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AMERICA IS GOING TO
SCHOOL
There is more interest in politics,
in the broad sense, in America today
then there probably has been at any
time since the earliest days of th«
Republic. But it is politics with a
difference. Political discussion ir
the past has centered mainly or
personalities and parties. Today
it centers around ideas.
Not since the Bryan campaigr
of 1896 have ideas been so domin
* ant. Then, as now everybody was
discussine the economics of monev
and the silver question. But to
day’s political discussions among
men in the street cover a far wider
range. There is an immense popu
lar education in progress, out of
which the American people are
bound to emerge with a broader
and sounder understanding of eco
nomic principles than most of us
bave ever had before.
One reason why ideas rather than
personalities are in the saddle is the
fact that President Roosevelt has
surrounded himself with scholars
men who have made a lifellong
study of fundamentals, whose in
terests are not primarily political
but lie in the broad fields of soci
oiogy ana economics, it is easy to
-sneer at the “Brain Trust” but if
we really believe that all college pro
fessors are ignoramuses, then why
do we bother to send our sons and
daughters to college Those who
profess to look with contempt upon
learning are usually inspired by
envy; they cannot tolerate the idea
that someone else knows more than
they do. *
There is no longer any doubt that
out whole social, economic and po
litical scheme of things is being
made over into something whicl
to most of us, will be both new anc
strange It is therefore all to th(
good that so many people are de
bating with such eager interest th<
principles and purposes as well a:
the methods whereby the New Dea
Is being put into effect. They ar<
preparing themselves to live in ;
reorganized society.
PUBLIC DEBT BREAKS ALL
RECORDS
Associated Press dispatches oi
January 4 summarize the public
debt of the United States, as fol
lows:
."August 31, the war peak, $26,
596,648.
"The 1930 post war low, $16,
185,309,831.
"Today’s public debt, $23,817,
036,025.
"Estimated for June 30, $29,
847,000,000.
ustimated tor June 30, 193).
$31,834,000,000.
"The amount of money in cir
culation, save for some govern
mental funds for which no account
ing can be made, totaled only $),
794.000. 000 on January 3, 1934.’
*At 3 per cent interest on public
debt in 193S, will be nearly $1,
900.000. 000 a year.
THE TAXATION MENACE
"Unless taxation is reduced, it
cannot be very long before private
property is destroyed entirely,”
said Dr. Milbank Johnson of the
California Taxpayers’ Association.
That is a thought which has
been engaging a great many minds
of late. Excessive taxation has
closed factories and caused the loss
of job. It causes people to lose
their homes. In some state a large
percentage of the farm land has
been taken over by government for
unpaid taxes—in otners taxes are
years in arrears.
Budget Director Lewis Johnson
has pointed out that the United
States Treasury will sustain another
great deficit at the end of the fis
cal year, and that additional ap
propriations can be met only by
increased taxes. State tax rates are
far above any normal figure. Many
county and municipal governments
are on the verge of bankruptcy,
with tax rates established which
local citizens are unable to pay.
The American people face no
greater issue than taxation. Eco
nomical government means prog
ress jobs, good wages. Wasteful
or overly developed government
means continued depression, more
unemployment, more distress.
WHEN POLITICS TAKES
COMMAND
When government goes into a
business, politics takes command
Red ‘ tape replaces capability.
^ Favoritism hampers efficiency.
I The bureaucrat gets the jobs—
(the public official gets the fun—
| and the taxpayer gets the bill.
That is a severe indictment, but
experience seems to justify it. The
! private business executive must
I produce results or get out. The
public business executive has n>
financial interest at stake. If he
i /A Aarn aa m £ai* noecAn al rtiltr ka I
safe. He doesn’t have to make
both ends meet—the public treas
I ury will pay the deficits he creates
He is immune to taxes, to ordinary
competition, to all the things tha
keep private business men on thei
toes. He is often free to adopt
1 strange and mysterious bookkeeping
[methods which dim the real result
of operation. And he is com
pletely divorced from realities so
far as usual business methods ar
j concerned.
In a good many hundreds ot
| years of "government in business”,
1 no one has been able to figure out
j how to divorce it from politics anc
-put in on a "business” basis.
i "SINGING IN THE STREETS’
j "In Colorado and Nevada,”
! muc ' ( i m a in Pf/Jci/lr»n
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Roosevelt’s decision to remonetiz
| silver, "there was singing in th
streets.”
| That single phrase does a goo 1
I job of characterizing what the net '
I policy means to the west. It means
I swelling payrolls, reopened fac
tories, swelling trade. It means
; that some of the blackest and
thickest of the depression cloud
will be lifted. It means a happie
day for merchants, farmers pro
j fessional men—everyone in th
states involved. And the entire
county will, through a sifting
' >rocess, feel it too.
Senator Pittman, long the most
’ zatoin, believes that the world
' price of silver will be stabilized at
64J/.“C, that United States’ buying
power will be increased by fifty
per cent, that the exchange value
of the moneys of China, India,
I Mexico, and all South America will
j be increased 60 per cent with i
consequent jump in tjieir trade
with us, that millions depending
i on mining will find prosperity and
I plenty. All of these things will
,not come true at once—but they
are indicative of the possibilities.
Watch the present Congress, not
only for what it does in running
the government, but in preparing
for the political future. L. 1934
every member of the House must
face the electroate once more
Main Republican trouble is lack of
party discipline; as soon as a can
didate is elected on the Republican
platform he is apt to desert his
party. Contrasted with this, the
Democrats are wonders in maintain
ing a unified front.
FOR THE price of a cold drink
WOULD REVEAL the name of
THE CHAP in this story, so bring
:> i>
ON YOUR drinks. He was a
LOCAL BOY, and you know hint
TWO YOUNG ladies, also well
KNOWN HERE, were discussin,
THIS CHAP. "Yes”, said the firs
ONE, "I SPENT the entire evening
:!■ :> S
TELLING HIM that he had a
TERRIBLE REPUTATION for
KISSING GIRLS against their
;J. •<.
WILL.” THE second girl wantec
«• * s
TO KNOW what he did. "No
A THING,” she replied in a
>i■ ^ *
DISAPPOINTED TONE of voice
»> j>
"HE SAT there 15.e a
BOOB AND denied it.”
I THANK YOU.
WHEN THE EAST WIND BLEW.
Mah Jong club is formed by, sev
eral people at meeting at home of •
Miss Dorothy Mendenhall.
—Hi-year-ago column, The Lex
ington Dispatch.
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NOT FOR THE DUST
The invisible man, Gertrude, is
Huey ,P. Long. Nobody can. see j
him. !
—The Cleveland Star '
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THEY’RE EVEN MAKING A
FRUIT JAR UNFASTENER
t_*.1_ *__
tion laws have not been able sue- ,
cessfully to compete with the cork ,
screws in the pockets of drinkers. (
—The Reidsville Revfz-ti ,
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HOW TO CORRECT A ,
FALSE REPORT
On January 11, The Dispatch (
reported in its Cid items the mar ,
rage of Miss Bettie Adams to Mr
John Miller, both of Cid. This,
who am a strong advocate of the
conjugal state, regret to advise, was ,
an error. Miss Adams and Mr t
Miller are not married. Both re
main exactly as they were before
this item appeared in the paper,-ex
cept that both have found it nec- ■
cssary to turn aside well meant con ■
gratulations and to do a lot of ex
plaining, like I’m doing now. To |
save all this explaining, Miss Adams ,
and Mr. Miller, to save the einbar- ,
rassment, Mr. Miller and Miss Ad- j
ams, "why didn’t you go ahead
and get married anyhow?” ;
Dispatch.
EARLY ATTACK ON TRIED \
CHICKEN .
The Georgia Methodist Confer- ,
ence was in session at Washington ,
in that state, on the 16th inst ;
There were about eighty Minister
in attendance.
—-lOO-Ye, ar-Ago column, Th.
Charleston News and Courier.
HARBINGER OF CHANGE
Times must be getting better, or
perhaps worse, for we saw Algie
Jackson down town the other af
ternoon all dressed up in a new
pair of overalls. When Algie goes
to work we know times have chang
ALIUS SAYS TUE.T 10
UlS WAY o' TUmkOMO
f*ARRlA6E SMAPUF1ES
LIFE AMP COMPliCATES
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:d, to say the least.
—Roxboro Courier
SAVING WATERS
Were it not for the spring ai
Fountain Hill, there would be man]
families in this community whe
would feel even more keenly thi
tffects of? this long-contir.uec
Jrouth. There are approximate!]
thirty-five barrels of water haulet
>way' from this spring daily. Ma]
the ford be pleased to grant us :
•ain at an early date.
—Fountain Hill News in Thi
Marshville Home.
TALKING ABOUT BRO.
F RANK
The least Co-Laborer McNincl
:ould do would be to go Bishoj
Cannon’s bond, if any.
—Greensboro News
Frank McNinch stars as opponeni
C . J c _ • J
Ji tuut W Cl 1UUUJ1.11VJI 1 wi
first and suggest something, anc
eve’ll bet you Parson Frank i:
igainst it.
—Raleigh Times
ACCOMMODATING
It happened in court at Conway
. . R. K. Jolly, Horry farmer, wa
an the stand as a witness when orji
>f the attorneys in the case begar
:o question him . . . The witness re
fused to answer the attorney . .
The judge looked perplexed am
'eprimanded Mr Jolly . . . "Yoi
must answer the attorney’s ques
rions,” the judge instructed . • •
vas then that Jolly appealed to •’
:ourt . . . "Your honer,” he said
'more than six years ago this lawyei
isked me not to speak to hiir
igain and I promised I’d accom
nodate him.” Thereafter Jolly
istened to the attorney’s questior
■*... then turneci and spoke his ans
vers to the jury.
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
(Continued From Page One)
jopulation of the world. It con
titutes a very important part ol
mr own monetary structure. It is
uch a crucial factor in much of the
vorld’s international trade that ii
:annot be neglected.
"Governments can well, as thej
lave in the past, employ silver a<
basis for currency, and I look foi
greatly increased use. I am how
urther extension of the monetary
ise of silver because I believe that
re should gain more knowledge of
he results of the London agree
nent and of our other monetary
neasures.”
The remonetization of silver is
egarded by many of the Presdent’s
dvisers as the most important fac
or in the restoration of world
mces.
The hope ot the Administration
s, however, that the definite fix
ng of a top price for gold, serving
lotice on all the world that the dol
ar is now worth no more than
ixty percent of its former value,
vill go a long way toward remov
ng uncertainties which have kept
>rivate capital in hiding. Every
lolder of gold securities now knows
hat he cannot get more than 60
lercent of their former gold value
or them. Every creditor knows
hat dollars he is going to collect
rom his debtors will be worth only
ix-tenths o fwhat they were if the
tandard of measurement be gold
Jut the Administration’s view i;
hat a dollar will remain a dolln
;o long as it is backed by the crcdii
if the Government, and that credii
ins net Deen impaiicu, nui k> h
ikely to be impaired s6 long as thi
mmense gold reserve behind th<
currency is maintained.
Whether or not this latest mone
tary move will have the effect o:
raising domestic prices is anothe:
question, yet to be answered. I
may or wav not. It may turi
out, many of his advisers have tol<
the President, that nothing whicl
the United States can do by itsel
will raise prices so long as the work
price of our exportable surpluse
remains low, and that world prio
can only be raised by intrenationa
iction.
MYSTERIOUS GAS ATTACKS'
IN VIRGINIA
Tincastle, Va.—A series of steal
thy attacks with gas on widel;
scattered homes in this section
made by a person whose identity i
shrouded in mystery—presented of
ficers of two counties with a weiri
riddle that has baffled them fo
more than a month. Working wit!
the alusiveness of a phantom, th
"gasser” has released a nauseatin
gas in at least six homes, caused1 ill
ness to several persons, and give;
the residents of this mountainou
section a case of "nerves.”
Cleveland Rt. 2 Items
Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Steele and
children spent Sunday afternotVi
with Mrs. Lizzie Pence and child -
ren.
Mr. and Mrs. John Phifer andj
Mr. Boone Phifer visited Mrs.;
Whitley in Cooleemee Tuesdayi
evening.
Cleveland-Scot Irish Grange met
Tuesday night for the regular;
meeting. Miss Ftarie [Thompson]
county and state secretary from
Barber Grange was a visitor. Af-j
ter an interesting Lecture program,'
coookies and hot chocolate were,
served. ,
Mr. and Mrs Floyd Smith, Miss
Beulah Simmons and Mr. Half
way Burton spent Saturday niglp
wjthrMr. and Mrs. W. FLBtgtn^
ITvlTsses Ruby- and RazerjonnsoBI
! spent Monday afternoon with Misl
Edith and Annabelle Hager. 4
Mrs. Mary E. Steele and children
•are with her parents, Mr. and Mrsi
T. Whitley in Cooleemee. Her
brother 'jjlill” was accidentally
shot Saturday evening with a 22
rifle in the hands of a friend. He
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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.
I
is said to be in a serious condition
at the Lowery hospital at Salisbury.
Misses Sadie and Gladys' Wilhelm
spent Sunday evening with Misses
Ruby and Hazel Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Campbell and
children and Mrs. N. S. Steele spent
Saturday with Mrs. Lizzie Pence at
Harmony.
Miss Rachel Niblock from Dal
las, Texas, is spending some time
with her parents.
Miss Marguerite Long from
Washington, D. C., is visting her
mother.
The Cool Spring All Stars will
meet the Harmony All Stars Basket
Ball team on hte Cool Spring court.
^ —Buy in Salisbury— •:
CWA Projects
Go Forward
Raleigh—Cjvil works project*
now under way in North Carolina
will go forward just as they have
been except that the workers will
be limited to fewer hours per week,
Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, state admin
istrator, said.
Some new projects will be ap
proved from time to time, she said,
and the purchase of supplies for
civil works jobs will continue but
they mav not be ttadc-viCtw^uhTr
pecffic approval has been received
:rom Washington.
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HERE'S A TIP
When you want a |
Good used car we ;
Are prepared to
Meet your needs
AND HERE’S
ANOTHER TIP
One of our most comforting
High spots is the underslung g
Price. §
If you are a thrifty buyer you I
will See, Drive, and Price these I
cars
BEFORE YOU BUY. j
’33 V-8 Coach
’32 V-8 DeLuxe Coupe
’32 V-8 Coach
*31 Chevrolet Coupe
’30 Chevrolet Coach
’31 Ford Coupe
’30 Ford Coupe
’30 Chevrolet Coupe
*30 Chevrolet Coach
’29 Chevrolet Coach
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HEDRICK AUTO CO.
125 N. Church St. Phone 14
Dr. L. A. Coleman
i EYE, EAR, NOSE & THROAT
! SPECIALIST
| Wright Bldg. Phone 329
! Residence Phone 12 59
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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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BANG!! Another New Year’s Resolution - - By Albert r. Reid
♦Oh, Hiram,-You’ve broken
YOUR RESOLUTION NOT TO
V SWEAR/
* | HOPE THAT AIN’T ALL
I’VE BUSTED/