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Carolina Watchman Published Every Friday Morning At SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA E. W. G. Huffman, Publisher A. R. Monroe, Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 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. W! DO OUR RMir BEAUTY OR BILL BOARDS ALONG OUR HIGHWAYS? Iis there no way to build up sentiment against the indiscrimi nate posting of bills and the dumping of tin cans, rubbish heaps, and old cars along our highways? Bill Boards are a common source of ugliness. They range in size from the small ones on boards and trees to the printed signs tacked on telephone posts and trees. Trees are stunted, buildings de faced, and the landscape obscured by them. Glaring rows of bill boards stare at us on all sides. They are seen at every turn. They sprawl across the scenic stretches of t country landscapes and the most conspicu ous points on the highways are selected for posting bills. Long before we reach a town, we are told where to find places to eat, places to sleep, bargain houses, and what-not. Property owners per mit glaring signs to be painted on barns and bill boards to be erected for a small compensation. More often the sig»s are nailed up with out permission from the owner w’ho is not enough interested in the appearance of the property to have them removed. Business in terests are defeating their purpose in the type of isigns and adver tisements posted. If every prop erty Owner w'ould have bills ' re moved as soon as the lease is out and refuse to allow new boards of objectionable nature to be erected, half the problem would be solved. Where bill board advertisement is permitted, well designed boards placed with discrimination, and only with the advice and consent of the supervisisg landscape archi tect and district Highway Super visor, should be permitted. There is another side to the question. The landscape doej not belong to any one person. Every man should have the privilege of enjoying the scenery God has given us and no person or busi ness has a right to obliterate scenic spots by bill boards and dump heap. "Hct-dog stands” and sign-covered filling stations of fend good taste and desecrate the roadside beauty which every man should be privileged to enjoy. Section 151 of the Revenue Act of 1933, Chapter 445 of Public Laws, deals in part with bill boards, providing a tax on them. The enforcement of this law will help to abolish a nuisance which has reflected on public opinion. Rural Virginia (I am excepting approaches to her towns) is per haps as free as any other southerr state from bills. During blossorr time and garden week thousand; of tourists view the orchards ol the Shenandoah Valley and th( beautiful country homes without the distraction of the bill boarc curtain. The Garden Clubs ol Virginia have been largely respon sible for this. Sentiment throughout the coun try against the commercializatior of the rural highways is steadih increasing. In North Carolin; the Garden Clubs, the Federatior of Women’s Clubs the Federatior of Home Demonstration Clubs an cooperating with the Hig-hwa) Commission in a State-wide High way Beautification Plan whicl will help materially in ridding North Carolina of the "Sign Lep-1 rosy.” United efforts on the part of these and other organizations could so arouse public isentiment that motorists would have an op portunity to see North Carolina behind the bill boards. As some one has said: "Behind the Alps lies Italy; and lest we forget, be hind the bill boards lies America.” GETTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING In 1902, electric customers num bered 5 83,000. At the end of 1933, the num ber had grown to more than 24, 000,000. This amazing extension of ser vice was largely the result of the elimination of small electric gen erating stations, serving a handful of customers in a limited area, and their replacement by large fuel and hydro stations which, through in terconnection of high tension transmission lines, are able to serve thousands of square miles and mil lions of persons. Greater volume, as in any other business, lowers the unit cost—and the consequences was a reduction in the average reidential rate from 16.2 cents per kilowatt hour to 5.49 cents be tween 1902 and 1933. The present drive for municipal ownership threatens all that has been gained in the past. Great inter-connected systems would be broken up, and we would return to the conditions of twenty years ago. Efficiency would inevitably de cline. And the hardest hit of all would be the residents of small towns and farmers. The private electric industry is rapidly provid ing the rural dweller with power as cheaply as it does the city dwell er. To furnish this service (with small, isolated plants would raise costs, stop the development of rur al electrification, and lower stand ards of service. The amount the private electric industry pays in taxes now runs from 10 to 15 per cent of its total receipts. In 1933 it paid $225, 000,000 to various local, state and national tax collecting agencies. Publicly-owned plants are generally tax exmpt and pay nothing. Re moving the private systems from the tax rolls would necessitate higher taxes for all other property. And in case of operating deficits, which are quite common with small municipal plants, the taxpayer! would have to make them up, as they would also have to pay foi useless duplication of electric ser vice—getting nothing for some thing. The municipal ownership move ment is definitely a step back ward—both socially and economi cally. All the political grand-1 standing in the world can’t hide that fact. Silver was the standard unit of value in America before gold. The Continental Congress adopted as a monetary unit a dollar con taining 375.64 grains of pure sil ver. Consequently, the present move to remonetize silver can’t be called an untried experiment. It is simply designed to put an old eco nomic instrument, which did nec essary work well, back on the job again. In doing that, it would bring new life into an industry which has been one of our greatest employers, taxpayers and contri butors to prosperity—mining. "The electrical power capacity in the Northwest now amounts to .... twice the aggregate peak load requirement in any month of this year 1933). Where to find a market for this surplus power is a question being asked by private power interests. Where to find a market for the Grand Coulee and Bonneville power is a question that will soon confront the government officials.”—Oswald West, former Governor of Oregon. The average portion which each man, woman and child owes for Federal and local government debts, totals about $300, or appro ximately $1,200 for every family of four. Repayment of principal and interest comes out of earnings of every citizen and industry. WE ARE not going to mention •Se -it -it ANY NAMES but you may know a a a THE CHIEF character in this a a a _ LITTLE DRAMA. "See that sh «■ »f* MAN OVER there?” said a certain * -it je MAN TO a lady he did not KNOW AT a reception. • * * "HE’S A bombastic ass, a VACUOUS NONENITY, A a a a CONCEITED HUMBUG, a PARASITE, AND an encumbrance TO THE earth.”" The lady St Sc S! PAUSED A moment and then SAID SWEETLY, "would you MIND WRITING that down? YOU SEE, he’s my husband 3J- 5h * AND I would like to use it >!■ » ON HIM some time.” I THANK YOU COUNTER CLAIM Most of the talk here is concern ing the taking to prison of four of our prominent citizens, and most all give expressions like this: If this is what it costs to be an of ficial and try to save the people their money in a bank, we don’t want to be elected. Brother, the ones that are back of this are no saints, no siree. —Selica correspondence, Transyl vania Times. PLEASE EXCUSE IT Whenever we come to one of those spots in the city that was once upon a time a miniature golf course this thought comes to mind: "Closed—opened by mistake!” —Radio, Concord Tribune. NOT HARD TO BELIEVE "Alice the alligator girl’’ and Eugene Devine the "Bohemian glass blower,” attracted much curiosity here the past week as they exhibited here the past week in the former Lowry building. —St. Pauls correspondence, Lum ber ton Robesonian. THE DIE IS CAST, THE RUBICON IS CP.OS’T. Today I shut my eyes, gritted my teeth, and ordered to be ship ped to me from the factory a new wagon, which took nearly every cent of change I had. But that’s just the way it goes. Get along little dollar, get along, get along. —Dan,a correspondence, Western Carolina Tribute. PROMINENT TENNESSEEAN Colonel Luke Lea’s command, the 114th Field Artilery, lands at Newport News after active and valiant service in France. Col. Lea is a prominent Tennesseean. —15 Years Ago, Raleigh News & Observer. HOGSHEAD WHAT WAS The local Major Hoople was telling some of the boys about a big hog he had just killed. "How much did it weigh, 'Windy’?” ask ed Joe Shields. "Didn’t weigh the whole hog,” replied "Windy”, "but the head came to 150 pounds!” Mr. Shields whistled. isaHHH WROWCi Birr it SEEMS TO ME *OIET MOST OF THE JOKES TOLD OVER THE RADIO HAVE LoMCj SINCE EARNED RE TIREMENT AMD DESERVE TENSIONS.. "Gosh, almighty,” he exclaimed, "that’s a big hog!” "Pshaw,” was the nonchalant reply of "Windy”, "he was a small one compared to the ones I raised down on the coast.” —Moore County News. THERE’S A WAY TO FIND OUT . . . And while we’re on the sub ject, wonder what would happen if some brave soul really did "cummup some time.” —Statesville Daily. WHAT HE WANTS IS A HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT I’d be willing to live on a farm' if I had a good wife who would milk the cows, cook three meals a day, feed the horses, slop the hogs, tend the crops, peddle in town on Saturday, and furnish me a pipe and tobacco to smoke in my spare moments. —Billy Arthur, New Bern Tribune. UMBO IN VIRGINIA Once we had legal liquor, and then we had prohibition; now we ain’t got neither. —Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON (Continued Frorn'Vage One) War Department is letting the generals run things is said to be worrying the President. There is a growing belief that the attor ney-general, Homer Cummings, is too easy-going and too easily in fluenced into hasty action. And 'even in the President’s own inti mate circle a great deal of dis satisfaction is being expressed about the Postmaster General, Mr. Farley. This is to some extent based upon the feeling that he put the President in a hole on the air mail matter and let it develop so that the blame is on the President instead of on Farley. And the air-mail situation is still a major topic of interest here. Nobody knows just who Cap tain Eddie Rickenbacker, famous war-time "ace” aviator, had in mind when he denounced the "traitorous advisers” of the Presi dent in his statement before the Senate committee investigating the jair mail, but it is certain that the unanimity of his attitude and those of Col. Lindbergh and Clar ence Chamberlain have had a great effect upon public and official sentiment. Beyond question, those on the inside say, the air mail; will speedily be turned back to the people who know how and are equipped to fly them, and ;'iere will be a sweeping reorganization of the military flying forces. The weakness of the Army aviation system, under which aviatois get only about four hours flying ;■ month, against 90 hours for com mercial aviators, lies in the econo my urge which impels the de partment heads to inquire why so much gasoline was used. It looks from here as if politi cal opposition were beginning to take organized shape. A group calling itself the "Republican Builders,” financed by nobody knows who, but directed by a very able newspaper man, Julian Ma son, formerly editor of the New York Evening Post, is conducting an active propaganda campaign to (crystallize opposition sentiment. How far it will get nobody can guess as yet, but it is evidence that the political campaign of 1936 has begun. Charles Dickens’ Masterpiece— "THE LIFE OF OUR LORD,” illustrated and illuminated for permanent preservation. Four page supplement, in colors, with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AM ERICAN. Buy your copy from your favorite newsdealer or news boy_ SICK HEADACHE Many cases of SICK HEADACHE are due to constipation. 'If you have headache that is due to con stipation, take Thedford’s BLACK DRAUGHT for refreshing relief. “I have taken Black-Dbaught, when needed, for about 15 years,” writes Mr. J. W. Cooper, of Long view, Texas. "I first began to use it for sick headache that seemed to come from constipation. “I would suffer about twenty four hours with these headaches. I found out that Black-Dbaught would help me, so that is what I took. I am glad to recommend it to others, for this trouble, for it will give relief.” Thedford’s Black-Draught Is a purely vegetable laxative, preferred by thousands of men and women because it is so effective and economical. For Children, get the new, pleas ant-tasting BYBUP of Thedford’a Black-Draught, In 25* & 50* bottles. The lamp Is Too High—---b,juu*t.*h ] * > — — ,u'Jr'‘ < rz> Old Court Paper Vouches For Integrity Of Woman Mooresville — An interesting document, revealing a bit of his tory 109 years ago, has been shown here by Luther G. Brotherton. The document, a voucher for a young woman’s integrity, was is sued in behalf of Brotherton’s grandmother. Here is the story: It was cus tomary a century ago to mark criminals by branding and clipping ears. Liars and thieves were marked by having a small piece taken out of one of the ears. It happened that Miss Betsy So phia McCrary had the misfortune to lose a small portion of her ear when bitten by a vicious horse. Although (she arranged her hair to cover her ears, she was const antly ill at ease for fear some one would discover the mark and think her a criminal. Accordingly, a relative, David McCrary, and her father, appealed to the court in Statesville to make official pronouncement of the girl’s good reputation. The document follows: "State of North Carolina, Ire dell county. Court Pleas and Quarter Sessions. May term, 1825. "David McCrary came into open court and made oath in due form of law that Betsy Sophia Mc Crary, daughter of Thomas Mc Crary, had part of her ear bitten off by a horse creature. "I, Robert Simmonton, clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Iredell county, do hereby certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the records of said court. "In witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal o( my office at Statesville the 18th day of October, 1825.” Postal Clerk Is Bound Over Monroe—J. Houston Pressley, Monroe postoffice clerk who was arrested Tuesday for the misappro priation of a special delivery letter containing money, was given a hearing Wednqsday before U. S. Commissioner M. L. Flow and was bound over to the April term of federal court in the sum of $5 00. Pressley, when arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning, possessed a letter containing four dollars, according to evidence of postal inspectors. He pleaded not guilty at the hearing. Charge Woman With Hoarding Shreveport, La.—Federal agents arrested Mrs. Mary Blanchard for hoarding $2,500 in gold. Arraigned before T. Overton Brooks, United States commission er, the defendant was notified that a temporary bond of $3,000 would be fixed. She had been un able to make bond. May be hard work for the women folks to scrub the floor, but anyway the floor does not wriggle and scream like junior does when scrubbed. Dollars, it is said, are going begging in the New York mone\ market, but many people in Salis - bury will still accept them. E. CARR CHOATE DENTIST Office in Mocksville first three days of week; in Salisbury last three days of week, over Pur cell’s Drug Store, "On the i Square.” PHONE 141 PLUMBING When in trouble Call us C. J. W. FISHER "Your Plumber’’ 113 E. Fisher Phone 5?0 STAR LAUNDRY "The Good One” <0 Launderers and Dry Cleaners Phone 24 114 West Bank St. ONE DAY SERVICE Dr. L. A. Coleman EYE, EAR, NOSE & THROAT SPECIALIST Wright Bldg. Phone 329 Residence Phone 1259 DR. N. C. LITTLE Optometrist Eyes examined and glasses fitted Telephone 1S 71W. 107% S. Main Street Next to Ketchie Barber Shop. PRICE UcuJOR THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT _____H u P & STATEMENT MARCH 1, 1934. 2 rA . TJ P ASSETS LIABILITIES North Carolina Bonds-$ 5,000.00 Instalment Stock_$ 205,091.82 Certificates of Deposit- 6,500.00 Paid-up Stock_ 218,3 80.00 ^ 2 Cash in Bank, Checking Surplus and Undivided g P Account _ 11,401.80 ed Profits_ 50,661.53 First Mortgages on Real Indebtedness -NONE Estate - 423,385.00 Loans on Pass Book Stocks 14,929.00 rf fe Real Estate_ 12,917.55 $ S - - _ £ £ $474,133.35 $474,133.35 H We are prepared to make immediate loans for new h fc buildings and for remodeling and repairing homes. g 5 P Our Series No. 60 is open and 'we urge you to START A REGULAR SAVINGS ACCOUNT IN IT. £ '5 H-} £3 £ Home Building & Loan Association % The Leading Building and Loan at Salisbury ^ j_ A. W. HARRY, Pres. E H. HARRISON, Sec-Treas. X 2 Office: First Floor, Pilot Building, "At the Square” Phone 116 2 ® THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT
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