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Carolina Watchman Published Every Friday Morning At TALISBURY, . 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. . ' g '\ 1 —1— - - . . 1 . . • ’ 1J —7 v . ~—. The influence of weekly news papers on public opinion exceeds that of all other publications in the country.—Arthur Brisbane. POPULATION DATA (1930 Census) Salisbury _:-16,951 Spencer —.———— }3,'128 E. Spencer ---—2,098 China.Grove -:-W--—.1,258 Landis ---—1-1,388 Rockwell_ 696 Granite Quarry _ 507 Cleveland_ 43 5 Faith ___— 431 Gold Hill__ 156 (Population Rowan Co. 56,665) A YEAR OF THE BITUMINOUS CODE As one after another of the prin cipal industries of the country complete a full year of operation under codes of fair competition, sufficient experience has been gained to form the basis for impartial judgment. A year is a long enough time for both merits and deficiencies in codes to come to the surface. ;■ A 12-r month period, reckoned backward, turns the minds of American busi-. ness men in retrospect to those chaotic conditions out of’ which the NRA was born. These' consid erations must be kept in. mind, in any effort to assess”the achievements of industries first year under the codes... In specific tepms this is all graphically set forth ii* the. story, of the bituminous coal codey-which has just attained its first birthday —it was approved by President Roosevelt on September 18, 1933. Few industries were in greater chaos a year ago than bituminous’ coal mining, in ract, increasing cnaos has been a problem for more than a decade. a a.» After the war few mines were' closed; competition became mote intense until coal which had cost a dollar a ton to get to the mine mouth sold for as little as 25 cents a ton. Confusion becameworse confounded when not fewer than' 29 codes were submitted to NR A. The problem was to get one' code. Everybody predicted that it simply couldn’t be done. Her^was one industry so complex that it was not amendable to cbdification. Nevertheless ail these cdhflicting elements were brought into unity; nearly 3 0 codes were melted down into one code and prosperity /has been restored to a great basic indus "try. V . ’ * . 4 * Bituminous coal production, which has sunk to a new low level in the summer of 1933 came up 60 percent in the year just ended. Fair minimum market prices have been established, permitting 'a living wage to the miner 4nd a reasonable profit to the producer. An entire ly new system of adjusting labor controversies within the* mTdustry itself has been inaugurated and is in successful operation. Perhaps the best summation of results achieved under the coal code w.as made by J. D. A- <-Mor row, president of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., who declared it; to be "the practical answer for those who have money invested in the business and for those who are employed in the industry.” .f.-v T. • ■ t l ‘.i i A W i ;«: HIGHER EDUCATION The colleges and universities of America are in full swing again, and witih larger enrollment of both young men and young women than ever before. It is not so long ago that goinig to college was outside the scheme of things for most American youth. Now it is so much the usual thing that there is hardly a village or town in the whole na tion that is not represented in one or another of the institutions of higher education. . 11 ; , i We just happened to look' at the! figures. In 191©, only 24 years 1 igo, there’were only 332,000 stud ents in all the colleges, universities, and professional schools. In 1930, twenty years later, the number had almost trebled, reaching almost a million—971,5 84, according to Government statistics. We haven’c the figures for later years, but un derstand the million mark was pass ed in 1931 and that this year the ex I nanrnrl n70 rtf fkn efin^pnf KnrliAC ■ c above a million and a quarter. Those are important figures, mean, if they mean anything, that the future leaders of thought in America are increasingly men and women who have had far better educations than their parents had, and who are rtiOre': widely'diffused, among the whole pieople than ever before. And makes it the concern of everybody . that the colleges j themselves and their faculties should steadily increase their efforts to turn their student material into people capable of doing their own thinking. No college can put into a stud ent more than his or her capacity to receive. No student can get out of college more than he Or she puts in. All that college can do is to show the student how to make the widest and best possible use of whatever innate powers he has. TODAY AND :TOMORROW j ., . . -BYtt- ;1 !• •• • Thank Parker Stockbridge ___ . . _ Booth ; . a great: woman • . 111 > <i > I was glad to read the dispatches announcing that my my old friehd, Commander Evangeline Booth,1 had Betn .elected. General of the Salva tion Army of the world*, the post iSyhifch,. her famous father; General [Williams Booth, created;• and held until .his death. . ^ If I..were called, upon’ to name the one American woman—for Mj’sS Booth has. spent most of her life' in America—who has accomplished the most for the relief of misery and distress among the poor and hblpless, I would unhesitatingly give the award to her. I do not know how the Salva tion Army stands in the estimation of people of other lands, but I feel confident that here in the United States it commands respect and sup port' such as no other instrumental ity for the common good has ever achieved. Critical theologians mav not approve its doctrines—I don’t even know what they are—and for mal ritualists may frown upon its methods; but I think there is pretty nearly unanimous agreement that the Army reaches down and lifts tap more of the subiherged and' hope less than all the churches. BARGAINS . ... in->property People with ready : cash—and there are still a lor of them—are hunting bargains these days. And a good many of them; to my know ledge, are putting-their money into land and buildings, Confident that the rise from the present low prices will not be long delayed. ’ One 300-acre dairy farm, Well stocked with ample buildings in good repair, which its owiier held at $25,000 only •five’ years Ago, was sold the other day in my neighbor hood for $7,500. The btayer laved down ready cash. I knotv of five other farm properties1 that have changed hands for cash near my home in the past month, at figures from half to a third what they were held at lately; and one great estate la few miles from me; in.which more than a quarter of a million had been invested, went for $25,000. because the owners had to have cash. Money will buy better bargains today than at any time in the past twenty years. PRICES.. today There is a good deal of nonsense being talked about commodity prices. Foddstuffs are going up rap idly; no question about that. But that is not true in the case' of manu al ' A GREAT many women lose » + » RESPECT FOR their husbands, s* AND DO not mind telling the * * }5PORLD ABOUT it. For instance, I . -I v>- * . J RIGHT OUT on^lhe Yadkin jH p jt •«§»* • THERE IS a certain husband wji10 * , SF >SF .7 DOES NOT rate so well with his »F * SF BETTER HALF. "Is you husband *F * * A BOOK worm?’’ a neighbor * * * ASKED HER the other day1. *F *F » "NO ” SHF rz-nlied "Insr an * * => . ORDINARY ONE.” * * * I THANK YOU. factured goods. 1 The automobile code, fixes a def-, inite "trade-in” price on every used Car. I thought».of trading in ’ 1929 Ford against “credit for a t car next Spring, and approached the Ideal dealer.., "I can only allow you $90 in trade,” hie said, "but t have cash buyers looking for used cars like yours,-and if you tell me to sell it for pour account I can get you $150 or more.” ' '■ V I had a furnace concern go over rhy old farmhouse, which has relied on stoves ahd fireplaces for 150 years. They estimated $950 for a heating plant,: 1 told them to go farther. Next week they were back with an offer to. install the plant for $450. I dickered with them a while and the price came down to $375, with $25 off that for cash! RUMMAGE . an economy An annual event in mv home town is the "rummage sale” for the benefit of a local charity. It is held in the Town Hall and every body sends -all sorts of things they don’t need any longer. And it is amazing how well-to-do men and women flock to the sale and buy other folks’ castOfifs. My wife''tends, the ladies’ hat counter at these rummage sales. This year, she had • to dispose of a great quantity of fine' hats bearing labels of 'fashionable. New. York,. Newport. Boston and even Paris shops, discarded by women of the weathly families in the county. But, she. told me, among the buyers of these hats, at from 25 cents down, were women whose husband have always been accounted weathly, or it least well off. They were frank :o admit that they, like everybody dse, had to economize. INVESTMENTS . . a search One of my neighbors recently :ame into a good many thousands n cash, the proceeds of his father’s :ife insurance. He asked several ousiness freiends, including two oankers, to suggest sound, safe in vestments. Every one he asked threw up his hands. My friend had no use for another home or any more land, and tie aid not want to take a specula tive chance with the money.- Final ly himself and- wife-—they are both close to sixty-—payable as long as either of ’ them lives. He found he' could get' $3 5 Of)‘and more .a year for his fifty thousand dollars, or better than -7 percent on the capital. That, he decided ahd" his banker agreed, was' about as ^ close po. se curity as anyone.can get these days. The modern youth can’t probab-1 ly tell a Jersey COw from a Holstein, I but anyway he has leafned the' dif ference between a golf mashie and a put;tcr., t. . The politicians, it is, complained, are trying to fool the people, but perhaps the people won’t, be. satis fied unless they are fooled. Texas Lady TeHs How Black-Draught Laxativ.e Helps All Her Family Here’s now Black-Draught filia l • the needs Of a family laxative in the home of Mrs. J. S. Stoker, fort Worth, Texas: "The grown-up* .to 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.” PICAYUNES NATIVE WIT — The present hire truck costs the town nothing for upkeep—not even gasoline. You see, the fire men have to push it to all the fires. —Alan Browning, Jr., Elkin Tri bune. WE ONCE KNEW A MAN WHO GAVE HIS WIFE A BIRD DOG FOR CHRISTMAS i Mr. Simpson Hare gave a barbe cue Jnner Saturday honoring his wife, Mrs^una, and^j^pghter. Miss, Hefim Gray Hare. —Eureka item, Goldsboro News Argus. YEH; WHEN THEY GET DOWN TO THE LAST ROUND UP IT’S TIME TO GO HOME— Then came the music from the famous Jenkins boys and Howard Cole. No one was ready to leave when the "Last Round Up” was played, but each thought it best to go. —Holly Springs item, Rutherford ton News.. < GOOD OV MOUNTAIN •Oman r:,/... -—■ - got married last Sat urday. He married a mountain wo man. ... . - —Bostian Cross Roads item, Con cord Tribune. . f- ? 1 ■ THAT LAST LINE 18 PROBITY SENATOR BAILEY A-SAYIN! IT AIN’T SO >. Mr. Shefield said most of these arc minor cotton counties and that many of the farmers in these coun ties were solidly behind the act. —ftem, Raleigh News & Observer. BE REASONABLE ABOUT IT, LORD Rain, rain, go away, come again another day. Sunshine and rain refreshing reviving rain, send us; Lord. But we don’t want too long a spell of either at one time. —Rutherford College item, Mor ganton News-Herald. THEY LIKE THEIR .STEW WHEN SKIES ARE BLVE. In spite of clouds of grey which hung low most of Saturday a most delightful stew was cooked, yes and enjoyed by all who were present at the home of Mjf. and Mrs. G. C. Echols- ' -r-Reidsville Review. -If— ■ WHICH CHILD’S PAPA.TENT ’EM THE STILL} The most unique program pre sented for chapel thus far was giv en by the^BH|s last week in the form of ai^^^Bal mountain play let. The ;^^^Ba,s. a distilling out fit in the^BjB.Cains of Madison county. -’fiS ■:» ■■■■■ —Spring Creek School item, Mar shall News-Record. WHITE MEAT DEPARTMENT A few of the interesting things we saw at the fair were: the display of Swift & Company, where ten girls, all red-headed, were at work canning yeast. —Correspondent, Smithfield Her ald. TOMBOY Quite much excitement and a se rious happening occured here Sun day afternoon when a male cow weighing nearly: fifteen hundred pounds knocked Mrs.— down. —Bennett item, Ch'atham Record. LOCAL BOY MAkES GOOD . . Qaston B. Means, one-time Albe marle-school teacher, is to be sent to Alcartaz penitentiary " ’ in ' San Francisco bav, the government’s pew .Deyil’s Island. -It’s a far cry from a small school in.Albemarle to a spot where only real bad men are kept. —Stanly News & Press. ’ -> . ■ ■ ■ . ■ ... GOT HIMSELF A AUNTIE . Matt Daves, better known as “Uncle ’Matt” who lives^t Clark’s Chapel got married a few days ago. — wens, throve item, rramuin Press. WOLF GONNA STAY AWAY FROM HER DOOR Mrs. M. A. Pruett has canned 7, 000 cans of fruit and vegetables since she went to^nning about the. last of July of 'first of August. Thursday was the last day for her to can this y«ar.i • —Casar item, Cleveland Star. OH, TO BE FOUR YEARS OLD AND HUNGRY The Sunday school of St. James Reformed Church in Mt. Pleasant will have an ice $ream supper Sat urday evening, September 22nd, at the church. Each one will pay one cent for every year you are old then may share in eating as much ice cream and tea cakes as you wish. Big Boy, Take A Bow! •-*-*———— by a. b. Chapin i 7^ *- chap. >4 —• < [ Ai'-riXASTefi-' | t State G. O. P. To Substitute Sales Tax For Constitution As Campaign Issue Claims being made by William C. Meekins, Republican state chair man, that his party will elect at least one congressman and 20 or more members of the 1935 General Assembly, bring the usual smiles1 from Democratic chieftains here,! but many of them feel just a wee bit worried over Chairman Meek ins’ advice to his barty workers to unite in their campaigns, against the sales, tax. * ■..<? -, . -r Having lost, in the opinion of many, a fine campaign issue' when the supreme court ruled there could not be arty election this fall On the' proposed new state , Constitution, the Republicans, Chairman Meekins' has indicated'In speeches he has made here and elsewhere; hi the state, are going to assault the-sales tax in no uncertain.terms in the fall campaign in the $ope of mak ing up what they losf by the high court’s action. The fact that Judge John jJ Parker, Cliford Frazier, Republican candidate for governor in 1932. and lesser-known members of their party had gone on record as fav oring the new Constitution had not made any great impression upon the majority of the recognized lead ers of the Republican party in the state. Such Republicans as Charles A. Jonas, national committeeman, Gillam Grissom and others of al most equal political force had in dicated very strongly they would fight adoption of the proposed basic law and Chairman Meekins himself had not taken any stand on the proposal when the ruling camei there could be no vote on it this I fall. Hence their decision to make! the sales tax their biggest sustaining issue..; ■- . .. .. Prohibition is slated to be a dead issue in the fall campaign and the Republicans are not likely to get much aid and comfort out of- their heralding from the housetops they were the ."dry” party in last year’s repeal election, many observers think. At their Charlotte convention last April, the Republicans insert ed a plank in their platform op posing the sales tail. The state Democratic convention remained silent on .the tax. Republican lead ers say they have -not forgotten that act of silence. > >;.!q .»> b j Governor Ehringhaus is slated tc 'ask re-ehactmenr of the sales tax iji the. 1935 General: Assembly, and On the sales tax issue the Republi cans hope to increase their repre sentation, in the legislature. - Chairman Meekiris has issued' in structions in the recognized close counties to bear down hard on the sales tax issue and he is even urg ing party members in the strongly Democratic counties to keep up an unrelenting fire on the tax. NIGHT OWL ' Young Man: "Father, I’ve a not iton to settle down and go. in foi raising chickens.” His Dad: "Better try owls. Their hours would suit you better.” The Favorite • i • , ■MgMafai .- - 1 W AS H I N GTON . . i: ■ Every 1 day adds a new name to the list, of Congressmen who announce themselves a candidate for the House Speakership but Joseph W. Byrns. (above), (D) Tennessee, Democratic floor leader in the House, is conceded best Chance for the seat of the late Speaker Rainey. It takes the hot dog to satisfy the people now, but this country was built up on cold cow hash. LUKE RILEY SAYS THE RATS DIE BEFORE REACHING THE RIVER I ~ Since moving near the river several years ago we’ve always used BEST-YET. We watched the vicious Water Rats nibbling at BEST YET, outside the house. About 1S minutes later they darted off for the river to cool their burning stomachs, but died before reaching it. Kills rats and mice only. Will not hurt cats, dogs or chickens, and that is no smell from the dead rat. BEST-YET comes in two sizes, 2 oz. size 2Sc, 6 oz. size SOc. 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