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"If the choice were left to me whether to have a
free press or a free government, I would choose a
free press.”—Thomas Jefferson.
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1932
POPULATION DATA
CITIES AND TOWNS
Salisbury _ 16,951 Gold Hill - 156
Spencer _ 3,129 Granite Quarry _ 5 07
E. Spencer _ 2,098 Rockwell - 696
China Grove - 1,25 8 Faith - 431
Landis _ 1,388 Kannapolis - 13,912
TOWNSHIPS
Atwell _-_ 2,619 Morgan - 1,327
China Grove_ 8,990 Mt. Ulla - 1,389
Cleveland _ 1,445 Providence- 2,5 89
Franklin_.._ 2,246 Salisbury - 25,153
Gold Hill _ 2,642 S. Irish- 1,251
Litaker_ 2,562 Steele - 1,142
Locke_ 1,904 Unity- 1,406
ROWAN COUNTY.._56,665
VALUES THAT MONEY CANNOT BUY
Sometimes we wonder what would be the
effect if things should go on about as they are
now indefinitely. How much worse off would
we be as a people if the present standards of
income should prove permanent?
It all depends, it seems to us, on where you
stand when you look at the world. If you’re
standing on a dollar-mark things are pretty
bad right now. But there are other points of
view. Why do we want prosperity to return?
So we can all have more money. But if we
had more money, what would we do with it.
It seems to us that during those boom years
when money, for a lot of people, was easy to
get, it proved to be pretty hard to hold. And
from what we saw and heard and read about
what people did with their money, especially
people who had never had any experience with
money before, it didn’t do many of them much
good. On the contrary, it seems to us, it was
a genuinely bad influence. And is there any
reason to believe that people, speaking gen
erally, would get any more lasting value out
of easy money if boom times came back? We
think not.
Of course, we want everybody to have a
job. We not only hope that but we expect
that conditions will change so that there will
be no unemployment to the extent of wide
spread distress and privation. And we realize
t-Uoro Tin 11 ^lura-trc Kp cnmp npnnlp who
will have more money than they know what
to do with, and who will continue to spend
it foolishly. But it does seem to us that in the
effort to make everybody rich our system has
not succeeded in making anybody very happy;
and we wonder whether we have not some
how, as a people, lost our grip on the more en
during things of life in the struggle for the
mighty dollar.
There are spiritual values which are im
mensely more important than riches, which
are not at all dependent upon wealth, which,
in fact, are likely to be destroyed by the posses
sion of more money than is needed to keep
the body warm and fed. Perhaps these lean
years may prove to have had a disciplinary
value in turning people’s thoughts away from
mere pleasure to the soberer but more import
ant things of life.
THE RECORD
President Hoover apparently has found a
new personal devil responsible for all the ills
that beset us in the bear traders on the stock
market. Bears are those gamblers who bet that
prices will go down, and in the last few days
they have been winning consistently. But be
fore we accept Mr. Hoover’s word that it is
their betting that has caused prices to sink
we should carefully assess what Mr. Hoover
has done to sustain price.
It took Mr. Hoover a long time to realize
that the depression actually exists. His first
attitude, after the crash of 1929, was to as
sume that it was a mere flurry, and he clung
to that theory for many months. But since
he has admitted the fact he has advocated a
number of fairly radical measures to remedy
the situation, and he has rejected a number
of proposals made by others. Let us consider
in detail the more important projects, both
among those he has accepted and those he has
rejected, to see what they possess in common
that may indicate the direction ip which Mr.
Hoover’s mind moves.
First among the projects Mr. Hoover fa
vored was the moratorium, which relieved the
international situation somewhat, but left a
hole of some 230,000,000 in our own budget.
Next was the farm loan project, which put
the credit of the Government and a consid
erable amount of the taxpayers’ money at the
disposal of the agriculturists.
Then came the Finance Reconstruction Cor
poration, which similarly disposed of $500,
000,000 cash and $1,500,000,000 credit for
the benefit of bankers and industrialists. '
Finally came the Glass-Steagall bill, which
puts the credit of the Government behind cer
tain classes of bank loans, but which is so du
bious a measure that one of its authors, Sen
ator Glass, has stated frankly that he expects
it to do little or no good.
All these measures have two things in com
mon: first, they all involve spending the tax
payers’ money, multiplying jobholders, and
spreading the Government’s credit out thin
ner and thinner; second, not one of them sets
a wheel turning in industry, or increases by
one dollar the buying power of the masses of
the people.
On the other hand, Mr. Ffoover has flatly
refused to advocate a cut in Federal jobhold
ers’ pay.
He has flatly refused to consider a general
revision of the tariff, which every economist
knows has something to do with our troubles,
while many believe that it is one of the prin
cipal causes of distress.
He has flatly refused to consider the one
practical scheme advanced to provide at the
same time a large number of jobs for the un
employed, and a large stream of new revenue
for the Federal Treasury, namely, the legaliza
tion of beer.
If Mr. Hoover, then, has consistently fa
vored spending more money, hiring more tax
eaters and depleting the credit of the coun
try, and has as consistently opposed every el
fort to get at the seat of the trouble regard
less of politics, does it lie in his mouth to criti
cize the bears in the stock market?
GRUDGES
Grudges usually originate from some serious
incident such as, for instance, that one person
says something unpleasant about another per
son to a third person. Then the person about
whom the unpleasant thing has been said hap
pens to say to the third person that in his or
her opinion the first person is a very nice per
son.
So very naturally the third person replies
"You wouldn’t say that if you knew what he
or she said about you.” That, of course, pro
duces the grudge. Once a grudge is produced
it is likely to lead to many embarrassing situ
ations, as people who bear grudges against each
other are invited to the same party and find
themselves sitting next to each other very
probably, or else they are walking along the
street and come suddenly face to face.
Then it is up to the person who bears the
grudge to decide very quickly whether to speak
at all or whether to nod stiffly and formally.
The person against whom the grudge is borne
naturally wonders what is wrong with the
other person and whether the coldness is acci
dental or intended and asks another person.
And the other person replies that it was prob
ably not intended, but due to the fact that
he or she has had financial reverses or a good
deal of sickness in the family and was not pay
ing attention.
But after several encounters the person
against whom the grudge is borne realizes that
the coldness is intentional, and after thinking
it over decides that he or she will just walk
right up to him or her and say "Now look
here. What’s the matter? Then the person
bearing the grudge explains that it is because
of what the other has said and on being press
ed confesses that it was the third person who
told.
So then the person who bears' the grudge
and the person against whom it is borne make
up and become good friends and agree that
the third person is a trouble maker and they
will have nothing more to do with him or her.
The grudge is transferred to the third person
and remains so until he or she ma.kes amends
and passes the grudge on to somebody else.
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To the Property Owners
in Salisbury:
As the spring season approaches, it
is time to consider clean up, paint up
programs. ~
There is enough work that needs to
be done, such as remodeling, repairing,
repainting and cleaning up residence
property and vacant lots, to give em
ployment to many idle men, if only
the owners could be induced to have
it done now. All such jobs can be done
at exceptionally low cost, saving mon
ey for the employer, while giving
work to those in dire need of it, and
also benefiting the community by
making the city more attractive. Ev
ery one who can, certainly should con
tribute a share to the benefit of the
community and its unfortunate citi
zens.
Governor Matthew Rowan.
To the People of North Carolina-.
While North Carolina thus far has
escaped the alarming wave of kidnap
ings which recently has been sweep
ing the country, the rapid increase in
this type of crime inspires the fear
that this state may not long remain
free from the activities of those who
steal children for gain. Overshadowed
by the Lindbergh case and receiving
comparatively little attention, other
serious instances of kidnaping occur
red the past week in other states chan
New Jersey.
The time has come when every state
should have strong anti-kidnaping
laws carrying severe penalties, even
the death sentence, for the more ag
gravated cases. Kidnaping, in many
instances, is just as grave an offense
against society as murder, and in some
cases worse. My suggestion is that the
people of North Carolina let the can
didates for membership in the legisla
ture know between now and the pri
mary, June 4, that they desire such a
law passed, so that the next General
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and act accordingly.
Governor Matthew Rowan.,
Hon. O. Max Gardner,
Governor of North Carolina.
My dear Governor:
With your approval, as I under
stand, the legislature of 1931 made
provision whereby state income tax
payers could have the option of pay
ing in two semi-annual installments
instead of. paying the entire annual
tax at one time—on or before March
15. The act provides, however, that
this accommodation shall be extended
only to those whose income tax is $100
or more.
It would be a popular move on your
part, I am sure, if you would recom
mend to the next General Assembly,
the members of which will be nomi
nated within three months, that pro
vision be made to extend the same
accommodation to those whose annual
income tax is less than $100, with the
same conditions applying to those
whose tax is above $100, six per cent
interest on the deferred payment.
In view of the higher income tax
rates in effect this year, together with
the annual burdens many small in
come tax payers have had to shoulder
because of the existing conditions,
doubtless it is going to be a hardship
on many whose tax is even less tn.m
$100 to pay the full amount at one
time, proportionately as much so as it
would be to many larger taxpayers.
This belief should be extended to all,
since the state does not need and does
not use all of its income tax revenue
it one time, and the interest on defer
red payments doubtless would cover
the extra expense to the revenue de
partment.
Governor Matthew Rowan.
COMMENTS
Legion Wages Fight Against Unem
ployment And, Depression.
Salisbury North Carolina,
March 5, 1932.
To the Editor:
During the war many seemingly un
surmountable obstacles were overcome
through the mobilization of not only
the man power of our country, but
through the mobilization of industries,
organizations and the united efforts of
our individual citizens.
Today National Commander Stev
sns of the American Legion and the
National Unemployment Committee
has declared that a state of war now
sxists and have declared war against
unemployment and depression. To
combat this common enemy today,
our National Organization is mobiliz
ing the man power of our country,
along with Industry and various or
ganizations, and asks that each indi
vidual do his "bit” to bring about the
return of a sound economic condition
by giving employment to as many as
;ach individual or organization possi
bly can.
The Samuel C. Hart Post of the
American Legion has organized to car
ry through locally the campaign
igainst unemployment and depression
is has ten thousand other Posts
throughput the Naton. Individuals are
being asked to help by having neces
sary work and repairs done at home.
Industries and Manufacturers are ask
td to keep their plants running as near
TO ONE WHO WOULD MAKE A
CONFESSION
By Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Oh! leave the past to tury its - own
dead.
The past is naught to us, the present
all.
What need of last year’s leaves to strew
Love’s bed?
What need of ghosts to grace a fes
tival?
I would not, if I could, those days re
call,
Those days not ours. For us the feast
is spread,
The lamps are lit, and music plays
withal.
Then let us love and leave the rest
unsaid.
This island is our home. Around it
roar
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straits and seas.
What matter in what wreck we reach
ed the shore.
So we both reached it? We can mock
at these.
Oh! leave the past ,if past indeed
there be;
I would not know it; I would know
but thee.
capacity as is possible, and I am there
fore writing to ask that you co-operate
with our local committee in this drive
and to urge that you keep as many
employed during the co-operative drive
as is reasonably consistent with your
requirements.
Mr. C. V. Roberts has been appoint
ed Legion Chairman to work with Mr.
Marvin Snider, Chairman of the Local
Unemployed Organization. Mr. R. E.
L. Niel is Chairman of the Industries
and Manufacturers Committee and can
be reached over telephone 3 58 and will
be glad to render any assistance pos
sible when called on.
Assuring you that your co-operation
will be greatly appreciated, and, I be
lieve, will be to the mutual benefit of
our local community and to the en
tire Nation.
Very truly yours,
J. H. McKenzie,
Commander Samuel C. Hart Post,
American Legion.
Star Gazers Flan
To View Eclipse
San Francisco—Headed by Dr. Wil
liam Wallace Campbell, famed astron
omer and former president of the Uni
versity of California, scientists from
the Lick Observatory near San Jose
will leave here early this summer for
Montreal to observe an eclipse of the
sun.
Accompanying Dr. Campbell and
his party will be Dr. Robert G. Ait
ken, director of Lick. The eclipse will
occur August 31 and will be in full
visibility only in the Canadian region
of Montreal.
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GOVERNMENT EXPENSES
vVOULD BE TO PAY
CONGRESSMEN ONLY WHAT
THEY COULD EARN OM
A REAL JOB.