Newspapers / Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) / July 6, 1934, edition 1 / Page 4
Part of Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Carolina Watchman Published Every Friday Morning At SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA E. W. G. Huffman, Publisher J. R. Felts,-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. «l DOOW MV/ STILL HAS HIS RESERVES No more timely, subtle nor ef fective communication was ever made by an executive than was the late address to congress in which President Roosevelt set forth the primary objectives of his policies. It did several things beside heart ening his friends and confusing his enemies. It made the issue so plain that the every day man could it. Shelter, a job, anid some kind of insurance for old age and misfor misfortune—these are appealing subjects. No enemy of the new deal can object, no friend can fail to go forward for them. The so-called masteny of cong ress by the President has been at tained in a very simple way—by appeal to the people. Except for the multiplied ease for making this appeal the President’s reforms would have gone to pieces in congress be fore now. And of these means of appealing to the people we must place first of all the radio. The President could speak literally face to face with the people as never before and no hostile press an;d no hostile orator could relay that mess age in a distorted way. The people could hear with their own ears and unerstand with their own minds. Except for this power of the President we should have had a demoralized congress, demolcrats pulling against each other, re formers and hobbiests at cross pur poses, selfish interests warming the lobbies and getting in their work on every hand, newspapers giving the - usual biased and fragmentary in formation about what was going on. Radio has been the President’s gun behin'd the door. And nothing shows better his wisdom than the way he has used it. He hasn’t grab bed his gun and turned loose at sparrows, however annoying they might be. He keeps it as a reserve. And now that congress has ad jectives before the people and in getting better and better acquaint ed with them and seeing more and more of the country. Arid then along about August—that is the month suggested by some one—he will hook up the radios and talk to the people along the lines of what is needed in the next congress. Aqd it will be a sour old stand patter that will not have to trip his sails in accordance in order to get back to Washington. BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS Our vast system of paved high ways offers plenty of roof for every motorist and every car, if the drivers only play fair with each ether. Far too many, however, never consider anybody, but them selves when they are on the road. It is human nature to be selfish, to be inconsiderate of the rights and the welfare of others. And when this decidedly human trait gets behind a steering wheel, as it frequently does, the results toe often is disaster on ctur highways. If those of us who operate auto mobiles would drive with the sam.-' cosideration for others that we expect others to give us, out automobile fatalities would be cut in half in a single week. Careless ness and recklessness, with theit terrible conseqjuences, would dis appear almost overnight, as it were, Just remember this the next time you get into your automobile, It is impossible to enter into a discussion of business conditions these days without bringing in the ominous word "strike”. The labor problem is uppermost in the mind of every executive—even though his business has not been directly affected, threats of a general strike keep him awake nights. It is an interesting fact that we hear more of strikes now than at any time since the great post-war walk-outs-yet the number of men involved in strikes, and the total of working hours lost, are about the same as in the past five or six years. In other weirds, so far as the statistics show, the strike problem is no more severe now than it was last year or the year before, or in booming 1928. However, the statstics don t tell all. In the past, strikes have oc curred because of disagreement over wages and hours. Present strikes are very different—the strikes, as a matter of form, make demands for shorter hours and higher pay, but those matters are the least of it. The real reason behiiid the strikes is the drive for closed shop indus try—the unions are out to make American business 100 per cent closed shop, and they mean busi ness. It is both amusing and im portant that in at least one case employers finally agreed to meet the wage and hour demands of striking workmen—and were turn ed down, because they wouldn’t consent to the closed shop plan. As . for industrial production, there is little to report. There have been some slight advanced and some slight recessions, and they about balance each other. There may be a downward swing soon, due to summer seasonal influences. Gov erment spending still confuses the picture, inasmuch as it is im possible to tell how much of re covery is due to more normal times, and how much to abnormal stimu lation from distribution of public money from Washington. TODAY AND TOMORROW -BY Frank Parker Stockbridge RUBBER . . . from gas The discovery of the DuPont Company of a way to make a sub stitute for rubber out of gas is one more proof of the value of pure science Only chemists familiar with every phase of that complex science would have dreamed of the possibility that you can heat coal artd limestone and from the cal cium carbide thus obtained produce acetylene gas by adding water, and then by adding salt get a new chemical chloroprene, which co agulates into a substitute which, while not real rubber, makes just as good automobile tires as rubber does. Natural rubber is so cheap now that it doesn’t pay to use this new product. But if another war should send rubber up to $2 a pound, as the last one did, or even an eighth of that price, the United States would be independent of the South American and East Indian rubber growers. Now almost the only things that we have to import are thirigs we could get along without in case of war, such as coffee, tea and choco late. PLANES . . . and Russia A good many people seemed sur prised that Russia should be able to build an airplane carrying forty passengers. The new "Maxim Gorky” with eight engines of 7,000 horsepower is reported to be a great success. Most American^ have for gotten, apparently, that the larg est plase that had ever been built anywhere until after! the great war was the giant Sikorsky plane in 1913. Sikorsky, the Russian de signer, came to America after the war .and built some of the best planes we have turned out. The war, instead of stimulating commercial aviation, set it back many years, by centering attention on military planes, which have to be totally different from commer cial planes. Passenger ar^d express planes did not really get a fair start until the old war planes had been scrapped. The first public flight of an air plane was only 26 years ago, in! June. 1908. whenl Glenn Curtis flew the "June Bug” at Hammon sport, N. Y. Considering all that has happened since, we’ve gone a long way in flying, but there is a IF A certain fellow doesn’t leave «■ st SOME CIGARS at the office for THE EDITOR of the Scrap Book, WE ARE going to quote a name 4c 4c 4c ONE OF these days. And in ORDER TO let him know that * ^ •?« WE MEAN him, we are going » «■ TO TELL what happened in his OFFICE RECENTLY. His wife * ■)< « PAID HIS office a surprise visit » n * LAST WEEK, and creeping up BEHIND HIM, *put*her hands «■ # >y OVER HIS eyes. "Guess who * * * IT IS?” she asked gleefully. » »■ » "STOP FOOLIN’’, was the ;J. jj. »{. REPLY, "AND get on sb # »J WITH THOSE letters.” >y ty * I THANK YOU. long way to go yet. MOVIES , . . house cleaning There is great promise in the latest move to "clean up” the movies The Federeated Council of Churches of Christ in America, representing practically all of the Protestant denominations has join ed forces with the Council of Ro man Catholic Bishops to take di rect and aggressive action to safe guard the morals of the young folk who constitute the bulk of the movie audiences. It is time that the churches, as the source of moral instruction, took a position in the matter of the movies from which they cannot be cajoled by the powerful political and financial interests which fatten on the distortion of truth and the debasement of ideals. BARUCH . . . picks up pen My old friend Bernard M. Baruch has shakeni off all his busi nesh connection and will devote the rest of his life to writing mem oirs. They ought to make interesting reading. A native of South Caro lina, son of a Jewish surgeon in the Confederate Army, "Bernie” Baruch made himself one of the most powerful figures in finance, as well as one of the richest men in this country. When) the war came, he was one of the first to volunteer his services to President Wilson, and as chairman of the War Industries Board and general financial and business adviser to the Aministration, he played a part in the war as important as that of any general ii> the field. If Mr. Baruch will set down all that he knows about the "inside” of Wall Street and of the other activities which have occupied his life, it will be one of the most im portant books ever1 written. HOUSES . . . cost too much Most houses cost too much. Everybody who has given serious study to the subject of housinig agrees to that. Better houses can be built for less money, and the day is coming when everyone will realize that. I don’t know how long it will take before one can buy a house as one buys an auto mobile, all ready to set up and live i in, but many folk predict that is coming soon. If automobiles were built with as muGh waste of time and labor as goes into most homes, the cheapest car would cost $50,000 or so. On the other hand many houses cost little enough. I read the other day of a family in Serbia that built itself a new house for 16 cents. That was all the money they spent, and it went for window-glass. The men-folk of the family quarried the stone cut the wood did all the work and built a bigger house for a growing family. Some of my couiytry neighbors have done almost the same thing. Good houses, too. they have con structed with their own hands. That was the way almost every house in Ameriea was built, in the pioneefl days, and some of them are still available. My own farm .home, built ini 1786, is good for an other hundred years or more. I think we are going to see a return to simpler and less expensive hous ing for. everybody. RUMBLE SEAT BUILT FOR A CROWD Mrs. W. O. Dunbar of Beston gave her Sunday school class a weiner roast at Seven Springs last Tuesday P. M. Mr*. Dunbar brought them on his trailer. —Seven Springs Correspondence. Goldsboro News-Argus. NOW ALL THEY NEED IS A COMPULSORY SUNDAY SCHOOL LAW AND LOW PAID-TEACHERS The Baptist church runs s truck on Sunday morning to brinf pupils to Sunday School. —Lake View Correspondence Lumberton Robesonian. MYSTERIOUS VISITOR DOWN EAST Strange as it may seem—or may .be not so strange as it shoulc seem—a highway patrolman wa: seen to pass through here a few days ago; but from whence lie came, or whither his leisurely des tination, no one would attempt i definite solution. —Ingleside Items, Franklir Times. POSTMASTER GENERAL’S HOLIDAY university to bestow LL.D. on Postmaster General Farley What in the world does he want with any more letters? —Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch NUDIST PERFORMANCES OUGHT NOT TO LACK FOR FANS Nudist wedding at Chicago; Fait might be called a religious dispen sation to Sally Rand. —Raleigh Times. THAT OLD DIPLOMATIC CUSTOM When the good Cuter Modoc stopped at Southport last week to invite the State Pilot to visit her and take tea, she was following the established custom of the Uni ted States in extending courtesies to neighboring powers. —State Port Pilot. ARKANSAS TRAVELER Mr. Tadlock, of Eldorado, Ark., is visiting his niece, Mrs. Robert Linkeil. He formerly lived in Union county but moved to Ark ansas in 1882. He is 82 years old and walked a good part of the way back here (for the novelty). —Rocky River Cqrrespondenc, Concord Tribune. MUST’VE HAD A OCEAN BREEZE OR ELECTRIC FAN OR SOMEP’N Mrs. Carrie Buck and son, Iola Midyette and Floyd Dunn were vsitors in Comfort Wednesday night. —Peelsboro Correspondence, New Bern Tribune. SHO’; FIX ’EM SO THAT CHARLOTTE, WHEN IT GETS READY, KIN KILL TWO BIRDS WITH OlfE STONE Raleigh commenfato^ ’lows as how state and federal revenue de partments ought to be in close proximity for convenience of tax payers. It’s o. k. by us, Bro. Bring the state department on over. —Greensboro News. FIRST FI1S SPLEEN AND THEN HIS RISIBLES Did you happen to see the gen tleman asleep in a car parked al,.' the side of the Francis Marion hotel, being awakened by a car in front which backed into his car, becoming engaged in a heated de bate with the gentleman driving the car in front and in the middle of the debate being hit by the car in back "i . . the whole situation becoming so foolish that even the irate gentleman in the middle who had been hit by the back of the car in front and by the front of the .car in the back began to laugh? —Item, Charleston News and Courier. KSS3H / bXIamv a CRFPN^/ ^ OF FlWE WHlSKEBS HEV BEEU SACB.1FICEP* tu PUTTllJS THE FOUBTH OF JULY AOBjOH With A 5AU<3.. / 4 H Chibs Gather in Washington | 1*1 RIGHT. Like an old-hand at broad- w,s,. casting. C. L. Gramling. Jr., of | Orangeburg. S. C., teUs the unseen || radio audience how he has completed §1 eight years of outstandingly suc i cessful 4-H Club work in corn, cotton gf and swine. Young Mr. Gramling’s trip to Washington was made possible by cc The Barrett Company, distributors ':«S of Arcadian, the American nitrate s' of soda. As part of its agricultural 3? development work, this company SP takes a keen interest in both the 4-H -m, Club and Future Farmers of America H| and co-operates with their leaders. It •d has found that its contests and do ll nations of American nitrate of soda, || not only help the boys towards better g farming methods but also enable M them to learn first hand what fine 1 results this improved product of the | South gives. (Photo by (J. & U.) ■ $5R ABOVE. Secretary of Agrioulture Henry A. Wallace, whose informal address at the recent 4-H Club Camp in Washington was read with interest throughout the nation, autographs the programs of two lucky 4-H mem bers from Iowa. They are James F. Kearns and Miss Florence E. Meier. Attractive Miss Meier has specialized in canning, clothing and room im provement since 1927. Although Sec retary Wallace’s recent writings have I shown him to be a believer in world trade,"he has made the point that cer tain vital industries have to be built up in this country. While he did not name any of these, many people feel that the nitrate of soda industry is one of them. (Photo by I. N. P.) ABOVE. A general view of the 4-H Camp. Note Washington Monu ment in the background. (Photo by Globe Photos) LEFT. An important quartet in agricultural affairs, these officials have been working day and night to aid the drought-stricken West but were not too busy to take an interest in the 4-H Camp. Left to right, they are: Col. L. W. West brook, assistant to the Federal Emergency Relief Administrator; Wm. I. Myers, Governor of the Farm Credit Administration; Ches ter A. Davis, Agricultural Adjust ment Administrator, and Rexford Tugwell, who has just been ap pointed under-Secretary of Agri culture. Mr. Tugwell’s address was one of the high-spots of the Camp. (Photo by V. (Jm) THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON (Continued from Page One) the highest point our National Debt has ever reached. Nobody worries much about paying off a National Debt—no body but Andrew Mellon, that is, Mr. Mellon approached the public debt as a banker does all debts, as something to be paid. Statesmen look at debts as something to of fer to the investing public as a safe source of income. "Buy a Gov ernment bond and you can’t lose your capital.” And that is true so long as the Government’s credit is good. So the important question is: How much of a debt can the United States cari*y without im pairing its credit? And the gen erally accepted answer is 3 5 bil lion dollars. To pay interest on double the debt of 1932 would seem to call for doubling the tax income; but the definite effort is to reduce all in terest rates to percentages compar able with those prevailing in the older nations. The day of 6 per cent returns with any degree of safety on any sort of private in vestment is regarded as having passed; five percent is the interest rate talked of most on private ob ligations. And considering the ab solute safety of a Government bond, the effort will be to refin ance the old issues and issue the new ones on a basis of around 2 to 2 V2 percent, so that the same old tax income will carry the doubled load of debt. Some folks who can’t stand it to have their feet stepped on, will howl down a prizefighter who quits after being pummeled almost into unconsciousness. The popular theory of how to save the people who bankrupted themselve/i by borrowing too much money is to lend them some more. You can always increase the size of the doughnut by making the hole bigger1. Texas Lady Tells How Black-Draught Laxative Helps All Her Family Here’s how Black-Draught fills the needs of a family laxative in the home of Mrs. J. Stoker, Fort Worth, Texas: “The grown-ups in my family,” she writes, “have always taken powdered Thedford’s Black-Draught for biliousness, headaches and other ailments (due to constipation) and found it a re liable remedy. I was very pleased when I saw Syrup of Black Draught advertised. I bought it and gave it to my little daughters, ages 6 and 4. They needed some thing to cleanse their systems and Syrup of Black-Draught acted Well.” .. . Your druggist sells this reliable laxative in both forms. “Children like the Syrup.” WANTED Correspondents The Watchman desires to secure a number of good live wire correspondents in all sec tions of Rowan County? especi ally on each of the R. F. D. routes out of Salisbury, and at the following towns in this im mediate section: China Grove, Landis, Granite Quarry, Cleve land, Rockwell, Elmwood, Gold Hill, Mt. Ulla, Mill Bridge, Bear Poplar, Yadkin, Duke ville, Woodleaf and Franklin. An attractive offer will be made to those who will send in the news of their respective neigh borhoods weekly. Supplies are furnished by us. A personal interview is desired. Call at The Watchman office, 119 East Fisher Street. Robbers Take Money, Then Victim’s Car Glenn Rabon, local young man and Miss Jane Burgin, ntirse at the Rowan General hospital, were held up in a daring robbery early Monday night while sitting in their car directly in front of the hos pital. Two men walked up to the car,' [leveled a pistol at Rabon, demanded that he get out, removed several dollars irj cash from his pocket, and then ordered Radon and his companion to walk down the street. The strangers then jumped into the car—a new Ford V-8—and then drove away, carrying with them a diamond ring which had been placed in a pocket of the car. Lynchings In 1934 Below Last Year Lynchings for the first six months of 1934 showed a decrease of two over the same period in 1933, with six in the current year against eight last year, an an nouncemen from Tuskegee normal and industrial institute said. All of the victims of lynchers were negroes, the report compiled by the department of records and research said, and all were in southern states. The lynchings by states were as follows: Florida 1; Kentucky 1; Mississippi 2; Teryiessee 1, and Texas 1. A noted educator said that the need of the times is straight think ing, but straight throwing to the bases produces more applause dur ing the baseball season in Salisbury. Separate Telephone Reports Are Asked Raleigh — Stanley Winborne, state utilities commisssioner, said that the Southern Bell Telephone 'and Telegraph company is being re 'quested to file separate appraisals of its properties in the eight cities [which have petitioned the commis :sion to include them specifically in investigation of rates now being iconducted for Raleigh. The cities are: Asheville, Golds boro, Burlington, Wilmington, [Greensboro, Shelby, Salisbury and Winston-Salem. Seventy-four per cent of the [Southern Bell’s customers are Io ! cated in these communities and in Raleigh, the commissioner said. The Raleigh hearing is to be re sumed July 10. It was stated last week and a recess was taken after two days of testimony. Drops 7 Names As He Becomes Citizen of U. S. Charleston, S. C.—His name was Anthony Albert 'Alexander Adrain Paul David Napoleon Maria Salvatore Soittle Restiva when he went in,to Federal Court to be nat uralized. He came out just plain Anthony Albert Restiva, no longer an Ital ian, but an American citizen. He explained: "I decided I’d just get- rid of some of my names.” The men who married for money frequently find that they have also married for alimony. Principal thing needed now is less hammer work by the knocker's, and more axe work by the economizers. E. CARR CHOATE DENTIST Office in Mocksvill© first three days of week; in Salisbury last three days of week, over Pur cell’s Drug Store. "On the Square.” PHONE 141. P_T Antisclptic Powder Safe and de pendable for feminine hygeine. Sold By TOMS DRUG STORE SALISBURY, N. C. A. A. CARVER 117 E. FISHER STREET PAINTING and WALL PAPERING Wallpaper Carried in Stock
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 6, 1934, edition 1
4
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75