Carolina Watchman
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SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA
E. W. G. Huffman,_Editor
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NEW DEAL AND RAW'DEAL
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A school teacher writes to the
Greensboro News:
"Tor four years I lhave been
employed as a school teacher in
this city. I graduated from a
state institution. I have done
everything in my power to do con
scientious and competent work.
My hours are all day and far into
the night. And here is my com
pensation:
"I began with a salary of $100
per month for nine months—not
12 months, as many seem to
think. Last year it was cut to $90
a monoh, and next year my con
tract is calculated to bring me $60
a month for eight months, a total
of $480 a year.
jnverycxxiy seems to tmnK a
teacher has nothing to do but buy
clothes and feed herself. On this
sum of $480 a year I must feed and
clothe thr)ee besides myself and
must pay taxes and street assess
ments for my mother, who is in
capacitated; and then there are the
incidentals—insurance, etc. Can
anybody volunteer a plan for fin
ancing the above? Many who
clamor against us have cars, take
vacation trips, and have varied
other diversions. For three years I
have been unable to take any sort
of a trip, even to the mountains or
the seashore for a week-end.
"I presume the proper thing to
do is to greet everybody with a
smile, keep the chin up, and think
how much worse off some people
arp. Yet, after trying that for
almost four years, I find my spirit
weakening.”
There; are thousands of teachers
in North Carolina who are con
fronted- with a problem similar to
the one here described. How they
are to meet their responsibilities,
heaven only knows. It would be
difficult enough with commodity
prices at me low level ot a year
ago, and now, just when the legis
lature has made a further reduc
tion .in the pay of school teachers,
twe are coming into a period of
much higher prices.
According to a statement from
the state school commission, there
are at least 3 50 teachers who will
receive $45 a month ($360 a year).
About 1,500 will receive $50 or
$5 5 a month. The other 14,000
teachers will receive from $60' to
$90, according to theit classifica
tion. These figures will obtain in
which have voted supplementary
all but three or four communities
taxes to give the teachers, not de
cent hut something nearer to decent
salaries.
"The NRA has decreed wage
scales throughout the country
which.range from $12 a wCek up
ward for most industries,” says the
Grensboro News. "The $12 wage,
generally speaking, is to be paid to
those without any great degree of
training, education, or experience.
"Not much in the way of gq0i4
can be said for the intelligence of
a legislature which thus) impov
erishes the educational forces of the
state. Teachers are required to
have education and, in most cases,
experience. To say that they are
not entitled to more than unedluca
ted, unskilled workers is to argue
foolishly. Not many of the 'legis
lators'—who got $600 each for
theic services—would consent to
i
work for from $12 to $22.50 a
week, the wage scale they imposed
on the teachers by their parsimoni
ousness.
It is too late to do anything about
the wage scale for this year but it
is not too late to save the school
system of the state from the
wrecking crew. Another legisla
ture will be elected next year and
if the teachers exercise wisdom
they will see to it that their sup
port is given only to those seeking
seats in the general assembly who
will deal fairly with the education
al forces. And in this they should
have the support of every man and
woman interested in maintaining
a decent school system in IsTorth
Carolina.”
In short the teachers are advised
to "go into politics.” Well, -why
not? Just about all the other ele
ments in the population seek toj
protect themselves against hostile
legislation — bankers, merchants,
farmers, dairymen, manufacturers,
wage-earners, barbers, bottlers,
beauticians, theatre managers, and
hotel and restaurant proprietors.
There is no reason in God’s world
why the teachers should not pro
test, as forcibly as any of these,
against what they, consider unfair
I treatment at the hands of the poli
ticians who gather in Raleigh to
impose taxes and distribute the
revenue therefrom. The most ef-!
fective weapon of protest is the
ballot. The teachers, with their
kin and their friends, make up a
j formidable body of voters. If in
every county they will exert the
[influence at their command, the
| candidates for the legislature will
not fail to be impressed.
As the News says, "the New Deal
for teachers is in every respect a|
Raw Deal.” By reason of the na-'
ture of their service, it is a raw deal |
not for them only but for the'
whole people of North Carlina.
SURE DEATH ~ ~
In a major disaster, on the Erie
railroad recently fourteen were
killed, twenty-five seriously injur-!
ed.
All of those killed were traveling
with on choice on their part in a
day coach made of wood
That coach, making death sure
and inevitable, was sandwiched be
tween two heavy cars of sieel.
When a heavy milk train rammed
the fast express in a rear-end col
lision, one steel car acted as a bat
tering ram, crushing the wooden
car; another steel car ahead, un
yielding, acted as an anvil upon
which the wooden day coach and
its load of passengers were merci
lesly crushed.
Had the tram been composed en
tirely of wooden coaches there
might have been some slight chance!
for those in that particular wooden i
car.
Had the train been composed of
steel cars only,' as it should have
ben. there would probably have
been no death.
Well-built steel cars may be de
railed. They do not crumple up,
cruhing their passengers. The
Pullman Company, carrying the ,
sleeping-car public billions of miles ,
in all steel cars, is able to boast that
not one Pullman passenger has been
killed in more than a year.
What has happened in this wood -
en car accident his happened in
numerable times before, and pro-':
test has done no good
It should have some effect this,
tame. j,
Woodfen passenger cars should
not be permitted on any American
railroad fox any longer than • it
would Vy'ke to replace them with j
steel cars. , ■ • -ji
: And while wooden cars are in :
use they should be marked' in white,'
letters at least one foot high, run- ,
ning lengthwise along the outside
center of the cars, "Wooden Car,
Use At Your Own Risk.”
This is good advice for stock
holders as well as for the traveling
public, if financial interest must be
considered.
When lawyers demanding dam-!'
ages for the dead and wounded j
;how to the jury photographs of
that splintered "Wooden Car,” and
contrast it with photographs of
the uninjured steel cars on the same
train, all taken after the accident,
it would not be a pleasant mom
ent for stockholders.
These are hard days for rail
roads', and management, hard1 press
ed, has sought to use up the wooden
cars, replacing them gradually with
steel cars. But the process has
been slow, as is proved by the row
of dead bodies in this- latest disas
ter.
The Government Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, lending liber
ally in all directions, would doubt
less provide funds that could not
be obtained elsewhere for replacing
wooden cars with steel cars.
The replacement would mean
work for many men and create a
demand for steel. Meanwhile, run
ning mixed trains of steel and
wooden cars in use plainly marked
for the public protection. _
COMMENT
DRY FORCES BATTLING
Salisbury, N. C.,
September 12, 1933.
To The Carolina Watchman:
The United Dry Forces, in this
and other states, are engaged in a
desperate battle to save the XVIII
Amendment to the Constitution.
A solid phalanx of twentyfour
states have made it clear that they
no longer regard national prohibi
tion as that solution of the age-old
liquor problem, and it is only a
matter of time, probably a matter
of weeks, when twelve more will
join these twenty-four repeal vot
ing states^ and. the XVIII Amend
ment will be no more. It would
take an optimist, indeed, to see any
hope for the retention of national
prohibition in the constitution.
Yet, the United1 Dry Forces are
confident that they will block re
peal. Where can they hope to se
cure the necessary thirteen states?
Tlie poll of the Literary Digest,
which has been about 100% correct
to far in guaging the public mind
in the matter of repeal, gives the
prohibitionists only two states, to
wit: Kansas and North Carolina
and these are on the dry side by
less than one per cent of the votes
cast. Comparing the factual re
turns of the twenty-four states,
which have already voted for re
peal, with the returns of the Lit
erary Digest, one sees no chance for
national prohibition remaining with
as much longer. It will matter
little what North Carolina or Kan
sas does in the coming campaign,
repeal is a dead certainty.
The real problem is not what a
few states, drier than the rest, may
io. It is a 'question of how, and
n what manner shall the legal sale
)f intoxicants be controlled? The
egisratures ox me several states wiu
Jo well to carefully consider the
iquor control acts of the Canadian
Provinces, especially those of Que
jec and Ontario, and the famous
Jratt System of Sweden. If liquor
romes back, gave the state absolute
nonoply of the traffic. Let no
lerson, firm or corporation' be per
nirted to make a dollar out of it.
[f any money is to be made out
>f the liquor business, let it not go
nto the hands of the old liquor
:rowd or the present sorry band of
aootleggers, but let it go into the
roffers of the State, where it can
>e used' to pay off our bonded in
Jebtednesss to supplement the edu
ational fund or be sent back to
he counties for local tax reduction
purposes. The drys look in hor
or -at such a plan, crying out to
aigh Heaven that it is "putting
he State in liquor business.” Yet,
hat is quite true, but the state is
l better agency by far than either
:he old liquor crowd or the persent
:rop of bootleggers Quebec and
Ontario have not yet created' a
perfect control system, but theirs
s fir better than anything we,have
:ried in the United States. ( ■
If and when North Carolina is,j
■eady to junk the Turlington Act,
t would be well to send a Cbmmis
ion to Canada to study1 the’System
n vogue North of the Grea’t'takes
tnd St. Lawrence. A partial suc
:ess is far better than a total fail
ire. Rigid Canadian consol is
ireferable to unenforcible prohibi
:ion. Stringent control of the sale
md a tightening up of the peqal
itatutes will do no more to pro
note temperance than all the pro
libition speeches of "Pussyfoot”
Johnson, F. Scott ~ McBride; Dr.
Clarence True Wilson and Bishop
Cannon will accomplish from now
rill doomsday. -
A READER.
jlN THESE days when
< a a ; a
EVERYBODY AND his
I 4- 4 *
BROTHER IS trying to
I a a a
GET A job with Uncle
a a a
'SAM, IT did not surprise
' a a a
US TO hear a certain
a a •
CONVERSATION LAST week.
a a a
("SO-AND-SO has secured
a a a
A JOB with the government,”
a a a
SAID ONE citizen to
4- 4- * .
ANOTHER. "I’M glad to hear
* *3e *
ITT. DO you know just what
a a a
HIS OFFICIAL capacity
a a a
IS?” ASKED the friend.
a a .!£
"I WOULDN’T want to be
a a a - a
QUOTED,” WAS the reply,
a a a
"BUT I believe it’s
a a a
UPWARDS OF two gallons.”
a a a
I THANK YOU.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
->.
1. A bag and its contents.
2. In the churchyard cemetery
at Plymouth, Vt.
3. Illinois.
4. Shakespeare.
5. New Netherlands!.
6. On the official, authoritative
edict issued by the Pope.
i 7. Buenos Aires.
I 8. Greek goddess of youth.
| 9. Wheat.
I 10. Pewter.
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Gold Hill Rt. 1 Items
I The farmers of our section are
busy gathering in their feed, such
as hay and £orn tops for winter
supply or use.
A large crowd attended the
Fraley reunion at Antioch Baptist,
Church Sunday. Many addresses
were made on different subjects.
The foiur young men that compos
ed the quartett singing were sure
excellent singers.
The thirteen members! of-' the
Holliness church of Gold Hill and
St. Paul’s that were Baptised near
St. Paul’s church Sunday were at
tended by a large crowd of people.
Mr. Lonnie Wagoner, son cff R.
L. Wagoner, of Salisbury, was visit
ing his uncle and grandmother
Monday, P. H. Wagoner and Mrs.
Bad Taste in Mouth,
Sour Stomach
For quick relief from constipation
troubles, such as are mentioned
below, get a 25-cent package of
Thedford’s BLACK-DRAUGHT
and begin taking it today.
"I have suffered a great deal
from biliousness and constipa
tion,” writes Mrs. D. C. Jones, of
Waterloo, Ala. "When I get bili
ous I have a bad taste in my
mouth, have sour stomach, my
color is bad, and I get dizzy and
feel awfully bad. I have head
ache constantly. When I take
Black-Draught it relieves me and
I feel like a new person. I don’t
think there is a better medicine
than Black-Draught.” >■ *
Now you can get Black-Draught ip
(he form of a SYRUP, for Childbbn.
Burns best and costs the least.
Order a ton now and save the
difference.
YADKIN
FUEL CO.
PHONE 1594
W. A. Wagoner. Lonnie is now
going to school at E. Mitchell
Home at Misenheimer.
We are sorry to learn of ' the
illness of Mr. D. S. Sell, of near
Misenheimer, who was paralized n
his side and limbs last Saturday
night a week ago, and is still in a
serious condition. We hope for
him a speedy recovery. He is the
son of the late Samuel Sell.
The corn crop in our section is
much better than we thought it
would be since the tops are being
taken off the corn it shews up
fairly good.
Cleveland Rt. 2 News
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith were
week-end visitors here with rela
tives.
' Mrs. Grace Freeman and Mrs.
Henry Young spent Sunday even
ing with Mrs. J. H. Steele.
Mrs. R. C. Adams and children,
Mrs. N. S. Steele, Miss Addie Cline
and Messrs. Dempsey Shaver and
W. H. Burton were Sunday visitors
at P. A. Johnson’s.
Mr, Holloway Burton left Mon
day morning to attend Catawba
College. |
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Lazenby arei
visiting relatives in Dallas, Tex.
Mrs. Glenn Norris, of Washing
ton, D. C., is visiting her father,
Mr. John Goodman.
The many friends of Miss Estelle
Wilhelm will be interested to learn
of her marriage to Mr. Thomas
Jackson Bird on Saturday, Sept.
2, 1933, at Statesville. Mr. and
Mrs. Bird at making their home at
Statesville.
Mrs. Thomas D. Steele and child
ren spent Saturday night with her
sister, Mrs. P. A. Johnson.
Cleveland-Scotch Irish Grange
met 1 uesday night tor the regular
meeting. 3 new members were in
itiated. On Saturday night a call
meeting was held for the purpose
of initiating 2 new members’ so
they could go Eq the Pomona
meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Steele and
Mrs. Jessie Belle Steele visited_ Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Bird Sunday even
ing
Miss Helen Hicks is visiting Miss
Louise Oakley at Harmony.
Mr. Paul Lazenby has been visit
ing his parents.
Miss Ruby Johnson spent Satur
day night with her cousin, Miss
Mary Katherine Fraley.
Little Dorothy Steele spent Sat
urday night with her cousin, Troy
Fraley.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Wooten:
and son, Johnny, spent a while]
Sunday with his mother.
FARMER BEHEADS WIFE
Knoxville, Tenn.—A Nelson
Hansard, 46, a farmer, beheaded
his wife, attempted to burn her
body, menaced his children with an
axe and attempted to burn the
home of a neighbor before he was
shot to death near here.
E. CARR CHOATE
DENTIST
Office in Mocksville first three j
days of week; in Salisbury last
three days of week, over Pur
cell’s Drug Store, "On the
Square.”
iJMiMW-iimiiMW .ill wr 1
1 STAR LAUNDRY
"Tb* Good On*"
/
Launderers and Dry Cleaners
Phone 24 114 Vest Bank St.
On* Day Sfrvic*
1 f
Shoes rebuilt the better way. j
All kinds of harness, trunk and
suitcase repairing. i
FAYSSOUX’S PLACE
Phone 433 120 E. Innes St. :
* , — .
. ’
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. NOW . • •'
is the time to have your radiator >
inspected. Your radiato;: is(on£.
* . ' 1 of the most vital;
parts of your
car. Let’s give
the old radiator
a "new deal”
right now. "We
flush, clean, re
pair and recore
all types of
radiators. W e
sell or trade, new and second
-hand. We are the oldest and
most reliable. See us.
EAST SPENCER MOTOR CO.
THE CHRYSLER DEALER
Phone 1J48-J East Spencer, N. C.
Torture at Fa ~
Medieval torture devices ho!d
no terror for pretty Mildred
Davoe, Chicago World’s Fair
visitor frohi Colu—:bus, Ohio.
She smi'ed when they placed.
her in the fatal Iron M iden at
the Cotton B’ocso-n Showboat,
which is now featuring “Medi
eval Tortures”.
Good Health Rulet
Given For Parents
Eating Milk, Vegetables
Fruits; Regular Exercise,
Plenty of Sleep Included
By Mary G. McCormick
Supervisor of Health Teaching
New York State Department
of Education
Healthy homes produce health'
children—not so much because o'
heredity as because there the prac
tices whidh lead to health, such a
proper eating, plenty of rest, tran
quility and cleanliness become *
part of the child’s habits automa
tically.
J"or the same reason, unneaitnr
homes tend to produce childret
with health defects. The child o'
such a home docs not have an o|
portunity to learn good health hah
its. He imitates the bad health
habits of his parents.
Briefly, the fundamental rules fot
good health, both for adults and
children, are:
Eat properly, plenty of milh
vegetables, fruits, bread and othe
simple foods.
Regular exercise—but not to
much—in the open air and sun
light.
Children should have nine t(
twelve hours sleep at night, ac
cording to age, with an afternoon
nap also, if possible.
Keep clean.
These rules are so simple and
are based so much on ordinary com
mon sense that it is surprising that
they are so little understood by
grownups: Yet it is a fact that
relatively few adults do understand
them or practice them. Schools
must teach these rules to children,
for health teaching is a fundamen
tal part of the educational process,
but parents must also assume the
responsibility of teaching them—
and what is more—of practicing
them.
Children learn by imitating, and
practices learned in the home will
often endure for a lifetime, while
those learned in school and not fol
lowed at home will have relatively
little effect.
This is the second of a series of
articles on the health ef school chil
dren prepared for this paper. In
her next article, Miss McCormick
will discuss the selection of foods
for children.
All kinds of printing done prompt
ly at The Carolina Watchman,
119 East Fisher St.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having qualified as Administra
trix of the estate of Mrs. Magdalene
Peeler, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the said de
cedent to file an itemized, verified
statement of same with the under
signed on or before the 13 th day
of September, 1934, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their re
covery. Persons indebted to said
estate are notified to make prompt
settlement.
This September 11, 1933.
MRS. CLEO SMITH, Admx.,
of the Estate of Mrs. Magdalene
Peeler.
R. LEE WRIGHT, Atty.
Sept. 15—Oct. 20. , ,
Relieves Women's Pains
Here is an exajnpje of how Cardui.
has helped thousands of women:
4 "I, was very, thin and pale”
writes Mrs. F. H. Scott, of Roa
noke, Va. "I suffered from weak
ness and a severe pain in my back.
This pain unnerved me, and I did
not feel like doing my work. I
did not care to go places, and felt
worn, tired, day after day.
"My mother had taken Cardui,
and on seeing my condition she
advised me to try it. I have never
regretted doing so. I took three
bottles and it built me up. I
gained in weight, my color was
better and the pain left my back.
I am stronger than I had been in
some time.”
Cardui, the purely vegetable medi
cine which so many women take and
recommend, is sold by local druggists.
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This Letter Will Bring
Joy To Fat Folks and
Neuritis Sufferers
"Dear Sirs: I was so crippled
with neuritis all down left side of
my head and arm and both knees sr>
swollen that I could hardly get up
and down. At times my feet pain
ed so badly I thought my toes
would break off. I tried every
thing. The doctor told me I would
be no better while I lived here but
I stopped in a drug store in Brook
lyn, N. Y., one day last November
and the man in charge told me to
take Kruschen for 3 weeks steady
and I would get relief which I did.
Never felt better and along with it,
have lost weight. I weighed 21(1
then. . Now I weigh 154 and while
I’m over 50 yrs. old I feel 30. I
took it for one thing—got two—
so I now have 6 others here taking
it.” Mrs. A. V. Carr, Ft. Tildeii,
XT V
"It’s the little daily dose that does
it” so take a half teaspoonful of
Kruschen in a glass of hot water
every morning before breakfast.
Get Kruschen at Purcell’s Drug
Stores or any live druggist in the
world—a iar lasts 4 weeks and costs
bdt a trifle.
666
LIQUID, TABLETS, SALVE
NOSE DROPS 4f'
Checks Malaria in 3 days, Colds
first day. Headaches or Neural
gia in 30 minutes.
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Most Speedy Remedies Known.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
- , SYSTEM
TRAIN TRAVEL BARGAIN
_ FARES
SEASHORE EXCURSION
NORFOLK, VA.
SEPTEMBER 16., 193 3
ROUND TRIP FARE FROM
SALISBURY, N. C.
$2.50
Visit Norfolk with its many
seashorne attractions, Virginia
Beach, Ocean View, Fortress
Monroe, Old Point Comfort,
Hampton Roads and Cape
Henry.
Good fishing, Boatriding, Sight
seeing trips on the many fine
beaches.
Round trip tickets on sale for
all trains (Except Crescent Lim
ited) Saturday, Sept. 16th, fin
al limit returning midnight
Sept. 18th, 1933. _
Tickets good in pullman sleep
ing cars and coaches, through
pullman sleeping cars and
coaches.
Reduced1 round trip pullman
fares.
Daylight or night trip both di
rections. Two whole days in
Norfolk.' -
Reduced fare tickets'1 rmist be
purchased before boarding
'.trains.
This is the last excursion of the
season to Norfolk, and is a very
low round trip and attractive
fare which offers opportunity
to visit Virginia resorts at very
small expense. DON’T MISS
THIS> OPPORTUNITY. - ■
For tickets and pullman reser
vations. CONSULT TICKET
AGENTS
R. H, GRAHAM,
Division Passenger Agent,
Charlotte, N. C.