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MARCH 8. 1928 Page FOUR Section A The Great Smokies By RODNEY CROWTHER THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN I PUBLISHED EVKU MURN1NU My ASHEVILLE CITIZEN. A HUE V1LLK, N. C. GLENN FRANK HTtsiiU-ni or Unlteratry of Wisconsin and FortiHT Kdiior of The O-nlury alugaln THE MIRROR OF WASHINGTON bt n.iMoj cm, hi in this bridge development is discouraging.

How can two nations be close to each other when their bridge rules are in conflict? But we reject the correspondent's explanation that the Knglishmen play unsound bridge merely to be different from Americans. It would be as sensible to say that Britishers dote on tea because Americans once threw it into the sea. The real trouble, as we said at the outset, is thai a bridge game is no place for bulldog tactics. by Mason most of them photographs of things that have never before been taken. Not a umall part of the value of this book lies In these artistic and well-chosen Illustrations.

herself handsomely, might in an emergency tep in and dominate the course of world affairs. Kawakami, who war stationed at Geneva before coming to this country emphasizes his opinion that conflict between America and Knglund may occur at any time. "It is enough to remember' he says, "that the United States is out to contest the financial and commercial supremacy which has for decades been held in Errand's firm hands." Then he declares, not only that Japan wants no alliance with either Enfant or America, but also that "she perhaps could lessen the ehancea of conflict between the two English speaking nations by avoiding any action which might be interpreted as taking sides with either power." "THK LI' RE OF THE Oil EAT HMOK1KS." By Robert L. Mason. Hougltton-Mlfflln Company, 1827, Boston and New York.

'T'O the average North Carolinian i "The Great Smoky Mountains' till are somewhat of a legend. They are remote, mysterious and apart. To the rest of th country thm are only a name. Why they have thus lain for more than a century without appreciation sAve by a few Indomitable souls like Professor Guyot seems to be a profound mystery. I loovrr's I leavy I landicap I '11 KJiK are some people who admit that Ah much mystery aa the origin of Japan has had her diplomatic "brushes" George Stephens l.harlm A.

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ai on Sunday, call following ninnl.eii.: I Newa Deportmem Newe Department Rnorta Editor Want Ad Dcparlmcnt 1 Circulation Depart The Citizen la glad" to uuhllnli lettcra. not too long, on matlera of general lr.li!reBt. linl euch communici.il" must he accompanied by the real name of the writer, even when they are to be published over a nom de plume. The Clllzen of course, reaervea the right to reject anv article offered tor publication. with both.

America offended her in its hand their name. But now that they are definitely ling of the immigration question. She feels baek In the limelight through the generosity of the Rockefeller that Britain was her enthusiastic ally only so long as such an alliance was helpful to Ohio Republican Leaders Square Off For A Good Fight Washington. March 8. SO.MK one who analysed the biff npws tor leu a year reached the conclusion that all had the element of combat in them they told of struKglen between Individuals or atruKKles of men against the elements.

That la why, I sup-tjose. all Washington correspondent write about the news flre as fights: fights between the I'res-Ident and Congresn, fightn for and gainst the water power Interest, and what not? And It Is because the Ohio campaign for delegates to thn Ftepubllcan National Convention Is a fight that It Is the best political -story of the year. It is a fight, perhaps the only fight, that wilt takfl place in Kepuhllcan poll-tics until the National Convention meets. It would better fight If Mr. Hoover would come out from behind his desk In the Commerce Department and personally lead the attack, baring his breast to the shafts of Senator Willis.

But still, even without this gallant feature. It fs a fight. And there are personalities in it. There Is the noble WlltU Britain in the Kar KaRt. "Now," says Ka Foundation attention may very appropriately be called once more to Mr.

Mason's book. wakami, "Japan believes the age of al If any living man knows every foot of the Smokiea better than Mason It must he Horace Kphart, whose book, "Our Southern High liances is pant." Which, being interpreted, means that Japan likes peace, but that in the event of conflict between her only superiors on the sea, she reserves the right to act for her own advantage exclusively. lands," also glvea an Insight Into these mountains which at once Originally the home of an albino race, the Smokies have seen In ttucceaalon several races of people. A part of the Indians, the Cherokees, defying the Westward trek of the red man. held to their haunts, 'ind there they are in this duy, clinging to the traditions iind the legends nf their past, cradled In their ancestral home, but living by the lore that the white man, with his civilization, has brought them.

There Is a chapter, "Old Cher-okee Tales and Legends." which is worth more thun the price of the book. Happily Cherokee language, thanks to Sequoyah, a half-breed, la a written language, and many of Its tales and legends have been reduced to paper. But Is doubt, grave doubt, whether more than a very small part of the legends has ever been made available. There Is also a chapter on the "Angles, Scots and Celta" who flrat penetrated these mountains sturdy frontiersmen whose sons and daughters preserve some ot the best traditions of the hills, and whose language keeps Intact much of the fine old flavor of the Anglo-Saxon days. "The Bloody Graunds of the Smokies." tales of the fights between white man and Indian, and "Old Time Smoky Mountain Filth's nnd Riflemen," reminiscence? of the long barrel, shot pouch and powder horn, have invested Mason's tale with the flavor of romance, and a hUtorlcal interest to be lound In no other book about these mountains.

I he Coca Cola Bottlers a Joy to the soul of all mountain lovers and a revelation- to the people to whom the word "Smok ies" has meant something vague ASHKVILLK is glad to act as host to the Coca Cola Bottlers. They come from a and mysterious. EM 11 EK OK THE ASSOCIATED I'UESS The Anoclated Preaa la exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all newa dispatches In thlB paper, and also the local newa published herein. All rlghla ot republication of special dlapatchca published herein are also reserved. wide territory, twelve States being repre sentod in their convention at the Kenilworth Out of Mason's book comes a new perspective of tho Smokfea.

Inn, and more than six hundred delegates being in attendance. This is proof in itself of the importance of this industry in the He reveals that they were first surveyed as early as 1821 and most of the peaks located and mapped at that time. In a special Thursday Morning, March 8, 1928 True To Their Heritage swelling with pride at all the publicity he is getting. Men who have never heard of Willis are hearing South. Its growth has been one of the ro mances of the section; and it has been built chapter.

Number Five of this of hlrn now. Kven If he la defeat up by men who arc the leaders in their book, he tells Professor Guyot. a Do Uplifters Uplift? npODAV I turn aguln to the pic 1 ture of the Ideal citizen, as I ee him, by discussing the ninth of eleven attitudes 1 think be malntuhiM a cynical attitude toward uplift. The Impulse hack of the Idea of uplift Is admirable. 1 It has become an American tradition that men of wealth, men of education, and men of vltdnrt have an InenrRpulile obligation to their wealth, education and vision for the benefit of their less favored fellows.

It la the ancient conception of noblesse oblige in American dres. There Is, I think, an enormous fund of sincerity back of the uplift movements and service slogans of our time. Those who have wealth, education, and vision honestly want to serve those who have not these things. But this beautiful ambition is. fear, lt-adlng us Into a blind alley, I suspect that most uplift movements uplift very little.

And the reason ia that they begin uplifting too late. The Ufa of the average man is made desirable or undesirable, beautlfil or barren, by the conditions under which and the way In which he lives his uhiidhood, sets bis cduuutfon, and make- hU living. Anything else tacked on; it is not an organic part of his life. Do we want satisfactory living conditions for the average man? We can do something through au uplift movement to clean up the slums and plan model tenements. In the long run.

however, as have said so many times, we can do most through the progressive development of American Industry to the point where it raisee wages, shortens hourH, and reduces prices, thus giving the average man leisure in which to develop tastes that will demand good llv. ing conditions and means to provide them. Do we want more beauty In the life of the average man? We can do -something by1 uplift movements in behalf of better architecture, better gardening, and better furniture. In the long run, however, the average man will be trained to a greater sensitiveness to beauty by the increasing beauty that is being put Into kitchen utensils, furnace equipment, radio cabinets, bathroom fixtures. Inexpensive automobiles, and the other Instruments of daily life.

The line of least resistance for uplift Is In and through the processes of living: and working. The ideal citizen focusses hi fund of good will on the hours of the wrkiug day; he does not reserve it for after six In the evening. (Copyright 1928) ed. the advertising he is receiving Swift mountaineer who had he spective communities. The Citizkn hopes will amply repay him for the lick come head of the mtncralologica) that their stay in Ashcville will be enjoyable and profitable.

It is a privilege to have them department of Princeton Unlver log. And the clash In Ohio Is one between the Anti-Saloon League nlty, and who spent the summers 1 856, '58, 'B9 and '(10 exploring and Its foes. I suspect that Mr here. these mountains. Willis will turn out to be the pitcher that has gone too often to the well.

This Is bad metaphor The few who have picked their arduous ways over these thirty-odd QUILLEN'S QUIPS II ROUKUT OOILLUN to apply to such a dry as the Sen peaks', and through the hidden a tor from Ohio, hut I can think coves; who have wandered up and down the Indian, the cattle and of no other. At any rate, Clnnln Favorite sons prove nothing, except that you can't trust the Judgment of purents. the' bootlegger trails; who have slept In summer on the frost-covered peaks where snow birds Some of thn illustrations give the reader a better Idea of the Lure of the Smokies than any prose that man might write. Some of them are "Mo-ss Covered Rocks natl and probably Cleveland are tired of Mr. Willis, precisely for the reason that most of the rest of the State likes him, because he has too long stood aa the favorite I'ncle Sum wants sup for rubber.

He's, tired await the coming of winter; and of buying i-uhhar for a cap. who have watched the black- Below Rainbow Falls;" "Hugglns of the Anti-Saloon League. winged raven. Immortal bird of Gold filling keeps teeth from hurling, es Poe, In his rugged haunts; who they lack "card sense." There are others who do not make the admission but whose friends make it for them. So as to politics, a more fascinating game than cards, played for glittering stakes and enthralling the interest of spectators as well as players.

It is the misfortune of Herbert Hoover, with the capital pri.e of this gorgeous game almost in his grasp, that he sits today like the player with a winning hand at auction bewildered by his holdings and at a loss how to bid or how to piny. The fact that Mr Hoover finds politics a puzzle is not a new discovery. Kight years ago when he was under discussion as a Presidential possibility he had difficulty in determining whether he was a Democrat or a Ue-publican. Before that he had publicly backed Woodrow Wilson in what most people considered the most astounding political blunder of Mr. Wilson's career, his appeal to the country at the close of the war for a Democratic Congress.

Of course that was to Mr. Hoover's credit, but it was hardly the action he would have taken if he had had a nose for politics. In the political maneuvering in 1020 Mr. Hoover, as The AVio York Timcn recalls, filially allowed himself to bo pigeonholed by the professionals wilh neatness and dispatch. It does not seem to The TimvH that he is showing much more skill at the present time.

Not for any lack of effort on his part. His respect for the professionals nt the game is unbounded. "He has summoned to his assistance," says the New York newspaper, men versed in the art of lining up delegates and running conventions. At least he has shown a willingness to avail himself of their services. Koine of them have had a rather unsavory reputation, and it is not necessary to believe that they are so deep in the confidence of the Secretary of Commerce as they would like the newspaper men to believe." But at any rate Mr.

Hoover is hearkening to them and after a fashion is lakitig Iheir advice. A good many people do not think that it has been on the whole very good advice; and either they are very much divided among themselves or else Mr. Hoover is not very sure of Iheir counsel, for he has been doing a good deal of backing anil filling, as in the threat to enter the Wisconsin primary and the withdrawal of his name after it had been filed in that State. Likewise as to lndiann he has been of two minds as to what to do. Yet in Ohio he is an active contestant against Willis, who claims that State on the Favorite Son theory.

This looks like inconsistency. Worse, it is evidence to the professionals that Mr. Hoover has no clear program upon which to carry forward his campaign. There are, of course, great numbers of people who will not think the worse of Mr. Hoover because he is so deficient in political skill; who, indeed, will think all the better of him on this account.

But these people are not very influential at political conventions. The same people, moreover, did not think the Mr. Coolidge becnuse everybody agreed that no matter what else you might think about him, it had to be conceded that Mr. Coolidge knew politics. And so he does.

That makes us wonder why Mr. Hoover, as the heir apparent of the Coolidge fishing rod, bail and cowboy outfit has not let Mr. Coolidge tell him how to take the nomination off the silver platter at Kansas City. In Theodore Roosevelt coached Mr. Taft and did a fine job of it.

"Lay on the colors with a broad brush," he told him. "Forget you were ever on the bench and hope that the people will forget it. Ilon't you know that every time you quote a court decision you put half of your audience to sleep?" Hasn't Mr. Coolidge ever called Mr. Hoover to the White House for a heart to heart talk? Ami if not, why not? Then there is Carml Thompson hove waded the gushing streams pounding his faithful typewriter pecially the teeth of the criminal code.

You can guess his financial rat Iiir if you know how ninny days he thinks there are In a week-end. in search of wily trout; and who have lumbered over rocky fields in pursuit of elusive bruin these have been men of stout lege and Hell from Alum Cave'; "Rainbow Falls in Winter;" "Thunder Head and Gregory Bald from Cade's "The Daniel Boone Tree;" "Fire On Breshy." To those who appreciate that the Smoky Mountain National Park will be the richest jewel of Western North Carolina, when accomplished, this book Is a literal store house of facts, set down with con-ddera' le grace nnd ease. There could conceivably be written a Modern Sunday may seem "worldly." but It sturdy souls. But what rewards 'Ike a champion. He is ready to meet any Hoover champion In single combat, typewriter against typewriter.

Mr. Thompson 13 good for ten red-hot and Inspiring statements r. day. No one In the Hoover camp has produced any such literature as Mr. Thompson's description of the Willis campaign What a world apart from the noise doesn't lake alt day Mondny to recover Lorn the daze of a flivver trip.

When the driver In front holds out his I in ml and the grime and the much of the cities! Apart from the hurry THK Long Island pastor who went out to discover what the flaminK youth ot his community thought about the companionate marriage idea got no satisfactory response from the boys one way or the other, but the girls were emphatic and unanimous in their replies. Companionate marriages, they said, were "the bunk," and permanent marriage was the only thinkable thing when a man came along who was capable of supporting a family. They added that a man unable to support a family was, from every standpoint, a dead loss. These flappers, whose speech and manners have so flustered and upset some of the el-dcrB, are true to their ancient heritage. The institution of the home has been built up at the behest, and under the inspiration, of woman.

It is the only system of relationship with the male that offers her security. It is what the average woman wants. She enjoys the game of attracting a man while, with an artfulness that is sheer genius, she permits him to believe that he does all the pursuing; but, with the game won, she wants to set about the business of running a home and running it with the conviction that it can not be taken away from her. Such attitudes and feelings have been made impregnable in the typical woman by her experience through countless centuries. The Long Island flappers who were agniust companionate niarringe were, in a sense, merely the trumpets through which all the trials, struggles, ideals and conquests of their sex urged civilization to uphold monogamy and the home.

They did not have to think the thing out. They "felt" the right and wrong of it as automatically as the tin pan resounds to the blow of a knife handle. Female youth may "have Its fling." and enjoy a hearty giggle as it shocks its elders, and delight in smnrt talk about breaking law? and throwing conventions out of the window: but it knows what it wants in regard to man and marriage. It wants what the accumulated experience of its sex has found to be best for woman. And as long as this is true, the companionate marriage advocates have a rough and stony road ahead of them.

and the worry, the "fever and ho at. least affords you opportunity to exer cise your ability as a mind render. the fret" of business and politics and household duties! Out where freedom Is more thun a catch more poetical description of the mountain scenery; hut something as "a throbbing and pulsating stirring the whole State. Mr. Thompson has a vivid Liberty is a state of mind.

Some men would be free In chains; some would lie enslaved on word. of the rugged ness of Mason's a prose; of the plain statement of Two things thai keep the land In pat ha of ipiagl nation and great verbal en On the other side the ino.U In teresrlng figure, a I facts; of the careful setting down without adornment of talcs and legends Invests the book with an Mason and his companions have struggled over most of the peaks of the Smokies and up and down all of Its streams. He tells of those heavy trudglngs both by pen and photograph, "The Lure of the Great Smokies'' is- abundantly illustrated by photographs taken attractiveness all Its own. For virtue are conscience and Borah. Mussolini nmy force bin subjects (o cut rice, hut we dare hhn to make rice pudding a dally Item on the menu.

a those who love mountains it will have, without doubt, a tremendous I fascination. Maschke, Republican national committeeman and leader of the hosts of Cleveland. Me Is willing to bet, I am told, that Mr. Hoover will carry his bailywlck by a vote of three to one over Mr. Willis.

Americanism: Neglecting a cigarette lighter; growling because It doesn't work, Doing the same tiling about government, A "maniac" might tie crazy on any subject, People's Forum Mr. Maschke has sporting procllv What this age needs Is a new word, like fested by some of these pompous bishops of the Southern Methodist "scxinc." Itles. He Is reported to be one of the greatest amateur bridge whist players of the country. When Mr. issued his letter saying that Mr.

Maschke need not expect to WANTS TIONISTS SMOKFD OUT Kdltor of The Citizen; tIOW time for al1 good Church (and I belong to it) as It Is estimated that only .001 per cent, of men to come to the aid of the laundries me run by men who once turned a wringer before school on Mandays. receive any more Federal patron Kleclion year: A lime, when the voter la age Mr. Maschke was playing his favorite game. He Interrupted It Just long enough (o be told of Mr. their party" against the 'Prohibitionists.

Laying aside for tie present all consideration of the moral aspects of prohibition or antl- they go up and down the country proclaiming with self-assumed nu: thority that "my church" will never vote so and so. Well, old boys, I have this to say: You may know your preachers pretty well and the lay "pray daddies" you mix with, but you kidded Into the belief that somebody cures a darn what ho thinks. Willis' dire threat, A Cleveland newspaper described this Incident problbitlon, let us see if It has not become fop the time being solely don't know the rank and file of a political Issue. The prohibition of the Ohio fight under the headline. "Oh.

hum!" said Maschke. "Bid four clubs." (Copyright 1928 Public Ledger) leaders Just flow are attempting the Methodist voters as I do -and your bluff is going to be called one of these days- I have this to say to the leaders to move heaven and earth (and doubt not that they would call upon the other place if they could of the Democratic Party in the use It In their campnlgn) In their South; This bluffing, bulldozing efforts to bill Id ore the political NEWS OF OTHER DAYS (From The Itlicn Tiles) hunch of Anti-Saloon Leaguers1 are lenders of both political pnrties Into accepting candidates for the If he sounds like a Cadillac horn when he uses a handkerchief, you may assume that everybody In the community calls him dead. Remember how eager ty men joined the Crusades of old? Has It occurred to you that many a Jigns thus got away from a Maggie? Naughty plays are losing popularity not because people are getting better, but because nothing Is appetlzltiK If you get It for supper every night. One reason why villages have fewer scandals and killings than cities have Is because Central doesn't tell nil she known. Hook review for lodny: "The house of Dr.

Kd wards" by Francis heeding (I. title. Brown Creepy mystery In a madhouse. Kor tli 1 1 tit reading, It's good. Correct thla sentence: "He's fl noriuwl hoy of fifteen.

said whe, "and he never thinks his parents are enemies." Presidency named by the Anti-Saloon League. Therefore without 111 YK.nR AGO TODAY London: Chancellor Honar Law lengthy argument It ought to be clear to nil reasonably minded makes public figures of Britain's people, that prohibition is bark to Japan Stands Aloof is ucseless to deny," says K. K. Kawn-knmi, the distinguished American corre where it was prior to the World War Just a one-plank national 1 political party. The only differ LAST OF A BELOVKD FAMILY (Charlotte Observer) Claude Ramsay, Salisbury boy later developed Into the Seattl man, spent a week of the recent holidays among friends In Charlotte and gave entertaining account of the North Carolina men located In Washington State.

He made good report ot Thomas Vance, who left the State about 40 years ago, to make' his fortune In the far Weat, and who made final location at Olympia, where he set out as a lawyer, and was shortly thereafter heard of as Assistant Attorney General of the State. He was winning fame as a lawyer at the time Ramsay made report, and had gained highplace in legal circles throughout that part of the country. The people loved hjin, Ramsay reported, because of the traits he inherited from his distinguished father. Vance. And now comes Information that Thomas yance has passed to his reward, and with his death Ihe book of th Vance boys Is closed.

First went David, then Charles, and after Charles Zeb, these with Tom constituting the family of four fine boys the lamented Vance contributed (o the State, All are of the fondest recollection by the older people of this Beet Ion, but In Tom, who survived longest, ihe virtues of the father abided In nioht pronounced manner, for, especially did be Inherit his fat'her's sense nf humor. The people of Seattle, Olympia and Tucoma were wont to make up excuses for visits to his law office lust to draw on his stock of anec A es. The old Vance tiotne In Char lotte. with Its shaded porch running along East Sixth Street at Ihe railroad corner, nnd in which Tom Vance was born September, 1S63, was one of the first of Charlotte's landmarks to give way to the march of progress, and even the playground of the Vance boys has passed from the recollection of Ihe people, but among1 the older set, the news of the passing of Tom Vance will revive memories of thn nux-t precious hoys In tho history nf the city. Ihe days when Zeb Vance, the lawyer, lived here s'tr rounded by his happy family, Dawes whn won't he run by nnd let led to by the Antt-Paloon League, CHAS.

11. NEW Ashevllle, N. March' 8, loans to her allies up to February 9: 1.2 04,000.000 pounds. Speaking of the Interests of war savings stamps. Captain Fallon ot the Australian Army tells vividly of his experiences in the war before, a very large audience.

A merlcan Government requests Mexico to delay enforcing heavier oil taxes which they regard as virtually confiscatory. pollynnna." starring Helen Hayes, nt the Auditorium for two nights. spondent fbr Japanese newspapers, in an art tele in The I mir)i'nlrni, "that the situation lie fore us is pregnant with evil possi-bilities. Many an Kngliahrunn is asking, hypothetical ly but nevertheless seriously: 'Are we ri'iilly going to fight Americn, and we should, what would be the altitude nf our former ally, Hip desire to make thai ithpiiry highly dramatic obviously tempts him to exnggeinte 'he doing their best to destroy the only chance we wilt have of getting a Democratic President within the next fifty years that Is If the chance is lost. Are you going to cower down like whipped dogs just because these preachers try to stir a little hellfire (which the preachers mostly themselves don't believe In) under your heels and let them force you into nominating a dummy who could arouse no more political enthusiasm than could old King Tut's caraass? Let's smoke 'em out nnd make them go back to where thev have always been a one-plank party trying to run a great government tike this on a single Issue.

If you have a single-track mind politically, nnd that a dry mind, then by nil menns go to But If you are a Democrat, a freeborn American citizen who believes this country ought to bo run by red-blooded, two fisted statesmen. Then for your country's nnd your party's sake stand up and tell these fellows to go out and nominate their man on a dry ticket and run him on a single plank. If tlwie nre as many dyed-In-the-woot prohibitionists In this country a Scott LYRICS OF LIFE, IIY not MAI, LOCH Bridge Whist In Britain OUR admiration of Great Rritain's bulldog tenacity is unexcelled, but a bridge whist game is no place for a bulldog, a fact now abundantly demonstrated by the Ilrit-ishers themselves. Kngland, we are informed by news dispatches, is rocked by a hot and raging controversy. The point at issue is: Shall majority calling prevail at the bridge tables in Britain? That is to say, shall "four clubs" be a bigger bid that "three spade?" as is the case all over the progressive and card-playing republic of the United States of America, or shall Knglishmen stick to their old rule of counting "three ppades" better than "four clubs" because "three spades" amount to and "four clubs" to only twenty-four? The argument, strong, stinging anil staccato, invaded even the somber and dignified precincts of the Portland Club which is to bridge in London as the Knickerbocker Club is to bridge in New York.

It absorbed the best thought and pondering of ihe governors, the house committee and (he general membership. The common sense of mat hematics demanded that "four club' should lake the bid away from "three spades," hut precedent, dear to the bulldog heart of Merrie Kngland. clung to the delusion that "three spades" was superior to "four clubs." The tension was somewhat relieved at last by the ruling that it was optional with any rluii to adopt the American rule: "four clubs" bigger than "three spades." "But," says the newspaper correspondent, "had majority calling not hern nn American Innovation, the British would have accepted It. The very idea of having rules imposed upon them by Americans made the British clubmen shudder, and although they admit privately that majority calling is more sensible they stick to the old game." In view of all that has been spoken and written, cabled and printed about the close fonotnrhlp of Americans and Knglishmen, "evil possibilities" to which he refers, but he i ence Is that by reason of the Eighteenth Amendment, the Volstead Law and the graft that goes along wilh the whok enforcement program they are a little more strongly entrenched than they ever were before. However, just as soon as the people nt large get wise to them they will he al onee forced hack openly to their old one-plank party.

1 believe the awakening Is nigh at hand. It Is the purpose of this article to arouse the people of both major political parties to see once more that a government like ours can not he run on a single Issue and to throw off the yoke placed upon our necks by' this bunch of four-flushing, bellowing, power-loving ecclesiastics and lame duck lawyers who on big salaries are going around over the country loudly proclaiming how the people are going (o vote In the next Presidential election (hough the people were under bondage to their mental attitudes. They roast Governor Smith nrt a possible candidate because, as they say, he being Catholic would be subservient to the dictates of the Pope nt Rome. Yet no pope In many years hns manifested any more dictatorial powers over hls people than thai now being mani makes it plain that the fact ijif its being nsked is both interesting and gratifying to the Japanese; not, lie says, because they "necessarily expect'' Anglo-America rupture, but because, it is so different from the question Knglishmen were asking up to 1(121: "Should Japan and the United States fall out, would Britain he required to come to Japan's rescue by reason of her alliance with the Kar Eastern KnipireV" Mi. Kawakami believes, then, that Ihe wheel of world change has at last earned Japan to the lop, and that in the drama nf international affairs she is qualified to play a star part.

While Knglishmen wonder whether Mie would help them or (he United States in Ihe event of Anglo-American si.ocav; I'd rail mm wear upon my breast Onp little rose than some "At IIphI" That cost some lodge of fellowmen rive dollars, maybe eight or ten. In fact, it needn't be a rose; A daisy's pretty, goodness knows. And now with one I'd rat her, nla rid Than He with In my hand. W'e'iP living in a slogan ngp. When slnga n.s really are Ihe rage.

And no uu ever thought one up To put upon a kning-cup, nn a fence, oi In an ad. Much better than the fluriKis Kid When they advised us at nil hours The tilings we say to say with flow rs. Itut there's another slogan, loo, I'd tike in recommend It; you, A slbgan equally as pat. And tine In u.e along with that, Vou'ie often seen It nn a wall. That Slouan certainly recall.

Jn hook (tie two together. Mow? f-'av It With Kloweis, and lo It Now! (Copyright by Douglas Malloth) McBrlde and his bunch of trnlned SO VKAHS AiO TODAY Sunday Citizen carries an article for men on "The Art of Good I'en-ma nshlp-' aa a necessity for suc-ress In business. George Albert Snyder, President of Catawba College, will spenk at the V. M. C.

A. today. Several Aslievllle girls have received iti vita lions to the house party to be given at Faster by tho Hutu Tbeta I'l Fraternity nt Chnp-el Hill. MAY lll ll SYMPATHY (Toledo (Hade) It doesn't help much to toll the rntr: ou had the of way. animals would have you believe they could easily elect him.

Now let's mnke them go to It. I have this word to the rtrpub-llcans: If God l. going to punish me nt this age of my life hy letting these birds mess us up to where we can't elect a Democrat nnd orce me to live another eight years under Republican rule. Ihen by all moans elect some man like trouble, she prefers to stand alone, making promises, shackled by no commitments, for she has the third most powerful navy on the fan- of ih waters and, besides taking caic nf.