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President and Helpers
Tired ^
Roper and Walker
Through the Ranks
Tugwell’s Rating
When President Roosevelt starts
on his vacation trip the latter part
of this month, to be gone five or
six weeks, he will leave in charge
of things in Washington quite dif
ferent set of men from those who
seemed to be — and thought they
were — the Government of the
United States a year ago. They will
be men whom the President has
discovered are to be trusted to use
their own judgment without get
ting him or the Administration in
to a hole. In other words, most of
them are either experienced Govern
mental administrators or men who
have demonstrated their ability by
the hardest kind of intelligent work
without bringing themselves too
much into the limelight or saying
or doing foolish things which re
flect back on the President.
Mr. Roosevelt is tired, but he is
neither ill nor “worn out,” and
while he needs the vacation rest,
there is nothing in his physical con
dition to worry about. So, too, are
some of the older men in the Cab
inet and high administrative posts
pretty well tried out. This is the
hardest-working Government that
has ever been seen in Washington
in peace times. The Adminisration
came in with what it regarded as a
clear mandate from the people to
change everthing, and to do it
quickly.
Yet it is upon these older men
that the President is now coming
more and more to reply. Experience
has proved the wisdom of the old
maxim: "Old men for counsel,
young men. for war.’’ A good many
of the young men who were put in
because they were expected to be
good executives, tried to be coun
selors.
Hurt the** vtU be many more
changes in addition to the changes
that have occurred in the last year
is not to be doubted. The Presi
dent talks with some of his inti
mates about his desire to find new
blood to carry on the greatly in
creased activities of Government.
He wants more young men whose
physical stamina will stand the
strain, and more older men and wis
dom to act as counselors and bal
ance-wheels to keep the youngsters
from running wild.
• Among the older men who are
closest to the President are Secre
tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper,
experienced, able and wise, and the
President’s closest friend, Louis
McHenry Howe. Col. Howe has
been ill and almost inactive for
months. Secretary Roper is feeling
the strain, so that his trip to the
Northwest to look into the salmon
fisheries tangle will be lengthened
into a real vacatin.
Frank C. Walker, Chairman of
the Federal Emergency Council
and one of the elder men upon
whom the President relies heavily,
is laying off for all summer. He
has carried a larger burden than
anyone realizes. He does not get
into print very often, because he
has the habit of not talking about
what he is doing, but his job is that
of trying to get all the branches of
the Government pulling in the same
■direction at the same time.
Not long before he went out of
•office Mr. Hoover spoke of the fact
that Thomas Jefferson, when
President, had only 150 persons in
all the executive departments, but
that President Hoover had 750,000,
including the army and navy, for
whose activities he was responsible.
Now this total has reached more
than 1,250,000 Federal employees,
without any increase in the army
and navy.
The one among the older men in
high position who doesn’t seem to
mind the work is Jesse Jones, chair
•"man of the R. F. C., who is termed
here "a horse for work.” Inciden
tally, Mr. Jones will not be the next
chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board, although Chairman Black is
on the way out and his successor is
said to have been picked.
Chester Davis, Administrator of
the AAA, is near a breakdown and
will have to lay off for his health
most of the Summer, it is reported,
Nobody would be surprised to see
General Hugh Johnson. NRA ad
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The Carolina Watchman
FOUNDED 1832—101ST YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 29, 1934. VOL 101 NO. 48. PRICE 2 CENTS.
Spelling Champion
GRAY, Maine . . . Sarah Wilson,
12 (above), was given a royal recep
tion when she came home with the
Championship and $500 from the
Tenth Annual National Spelling Bee
held at Washington.
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j Leads Women Voters i
MINNEAPOLIS . . . Miss Mar
garet M. Wells (above), new presi
dent of the National League of
Women Voters declares that women
roters will carry the balance of
power in Fall elections throughout
the country.
Promotion Opposed
WASHINGTON . . . Commander
G. W. Calver (above) IT. S. Navy,
House Physician, since 1928, is the
storm center as the attempt was
made to promote him to the rank
of Captain in 1935 appropriations
G.O.P. Chairman
WASHINGTON . . . Henry P.
Fletcher of Pennsylvania (above),
is the new chairman of the Repub
lican National Committee. Mr.
Fletcher was a Teddy Roosevelt
rough rider in Cuba, former ambas
sador to Italy and a Hoover
supporter.
May Be Bride
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OBERAMMEBGAU, Bavaria . . .
Miss Clara Mayr (above), the Mary
Magdalene of this year’s Passion
Play, is to be a bride and live in
the U. S. if the commission will
grant permission. She will wed
Anton Lang, Jr. now of Georgetown
University faculty.
GOOD
MORNING
THREE SCORE YEARS AND
TEN
840 months.
3640 weeks.
25 568 days.
613,632 hours.
ALL DEFENDS
A little man was ushered into
the witness-box. After the usual
preliminaries, the magistrate! told
him to tell the court what happen
ed.
The man began in rambling nar
rative and finally ended up with
"And then my wife hit me on the
head with an oak leaf.”
"Well, that couldn’t hurt you
surely,” said the magistrate
"Oh, couldn’t it?’1 replied the
little man, with feeling. "It was
the oak leaf from the center of the
dining-room table.”
YEAH, COME ACROSS
He—"Will you marry me?”
Heiress—"No, I’m afraid not.”
He—"Oh. come on. Be a sup
port.”
"Did you know that I had taken
up story writing as a career?”
"No. Sold anything yet?”
“Yes; my watch, my saxophone
and my overcoat.’
SCHEMING DREAMING
Three men, an Englishman, an
Irishman and down-South darkie
were stranded on a desert island,
with only one loaf of bread be
tween them. They decided that
the one who could tell the biggest
yarn about their dream that night
could eat the entire loaf.
The next morning the English
man started his tale: "I dreamed
that I was back in Buckingham
Palace and seated on the throne,
with King George himself shining
my shoes.’
The Irishman, not to be out
done, continued. '’Sure, 'it was
meself that was carried to the pear
ly gates and what did I see but
Napoleon, pickin’ his teeth with a
crowbar.”
Lazily rousing up. the darkie
looked around, stretched, and said,
"D’you know, white folks, Ah
dreamed Ah got up in de midlie of
de night and et dat loaf o’ bread,
an’ sho nuf, when Ah woke up dis
mawnin’ hit was true.”
CURED HAM
He was talking with great vigor
against cc»poral punishment for
boys, which he declared never did
any good.
"Take my own case he exclaimed.
"I was never caned but once in my
life, and -that was for speaking the
truth.”
"Well,” retorted somebody in
the audience, "it cured you.”
HE’S HANDY
Dick: "Is that fellow all right
to take on a fishing trip?”
Burt: "Is he? Say, besides do
ing the cooking, he’ll think up lies
for the whole crowd.”
A PAIR
Sitting around the Beta house,
they were swapping lies.
"When I was up in Montana,”
said one of them, "I saw a moun
tain lion come right up to the camp
one day. It was a fierce beast, but
I, with great presence of mind,
threw a bucket of water in its face
and it slunk away.” *
"Boys,” said a man sitting in
the corner, "I can vouch for the
truth of that story. A few min
utes after that happened I was
coming down the side of the hill.
I met this lion, and as is my habit,
stopped to stroke its whiskers.
Boys, those whiskers were wet.”
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14,000 Bananas
EAST ORANGE, J. ; . . Three^
year old Alan Zeleny (above), due
to digestive ailments; has subsisted
for the last two years on a diet of
only bananas and water. At the rate
of 21 bananas a day it is estimated
he has eaten 14,000 bananas.
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Doctor 87 Turps Skipper
BUFFALO, N. Y_Dr. Elisha
P. Hussey, 87, (shore) is home again
after skippering a small craft on a
cruise, to the West ladies, Bermuda
and Virgin islands. Photo shows the
;h»etsi«ipph je hi ptt into port
at New York.
The Fleet Is In
NEW YORK . . . Eighty-Seven
men-of-war of Uncle Sam’s Navy
sailed into port here and 10,000
officers and blue jackets swarmed
ashore for gay hours. The Jack Tar
above brought along a bunch of
bananas from the Canal Zone.
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Ignores Kidnapers
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LOS ANGELES . . . Despite
threats of kidnapers against her
life, Loretta Turnbull (above),
beautiful speedboat racing cham
pion is again entering regattas and
driving winning races.
Crescent Limited
Makes Last Run
The Crescent Limited, for years
the aristocrat of railroad trains
serving the South was retired or
Wednesday of this week, when il
made its last run as such, and th«
service it has been rendering wil
be taken over by trains 37 and 38
between New York and New Or
leans. It was composed of al
sleepers and the Southern railway is
accredited with retiring the trair
rather than submit it to the use ol
carrying day coaches along wit!
the luxurious sleepers.
Business Conditions LXVer
“New Deal” Show Marked
Improvement Over Country]
Following is a general view of the changes in the business picture of
our country from March, 1933to March, 1934:
Per Cent.
Increase in factory employment_ 37
Increase in factory pay_’_ 22
Increase in retail trade pay_ 26
Increase in factory payrolls_,__ 72
Increase in retail employment_ 22
Increase in manufacturing production_ 48
Increase in automobile production_194
Increase in iron and steel production_ 200
Increase in mineral production_i 25
Increase in electricity used_,___ 3 5
Increase in freight-car loadings_,__ 31
Increase in value of 421 representative stocks__:_ 86
Increase in department-store sales____i_ 46
Increase in variety-store sales_:_. 86
Increase in construction contracts awarded_ 197-4
Increase in rural general-store sales._ 66
Increase in wholesale prices_,_:___ 22.4
Increase in the cost of living_ 9.3
Decrease in commercial failures_ 44
NEWS BRIEFS
DEATH CHAIR AWAITS 16
The electric chair at Raleigh
is in foF a month of slaughter, *as
16 men await in death row in fhe
state’s prison the time of their exe
cution. Nine are sentenced to die
July 6.
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IMMEDIATE DISTRESS RELIEF
President Roosevelt on Sunday
ordered immediate allocation of
$150,000,000 of drought relief
funds, of which $56,250,000 will
go as direct grunts to states un
der the FRA. and the remainder
for the purchase of seeds, equip
ment, and other relief items for
stricken areas.
BURLINGTON MAN SUICIDES
James Curry Isley, 3 8, commit
ted suicide at his home in Burling
ton on Sunday afternoon by shoot
ing a bullet through his heart. He
was a brother of Mayor George
Isley of Raleigh. He was a mem
ber of the Burlington fire depart
ment. a war veteran, and a politi
cal leader. No explanation of his
act is known.
TWO CHARLOTT.E BOYS
DROWN
Alfred Mills and Rufus Rain
water, 19-year-old boys employed
by the Postal Telegraph company at
Charlotte, were drowned while
fishing from a boat near the Bus
ter Boyd bridge on Catawba lake.
The boat capsized, and since neither
was a good swimmer they drowned
before aid could reach them, and
efforts to survive them failed.
NOTED FLIER KILLED
IN CRASH
James R. Weddell, 34, the noted
flier who on December 26 last
jumped into prominence through
press notices given of his courage
ous flight from Houston, Tex., to
Johns Hopkins hospital carrying a
small child for treatment, met
death at Patterson, La., while giv
ing instructions to a student.
Machine trouble developed about
300 feet above earth, and the plane
crashed before it could be righted.
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TEN NEGROES KILLED
Six negroes were instantly kill
ed, four others were fatally injur
ed and many of a group of 40
more or less seriously hurt on high
way No. 10. five miles out from
Newton. The group'was en route
from Newton to Mooresville to
render a play at an Epworth league
meeting, when the truck n which
they were riding was sideswiped by
another loaded with rayon. The
accident occurred at a dangerous
curve, but cause for the disaster
has not quite been determined.
McNINCH NAMED
Disregarding the opposition of
North Carolina’s two Senators,
President Roosevelt has reappoint
ed Frank R.. McNinch as chairman
of the federal power commission.
Opposition to McNinch was based
on his fight with Bishop Cannon
and other Drays against the elec
tion of Al Smith in 1928.
OPPOSE UNION
The general assembly of the
United Presbyterian church in
North America decisively reject
ed a proposal of merger with the
Presbyterian church in the U. S.
A., at their session in Oxford, Ohio,
through an overwhelming vote
against submitting the union plan
to the 67 Presbyteries of the church
for their action.
CHACO BATTLE
In a fierce but unsuccessful at
tack by Paraguyans on Fort Bal
livian, one of Bolivia’s main de
fenses, along the Chaco war front,
2,000 of Paraguay’s soldiers were
claimed to have been killed, ac
cording to dispatches from the
battle area.
WANTS DILLINGEK
The federal government has of
fered $10,000 reward for the capl
ture of John Dillinger, ace Ameri
can gangster and public enemy.
A $5,000 reward was placed on
the head of his chief hencrman,
George "Baby Face” Nelson At
torney-General Homer S. Cum
mings announced the reward offers.
License Penalties
Begins July 1st
Raleigh—Commissioner of Reve
nue A. J. Maxwell has issued a
warnng to all businesses and pro
fessions due to payVl scfiedule( B
license taxes, as follows: "All
schedule B licenses are due On June
1 and are subject to penalties if not
paid prior to July 1. In all cases
the statute requires these taxes to
be paid in advance as a license for
the privilege of engaging in the
business or profession that is taxed.
The terms of the statute and the
obligations of the state require that
penalties be enforced unifotlmly
against all who fail to make pay
ment within the month of June.
The commissioner earnestly Re
quests the co-operation of all tax
payers to meet these obligations be
fore penalties accrue, beginning
July l.”
The humorists of Salisbury who
remark "Is it hot enough for you?’’
need not feel they are so original,
as Eve probably said that to Adarfi
when he was thrown out of para
dise and ordered to earn his bread,
by the sweat of his face.
Record Crowd
Of Speed Fans
Is Expected
Leading Drivers In The
Southeast Will
Participate
PLAN GALA FETE
The fastest field of drivers in
the southeast will compete here on
July Fourth on the half-mile Salis
bury fair grounds dirt track speed
way, which is expected to attract
a record crowd of speed fans from
three states.
Plans for the race program at
the fair grounds track have been
completed by C. C. Gray, Day
tqnia Beach, Fla., air and auto
race pro'motor, who is also a vetsfej
eran dirt track pilot.
Warren Coulette, of Patterson,
N. J., is the first entry to sign up
on the dotted line. Coulette will
drive his Winfield special No. 5.
Other entries will be announced as
soon as the drivers have completed
the round of red tape required for
competitors in such events, Gray
announces.
OVER 17 BILLION
APPROPRIATED BY
RECENT CONGRESS
Greatest Amount In All
Peace-Time History
Authorized To
Be Spent. -s;
The Seventy-third congress ap
propriated or authorized the ap
propriation of the staggering sum
of $ 17,562,646,000 a peace-time
record.
Actual appropriations totalled
$7,522,646,000 and the total au
thorized was $10,040,000,000. The
permanent or indefinite appropria
tions bills set aside $2,300,000,000,
the largest single item. The next
largest was $1,305,000,000 for the
efficiency appropriatons bill, pass
ed.
Other definite approriations in
cluded:
Independent offices, $588,574,
000.
Interior department, $31,474,
000.
Navy, $284,658,000.
State - justice - commerce labor,
$88,884,000.
Agriculture, $62,621,000.
War department, $316,228,000.
Legislative, $25,075,000.
District of Columbia, $3 5,411,
000.
Relief, $950,000,000.
Cattle purchases, $150,000,000.
Drought relief, $525,000,000.
Seed loans, $40,000,000.
Largest sums authorized by con
gress included $3,000,000,000 in
the housing bill, $2,000,000,000
to guarantee home owners loan
bonds, an $2,000,000,000 to guar
antee farm credit bonds.
Other authorizations of the re
construction finance corporation
$850,000,000 deficiency appro
priation bill, $500,000,000; roads.
$422,000,000; naval construction,
$500,000,000; veterans and federal
employes compensation restoration,
$228,000,000; cattle, $25,000.-^.
000, and earthquake relief, $15,- r,
000,000.
Attend Wedding
Over Telephone
Omaha, Neb.—At the last min
ute plans of Dr. and Mrs. W. C.
Herrold to attend the wedding of
their daughter, Dorothy Louise, in
Cincinnati, went awry. So they
made arrangements to hear the cere
mony over long-distance telephone.
IN THE TIGER
It happened in India. A young
officer had been killed by a tiger.
His parents in England wanted the
boy buried in the family vault,
and wired the colonel of his regi
ment.
"Please send poor James home to
us. All expenses paid.’
After many months, a gigantic
coffin arrived. On opening it the
family was horrified to discover a
dead tiger. They wired the col
onel: "Some mistake here; tiger
in coffin* not James.”- ...
The colonel replied: "No'mis
take whatever. Tiger in coffin,
James in Tiger.’’