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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-27
ITALY MOBLIzES $4,000 MIN
POINTED TOWARD SOMALlLAND;;
FRANCE STRENGTHENS FORCES
Italian Attempts to Demonstrate Claims
to Area Bring Defense Move,
Paris Press Says
COUNTERS FRENCH NAVAL SHOW
HELD PROVOCATIVE BY ITALIANS

PARIS, Dec 27-(UP)-The Governor General OF
French Somaand has urgently asked Paris Tor army anu
The Paris LIE Sor reported today in dispatches from
Dbou that the governor general acted because OF the
Italian concentration of troops the frontier and at
empts by Italians to demonstrate in favor of Italian claims
to French Somaliland. .f ..s
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-27

PARIS. Dec .27. (UP)-Heavy troop movements from
Italian East Africa towards French Somaland today were
reported in two Paris newspapers.
900 Italian troops, 100000 native troops, and 10000
working soldiers in East Africa against only small force
in French Somaliland. B. ..' J. 80 49,. -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-27

PARIS. Dec 27.-(UP)-Premier Edouard Daadlel
Yesterday conferred with Tunsan and Corsean author
ties on plans for symbolical Glands off, parade OF the
French fleet under the eyes OF millions OF anans Wnse
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-27
WEATHER

Much colder tonight; Wednes-
d,v fair and colder, hard freeze
Wednesday morning.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-27
GOOD AFTERNOON

The Scotch are much malisned.
Who ever heard of two.kilt suit!
Evening star., 1938-10-02
LIFE COMES FIRST
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN D. d. L. D. d. c. L,
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON

Above all material values life comes
first. The Master OF men asserted this
In His Sermon on the Mount when He
said: rs not the life more than meat
(food), and the body than raiment
(clothing)?"
There are abundant evidences today
that the dictum of Christ is being
ignored. The whole stress is upon mate
rial values and the acquisitive spirit is
dominant in human nature. The Master
did not aff1rm that food and clothing in
themselves were to be regarded as incon-
sequential. He followed His significant
words concerning food and clothing, say
ing: your heavenly Father knoweth
that ye have need of all these things"
and He added: But seek ye first the
Kingdom Of God and His righteousness
and all these things shall be added unto
you"
The high purpose of Christ's ministry
was to conserve life. The key word OF the
Gospel is-life. On one occasion He de-
clared: II am come that they might have
life and that they might have 1t more
abundantly." This word has been grossly
misinterpreted in our tiEae as indicating
that what the Master was contending for
was an increase of material values, an
accession OF things as the supreme end of
life. What He was contending for was
that life was made abundant where the
enrichment Of character was made
primary. When on another occasion He
said Man shall not live by bread alone"
He was affirming that important as
physical sustenance was, the end and
purpose OF life was something finer and
nobler
There is strange pertinence in the
great query OF Jesus: "Is not the life
more than food and the body than cloth
ing?" We are witnessing a world gone
mad IN its quest for material gain and
advantage. Incredible as 1t seems, after
the lapse of 20 years We witnessed the
nations of Europe disturbed and dis
tracted over what had threatened to be
the greatest war in human history. Be-
Evening star., 1938-10-02

and Ewood Haynes Of Portland. Ind.
who designed and constructed machine
now exhibited in the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition as "the oldest" OF its kind in exist
ence in 1893 and 1894.
But there is no question that Mr..
Duryea successfully operated an auto
mobile" at Springfield Mass, on Septem-
Der IL, 1892. He also is credited with
having manufactured the frs. automo-
tive vehicle regularly made for sale"
And his friends always have insisted
that he is entitled to recognition for
first putting rubber tires on automobiles.
The general public knew him as builder
of motor cars from 1895 to 1914. He did
not win vast riches as some of his con-
temporaries did, yet the fault was not
entirely personal. 1t happened that his
financial backer deserted him at the
moment when he most need his help.
Mr.. Duryea, however, rarely COM
planned. His final years were spent in
honorable obscurity, his last energies
devoted to campaign for utopian re-
forms in world which he regarded
with reason enough-as being conspicu-
ously imperfect. He was seventy-six at
the end and went to his rest comforted
with the thought that he had lived and
labored with benefit to others, If not to
his own estate.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
District p. W. A. Gains.

All good things must come to an end
and Public Works Administration allot-
ments to the District are no exception.
Despite keen disappointment in some
circles at the losing of several important
projects such as eight schools, National
Guard Armory and the proposed ward at
Glenn Dale tuberculosis Sanatorium
when the P. w. A. closed its money bags
to the District last week, there is a
very definite bright side to the picture.
For, under approved projects, the Dis
trict will receive more than $4,000, 900
in long-sought, worthwhile projects at
cost to District taxpayers of less than
$l0000,000. This sum may be paid over
period OF twenty-five years.
The projects include Municipal Court
building, new Juvenile Court building,
municipal center, school and hospital
enlargements and sewage installations,
and a number of other items.
These projects are being built by
forty-ave per cent grant by the Govern
ment against fifty-five per cent pay
ment by the District. That ratio made
the P. W. A. projects attractive to the
District, but, since the extent to which
the community can borrow is fixed by
law, no more funds can be obtained now.
While it is regrettable that more needed
improvements could not have been made,
the District received much to be thankful
for.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Auto Stickers Ban.

Ihe Virginia director of motor vehicles
deserves full support from college and
school officials in his efforts to keep foot
ball stickers and other signs off the wind
shields and rear windows Of automobiles,
Motor car manufacturers make every
effort to design automobiles in such
way as to give the fullest possible vision
to the driver. Nevertheless, there are a
few blind spots in nearly every car.
If stickers or signs boosting certain
football teams or political candidates are
put on windshields or rear windows the
number of these blind spots is increased.
In some localities official inspection stick
ers are required on windshields. They are
usually small and placed in the lower
right corner where they interfere but
slightly with the drivers vision.
Drivers who feel constrained to use
their cars to boost their favorite football
team or political candidate should string
the signs on the bodies of their automo-
biles. AS the Virginia director of motor
vehicles says, the custom of putting signs
on windshields or rear windows is "a
dangerous practice for the simple reason
that stickers obstruct and restrict vision"
Some may consider the subject small
matter, but as long as the Nations un-
necessary traffic toll remains as high as
it IS, any safety move, however small
appearing on the surface, deserves Sc
rious consideration. There would be
fewer big accidents If drivers took small
safety precautions.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

hind that threat of war, now apparently
dispelled, resided the selfish outreach of
a nation for greater economic advantage
at the cost OF incalculable human sacri-
flee and a world plunged into a conflict
that may shatter the very foundations
Of Christian civilization. Life and its
essential values play no part in such
mad quest for increase OF power and
material gain.
Now as never before in the Christian
era, conflict u on between the ideals of
the Man of Nazareth that contemplates
fullness Of life, and the concepts Of those
who would put gain and might above
everything that secures to man his real
happiness and peace. External things,
useful and desirable as they are, are of
lesser value than life itself
Nothing has been made more evident
in these tragic years than this, that the
genesis Of the evils that afflict the world
resides in an excess of selfish desire for
material gain and advantage. More of
estate, more of power. more Of things
this is the great quest that transcends all
else and the sacrifice of human lives is
given secondary consideration in the
greed OF nations and institutions Life in
its fullest, richest attainment must be put
above things, above ambition, above greed
and avarice. Our own America, as well
as the world at large. has profted little
from the lessons of the World War. Mil
lions of human lives and an incalculable
amount OF property sacrificed and what
gain or advantage has it brought? More
OF confusion, more of social animosity
and hate, more of poverty and distress,
what another world conflict would mean,
no living statesman or prophet can fore
cast. One thing is certain, namely, that
IL Will bring in its wake greater misery
ana disaster than we have ever known;
life and its indispensable needs on the
one hand the scourge of war with all its
attendant evils on the other We do not
feed and clothe dead men; the "life is
more than meat and the body than raj
ment."
Evening star., 1938-10-02
The Broadcaster's Case.

The Federal Communications Com
mission has cited Minneapolis radio
station for public hearing on an ap-
pllcatlon for renewal of its license be-
cause 1t broadcast Eugene ONeills
Pulitzer Prize Play, Beyond the Hori-
son.' Although the program was a
chain production, the Minnesota station
is the first to be cited because it hap
pens to be the first up for license re-
newal.
But the hearing was not ordered with
out stormy discussion among the COM
mission members as to whether stations
should be subjected to the time and ex-
pense Of hearing, with the possibility
OF losing their licenses, when they were
attempting to improve their programs
with modern drama. In this case, the
commission has questioned the broadcast
because 1t involved the use OF profane
language.
The order for the hearing, however,
brings out the precarious conditions under
which broadcast licensees operate. The
law, on the one hand, specifically pro-
hibits the commission from censoring
broadcasts. On the other, it is charged
with seeing that programs are in the in
terest of the public, broad discretionary
term.
Licenses are only for six-month pc
RODS. Stations are costly to build and
expensive to operate. Yet q licensee,
desiring to improve his programs with
modern material, may find that a par.
ticular broadcast, while containing ma
Evening star., 1938-10-02
War Lords Unchastened.

Japan's year and a quarter futile
effort to subjugate China, despite far
| flung military occupation has apparently
not yet shaken the Toxic war lords from
the saddle. Field Marshal General
Ugaki's resignation as foreign minister
was ostensibly precipitated by differences
| within the Konoye cabinet over the
creation of China Affairs Board" and
its functions. Actually 1t is accounted
a fresh victory for the army clique and
for the extremists in and out Of the
government, who have been pressing for
unrelenting prosecution of the ill-starred
military adventure on the mainland and
even for its extension to the uttermost
reaches of what is left of China All this
regardless of the peril of conflict with
Soviet Russia.
With view to fundamental modera-
ton of japanese policy, especially in so
far as it tends to aggravate foreign rela-
tions, General Ugaki, who has never
enjoyed the confidence of his radical
amy SoIAll dN4Co III IIlC l1ldkl SGI1pC,
sought to have the China Affairs Board
placed under foreign Office control. The
extremists demanded that it be made an
agent of the cabinet, with only diplo-
matte questions left to the ministry over
which Ugaki presided A compromise Of
the latter hue having been adopted.
Ugaki asked to be relieved of his port
folio, which has been temporarily
assumed by Premier Prince Konoye who
is making more or less successful
effort to stem the extremist tide which
continuously threatens to engulf him.
Back of this latest upheaval in govern
mental Toxic obviously lie more than the
technicalities associated with the China
Affairs Board. The mere establishment
OF that new organ testif1es to Japan's
mounting vicissitudes in liquidating the
fabulously costly enterprise upon which
the Mikados army so confidently en-
barked at Marco Polo Bridge on July 7,
1887. The many weeks in which Nippon's
troops have been engaged In the attempt
to capture Hankow-a prize still far from
their grasp-tell their own story of the
SKIES and sevens at which the empires
purely military fortunes stand, despite
the hundreds of thousands of Chinese
square miles over which the banner Of
the Rising Sun floats.
Predictions that the Japanese economic
structure could not indefinitely endure
the strain of campaign well advanced
into its second year have not vet been
borne out. That the financial and COM
mercial foundations of the country are
sorely undermined and that popular
morale is steadily diminishing, there
seems little doubt. But the Implications
underlying the Ugaki resignation" signal
that the war lords have not been I'M
horsed, and that they are still resolved
to pursue the China War until Chiano
Kai-shek's power is broken and a peace
OF submission imposed upon his brave
people.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

terial which could be presented without
question on the stage or screen, might
be questionable on the air, under pres
ent law and rules. But he cannot get
an advance decision from the regulatory
body, because that would be censorship,
according to the meaning given the term.
Yet, If he uses his own judgment, he
risks the loss of his license and his
station-in any event he faces the loss
of time of those who must testify at q
hearing and expense of travel. as well as
of counsel.
Whatever may be the decision on the
particular case before the commission, in
all justice and fairness to the station
operators who have spent thousands Of
dollars to entertain the American public,
there should be well-defined rules of
the commission as to just what any sta
ton may put on the air without incurring
the possibility of being subjected to
penalty.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Prayers for Peace.

There may be a sceptical minority
unwilling to respond to the suggestion of
President Roosevelt for prayers for peace
today; but the United States is Chris
tian nation and it follows that a ma
jority Of Americans still have faith in
God and still believe that sincere petit
tions for help against disaster of every
kind, including the monumental horror
of war, are heard and answered by
Divine Providence. George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln were not ashamed
to bow their heads in supplication to
the Almighty Father whose most notable
characteristic is that of mercy toward
His children. Their countrymen GER
tainly should not hesitate to adopt their
example in time when civilization is
threatened by forces which few can OBJ
serve without distrust.
1t happens that the Presidents invita-
ton to prayers for justice and harmony
throughout the earth was announced
shortly after Pope Plus xI had made
use OF the facilities of radio to ask "all
the human family to unite in devotion
to this unarmed but invincible power
OF prayer" to foster peace and establish
1t on the secure basis of law and of the
gospel teaching" The message was
heard by millions not of the Pontiff's
immediate flock with gratitude in no
way exceeded by that of his own branch
OF the universal church. He was again,
as on many occasions before, the spiritual
leader of civilized humanity; and it glad
ly accepted his guidance.
Similarly, all denominational limita-
tions were forgotten by thousands of
people who prayed at the Cenotaph In
London. The barriers of doctrinal diff
ferences were swept aside by the impulse
which prompted still other thousands
who prayed In cathedrals, chapels and
synagogues in continental capitals and
on this side of the Atlantic. The oxford
Group Movement, motivated by the
dynamic Of prayer, persuaded profess
sional parliamentarians, diplomats and
soldiers in England, France, The Neither
lands and the Scandinavian Kingdoms
to join in appeals sent broadcast everv-
where in the interest of spiritual re-
armament"
The Munich conference has not ended
the need for the Intervention of God.
The power of religion is desperately
wanted in the world if war is to be
banished from human experience. Peace
can be had in durable and lasting form
only by the application of the precepts
and principles as derived from the
Creator. With Czechoslovakia dismem-
oered, China invaded, Spain locked in
civil strife, Mr. Roosevelts suggestion of
reverent application for providential as
sistance should be indorsed by every
heart capable of fellow feeling.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

When an automobile factory closes
down because, as its owners insist, it
cannot be operated profitably in CO.
operation with the c. I. O., the time may
be said to have arrived for amendment
of the Wagner Act. Even the interests of
labor are affected by conditions which
constitute death sentence for business.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

The United States now wields more
potential authority in world affairs than
any other member Of the Family of Ma
tions," according to an eminent political
commentator. Notice particularly the
word potential" This is something like
the paterfamilias of the average Ameri-
can family. He has it, perhaps, but he
does not seem to find it advisable or
convenient to use it.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.
Caution.

Caution.
Oh, keep the secret-keep 1t dark
Ere long you will behold
The autumn leaves in every park
All turning into gold!
Here Is about the only chance
That average people see
Upon such treasures vast to glance
From all taxation free.
So keep 1t dark, for should it meet
The money baron's eye
He'll start merger strong and neat
And corner the supply.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Charles E. Duryea.

Charles E. Duryea, who died Wednes-
day in Philadelphia, believed that he was
"the father of the automobile" His
claims had been challenged in behalf Of
Henry and Joseph House of Bridgeport
Conn, who invented q steam driven
"horseless carriage" In 1865; William
Morrison Of Des Moines, Iowa. who built
an electric storage battery buggy In 1901,
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Twenty Years Ago
The World War Day by Day
October 2. 1913.

British and Americans broke through
an 8-mile front between Rumilly and
Beaurevoir. reaching the Valley of the
Disc. with vulnerable German COM
munication lines. Two thousand pris-
oners were taken. Lille was evacuated
and the French assaulted and captured
st. Quentin.
This accelerated the tempo of the
German withdrawal from Northern
france and Belgium, and at no point
were they allowed to effect this retire.
ment IN order. Gen. Allenby entered
Damascus, taking 1000 more Turkish
priSouerA
Evening star., 1938-10-02

To goodly number Of people the
efforts Of two University of Maryland
scientists are "love's labor lost" The
latter are trying to determine which par
ticular variety Of spinach is the most
hardy.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

Our President seldom lacks courage
when it comes to interjecting himself
In any issue, national, State or local,
but it would appear that even he is hesi-
tant when 1t comes to the pros and cons
on the treatment of the traffic problem
at Thomas Circle.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

IT more people, Catholic, Protestant
and heathen, would listen attentiyelv TO
the utterances of His Holiness Pope Plus
one could notice world improvement
almost overnight.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Such Is Fame.
From the Arkansas Gazette.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
A celebrity signs his name on an auto
graph slip 50 some one he never heard
Of can swap it to some one else he never
heard Of for the autograph Of another
celebrity equally unacquainted with the
traders.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

A Washington woman has a collection
Of more than four thousand four-leafed
clovers. Gosh! In Switzerland that
would be bumper hay crop.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Contest in COlOrs.
From the Indianapolis Star.

From the Indianapolis Star.
Most Of the new cars are expected to
be on display by October Is, which means
that Natures autumn pageant viii have
Some sh6 competition.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

II you never before paid much atten-
tion to the Red Cross this particular
autumn is as good time as any to begin
doing so.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

The League Of Nations, or what is left
OF 1t, seems composed OF all umpires and
no players.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
A Suggestion.

Quoth he, Were an autocrat
Whose will no creature dared to slight
I might make some arrangements that
Would stop the use Of dynamite"
Evening star., 1938-10-02
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the use for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication Of special dispatches
herein also are reserved.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
Stay Off the Gas.

from the Williamsport (PaD SUM-.
A lot Of young men are dying with
their boots oo-the accelerator.
Evening star., 1938-10-02
The Pace,

What do you think of the present
style in womens hats?" inquired the
milliner.
"They are typical of the rapid pace we
are hitting" answered the customer.
Heretofore hat had to go out of style
before it looked that funny"
Evening star., 1938-10-02
B00nns.

Although your boom to cover fees
Cheer up, ambitious brother!
In days like these you ought with ease
To get yourself another.
Evening star., 1938-10-02

Politicians" said Uncle Eben, "don't
want to take sides In yoh troubles during
campaign an they's independent OF
yoh wishes after election"
Evening star., 1938-10-02

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Many people" said Hi Ho, the sage of
Chinatown, prefer falsehood to truth
when 1t is concealed in fattery."
Evening star., 1938-10-02
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Responsibility.

HAS he proper sense of responsible
ity?" asked the earnest patriot.
Il don't know" answered Senator Sor-
ghum, Il sometimes fear he is one of
those people who are so anxious to be
financially responsible that they forget
to be morally responsible"
Evening star., 1938-10-02

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