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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 postoffice 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, JUNE 30, 1933 HE HAS THE POWER Following is a summary of the extraordinary powers granted the President during the session of Congress just ended, which con tinued a little more than three months: : To establish control over all in dustry with the view to lix’ng minimum wages and maximum hours of work, regulating produc tion and otherwise to promote,1 encourage and require fair compe tition. To set up a system of govern- j ment licenses for business if nec-j essarv to require conformance to the above. To initiate and direct, through a federal director of public works,' a $3,300,000,000 public works program as a further government contribution to re-employment. To direct, through a federal dir ■ector of relief, expend.ture of $500,000,000, supplied by the re construction finance corporation, for relief of destitution. i 3 To invoke the presidential pow ers of the world war to regulate transactions in credit, currency, gold and silver, even to embargo gold or foreign exchange; to fix ! restrictions on the banking busi ' rnesT of the federal reserve system irrespective of the federal reserve board. To eliminate the old system for compensation and allowances fcr veterans and set up an entirely new pension system, with himself :at the head. To reduce by executive order the salaries of government employes by an amount not to exceed 15 per cent upon the finding of com mensurate reduction in cost of living. To transfer, eliminate, consoli j; date or rearrange bureaus in the ; executive branch of the govern ■, ment in the interest of public eco nomy. ^ To repeal by executive procla j- mat ion certain new taxes voted u j- industrial recovery act upon show | ing of restoration of business or in 1 event of repeal of the eighteenth * amendment. » fj To publish hereafter secret in come tax returns to the extent he may deem in the public interest, | and under such rules and regula tions as he may prescribe. ; To inflate the currency either by requiring open market opera tions in federal securities, devalu ;> irig the gold dollar by not more ' than 50 per cent, issuing United States notes up to $j,000,000,000 or accepting :up to $200,000,000 in silver in payment of the allied war debts. To employ more than 250,000 unemployed young men in refor estation operations as still further i government contribution to re employment. To appoint a coordinator of r.til ’ roads to effect economies amonj ' the carriers and increase service tc the public. ! To appoint a Tennessee Valley authority to develop natural re sources of Tennessee river basin, including completion of Muscle Shoals project. "CHIGGEP TIME” Summer time is "chigger time,” and there’s only one thing that can be done about them, in the op inion of C. H. Brannon, extensi in ntomologist at North Carolina State college. "About the only way I know of ;o keep chiggers from attacking i person is for him to dust his body and underwear with sulphur when he plans to go where the pests abound,” he said. The entomologist did not say which was the lesser of the two evils. He did explain, however, that the chigger is the first stage of a large, red, velvety mite which is entirely harmless when ‘ mature. But the trouble is, they are a lot of trouble while maturing, especi ally if on the human body. Contrary to popular belief, Brannon said chiggers do not bur row into the skin and thus require extraction before relief is obtain ed. The pests are minute in size but are capable of ejecting a con siderable amount of poisonous ma terial into a person. t It is this poison which causes all the dis comfort and itching, he said. "Chiggers normally feed on small wild animals, including snakes and lizards, and they may attach themselves to birds. They are a pest of considerable impor tance to poultry, especially late hatched chicks or turkeys,” he ad ded. Getting the "jiggers” has made bad endings for many outdoor events. AMERICA HAS GROWN UP | Thirty-five years ago, on the 3rd of July, 1898, the naval battle of, Santiago put an end to Spain’s pr--j tensions of being a world power and put the United of America on the map as one of the great powers of the world. It is not putting the case too strongly to say that until the Spanish War the Amer-i ican nation counted for very little' in world affairs except as a source of food supplies, and our politicans and most of our people felt them selves inferior to Europe and the, Europeans. Some of that inferiority idea still persist? and crops up every now and then, whenever the United States takes part in any discussion of in ternational affairs. Foolish people get the notion that somehow A merica’s diplomats and delegates are going to be "outsmarted” when ever they try to dicker with Euro peans. And Europe, of course, does its best to make that notion stick. We don’t believe that European statesmen and politicians are any smarter than our own. We have every confidence that the American delegation to the present World Monetary and Economics Confer ence will get all they went after, whether Europe likes it or not. America has grown up. WE NEED A NEW TUNE There’ll be a lot more enthu siasm in this year’s celebration of the Fourth of July than there has been for two or three years past. Folks who had1 been wondering whether the Declaration of Inde pendence was out of date are be ginning to chirk up and admit that Uncle Sam is still doing nicely, thank you. There’ll be more people trying to sing the Star-Spangled Banner than there were last year. We say l "trying” advisedly. Did* anybody ever hear any singer or group of singers who could really sing our national anthem? Among profes ! sional singers it is conceded that I nobody but Anne Case can do it i properly. I It’s a swell anthem, all right, but we think that, as a part of the | New Deal, somebody ought to dig up or invent a National song that everybody can sing. "America” i; I good, but it’s the same tune as I God Save the King” and "Heil Dit in Siegerkranz.” Why not go back to the Revolution of 1776 and re vive the tune of Continental sold iers sang, which is "Yankee Doo dle?” That’s a good, lively tune, but it needs some new words. ITALIAN GROUP LARGEST A survey of the foreign born ^ population of the United States a; of 19 30 shows that the Italian; passed the Germans during the years since the war. Prior to 1914 the German born population was the largest of the foreign born groups. But since 1914 the Ger man immigration, which before 1900 was. by far the largest, has dropped in comparison with Great Britain, the Irish Free State and Italy. The heaviest Italian immigra tion was between i 901 and 1914 when it was exceeded only by Pol and. But from 1914 on the Ital ian i immigration was nearly twice that of Poland. • j The combined immigration from Great Britain and all Treland was larger than from Italy alone, but now that the Irish Free State im migration is counted as a separate group the Italian born have a long lead. I ALTHOUGH YOU might gee * + » A BIGGER kick out of ■* » » . OUR OFFERING today if * * *■ WE MENTIONED names, you «• *■ *s WILL REALIZE before * • * THE STORY closes that si- * «■ IT WOULDN’T have been * » * QUITE PROPER to use * + * THEM, AND besides the *■ * POINT IS just as clear «■ WITHOUT NAMES as with * » * THEM. THEY are well known! * * * TO EVERY Salisbury person * * * WHO HAS lived here as * * * MUCH AS three months. * * * "JOHN, I believe you * » * MARRIED ME for money,” * * * SAID THE wife who does * * * POSSESS MUCH of the * S * WORLDLY GOODS. "Well, MY DEAR,” replied her HUSBAND, "I believe I * * * EARNED IT, don’t you?’’ » a- * I THANK YOU. ” Borrowed Views NATIVE WIT Europe seems to have adopted ! another American institution—the , dollar down. |—iThe Norfolk Lcdger-Dfcpatc/\ jo/R-TY dig (Excerpt From an editorial on criminal statistics in The Charles i ton News & Courier.) One thinks of Charlotte as a per ticularly pious town, but its re cord for crime is probably worse than is that of Greenville, Spartan burg, Berkely or Charleston. SAME LITTLE GIRL, . PROBABLY , (David Sink in The Lexington Dispatch.) You remember how the little | girl, in the days of long ago, went I to the evil saloon, plead "Father, oh father, come home with me now?” The other day one of the boys was back having a beer, when a little girl came in the door l "Daddy,” said she, "come on I home.” And clutching his finger with her little hand, she gently led him away. SOUNDS DELIGHTFUL One of the most interesting sights of Maxton’s "night life” is the exciting croquet contest wag ed every evening under electric lights, on the playground back of the Methodist church. The revival of this old game has aroused as much interest as the miniature golf craze a few yars ago. Everyone plays, children, mothers, daddys, the younger crowd of boys and girls, old folks and young folks. Maxton owes a debt to progressive young Preacher Clegg whose energy and initiative is responsible for the fine smooth croquet court and who realized that the older people need games just as much as the youngsters need' their see-saws, swings, and slide boards. —The Maxton Scottish Chief NAMES IS NAMES Mr. Beagle or a man with some such name suggests that an aqua rium is needed' in Washington for the Kjngfish of Louisiana and the Jellyfish of North Carolina. We don’t think that that is a kind thing to say at all, at all. —ChaTity & Children. INFLATION OF COTTON LAND Our pessimist is afraid Secretary Wallace’s cotton plan is going to uncover some mighty heavy pro duction on this land during the past year or so. v —Greenville Neivs MEANT TO DO IT. Reece Sedberry, local insurance man, was putting questions to a prospective risk recently, "Ever had any accidents?” "No,” wasi the rply. "Never had an accident in your life?” "Nope,” the fellow answered dryly. "But a rattler bit me once, though.” "Well, don’t you call that an ac cident?” "Naw, he bit me on purpose.” —Radio In The Concord Tribune. IS IT STILL IN SESSION? (Item in The Catawba News En terprise.) | While the legislature was in ses sion Sam Mauney of the M. & M. Motor corpjjuny received a call to come and tow in a car which had gone bad. When the car was tow-1 id in it was found to belong to one! nf the honorable members of the legislature (not one from Catawba county, however.) The gentleman| asked that the concern give them1 an estimate of the cost of needed repairs. An estimate was given, and the lawmaker authorized the work and said he would call by some week-end when returning from the legislature and get the car. A1 and Sam are now wondering! If the legislature is still in session* as the gentleman in Question not yet called for his car. LOGICAL DEDUCTION \ Mr. Steiwer. I understand, | though, that there are approximat-i ly 210,000 Spanish-American War veterans. I am not advised con-) cerning the number of widows and; dependents. That depends on thel number of children in the families, of course. —The Congressional Record COMMENT DRAFTS AND PNEUMONIA To The Editor: , At the American Medical Asso ciation meeting in Milwaukee speaking on pneumonia and the use of serum, one doctor stated that "deaths from pneumonia rank second in young adult life,’’ and that all types of pneumonia are less prevalent in summer and fall than in winter and spring. Of course, they are, but what causes all this pneumonia unnecessarily? Well, there is some wrong living somewhere. We are told to sleep with windows and doors open in all sorts of weather and this has been proven to me to be wrong. I don’t mean to, sleep in a poorly ventilated room. But I do mean that a draft at any time is bad. How about the patients in a hospital ward who are compelled to lie in a draft just because the doctor or nurse comes trotting by and' doesn’t stay, in one place long enough to know wheth er it’s hot or cold, and orders plenty of air, or because some fresh-air fiend' yells the minute the temperature goes above 60 degrees. I’ve been there and I know. How about the patient under ether that is tossed in his bed perspiring from a hot operating room, and all the windows up and the draft directly on him? It's just such things that encourage pneumonia, and it’s no wonder that the death rate is al arming. I know that my dear old mother was a victim of this ignor ant practice. I know I was a victim of the fresh-draft idea. I know of a girl who laid' for months in a hospital due to a worse-than-dis graceful "tonsil operation” and re sulting pneumonia. I can’t see why a little horse sense added to medical and surgical work would not save lives, suffer ing and fear. There would be less need to use serum and what not. —N. II. A. r A Fizzlerl! -—— % Albert T-R<dd REASONS FOR THE REVOLTi ! AGAINST PROHIBITION | To The Editor: Now that prohibition is well on1 its way to h—, where it belongs,J the question naturally arises: Why, did so many people drop out who j formerly supported the movement? | ; There are, of course, many reasons, but I shall point out only two at1 i this time. j First, I think that a great manyj people thought prohibition would; have a much greater economic val-j ue than has proven to be the case. Second, I would say that thous-j ands of dry votes were lost every time some prominent dry said "it ^serves them right” when people were killed as a result of drinking poisoned liquor. Interested ob SBggggg-said they are not humani tarians but fiends who delight in torturing others. So the thumbs-1 idown attitude gradually came a-1 | bout. i The morale seems to be that you; must love the entire human race to! j put over a humanitarian move- j 'ment and make it stick. And1 a real'; i honest-to-goodness humanitarian j does at least feel kindly toward; everybody even though he doesn’t agree with some people. On the other hand, many prohibitionists showed evidence of so much hate that they turned the multitudes a gainst themselves. _ —G. C. H. BASIC CONFLICT To The Editor: The Roosevelt regime basically will be a conflict between personal ty and personality. —W. H. L. Jr. SILVER . . . does a stunt The British government paid a $10,000,000 installment on the war debt to the United States by giving us 20,000,000 ounces of sil ver bullion, which was accepted, under the new currency law, at $0 cents an ounce. It cost Great Britain only about $7,200,000 to pay this amount, since the market price of silver was 36 cents an ounce. But, on the other hand, i Uncle Sam can coin that same sil : ver into 23,790,000 silver dollars, ■ since the silver dollar contains less : than an ounce of silver. Thus a > debt has been paid with less than ■ the sum credited to the payer, and I the creditor gets more than twice • as much as the amount received, i Under the law the Secretary of the Treasury is required to coin at i least 10,000,000 silver dollars from • the bullion received from England, ■ and he may coin the rest or not as the President directs. : Money is a funny thing, and 1 few of the people who make a lot - of fuss about it understand how it s works. * * • •* . NATIONS .. large and small When President Roosevelt sent a telegram to the heads of 54 dif ferent nations asking them to co operate ih disarmament most folks thought he must have included every nation on the globe. But there are 66 nations represented at the World Monetary and Econo mic Conference, and still there are a few which were not invited. The sixty-six include, to be sure, Canada, Australia, New Zea land and India which are members of the British Commonwealth of Nations, but they do not include the tiny Republic of Andorra, the other miniature nation of San Marino, or the Danzig Free State. Neither is Monaco-Monte Carlo in the list; it is half the size of New York’s Central Park and has 2 5, 000 inhabitants. But Iceland’ has the same standing in the London gathering as the United States. It is about the size of New York and has a population smaller than Sav-j annah. It has been an independ-| ent nation since 1918. This is certainly the most com-| pletely world-wide representative, convention ever held. » * » CONGRESS ... in a new role We used to think of Congress as the Board of Directors of the United States, with the President taking orders from it. The Con gress just adjourned seemed more like a stockholders’ meeting, rati fying the proposals and1 actions of the directors. In this time of change, perhaps we are in for a new conception of the relations between the different branches of the Government. As matters stand now, the President with his cabinet and1 expert advis ers, have authority to do just a bout anything they please. Tn theory, Congress can withdraw the powers granted, but in practice nothing short of another general elections is likely to have that re sult. Just now it seems silly to tmnK of anyone wanting to throw a monkey-wrench into the Govern mental machinery. Everybody real izes that the economic fate of all of us depends upon making the New Deal work. But let anything approaching former prosperity re turn, and we’ll see the "outs” try ing to make • all the trouble they can for the "ins.” That’s politics. * » * PRICES . . . mild inflation As soon as the dollar was cut loose from its gold anchor, prices of all international trade goods be gan to rise. In other word's, dol lars used in foreign trade Became cheaper. This is the only real "inflation” that has taken place so far. Our domestic dollar hasn’t been cheap ened much, if any, so far. But that is on the way down, too, and that will result in higher dollar prices for all commodity items and labor. People who are scared of "cheap money” might ask themselves whether they wouldn’t just as soon have silver certificates as any other ! kind of currency. There aren’t any other sort of dollar bills in cir culation, but . everybody takes them as dollars, although they art worth only about 30 cents by tht gold standard. WHEN HER FELLER SAID HE D JUMP OUTTA WIWPOW IF SUE WDNT, MARRY HIM...THAT ft.. UNTIL SUE LEARNED ME UvED mj A BUM6AIjomu. "i •- \ PHILISOPHY . . . look inside Dr. Hu Shih, China’s foremost philosopher, is coming to America. He is the foremost exponent of the Confucian philosophy which hps been the guide to living of the Chinese people for five thousand years. Just now Dr. Hu is delivering lectures in Peiping urging the Chinese people to enter into a per iod of self-examination, to deter mine whether their present trebles are not their own fault. That is a suggestion in line with the philosophy of all great relig ious teachers. It would be a good thing for most of us to do, right now; to consider whether our pre sent troubles are not of our own making. Nothing is easier than to blame "capitalism” or "commun ism” or the other political party for what ails us. But until a man has learned to look first inside of himself for the cause of his troubles he has not achieved a working philosophy of life. PRICE is nothing compared to comfort. Have your Mattress Renovated. TAYLOR jh MATTRESS CO. H| Phone 6 BUCK-DRAUGHT made FROM REST LAXATIVE PLANTS Sunshine, Rain and Soil produce the foods you eat at every meal — that rebuild your body as you work, play, live. 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