Carolina Watchman
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isbury, N. C., under the act of
March 3, 1879.
The influence of weekly news
papers on fmblic opinion exceedi
that of all other publications h
the country.—Arthur Brisbane.
WHO WILL WE GO TO WAR
WITH NEXT?
We have been reading with 2
good deal of disturbance of mind
about the warlike gestures between
nations which are being made in
many parts of the world. We de
plore war, as every responsible
human being must, yet we fed
impelled to admit that humanity
has not yet reached such a stage
that it can run its affairs without
going to war.
Something is wrong with out
so-called civilization, when na
tions must still resort to blood
--
ences. For all our reading history
leads us to believe that wars, ex
cept on religious grounds, have
always had an economic basis.
Some nation thinks it is being- cor
nered by other nations, or it is not
getting its fair share of trade, or
it wants to trade where the other
nation thinks its rights are para
mount, or to possess some terri
tory belonging to another natoin
So the politicians stir up the peo
ple and make them believe theij
homes and Ramifies are in danger
and the "national honor” has been
smirched, uptil everybody is ready
to go to war to kill the people of
the other nation.
We shouldn’t be so much con
cerned if the skirts of our own
nation were entirely clear in this
matter of war. We figured out
the other day that no person ever
reached the age of 40 in the United
States without going through at
least one war, and nobody ever
lived to be sixty without going
through two wars. That brings
it right home to us, or so it would
seem. It was only 36 years after
thp Rpvninfinn that wp wnm
o
at war with Great Britain: 34 years
after that we were marching on
Mexico. Fifteen years later North
and South were in battle array
against each other. It was 37
years after that before we went to
war with Spain, but only 19 years
later when we were at war with
Germany. It is now sixteen years
since our country has been at war.
We would hesitate to predict that
anyone now sixteen will live to be
forty without seeing us in another
War.
We commend these thoughts to
anybody who thinks it doesn’t
make any difference how we deal
with "foreigners.” International
goodwill is surely as important as
domestic prosperity.
SHALL WE GET OUR SHARE
It seems evident that the Unit
ed States is on the verge of a great
business and industrial revival.
The increased retail sales of goods,
the added activity in the industries
all point the way to better times
The question then rises, shall wt
get our share of this increased ac
tivity in Salisbbury.
The question whether or not :
community gets its share of sue!
a revival depends in part on hov
much it advertises its goods, ir
part on its willingness to worl
hard and deserve that share of suc
cess. The town where the busi
ness people are hustlers, and th(
wage-earners are working hard t<
turn out good goods and give gooc
service and extend trade, is the on<
that takes a spurt ahead, whei
hard times turn into good
AN ADMINISTRATION
ALPHABET
We went to the trouble th<
other day to check up on the alpha
betical bureaus in Washington un
der the New Deal. We thought
we might like to use a few of th<
letters ourselves, but there doesn’t
seem to be much left except Q. X
Y and Z. But folks ^are getting
so used to seeing a lot of initials ir
print, without being sure what the)
mean, that we thought we’d try t(
make a sort of dictionary arrange
ment of them. Here they are:
AAA—Agricultural Relief Ad
ministration.
CAB — Consumers Advisor)
Board.
CCC — Civilian Conservatioi
Corps.
CSB—Central Statistic^ Board
■ CWA—Civil Works Administra
tion.
DLB—Deposit Liquidation Boar:
EC—Executive Council.
EHC—Emergency Housing Cor
poration.
EHFA—Electric Home & Farn
Authority:
FACA—Federal Alcohol Contro
Administration.
FCA—Farm Credit Administra
tion.
FCT—Federal Coordinator oi
Transportation.
FDIC—Federal Deposit Insur
ance Corporation.
FERA—Federal Emergency P.e
lief Administration.
FESB — Federal Employmem
Stabilization Board.
FHLB—Fedral Home Loan Bani
Board.
HOLC—Home Owners Loar
Corporation.
IAB—Industrial Advisory Board
JEB—Joint Economy Board.
LAB-Labor Advi«ni**r
NCB — National Compliant
Board.
NEC — National Emergency
Council.
NUB—National Labor Board.
NRA—National Recovery' Ad
ministration.
PAB—Petroleum Administrator
Board.
PIA—Petroleum Industry As
sociation.
PWA—Public Works Adminis
tration.
SAB—Science Advisory Board.
TV A—Tennessee Valley Auth
ority.
USES—United States Employ
ment Service.
We have left out a lot of initial*
which were in use before the New
Deal came, like those of the Fed
ral Reserve Board, the Recon
struction Finance Corporation, the
Veterans Relief Administration and
others. But we must not omit tc
list one set of intials of greater
consequence than all the othrs.
FDR—The man who’s running
the whole show!
THE TRAIN IS COMING BACK
Under the above title, Waltei
P. McGuire, editor of the South
side Virginia News, Petersburg,
Virginia, says:
"Having blazed the permanent
way across the continent—-laid it
self down for seemingly endles:
miles across level land, bridged
every little creek and spreading
swamp and roaring river, climbed
over the mountains or blasted it:
way through them, the railroad
made itself perhaps the largest
single instrument of national de
velopment, servant of individual:
and great industries ... a great
American institution.”
He then points out how privileg
ed competition, tax subsidized and
unregulated, has crippled and near
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regulated railroads.
Out of this testing period, th(
railroads are emerging into a new
era brought about by imaginatior
and courage on the part of theii
managements. The Union Pacific
for example, is pioneering what i:
doubtedly the world’s fastest, lonj
distance land travel method. It:
aluminum train with every moderr
convenience has a speed of 11(
miles an hour.
Editor McGuire is right. Th<
train is coming back—and with i
, vengeance.
I People complain of perspiratioi
stains on their clothes, but some o:
1 us would like to see more of then
1 on. the working overalls which wi
have given the boys.
OUT IN Texas last week they had
MOTHER-IN-LAW-DAY.
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i WILL ROGERS helped them with
THE CELEBRATION
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BY DECLARING '
THAT THERE are a lot of sorry
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l SONS-IN-LAW in the world, but
THAT WE don’t believe that any
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TRIBUTE COULD be paid to a
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CERTAIN MOTHER-IN-LAW
WHO VISITED in Salisbury some
TIME AGO. She came for a
SHORT VlSrj*, but remained for
^ 4c
A YEAR. She talked without
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LET-UP FROM morning until
NIGHT. AT first her
SON-IN-LAW TRIED to get a
rt- #• *
WORD IN edgewise, but finally
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HE GAVE it up. After she had
GONE AWAY, young Tom
JUNIOR, SAID "to his father:
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"DAD: WHAT was that you
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STARTED TO SAY last spring?”
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I THANK YOU. .
1 UUiiVtjr i KJ
THE QOGS
The impossible has happened.
Pie crust is now being offered,
rgady mixed, by grocers. Biscuits
may be also secured ready-mixed.
All one has to do is open the can
and dump the biscuits in a pan and
put them in the oven. Won’t
this make our mothers snort.
—Cherryville Eagle.
HE DID HIS PART
Rev. Tom Cogburn of Canton,
the new pastor of the Montford
Cove Baptist church, came to fill
hisj appointment Sunday but on
the account of rain, there wasn’t
any members present.
—Montford Cove correspondence,
McDowell News.
FIRST THING HE COULD
LAY HQLD OF
The manager of one of the gro
cery stores here is reported to be
suffering a strained back. His boss
from out-of-town entered the
iinpynprfp^Iv mA mini op-r
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in a desperate effort to appear
busy, picked up a two-hundred
pound of fat back with the re
sulting injury.
—David Sink, Lexington Dispatch.
NEAT
Henry Ward Beecher, we are
informed by The Christian Science
Monitor, entered the Plymouth
church one Sunday‘and found sev
eral letters awaiting him. He
opened one and found it contained
the single word "Fool.”
With a seriousness befitting the
occasion he announced the fact to
the congregation in these words:
"f have known many an instance
of a man writing a letter and for
getting to sign his name, but this
is the only instance I have ever
known of a man signing his name
and forgetting to write the let
ter.”
—Jonas Ridge correspondence,
Morganton News-Herald.
CAN’T LEARN A HALF
FROZEN YOUNG ’UN
There are 10 more days of school
we are all sure glad—as the little
folks have been exposed for the
: past month, some of them come
: home crying. We don’t need school
; here in the mountains in winter
! and I do hope the folks that con
trol the schools will thaink enough
of our little children to give Us a
summer school.
—Jvnas Ridge correipondence,
1 Morganton News-Herald.
ASK MA; SHE KNOWS
i Can you remember back fifty
: years when daring daughter used
i to slip into brother’s room and try
; on his pants, just to be devilish? '
—Salmagundi, Statesville Record.
THIS WEEK IN '
WASHINGTON ,
(Continued From Page One)
ment among Republicans as well as
Dmocrats chat the tariff increases 1
provided in the two tariff laws en- !
aetd by the Republicans in 1921
and 1930, ran the import duties on ’
most of the list up- to unworkable
peaks, and by inciting other nations *
to set up defenses against Arneri- -
can agression in other markets, !
while shutting them off from our
markets, had a great deal to do
with prolonging the situation pre
cipitated by the crisis of 1929.
Now Mr. Roosevelt has bravely
brought the tariff right up to the
front of politics again. By til the
rules of logic and economics this
complicated subject cefainlv ought
to be administered by the Execu
tive, either by the President single
handed or by a commission respon
sible directly to him, and under
._i.:__-i_
responsible to Congress and its le
strictions. But whethe! the y es
ent Congress will be able to resist
the local pressure from the back
home interests who don’t want an
equitable tariff, nor reduced tariff _
rates, nor anything that might
conceivably benefit all the people
if it is going to hurt their own
pocketbooks. \
If Congress does grant this
power to President Roosevelt it will
have to put into his hands the most
useful of all weapons with which •
to carry on the fight against Old
Man Depression. And if it does
not give him what he asks for it
will be the first time it has denied
him anything, and there, again, the
majority of the members of both
Houses are likely to face repercus
sions from back home—and there’s
a general election coming on next
November!
Your correspondent’s best gues;
hrefore, is that Mr. Roosevelt wili
;et what he asks for.
First Follies’ girl to marry ar
ndian Prince. Story of show gir
vho has sailed to marry the fab
ilously wealthy nephew of a ma
larajoh. One of many features i'
he American Weekly with th<
BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERI
CAN, issue of March 18. Buj
rour copy from your favoriti
lewsboy or newsdealer.
How Cardui
Helps Women
"Mal-nutrition” means that your
body is not getting enough to keep
It up, so that what it has to do is
not done well. You may not be eat
ing enough to keep up the work of
the body, or there may be something
wrong that keeps you from getting
full value from the food you eat.
Because of mal-nutrition, some
women have aches and pains every
month. Such pains should not be
neglected.
Take Cardui to give you a better
appetite, to give you more strength
from the food you eat — to build up
and increase your feeling of well
being. Aches and pains go away as
you build up with the help of Cardui.
•
me president nas a 1.1*5
ally designed for him which can b
used to show that he is at horn
while the rest of us here in Salis
bury have to be content with ou
pajamas hanging out on the bad
yard clothesline.
People can’t seem to remembe
to file their income tax return!
but they don’t forget anything th
'government owes them.
I mT T r
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: your child. Fascinating article
: reveals how dance steps betray the
r behavior of youngsters. One of
i many splendid articles in the Am
erican Weekly, which comes with
the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AM
r ERICAN, issue of March 18. Buy
, your copy from your favorite
newsboy or newsdealer.
Newsom & Co.
104% S. Main Street
Salisbury, N. C.
Expert Watch and Jewelry
Repairing
Dr. L. A. Coleman
EYE, EAR, NOSE & THROAT
SPECIALIST
Wright Bldg. Phone 329
Residence Phone 1259
Optometrist
Eyes examined and glasses fitted
Telephone 1J71W.
107% S. Main Street
Next to Ketchie Barber Shop.
Shoes rebuilt the better way.
All kinds of harness, trunk and
suitcase repairing.
FAYSSOUX’S PLACE
Phone 4J3 120 E Innes St.
PLUMBING
When in trouble Call us
C. J. W. FISHER
"Your Plumber’’
j 113 E. Fisher Phone 570
NEW PRICES
Dry Cleaning
50
Men’s Suits, Ladies’ Plain
Dresses. Men’s Hats Cleaned
and blocked.
CASH AND CARRY
FARABEE BROS.
122 E. Innes Phone 243
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.” PHONE 141
STAR LAUNDRY
"The Good One”
Launderers and Dry Cleaners
Phone 24 114 West Bank St.
ONE DAY SERVICE
Radiator Repairing
' CLEANING AND RECOR
ING ALL MAKES
we Sell or
1 Trade New and
Second - Hand.
We Are The
Oldest and Most
Reliable.
- SEE US
EAST SPENCER MOTOR CO.
E. Spencer, N. C. Phone 1198-J
Heat with Coke . . . the clean efficient fuel
“For Better Living—ELECTRIFY”
How many of these appliances are in your home? .... I
waffle irons, percolators, oven cookers, indirect lamps, hot
plate toasters, heating pads, electric sweepers, hot plate,
kettles, egg cooker, washing machines, electric stove, elec
tric refrigerators and many others.
Spring and House Cleaning Mean
HARD WORK
For the Housewife
Electrical appliances will ease these burdens wonderfully
and at a very little cost.
SEE THESE SPECIALS
MIXMASTER
“It Beats Everything”
An Indispensable help In
the kitchen—mixes, whips,
extracts Juices, and per
forms many other tire
some tasks in a minute.
Here i0 an item that will
never be put on the shelf.
Cost of operation: two
tentbs cents per hour.
I OVEN COOKER | )
For roasts, soups, cereals, or entire dinners,
right down to desserts. Compact and com
plete with utensils shown here, and please
note the low operating cost—there’s true
' economy. Will do anything an oven will
do.
COST OF OPERATION- TWO AND
ONE-FIFTH CENTS PER HOUR j
I UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC IRON I I
$0.50
A fine chromium plated, six pound iron . . .
fully guaranteed.
OPERATES FOR TWO AND SEVEN
TENTHS CENTS PER HOUR.
Southern Public Utilities Co.
PHONE 1900
Ride the street cars and avoid the parking nuisance
Miller
r
Indirect
LAMPS
for perfect light
Two
•V
Sizes
The** lamp* give
' an r Yen glareleu
light for the entire
1 room . . . the per
i feet lamp for the
ere* . . . one horn
of perfect light foi
one and one-tenth
cent* On opr new
low residential
rate*.
_<
For heating water, surface
, cooking, etc. Sturdy, port*
able and ready for use in an
I instant. COO-watt size.
! Cost of operation: two and
' seren-tentbs cents P9 hoar,