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FOUNDED 1832—101ST YEAR SALISBURY, FRffeAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1933. VOL 101 NO. 13. PRICE 2 CENTS.
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Washington—Even those who
were impatient with Congress last
Spring for remaining so long in
session after the President had
handed them their hats and told
them the party was over, are look
ing forward with ' satisfaction to
the reconvening of Congress in
January. It is not impossible that
the President himself will welcome
Congress back. Not that he wants
to get anything; in particular from
the lawmakers that has not already
^ been handed him, but he is too
shrewd a politician not to recognize
that some of the new bureaus and
the men in charge of them are run
ning wild, and that the whole re
covery scheme, now that its pur
poses and programs have been
pretty fully disclosed tol the peo
ple at large, needs the sort of
' searching public examnation and
criticism which only Congress can
give it.
And will Congress examine and
criticize? Bov, howdy!
Of course, some members of
both Houses will do more criticiz
ing than examining. A lot of the
criticism will be purely partisan in
its purpose. Muth of it will be
based on a complete absence of
facts. 'But the United States is
still a democracy, and every mem
_ ber of either House is entitled to
say what he thinks without fear
of any comeback.
Will Blow Off Steam
j, The Congress of the United
States is by all odds the freest for
um in the world. Likewise, taking
F startling lies are always worth big
" resents the most intelligent opinion
of the general run of American
citizens. A few blatherskites get
into both the Senate and the House
of Representatives; that has always
been true. They get a dispropor
tionate amount of attention from
the newspapers, because violent and
kRpt^ding lies are always worth big
headlines than soberly stated
(^•uths. And there will be plenty!
Rf steam let off by disgruntled j
IRnJ not too public-sprited men*-*
R-j of forte houses, which will be'
^Rvaoying to the President and his
l^mends but not necessarily to be
taken too seriously.
will he 'taken seriously,
R^’ver, will be the sober consid
■HRir which will be given to the
' acts of the Administration thus far
by the real leaders of both parties.
Nobody can believe seriously for a
jnoment that anybody in his senses
I^BBLllits to ruin the United States.
|uTJut there has been a lot of loose talk
I spilled by high Administration or
' ficials about "treason” and "sabot
age” and other ugly words whici
appear to reflect a belief that the
program of the New Deal is some
thing holy, to crticize or even dis
- agree with which is sacrilege. And
because the power exists to make
trouble for critics, to persecute if
not prosecute, many who would like
to speak Out are holding their
tongues, and waiting for members
of Congress to speak for them.
. And they will speak.
■ , From Both Sides
It will, not be all from the Re
publican side, the outspoken criti
cism of the way things are being
, run. There are only 3 5 Republican
Senators as against 61 Democrats.
In the House, fewer than 120 of
the 43 5 members belong to the
minority party. But here are two
or three strong groups of Demo
crats in both Houses and many
individual members wiho are known
to be preparing their ammunition
for a wide-soread barrage aimed at
the New Deal, either as a whole or
in one or another of its manifesta
tions.
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia
isjjRie leader of one such group.
' Senator Glass, who is a newspaper
publisher, has steadfastly refused
to sign the President’s Recovery
Code or to display the Blue Eagle
in his newspapers. He is no enemy
of the President; it will be remm
bered that Mr. Roosevelt wanted
him in his Cabinet. But he will
be a powerful voice in expressing
the point of view of the "rugged
individualists’’ who,, while conced -
ing that there have been grave
abuses which ought to be remedied,
under the old system, do not think
' that the way to do if is tot scrap
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Dry Landslide
In State Not
Yet Victory
Added Burdens of Enforcement
Will Call for Huge Expenditure
State’s Money
FIGHT IS NOT YET OVER
Drys to Seek Repeal of Beer and
Wine Next Legislature
Robert R. Reynolds veteran
stumper for the cause of the re
peal of the 18th amendment, in re
viewing the results of Tuesday’s
election called attention to the add
ed responsibility placed on the shoul
ders of North Carolinians inasmuch
as 'they refused to sanction the wet
cause.
The 18th amendment has met
with the approval of the people of
North Carolina and yet it will be
impossible for the government of
the state to keep faith with those
who voted in its favor. Bordering
states are in a position to supply
North Carolina with all the liquor
needed and in order to keep them
from doing just that it will be
necessary for the state to increase
its expenditures for maintenance
of prohibition officers. This will
necessitate increased taxes for this
purpose in addition to losing vast
sums of revenue that is being gain
ed by other states through the sale
of liquors. Reynolds seriously
doubts that the taxpayers of the
state will be able to stand the
strain of the extra taxes.
The d.rys still with the taste of
victory will not be ldng in seeing
the above statements become a
fact asserted one wet champion.
The drys in return let it be known
that they were not yet through
handing out defeats and will press
on for the repeal of the beer bill
in the next legislature.
In conclusion Reynolds stated
that the repeal of the 18th amend
ment is a dead issue and "that we
must face, and face courageously,
the liquor problem as it applies sole
ly to our own state.”
False Alarm
The Salisbury fire department
answered a call last night at 6:30
p. m. to box 59.
When they arrived they found
a cozy fire burning in the fire place
in the ladies’ parlor of the First
Methodist church. The reflection
through the frosted glass gave the
room the appearance of being on
fire.
No one could blame the ladies
for having a fire in the proper
place.
j Young Caruso Sings j
Enrico Caruso Jr., above, son of
lie late famous opera tenor, has been
given a leading song role in a
'punish production . . . and if sue"
• cssful he will be given English parts.
NEWS
^ BRIEFS
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FOIIS HOLDUP ATTEMPT
Marvin Woodlief, Raleigh news
paper subscription agent, foiled an
attempt at robbery by two white
men on a Henderson street. Wood
lief pulled his gun, shot three
times badly wounded one of his as
sailants and put the other to flight.
Jimmy Jackson was later found be
hind a hedge 'with wounds in body
and arm. He admitted his part in
the attempt.
FATAL SHOOTING IN
ORANGE'COUNTY
Argument at the Orange county
home of Charles Albright ended in
Albright firing a shot at close range
into the body of William Horner,
3 1, instantly killing him. Albright
said Horner had refused to leave
the home.
BORAH OPPOSES "BUY NOW’’
The administ'ratin’s "buy now”
campaign "is nc<t progressing at
all; it is receding,” asserts Senator
Borah of Idaho. And to scc^a a
"brazen program of exploitation”
through high prices, he has gone
on record for restoration and en
forcement of the anti-trust laws.
JOHNSON SPEAKS FOR NRA
To stem a rising tide of farm
belt discontent with failure of crop
prices to rise under agricultural ad
ministration and NRA control,
General Hugh Johnson, NRA chief,
is this week *n a tour of middle
western cities to clear a Way oppo
sition and discontent. S- L
UNION SHERIFF IS ROBBED
A slick stranger last week rob
bed the safe in the office of the
sheriff of Union county, by getting
the deputy out of the office on a
ruse, and robbing the cash drawer
in the safe of $1,733. A telephone
call had asked the deputy to go to
a lavatory and search for a ring.
HELD FOR KIDNAP PLOT
John Lanier, 3$, is held by the
Winston-Salem police, as the con
fessed author of a crude plot to
extort $10,000 from R. J. Rey
nolds, Jr., tobacco millionaire un
der threat of kidnaping Reynolds’
young wife.
STRIKERS BACK IN COAL PITS
In peaceful contrast to the strife
of the last three months, western
Pennsylvania’s striking soft coal
miners have marched back to the
pits they deserted in a demand' for
union recognition. Ending a dead
lock which the Washington ad
ministration had viewed as a threat
to the entire national recovery pro
gram, some 10,000 men went back
to work in a drab, gray setting of
fog.
CHARLOTTE LAWYER KILLED
J. E. Woolard, 37, well-known
Charlotte lawyer of 609 East Tre
mont avenue, was almost instantly
killed when the automoble in which
he was riding with his wife was
struck by a car driven by Rich^td
L. Watts, 24,-of 429 East Boule
vard, at the intersection of Win
throp avenue and East Boulevard.
TEXAS GUINAN DEAD ’
Texas Guinan, the night club
queen, who was known best for her
unique contributions to. Broad
way’s vocabulary, died in a hospital
at Vancouver, B. C., of an intes
tinal illness.
FARMERS CALLED
TO STRIKE
Leaders of the National Farmers
Holiday association agricultural
strike ordered a major offensive, af
ter the federal administration re
jected their demands for'cost-of
productin farm prices.
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November j
iJEleventh:
X Armistice Day - - 1933 ★ !
sharp tuts In Kail systems
Offered In Merger Program
Thousands Would Lose Jobs Under
Plan Nou\, Be/n^ ^Studied By
j President R^,eielf.~^ >
Complete disappearance of doz
ens of railroad s^-Wns. including
the Reading; clossilg of railroad
shops and yards in scores of cities
; throughout the country, and re
inieval of some 300,000 railroad
‘workers from their jobs are features
of a plan 5for railroad consolida
tions which has been submitted to
President Roosevelt. The President
is studying the plan, it is announc
ed, in connection with the general
‘proposals for effecting economies
j through railway mergers.
' The latest program, which is!
I known as the Prince plan, has as!
|its objective huge savings which;
jits sponsors say would earn profitsj
df half a billion dollars a year forj
i the railroads. Workers who lose
their jobs would be retired on part
pay for two years, during which
time efforts would be made to find
other employment for them.
Curtailment of railroad facili-!
ties, such as shops, yards, and
freight and passenger stations, is]
possible, it is asserted, because in
few instances are these facilities!
used to capacity. Curtailment of
such facilities is called for in vir-j
jtually every large railroad center, j
i The plan contemplates seven]
(systems for the nation. Two
! would be in the East, the first
i built around the New York .Central
[and the Pennsylvania, with 29,148
j miles of tracks; the second around
| the Baltimore and Ohio, Reading,
Central of New Jersey, and Nor
folk and Western, ^with 28,900
miles of tracks. The third syystem
would cover the Southeast, with
20,810 miles of tracks; the fourth,
the Mississippi Valley, with 20,810
miles of tracks; the fifth, the
Northwest, wtith 17,807 miles of
tracks; the sixth, the Central West,
with 3 3,513 miles of tracks, and
the seventh, the Southwest, with
27,513 miles of tracks. Chicago
and St. Loius terminal systems
would be jointly owned by all of
the lines.
COY INVITATION
He—It’s my ambition to become
a long-distance swimmer.
She—J wish you’d show me how
far away you can swim right now.
Body of Grady
Lentz Has Not
Been Located
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Continued attempts since Mon
day to locate the body of Grady
Lentz, who is thought to have
been drowned in the High Rock
lake, have not been successful.
Lentz, in the company of
Charles Lemly were out in a row
boat some time between Sunday
and Monday morning and it is
thought that in returning l)rom
the Davidson side of the lake that
the small boat in which they were
riding capsized.
POINT OF view
two Scots went to a variety
show in London. Being in fundss
that day, they took front seats.
During the magician’s turn one of
them was asked to go on the stage
to assist in a trick. On their
way home Jock, who had been on ■
the stage, said:
"Well, Augus, yon was a grand
magician.”
"Worst I’ve ever seen,” retorted
his friend.
"Maybe, maybe,’ said Jock. "But
I gave him a dud ten-shilling note
and he gave me a good one in re
turn.”
( New Mexico Senator
. Above is Senator Carl A. Hatch,
of New Mexico, newly appointed by
Governor Kockenhull to serve tke
term of Sam G. Bratton, who re
signed to accept a federal judgeship.
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GOOD
MORNING
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THE OLD REPROBATE
"Have you said your prayers,
Dickie?”
"Yes, mummie. I prayed for
you and dadldy, but not fdr Uncle
Tom, because I heard daddy say he
was past praying for.”
ELASTIC PRESCRIPTION
Doctor—I would advise you,
madam, to take frequent baths, gtt
plenty of fresh air and dress in
cool gowns.
Madam’s husband (an hour later)
—What did the doctor say?
Madam—He said I ought to go
to Palm Beach and then to f?Ss
mountains and that I must get some
new night gowns at once.
EASY TO PLEASE
"Percy seems to be pretty well
satisfied with himself.”
"Well, Percy never was very se
lect in his tastes.”
EASY
A doctor was examining a man
ivho had come to him for the first
:ime. Satisfied at last, the doctor
ooked at him gravely, "You are
n bad shape,” he said. "What you'
aeed is a sea voyage. Can you1
manage it?” ,
"Sure, easy,” replied the patient.
'I’m second mate on the Anna
Marie, just in from Hongkong.”
iHE’S WORRIED
Wifey—Frederick, can you tell
tne where you were in 1920?
Frederick—-No. Why?
Wey—\TelI, Tm worried. I
just read that in 1920 one person
out of every 750 was in prison.
QUITE RIGHT
Bonnie—Let me shake yc'ur
band. This is one of the happiest
Jays of your life.
Trollie—You’re too precious, my
friend, I’m not to be married ’till
"omorrow.
Bonnie—That’s what I say.
This is going to be the happiest
Jay of your life.
NO GOOD JOKES
"What do you think of the.
Museum of Art?”
"Oh. the pictures are good?
enough, but there ain’t no good
jokes in under them.”
BITTER MEDICINE
"So the specialist put restrictions
an you, did he? Which of the
:hings he made you give up do you
niss most?”
"The $25 he charged me.”
Federal Aid
Promised To
Dry States ’
REPEAL ON DECEMBER 5 TH
Wet States Have No Uniform
System Of Liquor
Control
Federal attention is being turned
to the liquor traffic problem since
37 states have voted to take the
18 th amendment from the con
stitution.
Along with the repeal of the
Volstead act a program of tax
legislation will be submitted to
congress to permit sale of distil
lates in the District of Columbia
and territories.
Plans to protect the dry states
will be considered, the result of
which may revive the custom of
sending prohibition officers to the
moonshine areas similar to the reve-*
nue agents of pre-prohibition times.
Objective of the program are
temperance and methods of dis
pensing alcoholic drinks without
the return of the old-time saloon.
In addition steps are to be' taken
through the coast guard' to pre
vent smuggling of foreign liquor
across the eastern and southern
coasts where rum fleets are re
ported concentrated in a move to
vad th $5 a gallon import tax.
The house ways and means com
mittee will open hearings on liquor
taxation .legislation November 27
to prepare a bill for early congres
sional action in January. Nobody
yet knows, of course, howl much
money the taxes will raise.
The present tax is $1.10 a gal
lon oln whisky, gins and brandies^
Although it has been predicted that
this will be increased to as high
as $3 a gallon, members of a sub
committee studying the question
claim it will not exceed $2.20.
They say a higher tax might en
courage the bootlegger to con
tinue in his business.
DENY MAMMOTH HOT
SPRINGS DRYING UP
Yellowstone Parit, Wyo.—Visi
tors to Yellowstone National Park
who insist that the hot springs in
the Mammoth area are drying up
are mistaken George C. Crowe, as
sistant park naturalist declared.
The fact that the hot waters
change their outlets frequently and
suddenly, at times, could account
for the impression of "drying up,”'
Crowe explained.
ANNUAL RED CROSS
ROLL CALL NOV. 21
Preparations for the annual Red
Cross membership roll call are tak
ing definite shape for the canvass
which will be held in Rowan coun
ty Tuesday and Wednesday, No
vember 21 and1 22. At that time
the residential, business and rural
sections will be canvassed in a con
centrated drive.
P. N. Peacock has been a pointed
chairman of the County organiza
tion and P^ul Phillips as publicity
director. The Samuel C. Hart post
of the American legion will have
charge of the canvass in the busi
ness district. For the first time
in many years a thorough canvass
of the rural sections 0(f the county
will be conducted.
A goal of 1,000 members has
been set by the local committees
and every effort is to be bended to
attain this end. Last year the local
unit only enrolled 241 members and
received $305 in funds.
The first obligation of the Red
Cross is to the ex-service men and
their families, but last year in ad
dition to the calls for aid made by
the ex-service men 3,000 families
have been aided and approximately
$10,000 worth of flour and $10,
000 in materials have been con
sumed in the county. This money
was received from the national
headquarters.
Spencer and East Spncer will
conduct their own roll call as has
been the custom in previous years.
The North Carolina goal is 41,
000 members for the coming year.
During the past year national head
quarters spent more than $40,000
for relief among the destitute in the
storm areas of the state.
The Watchrftan has been chosen
as the newspaper in Rowan county
to carry the Red Cross section sup
plied to the various papers through
out the United States. Elsewhere
in The Watchman a section show
ing the work of the Red Cross in
many of its phases will be found.