The Carolina Watchman
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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.”—Tkomii Jeffarton.
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932
The influence of weekly newspapers on public
opinion exceeds that of all other publications in the
country.—Arthur Brisbane.
ROOSEVELT GAINS STRENGTH
Governor Roosevelt has emerged from the Walker
hearing with more support than he has had any time
since becoming a candidate for the presidency. The
manner in which he conducted the hearing added to
his prestige with the public, and when the Tammany
mayor leveled unifair charges at him, his cause was fur
ther strengthened.
Mayor Walker made the serious mistake' of accusing
Governor Roosevelt of permitting "polical expedi
ency” to influence him in the handling of his case. He
even charged that it was "political ambition” alone
which led to the governor’s apparent determination to
remove him.
In answer to these charges, The New York Times
comes through with at ringing defense of Roosevelt. It
asks what possible advantage in his presidential cam
paign could Mr. Roosevelt win in putting out of office
a mayor who admits that his administration has been
completely successful and enormously popular?
"Why,” queries The Times, "should it redound to
the governor’s praise, and add to his strength in other
states, if he challenged and antagonized the political
organization behind Mr. Walker, which is made up, as
the argument runs, of the most high-minded and pub
lic-spirited and disinterested'citizen^?”
The former mayor unwittingly gave his own case
away , The Times thinks. "When he conceded that
there might be a powerful political motive for ousting
himself and breaking with Tammany, he tacitly ac
cepted the outside view of the government of this city
and the nature of Tammany. It is precisely because
the fixed belief of the country still is that they are un
worthy of public confidence and a handicap to the
Democratic party that the action of the governor was
counted upon to add greatly to his prestige with voters
elsewhere.
"That effect has, in fact, been already achieved If
Mr. Walker would glance at the expressions of opinion
all round the country, he would perceive that it has
been. The anticipated verdict of Governor Roosevelt
is the verdict of intelligent men everywhere who have
made themselves familiar with conditions in JMew fork.
They had followed the course of the legislative inves
tigation long before it reached Mr. Walker himself.
They had seen the Seabury probe thrust into one de
partment of the city government after another and
n.arly everywhere expose moral rottenness. They had
witnessed the removal of the sheriff of New York
county. Other inculpated officials, or their accompli
ces had been seen to flee the jurisdiction.
"Is it any wonder, then, that interested people all
over the land had been waiting with intense eagerness
to find what Governor Roosevelt would do about it?
High hopes were held of him because of his masterly
conduct of the hearing at Albany. And everywhere ir
is now felt that the sudden resignation of Mayor Wal
ker is as great a vindication of the course of the gover
nor, and as full of political significance for him, as
would have been an outright executive order of re
moval.
"This conclusion lies implicit in what Mr. Walker
said as he took himself out from under fire. The spe
cial political form of his railing accusation against the
governor unintentionally served to point and emphasize
Mr. Roosevelt’s triumph.”
NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY
The upward movement in commodity prices has
begun. That is what all the economic authorities
have been saying must happen before prosperity can
come Back. Cotton is up, wooi is up, hogs are
up, rayon is up, and silk went up so high and so rapidly
on the Japanese Silk Exchange the other day that the
authorities closed the exchange to prevent a riot.
With raw materials rising, it follows that the prices
of goods manufactured from them must speedily rise,
and that brings the matter right home to everybody in
this town.
Now is the time ito buy.
Commodity prices are not going any lower. They
have touched bottom. People who have been waiting
to make their purchases until they were sure the bot
tom had been reached had better dig into their purses
now and buy while the merchants’ shelves are still
stocked with low priced goods. They are not going
to remain on the shelves very long, and the next lots
which our local dealers buy are going to cost them
%
more and will have to Sell for more.
We have a distinct feeling that we have turned the
corner on hard times. .We find that all over the coufl
trry almost everybody shares the same feeling. We all
want prosperity back, and we want it back as quickly
as we can get it. The quickest way to bring it back
is for everybody who has an unfilled want and any
money whatever with which to supply that want, to
spend that money NOW. Dollars are going to get
cheaper, as goods go higher in price. It has been many,
many years since the dollar would buy as much in
clothing or fabric or groceries or hardware, in shoes
or household goods or furniture, as it will today. It
will be many, many years, we hope, before it will a
gain be possible to buy such bargains as are available
all round us today.
The people who have been wise enough to hang on
to their money during the depression are setting the
example for all the rest of us. They are buying in
the stock market, they are buying in the wool market,
they are buying in the cotton market, they are buying
in the silk market. That means that "big money” has
' got over being afraid, and we think it is time for les
ser people with little money to overcome their own
timidity and begin to spend. ♦
By buying now you speed the return' of prosperity.
AND THE LAWYERS TOO
Figures given out by the State Bar Association show
that of the 3,389 lawyers in North Carolina, only
1,682 paid license taxes to practice during the year
ending on May 31, 1932. And of the 1,862 who paid
their license taxes, there were J62 who paid only the
half-fee upon the statement that they received less
than $1,000 during the year.
Some folks have on idea that the depression has con
centrated upon their particular line of endeavor, but
it doesn’t take, much delving into other professions to
discover that all have suffered alike—even the lawyers.
BRUCE BARTON
. . . writes of "THE MASTER EXECUTIVE’’
Supplying a week-to-week inspiration for the heavy
burdened who will find every human trial paralleled in
the experiences of ’"The Man Nobody Knows.”
A LEADER OF MEN
In any crowd and under any circumstances the lead
er stands out. By the power of his faith in himself
he commands, and men instinctively obey.
This blazing conviction was the first and greatest
element in the success of Jesus. The second was his
(wonaeriui power to picK. men, ana to
recognize hidden capacities in -them.
It must have amazed Nicodemus when
he learned the names of 'the twelve
whom the young teacher had chosen
to be his associates. What a list! Not
a single well-known person on it.
Ife Nobody who had ever made a success
IH of anything. A haphazard collection
B of fishermen and smalltown business
Brae* Bartoa men and one tax collector—amember
of the most hated element in the community. What
a crowd!
Nowhere is there such a stratling example of exe
cutive success as the way in which that organization
was brought together. Take the tax collector, Mat
thew, as the most striking instance. His occupation
carried a heavy weight of social ostracism, but it was
profitable. He was. probably well-to-do according to
the simple standards of the neighborhood; certainly he
was a busy man and not subject to impulsive action.
His addition to the group of disciples is told in a single
sentence: f
And as Jesus passed oy, ne called Mattnew.
Amazing. No argument; no pleading. -A smaller
leader would have been compelled to set up the advan
tages of the opportunity. "Of course you are doing
well where you are and making money,” he might have
said. "I can’t offer you as much as you are getting;
in fact you may have some difficulty in making ends
meet. But I think we are going to have an interesting
time and shall probably accomplish a big work ” Such
a conversation would have been met with Matthew’s
reply that he would "have to think it over,” and the
world would never have heard his name.
Jesus had the born leader’s gift for seeing powers in
men of which they themselves were often almost un
conscious. One day as he was coming into a certain
town a tremendous crowd pressed around him. There
was a rich man named Zacchaeus in town; small in
stature, but with such keen business ability that he
had got himself generally disliked. Being curious to
see the distinguished visitor he had ‘climbed up into a
tree. Imagine his surprise when Jesus stopped under
the tree and commanded him to come down/ saying,
"To-day I intend to eat at your house.”
The crowd was stunned. Some of the bolder spirits
took it upon themselves to tell Jesus' of his social
blunder. He couldn’t afford to make the mistake of
visiting Zacchaeus, they said. Their protests were
without avail. They saw in Zacchaeus merely a dis
honest Jew; Jesus saw in him a man of unusual gener
osity and a fine sense of justice, who needed only to
have those qualities revealed by some one Who under
stood.
So with Matthew—the crowd saw only a despised
tax-gatherer. Jesus saw the potential writer of a book
Which will live forever.
INFLUENCE AS A VIRTUE'
It isn’t enough even for a congressman to vote right.
South Carolina’s eight votes—two in the Senate and
six in the House—will themselves decide few issues in
Congress. What South Carolina needs in Congress
are congressmen who can persuade other congressmen
to vote sight with them’.—Columbia Record.
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Hon. O. Max Gardner,
Governor of North Carolina.
My Dear Governor-.
It has been interesting to note
that 71 per cent or more of the con
tracts for supplies for the various
state departments and institutions re
cently awarded by the division of
purchase and contract have been ob
tained by North Carolina concerns,
and that in mist cases of awards to
outside firms the commodities proba
bly could not be bought within the
state. I have noted also that the
construction contracts awarded by
the State Highway commission have
gone tjo North Carolina concerns,
except in a small percentage of cases.
I understand that in some states
something in the nature of a small
handicap is placed against outside
contractors, and some North Caro
lina concerns have found it difficult
therefore to get the business of such
states. Such a policy, of course, is
designed to promote home industry
and give advantage :to those who pay
taxes within the state: I believe the
taxpayers of the state like to see
their money kept at home, so far as
is consistent with reasonable econo
my. Certainly the North Carolina
contractor, manufacturer or dealer
should be favored when their prices
for the ame quality art practically
as low as those of outside concerns.
Governor Matthew Rowan.
COMMENTS
i Suggests Repudiation of Debts Along
With Prohibition.
To The Editor:
It is said that around 70 cents of
each tax dollar goes for debt service
or to pay interest on bonds. When
thirty-seven hundred homes were
gold this year for taxes, it does not
seem like we can pay this interest
much longer. If we can’t pay the
interest on a debt without losing our
homes, how can we ever pay the
debt?
This, would be a good question for
our school boys and girls to debate:
‘Resolved, that all homes should be
sold for taxes rather than repudiate
county bonds.” We might start on
county bonds and tackle State bonds
later if necessary.
It looks like people are going to
be given a chance to vote on legaliz
ing the sale of liquor, the prince of
home wreckers. While we are voting
to legalize the sale of liquor, why not
vote to do a little bond repudiating?
—/. A. HAGER.
Depression—Cause and Remedy.
To Tne Editor:
Those who will learn better some
time, perhaps, are still trying to bluff
the depression.
They speak of it as if it was a
phenomena, such as the eclipse of the
sun, or moon, that comes about on
schedule and departs tne same way.
They seem to be wholly oblivious
of the reasonable inference that such
an effect as the present depression in
quence of a Nation-wide calamity is
exercising on all lines of' business
nd on every class of our citizens
could, by any means, have come a
bout without a real and specific
pause.
They talk of unemployment and
lament its extent. They seem to
want people to think the depression
caused Unemployment^ The tjruth
is. unemnlovment caused the denres
sion. Labor, without jobs, and far
mers getting nothing for their pro
duce, forced business men to carry
their stocks of goods on their shelves
because laborers and farmers could
not buy what they needed.
The reason why so many laboring
people, the industrial workers, are
out of work, is because machines
have taken their jobs. The reason
farmers cannot get the cost of pro
duction for their produce is because
the city workers have no jobs, and
hence no money.
The machines that robbed the
workers of the chance to labor and
earn, do not eat, either potatoes,
beans, chicken, pie or cake. They
are never going to eat any of these
things, or wear any of the overalls
made from the farmer’s cotton.
These are facts that cannot be ig
nored. They are facts tnat must be
met and remedied. Employing just
a few laborers here and there, to1
build a postoffice or a hard surface
road—most building and road work
is done by machines now—and doing
this with borrowed money, which
must be repaid with interest, will get
us out of the depression just like the
frog got out of the well by climbing
up two feet during the day and fall
ing back three feet at night. The
problem solved in this case, said the
frog would land in hell on time, if
he kept this up.
There seems to me, only one reme
dy for the present situation, and
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'UAT MEW BRIDE, |
UNICE AMBER,WAMTS ,
1b KNOW NOW
COME BRA1IL IS
borminCi coffee
in LOCOMOTIVES
WHEN A COFFEE
POT WILL Do
AS WELL
those who should see it, won’t.
There is an abundance of idle land
in this country. No people ever
starve, no matter what the difficul
ties, if they have access to larid, and
will use it. 'It is the one source of
livelihood that all must depend on,
regardless of what their occupation
may be. So if we really wish to cure
this depression, brought on by mach
ines, and gamblers, the one sure way
to do it is to confiscate all unused
land, necessary, put the helpless vic
tims of commercialism on'it and let
them live.
—S. S. DUNLAP
What Prohibition Hath Wrought
To the Editor:
We used to make bread in the home
and beer in a factory; now we make
beer in the home and bread in a fac
tory. That is prohibition. Home, sweet
home. W. H. Logue, Jr.
AGAINST LIQUOR
To The Editor:
Will you kindly print in your paper
this letter against open saloons, boot
leggers, bad liquor and for genuine
temperance.
Bad dirty liquor made of sugar,
red devil lye, etc., like is reported
sold these times by a few bootleggers
who don’t respect themselves enough
to not sell such liquor to a few peo
ple who don’t respect themselves too
much to drink it. It causes all to
error who drink it, and he that is
deceived thereby is not wise.v
upen saloons ana Daa airty liquor
we do not want—Genuine Tempei
ance is what we want and it will
come tOj all . the Ameijp-W people:
when th? people decide to love each
other better and love his neighbor
too much 'to sell him bad. liquor and
the neighbor learn to love himself too
much to buy or' drink bad liquor or
to be deceived thereby.
Right and temperance will prevail
when all the American people learn
to love the peoples’ soul more than
they do bad booze or money untold.
Dear readers will you think wisely
and soberly.'
Yours truly,
F. E. BARRINGER.
PROTEST HIRING WADDELL
The Fair Rate Utility association,
Charlotte, on Saturday made a public
protest against employment by the
corporation commission of Charles E.
Waddell, Asheville, as consulting en
gineer in the investigation of utility
rates in the statej. The Charlotte
group asserts Waddell has "received
retainers from utility interests and
is marked as a utility servant.”
WHILE ONE of the
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advertising dept.
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BOYS TOLD us to
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GQ AHEAD and mention
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DO THAT. If he can’t
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SELL HIS advertising
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IT’S CERTAINLY not up
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AT THOSE who do not
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FALL FOR his sales
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TALK: THE story
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CONCERNS A certain
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EATING PLACE where a
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WAITER LAST week. "Say,
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WAITER, THESE chicken
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GOOD AS those I had
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LAST WEEK.” To which
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THE WAITER replied
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"THAT’S STRANGE—
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THEY’RE OFF
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THE SAME chicken.”
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I THANK YOU.
VICTIM OF ACCIDENTAL SHOT
Robert Hudson, 54, died at his
home near Scotland Neck, Saturday,
in the accidental discharge of a shot
gun in his hand's. His family said
he must have tripped and discharged
the gun.
Blue Gem Egg
$6.50 ton
Virgiow Lump
$7.00 ton
Why wait to buy your winter coal
when we are now giving 50 cents
discount per ton for cash.
Yadkin
Fuel Co.
Phone 1594
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