The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-02-10
BIBLE THOUGHT
THERE HE PROVED THEM
EXODUS 1929
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
NEWSPAPERS DRIVING NAILS INTO THEIR
OWN COFFINS


Our newspaper publishers clearly understand
what will happen to their properties should die
tator control this country They have had unmls-
taxable evidence that the New Deal does not like
CRITICS m and they know beyond shadow OF DOUBT
that if the power was in the hands of this admin
istration at this time there would be censorship
that would not only control the editorial utteranceS
but which would dictate on other phases OF the
publishing business.
Yet, with this convincing evidence before them,
they nevertheless give serious publicity to the
crackbrained theories that are sent out over the
radio and through public addresses by New Deal
officials . driving nails into their own cofins
Thoughtless readers of newspapers often accept
these statements-wild or otherwise-as thorough
" dependable. And this policy on the part of many
newspaper editors often to blame for the crooked
thinking which we find rampant throughout this
country at the present time.
Newspaper editors are undoubtedly justified IN
printing the views of these officials; but an equal
or greater amount of space should be given to
point out effectively the flaws in false reasoning
And now that we are threatened with central
lied government which is apparently trying to
usurp large part, if not all, of the governmental
rights of our various states which has attempt
ed in various ways the reorganization of industry,
rnent labor in the same way our newspaper
publishers instead of effectively fighting this men
acing possibility, are mostly moving along in the
same old way, blindy printing anything and every
thing that might be considered news, and making
no really overshadowng effort in their editorial or
other columns to point out the dangers of the legal
enactments which the Washington administration
has passed and is still trying to pass.
If the wages-and-hours bill, for example, be-
comes law, not only industry but labor will be
harnessed. regimented, with even the possibility of
ensavement.
Such legal restrictions would not be disastrous
if we knew the debating power that our officials
crave would be used intelgently honestly, and eff
6ciently but we could not possibly expect such
governmental supervision.
Whenever an article is published which is the
product of the crooked thinking of our officials,
the defective reasoning should be clearly pointed
out. The reader should be intelligently guided in
his thinking d. wild proposals should not be pre-
sented seriously They should be made to look as
funny to the average unthinking reader as they do
to our serious-minded, intelligent citizens.
Although the ability to see humor in any situa-
ton is desirable when fantastic theories can pass
as intelligent conclusions and effective efforts are
not made to guide the average careless reader in
his reasoning, we can hardly blame the uHthnklng
mob for the enthusiasms sometimes violently mani
tested in defense of principles that would ultimate
ly rob US of the freedom which now enjoy
The workers were promised everything their
hearts could desire in Russia, but now they are
little more than a nation of slaves Germany made
effort to embrace democracy then Hitler
came into power. The unions were soon disbanded
=. strikes were forbidden :. the workers were
in hat he off m he
place. Practically the same experiences were the
fate of the italian workers.
All these facts should be presented clearly to the
unthinking masses of this country, and they should
be warned again and again-with double the space
given to crooked-thinking demagogues-aganst the
unsound reasoning frequently and bIatantly pre-
sented from official sources.
And last but not least is the need for more
vigor, with real fighting spirit and even rampant
enthusiasm in the editorial columns of news
papers-Bernarr Macfadden in Liberty Magazine.