Carolina Watchman
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FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1933
A FASHION NOTEFROM THE
BIBLE
We read a report in a New York
paper of a convention of beauty
shop people a few weeks ago. Ac
cording to this report the most in
teresting things in the exhibits were
removable lips, demountable eye
lashes, devices to change the shape
of the nose, apparatus to hold the
ears back, artificial eye-sparkle and
little pictures for fingernail decora
We began to wonder how women
could be so foolish as to think that
such artificialities make them at
tractive to men. But before we had
got to the point of raising an out
cry against this degenerate modern
age we happened to think that we
had read something of the sort be
fore.
We looked it up and found it,
written more than two thousand
years ago by a prophet named Isaiah.
"The daughters of Zion are
haughty, and walk with stretched
forth necks and wanton eyes, walk-j
ing and mincing as they go and
making a tinkling with their feet
... In that day the Lord will
take away the bravery of their tin!: -;
ling ornaments about their feet, and
their cauls, and their round tires
like the moon, the chains and the
bracelets and the mufflers, the bon
nets and the ornaments of the legs,
and the headbands, andi the tablets,
and the earrings, the ring and nose
jewels, the changeable suits of ap
parel, and the mantles, and the
wimples, and the crisping pins, the
glasses and the fine linen, and the
hoods and the veils.”
Perhaps it wouldn’t be any use
for us to try to talk the girls out
of their finery. Apparently Isaiah’s
threats didn’t change feminine na
ture, which seems to be about the
same now as it was in Old Testa
ment days. But we have an idea
that the girls of Isaiah’s time,- like
those of today, didn’t put on their
dew-dads so much to make them
selves interesting to men to make
other women envious. That, how
ever, is a mere man’s point of view.
ON TRIAL
Now that Legal beer is here it
will be well to keep in mind that
the larger problem of the repeal of
prohibition remains to be dealt
with. The coming year is really a
testing time.
If the beer regime is a sane and
sensible one, if the business is car
ried on in an orderly, respectable
manner and if politics is rigidly
excluded, then an additional argu
ment for the repeal of prohibition
will be furnished.
But, if beer licenses are used as
a screen for the sale of hard liquor
if gangsters are not banished from
the business and if grafting poli
ticians trade in licenses, then the
drys in doubtful States may have
a greater measure of success.
It is no secret that many sin
cere leaders of the wet cause, not
ably Senator Walsh, view the out
look with some trepidation. They
fear that laxity on the part of
public officials may lead to an ex
tension of the speakeasy activities.
There is no question that evasion
of the law in regardl to hard liquoi
is made much easier.
The idea of beer legislation i
that beer of a mild alcoholic con
tent should go far toward satisfy
ing the craving for alcohol. N<
one expects that beer can oust the
desire for stronger beverages. If
that were so then there would be
no need of prohibition repeal.
But most people admit the coun
try would be better off if beer and
wine supplanted a good sized per
centage of hard liquor. It may be
that they will not, yet the experi
ment is worth pushing to the
limit.
The main idea is to give beer a
fair trial.
But the responsibility of that
part of the public which ardently
desires the repeal of prohibition
is clear. We should see to it that
none of the old time evjils return
during this period of preparation
for prohibition repeal.
FARM MORTGAGE DEBT
The farm mortgage debt in the
United States rose from 3 billions
and 320 millions in 1910 to 9 bil
lions and 468 millions in 1928. It
has been reduced to about 8 bil
lions and 5 00 millions at present,
the reduction being represented
mainly by foreclosures and forced
sales. These are the figures com
piled by the Department of Agri
culture and submitted to Congress
which now has under passage legis
lation designed to relieve the pres
sure of debt.
This mortgage debt rests on
forty per cent of the farms, leav
ing sixty per cent free. Tenant
operated farms are more generally
and heavily mortgaged than own
er-operated ones.
Individuals hold about 30 per
cent of the mortgages, insurance
companies 23 per cent. Federal
and joint-stock land banks 19 per
cent, commercial banks 11 per
cent, mortgage companies 10 per
cent and other agencies and firms
7 per cent.
The interest charge in 193 2 a
mounted to about a half billion,
having dropped somewhat from
its high peak, but interest did not
drop as far as the volume of debt
was reduced as renewals have been
at higher rates. The annual in
terest charge of all sorts of farmer
indebtedness is estimated at be
tween 800 and 900 billions at pre
sent.
In 1929 property taxes on all
farms reached about 777 millions,
of which 263 millions was on
mortgaged farms. Since 1929
farm property taxes have dropped
20 per cent the nation over. It
may be anticipated that legislation
passed in the states during the
past few months will add very
materially to the decrease of the
farm tax load.
The national legislation now
pending, which was drafted at the
behest of President Roosevelt, aims
at scaling down the total of the
mortgage debts, reducing interest
and spreading out payments so that
a larger per cent of the farm own
ers will have hope of paying out.
PUTTING CITY MEN OUT
DOORS
The great value of President
Roosevelt’s plan for putting a
quarter of a million young men at
work in outdoor labor, of a kind
which is somewhat vaguely refer
red to as “forestry,” seems to us
to be that it will probably save
most of these men from becoming
bums.
As we understand the plan only
those between 18 and 25 years old
and having some dependent rela
tives were accepted at first. They
applied at an Army recruiting sta
tion, armed with a letter, from
some recognized local relief wel
fare association, testifying to their
worthiness as objects of relief.
They were then put through a!
physical examination at the re
cruiting station.
Those who passed these prelimi
nary tests were required to enlist
for six months, signing an agree
ment to perform whatever duties
they might be assigned to and not
to destroy any Government pro
perty. They then went at once on
the payroll, at the rate of one dol
lar a day with food, clothing and
shelter included. Each recruit,
however, was required to sign an
assignment of part of his pay, ap
proximately three-quarters of it, to
| the dependent wife, mother, sister
or brother, to be paid direct to the
beneficiary.
The recruits of this Army of
Peace were then sent to the nearest
military post for a period of "con
ditioning,” which includes regular
exercise and drill, instruction in
taking care of their bodies while
living in the open, amenability to
discipline and the building up of
their physical stamina. This con
ditioning was expected to take
from four to six weeks. When
completed, the men are sent in
squads to the places where th /
are to labor on public works.
Precisely where this work will
be done and what it will consist of
is not fully explained as yet. Pre
sumably it will be in the various
National Forests, though there is
talk of the Government buying a
million acres or so of unreclaimed
land and putting theee men to
work on that.
It seems to us that the actual
work accomplished is of less im
portance than the building up of
the men who do it, getting them
into the habit of hard work, enabl
ing them to contribute something,
however slight, to the support of
others, and taking them off the
city streets into the wholesome
outdoors.
We shall watch this experiment
with interest.
YOU KNOW the name of
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THE MAN in this story
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FOR THE very simple
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REASON THAT he is now
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A PROMINENT citizen of
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THE COMMUNITY. At the
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TIME HE was married he was
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WORKING FOR a rather "
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MATTER-OF-FACT, hard
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BOILED BOSS, and when
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HE GOT ready to go away
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TO TAKE his bride, he
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TALKED THE matter of
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HIS ABSENCE over with
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THE BOSS. "How long
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DO YOU want to be away
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ON YOUR honeymoon?” asked
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THE HEAD man. "Well, sir—
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ER—HOW long, would you
it It it
SAY?” QUESTIONED our
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CHAP TIMIDLY? "How do
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I KNOW?” replied the
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BOSS. "I haven’t
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SEEN THE bride.”
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I THANK YOU.
LIVES ON SAME FARM FOR
SIXTY-FIVE YEARS
Perry, Iowa.—Sidney Doidge, 64
year-old farmer here, has lived on
the same farm 62 years.
His parents moved there from
Illinois when Doidge was 2.
Overcome Pains
this better-way
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down condition can hardly expect
to be free from troublesome “small
symptoms.”
Where the trouble is due t® weak
ness, Cardui helps women to get
stronger and thus makes It easier for
nature to take its orderly course.
Painful, nagging symptoms -disap
pear as nourishment of the body is
improved with the assistance of
Cardui.
Instead of depending on temporary
pain pills during the time of suffer
ing, take Cardjii to build up your
resistance to womanly ailments.
Thousands of women have found
relief by taking CARDUI.
Sold at the drug store.
COMMENTS
PIGEONS
To The Editor: _
At the present moment I am not
so much concerned with the na
tional situation as with the fact
that my son has announced that
I he wants to raise pigeons. He points
out that you start with a mother
pigeon and a father pigeon and
very shortly thereafter you have
any number of baby pigeons. He
says that food will 'cost about
$3.65, but it will last a long time.
He suggests that the squabs will
soon cover the initial cost. He
guarantees to service the pigeons
indefinitely with no obligation
whatever on my part. It certainly
looks like a good proposition. But
then I have been caught so often
before on sure things. You know
what these sales talks are.
—H. T.
TONSILS OR NO TONSILS
To The Editor:
I observed in the paper a letter
which read: “The Lord put these
tonils there for a purpose, and I
think it inhuman to allow this cut
ting out, unless threatened by seri
ous complications. Don’t let your
helpless children be butchered at
the whim of a medical man is my
ardent appeal for the helpless ones
to their oarents or guardians.”
I wonder if this was really writ
ten seriously. I can hardly believe
it. Does the author really believe
that the prevention of throat trou
ble is a slight matter? I know of
case upon case where childiren had
gained1 weight and health due to
the removal of their tonsils. Per
haps that writer would claim that
God gave us an appendix for some
purpose and that therefore they
should be allowed to remain.
Such persons and their beliefs
belong to the antediluvian age, no
less. —W. E. K.
BEER AIDS BUSINESS
To The Editor:
I am not much interested in beer.
But I note:
"Legalization of beer starts trade
boom.” "The brewers will buy
at varying prices about 10,000
trucks and cars. The yearly up
keep of these will amount to $20,
000,000.” "Many millions of bot
tles -and glasses are being ordered.
The barrel makers won’t be able to
catch up with their orders until
late in the summer.”
Now, if the ladies of the W. C.
T. U. and kindred bodies have
something equally constructive to
offer, then quite a lot of us will be
open to reason. I, for one, shall
be willing to say: "Let’s chuck the
beer and go to work for the ladies.”
But we don’t want any "hot air” as
to how "the Lord will provide.”
We wish to know the exact how
and where and when.
In the meantime, thirst dwells
eternal in the human beast.
—F. V.
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SHE WANTS TO KNOW WHY
THE DOG LICENSE LAWS ARE
NOT ENFORCED
To The Editor:
Why db some people have to buy
dog licenses while others may har
bor dogs that are unrestrained and
unlicensed for years? If the police
can locate hardened criminals, why
not law-breaking dog owners?
Why can’t a man improve his
property with flowers without the
chance of dogs destroying them?
Why can’t he paint his porch
without wondering if in the morn
ing the floor will be tracked a. J
posts and doors made filthy by
neighbors’ dogs.
Why can’t a man or child, law
abiding, take his dog, held in leash,
for a walk without subjecting the
dog and himself to danger of being
bitten by a fighting dog whose
owner defies the laW by letting it
run wild?
Why cannot mothers in unfen
ced sections let their little children
play in the yards without the
chance of being molested by roving
dogs that take possession of the
yard andl with which it is danger
ous to interfere?
Why is the law-breaking dog
harborer allowed to go scott-free
while dogs on rare occasions when
caught must forfeit their lives for
following instinct?
Do you think me a dog hater?
I’ve owned, loved and cared well
for dogs most of my life, but think
people have rights too.
—A Taxpayer.
A DIAGNOSIS
To The Editor:
This is my idea of prevailing
conditions:
The World War put our country
down and almost made it poor
Prohibition came and took effect
and pushed it down some more.
—Citizen
Read the news for information
—the ads for profit.
j The Modem Miracle ~ By Albert T- Reid
" PRODUCING K
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(ipfe£OR LESS %
jTThAM COST'S
VftHy - "asi
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By (Solly !
5 i don’t see how
He Keeps up
NATIONALISM . . a kick-back
A lot of the world’s present
troubles are due to an excess of
Nationalistic pride. Every nation
is trying to be self-contained, and
then grouching because other na
tions won’t trade with it!
Every dollar we spend for for
eign goods helps some other nation
to buy our goods. I believe in A
mcrica first, but I do not believe
in • the stupid doctrine which
would prohibit me from buying I
something I wanted because it was
made abroad.
Nearly a hundred^ years ago
there was an agitation in this
country similar to the "Buy A
merican” movement of today. The
party which advocates non-inter
course with foreign countries got
the nick-name of "Know-Noth
ings.” Presently we will wake up
again to the truth that every ob
stacle to international trade hurts
everybody concerned.
JEWS.in Germany
Jewish people all over the world
are greatly disturbed over the poli
cy of the new "Nazi” government
of Germany, under the practical
dictatorship of Chancellor Hitler,
in boycotting Jfewiish merchants,
doctors, teachers'and others.
I talked the other day with an
intelligent young German Jew
who had been getting letters
from home about the situation in
Germany. He was not at all wor
ried. His people had1 written him
that they were not being annoyed
and that the whole anti-Jewish
agitation was directed at a Com
munist element, mainly composed
of Jews.
Another German, a non-Jew,
said to me: "Here in America the
Jews work like other people. In
Germany a lot of them don’t do
anything but try to make trouble
for the' Government.”
But, of course, the German gov
ernment has handled the situation
stupidly, as it always handles any
situation. More than a hundred
years ago the great French histor
ian, Guizot, wrote: "There is
something in the German tempera
ment which makes them utterly
unable to understand the point of
view of other peoples.
MACHINES . . can’t think
When these hard times are over
—and that won’t be long now—
we shall not go backward but for
ward. And one thing we may look
for is more and more perfection of
machines to do our work for us
When I was a boy I used to ad
mire the muscular development of
the men who worked in my uncle’s
machine shop. Not long ago I
visited the same plant, now tre
mendously changed, and found one
of those old-timers still working.
He was sitting in a rocking
chair watching an automatic ma
chine do almost exactly the same
sort of work he used to do by hand
only many times as rapidly and ac
curately. Every once in a while he
would take a finished piece off the
machine and put a new block of
metal in its place.
"They say the machines will
throw everybody out of work,’’ he
said, "but I notice it still takes a
human brain to tell the machine
when to stop and start.” That is
something people overlook. No
body has yet made a machine that
can think, and nobody ever will.
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TELEPHONE . another step
Everybody who has a telephone
must have wished for some sort of
an attachment which would' an
swer automatically when the sub
scriber is away. >
Word comes' from Vienna that
just such a device has been invent
ed and is in use there. When one
is going to be out of telphone ;
reach he sets the implement to the
hour when he expects to be back, |
Then, if a call comes through in
his absence the caller hears a gong
ring to indicate the hour when the
person called will return. When
he returns he finds a record of all j
It will be easy to develop that
idea into a phonograph record
which would say "Mr. Smith has
gone to Florida but will be back
on the fifteenth,” or whatever
other message it is desired1 to con
vey.
Something of that sort will;
come some day.
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Typewriter . hfi? birthday
I have a vivid memory of the
day when my mother received a
letter from her youngest brother j
in Buffalo, with the words printed j
instead of written with a pn. He i
said: "This letter is written on a
new kind of machine we have got
in the office, called a typewriter ”
That was almost sixty years ago;
about 1876, I should say. The
typewriter was only three or four
years old then, for the sixtieth
anniversary of its invention by
Christopher Sholes (has just been
celebrated.
There was quite a celebration
organized by the Young Women’s
Christian Association. The type
writer, they held1, hadl emancipated
women by making it possible for
them to do work in offices. I don’t
think that is sound reasoning.
Hardly anybody but men used
typewriters for at least twenty
years after the machine was in
vented.
The rush of women into business
began in the early 1890’s after the
telephone people had broken down
the barriers that kept women out
of offices.
WANTED SALESMAN WITH
CAR—to establish and1 conduct
Rawleigh Routes in cities of Salis
bury, china Grove and County of
North Stanly. Steady workers can
start earning $25 weekly and in
crease rapidly. Hustlers on similar
routes do $5,000 annual business,
some established 3 0 ye.-s.-s. Reply
mmediately giving age, occupation,
references. Rawleigh Industries,
Richmond, Va., Dept. NC-D-12I
r.
EB53H!I
Qt aiht possible for
A MAM TO LOVE Two
WOMEH AT THE S4ME
TIME— ESPECIALLY IF
THEY KHOW ABOUT IT.’
OSTEOPATHY
is nature’s way to health
DR. S. O. HOLLAND
410 Wallace Bldg. Phone 346
LOANS WITHOUT SECURITY
$5.00 to $40.00 Quickly Loaned
SALARIED PEOPLE NEEDING FIVE TO FORTY DOLLARS
IN STRICT CONFIDENCE, WITHOUT SECURITY, EN- i
DORSEMENT OR DELAY, AT LOWEST RATES AND
EASY TERMS
CO-OP FINANCE CO.
202 WACHOVIA BANK BLDG. \
SALISBURY, N. C.
NEW PRICES ON FINE /STATE BLOODTESTED CHICKS
Best Reds, White and Barred Rocks and White Wyandottes at
$7.J0 per hundred in quantities of 200 upv Best English and
Hollywood White Leghorns at $7.00 per hundred in quantities of
200 up. Less quantities lc per chick more. Our season closes
May 9th. „
BUNCH POULTRY FARMS & HATCHERY
STATESVILLE, N. C. j