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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-14

| lunch. Haven't eaten yet. Keep
house, Babbs." She heard his step
going down the stairs.
Then she got up and banged
down the wide window.
$50 that's what you think of
weddings" The voice that spoke
was young and deep and amused.
Barbara turned swiftly. The
man who went with the voice was
tall and bronzed and his hair was
light and bright. His profile was
decidedly worth a second glance.
His eyes didn't release hers. He
was a stranger.
"I'm tired of keeping step to
Mendelssoln," Barbara answered,
and her voice was a little breath
less. II even type to rhythm.
But is there something can do
for you?"
He smiled again. '1s your edi-
tor around?"
"He's across the street at the
Brown Shanty eating lunch. He
never stays long" Inconsistency,
since her desk held a sheathe of
notes waiting to be typed, she
wished that this man would loiter.
"I'll catch him there, then. BY
the way. how do I contact girl
named Julia Kingsley? I just ar
rived and it seems am supposed
to find her."
"Oh, you're here for the we'd
| ding?" Julia was a bridesmaid.
One usher had been unable to come
for the pre-nuptial festivities.
This must be the man. Julia is
beautiful. She'll like you, and
you'll turn somersault for her."
Barbara knew her eyes were mock
ing and her voice little bitter.
When the man had gone, she put
another piece Of paper in her type
writer with such violence that the
whole alphabet trembled. Why had
he come to the Office, anyway?
What did he want?
Peter returned and the time for
the wedding drew near. Barbara
damned some copy paper in her
bag, pulled the leghorn hat over
her curls, and picked up her
gloves.
Across the church tall young
man with mischievious eyes was
escorting the bridegroom's friends
to their places. He did not
see Barbara until the wedding
party was standing before the
minister. Then recognition came
swiftly and he smiled. All of a
sudden the bridesmaids frocks
were a lovely pink, the minister
was bequeathing Paradise to two
people, and the music to which the
bridal party presently marched
away was a shining ribbon of
sound.
Barbara went to the reception
just long enough to wish the bride
happiness. When she passed the
tall usher with the rough, bright
hair, he said: You're staying for
the wedding supper, Of course?
I'll see you later"
She smiled. There was no real
reason for telling him that she was
not even invited to the wedding
supper. She would go back to the
office and work.
Ito Be COnfinuedl
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-14
Boys Are Determined
10 Have Baseball Team
Launch Sale of Season Tick cts To Raise Necessary
Funds to Commence Seas on; Financial Statement Of
Athletics Show Bal ance of $33.64

time, the net income for the seaso,
being 1927 45, while expense was Ill.,
ed at $3.50. This did not include ola
bills paid.
Basketball season Just c,oSoa
brought in $5351O through the gato a
while expense was placed at S473 90
including something like $3.50 for nbv
steal education equipment, accordinn
to Miller.
The schools finances are in oood
condition, and Miller desires to Ioon
them in that condition, ACCORDING n
his statement.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-14

Boys at Henderson high school
have launched a determined effort to
raise a $75 sum to finance baseball
during the spring, after Coach Bing
Miller decided against the sport for
the lack of necessary funds. Season
tickets are being offered for sale, and
are meeting with fair response.
Spring sports at the local school
will include golf, under Tommy Jenk-
iRs, soft ball for girls. sponsor to be
chosen, tennis under r. B. Harrison
and baseball under Miller if the boys
raise the funds, and track if they
fail.
Coach Miller has explained that the
athletic Golfers at the school contain
$33.64, after all debts for this and past
years have been wiped out. He feels
this amount too small with which
to start baseball.
Broken down by seasons, Miller
showed that 1886 football turned in
$95.50 to the treasury, but various
costs and sundry items amounted to
$1O9.72, plus a $50 debt from previous
years. Basketball seasons income
amounted to $249.55, while expense
was placed at 1921. and 1887 base
ball showed total income of $1376O,
while expense was placed at 5000.
Football during 1897 was the first big
money season for the school in some
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-14
Federal Reforms
BY Tax Penalties

.Continueo from Page One.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-03-14
France Will Resist
New Hitler Move

fccnt1r,,ed ,ro-- Page o. ~
The times-news., 1938-02-18
WHAT HAVE WE, PRAY?

Hardly day passes, with the search for govern
mental revenue as keen as it is, without some OF
the Washington statesmen advocating the lowering
of present income tax exemptions to the end that
thousands of small wage-earners, who are now
spared this direct method of taxation, may con-
tribute more to an apparently Unsuitable treasury
need. , So. . .-..... .
In the midst of these suggestions, however, the
Daily News would interrupt to ask the honorables
what under high heaven they think they. have in
operation now. .., .....,.... r,....... ....
Indeed the levy to which we refer is cuphemis-
ticaly termed social security Under provisions Of
the social security act American workers, down to
the most humble of them, have designated sum
deducted from their pay for a fixed and express
purpose, insurance against the ravages OF ola age
and the drain fo unemployment. But, as the pro-
gram is working out and despite the dennlte pre-
scrptions of the, law the workers pittances'
amounting to millions-even bllhons-ln ,the ag-
gregate, going into the general treasury 1pna
and are thus being used for regular governmental
functions and the nlvriad OF new services "hlcn
Washington is taking daily how much more
the heralded benefciaries are putting IN 1han they
take out, or would be needed for social security on
strict and as-you-go basis, IS atteStea oy the
widespread usage to which their dollars and their
pennies are already being put by a sorely-pressed
excheqper. .#E.
Now what was it the honorables were saying
about a tax ON low incomes; The only way we
would reach any lower levels would be to bring
the presently excluded agricultural workers and
domestcs under the euphemsm which is now serv
ing Uncle Sam so effectively as a practical income
levy.-Greensboro News.
The times-news., 1938-02-18
SCOUTS

According to the report presented to the ahnuaI
meeting of the council of the Boy Scouts ASSocla-
ton, the number of Scouts increased last year by
over 260, 900, and the world membership is fast
approaching 100000. The news is welcome; be-
tance of this movement to peacelOving nations and
communities.
1t is, in its chief aspect, of the best solutions
yet evolved of a difficult problem-the problem OF
how, in troubled world, to develop in the future
citizen the hardness and practical ability necessary
for the preservation of the state, without giving
his training mlitarstic bias. For this, by deduc-
ing him to regard war as natural or inevitable, or
perhaps even as glorious. is likely to result in
war-minded community, inimcal to universal prog
reSS
The argument in many quarters Is, OF course
that preservation can be guaranteed only by mass
education IN arms; but it would appear from MS
tory that "the resource, the versatility, and lhe
zeal that only freedom and self-reliance can teach
are better allies in the long than the mechanl-
cal efficiency springng from a narrow and rlgld
mllltariSm. The formed enured the rise of a Dutch
Republic, the latter contributed to the collapse of
Sparta. IF then," says Thucydides 1--WE prefer to
meet danger with light heart but without labori-
Gus training, and with courage gained by habit
and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the
gamers? -. And so our city is equally admirable
in peace and in war"
1t is this heart and this habit, combined with UNI
selfish ideals, that the Scout movement does so
much to inst into youth the world Over.-Chri-
tan Science Monitor
The times-news., 1938-02-18
NAZI FARM CONTROL"

German agriculture is literally one vast corpo-
ration-the National Food corporation. At its head
is the Minister of Agriculture, r. Walther Darrc,
man with absolute powers over all that concerns
farming. He controls almost every phase of the
farmers life. Hans can own his farm, but he can
not what he produces. Darre's supervisors
stalk the farmers fields squirting, estimating.
When the potatoes start to grow the supervisors
point to empty spots and order new planting
there. BY decree from Berlin, Farmer Hans is
ordered to SOW Is this year in flax. He hates
the stuff. Any other crop would pay him more
But German farmers learn not to argue with
decree. There's a concentration camp ready for
them if they do
"To every farm in Germany the government
men come to make sure that the amount of milk
the farmer delivers is precisely the amount he
draws from his COWS. For the farmer must bring
all his milk to a control station. He cannot retain
even pint to churn butter for the family The
skim milk he needs for his pigs he must buy back
The price he gets is fixed for everything he grows.
He brings all his pigs to the Nazi control station
and receives for them the government price.
"But many farmers are evading the rigid system.
Gangs or syndcates, operating strings of high-pow-
cred cars sell coveted foodstuffs widely and indi
vdual booteggers travel about on trains with food
concealed in false-bottomed trunks and suitcases.
The penalties are severe-fnes, prison, and in the
case of large-scale operators death, Yet the Min
lister of Agriculture estimates that one third Of all
food produced is sold surreptitiously
The owner of farm in Germany may at any
time have his place as operator taken over at the
instance of a supervisor and the new man can look
into his books, even his bank book take over his
bank account to defray expenses, occupy the own
er's beds, eat his food, and order the farmer and
his wife to render the service of hirelings Dis
Obedient, complaining or even discouraged farmers
may at any time be consigned to concentration
camps, until such time as they agree to go along"
Country Home Magazine. ,,,,s,.
The times-news., 1938-02-18
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
TIME To FIGHT BACK


Ben S. Williams president of the Retail Mer-
chants Bureau of the Greenville Chamber of COM
.merce, urges attendance upon the statewide pro-
test mass meeting in Columbia tomorrow with these
words:
Business is fighting for its life in South Caro-
lima. 1t is time business realized the fact and
it is time, business men, both small and large were
making themselves heard. We business men have
been taking it lying down.. It is time, for US to
fight"
1 Mr.. Williams refers, of course, to the states
Iinequitable tax systen-if it may be called sys-
tenl-and to the various proposals considered by
the legislature from time to time that are calculat
led TO injure business and industry, which means
they are calculated to injure also those who de-
pend for their living upon business and industry.
There has been good deal of that kind of thing,
the bill to force cotton mills to aircondtion their
plants before recent in point and it is time,
as Mr. Williams says, for business men to make
themselves heard =. -.
BUSINESS, labor and agriculture are tightly bound
into one economic system and none of the three
can suffer without adverse effect upon all.
I Sock businessP' may appear to some Legislators
as having popular ring but meyer forget that
.wnea We sock business we sock, salary -earners and
The times-news., 1938-02-18
ADJUDGED DEAD,
WOMAN LIVES YEARS

FREMONT, O., Feb. Is. (UP),
The death of Mrs. Lulu Codrith
Sturdcvant at the age Of G6
brought out the story of her
first death" 40 years before.
In 1898, Mrs. Sturdevant was
pronounced dead Of typhoid and
spinal fever. She was laid out in
a casket. ~
Shortly before the funeral
hour, her husband-the late w.
A. Sturdevant-noticed a move
ment of her body He hastily
pressed a spoon on her tongue
Ter normal breathing was re-
stored and she lived t otell her
story for. 30 years thereafter.
Mrs. Sturdevant, in telling her
experience, said she could hear
her husband and relatives talking
and mourning her death. But she
was powerless, unable to move,
speak or otherwise indicate she
was alive.
Shelived in fear of repetition
of the experience and shortly be-
fore her death insisted every pre-
caution be taken the second time
to prevent a recurrence of Iiv-'
ing death"
The times-news., 1938-02-18
BEHIND THE SCENES
I'M WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER.

MolCy would have 10 QUIT, was
enthusiastic over the Berlc ap-
pointmcnt. Hull SquclChcd q
Wclles proposal that Berlc become
a sort Of Super-presS relations
man on foreign affairs after State
Department correspondents had
waited on him TO make known
their sentiments about that.
Just the same although numcr-
Gus harpoons, javelins and dag
gers are being hopefully sharp
cned for use on Berle, this ener-
getic genius has q remarkable rec
ord which suggests that history
may come 10 know him as one of
the major statesmen Of his tine.
He does manage to put uGngs
over.
|. One of the few infant prodi-
GIGS who ever grew up to amount
10 anything, Berle is the son OF
an Ohio Congrcgationalist min.
iSter. He went through Harvard
in three years, graduated with
high honors at II, was out of
Harvard Law School at 81 and
not long afterward, as an army
lieutenant, was made Russian eX-
pert on the American delegation
to the Versailles peace conference.
He became a member of the
original Roosevelt Brain Trust
and was the man behind early
New Deal banking and railroad
policies. But he went away after
Jim Farley persuaded Roosevelt
that the administration should
back Holy Joe" Mckee on a sep
arate ticket in the 1888 New York
City aayoralty campaign against
Fiorello LaGuardia and the Tam
many candidate.
Berle worked to elect LaGua1-
dia and has been the most impor-
tant man behind the LaGuardia
scenes ever since. He turned his
brains over 10 LaGuardia and
made spectacular record in
dealing with New York's budget
and transit problems.
sfConvri"ht. l92&- NEA Sarvica. Ine.l
The times-news., 1938-02-18

VTASHlNGTON.-For better or
" worse, things arc likely TO be
different now that Adolf Augustus
Berle has been named assistant
secretary of state.
Berle will apply his brilliant
intellect to the disturbing Far
Eastern and European situations
and will be intimately involved
with efforts for an international
conference TO nurse peace. In
early New Deal days he was
ranked as Brain Truster No. 3,
preceded only by Ray Moley and
Rex Tugwell, and Roosevelt
again will use him for general
brain-truSting.
Upper Washington is divided
between those awed by the
Berle brain in operation and those
driven to fury by Berle's vocifer-
Gus hero-worShip Of A. A. Berle.
His best friends admit he prob
ably is the cockiest gent who ever
wore out pair of pants in a
Washington swivel chair and for
sheer ability to irritate large
numbers of other persons he ap-
pears to stand alone. The wide
spread conviction that Berle is
just as good as he says he is
doesn't make him any easier to
take.
But Berle was che personal
choice of his close friend Under
secretary Sumner Welles, who is
himself sufficiently domineering
and ramroddish to diSSatiSfy the
average taste. The two men
worked together at the Buenos
Aires conference and have COL
laborated on arranging the affairs
of such so-called republics as
Cuba and San Domingo. Now
they will function as a team in
the face of a world whose affairs
admittedly are messy.
Reports differ as to whether
Secretary Cordell Hull, who ad-
mireS Berle but remembers the
time he told Roosevelt that either
ne or the then Assistant Secretary
The times-news., 1938-02-18
WHEN UNITED STATES FIGHTS
IN THE AIR
by BRUCE CATION

The United States is at war. A fleet has
invaded the Atlantic coast and is standing
off hurting thousand-pound prOjectileS at
the seaboard cities.
From Cleveland, Dayton, Louisville. DeS
Moines and score of other inland towns
huge 'flying fortresses" are wheeled out
of protected hangers. Grew members who
act with trained precision take their places
and the huge ships soar coastward, lightly
laden, while over them buzz tiny pursuit
planes.
Converging on certain coastal points the
big bombers land and nose into under
ground "air stations" where they are load
ed with complete cargoes of bombs and
shells for small cannon each plane carries.
The fuel tanks are filled for extended
flight. The ships are wheeled out again.
Overhead the pursuit planes are dog-fght-
ing with enemy craft. A hurried bomb
misses its target and explodes harmlessly
several hundred yards from the under
ground hangers A riddled pursuit ship
goes into faltering spin, leaves trail of
oloSh S4IlOAC elo IiAS PAIOt OSl4lS OoI'
The laden bombers take off and the
darling hornets in the sky form in convoy
again. Wheeling over the Atlantic, the big
planes loose their cargoeS on the invading
fleet, which may or may not be already
under fire from American land batteries
and battleships. Their work done, the
bombers turn and fly back to their inland
bases where they are safe from invaders
by sea.
: That is the picture army experts have
just about decided upon for aircraft's part
in preparation for any invasion of these
shores. Generals don't all agree and ad-
mirals don't all agree-with each other or
among themselves, Some want many bomb
ers, at a cost of $3.50, 900 each. while others
favor building dozens of smaller ships with
the same money.
The one thing all agree upon is that air
craft is still an uncertain commodity in
wartime, despite the laboratory testing
grounds of Spain and China. The u. S. air
force will keep experimenting, continue
evaluating, hunting the best combination,
the deadliest formation. -' '.t
Meanwhile, an interested public pays the
. bill, not so much minding payment, but
hoping 1t will never have to cash in.
The times-news., 1938-02-18
HYBRID CORN: Hybrids have

not gained much hold in North
Carolina, though the State Agri-
cultural Experiment station start
ed such a program in 1886 and
r. w. Wood and Sons, ScCdsmcn,
are making tests at their expert
mcnt station near Wilmington.
The Woods feel confident in
recommending their hybrids, both
white and yellow, in this state,
and despite climate and altitude
of this section, think seed corn
grown in similar attitudes Of Fir-
ginia will be adapted to this sec
ton.
DR.. G. X. Middleton, state
agronomist in plant breeding,
State college, doesn't wax enthus-
iastic about imported hybrids. In
Il letter to the writer he stated:
"Wc started such program in
January. 1896. As yet we do not
have any hybridS to recommend
nor do we anticipate having such
for several years, as yet.
"Remarkablc increases in yield
arc being secured in the states
where the program has been in
effect for a number Of years, but
from what tests we have con-
Quoted we are not in a position
10 recommend that the hybrids
from other states be used in
place Of commercial varieties now
being grown in this state" said
Dr.. Middleton.
Farm Agent &. d. White sees
a goal of 200 bushels of corn
to the acre by use of hybrids
and has influenced a few farmers
to try such this year, but on a
small scale. ..
The times-news., 1938-02-18
DISEASES OF GOVERNMENT

A government Ike a person IS
subject to disease. AS the citizen
guards himself against disease, so
should the citizcnry guard their
government against disease.
Greed for money, ambition for
power, thirst for fame, prejudice,
Intolerance, hatred are the prin-
cipal diseases of government.
The times-news., 1938-02-18
FAMED WASHINGTON
PORTRAIT DUE FOR
RESTORATION WORK

LEXINGTON, Va, Feb. 19.-
(UP)-Rcnovation Of paintings in
the Lee Chapel of Washington and
Lee university is nearing compile
tim.
The famous and priceless por-
traits Of George Washington and
Of Lafayette. and the Gilbert
Stuart painting of Washington al
ready have been completed, along
with nine others Of the l3 COM
prising the collection.
The paintings, hung on the rear
wall Of the chapel, surround an
arch through which may be seen
Valentines recumbent statue Of
General Robert Z. Lee, who was
president of Washington and Lee
for five years following the Civil
war and who is buried in the
chapel
IN BRITISH UNIFORM
FIanking the arch are two life
sized portraits. the Pcalc painting
of Washington and the Pine por-
trait of Lee. The Peale Washing
ton is the only picture of the first
president in a British uniform. He
is shown in the uniform of a col
onial colonel. The picture was pre-
scntcd to the university by G. W.
Gusts Lee. son of Robert f. Lee
and president of the school after
his fathers death.
An offer of $150,O0O for the
painting recently was refused BY
the university.
General Lee. portrayed in his
Confederate uniform by Pine,
wears a red sash given to him by
J +. i. Stuart, the cavalry leader.
SECOND STUART CANVAS
Another highly valued portrait
in the collection is the co-original
bv Gilbert Stuart. painted by the
artist from his own original of
George Washington. 1t is cStlmat-
cd to be worth 100000.
The picture Of General Lafay-
The times-news., 1938-02-18
THE UNREPRESENTED
PEOPLE

This morning my grocer asked
me if | would be willing to sign
a petition to the city council
which the grocerS are circulating
to deprive our city of its curb
market. | said no-that | favored
a curb market.
And | thought how voiccless
the people are. There is always
some group working to get the
advantage of the people, but usu-
ally no group working to get the
advantage for the people.
There should be citizcps
council in every community to
The times-news., 1938-02-18
RHYTHMIC RACKET

When there is such unlimited
wealth of music available why do
so many players play and singers
sing musical trash! One is re-
minded of necklaces Of oyster
shells instead of pearls.
The times-news., 1938-02-18
HEAVY POULTRY SHIP

MENTS: G. 7. Thompson and
son, local produce dealers, report
heavy poultry shipments from
Hendersonvillc this winter. This
firm has also gathered poultry
for the New York market from
several points in South Carolina.
The times-news., 1938-02-18

7 NN VlN u CII 2 IIIIII
the sum-
"What ailS the
fool? Gang he
use his eyes ~
BeCa u sc W e
see a thing is no
proof it is true!
The times-news., 1938-02-18
By Noah Hollowch

DROP PREDICTED: There's
feeling in the air and whisper
ing campaign that fertilizer prices
are in for an immediate drop,
even before buying starts it at
any appreciable rate.
The times-news., 1938-02-18
HE WANTS
TO KNOW

A fore i g n G Z
over here trying
to learn ur,hn-
guaGe asks how
it happens that
all the presiding
officers of our
moo n q, = nl,n
The times-news., 1938-02-18
CAT, SPARROW HAWK
ARE JAIL COMRADES

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. IS
CUP).-Add to the list of un-
usual friends Of the animal
world:
A Persian cat an da sparrow
hawk at the city Jail here arc the
best friends. The cat--a pet
of Mrs. Mary Brown, jail matron
found the sparrow hawk fitting
along the Jail floor with broken
wing, but refused to make a
meal of it. They now share the
same quarters at the Jail.
British retail shops had a shop
lifting loss of two and a half mil
lion
The times-news., 1938-02-18

named "Mr. Chemmon."
If the same Cuestioner should
wish to know what a "forn Of
flee" is, he should be informed
that it is what certain radio COM
mentators say when they mean
foreign office"
The times-news., 1938-02-18
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1885,
BIBLE THOUGHT
TAKEN or LEFT?

"one shall be TAKEN and the other shall De
LEFT" Q.uke 17:S4)
We will not seek now to decide particularly
whether these words refer to Israel or otherwise
They certainly teach a day of sudden and awful
separation Close companions are to be torn apart
What brings joy to one will bring sorrow to the
other. SAVED or UNSAVED will be the only dis
tinction. No rank influence will count tor any
thing.
Dear reader, do YOU expect to be taken or left?
Elizabeth Annable Needham.
The times-news., 1938-02-18

Nearly $4,000 accordions ana eoneertnas were
sbipped from Germany to the United States last
year. ...
The times-news., 1938-02-18

"a The most common defect in the
eyesight of American school chill
dren is farsightedness; astigma-
tishi, second.
The times-news., 1938-02-18
IVES HAS HIVES

"It's about Mr.. Hives, sir"
What about Mr.. Ivcs?"
"'E as the ives, sir"