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Carolina Watchmai Published Every Friday Morning At SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA t 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 exceed< that of all other publications it the country.—Arthur Brisbane. HOW CHEAP IS HOUSEHOLE ELECTRICITY? On the theory that a penny sav ed is a penny earned, electricity in the home is a money-maker—a fact that a great many of its users don’t realize. This is the argument of Freder ick W. Crone, in an article in Pub lic Utilities Fortnightly. He backs it up with illustrations of the sav ings that accrue when electricity is used for ordinary household tasks in the place of older, less efficient agents. Experiments show that fifty good-sized candles have the same illuminating value as one 50-watt niazda lamp. At five cents each, burning for five and three quarters hours, they cost $2.50. The 50 watt lamp, burning the same length of time, at six cents per killowatt hour, costs one and three-quarters cents. Another test demonstrated that it took two hours and ten minutes to sweep certain rooms with a broom, and at the finish the sweep er was exhausted. A vacum cleaner did the same, work more efficiently in 40 minutes, at a cost of less than a cent, with little the same work more efficiently in 4C minutes, at a cost of less than a cent, with little exertion on the part of the operator. Figure the price of household labor in your locality, and you have the saving -effected there. A quantity of clothes were wash ed by hand, in three hours and fif ' teen minutes. A washing machine did the the same job better in one hour, at a current cost of slightly more than a cent. Figuring labor at 40 cents an hour, a saving of nearly a dollar is made in that common instance. Other examples will come to the mind of the) housekeeper. Electric ity isn’t only a tiny item in the family budget—it really saves and makes money. HIGH STANDARDS You can go into some factories and workshops, and find a general spirit of letting everything slip through. This idea seems to be to cut costs to the limit, without much thought about the quality of the goods. Either the owners and managers are in too much of a hurry to get rich quick, or else they are depending on producing goods at too low a price. And in other shops and factories, the idea seems to be that nothing shall be allowed to go out unless it is up to certain standards. It must make good, or the reputation of the place will suffer. The same differ ence is found in farms. While some farmers are content to market any kind of stuff, others try to ob tain a reputation for the best pro ducts. When a community gets a reputation for turning out pro ducts of high standard, the future of that place is secure for people will keep coming to it. Even' newspaper man kn,ows of people who borrow his newspaper everv issue and read it—although 'there’s nothing in it.” Correct this sentence: "One of these days, before th? editor dies, I am going to pay up my subscrip tion, two years in advance." HELPING NEGRO EDUCA TION Construction is now underwaj on Dillard University, a $2,000,00C institution for Negroes, in New Orleans. It is to: be one of foui great centers of education for col ored people and represents the merging of three institutions. Dillard University is named in memory of Dr. James H. Dillard, a white man. who resigned the dean ship of Tulane University to devote the last twenty years of his life to the cause of Negro education, It is sponsored by the American Mis sionory Association of the Congre 1 gational Church, the Methodist Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church’s Board of Education, the General Education Board and the iRosenwald Fund. The proper education of Negroes in the United States is somewhat of a problem in the South.' where even the white population does not enjoy equal educational facilities with those of other sections. To give to all Negro children a sat isfactory education requires the as sistance of other people, especially those in other states, where few Negroes live, and who profess ad miration and love for the children of former slaves. In fact, the United States gov ernment, now spending vast sums of money for many good causes, could with profit, set aside a con siderable amount for the extension of educational facilities for Negroes in the South. The Rosenwald Fund has done much good along this line but the need is great and the field uncrowded. THERE’S THE RAIN-MAKERS'3 What’s the matter with the old time rain-makers? Here we have the Middle West parching for months, offering the biggest of opportunities for the pro fessors, and not one of them shows up to demonstrate his power and relieve suffering crops and animals. Older residents of Salisbury will remember the gentry. They came into sun-baked areas, with fine spun theories of the upper air and moisture, and often with gjuns, kites balloons and other parapher nalia to be used in their mystic rites '**: ,%■.<&- — Sometimes luck stayed with them and shortly after their incantations rain fell. Often the citizenry be lieved in their magic and crossed their palms with silvet contribu tions. Today, however, the pro fession has faded, because people are more intelligent or the present drought surpasses their power. WANDERING BOYS Investigators who inquired into the ideas of the wandering boys whom they found in hobo resortss near St. Louis, learned that more than half left home because they desired adventure, or wanted to see the sights. How can that desire, which the majority of boys feel to some ex tent, be so restrained that it will not lead these restless youngsters to set out on the dreary and de grading life of the road? One way is to see to it that such boys under stand clearly that the life of ad venture is one of hardship and suf jfering. Let the boy understand • jthat the adventurer on the road ; must go hungry, he must often be cold and weary, he will have tc ■ meet the world while dressed ir > rags. Perhaps then good home ■ cooking and a soft bed will lool ’ better to him. HOME TOWN THOUGHTS If you do no work in your gar den, it will be full of weeds. If you and your neighbors do no work for your home town, you can ex pept things to develop that you won’t like. When you spend money at home, it helps employ your own towns people, when you spend it some where else, your townspeople get no benefit from it. A politician can’t get elected without stating the reasons why he should get the votes. How can a business expect to be elected to suc Icess, unless it tells the peopfe the reasons why it should be patroniz IT WOULD do you a world of * * * GOOD FOR us to mention the si si si NAME OF the person in the story si si si TODAY. PERHAPS you can Si si si GUESS IT, and we hope you can. Si Si Si HE AND his wife were in New * * si YORK ON a little trip, and they si si * WENT TO a fashionable RESTAURANT FOR dinner one if * * EVENING. THE menu was a a a PRINTED IN French, but our i> iF :> WELL-KNOWN citizen had no sF DESIRE TO reveal his ignorance a a a OF THAT language. Pointing to a a a A LINE on the menu, he said, a a a "ELL HAVE some of that.” The a a a WAITER REDDENED slightly. "I»M SORRY* sir*” he replied, "BUT THE orchestra is 4c 4t PLAYING THAT now.” I THANK YOU* i KIND OF LIKE A BROKEN FRACTURE Dan Shannon, who was in a seri ous condition for several days last jweek, following an operation for ruptured appendicitis, is now im proving nicely at the hospital. —Southport State Port Pilot. FOR A BARGAIN WE RECOM MEND THAT SECOND ITEM Jones lender, 75c each; snake head teeth, 25c; paint, 25c pint; varnish stain, 25c pint; big assort ment base ball and fishing equip ment. Farmers Hardware Co. ■—Adv. FoiVst City Courier. - i MUST HAVE BEEN ONE OF THOSE HOT NIGHTS j Mr. Eck Fisher, efficient night policeman, discovered fire Monday night in the Maxton drug store, owned by Mr. E. W. Parjkdy. The ice cream refrigerator had caught and was causing considrable smoke. —Waxhaiv Iteviss, Lumberton Robesotiiati. FELLOW CHRISTIANS LAY OFF. Th^' revival meeting will begin here on the 4th Sunday in July, if no other changes are made. We are announcing it ^veral weeks ahead so no other church nearby will come in contact with this meeting. —Turrentine Items, Mocksville, Enterprise. HISTORY SHOULD BE KEPT STRAIGHT A CORRECTION M. E. Burns did not take Ferrell Lambert to the hospital as through misinformation we reported in Tuesday’s paper but he took the child’s mother, Mrs. Ulysees Lambert, there to see the child. The! boy himself was taken in the car which figured in the accident. We understand it belonged to Mr. Harris, of Hickory. We regjtfct the drror and make this correc tion gladly. —Morganton Ncws-LIcrald. GOT TO DO SOMETHING TO HOLD ALL THE RAIN WATER Mr. J. G. Gattis is having the well at his home deepened. —Route S Itfms, Sanford Express. ORDERS FROM G. H. Q. Ben Roward will preach at Bethel the third Sunday!' in this month. Brother Howard has never preached before, but says the Lord has called him to preach, so every body is invited to come out and hear him. —Bethel Itfms. Stfnly News and Press. YEH; WE BEEN NOTICING THE YOUNG CHICKENS TOO Crops are looking fine around here; gardens are looking prosper ous, and we noticdy quite a few young chickens. —Fairview Items, Lenoir News Topic. WHEN AUNT MARY JANE THROWS SHE THROWS Aunt Mary Jane Hillery, of Strawberry Hill, was wondering the other day how people in town make out with these new-farvgled elec tric flatirons. When she throws an iron at the cat, she declared, she doesn’t want any tail streaking out behind the thing. Its the - cat’s tail she wishes to se^ streaking out behind. —Upton G. Wilson, Reidsville Re view. \DONE QUIT JOYING AROUND Lou Long was "kidding” Uncle Max Huffman about not going to the old soldiers’ annual encamp ment in Chattanooga, Tenn., and aid the reason the veteran warrior would no go was because of spreading so much joy as the re sult of women, wine and song. Uncle Max cleared up his throat and said "Umph, I quit that fool ishness several years ago on my 90th birthday.” —Catawba News-Enterprise. LINES TO A MAN WHO SAT HIS WIFE ON rl HOT GAS STOVE I’d like very much, Mr. Posey, If you won’t think IVn Too nosey, To ascertain why you turned The heat Upon the wife of your bosom’s Seat? Now wives at times are truly Annoying. With jeers anl sneers and incessant Jawing, But alas, alack, a man Inferior Is ha that would sear his wife’s Posterior! —David Sink, Lexington Dispatch MRS. O MULL Mrs. Mary Hoyle of Casar spent Monday afternoon with her mother Mrs. Zero Mull. —Casar Items, fCleveland Star. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON Administration program has now been disclosed. The Federal Government is now in control of the activities of all of its citizens to an ©xent that, three years ago, would have tijen deemed impossible in America. Three years ago Congress was debaing whether it was any part of the Govern ment’s duty to share th© burden of rehdf for the destitute. Now it is the accepted thing, with proposals for old age pensions and unempoly men insurance on a national scale coming to the for©, j Government is now the only im portant source of credit on a large scale, and besides its direct loans to industry it owns a billion dollars of preferred stock in thej banks of the nation. The Government now regulates th<$ issuisg and trading in of securities, tells industry what rules must be followed in business. A^gulates?, interstate communica tions, tells the railroads how much they may pay their officials and tell: farmers what they may grow and how much of it. Those are „ only the high spots of thd New Deal. Therd is little likelihood of any change in the attitude of Congress at the next session. That is, then undoubtedly will be a Democratic majority in both houses of the 74t! Congress. Whether or not it will eat out of tHd President’s hand as readily as the present Congress is not quite so certain. But it cer tainly will not wihdraw any of h< powers that have been granted. Health authorities tell us to gel eight hours sleep every night. Man) are willing to do that, providec they can take part of th^ sleep tim< yrhile working on the job. I fcJ ^ll^lUKUS SMELL SEZs maybe the average ^ 'WOMAUS VOCABULARY IS OtJLY 300 WORPS... BUT THlHK. OF- TNE TURU-OVER.. I PANDORA’S BOX- —by A B~chapirv ; I • j * ^ - ■ ■' ' j .I" i __ _::_ • ■ ' • --—-ri Boston Churches Over Century Old Boston—Boston has seven church buildings more than a century old. The oldest is Christ Church, j built in 1723, and the others are jOld South Meieting House. King’s iChapel. St. Stephen’s Roman l Catholic Church. West Church, Charles Street Meeting Housej and Park Street Church. The motorist whose motto is "I’ll take no man’s dust,” frequently has to take a good deal of the ditch’s mud. The scientists say birds walk on their toes, and our human chicke'ns do so on their high heels. Want A Duck? Bankrupt With 3,540 Of Them .New York.—Wanna buy a duck? For into Brooklyn’s Federal Court came Flarold R. Lukert. a duck farmer of Moriches, with a pleja for bankruptcy. His liabilities are $94,743.64. His assets are $45,220. And they incluude 3,540 ducks. Some people in Salisbury think that golf is a futile game, but any way the lost balls ought to fill up a good many low gullies and swampy placefe. 1 "The Lon,g Roll on the Rhine' is a new book on European condi tions, and many of us are looking anxiously for the long green roli in our pockets. A. A. CARVER 117 E. FISHER STREET PAINTING and WALL PAPERING Wallpaper Carried in Stock ,■ P-T Antiseptic Powder Safe and de pendable for feminine hygdine. Sold By TOMS DRUG STORE SALISBURY, N. C. N Heat with Coke . . . the clean efficient fuel LOWEST PRICES EVER OFFERED ON GENUINE -fhtfwinf ELECTRIC RANGES! Nothing Has Eeen Cheapened — Every Change is an improvement! CASH 4*k g^ MONTHS PAY ] LIBERAL ALLOWANCE i FOR OLD STOVE Fast, dependable, beautiful, new Hotpoint and Universal Electric Ranges are being featured this year in our special Electric Range offer.. Never before have we offered these high quality ranges at such low prices or on such long terms. We are now making it possible for every home to enjoy the pleasures of Electric Cookery. The purchase of an electric range at these prices is an investment for years to come ... it will last three times as long as an ordinary stove and you have all the advantages of electric cookery. Investi gate today. 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