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July 9
TRUTH MAKES FREE; Then
•aid Jesus. If ye continue in my word,
then are ye my disciples indeed; and
ye shall know the trueth, and the
truth shall make you free.—John ft;
31, 32
July 10
SEEK ETERNAL THINGS:—We
look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen;
for the things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are
not seen are eternal—2 Corinthians
4: 18.
THIS MAN ROOSEVELT.
For several years, since Franklin
D. Roosevelt has been nominating Ai
Bmith for president at Democratic
conventions, then becoming governor
of New York State twice, and now the
party’s candidate for president of the
United States, people have been hear
ing the name of Franklin D. Roose
velt, but not a great many people
know a great deal about him.
It was claimed four years ago that
religion played a big part in the de
feat of Governor Smith, so that it
will be interesting to note that the
present party nominee is a member of
the Protestant Episcopal Church. He
la a fifth cousin of the late Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt. Both men
had a common ancestor In Claes Van
Roosevelt, who settled In New An
sterdam In 1636. Franklin Roosevelt
1« descended from Jacobus, son of
Claes, and the late Theodore Roose
velt from Johannes. brother of
Jacobus. Mrs. FrankMn D. Roosevelt
is also a relative of the late T. R. As
a matter of fact, her relationship is
said to be much closer than that of
her husband. She was Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt, daughter of the President’s
only brother. Elliott, and. therefore,
was a niece of "Teddy."
Since the name will be often on
many tongues during the next few
months, and possibly the next four or
five years, it may be well to learn
now. once and, for all, that the
pronunciation is J ‘Rose-velt," and not
‘‘Roox-velt."
BUT IT WILL BE DONE.
Griffin and Mattern, those daring
youths who set out to lower the
day record of Harold Gatty and Wiley
Post in circling the globe In an air
plane. have come to grief before they
got even half way around the world.
Their plane was wrecked when It bog
ged in a peat morass near a small
Russian town about half way be
tween Berlin and Moscow. Their con
trols were giving trouble and they
thought to descend to make repairs,
but in alighting they blasted all hope
of setting a new record.
Probably they are not discouraged
and may themselves try it again, but
whether they do or not It will be
dons. It Is thrilling and remarkable
to think of traveling the 25,000 miles
that measure the circumference of
the earth in a mere eight days, just
24 hours more than a week, but
two men have already done it. Grif
fin and Mattem thought it could be
dons in even less time, and set out to
prove It. When they wrecked their
plane, they were several hours ahead
of the former record and in good
way to top it. They hopped across tbe
Atlantic and were in Berlin almost
before any one knew where they
were. The big pond was just an old
.swimming bole to them, so great was
their hurry. It was not the water, but
land, that proved their undoing.
A friendly, hopeful world sorrows
with them at the blasting of their
ambition, temporarily at least, but
they may try again, and whether they
or some others, it will be done, and
the earth will be circled in less than
eight days. Rapid development of
aviation will make It poasible.
GERMANY'S CRISIS.
All over tbe world today public
optalon Is in a more or lees unset
tled frame. It Is so In America, and
likewise in Germany. Ever since the
Versailles treaty was signed at the
end of the World War, the Germans
have smarted under the stigma that
was forced upon them by the vic
torious Allied nations. That treaty,
written by the powers, with never so
much as a voice from Germany, was
handed to them with the instructions
to sign, and they were forced to admit
they were responsible for the war. No ,
self-Tespectlng {people would volum
tarlly accept such a stigma. Moreover,
terms that are accepted under coer
cion and force mean nothing, and the
Allies were merely fooling themselves
when they put in that paragraph.
Today Germany Is at the cross
roads. Under the crushing burdens of
taxation since the war. and during the
life of the new republic, there has
in recent years grown up more or less
resentment toward the new form of
government, and a change is in pros
pect. When that change takes place,
it will be to the dislike of the victors
in the World War. for it will pro
bably mean the return to power of
the Hohenzollerns or some group just
as bad as were they. Discussing the
situation there today, the Christian
Science Monitor says:
"The current of political and popu
lar thought since the war has flowed
strongly In democratic channels. It
was felt everywhere that citizens
should be masters of their own de
stiny. and should not be drilled and
disciplined by a superior authority
over which they had no control. Cer
tain countries seemed to stand out
side this stream of republican liberty;
but even these countries were not as
exceptional as tt first sight appeared.
"In Spain a dictatorship was im
posed. but it was swept away, and the
monarchy with it, by irresistible pub
lic sentiment. In Italy. Fascism is
theoretically opposed to democratic
institutions; but there is no doubt that
ia practice Signor Mussolini enjoys
the confidence and the esteem of the
majority of Italians. Generally, there
has been a formidable push against
the old institution of monarchy. Three
emperors and a score of kings were
swept away.
"There are those who now discern
the signs of reaction in Europe. It Is
suggested that there may be, before
many months have passed, the pre
liminaries of a restoration in Ger
many. Already something like a
military dictatorship has been estab
lished; and the strength of the move
ment, which is essentially antlparlia
mentary. led by Hitler, Is unquestion
able. It is being said that the Crown
Prince, whether as President or as
Regent, will sooner or later govern
Germany In the stead of Marshal Hln
denburg.
“These predictions may be prema
ture or they may be false. But cer
tainly considerable sections of the
German people are disposed to chal
■ lenge the Constitution of Weimar. The
conditions in which the Republic was
founded and has lived could hardly
have been more unfavorable. It was
horn In the trenches and was the
child of defeat. Despite the flight and
the repudiation of the Kaiser, the
Versailles Treaty was fastened like a
millstone around the neck of the Ger
man people. The humiliations inflict
ed on Germany for a long period of
years have been associated with the
Republic, though in fact they would
have been inflicted under any other
regime.
"Germany was deprived of large
tracts of territory. It lost Its colonies.
It was given an inferior |nllft%ry,
status. Its prestige was' shattered.’
Rhineland was • occupied, and. arfth
doubtful legality, the Ruhr was like
wise occupied by foreign soldiers. The
Saar has not yet been restored. The
weight of reparation* drove Germany
into bankruptcy. Not only was the
■state ruined, but whole classes of the
population were reduced to poverty
and indeed to misery. Germany has
been a victim of tbe economic reces
sion which has thrown many millions
of workers out of employment.
“It is not, therefore, to be wonder
ed at that there should be discontent.
Certainly Germany has had no lack of
wise statesmen who have, with great
skill, piloted the country to something
like its rightful place among the na
tions. It has played a leading part in
all the European discussions of the
last few years. Yet there has been de
lay, and a strange inability on part
of Germany’s neighbors to recognize
that no nation can be kept per
manently down, and some of the most
important of Germany’s demands are
still resisted. <
“Moreover, the Constitution of
Weimar Itself is open to criticism,
The relations of the different states,
of which Germany is composed, to the
Reich, are anomalous in some
spects, and difficulties have undoubt-t
edly arisen. Again, the Constitution
itself permits the virtual setting aside;
of parliamentary government, and;
with such government becoming al- ! .
most Impossible in the clash of ?
parties, recourse has been had to de->
crees.
"It is not, then, surprising that Ger
many should feel the need not only
•of a strong. external policy, but of
internal reforms. The public Is apt
HENDERSON, (N. C.J DAILY DESPATCH' SATURDAY, JU L Y 9, ""l
to blame the existing Government,
and even the existing regime, for Its
misfortunes. Seen in retrospect, the
monarchy appears better than tbe re
public. There is disorder and clamor
and commotion; and many Germans
would welcome the Imposition of a
precise and forceful will. Such are the
explanations that may be given of a
possible revulsion of feeling.
“But they do not justify the aban
donment of the republican experi
ment, which has not been fairly test
ed. It is to be trusted that better coun
sels will still prevail, and that the
German democracy will prove itself
capable of weathering the storms and
of reaching a secure haven."
By Central Press
New York, July 9--It happened that
several arrived and would be detective
story writers were gathered the other
noon at a side-street restaurant table
a when the conver
sation turned to
the more suitable
spots on Manhat
tan Island for
murder to be
committed.
This cheery
theme developed
a number of
handy suggastlbns. One concocter
of fictional mayhem believed that the
shrubbery abounding in the upper
reaches of Central park would be
ideal, but objections were at once
raised on trhe ground that this is one
of the most carefully policed terri
tories in the world. The Capitol
grounds i n Washington alone sur
pass Central park in official super
vision.
Next, the dreary water front along
the East river was put into nomina
tion, but it was argued that this
stretch is almost wholly under the
possibly watchful eye of some tower
ing apartment window. In addition,
the police boats, sly. vigilant, are
cruising the dark water at Inconven
ient intervals.
A third author had in mind a dun
geon in Chinatown, a fourth was in
favor of an empty and dark theatre
auditorium, while one scribe brought
up the ctoservatory of the Empire
State building—the victim to be done
away with while everyone was ab
sorbed- in the view.
The forum, after heated debate,
unanimously agreed that the spot of
spots was and would remain Times
Square, at 42nd street and Seventh
avenue, in the midst of the rush hour,
the fiend screened by the multitude
of witnesses.
STRAWS IN THE % HURRICANE
A pert new mode in women's hats
was inspired in the. breast of a Pari
sian designer who noted the odd
headgear worn by marchers in Presi
dent Doumer’s funeral.. .It's "for
sport wear." though... Tea services
and cocktail paraphernalia are now ,
included in a peramibulatory piece of
furniture made to the model of ped- ,
dleris pushcarts...
And Columbia university has added i
a course in "good taste” to its curni- I
culum.. .It’s for girls only, presum
ably, and will include instruction in
"the psychology of clothes”... It would
be odd, but in line with scholastic
paradoxes if the class frump annexed
the highest mark!...
Street singers increase apace... The
operatic lad who hurls high notes into
the air under my window has a voice
so virile Uhat if he sang at the Metro
politan they’d have to muffle the -raft
ers to keep them from splitting. .‘..To
day he was thrown two dimes ahd *a
small tomato...
RENDEZVOUS
The other twilight, wandering in
'he vicinity of 181st stret and River
tde drive. I noted that the shadows of
‘.hat nose of land known as Inspira
tion point, were tenaanted, as always
>n summer nights, with the forms of
'overs.
French "First Family” at Races
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Rarely photogrraphed aince hia election to the highesfoffiee in the French
Sepublic, President Albert Lebrun is shown with his wife (right) and
a friend in their box at the Longchamps racecourse, Paris. The “First
Family" witnessed the annual running of the Grand Prix, France’s out-,
standing turf classic, which is regarded as the brilliant climax to the
Parisian social ssason.
A youngster, ornately attired in the
1 new "English Drape” Milting, strolled
by and I made bold to aak bfcn it ha
knew why the spot was called Inspir
ation point.
“Because," he snapped, jauntily, "a
guy bad the inspiration to propose
to a dame there. Use your head once
in a while, mister. That's what it’s
for.”
I thanked him and decided he was
right.
BUND FIGHT
The American Association of In
structors of the Blind, recently in
meeting here, brought out some odd
and sensational stories of. suc
cess against what, in his mind, any
way, is the greatest handicap of all.
Margery Stewart, blind from birth
has the most astonishing record of
achievement of them all. Graduating
from a Pennsylvania school for the
sightless, she pAinged into the mael
strom of Manhattan with the slim
prop of a promised publicity job. Here
ahe rode the sutowuys, grabbed Fifth
avenue buses, threaded the mob of
Imes Square.
After Broadway, and a successful
showing here, ahe went to Pittsburgh
to become critic for KDKA. She was
a wod at the job. She became a
specialist in delivery, in the presen
tation of programs.' Hundreds of peo
riod3 polished into shape by Margery
Stewart are on the air all over the
country today.
Today she conducts the first school
for radio announcers ever established.
She has made enough money to retire
if and when she wishes. Blind flight,
you mUght call it.
TODAY
TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES
1577 —Lord Delawarr
West) first governor and Captain-
General of the Colony of Virginia,
born in England. Died there, June
7, 1618.
1777—Henry Ha I lam, English his
torial, born. Died Jan. 21, 1859.
1802—Thomas Davenport, Vermont
Inventor of the electric motor and ex
perimenter in electricity, bor n in
Williamaltown, Vt. Died at Salisbury,
Vt., July 6, 1851.
1811—Sarah P. Part on (“Fanny
Fern”), author, bom at Portland,
Maine. Died at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Oct. 10, 1872.
1819—Elias Howe, inventor of the
sewing machine (patented 1846), who
struggled i n poverty and ill health for
years before he could establish his
rights and .-reap the benefits of his
invention, born at Spencer, Mass.
Died at Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1867.
1840—William F. Vilas noted Wis
consin cabinet officer and U. S. Sen
ator, born at Chelsea, Vt. Died at
Madison. Wi*., Aug. 27. 1908.
1847—Edwin J- Houston one of the
greatest of American electric engi
neers. bora 4t Alexandria, Va, Died
in Philadelfl&a, March 1, 1914.
TODAY IN HISTORY
1846 CongTjow hretlirned the 39
square miles received from Virginia
for the District of Columbia.
1917—•Fbrmel proclamation of the
President calling the National Guard
to the colors.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
James M. Beck, representing the
first Pennsylvania district in Con
gress, former Solicitor-General of the
U. S., born In Philadelphia, 71 years
ago.
Dr. Franz Boas, celebrated New
York anthropologist, born in West
phalia, 74 years ago.
Leon Dabo, noted New York artist,
born in Detroit, 64 years ago.
Edward Keating, editor of "Labor,”
Washington. D. C., born at Kansas
City Kans., 47 years ago.
Capt. Bruce Bairnefather, famous
English cartoonist and Journalist,
born 45 years ago.
Major General Sir George Young
husband. keeper of the Jewel House,
Tower of London. 73 years ago.
2" ; f TODAY’S HOROSCOPES
Here the nervous energy apd the
executive ability of yesterday - con
tinue, but the nature is more elastic
and success will probably be attain
ed by diplomacy as much as by the
force of action or energy. As the day
advance* the energy becomes less,
but in many cases this does not ope
rate to the detriments of the native,
since it does not provoke so much
opposition.
The Big Riddle
Lower Wages Mean More
Total Payrolls In U. S.
Would Amount To Spreading Employment Which Would
Increase Spending Power of Masses; Cost of Liv
ing Down 21 Percent, Babson Declares
BY ROGER W. BARSON,
Copyright 1932, Publishers Fin
uidsl Bureau.
Baboon Park, Mass., July 9.—Pros
perity can return only as purchasing
power increases. -This means the total
parolls of the country must be built
up. The .question Js how to do it in
the shortest possible time. There are
at least 10,000,000 people out of work.
Obviously, the first thing to do is to
get these people employed at some
kind of & wage. You can’t take all
the earning power away from 25 per
cent of the working population and
expect to have prosperity. But how
can business employ more men when
sales and prices are so low they won’t
even cover the present cos: of pro
duction, let alone pay for more help?
I say it is far better for wage work
ers to accept Day cuts and thus lower
production costs so tha tbusinesa can
be done and employment can be
given, than it is to insist on former
wage rates and keep their fellow
workers out of Jobs,
Lower Wages Mean Greater Total
Payrolls.
I speak not in behalf of capitalists
and employers but In behalf of work
ers. The wages of men and women
are more important than the wages
of stocks and bonds. In fact, the
wages of the latter are absolutely de
pendent on the well-being of the peo
ple. Unless pay cuts do help wage
workers there is no eXCUB« for them.
It all boils down to a simple matter
of arithmetic. In normal times there
are about 40,000,000 gainfully employ
ed workers, but now 10,000,000 of them
are unemployed. Everybody would be
much better off, for instance, if the
whole 40,000,000 were employed at an
average wage of $2.50 a day than to
have 30,000,000 employed at an aver
age of $3. a day. In the first case
the total payroll would be $100,000,-
000 daily whereas at the higher wage
with fewer wdrkera the payroll would
be only $90,000,000 daily.
Or look at it from the family stand
point. I know of one case of an elder
ly man with five sons. Two of these
sons are earning $4 a day eacht. The
man and the other three sq)M' have
been out of work for a year or more.
The family, including the six men,
a couple of daugtttere-ip-|aws, and
three grand-children, have had to get
along on $8 a day. All of these men
are able-bodied and of working age.
If the four now idle would take work,
which they can get, at $2 a day each,
the family income would be Increased
from $8 a day to sl6. In other words
by accepting work at a 50 per cent
reduction from former rates the total
wages of the family would be in
creased 100 per cent. Then when busi
ness picks up (and it will pick up
only as more men get to work), the
wage rate will automatically be rais
ed, because gradually more employ
ers will need men than men nped jobs.
Cost of Living Down 21 Per Cent
The cost of living has fallen 21 per
cent from the high point, so any
worker who has had his wages cut
21 per cent or less is still in a posi
tion to maintain as high a standard
of living as he ever did. If be has
taken a cut of more than that figure
he has made a substantial contribu
tion to bringing down costs and pav
ing the way for better time*. If he
has taken no cut at all, that means
he is really receiving 21 per cent more
for his labor than he ever did. Sta
tistics show that only half of the
workersstill employed have received
cuts of 20 per cent .or .less;. about one
fifth of them have received no cuts;
and only one-third of them have taken
cuts of more than 21 per cent.
Contrast this with the reduction in
the prices of some of the commonly
used raw materials. Wheat at Kansas
City which was $1.25 per bushel in
early 1929 now brings around 42 cents.
Rubber has been reduced from 40
cents to below three cents a pound;
corn from $1 a bushel in 1929 to
about 30 cents; copper from 19 cents
to 5 1-4 cents a pound; cotton from
17 cents to 5 1-4 cents a pound; woo!
from 70 cents in 1929 to 30 cents a
pound. The smallest reduction noted
in these raw materials is more than
50 percent, whereas the greatest re
duction in labor cost is about 30 per
cent. I do not mean that labor will
have to take the same cuts that have
occurred in raw materials. There will,
however, have tp be a further reduc
tion In wages before we have made
the adjustments necessary to bring
costs of necessities and luxuries down
to a level where the public simply
cannot resist withdrawing savings
and buying low-priced commodities.
Employment Not Wage Rates The
Vital Issue.
The biggest issue before this coun
try today Is unemployment. Every
thing else shades into Insignificance
beside this one great problem. I am
not urging pay cuts to help employ
ers, but to spread employment among
more workers. If high wages would
aid employment. I would be the first
to advocate them—the higher the bet
ter. But common-sense tells us that
when, owing to depressed conditions,
there is only a limited amount of
money that business can in
wages, the only way to put more men
to work Is to pay each one less. Also
the active purchasing power of the
country would be greater with more
men employed even at lower wage
rates.
No matter how much wages one
man receives be will buy only a given
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amount of food, clothing necessity 1
I and luxuries; he will save the i*.
J mainder. Saving is commendable, b.:
it isn’t saving that will relieve thu
depression. It is the buying of gooci
and the maintenance of trade. Con
sider the 10,000,000 men totally out <£
work who haven’t any income a :t
what they would mean to business t
consumers were they given some won
at any wage. It is the old story thr
one man can wear only one Buit t£
clothes at a time whereas lO.OOOOui
men can wear 10.000,000 suits. B1 low
ering wages and spreading work mi
lions more would be enabled to boy
at least a fair proportion of the nec
essities of life.
Must Give Wcrk to Keep Up Mora)
I say we must keep men busy »
some sort of wage to maintain tbnr
morale and their self-respect. If w t
fail to do this the depression will
mean a far greater loss than the loss
in trade, the loss in profits, the low
in securities, or in other money or
property values. The greatest aaseti
of this nation are its strong, self
reliant, and independent people. Un
dermine those qualities of self-respect
self-reliance, independence, and far
greater damage is done than the dam
age to profits and money values, k
is the duty of manufacturers to u*
nestly try to keep their forces at sob
wage. Faith, morale, and charade
are more important than prices, wap
rates, profits, stocks and bonds, «
any other material thing.
Business as estimated by the Bab
sonchart is now 26 per cent below a
year ago.
We are almost afraid to say *'!:**
a fin© day," lest they tax It.
NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT FOh
BENEFIT OP CREDITORS
By virtue of an Assignment ma«
by Guarantee Clothing Company «f
Henderson, N. C. to the undersign
ed trustee, and by virtue of the ls»
of North Carolina governing aasig*-
mervts for benefit of creditors; I *-
sell by public auction for cash in t»
store room of Guarantee Clothul
Company Garnett Street. Henderson
N. C. on Tuesday the twelfth day
July at twelve o’clock noon «|1 of ik*
stock of merchandise, fixtures, equip
ment used in the operation of
business and other personal ipropcC
of the corporation.
This the 29th day of June A. D., I®*’
JASPER B. HICKS
Trustee Assign ft