WASHINCTO
The Election Outlook
A New Political Ven
ture
The Monetary Situa
tion
Before The War Prices
The Years Ahead
The outlook for any important
increase in the number of Repub
licans in the next Congress grows
dimmer as election approaches. The
most experienced observers here
now do not look for as many as 25
additional Republican Congress
men, and a good many of those will
probably be of extreme radical
tendencies. It is quite thinkable
that the President’s principal trou
ble with the next Congress will be
to keep it from taking the bit in
its teeth and running away with
legislation far beyond the most
radical ideas which Mr. Roosevelt
has been accused of harboring.
Some of the wisest onlookers in
Washington have expressed surprise
that the Republican Party has not
developed a single issue of national
importance on which to conduct
its Congressional campaign. The
one issue on which the party might
have been expected to make a stand
is that of Federal Relief.
Political administration of relief
is a novelty in American affairs.
Heretofore, in previous depressions,
the Red Cross, the Salvation Army,
the Community Chests, municipali
ties, counties and—rarely—state
governments have seen to it that
enough food and shelter to maintain
life were provided for the unfor
tunate out of work. There are no
statistics of the number of unem
ployed in the major depressions, of
which there were at least three be
tween the Civil War and the World
War, but the question is being
raised whether the proportion of
those who needed to be helped wasi
not as, great, compared to the total
population and wealth of the na
tion, as it is now.
^ Thtttp*-:is a decided feeling here
itnatmost of the Republican candi
dates and leaders have deliberately
pussyfooted this issue, feeling that
the mass of the voters would be re
sentful of any suggestion that the I
helping hand of Uncle Sam should
be withdrawn. After the Congres
sional elections, perhaps, more will
be heard on this subject. It is one
which is giving a great many
thoughtful men in both parties, in
the Administration and out of it, a
great deal of concern.
Mr. William R. Heart, news
paper publisher who supported
Roosevelt for the Presidency but
has since been emphatic in opposi
tion through his powerful chain of
dailies, spent a night at the White
House last week. He expressed the
opinion that business conditions are
improving, and that things will
look brighter by next Spring. But
he, too, was sharp in his warning
that the Government cannot much
longer continue to spend the peo
ple’s money wholesale; that is can
not, indeed, get the money to spend
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Doughton Speaks
At Kannapolis
Monday Night
Congressman R. L. Doughton
will discuss the issues of the pre
sent campaign in an address Mon
day night at the Woodrow Wilson
school at Kannapolis, at 7:30
o’clock The public is cordially in
vited.
Mr. Doughton has been speaking
daily in the ninth district and has
been welcomed by overflowing
crowds at each place. A large
crowd is expected to hear him at
Kannapolis Monday night.
Representative Doughton told a
big crowd of voters in Spencer
Tuesday night that the New Deal
is the big issue in the present De
mocratic campaign, and in one of
his masterful addresses defended
the Roosevelt administration as the
best that has ever been offered the
American people.
Mr. Doughton recited the achi
evements of the Democratic party
and praised the constructive pro
gram that has been forging ahead
since Roosevelt came into office.
The meeting in Spencer was
sponsored by the Voters League and
several of the officers and workers
in that organization took part on
the program.
The Carolina Watchman
FOUNDED~1832—103RD YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1934 VOI ir>3 Mn ~ nr^
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Lrwm Succeeds
Dr. A. T. Allen
Efficient Educator And
i Capable Of High
Office
Clyde A. Erwin, 37, superin
tendent of the Rutherford county
schools, has been appointed by
Governor Ehringhaus to fill the
unexpired term of state superin
tendent of public instruction tc
succeed Dr. A. T. Allen superin
tendent since 1923 who died in a
Raleigh hospital on Saturday, Oct.
2°.
The appointment of Mr. Erwin
followed quite intensive study and
frequent consultation by the gov
ernor on the matter. The appointee
will serve through 1936, as Dr.
Allen’s death occured within 30
days of the general election on
November 6, and under the law
the appointment will hold over.
Mr. Erwin was born in Atlanta,
Ga., February 8, 1897, where his
father was teaching school.
He entered the University of
North Carolina in 1915 for two
years of study, and began his
teaching career in Union countv.
LEGION
DEMANDS
BONUS
The American Legion, assembled
in convention this week in Miami,
went on record Thursday as favor
ing the immediate payment of the
bonus certificates by the govern
ment.
The vote was 987 to 183.
TAKING HOLD
Telephone: "Hello, I’d like to
know where I can get hold of Miss
Osgood?”
Operator: "I don’t know; she’s
awfully ticklish.”
jAmerican Legion Candidate|
SAN FRANCISCO . . . Prank N.
Belgrano, Jr., (above), to the lead
ing Pacific Coast candidate for the
office of National Commander of the
American Legion at the national
convention at Miami, Fla., Qet. 83
to 23.
GOOD
MORNING
CLEAR PROFIT
"Why did Sandy McDougall in
vite only married people to his
wedding?” 1
"Well, in that way he figured
that all the presents would be
clear profit.”
A BAD BREAK
She was one of those nagging
wives, but was unaware of her
faults.
One day she attended a lecture
on "A Smiling Face Wins
Through.”
The lecture impressed her so
much that she decided to try and
experiment. Consequently, when
her husband came down to break
fast next morning he was met by
a beaming smile.
For a moment he stood dumb
founded in the doorway, then he
collapsed into an armchair.
"Gracious’’ he said weakly,
"she’s got lockjaw.”
AND THEY DID
Judge—Why did you steal the
watch?
Pitter—I was going along, I saw
that the watch was going and I
thought: "Why can’t we go to
gether?”—Rutgers Chanticleer.
SHORT MEASURE
j Joan—Do you think half a dol
lar is too much to charge for a kiss
'at our bazaar?
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j John—No, I don’t think so. Peo
ple expect to be cheated there.—
Answers. .
BOILING OIiJqKAY
Ad. in EngHjh p-'aper: "He’s
probably dead How, but if not, I
should like the motorcylist who
cut in between my car and a coach
near Pothill on Sunday to know
that his survival owes nothing to
my good wishes.’’
"Just think, children,” said the
missionary, "In Africa there are
six million square miles where lit
tle boys and girls have no Sunday
school. Now, what should we all
’strive to save money for?”
"To go to Africa!’’ cried a chor
jus of cheery voices.
Son: "Papa, when you went to
school, did they have a board of
education?”
! Father: "No, son. The teacher
'used a willow switch.”
HOME SWEET HOME
Gertie: "Well, I found out where
my hubby has been spending his
evenings.’
Myrtle: "Gosh, blonde or bru
nette?”
Gertie: "No, I simply stayed
home last night and there he was.”
OUT O’ PLACE
"Yet, poor Percy may have
had his faults, but his heart was
on the right side.’’
"Is that so? No wonder he
! died!”—Answers.
| TOO ONE-SIDED
j "Come, come, you shouldn’t re
fuse to loan me money. One friend
should always be willing to help j
another.”
[ "I know it, but you will insist
[upon always being the other.’’
PART DESIRED
Boarding-House Mistress: 'What
part of the chicken do you wish?”
Freshman: 'Some of the meat,
please”
VALUABLE BARBER
"What’s causing all that noise
up the street?”
"The barber is shaving himself.”
"But why the argument?”
"He’s trying to persuade himself
[to have a shampoo and some hair'
tonic.”
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SUFFERING FROM
POLITENESS
Auntie: "Tommy, won’t you
have another piece of this short
cake?”
Tommy: "No, I thank you.”
Auntie: "Yota seem to be suffer
ing from loss of appetite.”
Tommy: "It ain’t loss of ap
petite. What I’m sufferin’ from is
politeness.”
Air Vanderbilt Linen
NEW YORK . . . Mrs. Gloria
Morgan Vanderbilt (above), faced
her mother and her aunt, Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney, in court seeking
the custody of her daughter, Gloria
10, the #4,000,000 heiress. They
ehwged the , mother, not morally fit
to have the child.
Gandhi Disciple Here
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NEW YORK . . . Madeline Blade
(above), prominent English woman
and a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi,
is her* in native India costume to
lector* through the country on con
ditions in India.
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Becomes r King
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia . . .
Above is the last picture of Peter
II, as a care free boy of 11 years,
seeing London sights. The photo was
taken 18 days before he became the
boy King of Yugoslavia through
the assassination of his father, King
Alexander, while on an official mis
sion in lYance.
| Still Golf Champion !
NEW YORK . . . Hiss Virginia
Van Wie, 23, of Chicago (above),
with the third Women’s National
Golf Championship in her treasure
kit, is now well on her way to
achieve her’goal, of at least equalling
the “five-time” championship record
of Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. Miss
Van Wie is shown above in cup win
ning ceremonies for 1934.
NEWS
* BRIEFS -
CHARLOTTE COUPLE
DROWNED
Miss Helen Moose and Morris
Wilson, of Charlotte, were drown
ed in the Catawba river Sunday
night when the motor boat in
which they were riding overturn
ed.
FOUND DEAD ON RAIL
ROAD
Lawrence Earnhardt was found
dead on the railway tracks just
east of High Point early Saturday
morning. It is thought he was
struck by a train during the night.
Funeral service was held Sunday
from Mitchell’s Grove church.
MOTHER SEES SONS KILLED
A speeding truck crashed into
Grady and Charles Shields of
Pittsylvania county, Virginia, as
they were repairing a punctured
tire on their automobile near the
highway. Their mother, Mrs.
James Shields, witnessed the hor
rible tragedy, and is said to be in
a highly nervous stage. Joe Hayes,
driver of the truck, is charged
with murder and driving while
drunk.
KIDNAPS SHERIFFS WIFE
The wife of Sheriff C. M. Tittle
was abducted from the Mount Ver
non jail, Texas, Saturday night by
an ex-convict, who took $140 in
cash from the jail after forcing her
into a small sedan. The man was
said to have been a trusty in the
jail, but had recently finished serv
ing a sentence. Mrs. Tittle is said
to have been ill and remained at
home while her husband was ab
sent on business.
GASTONIA OPENS NEW
BANK
The National Bank- of Com
merce at Gastonia has opened its
doors to business. The bank has
taken over certain assets of the old
First National bank, ending the
conservatorship that has existed
since March 5, 1933. Kay Dixon
is president, and J. G. Reading is
acting vice president and cashier of
the new bank. The latter was for
merly of the South Carolina Na
tional bank of Greenville, and is
said to be a banker of wide and
successful experience. The bank
starts off favorably, and is said to
be 96 per cent liquid.
COTTON PUT ON MARKET
Cotton is now appearing.on the
market in Henderson in great vol
ume, and local gins are running
day and night to keep up with the
influx of seed cotton that is offer
ed for sale. The price of lint is
around 12 cents.
ALBEMARLE BUILDING
SWEPT BY FIRE
Fire of undetermined origin gut
ted the Albemarle Plumbing com
pany and Lorch Heating compan)
at 4:30 o’clock Tuesday morning
entailing a loss of several -thous
and dollars. The property wa
j partly covered by insurance. Thi
blaze started in the ceiling and hac
been burning some time when dis
covered.
WRITER OF MINING ARTI
jcLES IN SUIT
In a suit against the Blue Bool
Publishing company for $138 al
legedly due him as editor of thi
New Deal, a High Point weekly
'newspaper, Magistrate C. C. Muse
of High Point, awarded judgmem
of $40 to Edward Simpkins foi
back salary for his work, the great
est part of which was the author
ship of a number of articles or
! mining in this state.
Gaston Legion Post Is
Formally Incorporated
Gastonia.-“-Gaston Post No. 2
American Legion, became the first
incorporated legion post in the
United States.
A group of 15 or 20 legionnaires
are the incorporators, and the or
ganization took out its papers ol
incorporation as a matter of pre
caution in the responsibilities ii
has assumed in taking over the
Gaston county fair.
! Carolina Bank
Status Is Good
Deposit Insurance Cor
poration Reports Con
ditions Sound
Washington.—A concrete /pic
ture of the sound condition of
banks in North Carolina and
South Carolina was given in a re
port of the Federal Deposit Insur
ance corporation.
The report, covering 234 of
North Carolina’s licensed commer
cial banks and 82 in South Caro
lina, revealed their deposits had
increased more than $24,500,000
from December 30, 1933, to June
30, 1934.
Total deposits in the North Car
olina banks included as of June
30 were $238,301,000 as compared
with a figure of $224,102,000 six
months previous—an increase of
(more than $14,000,000.
| Deposits in the South Carolina
[banks included jumped from $68,
[789,000 on December 30 last year
to $79,232,000 on June 30—an in
crease of almost $10,500,000.
The report covered 98 per cent
of the licensed banks in North
Carolina and 62 per cent of those
i in South Carolina.
i "I believe the confidence en
gendered by deposit insurance has
'been an important factor in pro
imoting this substantial increase ir
'bank deposits,” said Leo T. Crow
ley, chairman of the FDIC.
Crowley said among other sig
nificant figures shown in the re
ports of condition of the bank
were loans and investments total
ing $191,071,000 for the Nort
Carolina banks and
for the South Carolina banks.
The North .Carolina figure m
eluded $78,973,000 in balance:
with the Federal Reserve bank oi
the district, while the South Caro
llina figure included similar bal
ances totaling $31,781,000.
! The figures revealed that mor<
i than 2,200 employees are engaged
■in banking in North Carolina and
: 7 5 0 in South Carolina.
Banking houses, furniture and
[fixtures were valued at $9,034,000
in North Carolina and $2,091,000
I in South Carolina.
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| Allen, Massie
Get Stays
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I Raleigh.—An appeal to the sup
reme court has been taken in the
case of Rcjland Earl Allen anc
Lowell Massie, white men sentenc
ed to die November 2 for the mur
der of Will Reeves, aged Rowar
county farmer.
The appeal automatcally stay:
the death sentence, and leaves onl)
George Whitfield, Guilford negro
scheduled to die November 2.
Whitefield’s death date was sei
last week after the United State
supreme court refused a writ o:
'certiorari to bring the case up fo
review there. A hearing will pro
bably be held before Parole Com
missioner Edwin M. Gill nex
week.
Kentucky Kidnapping
LOUISVILLE, Ky. . . . Above is
a recent painting of Mrs. Alice Stoll,
young social leader and wife of
Berry V. Stoll, Kentucky oil man,
whose brutal kidnapping for a de
manded $50,000 ransom, gave Fed
eral Department of Justice agents
i,another major kidnapping rase to
solve.
Tells Bankers
To Cooperate
^7 Recovery
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Pr®' ^ *t Recalls Crisis
C c7 ^ar And Half Ago
iays “Get Busy”
ONES SPEAKS
Speaking before the annual con
vention of the American Bankers’
association Wednesday night the
President issued something of a
challenge to the country’s bankers,
asserting that he expected them to
supply the credit need of the coun
try and to begin supplying it at
once.
He held out the promise that as
quickly as the banks are able to
assume their task of lending money
to industry, just so soon will gov
ernmental lending activities be
curtailed.
"In March, 1933, I asked the
people of this country to renew
their confidence in the banks,” he
said. "They took me at my word.
Again I ask the bankers of the
country to renew their confidence
in the people of this country. I
hope you will take me at my
word.”
j The Chief Executive said that
i after numerous conferences with
I members of the banking fraternity
[at which he had "not done all the
| talking, ’ he had found many
■Jpoints of disagreement but almost
•'"general agreement that govern
s | mental credit agencies must con
-.tinue to function until the private
i banks are ready to take over their
''And when that time
■ the President said, "I shall be only
1 too glad to curtail the activities
of these public agencies in propor
tion to the taking up of the slack
by privately owned agencies.”
JONES SAYS
“STORM OVER”
The nation’s bankers were as
sured by the administration that
the economic storm has passed and
warned that, unless they cooperate
fully in recovery efforts, the gov
ernment will go further into the
lending business.
The blunt admonition came
from Jesse Jones, chairman of the
Reconstruction Finance corpora
jtion, in addressing the annual con
| vention of the American Bankers’
[association.
His tempered remarks and the
conciliatory tone of the address by
ether "New Dealers” encouraged
some financiers to believe that the
wide breach between the adminis
tration and the bankers had been
spanned and that an era of bette
relations between the wan '
forces was near.
Jones opened his address by de
. daring, "I shall try to be less blunt
: than I appeared to be in Chicago.”
. He reiterated a suggestion made at
that time—that the banker^ go
partners with the President in his
. recovery program and without
stint.
'T'L . T» r/-> Iti .
*i,v- ^ iicau snowea plainly
that he was not satisfied with the
explanation of some bankers that
expansion of bank credit was being
restricted by the lack of demands
for it. He pointed out that the
jRFC has actually disbursed loans
of $3,657,000,000, of which $2,
154,000,000 has been repaid.
"This is indisputable evidence,”
jhe said, that you can, and could
! have made loans that you have
I been unwilling to make, and upon
; collateral that you have been will
ling to accept, and that the loans
! will be repaid without pressure, for
j the RFC has not forced a single
| collection.”
Jones paused as a low hum of
(conversation greeted this observa
| tion.
Many bankers, Jones said, stil
are trying to collect the slow loan,
with which they were caught at
the beginning of the depression
"This makes it impossible for old
borrowers to help in the recovery
program and discourages new bor
rowers.” ' ’
S. C., where he taught under James
H. Hope, now state superintendent
of education for South Carolina.
That Clyde A. Erwin, of Ruth
erfordton, named by Governor
Ehringhjus as state superintendent
of public instruction, is a fine rnan,
an efficient educator and a capable
person for the state position, was
the opinion expressed by Guy B.
Phillips, former superintendent of
Salisbury city schools and now
superintendent of the Greensboro
city schools and president of the
North Carolina Education associa
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non.
"His selection to this post should
be pleasing to all those who have a
sincere interest in future educa
tion in North Carolina,” Mr. Phil
lips stated.
Mr. Erwin, a former president of
the North Carolina Education as
sociation and well known through
out the state, was, up to the time
of his appointment, superintendent
of the Rutherford county schools.
Mr. Phillips himself had been
mentioned along with Mr. Erwin
as one of the leading educational
men of the state being considered
for the state superintendency, left
vacant by the death of Dr. A. T.
Allen.