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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-21

Travel books teach you much but you can't
realize what foreign land is really like till you
smell it.. -,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-21

= Even big Republicans are turning against
the protective tariff. Being exclusive is no
Fun if everybody else excludes U.s.. .....,. E.,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-21

= AS we understand it, the policy of free
lands is to avoid war till the Fascists steal
enough resources to make it interesting.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-21

81 Another step-saving household conyen-
sience is family that doesn't mind eating
in the kitchen.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-21

GARNISHEE: Isn't it wonder
full how something you hear, even
word, sticks through life? |, as
child, just as freshly remember
as if it were yesterday, hearing
the sheriff of Chowan county use
that word smany years ago. The
high sheriff didn't get out our
way but twice in his official ca
reer, one to seek your vote in
the primary and the other to
round up the taxpayers.
Chowan, one Of the smaller
counties, was long and had a sharp
northern point far removed from
the county seat, and since the cit
liens were law-abiding, the sher-
if didn't pass that way often, but
on this spring day he stopped his
old nag, hooked to a buggy, as we
were repairing an old rail fence,
to inquire the whereabouts Of
some neighbors who didn't list
their small belongir"s. His re-
Spouse to my fathers inquiry as
to how he would collect from
them was to the effect that he
would "garnishee their wages"
Ny young, tender mind didn't
take in all the implications of a
garnishment, new term to me,
but the word has stuck as one not
carrying with it lucky omen, a
star, rabbits foot or a favorable
position of the zodiac.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-21
THE HAPPY CHILD OF NATURE
(By BRUCE CATTONl

A world in which life keeps getting pro-
gressively less simple still looks fondly
back at the simple life as one of the SUI
preme blessings attainable by sinful man;
and every now and then someone pops up
with a reminder that the untutored savage
is probably great deal happier and ply
Sically Sounder than we are.
The latest bit of evidence along this line
comes from New York scientist who has
Just got back from a trip along the head
waters of the Amazon.
Along those far-off waterways, this gen.
tfeman found jungle tribes who share none
of the white mans ways and few of his ills.
They go quietly about their business, moth
ing worries them and nobody hurries them
and they never have cancer, high blood
pressure or heart trouble. Many of them
live to the age of 100 years and remain
hale and hearty to the last.
Which, of course, is just another way of
proving that we pay for everything we get
in this world. We have a great many things
that these remote savages lack, and We
couldn't very well get along without them;
but we pay for them by living hurried,
snervous, fearfully complex lives, and the
diseases that lay us low are nothing less
than by-products of our civilization.
&. But that sort of thing has been said
great many times, and if it makes us yearn
for the simple life it doesn't get us any
nearer to it; and, indeed, there is no point
whatever in dreaming about going back to
the good old days, for the simple reason
that they are eternally beyond our reach
= For better or for worse we have got our
selves into a complex and artificial sort of
society which cannot very we'll be simpli-
fed. The horse-and-buggy age Ito come
down few generations from the day of
the simple savage) may have had leisure
and placid contentment that we do not
have, but if we abolished our trains, auto
mobiles and airplanes we should all speed
lily die. The innumerable complications of
the age of machinery may be shortening
our lives, but we can't get along without
them. -.
q We can't turn the clock back, even if we
really wanted to. The only possible direc-
ton We can travel is forward. And we shall
make the kind of progress we need to make
eonly If we stop incoming about the blissful
&past and start figuring out ways to adjust
this modern society of ours to the deep,
inner needs of the human spirit 1t can be
sdone, if we put our minds to it; but it must
sabe done by looking to the future rather
Ethan by trying to get back to the past.
80 ."
- Another sten-sav;no household oo,,,o,,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-21

The two who are given nothing the forgotten
man and the one of whom people say cav, he's
got everything"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-21
BIBLE THOUGHT
TpANSEORMED

Him that was possessed with the devil sit'
Al. ard clothed and in his right mind" Read
Mark 5:1-20)
Think of the yilest and meanest man in your
community. That man, if touched by the power OF
Jesus Christ. will flame into discipleship with
ringing, testimony Ask yoursef-ask the Lord-if
He might have plan to use YOU to make the con-
nection. know of stranger things than that which
have happened.-Wade C. Smith.
The Valley settler., 1938-09-02

Crop rotation, Conforming Of a0aop
slopes, Covering Of potato ground
or soil necessarily stirred in har-
vosting Of lato> crops with q coat
Of manure md diskinG 1t in, and
covor crops.
Those suggestions will be put into
practice ct tho Experiment Station
to tost their efficiency. In the
meantime it is suggested that all
land having steep slopes be kept
covered by grass or stubblo to hold
erosion at q minimum. DON'T Let the
wind and wotor stool YOUR form.
The Valley settler., 1938-09-02
SOIL EROSION,

In many sections Of the Mato-
nusko Valley, whore clearing of
troes he's boon done, the heavy
winds Of the past wintor car
rice away as much as two to
four inchos Of top soil. True
the soil was cry an6 unusually
high winds prevailed. From -
December third to eighth 1884,
four enc cno-holf inchos Of
warm roi in fell. The frozen soil
thawed cut. Ice won't out Of
rivers an lakos. The accumu-
lato6 water from only few
acres Of farm land Grained down
ovor stoop Slopes. Gulchos
wore washed as much as twenty
feet wide en- twolvo to four
toon foot dCop. This occur
rcd on slopes that had boon in
pasture grasses fer ten years
or longer, but haG been prac-
tically killed. out by over
grazing. Again unusual con2i-
tions prevailed. But no wash
ing occurred where the. natural
grown timber an the Gccuaulot-
&C covering cf hu1us protected
the soil. This gives rise to
the SERIOUS proD1CM OF SOIL
Erosion.
Turning undor the natural COW
ering Of grasses in tho States
Of tho Middle Wost coupled with
excessive dry condition, and
high winds produced the "Dust
BOWL" Surface run off has
ruined many otherwise excellent
farms. Hore, are VIC, stripping
off the natural growth Of tim
Der, exposing the fine glacial
soil to the action Of wind and
water. We arc reproducing the
same conditions that has caus-
cd excessive soil erosion in
the States. :::.
Recently . soil erosion surVov
The Valley settler., 1938-09-02

SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. s tn.
School Will open next Tuesda
Sept.6 tn. AS usual school Will
only be held in the forenoon. Tt
Will be unne cessary for tho chill
dren attending school to bring
lunchs :, The buses will re turn the
children to their homes by noon.
Is every body happy? ABSOLUTELY
AND AGAIN ABSOLUTELY u!
The Valley settler., 1938-09-02
GOV. ISSUES PROCLAMATION
CALLING FOR OBSERVANCE

CALLING FOX OBGERVANCG
For the first time in it's history,
Alaska Will have o holiday on Sept.
II, Officially dos ignatoG os Con-
stitution Day, which is now being
observed almost universally in the
States.
In en- official proc1o nation Cover
nor John Troy set the day aside for
general Observance in the Territory.
Tho proclamation roads in part, Ut"
hereby designate September sovon-
toonth, ninotoo hundred thirty-e light
as holiday, to be observed through
out Alaska as the one hundred fifty
first anniversary Of the signing
Of the Constitution. suggest that
that day be corraor1orotod by patpio-
tic services by the schools and
conu1uni tios, which should include
public reading Of the Cons tition.
I urge that O flag Of the United
States should be flown on all pub
lie buildings and on school build
ings whore practicable.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05
HOW ABOUT RESERVE
OF CAPABLE WAR FLIERS
(Tulare Advance-Registerl

Americas first line of defense this
week has been further strengthened by
a new skyfighter-the "Flying Show
Case" The new plane, with glass
walled cabin, is designed to function as
the eyes of the army, and will take its
place beside the deadly Airacuda and
the mighty Flying Fortress.
More planes mean greater security, for
our aerial dogs of war lead the world
in speed power, and effectiveness. But
how do we stand on the human factors?
1t will come as a surprise to many that
Department of Commerce reports list
less than 100 civilians fully qualified
to fly modern military planes.
What then of future war? Of the
efficiency and ability Of our military
pilots there can be no doubt, but what of
the vast store of reserve man-power
needed to fly reserve ships?
The English already have had to an
swer that question. Through subsidiza-
tion of flying schools they have made it
possible for any young man to learn to
fly for about ten dollars. The result
has been pilot reserve of peace-preserv
ing proportions.
Englands need, under the circum-
stances, is certainly more imperative
than ours. But the repeated success of
trans-oceanic flights points to future
whose peace and security may be shad-
owed by the wings of long-range planes.
With pilot reserve, built of young men
who want to fly, backing up our planes,
no nation in the world would be in a
position to challenge America, an Ameri-
ca invincible in the air.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05
TIME FOR A CHECKUP
BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS
(Riverside Press)

In the funny old days when folks did
MT know much about kids, there used to
be a superstition that eyeglasses were
nuisance. Boys and girls hated to wear
them, boys because they thought the
glasses hampered play girls because
they or their mothers thought they de-
tracted from good looks.
Now everybody knows better. The
child who needs glasses and does not
have them goes around squirting, scowl-
ing, humping into things. Boy and girl
both are homely and uncomfortable.
They don't get good marks in school and
life is pretty bad for them. Then some
fine August day the parents think it's
a good idea to have the doctor see them
before they go to school. The doctor
sends them to the oculist-the oculist
gives a prescription for glasses which
exactly and comfortably fit the eyes.
And then what happens?
Suddenly the world becomes new and
beautiful. Objects have sharp edges.
Colors are clearer. Words formerly blur
red stand out on the pages of school
books. It's fun to read, fun to study,
fun to play games with other boys and
girls The strained lines smooth out of
the faces. Scowls disappear Eyes are
bright and mouths are smiling Good
looks, lost because of eyestrain, come
back to stay.
Glasses used to be horrid, too, like
cages. Not any more. Now they are at
tractive, the frames are strong but light,
pleasant to wear, hardly noticeable to
see. The kids who need them like them.
1t is always good idea to have the
eyes looked over before school begins.
Teeth, too. And anything else neces-
sary. School days are almost here.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05
TRAFFIC RULES ARE MADE
FOR MOTORISTS COMFORT

AS the summer approaches its end
and Imperial Valley again faces the
season of its greatest activity, We look
forward with no great pleasure to one
phase of winter life. 1t has to do with
driving an automobile down Main street
during the busy hours of the day or the
busy days of the week. The thought con-
jures up a mental picture of double park
ers, -mile-an-hour drivers, boulevard
stop missers, jaywalkers and wrong
turner's, not to mention the hundred and
one other chronic pests of downtown
driving.
Now and then, probably more than we
realize, each of us who drives an auto
mobile is guilty of one or more violations
of traffic rules and motoring good
taste. 1t might be we'll next time we are
inclined to swear at the other fellow for
poking along in front of us at snaii's
pace, or barging out of a parking place
into our path without a second of warn
ing, if we would stop and recount our
own misdeeds. If every one of us did
that, then there would be no reason to
swear at the other fellow, and there
would be no reason for the other fellow
to swear at US.
If you don't blame the other fellow
until you're perfect yourself, and if he
doesn't blame you until he himself is
perfect, pretty soon there will be nothing
to blame anybody for. Perhaps such a
Utopia is beyond reach-but we can try.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05

with real interest. Why Here was
a man who wanted to learn some
thing.
The two men talked until seven
o'clock. Mr.. Braun's mind drifted
now and then. Finally he said he
figured that it would probably be
cheaper for his company to buy its
equipment from Mr.. Krupp's COM
pany than it was to manufacture
it themselves! Not only this, but
he said that he would like to repre-
sent Mr.. Krupp's company.
Mr.. Braun bore an excellent rep
utation; a better man Couldn't oe
found. So the deal was made.
Mr.. Krupp kept from arsu'i!2
with a customer and won a $alns
representative Think what Wouio
have happened if he had n1"ked
loose and tried to show Mr.. Er1un
how much he knew.
Here is a simple idea which you
can apply. The first time a cus'4n!-
er starts TO argue, hold a rem oVef
yourself. Think of Mr.. KrGpp MO
won lots of arguments t3--and iPst
lots of sales"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05

comes from testimony before the
Dies committee on un American
activities that a disproportionate
number of labor leaders, especially
in the c. I. O., are of Communist
or other extreme radical persuasion
attempting to use the labor move
ment for purposes not understood
by the membership. The strongest
of CLIO. unions, has been split
wide open by such a squabble over
alleged control by radical factions.
The "dualism" of the labor move
1ent is about to spread south of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05
EDUCATION FOR THE
YOUNGER GENERATION

Soon hundreds of youngsters in I'M
perial Valley will be trooping off to
school, some here some in the state
universities and some in private colleges
or endowed institutions. To those young
sters, and to the parents who guide them,
it might not be amiss to recall the legend
of Alcibades, rich mans son who came
to Socrates to ask how he should be-
come educated.
'What can you do?" asked Socrates.
"Can you drive a mule to the top of the
Acropolis, carrying one of those shining
blocks of marble to be put in the top
of the Parthenon?"
"Oh, no." replied the rich mans son,
"the muleteer does that"
Can you drive a chariot?"
mo, for the charioteer does that
Can you carve with your hands and
chisel a statue?"
mo, master. We hire our statues carv-
ed
Can you cook your dinner?"
"We hire our cooks, Also"
And the young man went away hum
bled when Socrates asked him, rs it not
strange, Alchibades, that your father
should give to his humblest servants a
better education than he gives to his
SOM"
Among the rich and the poor in AM
erica, every year, young men and women
graduate from so-called institutions of
higher learning with no more actual
preparation for life than that rich mans
son had. 1t is through no fault of the
schools, for there courses are offered
in many practical, worthwhile subjects.
Training is there for the asking. The
trouble is, too few ask for training that
will serve them we'll later on.
The sons and daughters of the remain
ing royal houses of Europe are taught
in early life trades and professions
which they may never be called upon to
put to use. Does it not seem logical and
intelligent for those who know their
children will one day have need of a
trade or profession, to guide them to-
ward knowledge of one?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05
Divided American Labor Movement Looks
Aheud to II Critical Months
Many Battling
Questions Face
Union Millions

,uoorar Act will be used by LABOR
tbis winter to try to tighten up on
the acts provisions, and the iohs
record of the National LABOR heia-
tions board in action-in which 10
5e1 cases involving 3,776,sos Work
ers have been handled-wili be useo
NV EMPLOYERS to try to have certain
employer rights also written IN
The Wage-Hour law just gong
into effect. which attempts to set
q "floor under wages and ceiiing
over hours" should be a great
benefit to labor, but only indirectly
to organized labor as such.
Argument that wages raised by
government fiat will tend TO con-
vince many workers that there ID
no real need for union organiza-
tion is met by counter-argument
that only when mans wages
have been raised above starVatiofl
levels does he become conscious OF
his possibilities and thus pros
pect for union organizer. n
Restrictive laws aimed at COM
troll of such union practices as SIT
down strikes and mass picketlng
are being sought in Oregon, wash
ington, Michigan, and other states
where industrial disorder has been
marked. These present a problem
to all organized labor, as do hun
dred suits in various lpcalties
(none of them as yet a binding
precedent) testing the rights OF
EMPLOYERS and even union mem
bers to sue labor unions for dam
ages under various conditions.
Place in Politics
Labor today finds itself In poll
tics as never before. Here again
the cleavage between A. F. of l..
and C. I. o. factions is marked.
Labor's Non Partisan League, start
ed as a united labor effort to re-
elect President Roosevelt, has be-
come more and more the political
instrument of the CLIO. alone.
Except in a few localities, the
A. f. of l.. has withdrawn its sup
port, and is reverting to its old
policy of select our friends, defeat
our enemies"
New York's American Labor par
ty, also repudiated by the A. F. OF
L., and scattering of Farmer
Labor party movements in the mid
die west and northwest still leave
organized labor far short of any
unified national political party.
Thus Labor Day, 1888, finds orr
ganized labor, like everybody else,
trying to fight its way up out of
temporarily depressed conditions.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05

justed declared value, 25 per cent
on net incomes not in excess of 6
per cent of their adjusted declared
value-and 100 per cent on net in
comes above that level.
That bill would quite literally
take the profit out of war. No one
would get rich out OF the war; on
the contrary, everyone in the ma
ton would have direct financial
stake IN seeing that we kept the
peace. And if we did get into
war, those taxes would come close
to enabling us to pay as we go.
We wouldn't be burdening future
generations with a monstrous load
of debt.
The scheme has at least the vir-
tue of simplicity-so much so, in
deed, that wary citizens may want
to study it with especial care, on
the theory that anything SO beauti-
fully simple must have a catch IN
it somewhere. In any case, it should
set us thinking whether we really
have the hardihood to go ahead and
literally take all of the profit
every last dime Of tout of war.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05

won lots of ar guments and
lost lots of orders"
This went on for twenty years;
the ruts of habit were pretty deep.
But eventually he managed to pun
out. Bit by bit, he was beginning
to see that the way to win an
argument was not to show the other
man up for a fool. Nobody is very
enthusiastic about being shown up
as a blockhead.
Mr.. Krupp represented hydraul-
ic elevator company, and wished to
get an order from Mr.. K. Moley
Braun, New York City. Mr.. Braun
was the sales manager of an elev-
ator company.
When Mr.. Krupp went in, Mr..
Braun looked up: We'll, what do
you want?"
81 want to sell you a hydraulic
elevator"
Mr.. Braun bristled. I've been
manufacturing hydraulic elevators
for twenty years." he said, intim-
ating that he knew more about hy-
draulic elevators than Mr.. Krupp
did.
Mr.. Krupp stripped for battle. SO
Braun thought he knew all about
elevators, did he? Well, he would
show him that he knew a thing or
two himself.
Suddenly a thought began to
whirl around in his head. "Just
what good will that do?" he asked
himself. Suppose I do show him
that / know more than he does?
Will it get me anywhere?"
Aloud he said: "I1l have to ad-
nit I'm new in this business. There
are a lot Of things 1 don't know
about IL. If your concern has been
manufacturing elevators for 20
years, you can give me a lot OF
help. I would like to ask you some
questions"
Mr. Braun looked at Mr.. Krupp
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05
AT ofL-CI0
Breach Feared
Growing Wider

Labor Day, 1888, finds or
ganized a bor facing the
same problem faced by busi-
ness, in d Il try, and the
butcher, baker, and candle
stick-maker 1t is the problem of
business conditions.
The sluggish state of business
during the recession slowed the on
ward march of labor organization
which was swinging along so trium-
phantly a year ago, 1t has created
a financial problem by reducing
paid-up dues income, for men who
are out of work cannot pay dues.
Paid-up labor union membership
today is probably lower than it was
a year ago The CIO claims 4000,-
OO0 members, and the A. F. of L.
$500 900. Each is skeptical of the
others claims, and any impartial
observer must be skeptical of both.
But the potential membership of
each is near thos> figures, and
each is poised to renew its organ
izing campaign this fall in the face
of business reports that indicate a
sharp upturn.
In many fields. the situation of
organized labor as it celebrates its
own special day in 1888 is critical.
A. f. OF l..
VS.. C. 1. o. FIGHT
Despite more than two years of
attempts to close the gap between
organized labor as represented by
the American Federation of Labor
and the Committee for Industrial
Organization, the two wings Of the
labor movement are farther apart
than ever.
The CLIO. will hold this fall its
first national convention, which
will make it in name as well as
in fact a rival labor organization
to the A. F. of l..
In the maritime, textile, and
lumber fields, dual unionism has
locked these two organizations in
bitter conflict that gives no sign
of abating.
Gradually the breach between
the two groups is widening philo-
sophically as we'll as administra-
lively, with the A. F. of L. COM
mitted to improving the lot of
workmen within the present poll
tical and industrial setup and the
CLIO. committed to whatever
changes in both seem necessary to
give organized labor a greater
share in both the political and
economic scheme.
Further widening of this breach
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05
WE'LL III
TeIIYou.,,
says
Bob Burns

Homer Croy says that the bigger
a man is on the outside, the more
he'll let 'em boss him around the
house, but little man on the out
side wants to be tyrant at home.
My Uncle Chigser was one of them
men that didn't have no spunk at
all i'm dealin' with other men.
The other day 1 ran into him
and he had his arm in a sling and
both of his eyes were black. When
1 asked him what the trouble was,
he says, "Well, I was going down
the steps and my wife says, BE
careful now and don't fall and 1
wasn't gonna let no woman dictate
to me so down 1 went!'
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05

into efforts to amend it this VIM
ter. The A. F. of L. has soured on
it and will ask changes. The CLIO.
generally supports it "as is" Chief
point of A. F. of L. objection is
that the Labor Board, having the
power to set the appropriate unit
of voting" in industrial elections,
has generally chosen units which
place craft unions at a disadvan-
tage.
Revelations before the LaFollette
Civil Liberties Committee tending
to show employer resistance to the