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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-05-18
Beulah's Last Gay Party
Detailed at Langdon Trial
Mixed Bootleg Gin
And WhiSkey at
Whoopee Club
BY CARROLL PEEKE

Limerick, the "wtoopee girl" ever
attended were revealed today by
the first witnesses for the Govern
ment in the trial Of Robert F.
Langdon, former District police
man, charged with the murder OF
the girl more than seven years ago
william Paddy, the first witness
called. The youth who took Beulah
to the party q few hours before
she was shot to death early on the
morning Of the last day Of 1890
gave the details Of the dance OF
the jazz era.
"WHOOPEE" BENEFIT
The party, given for the benefit
Of the "sky High Whoopee Club, .
was held in Capitol Heights. Nd,
with Vernon Limerick. brother d
the slain girl, in charge.
Paddy related how their little
party of four drank q pint of
whiskey and q pint Of gin during
the dance In those socalled "dry"
days.
Beulah was in excellent spirits
when he left her about lao that
morning, sitting on the day bed In
the little house at 10 Nineteenth
Street. Southeast, where a few
hours later she was found shot
to death. ,4
william Reed, who lived in the
house with Beulah and her
brother. Vernon, was also called
as q witness for the Government.
PRETENDED MARRIAGE
He admitted that he had
described Beulah as his wife in
going to look at another house
where the trio planned to move
the very day she was murdered.
Reed denied he was in love with
the girl. He said they had gone
together for several months and
then had broken off. There was
no falling out between them, he
said, and they remained good
friends.
The trio had moved into the
Nineteenth Street house on NO
vember /.
Reed said that he and Vernon
had both agreed to move to a
place on Eleventh Street Northeast
but gave no reason for making
the move.
In his opening statement to the
jury yesterday, Assistant U. s. At
torney John J. Wilson asserted
that he would show the move was
being made because Langdon was
bothering Beulah. Reed, today,
however, said he did not remem-
Der whether it was Vernon or him.
self who had first suggested NOV
ing.
Under croSSexamination Paddy
ICnntinned IN Page &. Col. Al
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-12
HORSE AND BUGGY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

is all right when the term refers
to making conditions wholesome !;
but there are many things claSSed
under the higher standard of liv-
ing which are not necessary. They
are fine, perhaps, if you can al
ford them, but they won't make
you any happier; on the contrary,
they will make you miserable II
you get them when you have no
business with them or if you fret
because you cannot get them.
LuXurieS are not necessarily good
for us. In fact, sometimes it IS
the sitter going that brings out
the best in us. Take us, by and
large, with all our improved
schemes of living and we are not
as contented a people as were our
forefathers. That's the answer.
Don't be fooled or dissatisfied
by the talk of "'horse and buggy
DAYS" In some respects those
days were superior to these days;
for those were days of individual
energy, initiative, thrift and
frugality. These qualities never
hurt anybody. On the contrary
they have brought persons and
nations both peace and plenty.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
EXIT MILL VILLAGE

The proposal of A. Alex Shuford, of the Shuford
Mills here to dispose of the companys mill villages
continues to arouse favorable newspaper comment
Several editors throughout North Carolina and
surrounding states have praised the move. Today
the Winston-Salem Journal had the following to
say in commencing the recently published state
ment of the Hickory manufacturers
"The mill village has outlived its usefulness IN
a majority of instances 1t was once an imperative
necessity to the southern textile industry which
found in it the only way of assembling enough
workers in close proximity to the mills to assure
steady and profitable operation, owing to the alb
sence of large populated communities IN the South
THE village had other virtues and 1t should be
said to the credit of the corporation landlords that
they often provided better housing for the noun
tain and farm people turned textile workers than
the latter would have been able to provide for
themselves
"But not the least Of the vices of the village
system is that it encourages one of the trends that
the mill owners themselves would like to curb
constant migration of workers with its attendant
inefficiency and expense. The system also fosters
responsibility, thriftlessneSs and a lack OF that
ambition which encourages good workmanship.
THE better workers and their families resist the
temptation to float in the arms of paternalsm, ana
prove their worth both as good workers and good
citizens, but where there is native inclination
toward drifting the village system accelerates the
pace in that direction
"By making it possible for his workers to buy
homes at fair prices, Mr.. Shuford is fostering the
development of a settled responsible and
more efficient class of workers for his mills. The
home owner is bound more firmly to one commun-
ity He is no rolling stone And the contacts of
long-contnued life in one community tend to
strengthen and steady his character. His actions
are not governed by the thought that tomorrow
III be in some other town, so what difference does
it make? And the man who owns home feels that
he has greater stake in the community than his
work. He becomes member of the familp.
Naturally, the mill companies cannot abolish
the villages overnight. 1t will take years to COM
plete the transfer of company houses to indepen-
dent worker owners. But the leaven is working.
And undoubtedly it is for the best interest of all
concerned-Hickory Record.
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the horse and buggy is not doing
him a kindness. The horse on the
farm has his place which no ma
chinery can fill. The horse is a
bulwark of independence for the
farmer and should not be talked
down. The horse can do things
and go places on the farm which
no machine can do and go. 1t is
not necessary to stop work every
now and then and hotfoot it to
town to buy a spare part for
horse-nor does he have to be
backed up to filling station ev-
cry so often. The farmer can
grow his own fuel for his horse.
He does not have to grow some
thing for which he takes whatever
some middleman chooses to give
him, then pay with it for gasoline
and oil whatever some trust
chooses to charge him. And with
a buggy behind him, the horse is
still the most economical means
of transportation. A poor man
has no more business with an au-
tomobile than he has with cham
pagne thirst and a caviar appe-
tite.
The higher standard of living
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-12
| WILL LIVE

! yiu live for God who made me,
For the Saviour who dled ior
my sin;
| will praise Him for the great
Holy Spirit
Who keeps the light shining
within.
| VIII live to tell others of Jesus,
Though my place in His service
be small;
/ will pray that He use each al
Fiction
TO show His grace is sufficient
for all.
| will live and | will walk with my
Saviour.
Each day He whispers His love I;
When the shadows Of life gather
round ne,
lie smiles through the heavens
above.
! will live and my faith will not
waEer;
LIES hcartaches He will help
me endure.
If for me- the great gate lie
opens,
Dying grace He will give me,
I'm sure.
Miss Dahloncga {. Brock.
February i, 1888.
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TAX TRIBULATIONS

Payment of taxes is enough of burden in itself
but the many ramifcations involved IN taxes and
tax reports cause many man countless night
mares Read what a small Mississippi druggist
wrote to Senator Bilbo a few days ago:
I have business partner. We own and operate
two little drug stores in this town, and we are re-
CURED to make out one hundred and four reports
to our state and federal governments, eighty of
which cost us money. / am submitting list below
showing the ifty-two reports each store must make
each year:
Twelve monthly state sales-tax reports.
One annual state sales-taX report.
Twelve ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tax reports.
Two semi-annual compensaton-tax reports.
One annual report for pharmacy permit.
One annual report for a sales-tax license.
Two partnership income-tax reports.
One chain-store tax report
That is thirty-two going to state authorities, and
here is the list of twenty we must send to the fed
eral government:
Twelve sOcial-security tax reports.
Four quarterly social-security tax reports
Two partnership ncome-tax reports
One narcotic report
One federal unemployment-tax report.
| am appealing to you to use your influence to
get this situation improved At least eighty of these
one hundred and four reports may be eliminated
in my opinion, without deprivng the authorities of
any information whatever. l would like to know
how you feel about it.
The troubles of the Mississippi druggist are not
peculiar to him to his state. They are being
suffered by men, small business men, all over the
United States. The same complaint though varied
as to the exact number of reports, is being made
in every town and city in the country. The amount
of time required to fill out all these reports to say
nothing of the various taxes involved is enormous
and makes every man in business wish he was not
in business. As the old man of Irwin Cobb's story
said This thing has become plumb ridiculous. -
Rock Hill g. c. Herald.
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Saluda Book Club
Conducts Session

SALUDA, Feb. ~. (SpeciaD-
The Saluda Book club met on
Tuesday at the residence of Mrs.
f. NJ. Bostick. Miss Rosa NJ. Box
gave a discussion on Embargo
and Boycott" Miss Bessie SOnncr
read paper prepared by Mrs. 0.
V. Armstrong and herself, on the
makers of violins and violinists
and Leopold Auer, teacher Of viO
lin. 1t was decided by the club
members to invite Dir. Richard D.
Stone Of Converse college, Spar
tanburg, S. c.. to speak before
the club on February %.
A very charming luncheon was
given by Mrs. Eliza HarrisS on
Thursday. The guests were Mrs.
o. V. Armstrong, Miss Disosway
and Miss Blanch Hamilton, Of the
Lucky Tavern, and Mrs. j. NJ.
Thomas.
The friends of the Rev. o. V.
Armstrong will be sorry to hear
that he met with a very painful
accident on Thursday, when his
head was injured by nail. In
spite of the accident he and Mrs.
Armstrong left by motor Thursday
for Charlotte, on a trip they had
already planned.
| Mr.. o. L. Burnett and family
have moved to Spartanburg on ac-
count of his i'll health.
Mr.. K. J. Davis has returned toI
Saluda. He was called away someI
weeks ago to attend the funeral
Of his sister.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
by RODNEY BUTCHER

Neutrality-suspicious. again a
w Washington correspondent
takes typewriter in hand-instead
Of throwing it out the window
and addresses himself to the time
worn but persistently interesting
question:
"Where do we 60 from here?"
After a recent check on the
White House, Congress and Bust
ness one is tempted to answer:
"We don't. We just sit"
The alacrity with which Roose-
welt, Congress and industry have
adopted labor's sitdown strike
technique is bound to impress the
serious-minded as we'll as those
who regard life as a comic strip.
The plain fact is that they all have
lost-or mislaid-their self-start-
srS. as
Business, as everyone knows,
blames the, administration and
its uncertainty as to government
intentions. More or less con-
versely, Roosevelt-who to date
has no definite recovery" plan
whatever-is waiting to see what
business is going to do in the way
Of activity. (He is optimistic, as
usually
Congress is definitely conserva.
live insofar as the New Deal i:
concerned, and prefers d DIN 6
nothing rather than obey the
President.
Anyone who wants to attemp
the impossible of getting a clear
picture of the situation must ap'
preciate this fundamental fact
Roosevelt is not now strong enough
to put his program through Con
gress Except perhaps for certain
items badly tattered) and the con
gressional opposition, on the othe
hand, isn't strong enough to enac
anything which is anathema t
the President.
This, if one interprets bot
Noah Webster and current event
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correctly, means stalematc. 1t
may also be said, in some cases,
to mean compromise.
But predictions as to the de-
tails of any forthcoming COM
promise are so hazardous that the
Roosevelt Congress stalemate be-
comes prime causative factor IN
the uncertainty to which nearly
all hands vehemently object.
There will certainly be new
farm act and new tax law and
very likely some wage-hour and
reorganization legislation. But
Roosevelt doesn't know and Con-
gress doesn't know and Business
doesn't know what any of them
will be like in final form.
Roosevelt's hops, skips and
Jumps between anti-monopoly
crusade, cooperation with business
a la Richberg and numerous other
conflicting theories are gummy
enough by themselves.
But when you consider that
practically anything he is likely
to suggest has at least a $3.50
chance of being stymied on Cap
itol Hill, it appears that even If
he made up his mind there would
be no prompt end to "uncer-
tainty."
For instance, his highly praise
worthy, entirely innocuous and
probably not very important bill
to stimulate house buil din G
skinned through the Senate by
only a two-vote margin.
The President might straighten
things out by captivating COM
pletely to his conservative advi-
sers and critics, including southern
members of Congress, or they
might straighten things out by
captivating to him.
Either possibility seems remote.
, Roosevelt feels that his opponents
have" presented no bright new
| ideas and vice versa.
(CoDYright. 1893. NEA Service. mol
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-12
AN ARCHAIC SYSTEM

Detective Chief Lttlejohn's passage with the
justice of peace at Hendersonville once more points
the evil of the fee system under which all justices
of the peace, most deputy sheriffs and many con-
stables and turkeys operate. 8. $50
The system had its origin in time when the
office of Justice of the peace was an honor only
inferior to that of real judge and went to persons
who were not dependent upon it for living. But
in our time the state has come to swarm with not
less than ten thousand justices of the peace, and
with an even vaster army of deputies and other
small police fry, nearly all of them making their
living by the practice of justice as a trade They
are not necessarily bad men, but most OF them are
simple men--some of the justices of the peace be-
ing almost completely iliterate. And they are d-
rsctly and naturally interested in multiplying their
fees.
The result is that many entirely useless arrests
are made that traffic traps are set up and turned
into money-machines, that justice is made into
profitable farce, and that cities like Charlotte,
which do not pay fees, find it extremely difficult
to get rural cooperation in the apprehension of
criminals. ...
A great part of these people are superfluous for
the ends Of law enforcement and their offices
ought to be abolished. The rest ought to be put
on flat salary basis, under the strictest super
! Observation-Disclosures News.
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GROOMING ENVOY

SAN FRANCISCO. (UP)-Bing
Crosby has been appointed Groom
ing ambassador" at large for the
1889 Golden Gate and Intelna-
tional Exposition. He is expected
to be a sort of masculine Lorelei
who will draw exposition visitors
away from the New York Worlds
Fair
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p | a c @ S w n O
should know bet
ter refer dispar-
agingly to 1.-The
horse and buggy
days"
The bald truth
is that the horse
and buggy days
were the COM
mon sense days
-particul a L | Y
for the farmer
and they still
are.
Anybody who
influenc e t h e
farmer to be dis
contented vi t h
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FINDS HE'S IN REVERSE

TURLOCK, Cal. (UP)-An APP
pendectomy on Zerl KlaprOth, a
19-year-old farm youth, revealed
the fact that his internal organs
are in reverse, or what is known
in medical science as a "milror
picture" The boy enjoys the best
of health and suffers no i'll effects
from this reversal
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-12

The adjective phrase "horse
and buggy is being used quite
commonly to illustrate that which
is outmodcd. Persons III high
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-12
IT'S RHETORIC, BUT 1T ISN'T REALISM

(By BRUCE CATION

Germany and Russia spend good deal
of their time and energy these days just
sitting and breathing fire and birthstone at
one another. It's a dull day when Hitler
fails to come out in his newspapers with
a violent denunciation of the Communist
Menace And Stain is just as regular and
just as scathing in his references to the
Menace of Fascism.
This would not be so important except
that both are constantly trying to get peo-
pie in foreign countries to back them up.
Hitler is always trying to align people OF
other nations with him in his self-appoint-
ed crusade against the Communist Menace.
And Stain, through his ievotees in other
countries, tom-toms away at the idea that
the world must back him against Fascism
by boycotts if not by more strenuous means.
Lots of people pay attention to these gen.
tlemen. Their vendetta is upsetting the
world.
But there is childish saying that hand
some is as handsome does. And, while
they fume against each other, what do
these handsome gentlemen do?
Well, sir, you would hardly believe it,
but underneath the screen of the world
barrage, they just get down to business and
trade with one another to beat the band.
Year after year Russia buys more goods
from Germany than from any other coun-
try She pays for these goods with nice,
fresh, new-mined Russian gold. That is
mighty nice for Herr Hitler, who needs
that trade balance and that gold very
badly.
In short, Stain hates Fascism (and urges
that you hate it, tool. But he is happy to
give it the gold it needs in exchange for
the machinery he needs. '"
2 And Hitler foams at the mouth at the
very mention of Communism land urges
that you foam, too). But he is very happy
10 have the Russian gold, and doesn't hest
tate to strengthen Communism by sending
1t his nice maehinery-at profit.
Russia needs goods. Where does she go
for them? Well, sir, she goes right where
the yeriest economic royalist would go
where they are cheapest The Living Age
Magazine picks up this plaintive wall from
Labour, British trade organ:
F." 'The Soviet buys in the cheapest market,
regardless of the conditions which make it
possible for that market to be cheapest"
You see, radicals have sold British labor
quite bill of anti-Hitler goods, and this
wall IS very heartfelt indeed.
BY the way, while democratic" coun-
tries were sold the idea of a boycott on oil
to restrain Italy from the Ethiopian adven-
tare, who was it that sold oil to Italy? None
other than our old breathing fire against
imperialism and Fascism' Stain! Bust
ness, as the hated capitalists say, is bust
ness '5s 'r...- ''s' ,
The moral? Just this: the next time
somebody asks you to swear to an undying
vendetta against Fascisn1' Germany and
Communist Russia, just ask yourself How
many other hands are holding this bag,
and whose hands?" a.
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SPEAKS ONLY FRENCH

LOS ANGELES. tUP)-At thu
Maison Franchise, a girls dorml
tory on the campus of the Uni
versity of California here, the y
inmates speak only French.
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There is tremendous power IN the little mono
SYLLABLE mo- when it is spoken resoiutely ana
courageously. But it is just as important 10 iearn
to say Eyes"
Life is not all resistance and defence Whatever
is wrong we must meet with firm, strong, uncom-
promising NO. but whatever IS right we should
welcome into our life with hearty, cheerful y es'
j R. Miller, ID.
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PAIN IN THE NECK: There is
nothing so painful to human pride
as being Intentionally ignored or
overlooked. 1t is difficult enough
to patch up unintcntional deli
UuCncCS.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-12

Western nations aren't avoiding war
with Japan, but merely postponing it. A
conquering race doesn't stop till somebody
stops it.
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5 An investigator found nobody able to
define Faseism correctly. The one who
came nearest was a woman who thought
it some kind of snake,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-12

Don't worry about slack business. The
government will do enough spending to
make 1t pick up just before the next elee-
ton. ......
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Ninety-eight per cent of Chile
1887 ilnelono croprwas shipped t
Amertca! DrE cAVfgl9. zoe. 'a.
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FOOLISH THINGS: Yes, the

FOOLISH THINGS: Yes, the
robin is here. 1t is about as crazy
as the plants which are trying to
bloom and the fruit trees with
their large, greatly swollen buds
They seem not to give heed to
Joe Hollingsworth's warning in
December that there would be a
cold spell in January and another
in February, which seems to be
waiting fulfillment. We are bank
ing on Mr.. Hollingsworth's pre-
diction, which he gets from a
different source than all that ad-
vice on "Zodiacal Influences on
Dental Surgery" which has too
many followers to hit the funny
bones of dentists just right at all
times and seasons. They have
lots of patients who want dental
performances on certain phases
of the moon.
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Butchers plan a .nation-wide promotion campaign.
The decline in meat sales has them in stew, -
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GOT THE KUDZU: Our old

GOT TIE KUDLU: Our Old
friend, w. S. Green, down at
Tryon, has gone plumb Kudzu--
not cuccoo, unless on the subject
of Kudzu, which he is commercial
ling by selling plants. He walks
around in it nearly waist deep
after a planting of only 65 days
and sends along a picture of such
with five pages of facts about the
great vine. To all its virtues as
outlined by Mr.. Green, we would
add that it is the thickest and
fastest growing shade vine and
porch screen we ever enjoyed.
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BIBLE THOUGHT
YES AND NO

He that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven
with the wind and tossed. (James l.6)
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tE-a - rsEr
The Washington times., 1938-10-27
POSTAL STRIKE
DECISION SPED

G.N.SO Wage-hour administra-
ton heads breathed . sigh Of re-
lief over settlement Of the Postal
Telegraph strike today, and called
for all possible speed in the legal
departments job Of rendering q
decision on PoStalS plea for ex-
emption of messenger boys.
The strike came as q surprise
to wage-hour chiefs, and concern
was evinced when telegraph opera
tors in several Midwestern cities
quit their jobs at the orders Of
Commercial TelegrapherS Union
Head Frank Powers.
Today, Paul Sifton. deputy ad.
ministrator, said he had hoped
the Postal, instead Of discharging
messenger boys as it did. would
carry them on a Is cents an hour
minimum until a decision was
forthcoming in PoStal's exemption
plea.
Trouble in the communications
field came as attorneys for the
wage-hour division directed repre-
SentativeS Of the pecan-shelline
industry to submit legal briefs in
their pleas for exemption from the
| law.