Carolina Watchman
Published Every Friday
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SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA
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ANYWAY, 1934 WILL BE
DIFFERENT
Looking back on 1933, it has
been in many important respects
the most interesting year since the
end of the War. Beyond doubt
the forces which have been set in
motion during the year will prove
to be of the greatest importance to
everybody, althougn we think it
is too early for anyone to speak
with assurance as to what their end '
results will be. We can safely say,1
however, that radical changes in
the economic and social life of our
own people and of those of many
other countries have been inaugu
rated.
Even to mention the high spots
of the year’s events would take
columns of type. Beginning with
the inauguration of President
Roosevelt, simultaneously with the
Bank Holiday and the Gold Em
bargo, events have happened so
swiftly that they trod on one an-!
other’s heels. We had the great
pieces’**.*, legislation by Congress,!
establishing the^Agricultural Relief
program, the Industrial Recovery'
Act, the Bank Deposit Insurance
Act and giving to the President un-:
exampled power. Then the Blue1
l.ii* 1 r i'
J_.«tglCT W do ilcl LV^IICU 111 LHC 11C3L Lit I
the NRA, the Public Works Ad
ministration was set up, followed
by the Civilian Conservation
Camps and the Civil Works Ad-'
minstration. in the effort to start
money to circulating and get busi
ness back to something like normal.
And those are only a few of the
events for which 193 3 will be re
membered.
In international affairs, beyond
doubt the most important thing
was America’s abandonment of the'
gold standard, though the most
spectacular event with which we
■were concerned was our recogni
tion of the Union of Soviet Social
ist Republics, otherwise Russia.
And in Europe itself the outsand-|
kg event was the seizure of the
government of Germany by Hitler
and his superiors.
■ We doubt whether 1934 will
produce any such list of spectacu-|
lar events. We don’t care if iti
doesn’t. We only hope—and ex
pect—that it will be a better for!
business, for agriculture, for indus
try. We are sure only of one thing
about it—it will be different. i
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NATION NEEDS REAL TEM
PERENCE
In a recent statement to the
jpress, Seton Porter, president of
National Distillers’ Products Cor
poration, said that his org: nization
would stand for temperanc: as op
posed to excess, and added, "We
dearly recognize that the American
people are not voting liquor in;
they are voting prohibition out.”
The eighteenth amendment was
aot repealed in order to provide the
means for a legal national drunk—
it was repealed because the great
bulk of American citizens had come
to believe that it was inimical t<>
the cause of temperance. They
had seen political corruption arist
under it, 'which was as bad and
often worse than that of the old
days. They had seen an unpre
cedented increase in came, made
possible by the vast amounts of
money that illegal liqutv; brought
into underworld pockets. They
had seen the speakeasy flourish, to
the point, where, in most large
cities, it ran almost as openly as
the legal saloon once did, and was
even less subject to social control.
The National Distillers have
been running newspaper advertise
ments asking the public to coop
erate with the manufacturers and
sellers of liquor to prevent rowdy
ism and to promote common .• rise.
If the public fails in that, or if the
liauor manufacturers al;d Allers
fail in their duty of keeping the
goal of temperance everlastingly,
in mind, repeal of prohibition will
be a poor victory indeed. The
solid citizens of this country de
mand that the age-old alliance be
tween politics and liquor be broken
that the law control the li pior
business and not the liquor business
the law. Every patrioti. and
thoughtful manufacturer should be
the first to echo those demands—
every retailer should work to c ’ep
his end of the business above re
proach.
Th United States has tried
'wide open” liquor policies, and
they have failed. It has tried ab
lolutc prohibition, and it has fail
'd. Now it is attempting tOj
teer a middle course that avoids,
ixcess on the one hand and fanati-j
:ism on the other. Whether it is
o fail or succeed depands on thei
lublic, which decides all great
juestions.
BORAH ON SILVER
Recently the editor of the Hai-|
ey, Idaho, Times asked Senator^
3crah to define his positoin on
iilver. In reply, Mr. Borah said:
"It may be that we shall find
:hat the amount of currency infla
tion we require to; substantially
extinguish the existing party be
tween farm products and finished
goods should be in the form of sil
ver certificates, backed by some de
finite percentage of silver at a fixed
ar flexible ratio with gold . . .
"As between the alternative of
aeriodic retirement of new treasury,
rotes and the permanent use of,
:ilver harnessed with gold, I ant
aow heartily in agreement with the
aroposition that the latter plan, if
idopted by our government, would
aecome a compelling factor in
idopting the principle as inclusive
n a world monetary stabilization
plan ...
Among other universal benetitsj
>uch a consumption would, to al
most astronomical figures, revitalize
>ur export trade with three-fifths
>f the people of the world.”
There is growing sentiment,
imong business men and among
public men of all parties and
ichools of thought, that general de
pression and the depressed price of
iilver are strongly related, and that
svidespread recovery must be ac
tompanied by some plan to mone
tize and revalue silver. Its col
apse was accompanied by what
imounts to virtual elimination of
jur foreign trade. Few national
md international problems are so
vital—none requires more expert
md unbiased study.
—Buy in Salisbury—
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ticket ageuT at the bus
STATIOM IS A FUUUY UTtLE
. fellow,-he's omlv
’Bout Vuee"- High to
am automobile ..
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IT WOULD do us a lot of good to
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MENTION A name or two today,
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AND THE temptation is great,
BUT IT JUST can’t'be done.
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HOWEVER, IT should not be very
MUCH TROUBLE for all our
READERS right here in Salisbury
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TO NAME this couple right
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QUICK. "You have kept
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MY NOSE to the grindstone for 40
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YEARS”, PROTESTED this
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HUSBAND. "I’VE done more
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THAN THAT”, snapped the wife.
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"I’VE MADE you turn the
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GRINDSTONE.”
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I THANK YOU.
NEW BRAND
Added to the brands of spirits is
"liquor in transit."
—Winston-Salem Journal.
HANDLING TROUBLE
Belvin Beck, who was detained,
for some time from a duck shoot-|
ing trip to Eastern Carolina on ac-j
count of Madam Trouble, at last
solved difficulties and made the]
trip. He took the madam with!
him!
—Dai id Sink in the Lexington Dis
patch.
CONVINCING EVIDENCE
Kids are forever getting into
mischief. But it ceases to be fun
ny when one breaks a half dozen:
eggs on the front scat of your au
tomobile. If you are not convinc-j
ed, our son can furnish references
as a convincer.
—Grab Bag in Elkin Tribun. i
OLD-TIME CHRISTMAS
"When 1 was a child living in'
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the country,” remarked an elderly,
Concord woman to us the other;
day, "Santa Claus didn’t bring me
the kind of things children get;
now. Sure, I hung up my stocking
but Santa didn’t fill it with toys.1
Instead it was filled with an orange
or two, an apple and a big stick of,
red candy. None of the country;
children received many trinkets, in-j
stead a bit of fruit and candy and
maybe a handkerchief.’
—Radio in Concord Tribune.j
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BROWN HIS WEAKNESS
Mr. M. Hendrick has an habitual
choice for brown—brown hats
suits and shoes. Your scribbler is
addicted to brown outfits.
—E. C. Thompson in Forest City
Courier.
LEAVING NONE TO MOURN
Technocracy, like those whom
the gods love, died young.
—Spflrtanburg Journal
ATTA GIRL!
In the "superlatives” vote last
week by the students of N. C. C.
W., appears Patty I.eak, to repre
sent charm. Culture, grace and
beauty could just as easily been
voted her.
—Rockingham Post-Dispatch.
ADD: XMAS OPPORTUNITIES
There have been many large hogs:
hogs killed in our community in]
the past few days. Ernest Koontz
killed two large hogs Monday.
Columbus Weaver also killed two
fine hogs Monday. Emery Byerly
butchered one of the largest hogs
that has been killed in our com
munity, Tuesday.' It weighed
around 500 pounds.
—Reedy Fork correspondence, Lex
ington Dispatch.
HERE’S HOPING THERE’S
CFIJTLUNS FOR CHRISTMAS
Well, ye scribe failed to get the
possum and turkey for Thanks
ving dinner, but we come pretty
lear—a duck from the Hon. Bill
'reese, an invite to dinner with the
Britains, a rabbit from Jerry, Je
■cme, and a pumpkin from Mrs.
rudson Corn. Pretty nice, eh?
EACE ON EARTH
There never was a time since the
angels sang on Judean hills "Peace
>n earth, good wiil to men,” when
that message is more needed than i
is today. The world has go-a
mad again in a mad race to built
bigger and bigger navi s. Japan
England, the United Slates ari<
Germany are struggling to set
which nation can build better in
struments of hell. The people o:
these countries cannot hear thi
angels sing. Their voices an
drowned out by the sound of tb
steel riveter and the furnace bias
of the cannon maker. And ye
if the nations are ever to know
peace it will be by listening to tin
voice cf the One whose birthdaj
the angels proclaimed and not bj
treaties arrived at through blood)
conquest. Two ihousand yean
ago He said 'put up thy sword
'They that live by the sword shal
die by the sword.” And the com
mon people heard him gladly anc
would hear Him today if it wen
not for the noise of the armament
maker. May there be a lull in th<
world’s noises, during the perioc
when people are celebrating the
birthday of the Prince of Peace
long eno-ugh to hear Ham say, "]
am the way.”
—Charity and Children
\MBUNQ
\QUND
JEW YORK
^ 41116*4 KENNY
The late Florenz Ziegfeld, thea
:rical producer, collected elephants,
ivory elephants, bronze elephants,
ill kinds of elephants. But they
ill had to have their trunks tuni
ng upward, for to Ziegfeld a
hooping Trunk Was anathema and
lad luck of the worst sort. It was
;aici that an elephant with a droop
ng trunk arriving as a gift would
rind its way out some nearby win
dow much more rapidly than it
altered.
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New York is not ill pent-house*
inti tenements. By no means.
Down in Gramercy Park section
: here are picturesque little old one
story bungalows sandwiched in be
tween immense apartment houses,
yet with gay awnings and brightly
painted shutters, many of them
still retain that delightful "old
New York" flavor that the sky
scraper development is slowly but
surely wiping out.
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According to the Manhattan tele
phone directory, Mickey Mouse
subscribes to a telephone at 729
seventh Avenue. His telephone
number is Bllyant 9-4305, and the
voice that answers your call says
'Mickey Mouse.” . . . We are con
sidering writing a letter to the
New York Telephone Company
pointing out an error in listing.
3Ve think the listing should be un
Jer the surname, thus: Mouse,
Mickey . . . 729-7th . . . BRyant
5-4305.
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The more positive you are about
the correct, preferred pronuncia
tion of the following words, the
more urgently we suggest a refer
;nce to your dictionary: alternate
ly, banal, camellia, digitalis, gon
Jola, gratis, impious, misconstrue,
version. Correct pronunciations
svill be published in a succeeding
ssue of this column.
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If you have ever thought of
stamp collecting as mere child’s
day, take notice that the five day
tuction of Arthur Hind’s collec
tion at the Waldorf-Astoria rea
ized a total of $245,000 - . . No,
that’s no typographical error—two
hundred and forty-five thousand
dollars! And one stamp, a Balti
-nore, 10-cent stamp, black on thin
duish paper and affixed to the en
velope, brought $10,500. Yes, ten
thousand, five hundred.
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A cop to a negro standing in a
hallway with a suitcase.
Brown: What’s in that suit
case?
Allen: Clothes', boss. I ain’t
doin’ nothin’.
Brown: That’s a lot of baloney.
Allen: Mah goodness. How
did you know that?
Brown: Oh, so it is baloney, is
it? Open up.
And there, to the amazement of
the cop, was a full load of balogna
ialami and pastrami. Allen finally
tdmitted he had helped rob a deli
catessen on Pitkin Avenue, nearby.
■Y R LA I T "
"The Gno'J One"
aunderers and f’■ ,«?. •
me 24 ■ ! > v Rank s
Oxr Pay Si • .
i' RING IN THE NEW "
By Albert T. Reid I
fuZRCHAHT r.
manufacturer/
M T t T
Annuity Prize
Winners Announced
Atlanta, Ga.—In the issue of
next Sunday, Dec. 31st, the At
lanta Sunday American will publish
the names of the ten winners of the
Annuity prizes offered in the
American Weekly slogan compe
tition. These prizes range fromj
<1000 a year for life to $2 5 0.00 ai
year for five years.
The great value cf the prizes
and the simple nature of the con
test created unusual interest
throughout this section. An
nouncement of the winners has
been delat ed because of the deter
mination of the judges to give per
sonal consideration to every slogan
submitted. The demand for the
Atlanta Sunday American, Dec.
31 st, is certain to be unusually
1 heavy. Persons who entered the
j contest and others who wish to
I know who won the wonderful
prizes are urged to order in advance
through the local agent or dealer.
The Atlanta Sunday American is
sold in most of the better drug
stores and by boy salesmen and
local agents throughout the South
It is also found on all newsstands
The issue of Dec. 31st, goes on s'alc
Wednesday, Dec. 27th. Get youi
copy early.
LIQUID, TABLETS, SALVE,
NOSE DROPS
Checks Malaria in 3 days, Colds
first day. Headaches or Neural
gia in 30 minutes.
FINE LAXATIVE AND TONIC
Most Speedy Remedies Known.
Newsom & Co.
104% S. Main Street
Salisbury, N. C.
Expert Watch and Jewelry
Repairing
DR. N. C. LITTLE
Optometrist
Eyes examined and glasses fitted
Telephone 1571W.
107% S. Main Street
Next to Ketchie Barber Shop.
I
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Shoes rebuilt the better way.
All kinds of harness, trunk and j
suitcase repairing. :
FAYSSOUX’S PLACE
Phone 433 120 E. Innes St.
E. CARR CHOATE
DENTIST
Office in Mocksville first three
days of week; in Salisbury last
three days of week, over Pur
cell’s Drug Store, "On the
Square.”
RADIATOR LEAKS ARE
DANGER SIGNALS
When a leak appears in your
radiator, don’t delay repairs.
Delay may re
sult in expensive
damage to your
engine. Bring
your car to us
for immediate
attention. We
are r at diator
specialists. Re
pair leaks; Pre
f ■
VCJ1L VVCH1C41
ing! Furnish core replace
ments!
EAST SPENCER MOTOR CO.
THE CHRYSLER DEALER
IISS-J E»»* Spencer, N. C.
\/9i£liduit,
z
Hectic Excitement!
QN BOARD THE BYRD FLAG
SHIP JACOB RUPPERT, Oct.
12.—What a hectic time we are hav
ing and how tired I am! Here we
are on our great ship at Bayonne,
N. J. I can’t write it all out sen
sibly. I can only give you a few
hasty glimpses of the strange whirl
of events I am going through.
The arrival on board with my
luggage—in the rain. The howling
of 151 Eskimo dogs, some in cages,
the rest chained to everything
available on our steel decks—all of
them yelling their heads off. A dock
worker has made a mistake in
handling a big
valve and a lot of
dogs have been
deluged with oil.
Four veterinari
ans are working
over them now.
They are in a
lot of discomfort
but wonderfully
patient.
The shouts of
Commander * a •
G. O. Noviile hundreds u p o-n
hundreds of orange painted gaso
line drums. The piles of miscella
neous cargo. The boxes of oil.
Walking through the holds I see
strange sights — skiis, snowshoes,
immense piles of furs, queer look
ing little round stoves. (I'll tell
you some interesting things about
these later). The first welcome bell
for food after working all night.
Utter fatigue but no rest. Such is
the beginning of our great adven
ture.
I know the dangers of loading
this cargo. We are using the utmost
care in our inspection of each gaso
line drum to prevent a leaky one
from coming aboard. What leaking
gasoline could do to us is horrible
to contemplate. And here, over the
side, comes two tons of high ex
plosives, for blasting our way
through the ice of Antarctica. At
night, when I go to bed, I hope I
can forget that these things are on
board.
Already 1 am beginning to catch
what is known as the “Expedition
Spirit.” Everyone is tired. Every
one has more wor]t than he possibly
can do. But everybody is good
natured,, cooperative, sympathetic
It is this spirit and his wonderful
preliminary campaignvof prepara
tion which makes Admiral Byrd's
ventures so successful. Visitors ars
swarming over our ship—Colone
Huppert, one of our sponsors, grin
ning from ear to ear at the strange
sights, sounds and smells. A hun
dred newspaper men and wbmen
asking everybody innumerable
questions. Sound movie men trying
to get sensible interviews out »t
Commander Noville, my chief in
structor, and everybody else on
board. Tomorrow night we must
leave for Norfolk to start our 10,
000 mile trip to the bottom of the
world. Will we ever get all this,
stuff on the ship and all the visitors
oft?
And now we are getting our oil
and fuel aboard. That’s what I am
particularly interested in. We are
going to encounter variable wea j
ther conditions—temperatures that
will be 100 degrees Fahrenheit at.
the Equator and 70 to 80 degrees
below Zero in the Antarctic. I won
der how I’ll stand that cold! The
coldest I have ever been was one
night at Kent School when I flooded
the skating rink at 10 degrees be
low. They tell me that I can’t have
a bath all the time I am at Little
America—about 16 months — for
fear of opening the pores in a draft
and catching pneumonia. And the
drafts down there come from icy
gales which sometimes blow 15<*
miles an hour. We have to rub our
selves over with cold cream to keep
clean. This worries me.
With all these temperature
changes our engines—and what it 1
variety of them we have!—demand
a wide range of specially selected
fuels and lubricants. We are taking
on about 5,000 tons of fuel oil on
(the Jacob Ruppert alone. And 15,00<>
j gallons of aviation gasoline of
fighting grade, to say nothing of a
jfew thousand gallons of kerosene
land a staggering quantity of cylin
der oil, rod swabbing oil, aero
rocker arm grease and other things
to keep our many engines working
smoothly.
Have you Joined our club yet?
All you have to do is send me a
stamped, self-addressed envelope
addressed to Arthur Abele, Jr., Lit
tle America Aviation and Explora
tion Club, Hotel Lexington, 4Stli
Street and Lexington Avenue, Ne«
York, N. Y„ our American head
quarters, and I’ll send you a mem
bership card. Later I’ll see that you
jget a complete working map of the
j South Polar regions on which you
jean follow our aviation trips, snow
(mobile journeys, dog-sled dashes
land other adventures as 1 tell you
j about them in these weekly letter*