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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. POLITICS AND JOBS We have never heard a satisfac tory answer to the question: "How can party politics be kept out of public business?’’ We are inclin ed to think there isn’t any answer. The party in power, whether it be Republican or Democratic, natur ally desires to perpetuate itself in power. Party politics is based on organization, to be efective, must begin down at the grass-roots; that is to say, in the election districts and precincts. Organization in volves active party workers, who will keep party sentiment alive in their respective territories, see to it that all the party voters get out to the polls; in short, who will, as nearly as they can. "deliver the vote” of their precincts. It does no good to try to organ ize a party from the top. It must be organized from the bottom. This involves a great army of party workers. Few of these are in politics for the fun of t. They must be for the fun of it. They must be ganization could possibly raise funds with which to pay all of the work ers even modest salaries. Hence it is necessary for the party in power to see to it that these party work ers get jabs, in exchange for their services to the party and so they can keep up the good work. If there are not ertough jobs on the public payrolls to take care of them all, then the party leaders have to try to get their workers favored in filling vacancies in the business and industries of the district. Sometimes an industry is quite responsive, hoping to get favors in such matters as taxation and minor violations of the factory laws, or in some other way. The party that is "in” always has an advantage over the "outs,” be cause it can reward its workers now, instead of with hopes and promises if, as and when they get back into power. That, in a practical sense, is all there is to party politics. It is ab surd to expect any party that is "in” to keep its workers out of pub lic jobs, or to let any of the "outs” have those jobs. If it did, it would not be "in’’ very long. That is why we place no faith ir any assurance that party politics is not considered in filling public jobs. PLANS AND HUMAN NATURE From as far back as there an any records, philosophers and re formers have been trying to plar the "Perfect State.” We hav( looked into some of those plans The oldest of which we have : record seems alaout the best. That is the "Republic” of the Greet philosopher Plato, who flourishec about 300 B. C., or more thar 2,200 years ago. The main diffi culty with putting his plan intc operation was that it took fifty years to train the men, who wen to constitute the governing class. Sir Thomas More published ; book in the year 1520, describing an imaginary nation which he call ed "Utopia,” and the name ha: been ever since to designate an idea of society. Fifty or sixty year: later Sir Francis Bacon tried t( improve Utopia with an account oi the "New Atlantis,” another Per fect State. Various other philoso phic speculators have tried then hands at he same game, the most noteworthy being Edward Bella my, whose "Looking Backward,” published in 1888, sold more than a million copies and was translat ed into twenty languages. All of these plans for regenerat ing society and making everybody happy have the same fatal weakness. That is that their authors assume that human nature changes or can be changed. None of them would jwork—unless every other inhabtant were a policeman—so long as hu !man nature remains essentally sel fish and self-centered. And we 'have seen no evidence that there has been any great change in that respect since the days when the Bible wras written. To the argu ment that if everybody had plenty nobody would steal or cheat, the answer, as we see it, is that we have heard of very' rich men who were not alway's honest. It is one thing to make a logical |plan, and quite a different thing to I get people to abide by it. If every body were honest and unselfish and !so filled with the spirit of justice !as never to do an injustice to any jone else, the Utopian pTans might work. But if everybody were like that there would be no need of any government at all! FARMER COMING OUT OF THE RED There is good news for the farm er in a late Department of Agricul ture report. The farm price index, on March 15, was at 76, as com pared with 5 0 a year ago. (The 1909 to 1914 average equals 100). In addition, the index of prices that farmers pay for the things they buy was 120, as compared with 100 a year earlier. In other words, the price received for what the farmer sells has gone up 52 per cent in! a year—and the price he pays has risen but 20 per cent, leaving him a substantial advan tage. A great deal ot the credit tor that must go to the farm coopera tives. They have put in what is possibly the hardest-working, most aggressive year in their history. They have brought home to theit members the necessity of crop cur tailment. They have steadied markets, and held up price levels in the face of strong adverse condi tionss. They have had a com manding voice in agricultural, monetary, export and other legisla tion affecting the producing and marketing of agricultural commo dities. Those are definite achievements. And during the present year, the co-ops are carrying on their cam paign for better, and more pros perous farming svith unabated en ergy and vigor. The outlook is better than at any time since 1928. The attitude of the average farmer toward his cooperative is more un derstanding—and more enlightened. RECKLESS WALKERS Are you a safe walker? If you can’t make an honest answer in the affirmative your life and health i: literally in peril. Last year automobile-pedestrian collisions accounted for 37 per cent of the 73 6,000 accidents which oc curred on the streets and highway: of this country. Deaths resulting from such accidents comprised 45 per cent of the total of 29,500 fa talities. In other words, pedestri ans were involved in more than ' third of all traffic misadventures— and the chance of fatality wa: greater than in other types of acci dents. Pedestrians crossing in the mid die of the block proved the mosi hazardous—that caused 31 per cem of the fatalities. Careless walking on highways was responsible for 1/ per cent. Children playing in thi , street came to 13 per cent. Walk, ing out from behind parked cars in to traffic accounted for 11 pei cent, with the balance of 28 pei cent laid to miscellaneous causes. The careless pedestrian is a men ace just as is the careless driver— but he receives less attention Crossing against signals—playing hide-and-seek with parked cars— walking along rural roads with bad to oncoming traffic—these ar< some of the surest means of court ing death. Think over your walk ing habits—and correct them. THE MANAGEMENT of the ’ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT 9J- -r TOLD ME this story and wanted it it it ME TO use the names because * *■ * THE DAIRYMAN who sells milk TO THE store mentioned in the >{• 9j* STORE WON’T buy an ad, but it i* ’ll WE COULDN’T break our rule * * 3F FOR SUCH a thing. A certain si- ■> i'e YOUNG MARRIED woman 9F * * HANDED THE clerk a milk BOTTLE. "MAY I have a A QUART OF vinegar?” she said. 'I’M SORRY, Mrs. Setters, but ■J: -ii IT IS against the law to put ANYTHING BUT milk in a * * -it bottle”, he protested. "I’m glad «■ «• »f YOU TOLD me that, Mr. St » + STOREM”, SHE remarked, * * "BECAUSE I’VE often, wondered WHY THERE is never any CREAM ON THE MILK.” 1 THANK YOU. IN BOTH THE DEUCE IS CAUGHT BY SOME ONE Another severe social tragedy is the contract bridge invasion of the set-back country. —George Beasley, Jr., Monroe Jour nal. SORRY; OURS SEEM TO BE SKIN AND BONES W. B. Duke is in the market for some nice ash legs. If you have any, get his quotations loaded on the car anywhere in North Caro lina. —Hemp correspondence, Moore bounty News. BETTER LEAVE THE GOD BLESSEMS ALONE We wish our Solicitor Kellum would ask our grand jury to make some inquiries about those of our ladies who are operating punch boards. —State Port Pilot. LOGICAL AND APPROPRI ATE After going to press, we remem ber that the reason why this issue of The Record is printed in green has not been given. "There’s a reason.” This spring time and that means live things turn green. The Record modestly lays claim to be ing a live country newspaper, hence 'and therefore our greenness at pres ent claims justification. —Zebu Ion Record. THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN— Charlotte bootlegger caught in Salisbury tells officers the estab lished wholesale liquor price in Piedmont North Carolina is 87 cents a gallon. Mother Goose a la mode: Sing a song of 87 cents, Pocket full of chemically colored rot-gut masquerading as rye; That’s the place many carry it In a state that’s dry (?). —Greensboro Record. MAS PROPOSED 1034 I licewse PLATES on -. ALL CHICKENS THET 8 , h RUN-*r-LAB6E THIS summer i_______________ '-AWSY; SOMETHING ELSE *OR WORRY April 13 brought a snow here, it seems pid Man Winter came to ;ee us again when the thermometer dropped on the 14th to 28 which gave us ice and a big trost. We aope the fruit crop and early gar dens were not damaged. —Worry correspondence, Morgan ton News-Herald. YOUTH! HERE IT COMES! "What is the present generation driving at?”: asks a contemporary. About seventy miles per hour, I hould imagine. —Hertford County Herald. LIGHTER SIDE OF SAW M1LLING Some one will have to say "hur rah” for Pleasant Grove, for there are two small saw mills in tooting distance of each other. One will too then the other will toot back at him. —Pleasant Grove Correspondence, Transylvania Times. ”00 SOMEP’N, ANYHOW Morris Brantley is suffering very much from being burned some time ago. He lay down by the fire and went to sleep. We don’t know whether he lay too long or too close. ZAT WHERE THE LUKES LEA DID SPRING FROM Mrs. J. N. Fennell, who has been here with her granddaughter, Mrs. W. L. Robinson, for two weeks, re turned to her home at Lea’s Springs, Tenn., last Sunday. —Mars Hill Items, Marshall News Record. S. O. S. The proper time to pat the hus band on the back is during the seventh consecutive dance with his wife. —High Point Enterprise. \LLEE SAMEE TO MISSY LOW "Vun Hong Lo,” Mr. York of Camp Dyer laundry, is visiting his home in Greensboro, and is ex pected back about the 16th of the month. Hurry back, Vun Hong Lo, our long handies and socks are getting dirty. —C. C. C. Items, Mor.ganfon News-Herald. , — SUE ’EM, HENRY; THEY’RE TEASING OU T. It was thought that the outgoing nail from the local postoffice would be late here Monday of ths week all because some of the bad boys around town tied a cotton string rom a No. 60 spool of thread to the rear wheel of Chester Wise’s T model Ford and wrapped the string around a stick stuck in the ground. After the Ford had made a few lunges according to reports, the driver dismounted and cut the tring, freeing the automobile which arrived at the Southern’s deport in time to get the mail on No. 12. —Catawba News-Enterprise. ntO TIME FOR TYPOGRAPICAL ERRORS Now that the June primary is not so far distant as it once was and now1 that the woods are full of candidates, it behooves newspapers to be careful—very, very careful of their proof-reading. Sir Sant ford Martin, of the Winston-Salem Journal-Sentinel carried the follow ing editorial recently: NEWSPAPERMAN’S TROUBLES Those critics who manifested a disconcertng degree of impatience with the errors and misprints which ometimes occur in the best of fami ly periodicals might consider the case of the newspaperman as ex pressed so succinctly by the Fair mont, Michigan, Sentinel: "Confound those linotype space bands. They are always slipping in the wrong place in the line mak ing nonsense out of sense if un detected. To those not of the craft it may be explained that a space band is the dingus on a type setting machine that makes the space between the words. Well, the yarn is this: The writer dash ed off something good about our good governor, saying how well he was 'serving the masses.” The space band slipped and the printed line said 'serving them asses’, and Tommy, reading proof, thought it was all right, let it go.” MEDIATOR WITHDRAWS Joseph B. Eastman, federal co ordinator of transportation, has withdrawn as mediator in the railroad wage dispute after labor eaders and railroad managers could not be brought into line. LIFTS SUNDAY BAN Sunday amusements, including baseball and theatres, from 1 to 7 o’clock in the afternoon and from 9 in the evening, will be permitted in Asheville by an ordinance passed last week by the city council. MORTGAGE SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue of authority contained in a certain mortgage deed of trust, dated November 1, 1922, and reg istered in the Register’s Office of Rowan County in Book of Mort gages No. 80, page 145, frotn Frank L. Murray and wife, Nola B. Murray, to P. S. Carlton, Trustee, default having been made in the payment of the note secured there by, and request of foreclosure hav ing been made by the holder of aid note, the undersigned Trustee will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, at the Court House door in Salisbury, N. C., on Saturday, May 26, 1934, at 12 o’clock, Noon, the following described real estate, to-wit: Situated in Unity Township and known as part of the Kesler Tract, bounded as follows: BEGINNING at a stake in Sec ond Creek, corner of J. H. Myers’ tract, and runs thence West 15 chs. to a stake, J. H. Myers’ corner on the old line; thence North 1 East 10.25 chs. to a stake; thence North 87 deg. East 6 chs. to a take; thence Southeast about 1 Feels a Lot Better When Black-Draught Relieves Constipation From many states come reports like the following from Mr. W. M. Henderson, of Jasper, Fla: “I have been taking Thedford’s Black Draught twenty years. I take it for constipation that gives me a dull, tired, aching feeling, and I have headache, too. Black-Draught relieves me of this trouble, After a few doses, I feel as good as new. I keep it in my home. I have a big family. When one of us is ail ing (from constipation), we take Black-Draught and almost always feel a lot better. It has been worth its weight in gold to my family.” .. . Sold in 25<i packages. “Children like the Syrup.” chain to a stake, corner of a road way; thence North 82 deg. East 14 chs. to a stake; thence South 9 deg. East 4.5 0 ch$. to a stake; thence South 49 deg. East 1.20 chs. to a Popuar; thence with the tail race to the creek; thence up the meanderings of said Second Creek to the beginning, containing 25 acres, be the same more or less. Excepting a road way to the Gra ham Lands, and being the same land conveyed by J. W. Myers and wife to Zeb V. Fisher by deed reg istered in Book No. 172, page 23 in the Register’s Office of Rowan County. Dated this 24th day of April, 1934. P. S. CARLTON, Trustee. T. K. Carlton, Attorney. April 27—May 18. MORTGAGE SALE OF REAL ESTATE By virtue of authority contained in a certain mortgage deed of trust, dated June 18, 1930, and register ed in the Register’s Office of Row an County in Book of Mortgages No. 116, page 82, from Zeb V. Fisher and wife, Mary M. Fisher to Walter H. Woodson, Sr., Trustee, default having been made in the payment of the note secured there by, and request of foreclosure hav ing been made by the holder of said-note, the undersigned Trustee will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, at the Court House door in Salisbury, N. C., on Saturday, May 26, 1934, at 12 o’clock, Noon, the following de scribed real estate, to-wit: On and near the State and Na tional highway about five miles South of Salisbury and near Sum ner Siding, and being lots Nos. 1 and 2, lying on the East side of the State Highway and between the State Highway and the double tracts of the North Carolina Rail way Company. Also lots Nos. 17 and 20, facing said State Highway and being on the West side of said State and Na tional Highway. Also lots Nos. 34, 39, 40, 41, 43 and 44 facing Crosby Street and on the Western side of the State and National Highway and one block below said highway on Crosby Street. All of said lots appear upon the Map of the property of Zeb V. Fisher, Sumner, Rowan County, N. C., survey by N. A. Trexler, C. E., Salisbury, N. C., July 28, 1923, the property laid off and shown upon said Map being known as Sumner Heights. For back title see Deed from Mrs. Lettie S. Owens to Zeb V. Fisher and J. F. Fisher, see Deed Book No. 165, page 79; also deed from J. F. Fisher to Zeb V. Fisher for the un divided one-half interest of the J. F. Fisher in and to said property; see Deed Book No. 172, page 202. Dated this 24th day of April, 1934. WALTER H. WOODSON, Sr., Trustee. T. K. Carlton, Attorney. April 27—May 18. years. SUN SPOTS AND THE. WEATHER Frequent and unannounced weather changes are to be expected during the next 12 years, accord ing to forecasts made by astrono mers. At this time, they state, a parade of spots across the sun is occurring and it will be a few days before the field is cleared. One of the spots is estimated at 16,000 miles in diameter. Ffigh winds, storms, rain, and general weather disturbances attend these visitations. There has been a long period of quiescence, the astronomers say, but any kind of weather may be expected for the next few years. The Easter parade brought out some very fine clothes, but what we want to se now is the garden parade bring out the overalls. ^—————————^^ f Hitching Up Again----~»Albm T- ** * 1 _A>if«AlTUk / ‘I THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT _H —- 2 £ Statement April 1, 1934 2 X ASSETS LIABILITIES H North Carolina Bonds-$ 5,000.00 Installment Stock_$203,618.44 Home Loan Bank-- 1,350.00 Paid-up Stock_ 219,080.00 _i pa Certificates of Deposit_ 6,5 00.00 ci , Tr , ’ w r- I - D r r'l. 1 ■ • Surplus and Undivided pi oash in Bank, Checkin? t> » £ Account __ 13,242.67 T ^ - 30»630-3« 1 H First Mortgages on Real Indebtedness-NONE H Estate_ 418,83 5.00 Loans on Pass Book Stock_ 15,454.00 H £ Real Estate_ 12,947.07 ^ ^ ___ _~ g f $473,328.74 $473,328.74 ^ We are prepared to make IMMEDIATE LOANS— h Long Terms—at 6 per cent interest. No Loan Fees 3 § are Charged. § K H-J H This is an excellent time to build or remodel your h home. , 2 ^ S Home Building & Loan Association 1 The Leading Building and Loan at Salisbury H A. W. HARRY, Pres. E H. HARRISON, Sec-Treas. X 2 Office: First Floor, Pilot Building, "At the Square” Phone 116 ~ X_-_____ H H THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT
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