The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-13
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
rHEiHIGH COST OF WITHDRAWING

THE HIGH COST OF WITHDRAWING
Every American worth his salt wants to see the
nation restored to the full Ygor of economic health
By every rating, business activity is the country
first need.
Business men have their work cut out for them;
government has job to do. Both must pull to-
gether for better times.
Unfortunately, craftsmanship too frequently
gives way to politics When politics is played, poll
ties must be paid.
The frank politician will tell you that the way
to hold the customers" is to keep tissue" alive
and to have another ready in case the current one
becomes stale A political issue involves the cor
recton of condition supposed to be hurtful to the
greatest number Of voters, the successful pleading
of ones remedy to bring him place and preferment
Issues cover wide feld-for example, the cost of
khowatt, price PARTIES, the sixty faailies, Wall
Street, wage bondage ..-.
Politics feels it must continually hunt for new
witches, must keep the cauldron boiling The last
witch of the desperate ruler, as every student of
history knows, is a foreign "aggressor," with war
the remedy.
The productive powers of the people were never
so taxed as now in matchmaking, witeh-pOlcing
and witch-hanging =
Politics submits today the biggest bill rem
covets so many alleged remedies of newly found
witcheraft that it constitutes completely con-
cept Of the federal authority. More than 100 new
boards, commissions bureaus, authorities and cor
porations have been set up since the beginning of
the depression and indicate, with the huge sums
the people have provided for implementing them,
the number of witches our restless medicine-mak-
ers have discovered .-
he nity r Wash bocn cd itS
role of law-maker, arbiter and protector to pro-
team character of indugent father. The sovereign
people are its wards, to be protected against all
the ills that human flesh is heir to. Its preserip-
tons for a myriad maladies run the gamut from
minor regulation of their affairs through superyi-
sion, control, and out-and-out competition with
them. And the end is not yet. Despite the "de-
plorable conditions found so far in practically
every activity of American life, valiant hunt
ers have thousand witches in reserve ready to be
trotted out demanding more federal actiyities-
and expense. b.
y Expense? All, there's real enemy of the pub
lie, neither hobgoblin nor Halloween pumpkin
The expense Of policing the citizen IS charge
against his labor, although he seldom realizes it.
The witch doctors provide no free shows, no boun-
ties, subsidies, services aids, no publica-
TONS no guidance, no culture, without its price.
The price tag is hidden, but it is there. The bill
comes home directly and indirectly to every man,
woman and child whose lot is cast in this land.
As sure as death is the tax money to keep our
growing government personnel in the style to which
it is becoming aeeustemed-a style to which no
real citizen aspires and which none can afford.
This money represents work, SIS paid for in the
sweat of every man who labors." 1t comes from
earnings which alone can provide useful job to
the man out of work, and promotion in position
and pay to those now employed
The levy upon this fund which represents sacri-
fee and savings can be made for jobs to produce
electric coasters and automobiles or it can be made
for more and bigger witch-hunting. The decision is
with the millions of men and women who work and
and save. Will they stop dancing to political
swing music long enough to consider th9ughtfply
and decide whether they want more of the material
convenienees and luxuries of life or more of the
extravagant hunting and policing that consumes
their hard-won substance in chasing political phan-
toms? \ = @''
A country famed the world over for the solid
reality of its contributions to the weH-being of
.Inankind is incredibly out of character in fitting
with shadows, Broomsticks out of fashion as
saddles for witches, They can be put to much bet
ter use in cleaning political attics of mental cob
webs.-Merle Thorpe in Nations Business.