Our Worst Depression
AND
How It Was Whipped
By JOHN F. SCHENCK, ___
TV frightful extravagance and
hen of good business sense dlsplay
“ by those who have for several
Htl been In control of the busi
ness of this natlon '* bad
but thf drift toward regimentation
„< legitimate' private business Is the
B0St dangerous tendency that has
threatened our people.
If that principle once becomes es
tsblished and approved as applica
h| w any class of citizens, the
.ncclal bureau at Washington, ap
Lted to enforce regimentation,
STact like other National bu
ttaus have done.
yor the purpose of enlarging and
neroetuating its existence, it will
dUigentlv seek and ingeniously de
v1se pretexts for extending regi
mentation
Ultimately, no class will remain
exrmy1
Think of It men and brethren!
What sort of human being is going
t0 do the regimenting and issue
decrees and rules by which we are
lo be controlled in the operation of
our private affairs.
They will not be super-men, all
vise divine!
There are no such beings.
They will be ordinary politicians
fith the same frailities, imperfec
tions and prejudices which afflict
us.
Like us, they will be mortal, and
made of dirt-and many of them
made of ’mighty common dirt.”
In the name of Free American
ism. we say "Perish the thought of
Federal Bureaucratic regimenta
tion!
Goa created man in nis own
likeness"
That likeness consisted mainly in
mans desire and power to create;
and in his right to own and con
trol the objects of his own crea
tion In so far as he, either by
robber, or by tyrant, by mob or by
mob law. Is deprived of such own
ership and control, just so far is he
unmanned and degraded.
Onr Worst Depression
Those who advocate and defend
the exercise of extravagant, radical
and unconstitutional measures, ask
■What else could have been done to
lift this country out of its very
worst depression."
A few historical facts answer that
question.
The recent depression was not
our worst.
The deepest, darkest, and the
,eost lasting depression that ever
befell this nation was that which
covered our war desolated South
ed for years after the Civil War.
The states, the business Inter
ests and practically all cltiaens
were not merely threatened with
bankruptcy, they were absolutely
destitute and broken.
Ask old people who know about
those trying days.
Want amt poverty wfcre stalking
everywhere at home. Nothing was
coming in from other sections of
the United States except hatred
»nd Carpet Bag oppression.
What saved us?
Did wp ask the Federal Govern
ment for donations? If we had
«ked for a loaf, we would have re
ceived a stone.
Did we overcome our difficulties
by restricting labor, by curtailing
production, by destroying edible
domestic animate and by agricul
tural abortion?
Did we end that dismal depres
aion by grafting on to it extra va
Wnce and debt, and then expect
that the result would be a remark
able growth?
No. we adopted a remedy which
* now decried and despised. We
*rnt to WORK. We ENCOURAG
'D WORK We KEPT AT WORK,
,!>d in the meantime, we made
*°°d use of a practice which seems
jo have gone entirely out of fash
bj1—namely, we practiced economy,
in private life and in Govem
®ental operations.
Sweet Adversity
™ our fl!?ht against terrible odds
*nd handicaps, and in our victory,
’! Justified the poetic expression
*eet are the uses of Adversity."
And what is better than all rise.
•' generation of men and wom
"> *ho ta the meantime, grew and
e c.oped in our Southland, have no
•uperior on earth, so far as inde
b'udence. honor and character are
deemed.
repeat *nd emphasise the fa
,hp making of worthwhil
and women is infinitely moi
»nS°rUnt than Bamering dollai
•nd cen\s.
Having lived, without Feden
uj*. ,or re8ulation, through thi
, ,e- deeP- *nd long depressioi
lnt f^her later depressions, xiui
in h,°rse and ^By days"
uu of the confirmed opinlc
*». ,*f ,can continue to solve oi
lo«al problems,
us insist on it.
jew ,akp car* of our ow
KiS aftHrtw* without the *
* ,hp HXieral Goven
know positively that 1
such 0Ur lnd0Pendence i
will also betti
tad our °^fcharacter> our strengt
lvur self-respect.
*f (J'Son‘« wiw have heai
»h„ Mi*' rec*nt experiment ar
•har r„, r °r pretend to heliev
Russl&s Socialism is belt
than America's Capitalism.
Opposes RuasUnlsm
My sole purpose In taking an ac
tive part In the present discussion
is to put myself on record as op
posed to any lorm or method of
Government which smacks of Rus
sianlsm, and to earnestly advise
my children and my neighbor's
children to avoid and fight such
Governmental tendencies as they
would avoid and fight a loathsome
and deadly plague.
Candidly, I had rather possess
less than I now have, and be a free
and independent American citizen,
like our forefathers were, than to
have a title for ten times as much
as I now possess and realize that
my title Is insecure and that my
possession carries with it practi
cally no control.
I like to make and accumulate
money, but I really am much more
ambitious, to maintain my own In
dividuality, independence and self
respect.
I am emphatically out of sym
pathy with any man or group of
men who are constantly undertak
ing to undermine our Constitution
and belittle our Supreme Court.
It would be preferable to live In
a country absolutely controlled by
an intelligent dictator, than In a
so-called Democracy, unprotected
by a Constitution from the varying
whims and prejudices of unre
strained politicians.
Every day I live, I say to myself,
"Thank God for the ' Constitution
and the Supreme Court of the
United States.”
CELEBRATES HER
80TH BIRTHDAY
REHOBETH - SANDY PLAINS,
Oct. 29—200 of the friends and re
latives of Miss Olive Walker sur
prised her with a birthday dinner
Sunday. Miss Walker celebrated her
eightieth birthday. She received a
number of useful presents. •
A very interesting program on
State Missions was rendered in the
departmental opening of the Sun
day School at Sandy Plains Sun
day morning. Those taking part on
program were: Mr. and Mrs. Elmo
Walker, Misses Ruby Philbeck,
Buena Whisnant, Luna and Ruby
Whitaker, Corrine Allen and
Blanche Whitaker, C. C. Walker,
Luther Walker, Buren Whisnant,
Walter Jenkins and Herbert Price.
Robert Gold, son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. H. Gold had his tonsils remov
ed Monday at the office of Dr. Tom
Gold in Shelby.
Mrs. W. Black who had a tumor
removed from her arm at the
Shelby hospital Tuesday is getting
along nicely.
Miss Clara Petty who holds a
position at the Ora Mill is spend
ing this week with Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Petty.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Z. Grigg and
daughters, Millon and Landis, spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr. and
Mrs. Will Stroup of Cherryville.
Engineers Learn
Of Packing Dirt
From Tiny Sheep
PORT PECK, Mont.—(JP) — A
“mechanical sheep" with tiny steel
feet is helping pound a huge dam
into place here.
Army engineers in charge of Fort
Peck dam, largest earth-fill bar
rier in the world, explain they are
applying a lesson learned by sheep
men when they first brought flocks
to graze on western frontier lands.
The sheep, It was noticed, pack
ed the range so tight that the earth
hardly could be plowed.
So engineers devised a heavy
machine called a "sheepsfoot roll
er" that is proving a big help as a
dam-builder. The “mechanical
sheep" consists of two steel cylin
ders, weighing 15,000 pounds. On
each cylinder are 72 projecting
“feet", shaped like the hoof of a
sheep.
Pulled by a heavy tractor, the
rollers revolve and the steel “feet''
pack down thin layers of dampen
ed soil along a 2,500-foot strip that
tapers out to meet the natural
ground level at the extreme west
end of the dike section of the dam,
The dam is being built across the
Missouri river in the heart of a
country where cattle kings spilled
blood in pioneer days to rid the
range of the animals whose hoofs
serve as models for the mechanical
tamper.
DIVORCE POPULAR
IN THIS FAMILY
SAN DIEGO. Calif., Oct. 39.—(/F)
—The divorce of Mrs. Wallis Simp
son, American friend of England’s
king .against her second husband
brought another, divorce . into be
lated prominence here today.
Her first husband. Commander K
W. Spencer, it was learned, was di
vorced here by Mrs. Miriam J
Rpencer, his second wife, on June
30.
Expansion Records
Noted In Southeast
ATLANTA, Oct. Indus
trial expansion records for the
Southeast are being written today
In paper, cloth and steel.
A dozen October developments In
dicated new Interest In factory pur
suits and widening markets within
a block of cotton belt states pre
dominantly agricultural.
Alabama, wealthy In coal and
iron, led the way In 1936 construc
tion program drawing millions of
dollars in capital.
Largest among the projects was
a $29,000,000 United States Steel
expansion Job announced for the
Birmingham area by Board Chair
man Myron C. Taylor.
Paper mills—with almost $20,
000,000 proposed for Investment—
brought immediate or prospective
payrolls to Savannah, Brunswick
Ga., and Anderson, s. C„ and open-i
ed new markets for the south's pro
lific slash pine.
Additions were made by the Tu-i
blze Chatlllon corporation to its
Rome, Ga., rayon mills and a $500,
000 packing plant was newly open
ed at the south Georgia city of
Albany by the Cudahy company.
Hosiery mills, each costing In the
neighborhood of $500,000, were pro
posed for Albany and Cordele, Ga.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad company listed $1,125,000
for improvements on Its Birming
ham field sheet mill.
The Ensley rail mill of the T.
C. I. and R., will resume operations
Nov. 1 with about $3,500,000 in or
ders on the books.
Chattanooga, Tenn., was advised
the U. S. i'lpe and Foundry com
pany proposed to start a new $1,
000,000 plant there In January.
The Koppers company of Pitts
burgh made public plans for Im
mediate construction of 146 coke
ovens at Fairfield, Ala.
The Union Bag and Paper com
pany dedicated a $4,000,000 factory
at Savannah and the Resin Prod
ucts company, a Delaware corpora
tion, has announced plans to ra
$100,000 plant there.
The Scott Paper company of
Chester, Pa., reported It had form
ed a partnership In the $7,000,000
Brunswick Pulp and Paper com
pany organised by the Mead Cor
poration of Chlllicothe, O.
Construction of an $8,000,000 mill
at Georgetown by the Southern
Kraft corporation was announced
by its parent concern, the Interna
tional Paper and Power company.
Attend Meeting
At Salisbury
POLKVHjLE, Oct. 39 — Among
those attending the annual Meth
odist Conference at Salisbury Sun
day were: Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Sta
nley and family, Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Covington, C. A. Bridges, John
Elliott and W. J. Bridges.
Loy Crowder returned Saturday
from Kansas City, Mo., where he
attended the young Tfcr Heel’s Far
mer’s Convention.
Mr. E. L. Dillingham will suc
ceed J. P. Elliott as superintendent
of the Polkvllle Sunday School be
ginning next Sunday. Mr. Elliott
has held this office for several
years.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Withrow,
Mrs. Ann Elliott, Misses Mae and
Beulah Philbeck motored to Ashe
ville Monday to visit Misses Mary
Gordon Elliott, Evela Withrow and
Hattie Gibbs who are students In
the Teachers College there.
Political Coercion
Charges Pushed
i WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—m—
. Senate agents pressed investigation
. of charges of political abuses on a
i new front after Republican de
mands for pre-election hearings on
r alleged coercion of relief workers
, in Pennsylvania had been refused
k by the senate campaign expendl
i tures committee.
Headed by Louis R. Glavis, in
i vestlgators were checking charges
- that Ohio industries were "coerc
i ing employes politically.” An an
nouncement from the committee
> said the charges were based on al
’ legations that employes of the
. Timken Roller Bearing company at
; Columbus, Oo., were informed the
l plant would close in event of a
t Democratic victory next Tuesday.
: CROWDS AT OBSERVATORY
l MAKE LAND OWNERS RICH
. PASADENA, Calif.—UP)—The Car
5 negie Institution’s Mount Wilson
l observatory is proving a bonanza
for the company which owns the
land on which it is situated.
Until a year ago the observatory
, could be reached wily by a steep,
narrow toll road and visitors were
comparatively few. Then Los An
geles county built a high gear road
up the mountain.
’ The institution charges no ad
mission, but the owners are reap
ing a harvest in parking and othei
fees.
Rockefeller Center in New York
. Is being augmented by the con
> strurtion of another skyscraper
unit.
Theatre Attractions
Gertrude Michael and Wal- j
ter Abel pictured in a |
mood characteristic of the
love drama, "Second Wife"
which stare them at the
Carolina today.
Prances Grant and Gens
Autry teamed for Satur
day's mirth and melody
adventure, "Oh’ Susanna!"
at the Carolina.
Hoot Gibson will be seen
In a comedy western on
Friday In which he plays
the title role of “Lucky
Terror.”
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Today’s ..
SMALL TALK
— By MRS. RENN DRUM ft
her column “On The Record” recently scored the WPA,
for creating a class of workers whose attitude toward their
work must, of necessity, be different from that of workers
in jobs created naturally by business and industry. She
says, WPA workers are being unfitted by this attitude for
absorption into regular employment.
One of her charges against WFA
Is that It paya Its workers accord
ing to their needs, not according
to their abilities. For Instance,
workers of the same degree of
skill, demanding the same hourly
rate of pay, are given much work
or little, thus materially affecting
their pay envelopes, according to
whether their financial needs are
great or small. The man who has
a high rent to pay or a large fam
ily for whom to buy groceries learns
to ekpect more hours of work and
hence more pay, Miss Thompson
charges, than the Individual who
has only himself or herself to* sup
port.
• • • •
Despite my admiration for Miss
Thompson’s Immense store of In
formation on a great variety of
subjects and my envy of her abil
ity to see and reasn through a
subject, 1 can't get up much en
thusiasm over her quarrel with
WPA on this score.
Private industry has been mak
ing the same discrimination, pay
ing men more money than wom
en, every since the latter began
asking for jobs, not on the ground
of greater ability, not even on the
ground of working longer hours—
as does the WPA—but simply be
cause their financial need Is sup
posed to be greater. It has been go
ing on for at least 100 years and
yet we throw up our hands In hor
ror because the government fol
lows the same policy in response
to the demands of those who "must
have more" to meet a family’s
needs.
• • • •
In 1837 Susan B. Anthony, a girl
t of education, refinement and in
telligence, was thrown on the world
at the age of 17, following her
, father’s failure in business, and
. found it necessary to take what
, ever job she could get. In that era
; teaching was about the only re
■ spectable Job for a woman, so Su
, san became a teacher. Ker job
paid her the enormous salary—or
wage—of |3 a week, but she soon
discovered that a man in the next
I village, with less background, per
sonality and ability than she her
. self had, was being paid $13 a week
i for exactly the same work.
t Susan didn’t like it, no more
. ithan you and 1 would, and kept
turning the Injustice over in her
, mind during the year. Later she se
cured another school at better pay
| but soon discovered that here
. again exactly the same thing was
L true: TTie men doing the same
work In her locality were paid four
. times as much as she.
• • * •
Susan, unlike most people, had
| the courage to do something about
It and took up the cudgels in the
fight to change the views men
. (for whom the world had appar
ently been made) held of women
and. what was harder, to change
women’s Ideas about themselves.
She kept plugging sway at It, Or*
ganlzing conventions and clubs to
promote women’s rights, and lec
turing here, there and yonder for
the next sixty-nine years, until her
death in 1900.
• • • •
Despite the progress made by
the great Anthony and those of her
diciples who have kept up what she
started, it’s still a man’s world.
Men and boys are still, generally
speaking, given a higher salary rat
ing than women and girls, even
when the latter are more careful,
more capable and more conscien
tious workers, as they frequently
are.
You can scarcely throw a rock
without hitting some business firm,
or school, even in this advanced
age of 1930, in which there is dis
crimination of the same kind, so I,
for one, refuse to be Indignant
with WPA for doing the same thing.
• • • •
At any rate, girls, we rate better
than we did in Susan Anthony’s
day and, as I always say, the first
hundreds years are the hardest!
OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA
SAFE SAY8 EHRINGHACS
RALEIGH, Oct. 29.—UP)—Gover
nor Ebringhaus, now campaigning
for the Democratic party in Penn
sylvania, said over the long dis
tance telephone today that in his
opinion the Democrats would carry
Ohio and Pennsylvania next Tues
day. The governor spoke in Ohio
cities last week. He will return
j here Friday night.
jO&%jcsg
'T'HE whale la said to have the
1 largest mouth in the world,
with the hippopotamus ranking
second. And here we’ve been
giving Joe E. Brown all the
credit
• • •
The common sign of greeting
employed by Gulf of Mexico In
dians on meeting friends is to
blow into one another’s ears, a
custom also practiced by politi
cians.
• • •
Kansas has a law making it
J legal to eat snakes in public,
which still makes allowance for
the fact that political candidates
must often eat crow.
• • •
It is said that all bears are
“left-handed,” but we don’t be
lieve it. because we’ve often seen
tfc-; boss write with his right
hand.
• • •
An editorial states that wom
en are using more and more
electrical equipment. Certain
dancers, however, can’t see the
advantages of the electric fan.
SURPRISE DINNER
FOR MRS. PUTNAM
MT. SINAI. Oct. »—Saturday
and Sunday waa regular preaching
service. Rev. J. L. Jenkins was
preaent and brought inspiring mes
sages.
Mr. and Mrs. O. T. Ellis, Mr. and
Mn. R. O. Ellis and Misa Nell
Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Miller Ellia and
family surprised Mr. and Mrs. Shat
ter Putnam of Earl with a birth
day dinner Sunday. The dinner was
in honor of Mrs. Putnam.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hardin. Vio
let, Selma. Joe and John Hardin
spent the day Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Anthony of South
Side Lincoln Sunday. Mr. Anthony
is seriously 111. Prank Anthony re
turned home with them to spend
a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Hythe Putnam and
son, Billy, of Cltffslde spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. L. R.
Putnam.
Mr. and Mrs. Dayid Hardin and
family spent awhile Saturday with
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Kee of Kings
Mountain. Mrs. Kee is very help
less.
Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Weaver of
Gaffney were visitors of Mrs. Docla
Rollins during the week-end.
TAB HEELS TRIUMPH IN THEIR
NET ENCOUNTER WITH TULANE
CHAPEL HILU Oct. 39 — T h •
University of North Caroline re
mains the mythical king of the na
tional Intercollegiate tennis circles.
While their footballing brethren
fought courageously but futllely
against Tulane's powerful Green
Wave at New Orleans, Tar Heel
netters Ramsey Potts, of Memphis,
Tenn, and Archie Henderson, of
Chapel Hill, beat Tulane’s crack
oourtsmen, Ernie Butter, Billy Wes
terfleld and Joe Abrams two to one,
to make the Carolina invasion of
the far south a 60-50 affair.
MILL WATCHMAN KILLS
NEGRO OVER PAYMENT
EUZABETHTON, Oct. 3#.—(**—
Ed Beard, young nlghtwatchman
for the Tobermory Mill, was at
liberty today under $900, after toll
ing a coroner’s Jury he killed John
Payne, negro, in an argument over
overtime pay claimed by the negro.
Beard said he shot Payne after the
negro cursed him and put his hand
Inside his overalls.
LEE FAMILY GOES
TO FLORIDA HOME
DOUBLE SPRIN08. Oct. 30. —
Mr. and Mrs. Jap Lee and faintly
left laat week for Florida where
they make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Olln Martin and
children of Chesnee, 8. C. were vis
itors of Mr. and Mr*. P. B. Bridges
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Canlpe of
Lattlmore visited Mrs. W. W.
Washburn Sunday.
Mrs. Amelia Jane Blanton, who
has been sick Is Improving some.
Mlrs. J. O. Wsshbum and chil
dren and Mr. and Mrs. Dufaye
Bridges and son visited Mr. and
Mrs. Maloom Putnam of Zion Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cabiness and
children. Miss Canoe Cabantss and
Mrs. Hugh Logan and son. Charles
of Shelby were visitors at the home
df Mr. and Mrs. Bate Blanton Sun
day.
Sixty-eight fruit varieties thrive
In Florida.
LOOK THESE
OVER AND
COMPARE
VALUES
’29 Chevrolet Sedan .. $95
28 Dodge Sedan.$65
’28 Dodge Sedan_$125
’30 Ford Roadster_$125
’31 Chevrolet Pick-up $125
*29 Chevrolet 4-ton Truck
for-- $95
’34 Chevrolet 14-Ton
Truck.$295
’30 Ford Coach_$175
’34 Plymouth DeLuxe
Coach ..$395
’35 Plymouth DeLuxe
Sedan__$525
— Term* —
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The Time:
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MUSIC
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PING PONG
FORTUNE TELLER ‘
HOUSE OF HORROR
FREAKS
BABY SHOW
CAKE WALK
THE CRAZY HOUSE
There are to he standi for
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Dogs. Sandwiches, Peahutb,
Popcorn, Etc.
EVERYBODY COME
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