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Carolina Watchman Published Every Friday * Morning At SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA ; E. W. G. Huffman, Publisher j A. R. Monroe, - Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES j \ Payable In Advance One Year - $1.00 Three Years .- $2.00 Entered as second-class mail matter at the postoffice at Sal isbury, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. The influence of weekly news papers on public opinion exceeds that of all other publications in the country.—Arthur Brisbane. 1 ms» KSSSSSSBa. a i 1 We %b our PAm •! REGIMENTING THE * FARMERS We have heard rather disquiet ing reports from Washington about some ideas for the closer regula tion. 6f agriculture, rwhich are said to be (moving in the minds of some of the people who have had a great deal* to do Vith the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. are prepared to believe almost anything ‘these days, but we can hardly take seriously the belifef that the Government is planning to set up as complete and drastic control over farming as exists in Russia. */■ « 1 i xl cue rumur:> mat ream us arc true', the talked-of plans would in volve a complete regimentation of all farmers. Nobody would * be permitted to grow any crop for market without first having a Fed oral license; he would be fined if be violated any of the Federal reg ulations and the Government could go into court and get an injunc tion against him if he persisted in sowing oats when his license per mitted only barley, for example. We are told that these proposals have emanated from some of the "legalistic” minds in Washington and that they are being seriously \ discussed. We can understand the passion for planning and regulat ing human affairs; most thought ful yousgsters share it, before they have lived long enough in the world to understand human nature and to realize that human affairs are not conducted according to plan and that people generally resent being regulated. If this were a logical world it would be easy to run it.. It is a perfectly illogical world, in which the principal ob stacle to smooth running is the obstinate persistence of most of us in doing what We like in the way we like to do it. We do not think American farm ers are ready to be regelated to the Dositioh of serfs or of robots. A PRESIDENTIAL SUGGESTION The Republican Party, we under stand, is casting about for some body |/ho would serve as its can didate for the Presidency for the didate for the Presidency in 1936. So far, we are informed, there has been n6 focussing of sentiment up on anybne. It is generally accept ed by .political experts that Mr. Ogden Mills will hot do, in spite of many admirable qualifications. He is regarded as too rich and too closely allied with "interests” which are currently in great popular dis favor. One objection of another is raised to about every other name : that ha.s been seriously suggested.! We think of.one man who would command a wide-spread popular', following, and in whom, we be-!J lieve, the American' people would ' place a great deal of confidence. ' Of his character it can truly be ’ said that it has not a blemish. Of j J his associations we know of none ^ that could be held ajgainst him. Of c his courage he has on many occa- c sions given impressive demonstra- 1 tions. Of his ability to keep sil- 1 cace when words are not called for r the public has had numerous ex examples. Of this power to rcog nize good advice and act upon it he has given proof many times. That he can keep hTs head cool in an em ergency, think fast on his feet and act with corresponding swiftness there is no room for doubt; nor can it be said that his mental qualities are below those of many men who have adorned the White House. The man we have in mind knows Washington and is no stranger to public life; ten of his formative years were spent in the official at mosphere of the Nation’s capital wnere nis iacner was an aoie rnuugn perhaps not famous member of Congress. The son has never taken an important part in politics, but he is a Republican, and is married to the daughter of an eminent Re publican statesman. We are, how ever, certain that he is personally the most popular hian in America, with the possible exception of Presi dent Roosevelt. There is one possible disadvan tage under which he labors, so far as candidacy in 1936 is concerned. The President of the United' States must be at least 3 5 years old, un der the Constitution. The nex President will be inaugurated on January 10, 1937, Charles A Lindbergh will not be- 3 5 years old until February 4, 1937, • twenty five days after the next' President must assume the office. A few weeks ago CWA graft charges appeared in the headlines The President himself was getting hundreds of letters a day complain ing of sharp practices. Job-sell ing, political preference, false ex pense accounts, padded payrolls— these were the bones of contention. The government moved fast. . Em ployes guilty of even suspicious ac tions, were dismissed, some were ar rested. The Attorney Gendpal went to work investigating othe cases. Administrator Hopkins worried and disconcerted, sent ou Army engineers to check up on CWA work. When one was sent to Cook County, Illinois, which contains the city of Chicago, th entire Illinois GW A commission resigned. At the same time, a nation-wide move got underway to keep th CWA in existence—it was due to pass away shortly. Mr. Roosevelt, however, doesn’t want it as a per manent part of his organization, announced that he would adopt a modified course. Instead of bring ing its activitits to an end at once, it will be allowed to live until May 1. On February 15, CWA workers in the South were being discharged at the rate of 5 00,000 a week, and the dismissal movement will move gradually north as the weather grows warmer. MONEY IN THE AIR One hundred years ago, Danie Webster, speaking in the Senate said: "Gold and silver is the money of the constitution ; the con stitutional standard of value which is established and cannot be over turned; to overturn it would shake the whole system.” The other day Senator ■ Borah said: "This is a profound truth. We ought to; bend every energy and utilize all the power available to re store the money of the constitu tion.” A legion of business men, pub lic officials and economists of ail schools of thought, will say amen to that. The strength of the silver movement was shown recently when a bill to relate its value to gold lost by the slimest margin in the Senate—a year ago a similar aill would have been deluged under 1 wave of Nays. Figuratively ipeaking, our money is up in the' lir—and it may be that only gold md silver can bring it to earth igain. INTELLIGENT CRITICISM Writing in the United State Slews, David' Lawrence says: “To lay we are not concerned with the eventual alignment of parties or! heir opportunities to retain or re tain power. We are eager to get rom the minority groups a dem nstration only of intelligent criti ism, helpful suggestion, honest de late and factual persuasiveness to he end that economic recovery nay be achieved for us all.” * WE ARE not mentioning any < ( * -ii NAMES BUT a Scotchman walked 1 a- a * I INTO THE Western Union the ' «• » » OTHER DAY. "How much is a 9h »J* ■> ( MESSAGE TO Wilmington?” he' «■ » a j ASKED. "THIRTY cents”, said , a a- a THE CLERK, "for the first ten ; a- a a WORDS AND five cents for each ' !!■ >r * ADDITIONAL WORD, and no CHARGE FOR the signature.” a- a- a 1 rib bCOl paused a moment. "ALL RIGHT”, he said. "Just j SEND MY signature.” The clerk j ?e ib LOOKED PUZZLED. "What is ] YOUR name?” hie asked. The Scot \ HESITATE!) FOR a second, and , 1C ic 1C 1 THEN SAIL- confi lentially, < «• ■> "WELL, I may not look like it, i »F >b 3b BUT I’M an Indian, and my name ^ » =1- » ! IS T-WON ’T-Be-Home C TILL-FRIDAY’.” * 1 • 3b 3b J> I THANK YOU. ' < Make a Note of This, Men ■ Our best bow to E. E. Snuggs, , J. H. Morrow and W. E. Smith', who have been added to the board ] of directors of the Cabarrus Bank , and Trust company. , —Stanly News & Press, j Try to Do Better By Him Rev. Charlie Brisson filled Re/, i P. T. Britt’s stand at Broad Ridge ] Sunday, although Rev. P. T. was ! present. The day was awful rough I: i Sunday. We only hope Mr. Bris-h | son to be with us again in the ] near future. —Orrum correspondence, Lum- : berton Robesonian. Not That! Not That! I would be willing to do prac- 1 tically any honest work that was J necessary to make a living—but D do hope never to have to raise i white rats. < —Mrs. Theo. B. Davis, Zcbulon t Record. i - - ] The Animal Kingdom The past week, the weather was severely cold in our community. Making fires and caring for tiie farm animals was our principal oc cupation. —Route 6 correspondence, Lex ington Dispatch. Ain’t You Picking ’Em Kind of : Young, Mr.? Wanted Infant Toppers and Knitters. Apply Hickory Hosiery Mills, Hickory, N. Car. —Adv., Chapel Hill Weekly. No Use; Won’t Talk , I was in Marion, N. C., last , week and it "taint” nobody’s busi-;, ness how long I iwas gone, how I; went or how much trouble I had while I was there. I will say that! 1 was held up for two hours and! and then run out of town. I won’t tell any more on myself. —East Side correspondence, West ern Carolina Tribune. o EfcEE AAtt • • - GAS C REASON THE AUTOMOBILE MAKERS WORKED So HARD OM KNEE -SPRINGS AMD A BUMPLESS CAR IS TO SAVE Drivers amy jolt in case they rum over a pedestrian ©e. a trafpic cop. 'ml Dick; Pull Devil Dennis Gordy has been having [uite a number of his molars and ncisors extracted lately and con equently one of his choicest sub ects for conversation are dentists, oothache and pink tooth bru^ . SPe were not surprised when he tated that he had found a swell lentist that gave each patient a Irink after each tooth extralter, to evive them. "And then why the ;lum expression?” Some one ask d "Aw shucks, said Gordy, I ran >ut of teeth-” —Contrib., Statesville Record. It ill Hfls "Madam SSierry,” the biggest lit of the year, will be given at he Asheville auditorium February !8. "Every Little Movement Flas i Meaning of Its Own.” —22 years ago, Wdynesville Mouti aineer. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON 0Continued From Page One) ence” settlers, and the factory was o make furniture for the Post Of ice Department. Representative -ouis Ludlow of Indiana, in whose listrict there is a factory making ’ost Office supplies, arose in loud >rotest and offered an amendment o the Post Office bill prohibiting he use of any Government funds o build furniture factories. Other nembers said nothing, but not a ingle vote was cast against Mr. -udlow’s amendment and the fur liture "subsistence” factory is out. What might have happened if the Resident had insisted upon it is omething else again. There has been a noticeable :hange in the attitude of the Ad ninistration from leaning toward he radical side toward trying to :urry favor with the conservative lement. The President has two ets of advisers. Sometimes one setj s in the ascendancy, sometimes the'i ither. He is by nature and , lpbringing a conservative, but he ends a ready ear to proposals which' manate from the advocates of vide-spread social-economic re orms. Just now, however, the President s trying to instil confidence into jrivate capital, realizing that the >urden of "carrying on” cannot be houldered forever by Government1 ilthough there are some close to lim and would like to have it that vay. Every possible effort is being! nade to demonstrate to private capital that it is safe to invest for he future. These efforts are some vhat nullified, however, by the >pen anticapitalist attitude of some nembers of the Brain Trust. Incidentally, the Administration! s beginning to strike back at its ipponents. Secretary Ickes’ sharp eply to the speech of Ogden Mills nay well turn out to have been the irst gun in a defensive campaign, ''low that it has been disclosed that he Administration is sensitive to :riticism, there are several gentle nen preparing to. try to get Mr loosevelt’s goat. 1 CHILD I AND THE SCHOOL * By Dr. ALIEN G. IRELAND Dereeter. Physual and Health Edatatran j He* Jersey Slate Department of Puhbt lustmetien What Should Children Eat? I’m often asked what growing school children should eat. These are the essentials of the best pos- • sible daily diet: : 1 A _in. [“the most nearly ^ perfect food,” in : some form, that is, as a bererage, in custards and pud- 1 dings, on cereals. ] 2. Generous serv- , ings of at least two £ vc6cv«oica, one cooxea veg^wioie, l one green-leafy vegetable, and to- j mato in some form daily. Every f mother should be familiar with the t exceptional value of the tomato. ^ 3. Fruit, either raw or cooked. r There is especial merit in the fruit- f. juice beverages made from the , orange, the lemon, or grapefruit, { though tomatoes and tomato juice, which arc lps- expensive, will take the place of the citrus fruits. 4. Egg, meat, or fish, in mod- s erate amounts as compared to the F above basic foods, should appear in 3 every child’s diet. c 5. Bread and butter are also es- c sentials. The kind of bread does L .not matter if the child is receiving F his daily ration of fruits and veg- F etables. Lacking these, whole wheat 1 bread is necessary. n Nex week Dr, Ireland will dis- * anas the symptoms of eye strain, ■ .—^ //Miir7 x raK'ni.iiai /iin hiii n i u n ■ 3L/NG UNO (YORK 16U KENNY BBBSSi The snow contrived to make Central Park a photographer’s para lise one recent February morning. 3ut it had its hazards for motorists, :oo. Dick Leibert, solo organist :or NBC, started his eight o’clock program at 8:10 that morning. A :ail spin on the icy road landed his :ar in the ditch . . . .The first num ber he played was "Road Is Open \gain.” * »b * New York’s Chinatown is active :hese days. At least that part of it ibove the temple of the Great Laughing Buddha in Mott Street s active, because here, for at least :en days the Honorable Society of rhose Who Dance Beneath the Dragon rehearses the old authentic festival in celebration of New Ifear’s Day, February 14th. On :hat day the company will propel he dragon triumphantly through Lhinatown to the exacting rhythm )f drum, gong and cymbal. And :hen they’ll eat. They’ll eat at 11:30, 1:30, 5:30 and at midnight ind the time is as sacred as the neal. The first automatically opened loors for public use we have seen ire in the Pennsylvania Terminal lere. Operated by the electric eye, >f course. Pass through the small ence that leads to the door and you dock the passage of light from one ide of the fence to the other/ Dlick! And the door opens before' mu . . . People stand around to, vatch for many minutes. As the' ininitiated approach all unsuspect-j ng, their mouths drop open almost is fast as the doors. One young ady, oblivious to the crowd of pectators, went back and deliber ceiy played iwith the stream of ight as she watched the dloor open nd close repeatedly. : :'r ! Light, air, plummng and steam leat are just names to 1,800,000 slew Yorkers who live in the "cold mer flats” of the slums—as many s nine people to the room. Some elief is in sight, however, by the rant of $2 5,000,000 by the CWA or slum clearance and new housing o rent from $6 to $8 per month er room. That such relief is ieeded is more than amply shown y the appaling death rates of the [um districts .... New York is ot all glamour! :> «■ A. part of Lexington Avenu :ems to be competing with Fifth or honors as a proving ground of orts. While Fifth seems to spe ialize on the newest and ever hanging types of traffic signals, exington between Fiftieth and ifty-first has the newest in street ghting—an intensely, yellow-or ige bulb of glowing sodium vapor s lounted in very queer looking re- t ectors. Cheap to operate, and wel < lited to outdoor illumination, they i Y- 1 Babe’s Birthday Brings Toast To New Baseball Season “ ' 1 1 ■ 1 Vi NEW YORK: . . . Here baseball fans, is the one and only George \j Herman (Bambino-Babe) Ruth on his 40th birthday, drinking a toast 11 with Mrs. Ruth to the start of his twentieth year in major league baseball, f j Ruth and family" are now in Florida as the Babe starts to limber up for] Ihe new season. Cleveland Rt. 2 Items t _ t Miss Ruby Johnson, who un- * derwent an operation, Monday, February 13, at the H. F. Long ( hospital, Statesville, for appendi- ^ citis and a tonsil operation Tues- \ day, February 20, is getting along nicely. She is expected home Thursday her many 'friends will be glad to learn. Mr. Flolloway Burton, who is a Sophomore at Catawba college, spent the weekend here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bur ton. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Byrd, of Statesville, spent the week-end here with her aunt, Mrs. N. S. Steele. Several children of this com munity have the measles. We hope they will soon be able to be out again. I Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith of Kannapolis, spent the' week-end with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Burton. Mr. and Mrs. FI. W. Miller and Mr/ N. S. Steele motored to Kan napolis Tuesday to visit Mrs. Sarah Jane Cartner who is very sick. Mr. John Phifer who has been very sick is some better at this time. Miss Dorothy Steele underwent an operation for appendicitis at - the Davis hospital, Statesville last week, and is getting along nicely. Miss Mary Pence of Harmony, spent a few days last week here with relatives. Miss Blanche Wilhelm, who is a ^ teacher at Woodleaf. spent last * week-end with her parents, Mr. 8 and Mrs. R. W. Wilhelm. f BRISK RECOVERY r Recovery in both industry and triade continued briskly during the; past week, according to reports 3jnd surveys throughout the coun try. Dunn and Bradstreet’s mer cantile review said the largest. :rowds of shoppers flocked to stores on Lincoln’s birthday par- _ dal holiday since the Christmas — shopping period. And one more crack about the elf-respect; does the Governor in end to let the Pender county lyn-' :hing drop with the undtrstand ng that the solicitor is still inves igating? ’ - New Secrets of the French, De ective Police, a series of thrilling rue stories. One of many inter sting articles in the American Weekly, with the Baltimore Sun lay American. Buy your copy rom your favorite newsdealer or lewsboy. DR. N. C. LITTLE Optometrist Eyes examined and glasses fitted Telephone 1571W. 107 ^ S. Main Street Next to Ketchie Barber Shop. i RADIATOR LEAKS ARE DANGER SIGNALS When a leak appears in your radiator, don’t delay repairs. suit in expensive damage to your i engine. Bring your car to us for immediate attention. We are r a> d5ator specialists. Re pair leaks; Pre vent ing! Furnish corfe replace ments! x EAST SPENCER MOTOR CO. THE CHRYSLER DEALER Phone 1I98-J East Spencer. N. C. LIQUID, TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROPS -hecks Malaria in 3 days, Colds irst day. Headaches or Neural ia in 30 minutes. INE LAXATIVE AND TONIC Most Speedy Remedies Known. Newsom & Co. 104% S. Main Street Salisbury, N. C. Expert Watch and Jewelry Repairing Shoes rebuilt the better way. All kinds of harness, trunk and suitcase repairing. FAYSSOUX’S PLACE Phone 433 120 E. Innes St.
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