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Carolina Watchman Published Every Friday Morning At SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA E. W. G. Huffman, _ Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable In Advance One Year _ $1.00 Three Years _ $2.00 Entered as second-class mail matter at the postolfice at Sal isbury, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. The influence of weekly news papers on public opinion exceeds that of all other publications in the country.—Arthur Brisbane. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1933 Poor old Prichard, even a Repub lican Senate gave him the cold shoulder, and as for Jake Newell, has anybody even heard of him since the election. —Mocksville Enterprise Some are born great, some achieve greatness—and others have re sourceful press agents. —Boston Herald A London memory expert has sold his brain to a medical college for $40,000, to be paid in install ments. We can only hope for his sake that he is not the kind of a chap who loses his head when he gets a little money. —Boston Heradl Just as though Germany didn’t have enough to worry about al ready, Mr. Hitler has to come a long with that mustache. —The Charlotte Observer Now that the groundhog has told about the weather, and anoth er worry is behind, for we know what it is going to be. —Stanly (Albemarle, N. C.) News and' Press, CLEMENT FOR GOVERNOR ' Much water will have to pass under the political bridge before the gubernatorial primary four years hence. Business and econo mic conditions may become better or worse. In either event the need of a strong and capable governor is self evident to the voters of this state. The Chief Executive must be a man who will be able to see through the gathering clouds that obscure the stern realities of his administration. Moreover, he must be a leader who will lead and not follow; one who will not be sway ed by popular clamor or ill-advised action. Rowan County has given such men to the service of the state in the past and The Carolina Watchman believes that such a splendid type is to be found in our fellow townsman, State Senator Hayd'en Clement. Hayden Clement, if elected, would be one of North Carolina’s greatest governors. He possesses extraordinary ability. He is far sighted, conservative without be ing reactionary, capable, firm i familiar with the real problems facing the state, and above all, fearless and honest. Of those al ready mentioned as possible can didates for governor we believe Rowan’s senator to be the mos' outstanding. The Watchman is o( the opinion that the people of the Tar Heel state will do well to pause and consider this man before giv ing their political support to any other candidate for governor. MORE MORTGAGES The bill introduced into the Sen ate to provide a huge fund to loan on first and second farm mortgages is somewhat puzzling. The chief burden of the farmers of the West and South is J.eir mortgage debts. They are strug gling under a load of billions of dollars in farm mortgages and with the present price of farm products they cannot even pay the interest. The Federal Farm Loan banks and the Joint Stock Land banks have so much foreclosed property and mortgages in arrear on their lands that they can hardly loan my more money with salety. With several million farmers struggling to keep above water and save their farms it would seem the sensible thing to do something to help them out. Yet, the Senate bill simply pro vides more mortgage money and also lets down the bars to second mortgages. How does that help the farmer who can’t pay his pre sent interest money? To be sure the idea is that this money may enable farmers to re finance at a lower rate, but the trouble is that they are over-mort gaged now and can’t refinance. It is rather generally agreed that the farm property in the West and South is not worth the $9,000,000, 000 it is already mortgaged for. Just what the idea is of piling an other billion, from government funds, cn top of that is not clear. According to the stories from the West there are thousands and thousands of farmers in danger of losing their homes. What they need is some relief from the mortgage burden. The same bill provides for the taking over of the Joint Stock Land banks by the government. Many of these are virtually bank rupt. Their bonds representing mortgages are selling at from 20 cents to 60 cents on the dollar in many cases. Is the government to make good the heavy losses to the bond holders out of the Treasury? It would seem that we should find some way to relieve the mort gage load on the farmers rather than add to it. 4 SEA GOLD A fascinating tale is that which is recounted anew of the English frigate Tillbury, lost in 1757 on the rugged coast of Scatari Island, off Cape Breton. She was the pay ship of the'English fleet" and carried a fortune in gold. Since then, expeditions have sought her treasure, but never with sueees?, It is told now that even today gold coins are thrown up onto the shores of Scatari after a storm. People keep watch for them, The Tillbury long since has become mere bones on the floor of the sea, but while gold remains in her hulk she shall not be forgot ten. FIGHTING FOOTPADS The young woman entrusted with large sums to carry to and from the banks for their employers, have established an enviable record for their stout resistance to hold up men. As a matter of fact they have battled so worthy and so well that their record would seem to be a challenge to the male sex. We hope, however, that nothing will happen to these courageous young women. It would be too bad to have their refreshing loyalty to their trust, a cause for injury to them. BETTER SERVICE Postmaster Hurley has done a good thing in ordering his men to be more careful in handling the mail. There is nothing more im portant at times than a leetr. To receive one tattered and torn, and perhaps defaced, does not reflect well upon the sender. To have the damage done while it is in the hands of the postal service, seems needless. With the increased toll for the use of the mail, it would appear that the public should nave care ful handling, at least. THE HUNT When London police start hunt ing a man, they do the job up in thorough fashion. Aside from the criminal aspects of the case, the hunt for Samuel Furnace over there was spectacular in the extreme. Every eating place was visited and hundreds of private dwellings were searched. Such a widespread hunt, it would appear, is not very likely in an American city. To de vote a whole police system to one crime is hardly possible. We have too many crimes. WE WOULDN’T mind * * * MENTIONING A name or * * * TWO TODAY but you :{• sj. MIGHT GET the wrong * * «■ IDEA, AND that Vould •■■r * * NEVER DO. A certain st st st YOUNG WOMAN came home st st st THE OTHER night from st st st A PARTY, and not being >t st st ABLE TO find her husband * st st WHO WAS supposed to . st st st HAVE GONE to bed a st st st COUPLE OF hours earlier st st st SHE CALLED, "Sam, where St st st ARE YOU, Sam.” He sleepily st st st REPLIED, "AW, come on to st st st BED, I’VE been asleep for * st st HOURS.” SHE answered, st St st "BUT YOU are not in bed.” st st st "THE HECK I’m not. I’m st St st WHERE THE bed is anyway,” * * st WAS HIS response. "No st st st DARLING,” SAID she =t St st PATIENTLY. "YOU are where st st «t THE BED used to be. I st st st CHANGED THINGS around st St * TODAY AND you are sleeping IN THE cedar chest.” >t st st I THANK YOU. COMMENTS WHY CONTINUE TO BORROW? ro The Editor: Why do people continue to bor -ow money to farm with when the :rop won’t pay expenses? The :armer that borrows money to farm with is like the frog in the well, :limbs up two feet in the day and falls back three at night. The frog will get out as soon as the farmer will. This farmer is cutting his throat ind his neighbor’s throat, also, with overproduction by borrowed money. It is said a drowning man will eatch at a straw, and that is what :he farmer is getting nowadays for lis labor. The farmer is the back bone of the world, but he cannot tarry this load of taxes another year. Farmers eat the worst, wear the worst, lie down last and get up first. Ten years ago a man with land was rich. Today a man with land is poor. I, for one, will never want any more land at any price as long as the rent won’t pay the taxes. It takes a long time to con vert some people, but I guess when they pay that money* back with which they borrowed in ’31 and ’32 they will have reached the promis ed land where the milk and honey flows free. There is only one way to succeed—never spend a dollar till you get it. Do not count chickens until they are hatched. A few years ago we were Saught thrift. Today we are asked to spend our savings. One genera tion makes the money and another spends it. Now, ask yourself which class are you in, and don’t all speak at once. Our leaders are making debts that our grandchildren will not be able to pay in their day. Why don’t hard times stop them long enough to think? —F. D. Wilson WOULD ABOLISH CORPORA TION COMMISSION To The Editor: This commission, when first or ganized in 1898, was called the railroad commission. Its only function was to regulate the-rail roads which had a monopoly on all traffic and transportation at that time. Since the railroads have died because of worlds of competition— privately - owned automobiles, I trucks, busses, etc. The railroad commission, now | known as the corporation commit-j sion, is without a function. These: commissioners are mere pensioners,: drones, parasites. There are many; useless jobs which ought, by all, means, to be abolished, such as the! county advisory commission, and the workmen’s compensation com-; mission. What are our courts for? i The highway patrol should be aboi-j ished. States are retailing. AI motorist from one state is seized upon by a patrolman in another state, and forced to buy that state’s license. Then the patrol in the state that man came from wat-l ches for a motorist from that state, and seizes upon him and forces him to buy that state’s license, and so on. —Thomas Hughes. Buried Alive! "Gone but not forgotten” is the slogan of Pete Perkins, who is bur ied alive at the By-Tha-Way Bar becue stand, 1406 South Fulton Street. Pete went to his six foot grave last Friday night at 7:30 o’clock and says that be intends to remain buried alive until pre sident-elect Roosevelt goes into of fice. If he does what he claims he will it will mean a stay of ap proximately 26 days in hi« grave. The present world record for remaining buried alive is 25 days and Pete claims that he ;s out to win and will play dead un til the record is broken. His grave is 6 feet deep and he is under four feet of dirt, and re ports that the cold weather is not worrying him in the least The show is free and an invita tion is extended to all to attend. Approximately 15 00 people were out yesterday in spite of the cold weather to offer encouragement to Pete. SAYS UNEMPLOYMENT MOUNTS Supporting a bill to open up all | resources of the reconstruction! corporation for relief of the unem ployed, Edward F. McGrady, re presentative of union labor, told the senate’s banking committee that over 12,000,000 are unem ployed, 9,000,000 are on part! time, 45,000,000 Americans are living in poverty, 15,000,000 of them existing only with the aid of charity. SHOOTS WIFE AND SELF Desperate over unemployment and crazed with liquor, Lee Pen nell, -22, killed his wife with a shot gun charge at their home near 1 Hudson, Caldwell county. The discharged woke an infant child. Pennell carried the baby in his ] arms to his mother’s house, a mile ; away, asked her to cars for it, then stepped outside an 1 sent a charge from the same gun into his 1 heart. JAZZ IN ANCIENT ENGLISH i ABBEY Frome, England.—An ancient abbey may soon hear the strains . of syncopated dance music within its venerable walls. Beckington Abbey, an ivy-cov ered Tudor building near this Som ■ erset town and once the home of i monks, is likely to become a mo torist restaurant and dance club. It has been acquired by a syn dicate, and it is understood that a dance band is being rehearsed. RAIL STAFFS CUT Budapest.—Hungarian State rail woys retired on pension 3 50 em ployees in 1932, an equal number on January 1 and plan to retire 900 more in the spring. SEES FAR SOLD KILLS SELF G. C. Simpson, Surry county farmer, watched his farm sold un der the hammer. The next morn ing he killed himself with a pis tol shot into his temple. OVER LOSING 4US GIRL THAT HE LOOKS LIKE A JIG-SAW PUZZLE. - - - II HI - 1 --1 | Can’t Somebody Head ’Em-Off?1 —=By Albert T. Reid TEXAN GOING, TO CATCH BOOTLEGGERS TO LAS! Washington.—The Prohibition Bureau’s weekly bulletin for it< personnel complains that enforce ment agents have fallen down re cently in reporting "meritorious activities.” The latest issue also has a report from C. H. Kellogg, deputy ad ministrator at Houston, Texas, that "Southern Texas is not whip ped.” Kellogg said the agents un der him "will be found catching bootleggers on the last day” if the Eighteenth Amendment is replac ed. Kellogg wrote that he had put the following on the office bulle tin board: We may not run a good race. We may not finish the cours’e; But we will fight the good fight And we will keep th,e faith. FOLLOWS MATE TO GRAVE Miami, Okla.—Two friends of Mrs. Abigail Haworth said she prayed that she might be allowed to die with her mate of 63 years. They had been ill a long time. The husband died last Friday. Mrs. Haworth died Monday moring. They were buried "side by side.” GIRL DRINKS TEA, SIGHT RETURNS, BLIND 5 DAYS Glanamman, England.—A re markable recovery from blindness was reported here, when a pretty twentytyear-old gjrl Recovered her lost sight in five days. She was talking to her sweetheart when suddenly stricken. For five days blindness prevailed. The n recovery came, as unexpect edly as had the affliction. After drinking a cup of tea, the girl’s sight returned to her. PAY DEAR FOR ROBBERY Denver; Colo.—Three Denver negroes—Bob Philips, Henry Lee and Joe Conway—were sentenced to maximum prison sentences to taling 28 years for robbing W. S. Bohanon of one cent. Bohanon got his penny back. 9 DIE IN SANATORIUM FIRE Nine women psychopathic pa tients in a Cleveland sanatorium, died in a blazing cottage. Led to safety, they dashed back into the flames. SELMA SCHOOL BURNS The negro school at Selma burn ed with a loss of $20,000, half covered by insurance. Origin of the fire is not known. HUNGARIAN PREMIER DEMANDS TIDY DESKS Budapest.—Hungary’s new Pre mier, General Gomjboes, is war ring on red tape. He ordered all departments to finish current business within three days of re ceipt and gave officials two mon ths in which to clear out pigeon holes in their desks. GETS FREAK HOLE-IN-ONE Atlanta.—Jack Flack was re warded with a hole-in-one herb when after his drive had placed the ball six inches from the 225 yard fourth hole, an opponents’s ball knocked Klack’s pellet into the hole. What Is a Kilowatt Hour? Thirteen women working one hour—that’s the equiv alent of the work in a kilo watt hour of electricity. WHAT is a Kilowatt Hour? What does it do for you? You’ve paid for them on your electric light bill, but how many times have you said to yourself that you just didn’t understand the meaning of a “Kilowatt Hour ’’ It is really quite simple: "Kilo watt Hour” is a unit of measure ment .lust like a quart of milk, a yard of cloth, a peck of pota toes. or a oound of meat. Thaj’s all — lust a convenient uhit to measure the amount of elee trlcitv you use in vour home each month Most people are bothered most by the fact that they can't see a “Kilowatt Hour"—can't measure it with their eye like a quart, a peck or a pound. That’s true. You can't see elec tricity at work—no one ever has —but you can measure the work it does for you One Kilowatt Hour will operate your electric refrigerator for about 12 hours: it will run your washing machine for 5 hours: and it will offer the protection of a small 20 watt night lamp for 50 hours. According to Charles M. Rip ley. well-known engineer of the Cenerai Electric Company, one Kilowatt Hour is the equivalent of thirteen men or women work ing unceasingly at hard labor for one hour. VORlTptCI > lAMOOS CtiWf "WlSITORS to New York have the * opportunity to live in famous hotels. For example, there is the Hotel New Yorker—the largest in New York City and the tallest in the world. Its forty-three stories rise a tenth of a mile into the air at Thirty-fourth Street and Eighth Avenue. Famous hotels must have famous chefs. Chef Jacques Gessell of the Hotel New Yorker, has spent a life time in the study of foods and their preparation. An Alsatian by birth, Chef Gesell served his apprentice ship in the big hotels of Paris and London before coming to the United States. He came to the New Yorker from the Ritz Carlton in Atlantic City where he was for nine years. Now that recent food research has revealed the fact that canned pine apple has more known dietetic values than any other fruit for daily use, many guests at the Hotel New Yorker order pineapple daily in some form. Here is Chef Gesell’s favorite recipe for pineapple cake: “Beat together, one and one half cups of suj|ar and half cup of butter. When creamy add one cup of sweet milk and two and a half cups of flour through which has been sifted one teaspoon of baking powder to gether with a saltspoon of salt. Flavor with a few drops of almonds and vanilla. Lastly beat in lightly the whites of four well whipped eggs and bake in one loaf. Do not ice un til cake is cold. For icing the top and sides soak one third box of gelatine in a little water then beat until quite dissolved. In a separate bowl whip well the whites of eggs, adding to them when stiff, one half cup of sugar, the dissolved gelatine and two cups of grated canned pineapple. Stand in a cold place for half a day before icing. Or a more simple batter may be made and baked in layers, the filling to be made of one pint of whipped cream and one cup grated canned pineapple sweetened to taste.
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