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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-26

Arrest of 73 persons, many
prominent in New Mexico poll
tics. and government, was or
dered by U. S. Circuit Judge
Colin Neblett, above, OF Santa
Fe following grand jury indict-
ments on charges of diversion Of
WPA funds and labor, and con-
spiracy to violate the WPA ap-
preparations code. Judge Neb-
let's comment: at was common
runor that graft had been 60
ing on for some time.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-26
LITTLE RIVER ROAD

LITTLE RIVER ROAD, Oct. 26.
Mr.. and Mrs. Graeme Cornell
visited Mrs. Bud Merrell at
Shaws Creek last Sunday. .
P. C. McDuffey is building a
caretaker's cottage on his place
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luke Martin and
Ed Allison from South Carolina
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Ship
man last Sunday.
Mrs. Ernest Bane spent Mon
day with Mrs. Matte Holdings
worth, who is seriously i'll at Pat
ton Memorial hospital.
Jim Jones of Flat Rock was III
this section on business Tuesday.
Harley Gibbs of Dana called on
H. V. Caps recently.
Mrs. Emma Bridges was a re-
cent guest of Mrs. Emma Lock-
ably. ..... .
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North Blue Ridge

NORTH BLUE RIDGE, Oct. 26.
Mrs. J. X. Hill and sister, Miss
Allie Revis, returned last Sunday
from very delightful trip to Orr
landO and other points in Florida.
Juluian Hyder and Claude VIII
hams left last Thursday to enter
the CCC camp at Murphy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Allen were
supper guests Thursday evening
If Mrs. Raymond Hill and daugh-
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tude of officials and public opin-
ion has stiffened with regard both
to domestic Fascism and Ger
many.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-26
supervised parole. "

supervised parole"
Humans militant defense OF
parole was inspired, he said. pc
cause of the damage flowing from
outrageous, lurid articles and car
ICONS representing parole boards
as tools of INSCRIPTIONS pollti-
clans, as graftcrs unlocking prison
door sto loose upon good citizens
hordes Of convicted gunner, KID
napers and gangsters of every de-
scription."
The veteran prison adminlstra.,
tor conceded that criticism OF
parole may be justified in other
states, but asserted that Wiscon-
SINS system has been free from
any graft or corruption. Not an
parole systems, he said, are ad-
ministered as are those of Wiscon-
sin. New York, New Jersey, Min,
nesota and a few other states ana
the federal system.
During his Is years service
with the Wisconsin control board,
Rannan said no Wisconsin gov
ernor ever requested that any
prisoner be paroled. He empha-
sized that parole is not a elem
ency or legal right, but a treat
ment technique, procedure for
the release of a prisoner before
the expiration Of his scntnce." 1t
is grantd only to those who are
deemed worthy Of an opportunity
to rc-establish themselves IN
normal life prior to the end OF
their prison terms"
An electric stunning device fol
tho cln,,nhtn, &C MING IL NOW ln
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-26
Notes BETTER
PAROLE Use
Expert Says Many Attacks
on System are Gun
warranted"

MADISON. Wis, Oct. &c. (UP)
Attacks on the system of parole
in prison administration often are (.
.nunwarranted and unjustifiabie'
according to John ]. Hannah 10,
l3 years president Of the ooara
supervising Wisconsln's penal ana
charitable institutions. .,o
Hannah, director OF ihe
Amcr;can Prison association, be-
Iieves that the parole system, par
ticuIarly as practiced in Wlsc1n-
sin. is the "most useful, most hue
name. and highly social method OF
nlacing back in free society those
Who have served prison terms.
A one-time constant associate
and advisor to the late U. S. SEN
alto Robert NJ. LaFollette, Sr.,
Hannah is not only a vigorous
champion ia parole system un-
der strict supervision, but Of a
program for intelligent treatment
and training of prisoners for re-
turn to society.
PRISONS NOT SOLELY
TO. PUNISH
"Prisons must do something
other htan punish and deprive
men of liberty" he declared. of
prison programs are to be made
solely to care for the 6 to 8 per-
cent who never come out of those
institutions, and ignore the need
of the more than 80 percent who
are to return to society, it would
be truly a case of the tail wagging
the dog"
Much of the criticism of parole,
Hannah believes, comes because
of "lack Of accurate information
by those who make it, or is in
SHRED by persons who for undis-
closed reasons want to revive the
use in penology of the philosophy
of an eye for an eye"
"In their ignorance they would
make these institutions real breed
ing places of crime. They would
strike from the hands of prison
administrators the most effective
devices of rehabilitation, such as
produce labor and release under
tude of officials and public opin-
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GRAPEVINE GROWS 3 KINDS

GAINESVILLE, Ohio. (UP) -
Three kinds of grapes on one vine
were discovered on the farm of
Jack Sommerville. Red, white and
blue grapes--Niagaras, Concords
and Agawams--were found grow
ing side by side.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-26

An electric stunning device for
the slaughter of pigs is now IN
use in Budapest, Hungary.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-26
NEWSMAN TAUGHT -,,,

CLEVELAND. o, I'D
G. Lavelle, 55-ycar-oJd w
perman who died here r ~~,s
had a well-dcvcIopcd SOW, ,''''
thrift. He invariably r,a
every new father in the c si,%h'''
a savings account book mi, ~. Fo0
in the name of the new art. Q
he himself having dcposi,o,I aI !
first dollar. I
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and Mrs. Joe Marshall of Dana
and is employed at present with
the Grey Hosiery mill in Hender-
sonville. They will make their
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall
for a while.
The Washington times., 1938-04-09
Shot in the Arm Approved

THE widespread and warm response to the Presidents
proposal to spend another billion and half to COM
bat the recession encourages us to think Congress may
approve We hope so, anyway.
The Administration says it can get things going by
early fall if Congress will give the green light
to this plan for extension of Federal loans to cities
5Oyear non-inerest basis We hope lot of slum clear
ance, public improvement and housing projects be
underway that At all events they ought to be
humming by 1889.
Which reminds of the likelihood that 1889 should
be good year-at least in New York city, and perhaps
throughout the country.
New York city will have two prosperity stimulants
Ch;cooo Foir working in that There will be the
public works activity and there will be
Got ReSULtS the Worlds Fair.
Properly managed-and it to be under good
agement up to now-the Worlds Fair should be great
help The Chicago Worlds Fair Century of Progress)
in 193334 cruched Chicago through the end of The De-
preston which hit Chicago harder than it hit New
York.
Though Chicago's fair had to be needed with
100000 of Federal money to help it into its second
summer it eventually paid off its bondholders in full
with interest, and showed profit of 100000, which
was split up among various museums and art instl-
tutes All told 100000 persons attended the Chi
cago fair, with S4O,OOOOOO spent at the concessions
alone, and unknown sums spent in Chicago hotels,
restaurants, rooming houses, theaters, etc., ETC.
San Francisco, the other side of the continent,
will also be running fair during most of 1939-Feb
ruary 18-December 2. And the European Donnybrook
Fair, meaning the standing Euro
UOO" Gu. ~ pean scare, will probably run
Oee A"'e'"" continuously through 1885, unless
it degenerates into a general European war;
It looks like good year for Americans to stay in
the United States and get acquainted with their own
country, which is pretty swell country. We know
of no more profitable and pleasant way to spend
leisure time next year than trip taking in both
the New York and San Francisco fairs. The San Fran
cisco show should be worth anybodys while; they
know how to do things in that town.
News
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Now, Let's Pull Together

THERE is only one meaning to the House decision
i to drop reorganization. 1t is reflection of the
country's growing fear of one The man is Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
1t is beside the point to argue that the fear is per-
haps unfounded. 1t is idle to contend that there is
need for reorganization in the Federal Government.
1t is futile to point out that who has proved him
self thousand times in sympathy with the masses
would hardly beray them to serve his own ambition.
Concedng all this to be true, the fact remains that
the country beginning to fear the concentration
of power in the hands of and that it this
M. 1, fear, swirling from a storm
e ~ "ye' into tornado which swept the
"O' H"'e"" country in the closing days of the
reorganization fight which than any other factor
motivated the House in taking the action it did.
1t was not the reorganization bill on which they
were voting. 1t was Franklin Roosevelt. The bill was
relatively unmportant The whole reorganization
issue had been overemphasized. But it had become a
symbol. And that symbol the country spoke, and
the House responded in line with the counrys thinking
On the whole, it is wholesome outcome. Reorgani-
cation is not imperative 1t is better for the
try that should have more this evidence of the
good health of democratic processes of government in
one of the few remaining free countries of the world
Many times in the last five years Franklin Roosevelt
has shown himself to be great leader of a great
people, He has an opportunity in accepting the verdict
of the public opnion-the road is wide open to him
to show that he is worthy of the high trust re-
posed in him by millions. To appeal the verdict, to
quarrel with it. to suk would only lower him in the
estimation of the country and revive the fears which
led to the rejection of his legislative program.
AS President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt
has two and half years to go. Those two and half
will fix his place in history He will be recorded
Fear of One Man as one of the country's greatest
Presidents or of the coun-
MOtO0ted PeOpIe trys most tragic failures
What the country needs more than anything else is to
settle down, do the days work. and for time forget
Washington" as Calvin Coolidge used to say
the President and his critics will realize this and act
on it, they of the greatest obstacles to
recovery We in grave crisis in which factionalism
and hatreds have no place.
The time has again to pull together as we did
in 1933-for America.
The Washington times., 1938-04-09
On ViUisecti0n

Much comment has appeared
in your columns from CORE
spondents interested in the sub
ject of animal vivisection.
Our most comprehensive an
swer is contained in the evil
dence supporting Representa-
tive Quinn's dog exemption bill
now published in the form OF
testimony given before the sub
committee on health OF the
District Committee.
It contains the direct and re-
buttal testimony Of five out
standing practising physicians
who Travelled to Washington to
testify against the cruelty and
uselessness of vivisection.
Unanimously they showed the
futility of cutting, dosing, or
poisoning dogs, and other ami
mails under the mistaken idea
that through the suffering Of
animal species differing in blood
circulation, organs, and reaction
to drugs, human disease can be
understood and checked.
Besides the direct testimony
of these physicians there are
included IS pages Of world medi.
cal opinion against using ami
mails. These quoted opinions
were picked at random from
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this H. Leroy Lewis would have
the nerve to suggest we swap
a Roger williams descendant for
an Austrian Communist.
AS the Descendant Of Roger
Williams states, anyone willing
to help a foreigner instead of
our own people is not an
American" I suggest we swap
H. LIE Roy Lewis for one Of the
Real Americans that had to
leave this country during the
depression to make a living else
where. There are hundreds OF
them. Why not pay their fare
back here and have jobs waiting
for them.
The trouble with America Is
that Americans have not Or
ganized, it takes something like
this flooding Of the country
with Communists to make them.
AN AMERICAN NOMINAL.
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Your |. O..
By SHTRLEY sPENCER

This is q vocabulary quiz.
Those whose vacations are in
the academic field or who are
ambitious to succeed in that field
in the literary professions should
be able to achieve a high score.
An educator recently said that
the popularity Of intelligence
tests is making the general pub.
lie more word conscious and will
improve the general speech OF
the nation. Score 10 for each
question.
/. Insidious means (a> mutar
bility (b) unsavory (c) crafty.
2. Hyperbole means (a) a hyp'
motto sleep (b) eXaggeratton Co
a press gauge.
3. Ubiquitous means (a) omni-
present (b) modest Co retiring
4. Itinerary means (a) repeat
(b) route (c) unalterable.
5. Avocatory means (a) adj
version (b) calling back (c) an
nulment.
8. per Sc
Z. alter ego }
8. au fond
9. en- rapport { }
10. dramatic personae { }
(a) fondly, (b) a dramatic
parsonage Co other self I'd by
itself (e) in sympathetic rela-
ton % fundamentally (g) as 1t
is (h) very egotistical % cast
Of characters ID q dramatist.
ANSWERS ON Page ~
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goa DleSS anu resi- MS SOUL
made fortune.
THOSE who, like myself, have
= sojourned on the Gold Coast
and the Ivory Coast have, all Of
us, made mythical acquaintance
with that beautiful white queen.
She remains young and she re-
mains lovely over the years. I
have no doubt that right at this
moment many malaria-wracked
and quinine-dosed young subal-
terms of the British West Afri.
can Frontier Force are dream.
ing of padding up the lordly
Niger, crossing Lake Tchad, and
battling their way to King Solo,
mons fabulous and mythical
mines, there to lay hearts and
hands at the feet Of the white
queen.
I first met Finn Of Old Cal
abar when I was temporarily
transferred with a detachment
Of Hausa troops (native infan-
try from Akassa, up the coast.
to the banana kings hailiwick.
My commanding officer, Col.
Percy Maclear, seeing me deep
in the pages of Rider Haggard's
"She," had come over and told
me that I would enjoy meeting
Finn because he was the man
from whom Haggard had gath.
cred his plots for "she," king
Solomon's Mines" and Children
of the Mist"
Maclear was killed at the
first battle of the Marne so he
didn't live to tell me that Finn
must also have supplied Trader
Horn with the essentials Of his
masterpiece.
THE uncrowned king of Old
= Calabar-there is also a New
Calahar in Nigeria-was a huge,
redfaced, hardbitten old Lanca-
shireman. He had the West AT.
rican banana trade sewed up
and had made a fortune out of
1t.
The horrible climate Of the
Ivory Coast never bothered
him. The rest of us were sup
posed to go home to Great Brit
ain for four months out Of
every twelve. BY passing a
rigid medical examination
some very healthy ones among
us might be permitted to do a
double spell, making Is months,
and so get eight months leave.
But those were few and far
between. And as for Finn, he
came and went as he pleased.
He had been known to stay in
Old Calabar. gathering and ship
ping his banana crops. for as
long as four years without a
trip home. And he was a two
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Reply to Descendant

To q Direct Descendant Of
Roger Williams:
You are proud Of the achieve
ments of your ancestor. Have
YOU given him cause to be proud
Of you? Your letter in The
Times does not indicate this. Do
you know what your ancestor,
Roger Williams, fought for? He
was born in England. Suppose
the Americans of his time would
have felt the way you do about
immigrants? What would have
become Of him, the crusader for
religious freedom, and where
would you be-?
America would not have be-
come America, If they would
have had many like you.
This country can gain a lot
If Mrs. Lansburgh's plan is car.
ried out. Thank the Lord for
giving us a man like Roosevelt
at such a time.
A sincere adnirer Of Roger
Williams. c. URGH.
An Americans Prayer
This is a supplication, Lord.
from one
Who loves America, his native
land,
Her fertile fields, broad rivers,
Mountains high,
All gifts bestowed by Thy most
gracious hand.
This is a duplication, Lord,
from one
Who seeks Thy help on reverent
Bonded knee
And this the subject Of my earn
est prayer
Lord, let America again be freel
Let fear that chains her indus
try depart,
Let greed release Its. awful grip
ping hold,
Let the ideal Of labor be ITO
serve"
Let statesmen seek Thy guild
ance as Of old.
Let lust for power depart from
places high,
Restore our faith In Govern.
ment and law,
Lift up our eyes that we may
see again
The ideal that the early Fathers
Lord, men have died for liberty
and right;
Grant they have courage now
to live
In selflesS service to America
This is the offering that each.
may give.
GRACE e. LATONA.
X 4 Il
Another SWGp
In reference to the article
written by H. LIE Roy Lewis to
swap Americans in favor Of
Hitler for refugees from Austria
and the article on the next
column America for Ameri.
cans" by q Direct Descendant
Of Roger williams. I suppose
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or women
a n d 81 for
m e n, but I
t hink t h e
sooner t h e y
are on their
own the bet
ter p eople
they will be.
P a r e n t s
S h o uld en-
courage their
c hill dren to
become indie
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children, it's
a hard ques-
on to an.
Swer. I think
1t GU g hit to
end when a
C h ii d gets
married. but
I do thin k
p a r e n t s
S h o uld al.
WAYS stand
by their chill
dren to offer
The Washington times., 1938-04-09
ROllin' Along
By W. A. s. Douglas

NEOST of still remember that engaging old liar,
4V1 Trader Horn, whose romance of the West African
Gold Coast is of the best sellers of all time. The
Trader dabbed in ivory and ladies and the punch of his
book was his affair with the beautiful white queen
who regned over millions of black subjects in the
very heart of the Dark Continent.
The Washington times., 1938-04-09

parental r e
S p o n Sibility
never e n d S,
a 1t h ough a
child should
be independ-
ent when he
reaches the
adult age set
by law. Par
is should
e n C o ur age
their children
to make their
The Washington times., 1938-04-09

boys and girls.
BY the time
a pers on
reaches h is
age he should
be a BILE to
take care Of
h i m S elf en-.
tirely without
fl n ancial or
other h Up
from the par
entS. Accord
ing to la W,
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inent.
listed drinker-which In nine
cases out of ten is fatal in West
Africa.
He ran a sort Of free mess
for the lonely soldiers and civ.
ilians of this diseaseinfested
outpost. Nightly we would
gather in his dining room to
eat and. later. on his veranda
to drink. bananas" Finn never
touched liquor until shutdown
and he tried to make the rest
of us follow this golden rule for
tropical countries. II one gath.
cred a sense Of shame at &C.
cepting so much and stayed
away, one of his servants would
be dispatched to bring you in.
7 THINK that Finn Of Old Cal
L bar was one Of the greatest
physicians ever to serve the
British Empire - though he
never drew a cent in salary.
For he gathered around him
young servants Of that empire,
men who were sick-you were al.
ways sick on the Gold Coast
and men who were lonely, I'M
married, all of them, men who
hungered almost to the point Of
madness for the sight Of pref
ty white girl Of their own class.
To these, as they listened in
the soft darkness Of the West
African nights, he would weave
his fantastic tales. His heroines
floated by us gorgeously, from
sheba Of Abyssinia-she who
gave the mystery mines to her
lover, King .Solomon-throu gh
the ages down to this beautiful
girl away back in the Uhangi.
She was there, waiting for any.
one of us youngsters who had
the courage to beard the dan.
gers Of the great rivers and to
battle our way to her through
fierce peoples.
Ills stories, told and retold,
IA have formed the basis for
many a successful romance
other than those Of Rider Hag.
gard and old Trader Horn. But
he never set down a line him.
self. Just before I left West
Africa, never to return, Z asked
Finn Of Old Calabar If there
were any truth at all to his
stories Of the lovely white queen.
And he answered, in his broad
Lancashire dialect:
"Son, you're not coming back.
So I won't be company for you
any more. And as for the girl,
she's over there in the Hinter.
land, in fact as well as in fancy.
You see, when I was young I was
as lonely as you have been. But
on top of that I was very cruel
and selfish.
II brought her out here from
Liverpool to a place where no
white woman could Hve-just
because I wanted her. I took her
on one of my tripS-and she
died, back in the Ubangi. And
there she's buried. So I weave
yarns about her-and ask you
and the rest of the boys TO lis
ten to me-just, son, to sort Of
have her around me-"
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read the Traders book with
deepest interest-not because 1t
was something new to me but
because it brought back mem.
cries. Deep in its pages I was,
The Washington times., 1938-04-09

own decisions and should pro-
vide them with educations that
have the definite aim of provid-
ing q livelihood when they are
adults"
The Washington times., 1938-04-09

is usually to go to the parent"
\ X
Albert Rosafy, 1872 D st. s. E.,
plumber:
"At the age Of 81 for both
The Washington times., 1938-04-09

I've air eady
disco cred
t h a t it de-
ponds on the
divt dual
child. I have
a boy, now
is, W h o m I
would tru S t
to make his
own decisions
as you n g
as he is, but
my 49, year.
The Washington times., 1938-04-09
Traffic Toll

The list Of traffic victims in
the District Of Columbia since
January /. 1898. is graphically
shown by the death watch.
The Washington times., 1938-04-09

pendent OF them as soon as pos
sible, because those who always
hang on to their parents apron
strings usually end up by being
bachelors or old maids"
X \
Miss Edna Bringelson, 1888
Sixteenth st. N. w., informa-
ton clerk:
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old daughter cannot take any
responsibility very seriously, and
so will probably be dependent
longer than the boy"
X
Charles Wilmington, 1901 I
st. N. W., secretary:
THE law places the age at 10
The Washington times., 1938-04-09

in fancy,
back once
m o r e,
sprawle d
in a wick
err chair
on a mos
q u l t o.
serene d
verand a,
sipping
fro q
tall glass
a n d lis
tening to
F in n Of
Old Gala.
bar spin
the very
st orieS
GU t Of
which the
Trader
The Washington times., 1938-04-09

advice and help If they want
and need it. I also think a child
should be self-reliant by the
time he is 81"
X
Mrs. D. M. Wathen, 434 Pea
body st. N. W., housewife:
Il have three children and
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girls of 10 are considered adults
but most Girls of Is I've known
are very childish"
X X X
Mrs. Elsie China, 1927 M st.
N. W., housewife:
MY personal thought is that
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Likes PIan-But

The story about Mrs. LanS-
burgh's accomplishments strikes
me as a good fish story. II she
Is such a humanitarian, why
has she failed to do something
for her people? While I do not
believe that she has done as
much as the story says. I am
fully in favor Of her plan. AS
long as these immigrants do not
go on relief, I am for opening
our doors and helping them es-
cape from the European mad.
ness. F. KRAMER.
The Washington times., 1938-04-09

thousands. No one can say after
reading this record that the
medical profession wholeheart-
eddy believes in animal expert.
mentation.
The opposition was largely Of.
fered by laboratory doctors ON
Government salary. ?
This society, devoted to Just
and serious study, deems 1t aun-
necessary to answer the igno.
rant arguments Of those persons
who do not personally investi-
gate vivisection. But to those
who seriously wish to bring
about not only mercy to lower
creatures but also the best
methods Of health insurance,
we appeal to read the testimony
in favor Of the dog exemption
bill.
ELIZABETH B. HONEY,
President, Animal Defense
and Anti.vivisection So
ciety.