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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1934 , BIBLE THOUGHT •TAST REDEMPTION POINT!" }"My spirit shall not always strive with man."— Gen. 6:3. f ' V •" i "■* jOn the banks of the Niagara river, where the rafiids begin to swell and swirl most desperately preparatory to their final plunge, is a signboard which bears this startling inscription, "Past Re demption Point!** The one who gets into those bailing rapids and passes that point cannot retrace hfc way or be rescued." T >nr * * * '"Seek ye the Lord while He may be found; all ye upon Him while He is near." (Isa. 55:6). —Peloubet's Notes. MR. LEWIS EXPLODES A QUEER notion ♦ • • (BY BRUCE CATTOX) ' The critical gentlemen who tell us what books are worth reading seem to have been put on something resembling a spot by Sinclair Lewis, Nobel prize winner. Mr. Lewis has just writen a new novel, and in it he has reversed his field, to sin^ the praises of the American business man. He presents two characters, a hotel man and a playwright, and makes every con trast between them favorable to the for mer. Babbitt is avenged. The hotel man is an idealistic, hard-working gentleman who gives himself to his job because he loves it and not because he wants to get rich: The pJajpvright is a loafer who is inter ested solely in the money and fame his writing will bring him. By this contrast, Mr. Lewis says bluntly that the American business man often has much rhore of the "artistic spirit" than the artist himself. Now this seems to have the critics run ning around in circles. Their comments have been varied, but mostly they agree that Mr. Lewis himself is, at bottom, a Babbitt; that this latest effort is simply a pot-boiler, in which he has got down off his artistic pedestal and has given way to his old admiration for the successful money-getter. In other words, they have been very busy explaining how a writer of Mr. Lewis' caliber could make such an odd mistake. The one thing that seems not to have oc curred to them is that Mr. Lewis' thesis might be quite correct. There has grown up in American artis tic circles in the last decade a queer and illogical notion, to-wit: That even the most mecfiocre and talentless of writing persons is entft]£<£ by the very nature of things, to look down with contempt on the most able and c^eyoted of business men. We have been assured that the man who follows one of the arts, even if he does it without skill and without spirit, is a more admirable* and valuable chap than the man who puts in his licks in the marts of trade. All that Mr. Lewis has done, in this new novel of his, is to bestow a hearty razz berry on this queer notion and demon strate that there is nothing in it. A Shakespeare, to be sure, is worth more to the race than a Rockefeller. But does it follow that every fourth-rate scrib bler is basically a finer and nobler chap than the mdn who is out on the firing line in the world of business, working his heart out on a job whose rewards wop't be any where near commensurate with the effort he puts forth? The business man has been a target for the scribblers almost long enough. It is a good thing to see Mr. Lewis breaking a lance in his behalf. Joseph Stalin, "heap big" boss of the Communists of Ruscia and the world, gets red in the face and rages like a wild bull when he discusses the alleged designs of other nations on the peace and security of the §o\?et. Stalin is a bluffer, as Germany, Japan and other powers will find when they-crmie^to a show-down with the Com [munists. The best thing tlrat could happed I for the peace and security of the ^'orlcl would be a war between "Germany and Russia or Japan and Russia. Either coun try would give the Communist Rear a first class licking, that would cause the collapse of Communist control of Russia and the liberation of that people from slavery, and the smashing of Communist power would add immeasurably to the chances of world wide peace. The South Carolina Legislature, which meets each year, made a record last year for the length of its stay in Columbia and the record was not at all pleasing to the people of the State. This year the South Carolina body is hard at work in what ap pears to be a more efficient manner, with the certainty that the session will be short and all necessary business will get atten tion. The State Department of Education of Alabama announces that the public schools in 29 of the State's 67 counties will have to be closed on or about February 1st. There is no cash to pay the cost of keeping these schools going. Conditions in North Carolina's public school system are not ideal, but are far better than in Alabama's system. According to the warden of New York'0 prison, the gangsters running it maintained order better than he could. Which should qualify them for the highest political jobs, when, as and if Tammany ever gets back. United States senators, a scientist re veals, have brains that average two ounccs heavier than those of representatives. That must be the weight of the additional re sponsibilities the senators hold. U. S. Weather Bureau warns us that white lightning is more hazardous than the brilliant red flashes—especially when the white stuff comes in a bottle. NEWSPAPERS' OPINION DIAGNOSES DIFFER Judges Michael Schenck and Thomas J. Shaw opening court at Asheville and at Lincolnton both had suggestions to make which, they felt, were calculated to have a retarding effect upon violations of the law and general cussedness.' Judge Schenck urged the members of his grand jury to report to the solicitor any instances of drunken driving, adding the fearsome promise that "it you bring before this co!»irt any offenders, I yrill lix it so they can't operate an automobile over our highways for a long time." / . Judge Shaw's observation took a different task. "If newspapers," he said, "would discontinue th^ publication of crime news, I believe it would do more than any effort of the government to curb crime . . . These crime stories, which always get prominent positions in the papers, are serving as abetters to lawlessness in this country." What is common to these separate utterances ii> the readiness with which both distinguished (that adjective ought to insure us agairy>t contempt pro ceedings) jurists recommend extra special proce dure to curb lawlessness in general and in particu lar. Judge Schenck requests the individuals who comprise the grand jury to turn coppers and re port those they may have seen driving drunk in order that he may pop it to them. Which might be helpful but not anywhere near so helpful as would a unanimous resolution simply on the part of the courts themselves to deal adeqately with drunken drivers brought before them in the ordi nary run of business. Ignored by Judge Schenck are such pertinent facts that in Charlotte, for ex ample, last year 123 drunken drivers were arrested and not more than a very occasional one, if any, sent to the roads; that of 33 who appealed from the judgment of recorder's court to the superior court the cases of 25 were nol prossed. As for Jud£e Shaw's suggestion, made, it is ex plained, not as an attack upon that group the stock in trade of which is happenings, a Charlotte sta tistic again suffices to return to the doorstep of the courts the baby which they would work off on the newspapers: In the last three yeai-s alone there have been 76 homicides in this city, yet during the full 24 years of the electric chair's existence it has had only two customers from Mecklenburg, with another on deck. Does His Honor consider that an agreement by the newspapers to refrain from publishing crime news would have anywhere near so salutary an effect as a few first-class executions directed by the courts?—Charlotte News. STALIN TALKS WAR The chief of the Communists of the world, Sta lin of Russia, was evidently feeling his oats a few days ago. He got up on a stump and shouted to Europe and Asia a note of warning "not to poke their snouts into the Soviet potato patch." Which was the equivalent of calling Germany and - Japan swine—for those are the governments he was talking ^bout. Whether he scents aggressive attitudes on the part of these two countries or is merely being dra matic to hear them hand-clap him is not important for the moment. What is of consequence, however, is that he is fixing to become an incendiary of war himself by this manner of braggadocio.—Charlotte Observer. [ Age for wisdom, youth for enthusiasm and exe cution. NO MC—MOSTM'T HAjMG" AROOMD THE stock excHA^cre TOO MUCH | % V V j | THE SPOT-LIGHT By WICKES WAMBOLDT j PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES Shortly before the bank of the United States failed, a heavy de positor in that bank who had heard disqieting rumors called up a close friend of his, a law-, yer, who was identified with the bank, and said: "Say, Max, I've got fifty-five] thousand dollars on deposit in the Bank of the United States. Should I draw it out?" Max hemmed and hawed and talked all around the subject for awhile; then friendship got the upper nana ana he blurted out: "Blankety blank j it, yes." Thus tipped off, the deposi tor drew out his f i f ty-five thou- i sand dollars a day before the! Bank of the: United States, cracked up. La ter, meeting his friend Max, on, the street, the WAMBOLDT ex-depositor ex pressed his gratitude for what Max had done for him." "What did I do? enquired Max. • t "You advised me to draw my fifty-five thousand dollars out of the Bank of the United States." "Did I?" queried Max. "I don't remember a thing about it." "Oh yes you did," asserted the ex-depositor; and he remind ed Max in detail of the conver sation. Max looked thoughtful. The next day the ex-depositor received a bill from Max for live thousand dollars for professional services. Meeting Max on the street subsequently, the former depos tor greeted him with: "This is a fine day, Max i.sn't it?" Then suddenly rememoer ing the five-thousand-d o 1 1 a r charge, he lifted a warning hand to head off Max's reply, and said: "Remember Max, I'm .telling you, not asking you." RULES OF OKUfcK After a board of alderman had stewed around in their own juice for a number of months, and the public had been obliged to witness first one thing- and then another, a friend of the administration suggested the following rules of order: 1.—No member of this board shall talk more than three hours on any one subject without se curing permission from the board every sixty minutes to proceed. 2.—No member of this board shall interrupt his own or any other member's discussion of a question to tell irrelevant anec dotes. 3.—Such expressions as "liar," "thief," "half fool half crook", "libertine," "embezzler," etc. ap plied by one member to another, shall be considered objectionable oveh when applicable. 4.—Any person appearing be fore this board with intention of shooting any member of it or the city manager, must first pro cure a hunting license. 5.—Any member of this board squirting rotten eggs through his teeth at the presiding officer shall be considered out of order. (>.—Any member of this board who fails to smile when he ac cuses another member of having canine ancestry will be consider ed out of order. ~ it 1— 11 l - iL- ~ r i.L. /.—it siiuii of tut; uuuy ux uie presiding officer to enforce these rules with the aid of a sawed off shot gun which will be provided qut of an emergency fund to be included in the next budget. 8.—Any time the presiding of ficer wishes to make a remark, he shall surrender the gavel to the vice chairman, leave the chair, walk around the block, salute the flag three times and exclaim in a loud voice, "de i gustibus non est disputandum." 9.—It is understood and agreed that except where there may be conflict with the foregoing pro visions, the conduct of this board shall be governed by Marquis of Queensbury rules. JJj£ _________ - INNOCENT BYSTANDER - - - (Who Should Be Shot) # v When an aspiring colunmnist takes a vacation for even a week end he should always carry along the materials of his trade or else possess a good memory, for he invariably sees or hears some thing worth recording and pass ing along. Tht' Bystander passed a cou ple of days and a night in the Pisgah National Forest a few days ago, hence the necessity for . getting some of this stuff off his | chest. In the forest there is much evidence of the activity of the CCC lads. All over the place one sees trees cut about the trunk ro that they will die and the forest be thinned out. There must be thousands of feet of wood thus condemned. It was this fact that maikes a remark of a friend pertinent. With the CCC thus killing out a large quantity of timber, authorities contracted for wood at Tuxedo to be hauled into the forest to keep the CCC's warm during the winder. High . on top of a mountain near Club Gap there stands the remains of a one-room cabin. It stands in the center of a small clearing: and there are remains of a rail fence in front and in the rear of the house. The cabin is built of hewed logs and what remains of the floor appears to be hewed plank The chimney is of rock plastered with mud. although there is no rock in the immediate vicinity. ; ! Even now the place is hard to j reach. Years ago some hardy pioneer moved into that country, hauled rock, cleared land, hew ed logs, built fences and called the place home. His problems were practical, not theoretical but he tackled them in charac teristic pioneer American fash [ ion—bv rolling up his sleeves and j going to work. Only ruins re ! main of his work, but he left there a lesson for those who should follow after. This coun j try. was built by people who ! pushed out and hewed out places | for : themselves in a wilderness. There is a power line that cuts | through the heart of the forest. I It runs through the mountains i straight as an arrow, up moun tains and down valleys. It must have been a tremendous under | taking, and we were- informed I that it cost a million dollars to i construct the right of way. Re-1 turning to Hendersonville by way of the golf course we were casu-1 j ally informed by 'Pink' Drake that ,he ran levels on the job. j 'Pink' stated thai at times it was necessary for his rod men to , lower him over cliffs to carry i on his work. I Deer apparently have a great deal of native brain power. Inj j the forest they scarcely pav any ; attention to people, but 'off the | j government' they raise head and> tail and head for the forest con-1 fines as soon as man approaches, i The party was composed of good sportsmen, but the best of the lot was the 9-year-old daugh ter of our host. The party made no allowances for her tender years and she seemed to expect none. On Saturday 'night she finished a toilsome trip to Beech Knob, at the head of the party ; she spent the night in a track load of straw, she washed her, face in the morning in cold mountain water, she curried her. own horse after breakfast and i was off on a 25-mile ride: through the mountains without [the benefit of trails, and when the time arrived to leave she begged to stay another night. One of the best views in the mountains may be had from j Beech Knob. The entire country j spreads out before one's feet;i Pisgah to the left, the Pink Beds ' below, and llendersonville in the I distance. At night automobile lights on the Hendersonville-Bre vard and Hendersonville-Asheville road are clearly seen. There seems to be a great deal of dead wood in the forest. Most of the chestnuts are dead as the result of a blight of. a few years ago. Horses are a great deal like people. Four of the animals were picketed out for the night. The fifth, a pony, was left to wander about. He immediately sensed the fact that the others were at his mercy and for the remainder of the night he passed away the time worrying them. This greatly annoyed an emin ent dentist on the party. His. bed was near the wall of the wall of the cabin and immedi ately in line with the heels of one of the horses as she made passes at the pony most .of the night. Making a fire is a gift and not an art to be acquired by practice. Those doubting this statement should try their hand | at it some time. I OAK GROVE OAK GROVE, Feb. 1.—Rev. J. | S. Holbert filled his regular ap-| pointment here Sunday. A very interesting sermon was delivered. A Sunday school group meet ing will be held here at 2:30 p. m„ Sunday, February 11. j This group includes East Flat Rock,. Saluda, Mount Page, Oak' Grove, Friendship, Tryon Second. Macedonia and Tryon First. M. L. Walker, group leader, is ex pecting a large gathering. Super intendents. pastors and teachers are cordially invited. Miss Eunie. Stepp spent Sun day night with Miss Evelyn Stepp of East Flat Rock. Mr. and Mrs. Fanning Corn of Hendersonville, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ben nison. The state has been doing some nice work on the roads in this community. It is greatly appre ciated. Mitchell Surratt has completed his house" and moved into it "re cently. Mrs. Alex Capps and daughter,' Mrs. J. M. Campfield called on Mrs. T. H. M. Labor, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. A. D. Hill has an apart ment in East Flat Rock where she holds a position with the Chipman-LaCros.t Hosiery mills. Mrs! A. A. Rice spent the past week in Hendersonville with her i mother, Mrs. O. V. F. Blvthe. A number of Miss Lois Pace's friends gave a surprise partv at her home here Saturday night. Those in attendance were Misses Willie McGuinn. Arlene Gibbs, Minnie Camnfield, Helen Kuy kendall, Myrtle and Edith Stepp together with Messrs. Fred Ed ney, Raymond McGuinn, Ossie Orr, Clifton Nicholson, James Gibbs, and Woodrow and Grady Ward. A number of interesting games and an old fashioned candy pulling were enjoyed. Evevvone reported a grood time. Miss Syble Tabor spent Sun day night with Miss Minnie Campfield of East Flat Rock. There is no substitute for newspaper advertising. V/asUINGION BY RODNEY DITCHKB >'K.l Mrrvlce .Stall ('nrrrsponili'iil rrirASHlNGTON — The cocktail W party, by-product of prohibi .ion, flourishes despite repeal. In Washington, at least, host isses and bachelors simply have put on more steam. Even before liquor became legal here, they ;ast off such few inhibitions as remained and undertook to outdo one another in the matter of bril liant gatherings, marvelous mix lures and accompanying nibbles. There's every reason to believe that there'll be more rather than fewer cocktail parties, now that1 they're mentionable in the society | columns. Foreign diplomats still are throwing the most popular shin digs. however Senor Jose Manuel Lara, third secretary of the Cuban embassy, took over the Meridian Mansions ballroom to serve mar tinis and Scotch the other after noon and his party broke all recent gate-crashing records. Lara invited 112 people, but some of the most ambitious guz ding was done by 4 0 uninvited guests * * * A FTER the Senate hearings on the gold bill one remembers. Owen D. Young, still handsome, | but paler .ind more tired than at j many previous appearances. Owen ' always is invited here to testify j it big hearings, if only from force nf habit, though on such matters 1 is gold and prosperity more atten-1 :ion is paid to men like Professor j Warren, who made hens lay eggs Dy electric light, and Father Houghlin, the Detroit priest . . . Senator Carter Glass, whose nat ural expression always makes iOu think ho detects a loud odor nearby - " Seiiar/r .t . „ Byrnes of South Carolin; i,. ■ the committee table . 1 Bulkley of Ohio, pi« k.nt teeth . . SUtinjc th row, l*t»t not togethn ' dressed,jhatless Mrs. genthau. whose exc-itemr-i:- . creased- almost daily a> h.'5 band successively has of FCA, acting Treasury secretory in fact, and u..,;'. prospective custodian 000.000 stabilization borrrtwer of Sj.0,0rt(i.e. ^ Jouett Shouse. daughter . A. Fileno, Boston nien i',:.;. j.M red dress! Ex-Sena;, r ' of Oklahoma, who s?;. authorship of the i. Act wttli Glass. • O T OCAL authorities im-1„ ,, ^ would be ,itiM s\m-I! i , |u Mrs. Woodrou \Vilvi,u ,,, ^ District or Ooluml>i.i |,1)||i(t control hoard. She s.,„| wasn't interested. She still gets around (.,llt| affairs sis liuisirahs, memorial dinners, an<l inys of the National W•■n,.-11-s Democratic t.'lub. , c * * CRNATOKS Ret aw.,. ^ der in the social i.t , e A general's wife gave a : ^ other night for ISO pcopl. j„ J(' of Secretary of War :in<i :.! The party was due to .v,4 y S 15, but two senator* \v re late The flustered hostcr . c,j ,t[# most prominent •sena*. r pro(>nl what to do^ He told Ivr i.> w,{ her guests and let theiu Irnrn *:.* had been delaying tli- MM |, But she waited till if;e tVj senators arrived—at 0 p. m. /Pnnvrlfhl 1011 VIM Q. r\ >f. j. ^ Former .Queen horizontal 1 Who Is the royal lidy in the picture? 12 Musical drama 13 Farewell. 14 To accumulate 16 Domesticated. 17 Agitates. 19 Any long tube 20 Dyewocd tree. 21 Jellyfish. 23 Kindled. 24 Oil (suffix). 25 Chaos. 26 You and me. 2S Sun god. 29 God of love. 31 River iu Egypi 33 Hops kiln. 24 Driving command. 35 Sheaf. 36 To affirm. 38 before Christ. 39 Tone B. 10 Second note. 11 Above. 13 Greek leicer. 15 Passage under -in arch. >1 Since. Answer to Previous Puzzle 51 :L'H;ETrMl_IPON.TG'E"NT N A| I 1 Ma L AiOPALL N AMElX PA V sIBTIt.E 4 OIVEiq IbOPBAMA wiLHtLMRSlSE? 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