Carolina Watchman
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SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA
E. W. G. Huffman, _ Editor
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933
A group of Washington physi
cians has been observing a man
who has been laughing steadily for
25 years, although Congress has
been out session at frequent inter
vals during that time.
—Boston Herald
The Zangara gent’s counsel, a
dopting the only course open, will
make a plea of "insanity,” but
even that plea is not at all likely to
give the anarchist the freedom of
the country. Might as well turn
the jungle’s most ferocious beast
at large among the people.
—Charlotte Observer.
The State Senate came near mak
ing it against the law for members
to hold positions they helped create.
What sort of a Legislature are they
having down there anyway.
—Greensboro (AT. C.) Record.
The all-wise weather pnophets
who laughed at the groundhog’s
prediction are wearing a sickly grin
these days.
—Stanly News and Press.
Free speech is one of the great
blessings of the American people
and will continue to be such until
someone starts compulsory listen
ing.
—Milwaukee Sentinel.
A Chinese bandit is a Chink who
doesn’t know the Japanese for
"Yes, Sir.”
—News and Times (Thomasville,
N. C.)
New Mexico baby was born with
teeth. Now your radio will tell
you which dentifrice produced the
wonder.
—The Elkin, (N. C.) Tribune.
"It is a wrecking crew,” says
Senator Dickenson speaking of the
Democratic party. Certainly.
The people summoned it last Nov
ember to come out and clean up
the wreck the Republicans have
made of government. They’ll clean
up the mess after March 4th.
—News and Observer.
Judge Wilson Warlick hit the
nail on the head whe# he told a
blockader in the Rowan Superior
Court that two pure bred cows
made a better investment than a
whiskey still.
SAVE THE RINGNECK
PHEASANT
A special state statute forbids
the killing of all pheasants in Row
an County for a period of five
years. The act provides a minium
penalty of $25.00 and the costs
for each violation. Yet in spite of
this law many pheasants are report
ed to have been shot and killed
during the past year in this county.
Th is is particularly discouraging to
those who have spent time and
money in attempting to stock the
county with pheasants. Many
fa rmers and sportsmen have reared
these gallant birds and liberated
them so that they might increase
and multiply in our woods and
fields. There were probably 3 00
ringneck pheasants in the county
t year, but present reports show
th't spite of a good breeding sea
son the birds have not increased.
In fact, come careful observers
fcc ieve that thm have actually de
creisau. For e ample two young
nen reared and liberated about
:wenty-five birds of the ringneck
variety, in Franklin Township, a
/ear or more ago. These birds hat
:hed out their eggs. One hen was
seen with eleven half grown chicks
late last summer. A single cock
bird is said to be the sqle survivor
of this covey. What became of the
others? Empty shot gun shells and
feathers on the ground tell the
mute tale.
The ringneck pheasant (Phasan
ius torquatus) is a bird worth pro
tecting. A native of western Asia,
he is hardy enough to make the
grade in any climate. His natural
habitat ranges from the frozen
wastes of Western Siberia to thei
tropical jungles of Indo-China. He
is primarily insectiverous and pre
fers insects to all other feed. In
the winter season he lives mostly
on weed seeds, having a 'particular
fondness for ragweed seed. He does
not like corn and refuse to eat it
in captivity if he can get anything
else. In a mixed scratch feed, such
as is usually fed to chickens, he
eats first any small seeds in the
feed, then the grain, last the corn.
Prepared pheasant feeds are usually
made up of seeds. As an insect
and weed seed destroyer his value
to farmers is incalcuble. The chief
thing against this magnificent game
bird is the alleged charge that he
may invade the barnyard and knock
the stuffing out of the farmer’s
chicken rooster. This may have
occured in isolated cases but it is
probably of very rare occurance.
Save the ringneck and cut down
the insects.
NO LICENSE
Public sentiment in North Caro
lina may force the repeal of our
existing prohibition laws. However,
it is not likely that any majority
af our people will advocate a re
turn of conditions that will permit
my Tom, Dick or Harry to sell al
coholic liquors, whether these li
quors be beer or wine, by merely
paying a twenty-five dollar license
for the privilege.
One of the greatest elements of
course in the liquor traffic has been
that of private profit. When liquor
legally comes back, if it does, it
should be a State monoply in which
every dollar of profit gees into the
coffers of the state. No private
individual should be allowed to
make a copper cent out of the sale
of any alcoholic beverage, unless
the same be a salary paid by the
state for his service.
The state should control the
matter just as the United States
government controls the sale of
postage stamps or the French gov
ernment controls the sale of tobac
co. Kill the element of private pro
fit in the liquor traffic and the ma
jority of its political exils will dis
appear. The State needs neither
licensed saloon keepers nor unlicen
sed bootleggers to solve the pro
blem. The strict control of gov
ernment monoply is the best solu
tion offer so far.
THE NATION’S PRESIDENT
In a few days—barring any un
foreseen circumstance—Franklin
D. Roosevelt will take office as
Chief Executive of the United
States. More truly than any other
man of modern times he may be
called the nation’s President.
He was elected by a great and
sweeping national movement. His
mandate was perfectly clear. Al
most every State in the Union
showed that a majority of its citi
zens wished him to undertake the
task of restoring order, if possible,
to a perturbed and disordered coun
try. Nobody doubts his sincere
desire to do so; few believe that
he will be ruled by political expedi
ency. His ability has been tested
in the fires of the Governorship of
New York, to which he was re-ele
ctd by an astonishing plurality. He
will enter the White House with no
rash promises to keep, and wholly
untrammelled by sectional obliga
tions. In that sense, also, he will
be the President cf the whole peo
ple.
Mr. Roosevelt faces a colossal
job. No President since Lincoln has
been confronted with a grimmer
irray of unfavorable facts to deal
with. But, as was not the casc
with Lincoln, the whole country
wishes him well. i
These are times when a President
s to be unheld by all the people in
whatever of advantage to them he
jndertakesg. We believe that that is
;he feeling toward Governor Roose-,
vrelt. We think that there is a
general disposition to hold up his
hands and give him a fair show as
he tackles the job to which he has
been called. And we are convinc
ed that party lines are pretty well
obliterated—for the time, at any
rate—in this support and encour
agement.
The President, with all his limi-j
tations of power, has a vast and
far-reaching influence on the affairs
of the country. As a nation’s Pre-j
sident, Governor Roosevelt enters
upon the scene accompanied by the
wishes of all that this influence be
for the good of every citizen.
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A CERTAIN young
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HUSBAND RIGHT here
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IN SALISBURY
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ARRIVED HOME much
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LATER THAN usual
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"FROM THE office”
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THE OTHER night, so
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HE TOOK off his shoes
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BEFORE HE entered his
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HOME. AS he stole into
a a a
THE BEDROOM, his wife
a a a
BEGAN TO stir. Panic
a a a.
STRICKEN HE hurried
a a a
TO THE baby’s cradle
a a a
AND BEGAN to rock it
a a a
VIGOROUSLY. "WHAT are
a a a
YOU DOING there, Sam?”
a a a
QUERIED HIS wife. "I’ve
a a a
BEEN SITTING here for
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NEARLY TWO hours trying
a a a
TO GET this baby to
a a a
SLEEP,” HE growled. "Why
a a a
SAM,” REPLIED his wife.
a a a
"I’VE GOT him
a a a
HERE IN the bed with me.”
' a a a
I THANK YOU.
COMMENTS
BLIND OPTIMISM WORSE
THAN PESSIMISM
To The Editor:
Are we not in danger of advo
cating too strongly some of the
activities of our State while ignor
ing the perils which even the best
minds admit threaten us.
While millions of Americans are
without income, and millions more
out of employment with their chil
dren suffering so tragically from
undernourishment in body that
their minds are in no condition to
take an education, are we not un
wise iSi opposing ahy further re
duction in the salaries of school
teachers and school officials? Have
we not also become obsessed with
the idea that there shall be no re
duction in the expense of and ap
propriation for our highways?
And in regard to our highways,
should not there be more regula
tion in the weight of load and tax
ation as applied to the huge motor
trucks which are crumbling, crack
ing and damaging our hard sur
faced roads in so many, many
places?
No one is opposed to doing all
that can be done within reason for
both schools and highways, but
should we not in these trying times
refuse to appropriate a single un
necessary penny for even such
causes as schools and highway
when many noted thinkers an
warning us that there are mutter
ings of the populace which wc
cannot afford to ignore. The mil
lions of unemployed who are dis
couraged, undernourished and un
der-clothed, cannot be expected tc
have patience with unnecessary ap
propriations for even schools anc
highways. Is not this the time ol
all times to allow teachers, school:
superintendents, highway officials
highway employes, all State em
ployes and State officials to show
their patriotism by their willingnes:
to share the common lot of theii
fellow’ citizens so many of whon'
do not have even the necessitie:
of life.
Pessimism is a vertiable blight
and is inexcusable, but is not blind
optimism w’orse?
L. S. WEBB, M. D
OPPOSES BOTH HUSBAND
AND WIFE WORKING
To The Editor:
Why is it every time the assem
bly meets a poor school teacher i:
pounced upon to help balance the
budget and the girls that work fot
the state too for a mere sum of les:
than $100 per month?
One way to clear this up is tc
put a stop to married women anc
their husbands both working. 11
this was done even in Raleigh the
school teachers in North Carolin;
would not have to be cut one cent
Take out every married woman ir
North Carolina where her husbanc
is making $100 (for there ari
thousands living and supporting
families on far less than that) pei
month and not stop in Raleigh, bui
rid North Carolina of it. So man;
girls in the state today are tryinj
to work to pay for their education
But a girl marries, keeps her jol
right on—her husband works—yes
they live. No wonder North Caro
lina is behind in education. Cleai
the legislative halls of the marriec
women first, for chairty begins a
home, then take Raleigh and d(
the same thing. We would see :
vast difference. Let the poor schoo
teacher have a rest for God know
they have enough to contend wit!
in the school room. The schoo
teachers, 99 per cent come fron
the country and there is where ;
major part of the tax comes fron
to support these high salaried offici
holders and their wives—drawini
almost what their husbands get.
While we are praying we shoult
remember and ask our Lord fo
more Stacy Wades in this specia
matter.
—Mrs. L. W. Brantley
Shoes rebuilt the better way.
All kinds of harness, trunk and
suitcase repairing.
FAYSSOUX’S PLACE
Phone 433 120 E. Innes St.
OSTEOPATHY
is common sense applied to the
treatment of human ills.
DR: S. O. HOLLAND
410 Wallace Bldg. Phone 346
TEXAS SOCIETY OF
NORTH CAROLINA
The Texas Society of North
Carolina, an organization in
cluding in its membership for
mer students of the University
of Texas and other Texans now
residing in North Carolina, has
in previous years made a prac
tice of celebrating the second
of March—Texas Independence
Day—with a banquet at which
Texas songs are sung, and the
members entertain one another
with reminiscences of experi
ences had before and since leav
ing Texas. Two such banquets
have been held in the King
Cotton Hotel at Greensboro,
and one in the Carolina Inn at
-Chapel Hill. The latter cele
bration was featured with a
debate between a visiting team
from the University of Texas
and one representing the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
For various reasons it has
been found impossible to arran
ge a dinner to celebrate the se
cond of March this year, but
a banquet may be held next
year. All former students of
the University of Texas, and
all other Texans now living in
North Carolina who might at
tend the next celebration, are
invited to send their addresses
to Prof. C. C. Rice, Catawba
College, Salisbury, N. C., or to
Mr. John A. McCurdv, Execu
tive Secretary, Ex-students’ As
sociation of the University of
Texas, 2300 San Antonio St.,
Austin, Texas.
Into Harness Again -
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PRESIDENTS . . and Double-O
Franklin Roosevelt is the third
successive President to have a
| a double "o” in his name. He is
also the third President whose sur
name is the same as that of one of
his predecessors. We have had twoj
President Adams two President
Harrisons’ and now two President
Roosevelts.
Mr. Roosevelt is the third Presi
dent cf Dutch descent, Martin Van
Buren and Theodore Roosevelt be
ing the other two. He is likewise
the third President elected in his
fifty-first year.
If there is luck in odd numbers
President Roosevelt ought to have
plenty of it.
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MASONS.as Presidents
President Franklin Roosevelt is
the thirteenth member of the Ma
i sonic Order to be President of the
United States. I have often heard
some of my Masonic brethern say
; that every President has been a
Mason, but that is not true.
Washington was Master of his
Lodge. Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Bu
chanan, Johnson, Garfield, Mc
Kinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft
and Harding were, Masons. There
is no Masonic record to prove that
Jefferson was a member of the Or
der, but there is collateral evidence
which is taken and accepted Mas
onically as indicating that he was.
i MiV Taft was not a Mason be
fore he was elected, but the Grand
Ledge of Ohio made him a "Mason
■ at sight,” between his election and
[ his inauguration.
President Roosevelt was recently
, initiated into one of the Masonic
societies, the Tall Cedars of Le
| banon.
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, RELIGION .... of Presidents
President Roosevelt will be the
i ninth member of the Protestant
: Episcopal Church to be President
i of the United States. It is a curi
: ous thing that this small denomi
; nation should have had more repre
sentatives in the White House than
[ any of the other branches of the
• Christian Church. There are less
[ than two million Episcopalians in
America compared with nearly
, eight million Baptists, but only one
President, Harding, was a Baptist.
There are nearly twenty million
Roman Catholics and none has
ever been President. One President,
Coolidge, was a Congregationalist,
one, Garfield, a member of the
Disciples of Christ, one, Hoover, a
Quaker, two, Van Buren and Theo
dore Roosevelt, belong to the Dutch
Reform Church. Both the Adam
1 ses, Filmore and Taft, were Uni
tarians. Johnson, Grant and Mc
Kinley were Methodists. Jackson,
Polk, Buchanan, Benjamin Harri
son and Woodrow Wilson were
Presbyterians. The Episcopalians
include Washington, Madison, Mon
roe, William Henry Harrison, Tay
lor, Pierce and Arthur.
I don’t imagine it makes any
particular difference to what
church the President belongs. Two
of them, Lincoln and Coolidge had
never been members of any church
before they became President. But
every President of the United
States has been a deeply religious
man, as every man must be if he is
to command the confidence of the
people.
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GRANDFATHERS .... a few
Although one of the youngest
Presidents, Mr. Roosevelt is one of
the few who were grandfathers
when they were elected. Mr. Hoov
er was also a grandfather, Not
from then back for nearly a hund
red years I cannot find a record
that any President was a grand
father at the time of his election.
Washington had no children at all.
Johnson Adams and Jefferson
were grandfathers, and so I believe
was Monroe. William Henry Har
rison, who lived but a month af
ter his inauguration, has a grand
son who later became President,
but I believe there was no other
President than those I have named
who had grandchildren at the time
of his election.
Mrs. Warren Harding was a
grandmother, through her son by
her first marriage.
Not that any of that is import
ant but I set it down as of possible
interest while we are talking about
the new President.
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BLUE.inaugural gown
Thirty years ago a President’s
daughter gave her name to a new
shade of blue. "Alice Blue” was so
named because it was the favorite
color of Alice Roosevelt, now Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth.
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt has giv
en her name to another new shade
of blue. It is called "Eleanor Blue”
and she will wear a costum of this
color at her first White House re
ception on March 4. It is dis
cribed as a shade of hyacinth blue,
between a gray-blue and a blue
gray—if anybody knows what that
means.
If this starts the women of A
mcrica to buying new dress mater
ials it will be a good thing for the
revival of business.
CO-EDS KNEES GET COLD
Salt Lake City.—Miss Blanche
Henderson predicts a flair for long
skirts and woolen stockings at the
University of Utah unless spring
comes soon. Co-eds’ frozen knees
are the basis for her prediction.
Black-Draught
Clears Up Sluggish,
Dull Feeling
“I have used Thedford’s Black
Draught for constipation for a
long time, and find it gives relief
for this trouble,” writes Mrs.
Frank Champion, of Wynne, Ark.
“I think it is good for spell3
caused from gas on the stomach.
If I get up in the morning feeling
dull and sluggish, a dose of Black
Draught taken three times a day
will cause the feeling to pass away,
and in a day or two I feel like a
new person. After many years of
use we would not exchange Black
Draught for any medicine.”
P. 8. — If you have Children, give
them the new, pleasant-tasting
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AND PREMONITIONS OF
DEATH AND MISFORTUNE.
Who can explain these experiences
of prominent persons related in
The American Weekly, the maga
zine distributed with next Sunday’s
BALTIMORE AMERICAN.
WHO WILL MAKE YOU THE
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sidered. See The American Week
ly, the magazine distributed with
next Sunday’s BALTIMORE A
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NERVINE
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says
Miss Glivar
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