show the spirit Of good fcl-
lowship. .,
J. w. JOHNSON.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

course when they feel sick they
can't work. If only the folk who
like to work were the ones to
work, there would not be mach
work done. 1t takes character to
work.
But character alone is not
enough-there must also be the
necessity. Without the necessity
to work, how many persons even
with reasonable self-resnect, DO
YOU think would work?
When you see a person who
does not have to work and who
does not Ike to work, yet who
does work because he thinks he
should work, there you see Il
sturdy character.
Any doctrine which encourages
people not to work is harmful to
character.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
ST. PAUL'S

ST. PAUES, Aug. ga GENE
terry cleaning will be held at ST.
PauPs. Edneyville, Monday, Aug.
9. Relatives are asked to be
present and bring necessary tools
with which to work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Roper
of Hendersonvilie, have rented
Mrs. Molly Tayior's home in this
community.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vollie Rhodes and
children of Balfour, visited Mr..
and Mrs. Gay LYDIA Sunday.
The many friends of Mrs. Jason
/. Owncsby are sorry to learn Of
her serious illness.
Gay LYDIA spent Wednesday
night with Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
Lydia of Balfour.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
by, RODNEY BUTCHER
,,o St,n cnrresnautien 4

WTASHINGTON.-As they used
Y to say back in the days of
Rameses II, life is funny.
Dr.. Willard L. Thorp, economist,
S qualified to appreciate the fact.
Thorp was recruited in earliest
New Deal days to be director OF
he Bureau of Foreign and DomeS-
tic Commerce. AS an Amherst
professor, he had made best use
of his vote by registering as a
Republican.
Theodore Bilbo, since known in
Mississippi as "Pastemaster Cen
eral" because he was then clip
ping and pasting newspaper items
for, AAA at $4,000 year, learned
of this skeleton in the Thorp
closet and charged in his sena-
torial campaign against Senator
Hubert Stephens that Stephens
was the type of poltroon who
supported Republicans for office
while many good. MiSsissippians
went plumleSS.
Stephens, as chairman of the
Senate Commerce committee, an
swered this foul slur by block
ing Thorp's confirmation and fore
inc him out. He was aided in
this by patronage-minded minor
officials of Thorp's bureau, in
stalled by Secretary Roper. These
officials lobbied per a tie y
against the director. g
.Thorp was given other impor-
tant New Deal posts. ,Bilbo beat
Stephens anyway and Stephens
after a brief lame duck term as
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
THE GOOD OLD DAYS

When you hear a person eX-
pressing a longing for the good
old days, say to him, Tear out
your plumbing, stop up your
sewer, pull out yuor telephone,
cut off your lights, rip out your
heating system, close your movies,
junk your mechanical refrigera-
tor, your gas or electric range,
your gas or electric water heater,
your vacuum cleaner, your auto
matte stoker, your washing ma
chine, your automobile; throw
your radio out the back door and
tear up ninety-nine percent Of
your paved roads. If,you are will
ing to do those things, then you
are sincere about wanting the
good old days"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
LABOR CAN'T CRY STOP, THEFT AT
CAPITAL
(By BRUCE CATION

There is no lack of statistics about the
business depression, heaven knows. Every
economist, statstician and wOuld-be sooth-
saver in the land has had a 60 at explain
ing the depression III dollars-and-cents
terms. and there doesn't seem to be great
deal that has been left unfgured.
Yet you can still get new angle on
things. even at this date, if the right kind
of figures are put together. An example
is to be found in a recent bulletin from the
Central National Bank of Cleveland.
This bulletin examines the decline in ma
tional income during the first half of 1888
as compared with the first half of 1887,
and the figures it presents are rather IN
Structive. e..
The income received by all residents OF
the United States in the first six months of
1887 tOtaled S33, Ill, 100000; in the first
six months of 1888 it came to $50, 269, OOO,-
900, a drop of rather less than S2,5O0OOO,-
900. That decline-a percentage decrease
of only apparently measures the diff
ference between good times and bad times.
Who took the biggest cut, in this de-
cline?
EmplOye mpenSatiOn-anOther way OF,
saving wages and salaries-dropped ST.
927 100000. Payments of dividends and
interest dropped 1887 100000. Profits
taken by owners of private concerns de-
clined by SIT, 000,0 Labor, obviously,
took the biggest cut.
But wait minute. Further study of the
figures shows that in the first half OF 1888
employees got 1888 for every dollar that
was paid out in dividends and interest; and
II happens that that is the highest ratio
vet recorded in this country. In 1887, Tor
instance. the ratio was $4.84; in the boom
year of 1889, it was S4.5S.
All of which is simply another way OF
saving that although there was less money
I'd 90 around in the first six months of this
year, labor got bigger proportlonate cut
of it than ever before. And if that is true,
tAen the man who tells labor that labor's
income is down because capital is taking
too big slice of the profits is simply talk
ing through his hat.
Capitals slice was proportionately larg-
est of all in 1929, when labor's income was
at it's peak; it was smallest in the first half
of 1888, when labor's income was way
down.
Meditating over these figures, it is hard
to avoid the hackneyed old conclusion that
labor and capital have got to share the
same fate. If the total sum available for
wages, dividends and interest is up. then
both profit; if it is down, both lose.
And meanwhile, labor is getting-in
proportion to the money vailable-a big
ger share than ever before.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26

lGlllu SNiANa NSN'''
a b 0 u t to his
hea L is content
if he has the
proper pap g Z s
a n d shows no
sign of having Il
contagious d / s.
order; but a for
eig'n dog enter
ing f n & | a n d
must go i n t o
quarantine t o 4
six months to
make sure he has
nothing e.. in his
system w h i c h
might endangcr
the life, health
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
SHAWS CREEK

SHAWS CREEK, Aug. %
Miss Ethel Blythe, who is study
ing to be a trained nurse at At
lanta, Ga, is at her home. for a
two weeks vacation.
Cole Gable and Fred Smith OF
Mills River visited the formers
brother, Lloyd Cable, Sunday.
Richard Petit Of Rosman Wis
tied his daughter, Mrs. Arnold
Williams, Sunday.
Misses Charlotte and Salome
Clayton spent one night last week
with Miss Helen Wilson at Eto-
wah.
Miss May Clayton is visiting
relatives in Asheville this week.
Miss Ruby Keith is spending a
few weeks with her sister, Mrs.
Joe Plemmons, at Hoopers Creek.
james Clayton Of Flat Rock VS.
tied at his home here one day last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Wilson Of
Miami, Fla, are now at their sum-
mer home here. ....
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
BIBLE THOUGHT
"lJNFOIDED" LEGS

The work ~hsreunto I have called them" (Acts
lS;2).
Samuel Johnson paid q high, though unattended
compliment to John Wesley: His conversation is
good, but he is at leisure. He always has to
20 at a certain hour. This is very dsagreeable to
man who loves fold his legs and have his talk
out as do" John Wesley's legs were ''unfolded"
most of his ninety years. He had felt his Masters
passion for souls, and sought to save the lost
From Free Churchman .@
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
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.-EDlTOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26

A dispatch from Buenos Aires says that
Lily Pons won an unprecedented ovation
at her farewell concert there. That's pref
ty good for. an opera singers very first
farewell concert. -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
WORK

WORK
Almost invariably there is
something spiritually wrong with
the person who won't work. He
does not feel like working, 50 he
does not work. If poor, he had
rather drift around and pick up
what he can-like a fly.
Probably comparatively few
persons feel like working; GER
tainly very few feel like working
every day. When you see per
son sticking to his task day after
day, you are looking at one who,
part of the time, or much of it,
or all of it, drives himself to
work with a cat-o'-nine-tails. A
person with a certain something
missing from his soul will not do
that. Some persons feel sick every
time they think of work, and of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26

A boom has been reported in the buggy
business, and Chicagos city fathers have
cancelled an ordinance requiring bathing
girls to wear boomers. What do you sup
pose Taft's chances are?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26

and happiness OF ENg1lSh Jugs
You couldn't find anything fun
nier than that in a joke book!
Actually, England would be
safer to place the human being
in quarantine for six months and
turn the dog loose. And that
probably would be done if tourist
dogs spent as much money as
tourist humans and if tourist hu-
mans spent no more money than
tourist dogs.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26

There's a girl in Detroit whose boy
friend lost control of his car and ran into
three other automobiles after kissing her.
There've been three offers from Holly
wood already but she's holding out for a
better one.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26

Seemingly England is more So
licitous Of the welfare of her dogs
than of her human beings. A for
eign human being can enter Eng
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26

Japan's biggest selling cigarette
at present is known as Golden
Bat. ...,.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
THE LONG COMERS: Mrs.

THE LONG COMERS: Mrs.
Leonard NJ. Hesterly dominates
Mrs. F. R. Genovar for an unique
place among the "long-comers."
Mrs. Genovar Of Jacksonville made
her first visit in 1900 and, al
though now 81 years old, came
each summer and spent the ma
jority Of these with the HesterIy
family, coming early and staying
well into the fall and winter. She
didn't miss a summer, but couldn't
make the trip this year due to
poor health. For many summers
her sons, Frank and Alvin, spent
the time with Mrs. Genovar IN
Hendersonville. |
Here's another that will be hard
to equal: Major Isaac B. Brown
of Charleston, S. c., of 829 Elem
ing street, Hendersonville, says:
g" have been in Hendersonville
every summer since 1902 and
missed only 1902 since 1896. This
gives me Al years out Of AZ and
Mrs. Brown and my daughter
have been here with me each sum-
mer since 1902. We are usually
here two to four months"
Major Brown has been so reg
ular and has been so actively iden-
titled with oun community life we
had come to look upon him as one
of the home folk. He was one OF
the pioneers in camp life, having
established the Laurel Park Camp
for Boys many years ago. II mem
orv does not trick us, he was la
ter on the faculty Of Blue Ridge
School for Boys.
Who can. offer something bet
ter than these two families in the
way of long, regular, unbroken
records? Write a card or tele-
phone 1891 or 81.
LIVING NATURALLY: What
percent of our visitors behave
naturally when they visit US?
Some drive recklessly. Do they do
that at home? Some get tipsy, but
they are exceptions: Do they do
that at home? Some attend Sun
day school and church regularly.
They most likely do that at home.
Do some who attend regularly at
home express their faithfulness
and loyalty when away from
home? There are some that you
see at every church service. Upon
their arrival in the community
they appear at some place Of wor-
ship. They take on no new bad
habits and leave off no good hab-
its when they come to see us.
They are the salt of the earth.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26
FAMILY EINGERPRlNTED

OAKLAND, Cal. (UP(-FOur
generations of one family were
fingerprinted at the same time
when Baby Norma GiampOli, age
3 1-2 years; her mother, %; her
grandmother, At, and her great
grandmother, &C, voluntarily pre-
sented themselves to insure their
future Identification.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26

Increase in the demand for wo-
men workers has been greater in
offices than in other occupations.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-08-26

AN ADMINISTRATION URGE
TO ASSAiL, ASSAULT AND SCOut<GE
ITS CONGRESSIONAL lNSURG
ENTS l5NT NEW.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-10

into practice.
"He caused the establishments Of
tribunals to regulate the daily wage of
laborer and the daily price of mer-
chandise-" the historians relate.
1.-THE soil was divided into equal
areas, graded according to fertility,
in order that there might be a new
basis for taxation. The produce of the
land was used, first, for the payment
of taxes; secondly, for the needs of
the district in which it was produced,
and, thirdly, for sale to the govern
ment of the remainder at as cheap a
rate as practicable to await an in
crease in value, or to supply the needs
of other districts.
"The taxes were to be provided by
the rich, and the poor were to be ex-
empt Large reserves of money were
| to be kept by the state to provide
pensions for the aged, support for the
unemployed and help for the needy
generally.
"Other tribunals were established
for the distribution of seed for SOW
| ing on waste lands. These were to be
cultivated by those who had no other
work. Wang An-shih had many other
ideas especially interesting to us il
these days, but to all appearances
his theories were untimely for, after
| 10 years experience, the nation de-
cided upon an entire reversal of pol
i ICY.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-01-10
ANSWERS.

l. According to a recent report Of
North Carolina Commissioner of
anks 119 banks ave been liquidated
..95 2 others are in process of being
j4aidated, making a total of III
which tailed to reopen.
2 The hyrolic process was believed
10 have sEeen in Burke county about
1850 by W.. H Vandyke. nas,a'
3. A wri;eg to tie Lords Fruprietors
in 1925 said, "tner. is no, such thing
as tenants to be found in North Car
DINA for every man is a landlord -
To-Day 472; ;per cent of the farms in
North c.. ina are operated by ten
a,nts.
4. The distrlcution Of surplus fed
eral revenue under President Andrew
Jackson. North CaroEna's amount
was $1,433, ,75739. This found relieved
a very critical situation in the State
at that time. 1t was an accumulation
of funds in the National Treasury
from the sale of public lands in the
Vest.
s. A route beginning on the Mans
mond river, a.out where Suffolk Va,
now is located and leading to Eden
ton, then across Albemarle sound by
ferry to Mackeys, thence to Bath
From Bath the route lead by another
ferry across the Pamlico, and thence
TO New Bern, where another ferry
was required for cross the Neuse
thence to Wilmington.
6. Beginnfa{g n 1889 the North Car
olina leg1 Aature required members
Of the. North Carolina delegation to
congress to visit the annual sessions
of the State body. This was for the
purpose of. giving them instructions
for their guidance in voting on ma
tional affsirs. The first to revolt a.
gainst this plan was Senator Samuel
Johnston. He failed to be reelected.