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THURSUAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1935
Dirigibles’ Doom
The recent disaster to the U. S. S.
Macon, largest airship in the world, has
dealt a mighty blow toward abandon
ing lighter-than-air craft in the United
States.
We can very well remember the ill
fate of the Shenandoah, the Arkon and
lastly the Macon. It is generally agreed
that faulty construction caused the
wreck of the Macon a few weeks ago
and put the lives of near 200 people in
grave danger.
The American people have become
somewhat disgusted with out navy’s
airships and think it is time to call a
halt in building lighter-than-air craft to
be wrecked.
Not being aviation experts and not
having a first or second hand scientific
knowledge of the facts concerning the
matter we do not know whether we
ought to have any more airships or not.
But, we do not understand why Ger
many’s Graf Zeppelin and the Los An
geles, constructed in Germany, can con
tinue to give good service while the
Akron and the Macon, representing
what is supposed to be our best efforts,
have been hopelessly wrecked. Per
haps the airships are not practical but
why do the ships made in Germany
stand the test while ours collapse?
The only helium gas deposits in the
world are in the United States and oth
er nations must use hydrogen, which is
highly inflamable. This is pointed out
as one reason why this nation should
not abandon the practice of building
dirigibles.
As we stated before we do not know
80 much about the subject but it seems
that if this country is to build other
dirigibles that some things need to be
learned about such construction. It is a
poor joke to spend millions on an air
ship and leave some item in such a con
dition that the entire ship will be
wrecked and lives of a large crew plac
ed in jeopardy.
“To Err Is Human”
Nothing could impress upon our
minds the truth of the above heading
more than a study of the decision ren
dered by the Supreme Court on the gold
question when five of the nine justices
voted one way and four the opposite.
The decision of the court is regarded
as final and as nearly right as is human
ly possible. The Supreme Court is made
up of men selected for their knowledge
and integrity to safeguard the interests
of the nation and its people.
No better w'ay of settling disputes
has ever been propounded but it is in
teresting to note that this great and
august body, shrouded in dignity and
with a sense of puritanical justice und
er the law, was so closely divided that
one more vote among the ten members
could have changed matters so much.
When we have our small matters to
consider it is no wonder that we some
times disagree and that it is hard to
ferret out the most nearly right con
clusion. When nine of the nation’s most
learned men split five to four on a mo
mentous question we know that we
cannot be blamed too harshly for our
small differences.
To err is human in every respect and
our form of living prescribes that we
must accept the will of the majority
and lend a helping hand, although our
views may differ. That is in substance
the basic law on which everything op
erates. By this we do not mean that a
member of a minority crowd should
bow in humble submission to every
thing proposed by leaders. Sometimes
time will prove that a majority was
wrong and what was once the minority
forges ahead. This nation of democracy
has ever moved forward on the basis of
the majority sentiment being the.ruling
power. It is the greatest cooperative ef
fort in the history of the world.
Ever 80 often news comes out. of
Europe to the effect that war is on the
horizon between some of the continent
al nations. If it were not for what we'
remember concerning the beginning of
the World War it is quite possible that
we would not consider the news so im
portant.
In this modem age when the nations
of the earth are so closely interwoven
in myriads of ways, including business
and economic interests, a conflict of ap
parently little significance may hurl the
world into a holocast of chaos and war.
it is because of this reason that the
news of war attracts such widespread
attention, even though it may be be
tween two small nations.
1116 latest war news comes out of
Italy, to the effect that a conflict be
tween Italy and Abyssinia is pending
and apt to burst loose at almost any
time. Abyssinia is a country in Africa,
not civilized very highly by rich in na
tural resources, particularly oil and
minerals. It has been suggested that
Italy needs more room for a now crowd
ed population and that Abyssinia, with
its good climate and natural riches,
looks enticing to Mussolini, Italy’s dic
tator. This reason for the war is only
suggested in comparison with Japan’s
ravages for territory into China.
Italy and Abyssinia are both mem
bers of the League of Nations, which,
we have been in the past told about, is
supposed to look after its members and
settle disputes without arms. The
League of Nations, regardless of what
our personal opinion may be, has fallen
far short of its purposes on a number
of occasions until it does not have the
influence an organization of such mag
nitude is supposed to wield in interna
tional mattem.
IN WASHINGTON
Sunday School Lesson
By REV. CHARLES E. DUNN
PETER UNMASKS PAMEHOOD AND
HYPOCRISY
Lesson for March 3rd. Acts 5:1-11. Golden
Text: Ephesians 4:25.
St. John Ervine, the hrilliant Irish dramat
ist, argnes that an injustice has been done to
Ananias and Sapphira. They are too hastily
condemned, he thinks, as liars and embezzlers.
After all, the experiment of the first disciples
with communism was a failure. Apparently
Ananias and his wife doubted its success, and
so personally appropriated a part of the price
receivi-d for the sale of their property as a re
serve fund to help them meet their obliga
tions in lean days ahead. Why should they not
be praised for their farsighted prudence rath
er than condemned as contemptible hypocrites?
Much can be said for this contention. We
can agree that the attempt of the disciples to
pool their resources in a common store was a
noble experiment in Christian brotherhood.
But we know what a dismal miscarriage it
proved to be in the end. It was all very ideal,
but the practical difficulties hastened its col
lapse. Human nature reflected too much of
its seamy side. Ananias and his wife were
doubtle.s3 sceptical even as Americans today
are distrustful of the soviet regime.
Note further that the decision of Ananias to
keep a part of the price was not at all a sin.
Peter makes this clear in his reply, “Even aft
er the sale, was the money not your.s to do
as you pleased about it?" (vs. 4) It was per
fectly proper for the couple, after disposing of
their property, to retain a portion of the pro
ceeds for their own uses. They were not mis
erly for they might have refused to co-operate
at all. This Utopian scheme, we must remem
ber, was voluntary. Ananias was a righteous
man who unselfishly sold what he had for the
general good.
His great mistake was that he failed to can
didly admit his reservation of funds for his
own use. This was deceit, and it deserved Pet
er’s rebuke, although the apostle was harsh in
administering such a severe public scolding.
Here his impetuosity again got the better of
him.
Fashion journal asks what will the men wear
ntfcct spring? Easy. The same clothes they wore
last spring.—Florida Times-Union.
Railroads are planning a half-billion-dollar
program. Who do they think they are, the gov
ernment?—Charleston (W. Va.) Mail.
With Sweden’s budget balanced and her
workers 99 per cent employed. Uncle Sam
might not object to being called a big Swede.
—Louisville Times.
A scientist believes that the next war will
be fought by wireless. Sometimes the static
you hear on your radio makes you think it has
started.—Duluth News-Tribune.
A burglar in London takes nothing but wed
ding presents. A very little discrimination
could establish this fellow as a benefactor of
mankind.—Richmond Times-Dispatch.
“Townsend Insists That Utopia Is on the
Way.” That certainly is an improvement—be
fore Mohammed had to go to the mountain.—
Boston Evening Transcript.
DBOmOH G^uyMT A tOugl^ task tor the
FIBID FCW ■JMJH^Sqtlta of Coagreni who; iiarft'Uiit
In hand. The are
tbit tUe bll^b’as ttejipy gm te
the floor, (rf the SQata: of Pep^
sentatives and the Senate, wt^
pat a eonsMerahly higher tax
employers'^payrolls than In :
orl^al draft, and that the
Imum old-age pension -will be
lifted somewhat above the ISO
originally provide tot. A'ter
rific fight 1b going on to bring
this old age pension allotment
up to somewhere near what the
Townsend Plan people "advocate.
Bwlngiiv "RlghU’ ^
There are many Indkations
that the Administration’s Owing
to the "right” is not merely a
gesture. There seems to b« a gen
uine effort being made to get
business and industry to go a-
long toward recovery, by per
suasion instead of by force. To
this end, reform schemes are be
ing shelved, labor agitators are
getting a colder shoulder in Ad
ministration circles than they
have encountered in a couple of
years, and the muzzle has been
clamped on numerous of the ear
nest young radicals who have
been clamoring that the Capital
ist system has failed and must
be discarded.
There la more radical talk In
Congress than in the Executive
departments right now, and -not
all of it by Huey Long, either.
In addition to the Administra
tion’s attacks on holding com
panies—which may be dismissed
as talk for political effect—there
are more or less open threats to
make “bigness’’ in business in
stitutions a crime in itself. That,
too, is more or less "talking
buncombe,” and much of it is
intended to offset the genuine
and growing fear of a third-
party radical movement in 1936.
It the party in power can talk
wildly enough it may keep a lot
of voters from going over to the
promlsers of the impossible to
the gullible.
Wiublngtoh, Feb. IS. (AntiK
caster)—While-CongfWB A
elear right to* devalue the dolli^
in terms of gold, it had no right
to revoke the promise of the
Government to pay holders of
"gold clause” bonds in gold or
its equivalent. That is a sum
mary of the unanimous opinion
of the Supreme Court of the
United States In the so-called
“gold clause” suits.
But the majority opinion,
from which Justices McReynolds,
Vandevanter, 'Sutherland and
Butler dissented, held that the
claimants who had sued for pay
ment of gold bonds, interest cou
pons an gold certificates at the
old gold value had suffered no
damages because of the depreci
ation of the dollar, and there
fore could not recover.
This decision has given the
Administration a clear field in
which to operate in monetary
matters, at least for the time be
ing. If later on through Infla
tion of the currency or some oth
er means, the value of the pap
er dollar should sink far below
that of the gold dollar, a claim
ant holding gold-clause bonds
might be able to prove damages,
but he could only recover dam
ages against the Government by
suing in the Court of Claims, and
nobody can sue the Government
without the Government’s per
mission.
Atmosphere Clears
In effect, therefore, the de
cision was a practical victory for
the Administration, though it
was coupled with a rebuke to
Congress. It clears the way for
the operation of the "managed
currency” without fear of any
further advise Supreme Court
action. More Important, from
the Administration’s point of
view, it removes from the busi
ness world tne fear that the de
valuation of the dollar might be
revoked, although that never
was actually an issue before the
Court.
By assuring reasonable stabil
ity of the currency for the pres
ent, at least, the decision re
moves much of the ground for
timidity on the part ef private
capital, and there is considerable
jubilance over the prospects of
a great deal of American money
coming back from its refuges a-
broad, and out of its hiding plac
es in this country, to take part
in the rebuilding of our indus
trial, financial and business
structure.
That Is the' situation as seen
through Administration eyes, and
at the moment the voices of
everybody who thinks differently
are drowned in the chorus of
congratulations.
Work Relief aiid Pensions
Congress is still struggling ov
er the $4,880,000,000 "work re
lief’’ bill. It will pass, eventual
ly. in pretty much the form the
President wants it. He will not
be bound to particular projects
by any act of Congress, nor to
the payment of the "prevailing
rate’’ or any other rate of wages.
The fears of business men that
there will be Interference with
private business by the spending
of this huge sum of money for
public works are expected to be
allayed by the drafting of Gen.
Robert E. Wood, president of
Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago
mail-order house, as advisor to
the Administrator, whoever that
may be. The outlook now is that
it will be Harry Hopkins, not
Secretary Ickes, who will man
age the spending of the money,
but Dan Roper’s advisory coun
cil of business men may also
function in an advisory capacity.
The work of redrafting the
Old Age Pension and Unemploy
ment Compensation bill is prov-
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YADKIN COUNTY NE^RO
DIES FROM EXPOSURE
Elkin, Feb. 26.—Bob Parks,
one of the oldest men among the
negro population of Jonesvllle,
and an octogenarian, who was
committed to the county home
in Yadkin just a month ago after
he had lost his mental faculties,
died from hunger and exposure a
few days ago after leaving the
home.
The negro had been kept in a
locked room until he asked for
warmer quarters last week. He
forced the bars from his window
on a bleak rainy evening, wan
dering aimlessly around until he
was overtaken by the keeper of
the institution.
Watauga Soon To
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(Wktauga Democrat)
After long months of discus
sion and agitation on the part of
local citizens, Watauga county Is
going to have a farm demonstra
tion agent. This action was as
sured by the County Commis
sioners in Special meeting last
Friday, after it had been con
clusively shown to the govern
ing body that the overwhelming
number of the county’s farmers
favored the proposal.
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