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(Lbr (JioifB-Nrma HeadertonrWe News Eit*bliihe4 in 1894 H«o4*riMvilU Time* Established in 1881 Published every af' -rnoon except Sunday at 227 North Main Street, Hendersonville, N. C., by The Times-News Co., Inc., Owner snd Publisher. J. T.FAIN .Editor C. M. OGLE Managing Editor HENRY ATKIN -City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Wy Times-News Carrier, in Hendersonville, or else where, per week „ — 12c Due to high postage rate.*, the subscription price of Tho T:mes-Nfw» in zones above No. 2 will be baaed on the cost of postage. Entered as second class matter at the po#t office in Henderson vtlJe, N. C. TELEPHONE 87 THURSDAY; OCTOBEK 22. 1 BIBLE THOUGHT SOUL CROWTH "And He took them, and went aside privately Into a desert place." (Luke 0:10) • • • In order to prow in grace, we munt be much alone. It is not in society that the sou' prows nio»t vigorously. In one tingle quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest, and the air is purest.—Andrew Uonar in Streams in the Desert. VICE PRESIDENCY SHOULD BE MADE A REAL JOB (By KRl.'CE CATTON) Every four years the attention of tin* American people is jogged to a realization of the fact that their vice president leads a, deplorable life. He gets a workout during the campaign, and he usually makes the most of it—ex cept in the case of Mr. Garner, who doesn't seem to like to make speeches. A vice president has to make the most of it, for it js the only chance he gets. If his ticket is beaten, of course, he re tires to private life, and there are no more rear platform talks in his program. And if he wins, his fate is even worse; for he re tires then to the lofty and distinguished obscurity of the vice presidency, wherein his compatriots ignore him completely and eternally. This has become a great joke, in recent years. That excellent musical show of a few years back. "Of Thee I Sing." got at least half of its fun from a long-drawn jibe at the vice president's plight. Tom Marshall, vice president under Wil son. lived up to the part perfectly when he solemnly announced that what the country needed most was a good five-cent cigar. It was generally agreed that that was the kind of statement a vice president should issue. But how absurd is all this! The vice president holds the second highest office in our gift. One life stands between him and the presidency. Logically, he should be selected with as much care as the pres ident. And the job that he holds most cer tainly should be as big as the responsibility that goes with it. As things stand, of course, the job is a washout. The vice president must be more or less a parliamentarian to preside over the Senate; he needs a stout digestive ap paratus so that he may eat all the dinners offered to vice presidents. Beyond that, he has nothing whatever to do. Small wonder that many good men sel dom want the job, or that those who hold is are so promptly forgotten. We have been luckier with our vice presidents than we deserve. The two who were advanced to the presidency in the century — Calvin Coolidge and Theodore Roosevelt—acquitted themselves very well indeed, and were triumphantly elected when their terms expired. Our "weak" presidents in the lltth cen tury were, as a rule, men who were elected directly to the office and not who stepped into it from the vice presidency. Kut we can't rely on that kind of luck torovtr. Sooner or later we are apt to find our little custom most horribly expensive, if and when wo do, we doubtless shall won der why we ever continued the custom so long It should not take too much rejiggering of our tews to make the vice presidency a real job—the sort of job a vice presidency is in a modern corporation, for instance. If we did that, we would automatically make the selection of vice presidential can didates a real job, too. And our machinery of government, year in and year out, would i*t a lot sounder. Mabsachui>etts' Governor Curley's car has just been in a second collision. By now it should not be hard to detect at a distance tiie Curiey leaders. ^Political addre^se?- over the radio are gettttg shoru:r." It it * queaUon whether luiteu«>r* witi approve being dtpnvtd ot the fc&U* ainep. NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS | 0 UNDEBATED ISSUES President Roosevelt's failure to discuss what ire rrally the basj.; issues of this campaign is disap pointing. Mr. Roosevelt, uoon takinir office, com mitted himself to a pragmatic aporoach to the very serious problems which confronted (h«- American people. Hp said that he would try this and that, seeking the best advice he could, and whav »vorked he would retain and what proved a failure he would reject. Now, at the end of his administration, one might reasonably hope that the head of the srovern rnent, standing for reelection, would tell the Amer ican people which of his policies he considers to have stood the test of application, and which he believe* should be abandoned or modified, and if modified, how. Hut, instead, he stands on the record. The rec ord. however, contains some notable successes and some ghastly failures, and it contains, also, some attempts which are now accepted by both parties a- being sound in objective, but which are much criticized as they are legally framed and practical ly administered. The clearest demonstration of the government's attempts to deal with an unproved thesis was the NRA, conceived as m plan for the organization of self-government of industry under basic codes. By the time businessmen and trade union leaders had all assembled in WaNhington, each group trying to devise a code which would cover every possible emergency and be rigged for every possible advan tage. the whole thing reached an absurdity, and when it was thrown out by the supreme court there was a very general sigh of relief. This part of the program the president passes over in airy silence. But the silence is not acceptable. Did the president learn anything from this experience— except in the field of politics? What does he think today? It is my belief that if the president is re elected it will be because most people believe that he has abandoned permanently this part of his pro. grair. But there is nothing in anything he has thu.« far said to justify that belief. The third part of his program aims at tne re- j haiulitation of the victims of the depression, and abandons the laistez faire social policy which has been traditional in this country. Under it comes the relief administration, the youth administration and the social security provisions for old-age pen sions and unemployment insurance. Here there is unanimity between both parties as to the princi ples. Hut there is the greatest possible divergence as to method. The administration's only answer to attacks on method is that the Republicans don't mean their promises; that they are a crowd of social reactionaries who intend to scrap all social security and all federal relief if they come into power, and that since the principle is all richt the practice will adjust itself. To this columnist that kind of answer is unfair to the American people, and contemptible. The question of method can be quite a> important as the question of principle. The que.stion of whether relief shall be centralized fed erally, of whether a made-work program is wise, of whether it is the business of the federal govern ment to see that every unemployed actor and writer -hall be provided with work projects, are questions which millions of American citizens are asking. But the president and his spokesmen are dodging every important question in this part of the government program and confining themselves merely to expressions of warm humanitarianism. That is not enough!—Dorothy Thompson. MR. WARBURG SEES THE LIGHT The letter of James P. Warburg to Secretary Hull is a notable contribution to the present cam paign. It is notable not so much because to those who read only the headlino it will seem that Mr. War burg has recanted the bitter criticisms which ho made of the Rooseveit administration as for the deeper reason which he gives for his disappoint ment in the Republican campaign. Mr. Warburg's "Hell Bent for Klection" was a-t savage an attack upon the New Deal as it has had to meet either before or since the Warburg book was written. He does not withdraw any of the criticisms which he made in that book or in his later book, "Still Hell Bent." But in his letter to Mr. Hull ho declares mat what the Roosevelt administration is now accom plishing. through Secretary Hull's efforts, towards making possible a return to sanity in our wor'd relationships "transcends all the many apparent issues which, no matter how important in them selves, can he met only if we meet the one basic issue squarely." The stabilization of currencies and the revival of world trade offer, as Mr. Warburg sees, the only hope of preserving in the United States what many are pleased to call "the American system," the only hope of avoiding a state of affairs in this country under which government will be compelled to ex orcise a larger and larger measure of control. Mr. Warburg has been deeply disappointed in Governor Landon'S candidacy in that he sees Mr. Landon attacking the principle which he thinks is vital above all other issues, the principle in which is embodied "the fundamental basis of all liberty and all liberalism." He sees the Roosevelt adminis tration alive to the importance of this principle and making visible progress in its extension. He deserves praise for having set forth his convictions so clearly, so understandably. It took courage to write at this stage of the campaign such a letter as he has sent to Secretary Hull. The wonder is that some others whose title to be known as liberals has been longer advertised than that of Mr. Warburg fail apparently to grasp the essential truth upon which he puts his finger so squarely.—Asheville Citizen. The political debate which has been in progress since the national conventions has clarified some of the issues now before the country, but on cer tain major points the position of the two principal parties and their candidates remain obscure. Does any one know, three weeks before the election, what formula for relief unemployment the Repub lican party would propose in the event of its return to power? Does any one know, beyond all possi bility of doubt, the present intentions of the Dem ocratic party with respect to the regulation of pri vate industry? Does any one know whai specific measures either party would employ to briuyr the national budget into balance? These aje important MUuNtionu. The answers to thuin lemaijj in doubt Uj U.l presidential campaign eiiU:id its bit*! phase.—r THERE'S STILL TIME TO FIND OUT (jOS*1 v WHO ARE all THESE OTH€R CWOPlDATES^ WPmMNt Afi/p iWH*. Y ° T>£M. O /267=; 1 Roosevelt HtMPOti U GfliRniPt? ~ tfA/0* 60i/£RAiorz . coa/ggfss Inaccuracy Is Harmful _ By WICKES WAMBOLDT A recent advertisement «>f :i furnace firing device t<-li> home owners that it will pay for itself in a few short months. How could it? Th<* outfit costs Wamboldt ul»>ut atti<l even though it could be operat ed entirely with out fuel—which of course it could not — it would take a period of y e a l" s — n o t months — for it to pay for it>«*lf. An advert de merit which mis states the ca>e hurts t h«* ca'L-<* for which it ap pears, hurts the advertising business. A lew c|ur-k dollars may be picked ii|> by put ting out claims that cannot be substantiated, but the final result is loss of business through loss of confidence. Justified faith in tin* person, firm or corporation you deal with, is good insurance against disap pointment and dissatisfaction; and it is worth paying a reason able amount for. An unfounded statement hurls any cause, and casts suspicion on associated statements which may be true. If a man makes a series of declarations to me and I know one of them to he incorrect, I look with doubt on a 11 the rest of hu< claims. And all this wild, loose politi cal talk that is beinjr thrown around now is nut helping the reputation of certain politicians 1101 the profession of politics. Some of the political speeches and programs so ooze insincerity that you can feel it and umell it t i veil through the radio. CORDIALITY AND SINCERITY One Sunda\ morning. finding, myself in a strange city, I picked <«ut a church at random and went t<< it. 1 liked the minister; I liked his sermon. At the close of the service 1 told him «o. IJy the next Sunday my wife had joined me. I took her to that (lunch and introduced her to that minister. Laying his hand on my shoulder, he said to her. "\Ve ' hitik a great deal of your husband in our church." I was disappointed in my man. I had not met a soul in that church except him—and him for less than half a minute the week before. Cordiality is a fine quality, but it needs sincerity to make it click. Without sincerity cordiality is as sounding brass, or a tinkling cvm bal. On another occasion one Sun-' day morning in a distant city, I went to a church in which I knew no one and no one knew me. As I I was leaving after the services, one of the deacons headed me off and introduced himself; he I brought up his wife and introduc < d her. "VY«.* want you to go home t«»1 dinner with us," said the deacon. "Indeed we do," said his wife. | I went and. though I left that town soon afterward, that was BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE CAMPAIGN HY IIODNKY Dl K'.IIKH it r MnfT • nrrrviiwiiilrtit CPRIN(iKIKM). Ill .lust one of those speeches which Senator Borah refuses to make I*»r the Re publican licket might easily cinch Illinois and her 2M precious «Icc tor.d votes for (lovernoi I.;ind<«n. Mention the "I.ion of Idaho" to ;>»•>* regular (I. (). P. politician in Illinois and you produce an in stantaneous explosion. For Illinois—one of those states which Landon must carry to heat Roosevelt— is dangerously doubt ful. And Horah, whose power in the state was demonstrated when he jolted Col. Frank Knox by ear ly mj; everything in the presiden tial primaries outside of Cook county, has left the party singing the mournful melody and bitter re frain of ' Here Am I, but Where Are You?" So many cross-currents, con cealed daggers, new ungucssables. possible phefinglings and maqooz lings are to be found that few gamblers dare oiler odds worth mentioning on the outcome. « «> 0 |\KMOCRATS have begun their ' campaign late, not really starting until the president's Chi cago speech. In April's primaries they piled up a half a million more votes than Republicans and Illinois then seemed a sure New Deal lift. Vigoiou.; Republican efforts since Landon's nomination have produced some backswing. Wheth er the Republicans can success fully meet the impact of the Chi cago. state, and federal Demo cratic patronage machines Nov. may depend on the amount of money they can toss into the pot. Mayor Kelly of Chicago says privately Roosevelt will got 1.100. 000 votes in Cook county and Landon between 800.000 anil 850 - m. If Kelly and Moss 1'addy Nasn and thru t ily machine ran make yond on thai estimate, il may be ion bad for the Republicans, who 1 aren't hoping (or much better than a 2»>«>.im»0 plurality in the rot of the .state*. . KoosevcM carried Illinois by l.'iO.nnu in IM1! and Hoover by Itfo.noo m 1928. Roosevelt's 19IJ2 lead ( .ime half from Chicago and half from downstate. '* # ») I/FFF.CT of state contests on ■ 1 the national elections in Illi nois i. variously interpreted. Gov Henry Horner, who trounced the ; Ke!l>-Nash machine in April af ter it tried to deny him a rcnomi nation. is battling for re-election against Republican "Curly" Way ; l; pd Brooks, former assistant ' state's attorney in Chicago, j In Chicago one hears Homer will run behind Roosevelt; down ! state, that he will rue. ahead On I the other hand, you can hear ' many voters say they'll vote for Roosevelt and Brooks, which doesn't help clear the picture. The extent to which the feud ! between Horner and the Kelly Nash machine has been patched i up is uncertain. Some behove (Kelly and Nash are . harpcnin« | the knife for Horner in Cook j county. But preponderant opin ion is that they'll no down the j line for Roosevelt, if only to pre i serve a stand-in at Washington in case he is re-elected. <>*><■ r\0\VNSTATE farmers arc likely I to decide the Illinois result. ( Except in a small area, they have i escaped the drouth. Their emo 1 tions seem mixed between anger over agricultural imports and pleasure over greatly improved farm prices. Republicans need much better than a 50-50 break on the farms to give 'them the state. • I'mivrielit r»36 !•»!■** In^ I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I I NOTE—No unsigned commu* nications are published by The Times-News. All letters must be signed with the real name of the author. No communications signed with a fictitious name will be published.—EDITOR. Asheville, X. C. October l!'. 1 !*"{•» Kditor, The Times-Xews: With the presidential election less than three weeks away, it be hooves every intelligent voter to take stock of the situation and compare it with tho picture dur ing the days of the previous ad ministrations. The writer does not care to go lack three or four years. He pre fers to forget that period, but trusts that those who desire to share such forget fulness will not be unappreciative of the vast con-1 trast as presented to the revitaliz ed America. The writer would rather talk of improved conditions today. In Western Xorth Carolina alone there is more money in cir culation now than at any time since I When I say now, 1 mean at thi< time—less than three weeks before the election. If pre vious presidential elections have adversely affected business, the present campaign is the reverse of the rule. There has been no lull. Further, it cannot be gainsaid that the farmers' finances are bet ter. and that organized labor's po sition has been improved. And. businesses, large and small, no longer struggle for existence. We hear a lot about the fed era' deficit. From the standpoint of preserving human worth, which the present administration has done, there is no deficit. Hut, look at it from a monetary standpoint, and let it be admitted that th«Mo is a deficit—we must remember that the increasing incomes will eventually meet the deficit and balance the budget. Ann, speaking: «>I government finances, and the things which have I)een done, anil speaking as an over-sea World war veteran, as well as a citizen and voter, wt should not he unmindful of the payment of the soldiers' bonus and th:it it has been paid under thi* administration. No congress man or senator worked more dili gently toward the enactment of this legislation than Congressman Weaver. We have forded the undercur rents of the River of Depression —leaving the shores of Despair behind, and are now cominjr into the harbor of Security, Opportun ity and Prosperity. Let us n<»t change horses in mid-stream. It behooves the voters, regardless of party politics, to re-elect Presi dent Roosevelt and Congressman Weaver, and to cast a vote to per petuate the work of the present nat ional administ rat ion. Yours verv trulv, Wm.' P. FISHKR. HOUND IS SUICIDE SYDNKY (UP) —A in Folk, a famous racing greyhound, com mitted suicide while being trans ported here from Brisbane by ai ulace, by biting through a can vas and leaping to his death. Fright from the unaccustomed motion is believed to have been the cause. Free meals for longdistance bus passengers are among the lat est inducements offered to the traveling public, the beginning of a warm friend ship which has endured for more than twenty years. Last week that same man and his wife were quests in my home, having conn to visit' lis during » six-thousand inilc trip. Wait a Minute By Noah Hollowcll HUB OWFNBY NOTES V indifferent attitud- • c-1«•»k.-. "Thoujrh a < i, ■». rich or a* |»<•«»r a- .l<>b' t it i* a poor -toiv policy ' tolerate inclit*l*«*rt»iit rlerk-.' Mr. Owenby. Fie think- i1 a - is too tired and w«.rn <>■,< day's toil to smile and ay ••• you" with enth:isia«m. !.c • outfit to he eXeused I'. ' manager an«l u'**■ • • f• t jjo homo and rest. THE GROUP PHOTO Ot ! I. 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