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Carolina Watchman Published Every Friday Morning By The Carolina Watchman Pub. Cov SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA E. W. G. Huffman _®resident J. R. Felts,_Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In Advance One Year-r-—_$1 Jt)Q 6 Months-—- -50 Entered as • second-class mail matter at the postoffice at Sal isbury, N. C., under; (the act of March 3, 18^9, The influence of weekly news papers on public opinion exceeds that of all other publications in the country.—Arthur Brisbane. ---T— POPULATION. DAT A (1930 Census) '' Salisbury ■ l Spencer __3*128 E. Spencer ______i.Lj._l: 2,098 China Grove '—_'___L.i_ 1,258 Landis —_^___.i_ 1,388 Rockwell iii__i___i_i_ 898 Granite Quariy , 507 Cleveland_;____—435 Faith _ 431 Gold Mil iiiil___i___i_ 158 (Population Rowan Co,' 58,885) LET’S GO AFTER SOME BUSINESS .. ' It’s about time for mefichants and business men of Salisbury to look ahead and resume plans for business as,usual. While there has been an excus able let-down jn the past few years the tide is beginning to turn, the buying power of people i$ improv ing and trade will naturally come to the merchants who go after it.. In tliis connection We point out that one of the greatest factors in advancing the commercial and busi ness interests of any city is a first class newspaper. Somehow, people in a given territory trade in the town whose newspaper they read. I The Watchman with itst thorough coverage of the trading'' Zrii ’ of Salisbury is indispensable in any concerted trade promotion. ° We do not mean and Would not advise that merchants in any city should support a newspaper solely because it is published where they have their places of business. But we do say that, where a newspaper is published in a given city, with adequate coverage of the trading area and a comprehensive service tb the people of that section, merch ants and business men would do well to advertise in the publication^ Salisbury’s business Will grdW af - most identically with the success of its journalistic enterprises. The sup * ' Jr f y port from advertisers,-'which~'f«P sures newspaper success, widens the field of influence for a publication and brings back dividencli to ‘ the business men involved. There is no question about the truth of this CUUtlUMUU. It would, perhaps, be unbecom ing for us to say that The Watch man is such a wortKp?representa tive of the publishing wrfttd and the question is left for answer from out business interests. If * tftey con clude that this newspaper; is* 3 good salesman for this section and will give us the support that such a re presentative deserves there will be a decided improvement, and, among the first to feel it will be the ad vertising business men of Salisbury. THE RAILROADS’ NEW ERA It seems apparent that a new era in railroading is already well under way. Never in such a shqjrt space of time have there been StmtOhy innovations in railroad practice'' 3s in the past year or two; never have so many new experiments' <been under way in the effort to speed' up railway traffic and meet the rcom petition of the airplane and the automobile. .»• •m . First came the air-conditibning of passenger cars, so far applied to only a few long-run trains, but so successful and popular that it seems certain that before many years e very important train will be equipped with some kind of air-conditioning to insure fresh air, even tempera ture and no cinders in passengers’ eyes, which have been among the principal reasons why folk prefer tO| ride in motor cars rather than on! [ railroads. Then came the high-speed, stream-lined trains, in great variety. The first of these> the Burlington’s' "Zephyr,” proved so successful that the road ha«; ordered several more like it. In regular service it has to "loaf ” to keep down to a schedule which calls for only 85 miles an hour! Then came the Union Paci fic’s "caterpillar” with its Diesel electric locomotive, which amazed the world by crossing the continent in 57 hours. More of these light weight, high-speed trains are to be put into service as fast as they can be built. In the East,, where population is thicker and traffic heavier, the big trunk lines still pin their faith on electric propulsion, which is feasi ble wherever there ate great electric power plants close enough together. The Pennsylvania, which has been engaged for some'time in electrify ing its line between New York and Washington, has just placed a $! 5 , 000,000 order for 57 huge electric locomotives, likewise Streamlined, and capable of a sustained speed of 90 miles an hour, which will bring Washington arid New York within less than three hours of each other. We hear of the great locomotive builders experimenting with new types of motive power, the Pullman Company and other car builders do ing the same thing, and we look forward to a new and interesting railroad era. , TODAY AND TOMORROW - ’ . . < —BY Frank Parker Stockbridge LAND . . . soon in demand If I am any hand at reading the signs of the times, then the country is in for another big era of land speculation. And when you stop to think of it, the whole history of America is a history of speculation in real estate. The urge that brought most of our ancestors to America was the chance to get land cheap and sell it at a profit, except such as they needed to subsist on. George Washington was the greatest land speculator of the 18th Century. In an old newspaper in which his death was reported I saw an advertise ment of lands for sale along the Ohio River, "Address George Washington, Mount Vernon, Vir ginia.” I have lived through many land booms, including the rush of home steaders into the West, the opening up of Oklahoma and the Cherokee Strip, the great rush of settlers into Southern California, innumerable suburban booms around a dozen cities, and the great Florida specu lation which collapsed in 1926. - It looks to me as if the combi nation of better highways, cheaper cars, Federal encouragement, higher Iqty taxes and the beginning of a return of prosperity is certain to ■stimulate the demand for land far ther and farther away from urban centers. Look for the next big land boom to set in around the end of next 'year and reach its peak in, say, i 1937. I * * * | TREES . . . good investment | The cheapest crop to grow and fthe one that assures the greatest | return in the long run is trees. Up my way the annual harvest of the (tree crop is beginning now. Down f by the river on my farm Bill How lland is cutting birch, beech and | maple for cordwood. My share will go a long way toward the 1935 taxes. Just below me, Will Seeley has moved his portable sawmill into Noble Turner’s pine grove next to the old burying-ground and will saw out maybe a hundred thousand feet of boards, scantling and slabs, worth forty or fifty dollars a thousand rough-piled on the lot. There are, I guess, ten acres of woods to every acre of cleared land over most of Berkshire county. Counting household fuel and mer chantable timber, the annual crop pays big interest on the land value. Five dollars an acre is a good price for most of the pine-covered moun tain tops. ! 'Trees are a good investment for ft * THIS IS simply too good a story 4 4 4 TO MISS, and we are going to give 4 4 4 IT TO you without names. HOWEVER, LET the admission BE MADE that it would prove ■ i";; MUCH MORE interesting if a * * * NAME COULD be mentioned. 4 4 4 STILL RULES are rules, and they * * » MUST BE followed in this column. * * * IT HAPPENED in a certain family * a- * IN THE City which we believe 4 4 4 YOU WILL be able to name right 4 4 4 QUICK AFTER you read the story. 4 4 4' "HAS THE baby come to stay?” a ^ ‘ ' 5 '4 4 4 CERTAIN LITTLE girl in a home 4 4 4 WHICH THE stork had visited *. 4 4 4 RECENTLY WAS asked last week. 4 4 4 ' I THINK so” she replied promptly. 4 4 4 "HE’S TAKEN all his things off.” 4 4 4 I THANK YOU. i man who is content to stay put. Not so good for the man who is always on the move. : * «• s> SUGAR . . . from maple trees Down East when I was a boy few country folk bought "store sugar”. Unrefined brown sugar cost five or six cents a pound. In the 1870’s I remember that granu lated sugar' was ten cents and more a pound. We bought some "black strap” molasses, but there was bet ter sweetening right in our own woods. Maple sUgar. A farm wasn’t a real farm in those self-contained days unless it had its "sugar-bush.” Up on my] hilltop, where the land levels offj before you get to the slopes of Tim j Ball Mountain, possibly a hundred | huge sugar-niaplcs remain of the aid sugar-bush. They haven’t been tapped in years. Store sugar is too cheap and farm labor too high to make it pay. I asked for maple syrup the other day in a city restaurant, where I had ordered a plate of buckwheat! cakes. There wasn’t any more! maple in the syrup than there was! buckwheat flour in the cakes. I’ve a good notion to ask the] head of the CCC camp over at Lee | to send a bunch of the boys over next March to tap my sugar trees It would be an education for them, and maybe I could get some real maple sugar once more. * * HORSES . . . still with us Say what you please about the "vanishing” horse, I notice more real interest in horses and more of them in use, in the East at least, than for a good many years past. I went to the National Horse Show in New York a couple of weeks ago, and was specially interested in the handsome six-horse team exhi bited by one of the big milk dis tributing companies. It used to be the "brewers’ big horses” that were the last word in horseflesh; now it’s the milkman’s. Farmers are replacing gasoline tractors and trucks with "hay burners”, for which they can grow the necessary fuel and at the same time cut their fertilizer bills. And in the city streets, nobody has yet built an automobile that will move on to the next house by itself while the milkman is making his morning deliveries. It takes too much gas to start a car, especially in cold weather, to make it as economical as a horse in any kind of business that calls for frequent stops and starts. The husband who does not turn up at home until 2 o’clock in the morning, might have been able dur ing the boom times to persuade his wife he was kept at the shop by the pressure of business, but this ex cuse does not fit so well now that he is complaining of not enough work. When people buy things at low prices, they call it splendid enter-, prise but when their rivals offer low prices they call it cut throat competition. PICAYUNES Q. DOES the sun draw water from the clouds? A. The visible rays of the sun, which give rise to the erroneous ex pression that the "sun is drawing water from the clouds,” are merely rays which break thru clouds in the distance when most of the visible area has no sunshine because of clouds. POSSESSIVE Q. What is the correct possessive of "somebody else?” ' A. Somebody else’s. • GREEK MORTAL ;; Q. Was Hippocrates the Greek god of medicine? A. He lived about 460-3 5? B. C., and is called the Father of Medicine; The Greek god of Medicine was Aesculapius. TRAFFIC LAW Q. In which . countries of the western hemisphere are vehicles re quired to pass on the left? A Rrifich HnnHuras. -Panama. Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Prince Edward Island in-Canada. JAMES ROOSEVELT Q. What is the business of James, son of President Roosevelt? A. Advertising, in Cambridge, Mass. WIDOW’S NAME Q. Should a widow continue to Use her husband’s name? A. Yes. FEDERAL LAW Q. When did the Federal law prohibiting the interstate transpor tation of prize fight films for pur poses of public exhibition become effective? A. July 31, 1912. GAS CONSUMPTION Q. How much gasoline was used by motor vehicles in the United States in 1933? A. Thirteen billion, four hund red arid forty million gallons. Q. When were Czar Nicholas II of Russia and his family murder ed? ' , A. July 16,51918, at Ekaterin burg. .. CLEVELAND REIGN Q. During which Congresses was Grover Cleveland President? A. First term, 49th and 5 0th Congresses; second term, 53rd and 54 th. ADDRESS Q. What is the address of Carrie Jacobs Bond? • A. 2042 Pinehugst St., Holly wood, Calif.' * FIRST SLAVES Q. When were the, first Negro slaves brought to this country, and what was the name of the ship that brought them? A. They were landed at James town, Va., in 1619, from the ship, "The Treasurer,” commanded by Captain Daniel Elfrith. GAME PATENTS Q. Can a patent be obtained on a game? A. Patents are not granted on games. It is possible, however, to patent a game apparatus, copyright the rules, or get a design patent on the game board and other appur tenances. An appropriate and dis tinctive name may be chosen for the game and registered in the Trade Mark Division in the Patent Office. STERILIZATION LAW Q. Are mental defectives and criminals required by law to be sterilized in Germany? A. Yes. DEAD MOON Q. Could a person live on the moon? A. The moon is a dead world arid has no atmosphere, and there is nt: possibility of life on its surface. Route One Items Mrs. A. P. Shaver’s condition has been critical for the last few days, Her children have been at home over the week-end. Mrs. H. J. Thomnson has been in Asheville for the past week visit ing her son, B. J. Thompson and family. Jacob Bost, of Kannapolis, spent Tuesday with M. L. Bost of Route 1. Mrs. W. B. Myers and son have been sick—both are better at this time. Miss Grace Benson, of Sal isbury, has spent a few days with Mrs. Myers. Mrs. M. L. Bost is in Salisbury with her sister, Mrs. J. H. Myers who is very sick. C. H. Weiser and mother visited relatives in Mount Pleasant last Sunday. Mrs. John Myers spent a few days with her son, Olen Myers, and family. N. C. Shaver visited George Fink over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. James Cline and daughter visited Mr. and Mrs. Dempsy Shaver on last Sunday. I 1 ] sagas-.*__ OPEN FORUM The Watchman welcomes contributions to this column, and writers are asked to make their articles as brief as pos sible. This column is open to all readers, and we resume no responsibility for the com ments or criticims made. All articles must be duly signed by . the writer. Salisbury, N. C., Nov. 15th, 1934. Mr. Henry W. Davis, Mayor, City of Salisbury, N. C. Salisbury, N. C. In re-Sewer Pipe Dear Sir:— I do noc desire co state which pipe is the best for sewer purposes, hut I do desire to call your attention to a few facts that you can very easily verify from a number of our tax paying citizens. ». t < i r 1 1 IllEie 1C55 Llian 1UU1 Lixuusdau years ago, the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built by the Isralites, and is now one of the Seven Won ders of the World. These pyramids were constructed by mixing some substance with a "plaster” that was made from ground up limestone. Crude and non-technical as this plaster may have been, it has with stood the ravages of the weather jwith practically no sign of wear through nearly forty centuries. Technical magazines, books, and thousands of tourists throughout these United States of America tell me that the greater majority of bridges, culverts and under the highest types of paved roads are built out of concrete, an art of mixing some substance with a plas ter” that is made from ground up limestone. These same tourists, citizens and taxpayers, tell me that they even see concrete pipe used under these same roads. In fact, from a slight examination, concrete pipe almost exclusively is found to be used by the Federal Government and by the North Carolina State Highway Commission in their road construction program for years throughout this great Common I wealth of ours. Great roadbuilders I throughout the world have come to xt.-A fn oYiminP OUT J.1W1 - I roads, and have pronounced them I to be the best. Yet, behold, they ! almost exclusively use concrete pipe! i The 1914 edition of American Sewerage Practice says that prior to 11900, concrete sewer mains were "used to a limited extent” but since that date, "sewers are commonly built of concrete," our capitol city of Washington having in use over 1500 miles of concrete sewer lines 1(1914). Brooklyn, N. Y. laid "about 400 miles in 1912” of con crete sewers out of a total of 1200 miles in use up to 1930, while the adjoining villages of The Bronx and Queens have 1200 miles of sewer system composed entirely of con i crete. The majority of Manhattan’s sewer lines are of concrete. New ark, N. J. has 366.6 miles of sewer mains almost enteirely of concrete. De Land (Florida) entire sewer \ system is composed of concrete pipe. Fort Brag, and other perman ent military cantonments, use con crete sewer pipe almost exclusively. In California, the Municipal Index j finds that almost the entire sewer system of 180 miles in Sacranmento is composed of concrete pipe. New jYork City is eyen coating cast iron*' pipe with a concrete lining, judging I from the Municipal Index, we find that Charlotte, Winston-Salem, | Wilmington, Durham, Goldsboro, ’ Chapel Hill, and numerous other j North Carolina cities and towns are using concrete sewer pipe, all j of which use concrete sewer sett-1 ling basins. Our neighbor, Spencer, J has concrete sewer pipe that has not1 given a particle of trouble for these j many years. Knoxville, Tenn., the! home of Clay Pipe Manufacturing! Co., has many miles of concrete | sewer pipe in their sewer system of | 178.3 miles. The Pomona Terra! Cotta Co’s, controlled Greensboro! has only vitrified clay pipe. So does j Palo Alto, Cal.,, the home town of j ex-president Herbert Hoover. , j Something must be wrong some where, judging from the report of Nov. 9th., that our city council voted that bids could not be ac cepted on concrete pipe, as it could 'not be guaranteed. Guaranteed by jwhom? Were the Great Pyramids | Guaranteed by the Isralites? I say emphatically "NO”. Yet, they I have stood these many centuries, and are as good today as they were the day they were built, and they were built out of "plaster” now i known as concrete, j One of our greatest American industries, The Portland Cement jAssociation, who employ far more people than live in Salisbury, have as their moto, Concrete for Per manency". They have sold their products to thousands of experts on that slogan, BASED ON FACT, yet our City Council* in regular session, by a three to one vots, says concrete pipe was no good, letting the bars down for our taxpayers and water consummers to pay more money on bids without competi tion for the same article,-namely, clay pipe, hundreds of cars of clay pipe. I would like to ask Salisbury’s City ManagV-Purchasing Agent Paymaster-Councilman if it is not a I fact that he ordered the engineer in I charge of this four hundred odd | thousand dollars sewer disposal j work to specify vitrified clay pipe only? Why did he issue this order without instructions or authority from the Board? Is it a fact that he knew that he had enough "me too” councilman to sustain his order? | Your Board did not know of this order until the meeting of Novem ber the 9th. "God save the king” is an ex pression used in England. In Loui siana, something is said about the :"Kingfish”. What do they say in Salisbury? That Depends! As for me, I believe in that Biblical term, "By their works yet shall know them. Respectfully Yours, (Signed) A. F. Walser Homeowner and Water Consum mer. The driver who is determined to pass on curves, is likely to pass out on one before very long. They tell us why love fades like the roses, but the boys say it fades so quick nowadays unless fertilized with planty of candy, flowers, and automclbile rides, that they are thinking of not raising any more of this transient crop. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON (Continued from page one) i President’s right arm in getting the Stock Exchange Control' bill and the Securities Act through the last Congress. But back-slapping Joe Byrns of Tennessee has a lot > of. members pledged to himself. . Jc; looks like a scrap. ■ ■ ~■ v ■ The latest !'trial balloon/’ sent up by the Administration to sound out public sentiment, is the project for a series of intermediate credit banks , to lend up. to two or three billions to small industries on five years terms, to enable them to start up and put men back to 'work, r How to reduce the 18 millions now on relief to three or four mil lions is still the greatest problem Mr. Roosevelt faces. There have been suggestions that Government guarantees of profits in the staple industries might stimulate private capital to start the wheels turning again. The banks have plenty of money and are willing to lend it: the trouble is that few competent businesses are willing to take the | risk of borrowing until they get some assurance from Washington that the government’s finanqial and business policies have been stabi lized. And the Administration is beginning to understand that its great housing program, intended to be financed by private capital can’t get very far until people who want homes are back on reasonably stable payrolls. Senator Borah’s demand for an investigation of waste and graft in the distribution of relief funds is being taken seriously'. The investi gation is to be made by Relief Ad ministrator Harry Hopkins, who stands out as one of the high offi cials who does not let political con siderations warp his intergrity or his judgment. Weant Town News - | Mr. Walt Shoaf and family spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shoaf. Miss Nami Hoffman spent the week-end with Miss Grace Hoff man. She is from Salisbury. Mrs. Clara Fortner and sofi. Woodruff, of High Point, spent Sunday evening with her daughter, Miss Mozell Gobble. Mr. H. L. Gobble and family spent the day Sunday in Salisbury with his daughter, Mrs. Lina Gob ble. Miss Rosa Cauble visited Mrs. Bob Winecoff Tuesday evening. Mrs. T. E. Lamont was a visitor of Mrs. L. C. Williams Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Williams vis ited Mrs Williams’ brother, Mr. Ernest Weant, Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Shutt made a trip up in the Blue Ridge Moun tains on business last Friday. They came back Saturday evening. Mrs. Lindzie Gobble spent Sun day evening with her mother, Mrs. John Wagner. Miss Mildred Williams and brother, L. C., were visitors of Mrs. Earnest Weant Monday even ing.