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VOLUME XXXIII.
NUMBER 44
HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919.
FIVE CENTS COPY.
LINCOLN MID
ROOSEVELT
Sunday, February 9, is set apart
as Roosevelt Memorial Day.; On that
day Congress will hold memorial ser
vices ; and Grosvernor B. Clarkson,
director of the Council of National
Defense, has requested that fitting
observance of the occasion be held on
that day in every State, county, com
munity and municipality throughout
the Nation. "
..Wednesday, February 12, will be
Lincoln's Birthday. There will, of
course, be wide-spread observance of
that occasion.
As these two events occur be
tween the dates of this issue and the
next issue of The Times, we are tak
ing the opportunity of devoting con
siderable space , to Abraham Lincoln
and Theodore Roosevelt, two of the
greatest Presidents and greatest men
in our Nation's history.
HENDERSONVILLE HOSPITAL
ASSOCIATION
The annual meeting of the Hender
sonville Hospital Association was
held at the home of xMrs. O. V. F.
Blythe, January 23, when annual re
ports were made, and officers for the
ensuing year were elected.
Mrs. A. M. Trenholm was unani
mously re-elected President and Mrs.
C. J. Valley, Vice President. Trus
tees as provided by the by-laws of
the association, heretofore omitted,
were elected as follows: Drs. Dixon,
Drafts and Kirk, Miss Ella McClain
and the President, Mrs. Trenholm.
Mrs. C. S; Fullbright, Treasurer, and
Mrs. 0. V. F. Blythe, Secretary, hold
over for another year by virtue of
a former election.
In absence of Dr. Howe, chief of
staff, the superintendent made report
for him, showing as follows:
Patients treated during the year
1918, 209; number of patient days
for the year, 2,589; deaths at the
hospital during the year, 12; the
average cost for patient, per .day,
42.23.
The records show that 'the roll of
memberships has nearly doubled dur
ing the past yearr-and that the -io.-
terest in the hospital work has been
very good, considering the great
amount of Red Cross and other war-
relief work done by the people of
Hendersonville.
Several valuable donations have
been made during the year. Notable
among them, were $125.00 donated
by Mrs. Holt to replenish the hos
pital linen, and $1,000.00 donated
by Miss Emily Holt for a charity
fund. There were other very gener
ous donations, thankfully received
and applied to the purposes most
needed; and it is the earnest hope
of the association, that still other
generously disposed people may from
time to time, make donations. They
greatly help toward making the hos
pital self-sustaining, and yet have
means to do much charity work.
The Hospital and Hospital Associa
tion are well supported by all the
doctors of Hendersonville, and there
by have been furnished facilities for
hospital treatment and care, to many
who could not otherwise have had
same. A very great need has been
supplied, and a very great public ser
vice has been rendered; and the
assistance, the support, and the
hearty co-operation of all generously
disposed people is earnestly solicited.
Mrs. A.M. Trenholm, President.
Mrs. 0. V. F. Blythe, Secretary.
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES
That war savings certificates are
payable only to the first owners and
that stamps are not to be offered or
accepted in trade, is a recent notice
given by Secretary Glass of the
Treasury Department.
In pursuance of this notice, post
masters have been directed by the
postoffice department not to cash war
savings certificates on which the
names of the owners have not been
entered or have been erased or
changed except in case of death or
disability. Postmasters have been
further instructed not to pay war
savings certificates presented by per
sons" or firms known to be buying or
publicly offering , to buy war savings
stamps fronl the owners, unless posi
tive evidence is submitted that . the
certificates were originally issued to
"--the person or firms presenting them
. for payment This is in keeping with
the law that makes war savings
stamps non-transferable.
The Treasury Department calls the
attention of the -public to the law
that provides for the" redemption of
war savings certificates on giving a
ten days' written notice at the post-office.-.
This provides against . any
loss that "may be met in trading war
savings stamps and, furthermore,
avoids a violation of the law.
. FERTILIZER MEETING CALLED
' The farmers who are interested in
buying 16 per "cent acid are asked
to meet at the court house next Sat
. urdar: February 8, at 11 o'clock. By
. taking car load lota we can get re
duced prices, it is urged tnatiraers
be placed as soon as possible.
' . . FRANK FLEMING, -
T, i' -1 " ' County Agent.
LEGISLATURE
The following laws have, been en
acted by the Legislature during the
past few days:
To authorize Buncombe county to
refund certain bonded indebtedness. I
Kepeal law relative to cotton :
weigher at Shelby.
Amend Kevisal as
to counter
claims.
Permit State banks with capital of
f 100,000 or more to loan 10 per (such experience as we have had of
cent of capital and surplus to one; the thing, as it works (or fails to
Amend Revisal so as to prevent
a lapse of devises.
Amend chapter 264 of public laws
1 91 7 relative to establishment of
homes for fallen women.
To provide for rural policemen in
Rutherford county.
To amend section 1,657 of the Re
visal in reference to alimony .
Amend law relative to salary of
Nash county officials. .
To authorize Wilson commission
ers to buy cotton-weighing scales,
Amend Revisal and permit sales of !
mortgaged personal property under
execution against mortgagor.
To compensate owners for cattle
killed on account tuberculosis or
horses and mules killed because of
glanders.
To require Assistant Attorney
General to compare monthly the war
rants of auditor with laws under
which they purport to have been
drawn.
Amend law relative to salaries
Orange county officials.
Amend law 1917 so as to allow
Person county to issue bonds and
build roads.
Amend law fixing time for termi
nation of leasses in Chatham county..
To amend chapter 84 public laws
1919 relating to better enforcement
of game laws.
Authorize trial of criminal cases
at February term of Franklin county
court.
Provide for collection of taxes in
Gates county.
Authorize town of Marion to is
sue bonds.
Amend charter of Round Hill
Academy.
Regulate squirrel hunting in Dur
ham county.
Protect opossums in Union county.
Submit to voters of Perquimans
county the question of stock law.
Authorize Wilson commissioners to
build newourt housetf" --
Authorize corporation, commission
ers to fix standard for gas.
To provide better drainage of wet
lands in Henderson county.
The bill to provide a marshal to
enforce prohibition laws, has been
defeated.
The dog law bill by Ray of Macon,
has passed the House.
The Stevens dog law bill is pend
ing in the Senate.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
A State Convention of the Repub
lican party of North Carolina is
hereby called to meet at Greensboro,
N. C, on February 15, 1919, at 10
o clock p. m.
Each county chairman is hereby re
quested to call a county convention
for the purpose of electing delegates
to this State Convention.
The purpose of the meeting is to
take such action, as the convention
deems wise toward securing from the
present Legislature the enactment of
a fair and just election law; for the
re-organization of the party in the
State; and for the transaction of
such other business as may properly
come before the convention.
Hon. Will H. Hays, chairman of the
Republican National Executive Com
mittee, and other prominent speak
ers will be present to address the
convention.
FRANK A. LINNEY,
Chairman Republican State Execu
tive Committee.
Charlotte, N. C, January 13, 1919.
REPRESENTATIVE JACKSON
HONORED
Representative Brownlow Jackson
has been appointed chairman of the
internal improvements committee of
the lower branch of the State Legis
lature. This is the. first instance
where a Republican has been appoint
ed to the chairmanship of an im
portant committee of the North Caro
lina Legislature in many years. The
oeoole of Henderson county, without
regard to politics, will be glad to
learn that speaker urummitt nas dis
regarded precedent and honored their
representative by placing him. at the
head of an important committee of
the House.
In speaking of the appointment,
the Raleigh News and Observer, says:
"Speaker Brummitt seconded the
House precedent creating a special
committee on suffrage when he. ap
pointed to head the internal improve
ments committee, from which the suf
frage chairman resigned, a Republi
can. Representative Jackson, of
Henderson, , is the first Republican to
be assigned to a chairmanship in sev
eral sessions, and his appointment is
a new thing for a Democratic speaker
to do.'? .
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It U just as well that Russia quit
the war before the final finish. Other
wise President Wilson would have
bad to journey all the way to
Moscow.' v ' ' '
GOVERNMENT V
OWNERSHIP
We hear a good deal of talk, from
time to 'me about government
ownership of public utilities. In
theory, government ownership may
be admirable. In practice, it may
Possibly work in some counties. But,
work) in this country, is utterly un
favorable. Let us get down to actual facts.
We have, and have long had, govern
ment ownership and operation of the
postoffice. We have recently had
government operation of railroads,
telegraphs and telephones. What
has been the result?
1. The postoffice. A number of
years ago, when the service was both
cheaper and better than it is now,
some of the ablest business men in
the country said that, under private
management, the postoffice could be
better operated than it was then and
at a lower cost. They had facts and
figures to prove their contention, and,
if we remember correctly, some of
these men actually offered to put up
the money to take the thing over
under a guarantee. Since then the
cost to the public has been increased
and the service has deteriorated. The
way the thing has been working
recently is well described in "The
Weekly," a paper edited -by Col,
George - Harvey, (the man who was
primarily responsible for making
Woodrow Wilson President) :
ihe worst mail service ever
known in the history of the country,
hands over, at tidewater here, such
letters as survive its manipulations,
to the most incompetent War Depart
ment on record. Apparently when
the letters reach the other side they
are dumped in heaps, baled up and
shipped back home to be returned to
the writers. The Assistant Post
master General was quoted in Con
gress the other day as saying that
eight or ten carloads of such- mall
matter-bad just been received here
from France."
We all know that letters, papers
and other mail matter, sent from one
point to another written in this coun
try, take considerably longer to get
delivered than formerly. Sometimes
such mail is not delivered at all. For
instance : A package of mail, sent by
H. J. Conden, 122 S. Michigan ave
nue, Chicago, and addressed to Dr.
G. G. Cottam, Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, was returned, by the post
office department, to the writer, with
the following explanation:
Returned to Writer.
No such office in State named.
Mr. Burleson's department ap
parently unaware that there is any
such place as Sioux Falls in South
Dakota.
2. The railroads. When the Uni
ted States government took over the
control and operation of the rail
roads, there were great expectations
of good results. The man who was
put in charge was regarded as the
ablest business man in the cabinet.
He was given a free hand to work out
combinations and economies. Ham
pering legislation, which had worried
the railroads in the past, was brushed
aside. The director ereneral was
given plenary powers to run things
according to the most approved
standards of efficiency. All laws and
positions of laws inconsistent there
with were automatically canceled.
The savings from uniform manage
ment have been considerable. The
service has been cut down to the
point where it is almost no service
at all; it is rotten. Rates have been
increased between 25 and 40 per
cent. But, in spite of savings, in
spite of increased charges for poorer
service, the taxpayers of the coun
try have to make good every year a
deficit running into hundreds' of mil
lions of dollars.
The following, from the New York
Evening Sun, gives some idea of
what is going on:
The letter of the director-general
of railroads to the secretary , of the
Treasury sets forth the new sum that
the government expects to need in
furtherance of its efforts at operat
ing the roads. Mr. Hines demands
a new appropriation of $750,000,000.
The money Mr. Hines requires will
do additional to the $500,000,000 pro
vided in the railroad bill of last
March. The new money is to include
$196,000,000 or so of actual insuffi
ciency in the 1918 net earnings, as
applied to covering: the sums truaran
teed the lines. It will include a yet
larger sum. $286,000,000. to cover
equipment ordered in 1918, but not
yet delivered and pot yet provided for
financially, it will include third
and still larger sum,' which Mr.
Hines labels simply t "Additions and
THIS COUNTY
STANDS FIRST
Henderson county leads the whole
Stafce in the average yield of corn
per j acre on demonstration areas,
Uu average is 75 bushels. Buncombe
Conies second, with 70 bushels. The
figures for 24 leading counties are.
given elsewhere in our columns,
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Well prepared and deenlv nloucherl
land means more and better crops.
Prepare your land well before planting.?-
If costs less to keep well than to
get Well.
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betterments, including equipment."
He hopes that the 1919 income of the
roads will provide something $150,
000,000 as he trusts against these
outlays; but of this he expresses no
certainty.
Throughout, the letter speaks of
$750,000,000 as a minimum require
ment. Even if the roads should go
back, to private operation at the
earliest moment, the director-gen
eral ; finds the whole sum would be
needed. Whether he will require
morjB in case the roads continue un
der government operation during
191?, he does not say.
A glance over these cullings from
Mr. .Hine's report placed in the or
der ye have selected, will probably
show, without commentary on our
part, why Mr. McAdoo wishes to drop
ihe federal railroad operation scheme
and to remove -himself from the posi
tion of responsibility. The roads are
eating their heads off. Over and
above the dividends and interest
guaranteed by the rentals, they have
already during 1918 cost the govern
ment such a sum as would have paid
in the year 1913 all the railroads'
interest payments, all their dividend
payments, all their betterments
charged to income, all their deficits!
In December, 1917, S. W. Brook
hart of Iowa appeared before the
Newlands joint Congressional com
mittee and advocated government
ownership of railroads, estimating
thai $400,000,000 a year would be
?v$ 18!W?rnmeat operation.
fxhe following month Director Gen
eral McAdoo gave his views on the
subject. He pointed out that the
government was getting the railroads
cheap. He said: "We are taking the
railroads over under a guarantee of
$100,000,000 less than they earned
in the last fiscal year of the period
(on which the compensation was
based), and in addition to that ex
cess profits taxes are to be paid out
of that guaranteed income." He ex
pressed the hope that government
ownership would show a surplu. .
Mr. McAdoo started with a $100,
000,000 margin. He, increased the
rates to an extent which added $600,
000,000 to the income in six months.
He cut down the quality of the ser
vice. Yet the increased cost of the
service, such as it was, wiped out
the $100,000,000 margin, wiped out
the $600,000,000 extra revenue
derived from increased rates, and
left a deficit for the year of some
hundreds of millions. In other
words, McAdoo's estimate was wrong i
to the extent of a billion dollars per
annum.
3. Telephones and Telegraphs. We
hate to say anything at all on this
point. It is difficult to speak on this
subject without using unseemly
language. Since the government
took over those public utilities, they
have ceased to be public utilities;
they have become a public nuisance.
The price has increased, the service
has gone to smash. In many in
stances telegrams have been slower
than slow freight. The telephone
service would be a farce if it were
not a tragedy.
And now there is an entirely new
and highly complex schedule of
charges, imposed without warrant of
law and in defiance of law. Several
States have already taken steps to
have Burleson enjoined from put
ting his new schedule into effect. The
autocratic manner in which Burleson
has acted is already making him
desperately unpopular. One city,
wnose teiepnone rates were ar
bitrarily increased, ventured to ask
for an explanation. The reply was
that, if any protest were made, there
would be a still 'greater increase.
That kind of Prussian despotism does
not go well in the United States. If
a cabinet minister acts like an under
study of Wiliam Hohenzollern, the
voters will have something to say on
the subject
The United States is the richest
country In the world. But it is not
rich enough to afford McAdoodle or
Burlesonlan operation of public
utilit'-i ,v 't j ! . : J. v.
NEWS NOTES
A wage bonus of $240 has been
voted by the House for nearly all
government employes who receive
$2,500 or less salarv for the vear
beginning next July. This wage
bonus, double that of the current
"seal year, will cost the government
approximately $14,000,000.
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IMPOSED TO IMMIGRATION
Legislation prohibiting general im
migration for a period of four years
following the signing of the peace
treaty has been approved by the
House Immigration committee.
The bill as now drafted would per
mit an alien resident to bring his
wife and childen, except boys over
18 years old, into the United States.
Tourists would not be barred from
entry for temporary stay.
ARGENTINA TO DEPORT BOL
SHEVIKI a ourteen hundred prisoners
charged with Bolsheviki activities
await deportation at Buenos Ayres,
Argentina, according to reports. The
majority of them are Russian Jews.
WAR INSURANCE COSTLY
The war has cost the government
approximately $900,000,000 in death
and disability claims carried by sol
diers, sailors and marines. Against
this sum the War Risk Insurance
bureau has collected $200,000,000 in
premiums.
Death and permanent disability
claims, which pay the same under the
law, aggregate about 85,000. Death
claims represent between 60,000 and
65,000 of the total.
Col. Henry D. Lindsley, chief of the
bureau, has recommended that
changes be made in the law which
would include in the list of benefi
ciaries all. blood relatives to and in
cluding first cousins.
THREE THOUSAND AMERICAN
SOLDIERS LOST ARM OR LEG
Two soldiers out of every thousand
who fought in the American army
overseas lost an arm or a leg. Lieut.
Col. Strong, of the army medical
corps, told the House Military Affairs
committee that 3,000 of the total
combat force of 1,500,000 men were
so maimed, and that 1,100 had been
returned borne and were being fitted
with artificial limbs in military hos
pitals. An appropriation of $7,000,
000 to purchase artificial limbs, as
well as serums and vaccines was
asked for by the medical corps.
BETTER EXPRESS SERVICE
The American Railway Express
company, through the 135,000 men
and women employed in the express
business, will begin on February 10,
a nation-wide campaign to improve
the nation's express service. The
purpose is to interest the shippers
and the public generally in the gov
ernment's organized plan to raise the
standards of packing, wrapping, and
ma.Hr.g express shipments with the
view to minimizing the waste time,
effort and money that result from
packages being lost or damaged
through lax methods of preparing
them for sending forward.
Between July 1 and November 30,
1918, "no marks" bureaus of the
American Railway Express company
received 127,859 shipments which the
company had been unable to deliver
because of lack of identification
marks of either shippers or consig
nees, indicating the reason for the
slogan of the better service campaign
which will be "Start Express Ship
ments Right."
FAILED TO BRIBE JUDGE
Because he enclosed a $10 bill in
a note to Judge Webb, of New Hav
en, Conn., asking for a light sentence
and another chance to make good,
Moses Kemp, charged with stealing
$22 and a gold watch, has again been
arraigned.
In addition to receiving a severe
reprimand for attempted bribery,
Kemp was sentenced to not less than
one year and not more than two
years in the. Connecticut State prison.
FUEL ADMINISTRATION
The State Fuel Administrator has
received the following notice:
"By order entered today all Na
tional, State and local regulations
with respect to coal, both anthracite
and bituminous, as well as to coke,
charcoal and wood produced, sold,
shipped, distributed or used after
January 31 are suspended except that
until further order all Tidewater
shipments must go through the Tide
water Coal Exchange. All contracts
are subject to the recent contract
order of January 17 and the prohibi
tion of shipment of coal for recon
signment is continued. No new
orders or regulations shall be. issued
by State or local administrators after
today unless the same have first been
submitted to and approved by Wash
ington. Schroeder."
A United States Labor Department
official says everybody is waiting to
buy goods "when they come down."
The makers of the goods say they
will "come down" when labor and
material are cheaper. . Labor says it
cant get cheaper until the cost of
living descends. - Will - somebody
please open the bung hole some
where t, , . 1 , .
SOME OF THE
THINGS NEEDED
It is a good thing, in muncipal as
well as other affairs, to cut your
coat according to your cloth. Hen
dersonville very urgently needs a
number of things. It simply must
have them as soon as it can pay for
them. Every citizen of Henderson
ville ought to consider the situation
carefully, judge which of the needs
are most desperately urgent, and
then ask himself what ways and
means can be devised to procure as
many as possible of these. In the
present financial condition of the city,
many things that are desirable, and
some that would seem to necessary,
will have to be postponed. We must
do the best we can.
Among the most urgent needs are
the following:
An increased water supply. Half
way measures will mean money
thrown away. To do the work once
for all, and make a permanent job
(which will be the cheapest in the
long run) will cost about $150,000.
An additional school building. We
ought to have it now. We shall have
to have it soon. A reasonable esti
mate is $25,000.
Main street and 7th avenue need
a new top-coating. If the work is
not done soon, the money previously
spent on those thoroughfares will be
largely wasted. Can the work be
done for $20,000?
Water and sewer lines must be ex
tended. This means $10,000.
There is urgent need of culverts
and permanent bridges to replace
the temporary wooden structures.
Also some sidewalk work must be
done. There goes $15,000.
We have mentioned only the most
urgently necessary things. They
foot up to $220,000. Where is the
money to come from?
Bonds, of course. But, our bond
ed indebtedness is $298,000, of which
$19,000 of the principal falls due
this year, in addition to 6 per cent
interest on the whole amount.
From which it would appear that
we must cut out all" luxuries, and
postpone some things that would
ordinarily be classed as necessaries.
How about it, Mr. Taxpayer?
MORE ABOUT NEW JUDGESHIP
The bill to authorize the appoint
ment of an assistant judge in federal
districts where judges who have
reached the age of retirement, but
who, because they are still able to
perform their duties, have not re
tired, has been passed by Congress
and will become a law as soon as
signed by President Wilson, to whom
it has been sent for his signature.
The announcement has been made,
whether official or not we do not
know, that as soon as the President
returns from . Europe some man will
be appointed assistant federal judge
in this district. Of course, we all
know that there was no need in this
district for such a law, and that
there is no necessity for the appoint
ment of another judge, except to
give some "deserving" Democrat a
job with munificent salary, because
Judge James E. Boyd is in good trim
physically and vigorous of mind, not
withstanding he has reached the age
when he could retire upon full pay.
Judge Boyd, however, is not the sort
of man who wants to draw pay with
out working for it as long as he is
able to work, and when he gets so
diasbled that he cannot work, we
have no doubt that he will retire
voluntarily. Hence we say there was
no need at all for a law providing
for another federal judge in this
district.
However, a judge will be appoint
ed, and the woods are full of candi
dates. Greensboro has at least three
candidates, Charlotte as many, Ashe
ville several, and other towns in the
district are furnishing one or more
applicants, and Congressman Yates
Webb is said to be in a receptive
mood. But as yet Hendersonville
has not put forth a candidate, which
it strikes us she should do in order
to keep herself as big as she is and
properly on the map. Col. W. A.
Smith, president of the Henderson
ville Bar Association, would measure
well up in ability with a. number of
lawyers who have announced them
selves candidates for the place. J.
E. Shipman, present Solicitor, would
fill this new judgeship admirably.
McD. Ray, who has fought, bled and
almost died for the cause of Demo
cracy in this part of the State for
twenty years or more, might, it seems
to us, be considered as among the
many "deserving" Democrats when it.
comes to making an appointment to
fill the newly created office. And
there are others here. Therefore,
why not the local Bar Asociation get'
together and put lorth the name oi
one of its members as a candidate
for the new judgeship? The oppor
tunity is here. Hendersonville nas a
federal building. All she lacks now'
is a federal judge, and we have a
chance to try to get him. '' It seems
to us that the local association might
do the city a good turn riht now.
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