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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
DECEIVING THE AGED

Cmel disappointment is in store for the elderly
neople who are putting their hopes, efforts and
MONEY behind the fantastic old-age pension schemes
now agitating the country.
Thew can't be blamed for their eagerness to be-
leve that pension panaceas will relieve their per-
soroI misery and create general prosperity. But
tho notieians of both parties who buying votes
With false promises to the old people are the ones
who deserve condemnation.
Colorado has thrown its finances into chaos in
fntiIe attempt to pay $45 month to every resi-
don't over 60. The state faces bankruptcy unless
the voters repeal it's comparatively mild pension
r1or next month. Yet office seekers from coast to
coast are supporting proposals which would bring
rs +roubIes on their own states and on the
.;,o1 oovarnment-the Townsend plan, the $50
o,,o,, Thursday mirage on which California votes
:, November, the laws ordering payments up to
e1no q month or more which will be on the ballots
in various states.
preSidant Roosevelt rightly spoke out against
tho s3O-eyery-Thursday menace. That however,
,,as bofora the primaries in California. Since then
cbo,;aor Dovynev who won the Democratic
torial nomination as supporter of the scheme, has
hoor blessed nv Mr. Roosevelt true liberal.
And the new deals No. l press agent Charles
M;cbeIson has explained cynically that it ''ls not
tho HIGHEST TYNE of craftsmanship to win elections
bv hacking movements, in which you don't believe
but that, after all, elections must be won and
that the Republicans are no better than the Demo-
Gratis.
True-too true Offsetting Mr.. Downey is Cali
fornia,s Renubcan Governor Merriam, now seek
ing reelection bv renewed Endorsement of the
Townsend PLAN Florida's new deal Senator Pepper
made bid for Townsend support and won. But so
did the three Republican congressman elected IN
Maine last month, while the Republican nominees
for senate and house in Oregon are riding the same
issue.
In Minnesota the Democratic candidate for gov
ernor PROPOSES $50 pensions for all persons of 60
or more But the gubernatorlal race in New Hamp-
shire's Republican primary was between Two IN
dorsers of the Townsend plan. In Wisconsin the
Democratic party talks of $50 payments and both
Republicans and Progressives come out for liberal
bing present pensions. Former Governor Curley
wins the Democratic nomination for governor OF
Massachusetts, as an advocate of $40 pensions for
everybody past 60. The Republican convention in
the same state swings Townsend leaders behind its
candidate by pledging the states Republican con-
gressmen to use their influence for an early hear
ing on Townsend plan legislation.
And so we might go on and on with the shabby
story Of Democrats all over the country so avid
to stay in power that they are willing to deceive
the aged with promises they know can't be kept
Of Republicans all over the country so hungry to
win an election that, while denouncing the new
deal for extravaganza and recklessness they Guido
the Democrats in the wildness of their promises
New York World-Telegram.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
BRITAIN IN PALESTINE

''The increasingly serious situation in Palestine,
which is Great Britain's problem calls for strong
reminder to that government of the agreement
whereby the United States must be consulted be-
fore any change is made in the British mandate
held under the League of Nations
There have been disturbing indications that the
British might be preparing to abandon, in effect,
their pledge of national home for the Jews, as
contained in the Bafour declaration, and to accept
the harsh proposals of the raq foreign minister for
the stoppage of Jewish immigration and the setting
up of an Arab state. This would consign the Jews
to the hopeless lot of permanent minority subject
to grave oppression.
To picture their fate it is necessary only to note
the outrages that have been committed by the
Arabs, and the virtual reign of terror they have
been conducting during the last few months. Only
Yesterday the so-called Arab defense committee
warned the Zionist federation and the Jewish
agency for Palestine immigration of the worst of
calamities' in store. should the Jews persist in
seeking their rights. There was plain threat of
retaliation upon members of their race in Arab
countries, should the British protect them in
Palestine.
1t is we'll to recall at this time the Palestine
mandate convention signed and ratified between
the United States and Great Britain Is years ago
during the administration of President Coolidge
The league mandate given to Great Britain makes
her, in effect trustee of the Jewish people in
Palestine. Confding in this solemn, compact, many
Jewish citizens of America have gone to Palestine
to find a new home. 1t would be unthinkable that
Britain should now betray these citizens, and the
others OF their race from many different lands
were 1t not for the Mritish governments recent
aoout1ace IN the case of other oppressed minorties
In their case, it is true, there existed direct
legal obligation such is imposed by the 1925 con-
Ventlon But our government certainly should stand
ready to insist that decision affecting the well
fare of the Jews in Palestine be taken without full
consultation with Washington. In other words, we
entered into this agreement with the full intention
of keeping it, and we expect England to maintain
10 the letter her promise to the United States and
TO the Jewish people in Palestine. "-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
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ADULT EDUCATION
AID TO BE TOPIC

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. "a
(UP)-A symposium on the need
for cooperation between all gov
eminent educational institutions
and private agencies will feature
the Middle States Regional Con-
ference on Adult Education here
Oct. 26-29.
More than 1000 educators are
expected to attend the three-day
conclave. to be held here in con-
junction with the meeting of the
Pennsylvania State Association
for Adult Education.
The symposium, headed by DR..
NJ. M. Profit of the U. S. office of
education, will present DR.. Robert
H. Morrison of the New Jersey
department of public instruction;
DR.. Ross o. Runnels, supervising
principal, Maplewood, N. j.; Helen
Hail. of Henry Street Settlement,
New York; Rabbi Edward L. Is
rael'of Baltimore, and Mark Starr,
educational director of the Inter
national Ladies Garment Workers
union.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
THE PRELUDE TO KEMPsTERs BIBLE STORIES N =


Some poets sing of flowers and BIRDS of lakes Wo
OF various sides of life and love, and such like noble &
Rut as for me- I'll sing of Cod and His thrice blessed "
An all its wondrous stirring tales which some have n
There is no book in all the world can be compare to H.
II teaches how to live on earth and gain eternal bliss ~
As dailv nersue its pages my heart is truly fired
Which moves TO me concusvely the Book Is Godn>n,J
I've read of Shakespeare, Dickens Burns and ho Of B
And here and there thank the Lord, for the products %
But as read their Various works, pause becauSo o
know Pm reading fiction and not the literal TRUTH
But when nick the Bible up and open up its page
know ifs precepts are not taught by any human >ag
But reader let me hurry on and take no fulthc time
And tell you just what prompted me TO formulate this n
The wonderous stories in the Word I've Away loved
To state the matter ruthfully they fascnatc indeed ~
They tell of men and too, who soouncd here on m
OF various trials they underwent to prove Their special
They also show when trouble danger grow a
Deliverance God will eer afford to those who trust His ~
And 50 a little while ago. the thought to ME occurred
That would try to put in rhyme, these stores the Word
The reason why I've chosen rhyme, in preference ~
rhvme attracts both eye and mind as everybody knows
And so in deep humility, Pm sending them abroad
Not seeking any glory, save the glory of my God.
"Copyrighted John Dale Ecrrs
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent

WTASHINGTON.-The one big
w question asked about the
proposed "two-price" system, de-
signed to transfer farm SURPRISES
to low income families at low
prices, is: "Will it work-and
how"
The specter of huge subsidies
frightens many. Those who have
thought about the theory longest
insist that in the case of some
products it can be worked out,
with very little subsidy and in 9TH
err cases with none at all. Top
officials may decide otherwise.
Is the scheme "socialistic" b.
cause it means the government
will enter the distribution system?
That depends on how it's run.
How can poor people be segre-
gated from others. who will want
to buy at the lower prices?
How can competition with exist
Ing merchants and distributors be
avoided?
How about the fact that raw cot
ton and wheat, which can't be sold
to the poor direct, are but small
part of the cost in finished cotton
goods and bread?
How could such a system be OBJ
Grated on a vast, national scale?
The two-price thinkers say, first,
that the principle should be ap-
piled wherever it can be shown
the poor would buy more of a
given type of food or cheap cloth
ing if they had more money. On
some items, they think, it probably
won't work. &
In cotton, with the government
holding 100000 bales. with crop
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
BE AMERICAN

Be AMERlSAN
Why should we Americans
strive to ape the British, or any
foreign pronunciation, when we
have an official pronunciation of
our own?
Why do so many of our people
seek to sound British by telescOp-
ing their syllables and by affect
ing the broad "a"-in many in
stances where the British them
selves do not employ it. Ameri-
cans are likely to mistake the in
termediate "a, which they do not
use easily land which the cultur-
ed British do), for the broad ga
(Which the British use sparing lyl.
The intermediate "a" is half
way between broad "a"-as in
."al'm"-and short "a"-as in
"at"; and is indicated in Web
ster's dictionary by a single dot
above it. 1t takes nice distinction
of ear and employment of tongue
to become adept in the use of the
intermediate ga" which has a
pleasant and a cultured sound.
But the broad "a" used in place
of the intermediate "a" is ride
ulous to person approaching the
difference between the two: For
example, the use of the broad "a"
in such words as path, bath. ask,
where the intermediate "a" should
be employed, is absurd and be-
trays ignorance.
If you have not mastered the
intermediate ga" go slow about
trying to copy the British speech
or yiu will sound ludicrous.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
REHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
az RODNEY BUTCHER

nearly twice consumption size and
with millions in need of cotton
goods, textile manufacturers will
be called in. The cost of process q.
ing, Secretary Wallace says, is
about twice the cost of raw cotton
and that of finished goods about
five times as much. The prevalent
idea is to furnish specifications and
ask bids on specific types of goods
which can be produced with econ
omy in large scale operations.
Cheap cotton cloth, mattresses,
towels, sheeting, overalls and work
shirts are suggested. Some subsidy
such as government contribution
of the raw cotton proba bly, will be
planned.
Possibility is that cheap goods,
such as overalls and work shirts,
can be dumped on the market
through regular commercial chan
nels with assurance that only
the poor will buy them. This is
also suggested for nutritive foods
in less attractive, cheaper but
relatively non-competitive FORMS
such as dried eggs, dried milk and
canned fruit juices.
The two-price theory admitted
" becomes extremely difficult
when applied to wheat. Bread is
basic food in low-income family
diets.
The system is much more easily
applied to such products as milk,
butter, eggs, fruits, vegetables and
meats where there is no major
manufacturing problem such as
that in cotton. Specially licensed
markets run on wholesale lines,
with consumers coming to buy and
only one operation after the stuff
arrives in town, might handle such
tens of farm surplusage.
(Copyright. 1888. NEA Service: Inch
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24

well w ! I n o u |
striking a blow
or lifting a fin
ger,
The repercus-
S on S of that
Czechoslovak sell
out may be far
+ e a C h i n g and
grave.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
NICKEL COMES BACK

TULSA, Okla. CUP. - Scotty
Wilson. Tulsa Oil company en-
ploye, is looking for nickel to
return to him for the seventh
time since last November. The
coin has a small red mark. When
it came back for the sixth time,
Wilson decided to keep it, but
somehow it got away. It'll come
back again, though he said con-
fidently.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24

OMAHA. CUP).-For the first
time since it was constructed %
years ago, travel over the Duglas
street bridge, the link between
Omaha and Council Bluffs, la,
was free-but for one day only.
The free day" was put on IN
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
BIBLE THOUGHT
THE LAST WORD OF FoCH
81 press toward the mark" phil 3:l4.)

When Marshal Foch, that great commander
came to the close of his life those listening heard
his last word. Allons-"Forward." He was watch
ing his glorious army meeting the enemy, being
thrown back, and then making an heroic effort to
conquer. The greatest word he ever gave, the word
that put spirit and power into his soldiers, was
"Forward"-Keswck Calendar. ".s '''
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
HISTORY AND STUPIDITY REPEAT
TOGETHER ..-.
(By BRUCE CATION

Whom the gods would destroy, accord
ing to the old saying, they first make mad !;
and the madness which descended on Kali
ser Wilhelm's Germany during the World
War days seems to be playing return en-
gagement with the Germany of Adolf Hit
Ter. ..
The kaiser's Germany had everything to
gain bv remaining on friendly terms with
the United States The job wasn't easy;
the agents of the allies were flooding the
United States with their propaganda, there
was a strong sentiment leaning toward
England and France anyway, and things
like the invasion of Belgium and the tor
pedoing of the Lustania had made an ex-
tremely bad impression.
But the job might have been done, just
the same, if it had been handled right.
With fathomlesS stupidity, the kaiser's
henchmen proceeded to handle it wrong in
every particular,
They sent spies across the country, con-
cocted clumsy plots to sabotage American
industrial production, did the whole bust
ness sos ineptly that men like Won Papen
and Boy-Ed were presently revealed be-
fore the whole country for what they
were; and in the course of time so much
American ill-will was aroused and so many
Americans learned to look at Germany as
an enemy that President Wilson had little
trouble getting declaration of war.
More than 20 years have passed since
then. Having lost the World War because
it permitted its own stupidity to turn the
United States into an enemy, the German
government might have been expected to
learn. But the same sorry story is being
repeated-as witness the spy trial in New
York.
Once more German spies are operating
in the United States. AS of old, their ca
pacity for making plumbers seems to ex-
coed their capacity for helping the father
land; and as result the beans have been
thoroughly spilled and the whole mess is
out in the open.
And how dumb it all is!
After the war there was a great change
of sentiment in the United States. People
began to realize that the peace treaty was
unjust, that the war itself had not been all
Germany's fault and that most of the war
time judgments were hasty and ill-consid-
cred. A real feeling of sympathy for Ger
many arose.
Even the excuses of the Hitler govern
ment didn't entirely destroy this sympathy.
However much Americans may have dis
J approved of the ways of dictatorship,
they at least realized that the kind of gov
eminent Germany chose to have was Ger
many's own business. Distrusting Nazism
profoundly, they felt that they needn't
worry so long as it stayed in Europe.
, But here we have Nazism in our own
front yard; Nazi agents promoting subver-
sive movements on our own soil, tampering
with our military forces and acting with
all the left-handed finesse of 1916 Could
anything be better calculated to destroy
that postwar American sympathy or to
persuade Americans that Hitler's German,
is once more potential enemy?
The monumental stupidity which did
Germany so much damage in 1916 seems
to have taken hold once again.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24

There may be nothing to it, but cynical author
tells that the recent blast from the Russian avia-
tors at Colonel Lindbergh was merely publicity
stunt to draw attention to Mrs. Lindbergh's new
book titled; appropriately enough, Listen, the
Wind"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
HAVE 81 GRANDCHILDREN

MANHATTAN, Mont. (UP)-
Nh. and Mrs. Joe Verwolf, mar
ried 4S years ago at Harrison, S.
d., and the parents of IL children,
can now count total of Sc grand
children and II great-grandchil-
dren.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24

Electrons Were introir,
a 60, 000-voLt high.,ers,.,.
charge and accelerated /.
speed Of $4,000 mile, a s..
scientific experiments.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
CAUSE FOR
GRATITUDE

"Well," she in
CURED mischiey-
ously the after it
became K n o w n
that England Had
inducpd Hitler. to
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24

connection with "0m,..
festivities at the Iowa crr
exposition in Council B5a
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

The Arabs are enheartened to
resist the British in, Palestine by
observing how the German dicta-
tor bluffed them to a fare-ye-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24

Democrats should be glad Rex Tugwell went into
the molasses business instead of the vinegar indus
try. The former brain truster is to write an ency-
clopedic analysis of the New Deal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24

Sally Rand offered to Jump out window or
stand on her head rather than have her picture
taken with a policewoman.. It looks like innate
modesty 81.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24

While the photographs of the new Golf
fures are splendid, close observation is apt
to convince one that some hair-do and some
hair-don't.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24

Under the influence of funny money
politics time-honored slogan has become
"A chicken for every crackpot." ,...
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
SOUND ADVICE: The stamp
By NOAH HOLLOWELL

SOUND ADVICE: The stamp
cancelling machine in the office
of the state department of reve-
nue. and motor vehicle bureau
prints this safety counsel in pur-
pie ink in attractive lettering:
"Do your part to make n. G..
highways safe. Be careful"
But it takes something stronger
than that to make some of the
highway demons sit up and take
notice.
GOOD ORATORY: Governor
Hoey will be with us again tonight
with his matchless oratory. Apart
from any political significance
given his visit and the fact that he
is governor Of a great state, he is
worth listening to as a master
orator. He describes tarhelia in
picturesque language.
WORK WITH CHILDREN:
Mrs. Mary c. Crimson reports fine
progress with the WPA project
that will begin November l with
children between two and four
years of age. People have been
generous in donating time and
materials to take care of the lit
tie tots while some Of the mothers
will be permitted to work at their
occupation selsewhere. Mrs. Brin-
son sounds the call for the gift of
a used or new stove to cook food
for the youngsters. Any one in
terested may telephone Mrs. Brin-
son at 249-J.
APPLES FOR WINTER: Here
is information, new in some
aspects, for keeping apples in
winter, and is passed along for
what it may be worth to those
with apples from their orchards:
"To keep apples through the
winter, bore holes in the bottom
and sides of barrel and store
on a dry platform a foot or more
from the ground. Where only a
few apples are available for stor-
age, a good plan is to carefully
wrap them singly in paper, then
pack them in layers three or four
deep in shallow boxes and place
them in the coolest position in
the house or outbuilding."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-10-24
FREE BRIDGE ONE DAY

" copyright
Evening star., 1938-08-28
GIANT STAR TO co
IN ECLIPSE IN 40
100000 Times as Large
as Sun-Made of Pretty
Thin Stuff.
p the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
PASADENA, Calf, Aug. 27.-Wil-
liam H. Christie, Mount Wilson OBJ
servatory astronomer, is looking for
ward to 1910 and another eclipse by
a star 100000 times as large as the
sun.
This star is made of pretty thin
stuff he said today. its density aver
aging about that of a vacuum in an
electric light bulb.
It has a companion or component
star which Is just as bright, but hotter
and about 20 times smaller. They
revolve about a common orbit and
together aye known as zeta Aurigae.
Every 973 days the larger star eclipses
the smaller
In 1884 and again in 1887 Mr..
Christie observed with a spectrograph
the eclipse, the smaller stars bright
light shining through the atmosphere
Of the larger until its light was blotted
out altogether
THE reason for the great interest
in the eclipses of zeta Aurigae lies in
the fact it is the only star known,
other than the sun, which is dwarf
star" said Mr. Christie. lin which we
are able actually to measure the
heights to which the various elements
constituting the atmosphere of giant
star extend.
Since we can readily determine the
velocities with which the two stars
are passing each other, across the line
OF sight, we know at any instant how
far above the Opaque photosphere of
the large, cool star the analyzing beam
from the hot, small star is passing"
First, he said, comes calcium, hydro
gen, "and then later ionized titanium,
followed by other ionized elements, and
finally the spectral lines due to the
neutral metals"
One reason he is looking forward to
the 1910 eclipse is that the results
were different in the two previous
observations.
Evening star., 1938-08-28
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