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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-10-27
Mrs. Martha Ham
Dies AT Lansing

Mrs. Martha Ham, age 40, died
at her home in the Lansing COM
munity Monday with . cancer. from
which she had been suffering for
some time.
The funeral service was conduct
ted by Revs. Wells Ham and Mr..
Farmer with good size crowd OF
friends and relatives present.
She is survived by her husband
Willie Ham and the following
children: Date, Earl, Wayne, Dar-
raj, Allean and Adealene. She
also leaves i mother, Mrs. James
Elliott, two sisters and one brother,
Mrs. Maud Goss, Miss Hazel Eli
Oft and Fred Elliott, all Of Lansing.
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MISTRIAL ORDERED IN
CAMPBELL CASE WE'D.

Continued from Page One)
Taylor, J. E. Lewis, R. D. Osborne,
Rudy Miller, c. c. Hodgson, Joseph
Richardson and C. w. Osborne.
A large number of cases were
tried and disposed of during the
three-days court, and number of
case we're continued.
Eddie Washington, colored, plead
guilty to second degree murder and
after hearing the evidence Judge
Sinclair gave him from to years
for manslaughter for shooting an
other negro near Grassy Creek re-
Gently.
Charlie Hayden, another negro,
charged with aiding and abetting in
the shooting, was given 12-months
sentence.
Garvey Osborne and Cleo Miller
were sentenced 3 to years for
stealing meat and flour from the
Helton Roller mills several years
ago, while Roosevelt was given
2 to 3 years sentence on the same
charge. Rash was found not guilty.
James Blackburn got IL months
sentence on charges of breaking, en-
tering and stealing.
Charlie Perkins was given 6
months sentence on larceny
charge. ...
Davis Brewer was assigned to the
roads for 2 years for slandering
his wife.
Willie Gentry drew IL months SEN
tence for larceny and receiving.
Connie Smith plead guilty to
larceny and receiving and was
placed on probation, plus court
cost.
L. L. Scott drew a 2 years sus-
pended sentence upon payment of
cost and good behavior for assault
ing with deadly weapon.
Homer Jones, cruelty to animals,
was taxed with the cost as he had
already stayed in Jail for four
months.
Howard Eldreth was fined $500
and cost for assault.
| Elizabeth Combs was given 80
days suspended sentence for viola
ton of prohibition law.
Glen Cole, on nuisance charge, 80
days suspended sentence and cost Of
court. >
Gather Miller, tried on three
counts, drew suspended sentences
and taxed with cost. T..
Four divorces on the grounds of
two years separation were granted:
Esther Lephew VS.. Otha Lephew and
she was given the minor child; C.
S. Sheets VS.. Fannie Sheets; w. III.
Nance VS.. Kettle Nance; James An
derson VS.. Audrey Anderson and
Cenith Ingram VS.. W. M. /. Ingram.
! Cases against the following were
continued: Will Bumgarner, Willard
and Roosevelt Miller, Lester Miller,
Roy Miller, Ina Powers. Sallie
Farnsworth, Austin Houck, Goldie
Key, Wade Williams, Virgil Eldreth,
Harry Bare, Cleve Long, Jones Mill
er and billiard Osborne.
A good many mol proses were
taken. Isl,
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Sentenced For
Killing Farmer

Mrs. Beulah Honeycutt and Mrs
Jean Brooks, formerly of Ashe coun-
ty. were tried and convicted at Fair
field, ILL.,, last Saturday for murder
ing Felix Shannon, 58-year-olo
farmer at his home at Mount Erie
ILL.,, last August.
Al jury found them guilty late
Saturday night and Honeycutt was
sentenced to SO years imprisonment
and the Brooks woman got 80 years
Stories and photos of the women
were carried in many daily papers
in the country.
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GILLEY CHILD PASSES

Alvin Gilley, one and one-half-
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Nose
4Gilley of Clifton, died with diph-
iberia last Sunday and was buried
Monday. The child had been suffer-
ing only a short time with the dis
ease.
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MFRS. MATTE BALDWIN NJ. /.
WAS BURIED TUESDAY

Mrs. Matte Baldwin, age Is, Of
White Top, Va, died Of paralysis
at her home Monday.
B Funeral service was conducted
by Rev. Edd Davis and a large
crowd was present.
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\ MRS. BALDWIN Is survived BY her
husband, Cicero Baldwin, and tsur
children. Mrs. Wade Weaver, of
White. Top; Mrs. Baldwin, Of Lam
sing; Mrs. Greer, of Nella and
Cleve Baldwin, Of White Top.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Avery Price re-
turned Saturday from visit in
Georgia and Tennessee.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-20
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.

Editor, The Times-NewS:
The presidents appeal to far
mers and industrial workers in
Maryland to unite brings TO
mind the speech of Rex TugWcLI
in Los Angeles in the year 1888
in which he attacked Constitution
al democracy and our system of
government, and urged the far
mer and industrial worker to
unite and surge forward to Col
lectivism.'
Tugwells effort TO bcuay our
Country was so revolutionary and
alarming that htc president was
asked and advised "to muzZIc
Tugwell."
The presidents reply was more
alarming than Tugwcl!'S speech,
for it forecast the destructive
policies of his administration.
Here was his answer. Il consider
Tugwcll an asset rather than Il
liability" The forecast has PROV
ed absolutely correct.
Believing the time ripe to de-
suoy all opposition to his obicc-
tivcs. the president travelled from
coast to coast urging the defeat
in the primaries Of aIl whom h"
honors by calling them conSerya-
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tiveS. The defnatiOn of conServa-
tive is to "protect and preserve
and these words are mandatory in
taking the Constitutional oath of
office, and every one taking this
oath is III honor bound TO be Il
conservative. The president, in
swearing allegiance to our ConSti-
tuition, is under oath Il conscrva-
tive. nevertheless i'm defiance Of
this oath, he has prostitutcd his
high office, to attack and destroy
conservatives in Congress, and to
bertay the Democratic party by
creating a liberal party on the
ruins Of Constitutional democracy
and to welcome all renegade and
apostatc Republicans who wear
the red brand Of liberals. Sir, was
there ever more perfect por-
travail Of DR.. Jrykl and Mr.. Hyde?
We thank God the detectives of
the president have met singing
rebukc from South Carolina.
Maryland and Georgia, who have
proved worthy of their heritage
of freedom, and who honor the
memory Of their great leaders.
and immortal statesmen. God give
us more such men.
BENZ. K. CLAYTON.
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS

There landed in New York this week, after a
junket to Europe man whom the Senate Cam
paign Expenditures Committee ought to have been
glad to see Certainly the committee has business
with him, for this man Joseph F. Guffey,
Senator from Pennsylvania, over whose signature
a letter soliciting Democratic campaign contribu-
tions went out to 100000 WPA workers in Penn
sylvana.
This was fragrant violation of the law against
Federal employees soliciting, receiving, po-
itica contributions from other Federal employees.
The only point at issue is, did Senator Guffey au-
thorize his signature? If he did, and we have
heard no denial of it. the committee has an open
and shut case against him. 1t won't be the first
time he has been caught off base.
The Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
has showed some determination to get to the bot
tom of electoral mapractices. For example, it
found that little postmistress in Maryland had
violated the law by working for the nomination
of the New Deals Dave Lewis against Tydings,
and it very properly turned over the evidence to
the Department of Justice. The principle of equal
treatment for all, of high low political degree
makes it imperative that the committee give Sena-
tor Guffey dose of the same medicine if the dag
nosis calls for it.-Charlotte News.
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ASIoNC AS THE MONEY

Despite the failure of the purge" in most of
the states, the New Deal will last until the treas
ury shall no longer be the campaign fund of the
party in power. Every man acquainted with the
history of governments, of any and all kinds knows
that it is their nature to aggrandze themselves, to
seize more power in order to get more jobs and
to get more Jobs in order to have more mney with
which buy more votes. Government means job
olders," Albert Jay Mock correctly observes. The
only security of the people is in reducing govern
ment to its simplest terms, and whenever you hear
of government as an agency of humanitarian
ism" and ''social security you should know or at
least suspect that it is alias of an agency to go
through your pockets. As long as an American
government has money if viii have congressman
and as long as there shall be congress there will
be some congressman to join with an executive de-
partment to wiring money out of the people for
their mutual advantage Observation-Disclosures
ton News and Corier
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THE big DOG" CATCHES UP

One of the most politically seasoned men in the
country, long a factor in the Democratic party, in
ssts that in politics, in everything else 1.-THE big
dog always catches up in the end
The "bg dog" is this gentleman'S unique and in
dividual name for truth, and it is his profound
viction that candidates and leaders who make a
practice of talking one way and acting the other,
eventually and inevitably are overtaken and de-
feated.
Now that the primaries by which Mr. Roosevelt
proposed to purge" the party of nine Democratic
senators who had opposed his effort to reorganize
the Supreme Court are over and all nine have
cessfuly survived, it does seem that it would be
hard to find better example of the big dog"
catching up than has here been given. Over Pc
riod of FIVE years. the Roosevelt record is largely
composed of acts which have contradicted his
words. The promises he made in his 1882 campaign
and the platform upon which he was then elected
have long ago been repudiated and the direction
in which he has been going is anything but the di
rection in which he pointed. 1t is true that there
is plausible, if not convincing, defense for the
radical change in his course; and his amazing in
consstencies either have been defended on the
ground of necessity-or passed over without eXpa-
nation apology excuse.
There was never president caught in his own
contradictions For example, less than year ago
the mere suggestion that he would take any part
in the local politics of his own state of New
York so angered Mr.. Roosevelt that he privately
reproached newspaper men who ventered to ask If
he were interested in the New York City primary
for mayor, and he had his secretary, Mr.. Mcintyre,
issue statement denouncing the report In part,
the statement read as follows:
"The president repeated for the thousandth time
that he has not taken part is not taking part and
will not take part in any local primary election ex-
cept in his own home town and home county"
1t seems almost beyond belief that a president
of the United States who had made statements
unequivocal as these should either completely
forget his publicly expressed convictions or believe
that everybody else would forget them; Who'll
ly change his point of view; think that he could
safely ignore his own recorded words and abandon
his publicly profesSed principles when it seemed
politically expedient to do So Of course can
never really tell what is in another mans mind and
it is just guess as to how Mr.. Roosevelt recon-
Giles himself to the open violation of his own
and to his extraordinary Reputation of his own de-
nunciation of federal interference. In any event
what he did in these primaries completely at
odds with what he had said that his most partial
friends are at loss to explain and the results con-
stiute one of the most striking rebuffs given
the titular leader of great party. THE big dog"
certainly appears to be catching up-Frank Kent
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STILL UNANSWERED

Washington commentators say that administra-
ton officials "are deeply alarmed over the poti-
cal effect colapsing farm prices may exert on the
coming primaries and the fall elections"
And we'll may they be- After all the protesta-
tions of Secretary Wallace and his advisers that
they know the answer to the farm problem and
that they have solved it, it is not reassuring to
farmers to be compelled to sell their products at
present day prices. 1t is to be hoped that the prob
lem will not be approached from the standpoint of
political expediency. That has to often been the
trouble. In fact, one wonders sometimes if con-
gress wants to solve the agricultural problem 1t
will leave the candidates too little to promise
Exchange.
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REHrND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
RY RODNEY BUTCHER

WISCONSIN: Senator Ryan
Duffy, endorsed by F. D. R., VIII
be renominated by Democrats.
There are New Dealers, how
ever. who hope Duffy will be
beaten in November by Congress-
man Tom Amlie, seeking the La
Toilette Progressive party'S noml-
nation in contest with Lieuten-
ant-Governor Herman Ekern.
Half a dozen Republicans seek
senatorial nomination, including
Publisher John B. Chapple Of
Ashland and former State Chair
man Edward j. Samp. Governor
Phil LaFollette, running for a
fourth term, probably will be
opposed for election by Julius P.
Hell, Republican manufacturer OF
Milwaukee, and Jerome F. Fox,
Democrat.
NEW JERSEY: EMS c II ator
Warren W. Barbour will be noml-
mated again by Republicans for
the seat briefly held by Senator
John Milton, Mayor Hagues man,
who is retiring. Boss Hague and
Roosevelt New Dealers have been
irving to agree on a mutually &C
ceptable candidate to oppose Bar
bour.
MASSACHUSETTS: Ex-Gover-
nor James M. Curley, running
as a New Dealer" is the chief
threat to Governor Charles +
Hurley, who is unpopular WITH
Rooseveltians despite his recent
espousal of the New Deal.
Republicans probably will NOM
mate Leverett Saltonstall, Wnc
would have a good chance IN
November ~
! In Rhode Island, where Cover
NOR Robert E. Quinn will be re-
nominated by Democrats and
William H. Vanderbilt probably
will be named by Republicans,
Walter OHara, former Narragan-
sett race track man driven out by
7 ouinn. is running on Square
! Deal ticket. Apparently OHara
hopes to get enough Democratic
votes to throw the election to the
Republicans.
! (Copvrisht. 1888. Ni's\ Service l"e'i
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-09-20
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

ASHING N.-The fna!
w score on current phases OF
Roosevelt's party purge" will de-
oend on what happens TO Con-
gressman John J. O'Connor in the
New York primary, Sept. ~.
Wisconsin, New Jersey and
Massachusetts also go to the polls
that day.
Then the primaries will be over,
although party conventions sub
seuuently will name senatorial
and gubernatorial candidates III
New York and candidates for gov
ernor in Rhode Island and New
Mexico. Here's the lineup:
NEW YORK: O'Connor, de
nounced by Roosevelt as a New
Deal traitor" seeks both Demo
cratic and Republican nomlna-
tons.
James H. Fay, organization
Democrat sponsored by New Deaf
ers and backed by Mayor La
Guardia, opposes O'Connor in the
Democratic primary and will gel
the American Labor Party nomi-
nation.
Although many Republicans
back O'Connor, Allen w. Dulles
international lawyer, seeks G. O
P. nomination.
One possibility: O'Connor as d
Democrat, Dulles as a Republican
and Fay as the A. L. P.-NeW DeaI
candidate may fight it out IN No
vember.
Republicans converting Sept. %,
20 at Saratoga were slated t
nominate District A ttorne9
Thomas E. Dewey for governor
before the Hines trial Setbacl
hurt Dewey's chances. Congress
man Bruce Barton seeks nomina
lion for the long senatorial tern
and many Republicans favo
Democratic Governor Lehman TO
he short term nomination.
Democrats seek man who cal
cat Dewey. Hence great preSsur
l Senator Bob Wagner ant
Lehman.
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FRUITS FROM EFFORTS: B.

G.. Washington. who in an unset
fish way a year ago made an un-
official survey Of the apply indus
try in Henderson county because
he deplored the waste, upon re-
turning from an absence during
the greater part of the year, COM
ing directly from the apple grow
inc district Of West Virginia, nat
urally was interested in any pro-
gress which might have been
made.
He stimulated sufficient inter
est to lead the farm agents Office
to request am official survey.
which was made by Mr.. Johansen.
The lattcr's survey revealed much
for consideration in the way OF
better storage for marketing.
Since Mr.. Washington's survey
was made the Blue Ridge Apple
Growers organization was form
ed and is now engaged in q pub
lefty campaign in Georgia and
Florida in order to promote sales.
mainly through the operation OF
trucks.
Mr.. WaShington'S efforts have
borne good fruit.
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CONFISCATION WITHOUT
COMPENSATION

In his campaign to do certain
things he has promised Mexico,
President Cardenas finds himself
afoul of the lines of fam play.
He seems to be on the spot and
must either seriously offend his
big, powerful neighbor north Of
the Rio Grande, whom he cannot
afford to offend. or lose face
with the MeXicans, whom he has
promised a lot of things they
want.
1t is always a good idea to see
where you are going to land be-
fore you leap and not to stick out
your arm farther than you can
draw it back. President Cardenas
seems to have committed both
those plumbers; and in addition he
has stuck out his neck.
Somebody apparently is certain
to lose something in this miX-up.
1t is devoutly to be hoped that
it will be nothing more serious
than President CardenaS'S face.
A scientist has found fossils
linking America and Asia. Fish
remains show an ancient contln-
entail connection.
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1T WASN'T COLOSSAL, BUT 1T WAS
(By BRUCE CATION

The nations annual attack of stadium
fever is about to break out Within few
weeks the football season will be in full
swing and the collegianS form of innocent
recreation will be providing the fans with
excitement, the newspapers with head
lines, and divers persons with a livelihood.
Football is such a complicated and high
ly organized affair nowadays that it is
hard to realize what an informal, modest
little game it was in the beginning.
A gentleman named Homer Boughner
died in Denver the other day at the age of
80; and because he played in the first
American intercollegiate football game,
his obituary notices recalled the games
circumstances.
This game was between Princeton and
Rutgers. 1t was played at New Brunswick,
~ j., on November 6, 1869.
Some 25 young men from Princeton
made the journey to do the actual playing.
They were accompanied by about so of
their fellow-Students, who seem to have
come along out of idle curiosity. An equal
number of Rutgers players met them and
took them to an open field, unmarked and
unfenced. There the two teams-50 boys,
all told-took off their hats and coats,
rolled up their sleeves, and started the
game.
The game seems to have been consider
ably more like soccer than like modern
football. There were no tOuchdowns; only
field goals counted, and apparently there
were not many regulations about the num-
Der of men who could be on the field at
one time. The little handful of spectators
sat on the grass, sang a few songs, and
clapped their hands heartily when the
game ended with 6 to victory for Rut-
gers.
After the game was over, all hands
both players and spectators-had dinner
together ION roast game birds from the
Jersey Marshes" sang some more songs,
agreed that it had been lots of fun, and set
a date for a return game few weeks la
ter. Then everybody went home.
1t all sounds very old-fashioned and I'M
sophisticated, and anyone present who
could have foreseen the modern stadium,
the corps of paid coaches, the high-pres-
sure recruiting campaigns and all the 9TH
err adjuncts of modern football must have
been possessed of second sight.
But the real change in college football
has been deeper than these externals The
outstanding fact about that pioneer game
is that it was played for the fun of it. And
today's game is played-well, to advertise
the school, to pay off the stadium bonds,
to satisfy the populace, to keep the coach's
job, or for any of half dozen other rea-
sons but not, decidedly not, for the fun of
it alone.
Quite contrast, isn't it?
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

break. since the United States was
as the only nation who'll
" disinterested and thoroughly
trustworthy. And the heart of the
world has broken.
1t would be interesting to know
what old Senator Lodge-dead
and gonc-who led the fight
against the League of Nations,
thinks about the matter now.
wherever he is, and what he would
give to undo what he did.
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bition law. BootIeggers and gam
blerS can do nothing without the
patronage of the people.
If law is a good thing, yet is
not Loyalty supported by The peo-
pie, it will never become effec-
tive until the people are educat-
ed to its value. SO if there is ever
to be a dimunition of the gam
bling evil and the liquor evil,
there must be persistent and in
telligent education of the people
as to the reason for curing those
evils.
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IlN anu putting
hundreds Of mil
lions of dollars
Y e arl y in the
pockets of the
operators in spite
of the law and
the more or less
effort of the law
enforcement Of
fcerS.
1t is difficult
to make effec-
t " c any law
with which the
people will not
cooperate. That
was the trouble
with the prohi-
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MINING GOLD: Harry Roberts


of Fletcher, seen Saturday for
the first time in many moons on
our strets, was asked the why OF
his semi-rctirement. He respond
ed that he was busy digging gold
on Boylston. Mr.. Roberts says he
is going to the mine daily and has
been for about two years and that
the mining company is making
progress and keeping seven men
employed regularly.
The gold mines of Bolyston
have had more publicity than
mined gold for many, many years,
but Mr.. Roberts states that the
enterprise now has more gold
than publicity, which is gratify-
ing,
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Friends of the defendant, after consid-
ering some of the prosecutions witnesses
in the Hines trial in New York, are COM
forting themselves with the old saying
Too many crooks spoil the soup.
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ONE OF CRIMINALLY
INSANE C0NVICTS
REMAINS AT LARGE

MONTREAL, Sept. 20. (UP) -
Only one of five criminally in
sane convicts who escaped from
Bordeaux jail Friday still was at
large Sunday night.
Police seized two of the men--
Jules Lagace, 80, and Joseph
Gauchen, 23-both armed in a
bush in the north end of the city
Saturday night. Two had been
captured shortly after the break.
Leon Tremblay, 25, of Quebec
City, was still at large. Police
said they were being run rag
ged" checking tips from citizens
that Tremblay was sen in all parts
of the city. They disclosed that
one man, who closely resembles
Tramblay and has an impeachment
in his speech, had been mistaken
for the escaped convict and
brought to police headquarters
five times yesterday. They final
ly decided to keep him at head cad,
quarters "for his own protection"