WASHINGTON
Washington—As the farm wif<
says at preserving time, the Presi
dent’s program is beginning ' t<
"jell.” A lot of the froth, in thi
shape of wild doctrines and lcos<
talk, has been skimmed off anc
what was fluid and formless les:
two or three weeks ago is begin
ning to assume shape and some
thing resembling solidity.
. What the mass needed was pec
tin. Anvone who doesn’t know
what pectin is had beter talk tc
some housew'ife who has tried’ tc
make jelly without it. And tht
pecun in this instance, the precipt
ant that started things to settling
down, came from two sources out
side the Administration circles,
One was Henry Ford and one was
Gerard Swope.
Ford, as everyone knows, re
fused to sign the Blue Eagle Code.
He also refused to join the Na
tional Automobile Chamber ol
Commerce, which is the trade as
sociation set up for the automotive
industries under the Recovery Act,
General Johnson threatened and
fumed. He expressed the idea the
public would "crack-down” on
Henri' for what semed to him some
thing like treason. He even swap
ped his official Lincoln ca'r for a
Cadillac, because Ford owns the
Lincoln company. He tried to get
a Ford dealer’s bid for trucks re
jected by the Army, even though
it was the lowest bid. It looked
like hard sledding for Henry, to
hear the General tell it.
The Showdown
Then all of a sudden, it turned
out that Henry Ford had been
right and General Johnson wrong,
all the time. Henry hasn’t signed
the Blue Eagle agreement, but the
high legal officials of the Admin
istration are agreed that he doesn’t
have to if he doesn’t want to, nor
does anyone else have to. It is
purely voluntary agreement.
i\eitner does ne have to join the
Trade Association of his industry.
That, again, is -a matter of choice.
All Henry has to do, it turns out,I
is to pay wages as high as the
minimum set forth in the code,
work as short hours as the code
calls for, and let his employees
baragin with him collectively.
It has been acceded from the
state that Henry was okay on hours
and wages, but the Federation of
Labor thought they had him on
the collective bargaining proposi
iton. Hadn’t there been strikes at
his Edgewater plant and elsewhere?
Weren’t a lot of Ford men out?
Where did collective bargaining
come-in?
The Labor Administration in
vestigated and gave Henry a clean
bill of health. There never had
been any objection raised to Ford
employees acting as a unit in a de
mand for different working con
ditions. They had demanded and
Ford had refused. He had made
an offer and they had refused it.
And Senator Wagner, spokesman
for Labor, had to admit that there
was nothing in the law to compel
-any employer to agree to the col
lective demands of his workers, any
more than the workers could be
compelled to accept any proposal
-rhev didn’t, like, from the emnlover.
Labor Also Learns
That, in effect, was a swat in the
eye for the Federation of Labor
leaders who have been proclaiming
from the rooftops that the Recov
ery Act is their meat. They were
going right out and organize every
body into unions. For that mat
ter, nothing is stopping them ex
cept the fact that in the manufac
turing industries most of the big
companies have beaten them to it
and have encouraged company
unions, which are functioning with
out the aid of the Federation.
The Forcf episode and: its outcome
have gone a long way to dispel
some of the genuine fears of indus
trial and business leaders. It is
clear now that nobody has to sign
any of his rights away or disclose
trade secrets to his business rivals,
so long as he adheres to the funda
mental provisions of the Recovery
Act. And it is clear that business
is not going to be turned over in
va block to the Federation of La
bor, which is what more business
men feared than any (other one
thing; except, perhaps, the fear of
Federal snoopers prying around
their shops and telling them how
to run their business.
And there is where Gerard
Swope came in. Mr. Swope is
President of the General Electric
Company. He has been serving as
an unpaid adviser on General John
son’s staff at Washington. After
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i FOUNDED 1832—101ST YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1933. " VOL 101 NO. 16. PRICE 2 CENTS
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_anizer
Refuseu ^
Listen or Tc
Leave Town
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i Says ”Manufacturers Age/its” Mad
j Strong Threats And Ordered
Him to Leave Toun.
GOV. IS INVESTIGATING
j Officers Guard Him For Shor
Time—But Later Disap
pears.
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; Clyde Munn, organizer for th
j American Federation of Hosier
j Workers, stationed at Hickorv tern
! porarily said he had been threaten
ied by "manufacturers’ agents’
1 two of whom he recognized, be
: cause cf his activities in this area
| Munn said three men approachei
him and "made strong threats an<
| told me to leave town, but the
jdid not say what they would d<
if I stayed here.”
j The hosiery organizer, who ha
been in Hickory three weeks fo
the purpose, he said of organizing
workers and checking up on alleg
ed NRA violators, said he had nc
11ILCIUIUI1 Wi ICJVlUg LX1C UIV.
He said a police guard was as
signed to him but only for a shore
time—the officer "caii’t be seen
around here."
Munn said the three men met
him on the street and attempted
to draw him into an argument.
"I walked away from them,” h<
said, “and came cm to the hote
where I’m staying. They thet
telephoned me and told me to gc
out of town. I hung up on them
This morning they told me the;
had given me a chance to leav<
and that they were watching th
bus station."
Munn said the men were no
workers but apparently represents
manufacturers. He said he plan
ned no legal action immediately
preferring to wait "to see wha
happens.”
Munn telephoned his headquarter
in Philadelphia and comunicatec
with them again. The headquar
ters, in turn, informed Governo
Ehringhaus of the affair, and th
governor fcaid he was “looking int<
the matter.”
Four New Rulings
On Sales Tax Made
Raleigh—Four new sales tax rul
ings have been adopted by the sale
tax division of the department o:
revenue. Harry McMullen, director
announces.
Ruling No. 27 holds that :
manufacturer who has a retail placi
for his product in his manufactur
ing plant and sells such product
in competition with local retailers
is liable for the 3 per cent sale:
tax on such retail sales. This ap'
plies to ice cream plants, bakeries
florists, mixed feed makers and th<
like.
Ruling No. 28 places the sale o!
personal tangible property by opto
metrists, opticians, oculists,. ey<
physicians, etc., of lenses, frame:
eye glasses, false eyes, etc. are sub
ject to the 3 per cent sales tax.
Ruling 29 holds that sale of cot
tonseed by cotton gins and other:
who are not the producers sold foi
processing or manufacture, ar<
classed as wholesale sales, and ar<
taxable at the wholesale rate, bui
sales of cottonseed or cotton by th<
producer are exempt from any kinc
of sales tax. y
Ruling No. 30 holds that deale\
in horses, mules cattle and othei
animals, when not sold by th«
breeders and are made to consum
ers and not for resale, are liable
for the 3 per cent sales tax, as be
ing sales of tangible personal prop
erty for consumption
I NEWS
BRIEFS
I-.!
3 NEW N. C. POSTOFFICES
In an allotment of $16,679,675
I for new public buildings the public
1 works department has included
$50,600 for a postoffice at North
,, Wilkes boro, $60,500 for one at
Pinehurst and $5 5,000 for one at
Asheboro.
HEADS COLLEGE GROUP
Dr. Frazer Hood, of Davidson
?! coliege, ■was elected president of
j the North Carolina College confer
ence at the annual meeting held in
j Greensboro.
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' DEVELOP LINCOLN
.j TIN MINE
.1 U. S. James, of Newark, N. J.,
• is planning to begin on a large scale
. mining of tin ore in Lincoln
county in the near future. It will
| be the only large operation of the
| kind in the country.
, DRIVER IS HELD
j AFTER BLOW-OUT
J Miss Louise Burton, 16, was fa
. tally injured near Lewisville when
. a tire blew out, throwing her car
from the road. Clyide (Sprinkle,
t driver, was held under $1,000 bond
charged with manslaughter.
STATESVILLE COUPLE
KILLED IN WRECK
J. H. Bagwell, 24, and Miss
Stella Sentell, 19, of Statesville were;
killed when their auto wrecked'
near Shelby. They were among aj
party of young people enroute to
Gaffney, S. C., for the week-end.
i Two others were injured.
STATE LEADS IN
TOBACCO
The federal crop reporting
[; boards estimates tobacco produc
i tion in the country this year at
11,408,000,000 pounds, some 400,
j; 000,000 pounds over last year.
'North Carolina leads with 52 5,604,
000 pounds, Kentucky coming
second with 371,153,000 pounds.
j 3 VICTIMS OF MILK POISON
t; James Harrison, eight, is dead,
I and his little brother and sister
■ seriously ill at their home near
■ Rutherfordton from effects of milk
: poisoning, cause of which has not
i been ascertained.
!HITLER SWEEPS GERMANY
I In the largest vote in the history!
jof Germany, Chancellor Hitler on'
I Sunday won the overwhelming1
j support of the people. Nazi can
didates for the Reichstag got over
90 per cent of the vote.
LICENSE LIQUOR INDUSTRY
Under repeal, the federal gov
j eminent is to retain strict control
i of the distilling industry through
' licensing powers and through en
forcement of a code for all distill
ling plants.
NEWSPAPER PLANT BOMBED
J Racketeers in Mansfield, Ohio,!
,! struck back at a newspaper which
' has consistently crusaded against
J them, by a bomb attack Sunday
i/norning. Hurled explosives tore
| up the mailing room of the News
'j Journal. None was injured.
13 BRUTAL KILLINGS
Beaten to death with a heavy
| blunt instrument, William Milikin.
j 7 8 was found dying outside his
.store near Raleigh. Two negroes
; are held as suspects. Robbery was
. the motive for the crime. Six miles
| from Jackson, the de^d body of J.
E. Hedspeth, farm overseer was
found. He had been riddled with
| shotgunf ire. A negro of the
neighborhood was jailed in another
county. Ed Cox, proprietor of a
Mt. Airy filling station, is held as
the confessed slayer of Harrison
Ashburn, 30. Cox fired on two
men as they sat in a car, killing
Ashburn outright and badly
(wounding Parley Combs.
Barmaids and Cocktails After Repeal
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Gone, seemingly forever, are the oldtime bartenders with oiled hair and
waxed mustache. Instead, when repeal becomes effective, will be American
barmaids, a la’ British system. Above is shown a class of girls being taught
the art of bartending and cocktail mixing at the Bartender’s Institute in
New York.
Sales Tax Is Driving Many
Merchants Out of Business
In N. Declares Leonard
People Crossing State Line in Forty
Counties to Buy Necessities,
He Says.
The sales tax law is driving many
merchants out of business in the
counties of the state which border
on other states, declared J. Paul
Leonard, executive secretary of the
North Carolina Fair Tax associa
tion in an interview with a repre
sentative of the Lincolnton Times,
recently. Protests against the new
revenue tax are increasing daily
throughout the state, he said.
"There are 40 counties in North
Carolina which border on other
states, and great numbers of our
citizens are driving across the state
lines to do their trading in states
where there is no sales tax. This
discouraging result of the sales tax
does not affect the merchants of in
land counties, but it is forcing
many in the border counties to
close their doors. In some instances
merchants just across the border
in ocner scares arc sdiicicing orders
in North Carolina and delivering
them in trucks, tax free. As an-j
other instance, I have a report from
one large buyer who each week
drives all the way across two
counties to buy fetodstuffs and
other necessities in a state where
there is no tax. There simply is
no justice in a tax which takes'
business away from home.”
Mr. Leonard also said that the
mail order business in this state
had greatly increased since the
sales tax went into effect. "Gov-j
ernment money orders and bank
checks prove this,” he said, as he
cited authoritative information. "I
have reports that a large number;
of the citizens of Governor Eh- (
ringhaus’ own home town—Eliz-i
abeth City—are driving up to Nor-'
folk to do their shopping. And
tlje same is true of others who live
near the state lines. In addition to
the saving of the* sales tax, the!
people are doing this as a protes
against a law winch taxes the foot
they eat, the clothes they wear am
the other necessities of life. The]
do not think this is right, and th<
protest they are registering is se
riously impairing business in man]
counties.”
Mr. Leonard took occasion tc
spike reports that the organizatior
he represents favors a tax on lane
to supplant the sales tax. "This
report which has been spread is not
true,” he said. |'On August 10,
the North Carolina Fair Tax asso
ciation adopted a resolution oppos
ing any further tax on land, and
this resolution is displayed on the
organization’s stationery. 'Resolved,
That the North Carolina Fair Tax
association does hereby gd on record
as opposing any additional taxes on
land, but it does favor a reduction
in the cost of government and the
discouragement of further waste
and extravagance in the adminis
tration of public affairs, as indi
cated by the objects set forth in ir
charter.’ ”—Adopted August 10„
1933.
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* MANAGING EDITOR ILL *
* The Watchman regrets to *
* note the illness of its Manag
* ing editor, Mr. A. R. Monroe, *
* who is confined to his home *
* on West Council Street, and *
* we ask our readers to overlook *
* any short comings or omis- *
* sions in this weeks paper. Mr. *
* Monroe expects to be back at *
* his post on Monday of next *
* week. *
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First little girl—"Has your sis
ter begun takin’ music lessons
yet?”
Second little girl—"She’s takin’
somethin’ on the piano, but I can’t
tell yet whether it’s music or type
writin.”
Do You Know The Answer?
Confirmed on page eight
1— What is papyrus?
2— Who are *the Uslulness?
3— What does the slang term
"jinx” mean?
4— Who was the author of "The
American Commonwealth?”
5— For what purpose did the U.
S. government employ the Levia
than?
6— What was the name of P. T.
Barnum’s most famdus circus ele
phant?
7— Which is colder, the North
Pole or the South Pole?
8— What name did the Mormons
give their new homeland in Utah?
9— What European explorer dis
covered the Philippine Islands?
10— Near which large city is
Bryn Mawr colleeg?
j GOOD
MORNING,
KNOWS TOO MUCH
I hear that the Spoopendifees
Have had a falling out. Is it one
of those cases where the wife didn’t
understand the husband?”
"No, it’s one of those cases where
she understood him so well that
she wouldn’t have anything to do
with him.'
GIVING ORDERS
"Yes.” said the meek little man
at the quick lunch counter. "I
cak,» my meals at a restaurant every
chance I get.”
"Prefer restaurafcit cooking to
the wife’s, eh” quered his friend.
"No, I can’t say that I do”, re
turned the meek little man, "but I
can give orders at a restaurant.”
SAFE
"So you were at the wedding.
Who gave the bride away?”
"Nobody said a word.”
GREASE IT UP
So you and those neighbors are
not on speaking terms any longer?”
"No. All diplomatic relations
have been suspended.’
"How did that come about?”
He sent me a box of axle grease
and told me to use some of it on
my lawn-motwer when I starter^ at
, «ix in the morning.”
Well! What then?”
■ 'Then I sent it back and tolc
him to use some of it on his daugh
ter s voice when she sings at 11
o’clock at night.”
A DOZEN GOAT GETTERS
1— The man who tells me, "]
have paid everybody but you.”
2— The guy in front of me at a
traffic light who uses up a minute
or two getting started after green
flashes on.
3— The friend who unintention
ally (but persistently) blows all of
his cigar smoke right kerdab in my
face at a luncheon or something.
4— The damsel that runs her
fingers up and down my vest but
tons when my wife is with me and
occasionally flips some dandruff
ioff my collar.
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5— The fellow who always says,
"That’s too high; I’ve got you
beat," And if he were to buy any
thing, he’d want it on credit.
6— The hired servant who alibis’
by ’lowing: "I was just thinking
about that, I will do it tomorrow.”
7— The bare-headed type of an
imal life that scratches a match
on the piano and grinds up his
cigarette stub on the rug—with
his installment shoes.
8— The former customer who
comes back at you with: "I will
try to help you a little next
month. I can’t pay you anything
now.” Help me. Ouch!
9— The runt who rushes past
me at 5 5 miles per hour and turns
into his own home only 50 yards
further up.
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10— The bone-hea3 who toots
his horn behind me when 3 other
cars in front of me have choked j
down.
11— The butcherman who sells!
me one of his hands every time Ij
buy a piece of beef, but keeps the |
hand and hand's me the beef. Ij
wouldn’t mind it so much if he’d
cut the hand off and let me throw
it away for the benefit of human
ity
12— The loafer who explains
how he lost $1,000.00 during the
depression but never thinks" to tell
vhose money it was that he lost. |
Federal Aid
Now Ready
For N. Car.
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Washington Conference Act's to
Speed Up Program to Aid
U nemployment
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FIX 40 PER CENT PAY SCALE
Persons Carried on Relief Rolls Are
To Be Used On Public Works
It Is Stated.
Ten million dollars will be spent
in North Carolina' February 1 oh
public improvements chiefly in
municipalities to take needy from
the public relief rolls, it was esti
mated by the North Carolina dele
gation who were in Washington to
attend the President’s civil works
relief administration conference,
i The conference was the outcome
of bitter complaints that have
been reaching the White House
from all parts of the country that
although state highway commis
sions and the public works admin
i istfation btvc mllljniy -t ipfnj q£
i the three billion and three hundred
million dollars appropriated under
the industrial recovery act, govern
ment red tape has the money so
i up it is not reaching the needy
for whom intended. The Presi
dent called the conference to meet
this emergency and put four to
jsix million people to work at once
.with an expenditure of four hund
jrea million dollars with North
Carolina’s share at ten million.
The work in North Carolina is
to be directed by Mrs. Thos. O’
Berry and applying the plan to
Salisbury and Rowan county for
example, people now being carried
on the relief rolls will be put to
work on secondary public roads,
cleaning and improving streets,
also given employment on county,
state and municipal buildings at
government expense and with no
provision for the government being
reimbursed. *
It was pointed out that the task
which would start Monday would
be easily handled in North Caro- -
lina because when former Governor
Gardner inaugurated state relief un
der Dr. F. W. Morrison instead of
placing needy on'-the public dole a
plan was worked out, still in effect,
which wovld be continued.
Max L. Barker
Passes Away
Veteran of Two Wars—and Well
Known Citizen Succumbs to
Pneumonia At Home Here.
Major Max L. Barker, 52, vet
eran of two wars and prominent
in the affairs of veterans’ organi
zations, died-at his home here on
West Liberty Street, Monday night
of pneumonia.
Major Barker, as a youth of 17.
served in Cuba in the Spanish
American war and went overseas
with the 81st division"during the
World war with the rank of major.
He was a former member of the
city council, and from 1920 to
1928 was register of deeds in Row
in county, rrom lyuu to iyi/
be was connected with the South
;rn railway offices at Spencer, and
after the late war he resumed his
connection with the railroad.
He is survived by his wife, aged
mother and a number of children.
Funeral services were conducted
froim the First Presbyterian church
Wednesday afternoon.