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isbury, N. C., under the act of
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The influence pf weekly news
papers on public opinion exceeds
that of all other publications in
the country.—Arthur Brisbane.
1 HE W A I (Jr 1'Ul.l 1
It is quite possible that Con
gressman Doughton’s fitnes for a
place on the tariff commission is
responsible for the mention of his
name in this connection and the
report that Mr. Roosevelt would
offer him the place. By study
and experience Mr. Doughton is
equipped to be a sturdy prop for
this important body.
But the chances are that his
ability for this place is not the
main reason for his proposed ad
vancement'. Once before he stood
in the path of those who would
hoist a sales tax onto the shoulders
of the American people^ Almost
alone he stood in the breach and
dec'r-ed "they shall not pass,” and
this (hard-fisted mountaineer had
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***•> wa/. . tiiciv was yciyic jxic wit)
advanced to the head of the pow
erful ways and means committee. |
NbWjthat dre turning
to the sales taflK^ource of "easy
money” that may be easily and free-'
lv s ierir, they find Bob Doughton in
their way again, and armed1 with
significant power as chairman of
the committee that will consider
this question. They propose to
kick him upstairs and out of the
way of their program of taxation. j
True, Mr. Roosevelt has not of-1
fered him the place, may not have
in mind to do so, but ambitious
politicians subtly have paved the
anu lvir. j^ougnton s irienas
in N^rth Carolina are deeply con
cerned that he stay where he is—
until they draft him for governor.
The Charlotte News, commeht
ing on the proposed placmnt of
i Congressman Doughton says:
( Stranger things have happen
ed, and Farmer Bob, a staunch old
dog, is slow at learning new tricks.
The administration’s willingness, if
any, to place at the head of the
ways and means committee a more 1
pliable personage is easily under-,
standable.
"But not the North Carolina
Congressman’s acceptance of such
a doubtful compliment. True, he
has b~en around Washington long
enough to know something aobut '
the tariff. He may also have
wearied of running for re-election 1
every two years, although it has
been long since he had to exert
himself. It does not follow, how
ever, thar he is to exchange his
hard-earned honors for a soft job
as lay figure.
"The tariff commission can
worry along very well, thank you,
without the services of a Tar Heel
mountaineer Congress can use the
hard head and robust back of
North Carolina’s foremost repre- r
sentative in the national legislature, f
"A good trader Mr. Doughton
has always been, but hardly the f
sort ,to exchange his birth-right t
and1 its increase for a mess of pat- 1
ronage pottage.” ic
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Thomas Jefferson said: >"I would t
rather five in a country with news
papers and without a government,
than in a country with a govern
ment, but without newspapers. ” jf
UAMJJi-lINVj Wiln DtAln
The wise buyer, unless he hap
pens to be a thoroughly qualified
Xpert in the field in which he is
making purchases, buys labels.
Hie buys a name which lie knows
tands for quality and integrity—
i reputation gained over many
rears through the production of an
article or a service of unvarying
.■xcellence.
That’s true of food products, of
dothes, of watches or automobiles
jr guns. We have learned1 that
it’s . usually better to pay a little
•nore, when that is necessary, to
get something we know to be the
best, than to buy something the
salesman represents as being "just
as good.” Most of us have had sad
experiences with products falling
in the later category. We have
iound them to be expensive at any
price.
what is true for the individual
buying clothing, is true for the
community buying fire protection.
The town buying an unknown
make of fire engine is courting dis
aster. It is taking a chance on
ruin. It is gambling with death,
if an engine fails at a crucial mo
ment, hundreds otf thousands of
dollars worth of property and irre
placeable lives may be destroyed.
Citizens and, taxpayers have a
very definite interest in seeing that
fire ■ departments are kept to the
highest standards, and equipped
with, engines whose names are the
irbiters of quality and service.
GOING TO BUY A NEW CAR?
Probably the most convincing
indication, to the man an the street,
that good times are rapidly on their
way back, is the brisk business that
is being done by the automobile
dealers and manufacturers. The
motor industry is once more boom
ing. People are buying cars at a
rate faster than for the past three
years. T]iis clearly indicates that
there is more money in the hands
'f the public to spend for some
hing besides food, clothing and
ihelter. It indicates, moreover, a
return or commence, ior people ao
not buy automobiles unless they
feel certain they, are going to be
able to meet the instalment pay-1
ments; or if they buy for cash, that
they are going to need the money
to keep their familes from starvingJ
The automobile has become a
necessity to millions of Americans.'
Since the motor car came into gen-j
^ '
:ral use, and the building of good
roads followed its general adop
:ion as a means of locomotion, our
svhole scheme of living has been
rhanged. Business centers have
greatly widened, the scope of their
trade, since people can now come
n rrom greater distances to trade
ind deliveries, can be made into'
ireas which were practically inac-j
:essible before. It is no longer
aecessary for people to live close
:o the places where they work. This
las resulted in the wide extension
>f residential districts, not only in
iuburbs of large citie but in a
»reat proportion of country towns
is well.
Instead of classing the automo
bile as a luxury, therefore, sane
hinkers now recognize it as a nec
ssity, and its maintenance and up
keep as an essential part of the
amily budget of the great majority
>f automobile owners. And the
aitomobiles which people are now
niying are mostly in this necessity ,
-lass. That is they are low in
>rice and economical in operation.
\Tever before have automobile with
n the reach of ordinary folks’
jocketbooks been so cheap to buy,
o attractive to look at, so com
ortable and safe to ride in, and so
conomical to operate.
SILVER AND P” OSP.
Proponents of monetization of
ijver are finding a steadily increas
lg number of allies among business
ten, economists, officials and the
ublic generally.
this would be an excellent time
or an unbiased survey of poten
ial legislation toward that end.
'he uncertain monetary question is
ne of the most perplexing prob
:ms of the time, and its early set
lement is vital to recover v.
"She’s a very nicely reared girl.”
"Yes. She looks good from the
ront too.”
THIS HAPPENED several years
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AGO RIGHT here in Salisbury
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AND WE can prove it but won’t.
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A CERTAIN couple out in the
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COUNTRY HAD agreed to
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BUY AN adjoining farm
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FOF tl ^ OHO anA flipv wpnt to i
TOWN TO conclude the deal.
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THEY ENTERED one of the
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BANKS CARRYING a battered'
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TIN MILK bucket
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WITH A lid on it. When it came
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TIME TO pay, the man took the
si si si
LID OFF the bucket and began to
COUNT OUT the cash. When he
:j. :• sj.
t> r? a rLiEn thjt: . c _
BUCKET, IT was plain to see that
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HE WAS very much disturbed.
"WHY THERE’S only $11,000
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HERE,” HE said. His wife, too,
;!•
BECAME VERY much alarmed,
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BUT SUDDENLY her face
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CLEARED UP. "Oh, papa,”
S> si- »
SHE EXPLAINED,” you brought
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THE WRONG bucket.”
si- Si- Si
I THANK YOU.
MAYBE HE COULD TRADE
WITH A TWO-COAT SUIT
FELIOW 1
Talk about hard luck. I had it.
I bought a two-pants suit during
Christmas and burnt a hole in my
coat.
—Roy Griffin in The Franklin
Press.
QUOTALESS BERKELEY
Australians are wrathful because
the United States fixed no quota
for imports of their wines, but how,
are they worse off than the makers
of Berkeley corn?
—The Charleston Post.
TELLING A COLT’S AGE
BY IT’S TEETH
"My stock of jokes is running
low ana i must ao sometning aDoutj
it,” observed Hunter Ellington,
Wakes’s Register of Deeds in tell
ing of a new duty assigned him asj1
iispenser of marriage licenses. "I|1
received a letter sometime ago from !
i mother, requesting that -I see to
t that her daughter’s sweetheart 1
lot be given a license if he applied, 1
is the girl was under age. The 1
nother said I could identify the
ming man by several broken front .
eeth. Every time a likely-looking
■ outli comes in for a license, I have
:o tell him a joke in order to deter
nine -whether he is the man. This
ob calls for more talent than some -
oiks think.”
—Item in The Raleigh News and :
Observer.
OOUPLE OF REPUBLICANS
•OUND, NAME OF EUREKA
"Eureka! Eureka!” cried John
Vforehead, excitedly, one day las
eek, and ten thousand people <
AINT MO PESSIMIST
BUT ILL BET ZEVE
HoPOESOU WILL MAKE
MOJLE. MOUEV OOTTA
the uquor. Business
THAU |U lT»
'
main street stoppea in men traCfcs
and craned their necks to see whJt
had happened to cause this outburst
jf excitement. "What’s the mat
er with you, John Morehead?’1
;ried Major Justice. "Eureka! Eu
eka!” called back the excited
Morehead, "I have found two Re
publicans working on a CWA job!’1
And that was something to create
excitement, wonder, surprise and
consternation.
IN EITHER CASE—
Some folk call it def-icit,
While others say de-ficit,
But each one knows the money*!
ogne,
And we’re goin’ to miss it.
—The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
probably, who ever occupied tht
White- House. And a smart poli
tician doesn’t antagonize well
meaning folk who have attached
themselves to his band-wagon—not
publicly. He gives them enough
rope to hang themselves.
So we have seen Mr. Moley re
sign as Assistant Secretary of
State, when everybody thought he
was going to be the strongest fig
ure in the Administration; while his
chief. Secretary Hull, has become
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
{Continued From Page One)
confidents say. There will be some
revision of the present Food and
Drug Act, but the result will'not
be oppresive. At least, that is the
outlook now. And the gossip in
quarters where information is usu
ally accurate is that Tugwell is- on
his way out. The President is a
s?ood Dolitician: the best nolitcian
the outstanding Cabinet figure.
And those in the know predict that
Mr. Tugwell is headed for a similar
exit.
The resignation of Secretary
Woodin is another story. Mr.
Woodin and the President are the
warmest of personal friends, and
there has never been any friction
between them. But Mr. Woodin
is a very sick man. He is nearly
70, and has a serious throat trouble
which makes it unlikely that he
will ever again be able to be active
in business or public affairs.
Mr. Morgenthau who is now the
titular head of the Treasury, is a
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unuuit-ui -uit-ivauv.1, «x\w *■ Aval -
dent. He is cautious, but not
afraid o^d^_Big Bad' Wolf of Wall
Street. Is willing to try experi
ments with money, but is in no real
sense an inflationist. The silver
program, so far tentative, appeals
to him as something worth trying
aut cautiously. The gold program
an which other nations are falling
into line, and which will eventually
remove gold entirety from the field
af domestic currencies and leave
t under the control of the various
nations solely as a basis for inter
national exchanges, is making
arogres. Not tomorrow, but
iometime soon, there will be a defi
nite revaluation of gold in terms
af the dollar.
In the meantime, credit is ex
aanding, somewhat slowly; money
s beginning to circulate more rap
dly; the effect of the public works
jrogram is beginning to be felt
videly, and the hope of the Ad
ninistration is that the demands of
he inflationists will be stilled in
he face of increasing prosperity.
[iigh Point Is
A Busy Place
With seven new manufacturing
ilants, in addition to numerous new
etail businesses, established in High
khnt during the past year, the city
-as a total of more than 100 induS^
ries representing a highly diversi
on productivity, a census made by
he chamber of commerce revea's .
The census shows 28 furniture
lants, 28 hosiery mills, 10 electric
"air and machinery manufactur
s, six veneer and plavwood r>! ti
re are 19 plants whose products
nply the furniture industry, mak
v a total of 57 plants devoted to
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VV IV. X JLUjJVI y y WtLUIlj OUA '
garment manufacturers, to
h.ar with allied industries, total
"he seven new plants organized
ig the past v
mem toiover 500 workers, th
•s shows.
' ”0R ATION ;?ooy
■ ' 'NDS,.,
!b eying the order ef the las
•‘•ifure the state corporation
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iiusaiuii A-juia auuciiucLcu it5 uu
of regulating utilities and rail
els to Stanley ’Winborne, wh
ones the title of state utilitic
missioqer. W. T. Lee an
e g? T. Pell moved cut of the
Vtgh offices they had occupied
r over ZU years.
Employment In
Stores Above
Level Of 192S
h
New York—Although hundred
of department stores have beei
forced out of business during th
depression, the present rise in em
ployment brings the total of full
time workers in those stores stil
in business in November to 15,00'
above the figure for Novembe
1929. This fact was revealed b'
f" h P P T'Wvr A „
j sociation- in announcing the resul
,of its Nation-wide survey for th
[period ending November 30. Em
phasis was placed upon the fact tha
no part time employees were in
eluded. The survey covered de
partment stores in every city. T
showed department-store employ
ment from last June to Novembej
increased 20 per cent and pay roll;
23 per cent. The numerical in
crease was 140,000 from June t(
November and 99,000 from No
vember 1933. Total department
store employees in November 1925
was 825,000, and in Novembej
1933 the number was 841,000.
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m jauauui v—*
DIZZINESS
relieved by Black-Draught
“I decided to take Thedford’s
Black-Draught, as I had been hav
ing bilious spells,” writes Mr.
Charles B. Stevens, of Columbus,
Ind. “When I get bilious, I feel
sleepy and tired and do not feel
like doing my work. It is hard to
tell how I feel, but I do not feel
good. I get awfully dizzy. I know
then that I had better take some
thing. After I found how good
Black-Draught Is, that is what I
have used. I guess it rids me of
the bile, for I feel better — don’t
feel like I am dropping off to sleep
every time I sit down. That, to
me, is a very bad feeling.”
Now you can get Black-Draught in
the form of a SYRUP, for Children.
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.” _
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DANGER SIGNALS
/heir a leak appears in your
idiator, don’t delay repairs.
Delay may re
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I damage to your
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ygur car . to us
for immediate
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) "Politics or no politics,” said
Pennsylvania’s (Republican Gover- j
nor Gifford Pinchot, "we now have
> a man in the White House who
i knows what he’s doing. And as
. long as he follows his present course
the best thing the leaders of this
country can do is to follow him
and help him. Party loyalty has
l nothing to do with it and politics
) should be thrown out the window J
: It is for national good.” 1
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• At Sea and At Norfolk!
oN BOARD THE BYRD FLAG
| SHIP JACOB RUPPERT:—It is
row Saturday, October 14, and I am
actually upon the ocean as the
youngest member of this great Byrd
Antarctic Expedition. After the ex
citing and perilous fire at Bayonne,
we cast off from the Tidewater
dock at 11:20 p. m. last night
Cheers of relatives and friends,
longshoremen, stevedores. Slipping
away silently into the blackness
of the Atlantic on the first leg of
my life’s greatest adventure.
Time to go to bed at last? No
| chance! Every movable object on
IUC
dogs must be
lashed down. All
batches must be
battened down.
The sailors call it
‘securing the ship
for sea.”
At last I am
called into the
galley for hot cof
fee and sand
Capt. W. F. Ver- wlches and told
leger of the that I may go
Byrd Flagship to bed. I am dog
tired but too excited to sleep.
For an hour I stand at the rail
watching the lights of New York
recede in the distance. No more
New York, no more bright lights,
for two years—except perhaps the
bright lights of the Aurora Borealis.
At 3 a. m. we arrive off' Cape
Henry but I know nothing about it.
1 am in my bunk sleeping the sleep
of exhaustion. At 6 a. m„ with still
many hours of sleep to make up, 1
am-awakened. All hands are called
to begin the life of the day. The
tug with the pilot is alongside. We
slip down the river at dawn and
arrive at the Norfolk Navy Yard
at 8 a. m.
The first passengers ashore are
the two cows we are taking tQ Lit
tle America to supply us with fresh
milk. They have a chance to get a
little green pasturage for a few
days, their last chance for a long
time.
At 8:20 we start cleaning up the
ship. It is Sunday but the work
must be done. The Admiral is com
ing aboafd at noon.
At 9:30 visitors start streaming
aboard—in an hour we have several
hundred. The dogs, some fn that*
cages and others chained all ove«
the steel deck, seem to interest
them more than anything else And
they should! They are the loudest
things on board, and the smelliest.
Here .comes our leader, Rear-Ad
miral Byrd. He looks wearied and
ill. He gives instructions to his staff
—Commodore H. J. Gjertsen, com
modore of the Expedition; Harold
June, chief aviator; Captain Verle
ger, skipper of the Jacob Ruppert;
Dr. G. O. Shirey, the Expedition’s
medical officer, who will set up a
snow-covered hospital at Littl“
America, and Lieutenant Command
der George O. Noville, Admiraf
Byrd’s aide, who is my immediate
boss and instructor on this trip,
I get cleaned up for a short trip
ashore—my first shore leave on the
Expedition. Commodore Gjertsen
tells me_J;o return by 10 p. m. That
is okey with me. I am still almost
dead from lack of sleep, and I know
I have terrific work to do from, now
on, working on our four airplanes,
learning their details, helping to
get them in perfect condition for
future perilous flights, learning my
job as fuel engineer for them and
the rest of our amazing automotive
equipment.
Our other ship, the famous 1700
ton Coast Guard ice breaker, th*
Bear of Oakland, which has served
so illustriously in Alaskan waters
since 1857, is in drydock here hav
ing some last minute repairs made.
She is scheduled to leave a little
ahead of us but is slower. Maybe
we shall rac® hen down to New Zea
land and then lo the ice barrier.
There is a big radio farewell
party tonight with many distin
guished speakers, Admiral Byrd
saying farewell to his friends for
two strange and hazardous years in
the fnost desolate and dangerous
spot on earth.
(People of high school age or
over, desiring to join the Little
America Aviation and Exploration
Club, are invited, to write to Ar
thur Abele, Jr., Little America
Aviation and Exploration Club.
Hotel Lexington, 48th Street and
Lexington Avenue, New York,
N. Y., enclosing stamped and self
addressed envelope. There is no
charge for membership.)
I I OUR MOST PROLIFIC AUTHOR--By Albert i t