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THE TIMES-NEWS HendersonTill« News Established in 1894 Hendersonville Times Established in 1881 Published every afternoon except Sunday at 22' North Main street, Hendersonville, N. C., by Th< Times-News Co., Inc., Owner and Publisher. J.T. FAIN Edftoi C. M. OGLE Managing Editoi HENRY ATKIN City Edito] TELEPHONE 87 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Times-News Carrier, in Hendersonville, or else where, per week 12c Due to high postage rates, the subscription price of The Times-News in zones above No. 2 will be based on the cost of postage. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Hendersonville, N. C. » THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1938 BIBLE THOUGHT EXAMINE YOURSELVES (2 Cor. 13:5) * ♦ * Many business men "take stock" in the closing days of the year in order that they may know just where they stand. Likewise we would do veil to take an inventory of our spiritual lives to see just where we stand in reference to Christian duties that are enjoined in the Scriptures. God help us to search out the deep places in our own hearts as we stand at the close of the old year and upon the threshold of the new.—Rev. Walter L. L'ngle, D.D. LOOKING INTO THE NEW YEAR Arriving at the end of the year 1938, information and opinions gathered by The Times-News lead to the conclusion that general business conditions in Henderson ville and the surrounding country have been this year approximately on a level with conditions last year. There is always differences of opinion in reference to such matters, and citizens are to be found who say that business was better in 1938 than in 1937, and on the other hand, perhaps equally as many can be found who assert that business this year was not so good as it was last year. According to the judgment of this news paper there has been on the whole little difference in this community and its rural territory in general business conditions this year and last year. There is not so much talk about depression conditions as in past years, but the explanation of that may be that the people have become so hardened to these conditions that they are ceasing to give them the place in their thinking and affairs which characterized the first years of the depression. At any rate, in Hendersonville and this section the prevailing spirit and attitude of the peopl^ is better than at any time in the past eight years, according to the estimate of this newspaper. This we believe to be the indication of the beginning of a gen eral movement in the town and section to ward greater activity in all lines of effort for the expansion of business, industry, trade and the upbuilding of Hendersonville and the adjacent territory. Two courses are open to our population. Our people can quit the fight or they can continue it and push with renewed vigor and determination throughout the new year. If they quit, all would ultimately land on Uncle Sam's relief rolls. A large majority of our citizens have no intention whatever of going in that direction. The natural course, and the one which will un doubtedly be taken by all citizens who have interests of any sort, or who have the capacity and determination to work for thpir own betterment and the general bet terment of their town and section, is that suggested in the first paragraphs of this article. Having endured the depression for eight years and survived, there is no reason to brieve that our people are going to throw irp the sponge and quit now, but there are many sound reasons for believing they will meet 1939 with renewed energy, with plars for expansion of business and for addition al development of the community and coun try. That is certainly the sanest and safest course they can take. The rewards of such efforts will not be what they were in pre depression years, but there will be rewards iof those who labor intelligently and dili gently; and at the end of another yeai those who have pursued this course will b£ better satisfied with their efforts and achievements than those who quit the con test or backed down from the job of mak ing an honest effort to help themselves and their community. So, people of Hendersonville and th( Hendersonville territory, get on your toe? to welcome the new year. Jump into tht push for better business and forward th< upbuilding of your town and section bj giving enthusiastic support in 1939 to everj progressive movement and every effor njiade to promote the best interests of th( tpwn, county and State. ^ % • r • « * * 1 Chamberlain's threat to withhold Britisl credit from the German Keich would seen Vindicate that the pound will carry con siderabla weight with Hitler. NEWSPAPERS'OPINION* ' j I ... ■ ■ •' 'I i i i mi ARMING THE UlUTEd $TATfeS a - »f Ir | j ! -; The United States, according to all s'gns, *s pre f paring to embark upon the greatest era of arma ! ment construction in its history, excepting that of the World War. There is talk of a larg; increase ■ in the army, in the navy and the building* of ton thousand war planes. War planes soon become ob solete. Battleships, cruisers, destroyers and subma rines are comparatively shortlived.. Army equip ment must keep abreast of foreign invention and development and the payrolls of the army run on as long as the army exists. Perhaps the unsettled state of the world makes this rearmament program necessary, but the ad ministration and the Congress should know that to •Jbe true before adopting a program that will cost billions in comparatively few years. It is true that the building of war craft for water and air, the equipment of a great army and the construction of fortifications will release vast sums of money to relieve unemployment, but that alone should not be considered. The same amount of money might be spent to construct highways and roads, to build good schoolhouses where poor ones no.w are in use, to remove every railway grade crossing in the country, to bridge every stream where a bridge is needed and unemployment would be relieved on a broader scale. Many critics of lending and spending, of pump priming, will be found to endorse the program of armaments. Yet is it not pump-priming as much ' as were other expenditures of the present admin istration to which such violent objection was taken? The world situation may make it necessary for the United States to arm as never before, but there j should be no explanation save that the nation is in j danger of foreign attack. Italy, Japan, Germany, France and Great Britain have relieved unemploy-1 ment by the adoption of great armament programs, i The money they have spent, had it been invested in permanent internal improvements, would have given work for the unemployed and at the same time it would have revolutionized industry, busi ness, and the comforts of living. Those nations and others, with the exception of Great Britain, are al most bankrupt. Is it not possible that the United States may as severely feel the burden of the pro j posed armament program if it be authorized by Congress?—Spartanburg Herald. CHANGE IN ORDER r * * ■ Item number one in the legislative program of ► John L. Lewis' CIO for the new year is a measure ; to compel industry to obey the Wagner act or fore go its claims to federal contracts and loans. The ! CIO would keep the act virtually as it is. The American Federation of Labor on the other hand has as a prime objective in its 1939 program the making of substantial revisions in the Wagner act. The public, on the whole friendly to organized labor and eager for labor's development and prog ress, will hope for the success of the Federation's program. ,. For the Wagner act, as administered by the Na tional Labor Relations board, has been manifestly unfair and unjust to industry. It has been one sided. Employers hauled up under it have felt that their cause was lost before they started, and usual ly it was. The general objectives of the act as originally drawn were in keeping with the American spirit of progress and fair play but as passed and as admin istered the measure has been a disappointment and a stumbling block to improved industrial labor re j lations.—Greenville Piedmont. • JEFFERSON ON A THIRD TERM A splendid memorial to Thomas Jefferson will be constructed in Washington. This is a fine enter | prise, not because Jefferson's name needs it to es cape obscurity, but because the American people need to remind themselves constantly and visibly of great men, great thoughts, and great deeds of the past The past is the only teacher any people has. From the past, people must derive also much of their inspiration to wrestle with problems of the present. Jefferson was, as every one knows, the powerful democrat of his times. He urged and guided the United States into democratic ways. It is, there fore, strikingly appropriate for this memorial to be j under construction now, when democracy is slip ping as it has not slipped since the Monticello philosopher's life. The present is an apt time for people to study Jefferson, and if they do study him they will find this among his comments: "'The example of four presidents, voluntarily re tiring at the end of their eighth year, and the prog ress of public opinion that the principle is salutary, have given it in practice the force of precedent and usage; in so much that should a president consent to be a candidate for a third election I tru^t he would he rejected on this demonstration of ambi tious views."—Columbia State. UNPLEASANT NECESSITY Nobody but a professional jingo will feel very | cheerful about the President's recommendations for military, naval, and air expenditures—which turn out to be just about what was expected. There is something definitely incompatible between the no tion of a democratic society and that of large war establishments. And the proposed measures prom ise to adcl more billions to the national debt and so further to increase taxes. It may very well be that for a few years they will inject new life into heavy industry and reduce unemployment, thus making general business conations-'better; but ii* the end • it will only be temporary—unless. Unless, and here we come upon the greatest danger of all—unless we are tempted into the mad course that Germany is presently following, of attempting to solve unem ployment and bring about economic prosperity by ' turning the whole people into a vast machine for ■ the always expanding production of war materials. : | —Charlotte News. 1 . 7~i . I The deckle edge was regarded as an unavoidable blemish of hand-made papers by early Oriental ' | paper makers, who cut it off evenly. W ith the ad ! vent of machine-made papers, deckle edges became ; a sign of hand-made papeis, todaj, machines make deckle-edge papers. 1 The Iroquois Confederacy >of Indians was the 1 first League of Nations in America. The league " I was composed of the Senecas, Cayugas, Omondaea* Oneidas, Mohawks, and later, the Tuscarorars. 'j The New Boy h.w .. . gg ".wt JKs? • LIFE DAY BY DAY By WICKFS WAMROWT _ Mankind is forever hunting; around for something to worship —something; he can see and hear; something material; r something; Wamholdt physical. He is always seek i n g something which can be compre hended by the five senses—and to which he can turn for comfort and protection— a charm of some sort, a talisman. In his cruder days man fash ioned grotesque images out of wood, stone, and metal; and made prayers and sac rifices to them. In ancient Egypt the cat was wor shiped as a god. Perhaps that is why the modern cat is so inde pendent. Perhaps he thinks, "You are but a human being, come from human beings, whilst I am a cat, descended from gods." Tell the human being to wor ship and obey right, good, kind ness, love, and he may still be un satisfied. He may insist on hav ing something he can see; or a physical symbol of somethnig he cannot see. The less evolved he is, the more he demands a physi cal idol to tie to. As Sir Anthony Eden told us in a nationwide broadcast recent ly, a new idol has been set up by certain peoples to worship and place above everything else—the totalitarian state. These peoples give this new idol all power; at tribute to it all wisdom; see in it all good; and, like ancient fa natical barbarians, are willing to sacrifice themselves and everyone else to it. Like the ancient moth ers of Egypt who threw their ba bies to the crocodiles, whom they Worshiped as gods and whose fa vors they sought, theese new idol worshipers are eager to throw the whole world into the jaws of the totalitarian state. It were better to worship the crocodiles than the totalitarian state, lor trie cro codile is less dangerous, less de manding, less cruel. The Jews of Germanv would be far better off wadin*r and swim ming around in the Nile jmong crocodiles than in Germany in the midst of a ruthless, bestial total itarian government. The croco diles would bite but an occasional Jew; and the Jews could defend themselves? against crocodiles; while the terrible totalitarian state is relentless, insatiable, dev ilishly cunning and imaginative, overwhelmingly efficient in 'its diabolical war of extermination of a harmless, lhw-abiding minor ity of other hbman beings. Few creatures except the low est, attack and destroy their own .kind. Amontr these is a certairf 'type of man, made in the image and likeness jpf God—perhaps — but so far 'departed from Him as no moref t6j Resemble Him than a wild corilla resembles George Washington. > ' When any person tells you by word cr action that he places the welfare of the state aboVe the welfare of its people, that he re gards man as made for the state —not the state for man—then you can tag; that person, whether he admits it or not, as a believer in the new idolatr*f. The state is like a fire—an ex cellent servant, but a horrible master. And the state, like fire, should be constantly guarded against getting out of control. SHIRLEY TO HAVE GUARD PASADENA, Cal. (Ur).—To prevent her from beinjf mobbed by too-enthusiastic admirers, Shir ley Temple, who will be the grand marshal of the annual Tourna ment of Roses parade here on January 2, will be surrounded by a bodyguard of 57 riders. Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz will head the mounted group and will be fol lowed by 56 of his best riders. Human paths often are used as roads by ants. • JOHN T. FLYNN BY JOHN T. FLYNN NBA Service 8t«« Correspondent » 5 the year draws to a close A one wonders what has become of the great Public Works pro gram of over a billion dollars au thorized last June, which was to lift the country out of the reces sion then going along merrily. Al though over a billion dollars was authorized, only 68 million of that money has actually been spent. For several months after June, almost weekly announcements were made giving huge totals of projects that were authorized. The impression got around that a vast pouring Of public funds into pub lic works, instead of WPA, was to be the administration's final bid for recovery. Then an announcement was made that all of the vast sum had been authorized and there was no more left. The WPA ap propriation was purposely kept down because PWA was to take up the load as the days went on. But now WPA funds are prac tically exhausted and PWA is still far from being under way. For 68 ^ million dollars in six months Is only about 11 million a month, hardly as much as the gov ernment spends in the most pros perous periods. | Rumors have got around that PWA funds are being purposely held back in order to have them available for military construc tion When Congress meets. The argument will be strong that the armament plan will thus cost very little more th4n the funds already nrovided. 1 But in the meantime, what be comes of government expendi tures for relief and work relief? It there is any validity in the claim that public works expendi tures will produce recovery, then is it not plain that any plan which tends to divert them Into war ex penditures will postpone their ex penditure and postpone recovery? Six years ago the President, \yhen the first PWA money tfas appropriated, was urged to go in for low-cost hr.using. This be refused to do. Here and there a few housing projects have been built at costs and at rental rates Which put them completely be yond the reach of the low income groups. Had the President six years ago put behind a real low-cost housing program one-half the energy that was expended on the ill starred NRA and other almost forgotten adventures, the govern* ment would have something tan gible in assets for the money it has spent; the people would be well on the way to the solution of one of our most seUous problems. We would now know something perhaps about loW-cost housing construction. But now, six years after the New De^l began, it is a little late to talk about housing. It ought to be inaugurated, even at this late day, but it will take yeats to develop it to the point at which it would be developed had the golden opportunity been seized in 1933. Now, apparently, we are to have battleships instead of. houses. ffnnvriirhf. 1938. NRA Service. InQ "THOUGHTS ON THE NEW YEAR" Another year is past and gone— How quickly Time doth flee! Tis like the stream that floweth On its course toward the sea. It waiteth not for mortal man, But swiftly speeds away; There's naught can lengthen this life's span, Nor add to it one day. What golden opportunities We've had for doinpr good Which we would gladly now re call, I If only that we could. ' How many kindly words and , deeds We've left un-said, un-done; How many erring sons of men We might have sought and won. • •• ;■« <• ';r- 'ij'Zi.st'V But there's no time for vain re grets, The future still is ours; And though the path un-trodden yet May not be strewn with flow ers. V. ' There's promised Grace for every day: No matter what befall The God above, whose name is Love, In wisdom rulcth all. Let us then fresh courage take, And let our hearts be glad, Determined that the present year Shall be the best we've had. And in proportion as we seek Our fellow men to bless, So shall we find in sweet return "Our personal happiness." Then when on earth we've done oUiv task, And we are laid to rest, " 'Twill be in sure and certain hope Of waking with the blest." —JOHN DALE KEMPSTER. CANADIANS ARE OUT FOR PENAL REFORMS MONTREAL, Dec. 29. (UP) — The Canadian government is con sidering: a plan to send promising younger members of Canadian penitentiary staffs to England to study the British penal system, it was disclosed here. J. Alex Edmison, honorary le gal counsel of the Prisoners Aid and Welfare,association, told the i | Scottish Schools Club of Montreal that Ernest Lapointe, minister of justice, was considering the plan as part of a scheme to abolish the present system of political ap pointment to penitentiary staffs and to improve penal conditions in Canada. Edmison explained for appoint- i ments to prison staffs in England ! a man must be well oducated and have a definite knowledge of pe nology. He criticised the Canad ian policy, which he said permit- i ted defeated political oandidates j and party workers to occupy those J POKES HARK BACK TO ADMIRAL DEWEY MT. VERNON, N. H., Dec. 2D. (UP)—Village store patrons re-j ceived their purchases in real j Manila paper bags on which in woodblock type, abov« *the store advertisement, were pictures of George Dewey^ Arthur P. Temple, the proprie tor and also postmaster, explain ed the bags marked the ,40th an-; nfversary of the battle of Manila j Bay. He said that on an upper shelf he discovered ap unopened pack age of paper bags as unspoiled asi on the day Dewey's picture was printed on them nearly two score! years ago. 1 t LETTERS TO ' THE EDITOR 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. > TIMES-NEWS DAILY FEATURES Editor The Times-News: "Vote for you Favorite Fea ture in The Times-Ne\ys." An important election is call ed for just now in Henderson-J ville. The right of franchise Is yours, and your-vote is import ant. Study the ii-Hue and vot(J your intelligent conclusions. No votes from the cemetery in this election. Only living voters arc' eligible to vote. t A newspaper, like a man, can not be made up of one feature. A choice between a nose and an eye. as you look at a pretty face, is impossible. Both must remain. It is all right to have a first choice, where a first choice can be made. But who would be con tent with one first-choice-apple from a barrel of first-choicer; fruit? It is not the one apple ill the barrel that I vote for, buj for the barrel full of this first-* choice-fruit. As one apple, however good! i does not make up the whole bail rel, so one feature, howeve® good, does not make a newspaper. Thanks be to those responsible! The Times-News is the whole# barrel of first-choice-fruit. As similated properly, all the fea tures in The Times-News are cul tural and practical. Together ~T • r Tr~X tltoy make for „f ,v acV'V. *r jh scanning- the \\« „• f oiAhe TS^Uot I m - '.u-ihat ^ sfcottd be made ,i:uly by Aose who arc , v nibu ^ | And\ihose who • , t: /M Now a solicit this tribimon. The font >•. i is tit "Letter t» Ti, Columk." Reader, if VOu somcthW umvho:.. chest, &t it out , ;yJJ through\this "co kills youIf you lv omethiu# wholesomV, Rive r • . .hrp^ this "column," les; v fUlfcr Q\ cause you \ did not it 0. .1 us. It IS \oo bad • . ]c.aY, J; "column" s\ oftc >cd. i If it tak(\ oru any feature i\;> \va> . _ U1T. Times-News, \ uta !(> that feature, ylf t ,.>«• Vuw out, count mi vol. „• cv feature now f • r-ivn-nu'l Daily letters to \ c-. • «r are irr eluded in my vo.v K»iuici>. ^ my vote count .v, ti - 'We may not 'hiiik of eVtlV feature when we \..v at a i'ac' but ii an eye, no.-i mouti. chin, or the hair. "Mr jacy^ we would miss it u nee; cause its absence m .V;t- the fa* incomplete. W hen we look, must see all to a iac<\ \ paper is a face to who read i A daily ration i, not made n of bread, beans, at * Man; other foods are no - -a:;» to ma'« a complete diet. M v '! x- Time. News continue t«> • ve u* ou daily rations in pru ei jnopoitiot us thev have don< i ntll am, We 'voto no change dioi. Givt us our rations as of yore. My vote in this i lrition nuv seem » bit irregular. Hut 1 tnut that it conforms suft'ii i«ntlr to the election rules u> k eouifed. (Continued on na'-v five) THIS CURIOUS WORLD one: MUSHROOM GREW ATOP ANJ<5THER./ A^/LHEAJA/Y ESTATE. "^VERV J^LAr/D, LOUISIANA. *M€N of MARS" PLANNING "TO ATTACK THE EARTH SHOULD WAIT UNTIL THE PLANETS ARE ONLY 35 MILLION AA(L€5 APART, INSTEAD Of 220 M/LL/ON, AS THEV WERE. 3 7K4? /MO/V7HS AGO. $ HAT TAPIOCA MADE OF ANSWER: The root of the bitter cassava, which, in its natural rtate, is poisonous. South American Indians long ago learned how !o render the root harmless, and cassava bread ha? b*.<?n a Maple food in the Brazilian jungles for centuries. RUBBER EXPERIMENTER HORIZONTAL I Man who made rubber tires practicable. 14 Magic. l5To acquire knowledge. 16 Gaelic. 17 Death noticc. 18 Tubular sheath. 19 Told untruths. 201b slumber. 22 Surgical bandage. 25 Thing. 27 To fix 29 Tidiest. 83 Example. 37 Pertaining to a sail. (8 Delicate purple. 39 To choose for office. 40 To loiter. 11 Electrical unit 42 Shrinking. 46 Kind of type. 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