Carolina Watchman
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SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA
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POPULATION DATA
(1930 Census)
Salisbury___ 16,951
Spencer _3,128
E. Spencer --;-2,098
China Grove___1,258
Landis -;-1,388
Rockwell_ 696
Granite Quarry_ 507
Cleveland__._ 435
Faith _._ 431
Gold Hill __ 156
(Population Rowan Co. 56,665)
JAPAN THE INCOMPREHEN
SIBLE
Nothing that we have read or
heard throws a stronger light upon
the difference between the Japanese
and every other nation in the world
than the consternation in Japanese
officialdom because the police guard
attending the Mikado took the
wrong turning the other day and
piloted the Imperial car along a
street which had not been properly
prepared for his coming. A police
inspector attempted suicide to wipe
out the dishonor he felt over the in
cident. Other officials were lock
ed up to prevent them from killing
themselves. At last accounts it
seemed as though the Cabinet min
ister responsible for the police would
have to resign his office, if not
even to commit hari-kari.
That is a situation incomprehen
sible to the citizens of a democracy.
Back of it lies the insurmountable
difficulty of dealing with Japanese
diplomats on level terms. They are
a superior race, in their own esti
mation, superior to all the rest of
the world. Their emperor is the
direct descendant of the Sun God,
and is far superior to any earthly
power. Every Japanese owes his
life to the Mikado, whose will is the
sole basic law of the land. What
tne MiKaao wills nis subjects will
gladly lay down their lives for.
Just now Japan is demanding
naval equality with Great Britain
and the United States. It has re
fused to recognize the right of any
other nation or of the League of
Nations to raise any question about
its occupation of Manchuria. With
drawing from the League, Japan
will not say yes or no to the inquiry
whether it is or is not: fortifying
the Ladrone Islands as a naval base.
It begins to look as if Japan were
ambitious to occupy the position
which Germany, under the Kaiser,
used to hold, that of the potential
trouble-maker of the-world.
MAY GET A BREAK
The Lexington Dispatch points
out that maybe the members of the
next legislature who will be faced
with the problem of finding money
with which to raise teachers’ sal
aries and meet other necessary gov
ernmental expenses, may get a break
after all—and it will be tobacco
money at that.
If the courts find a way to settle
the Smith Reynolds estate, then the
State treasury will be boosted - by
about two million dollars from the
inheritance tax, and it does not re
quire a teacher of mathematics to
figure out how much that would,
help, and any teacher can easily tell;
you where it ought to go.
It is not of record that any can-|
didate was bold enough, in his pre
election pronouncements, to say
that the teachers are receiving a fair
wage and that there is no need for
relief for them. On the contrary
there was the promise that if the
money could be found their salaries
would be raised.
It is perhaps a fact that the day
after election, those named to the
legislature, felt their responsibility
more than before; they realized that
they had promised something that
will be hard to fulfill. Hidden
treasures have a way of remaining
hidden, and new tax sources are
equally elusive.
From now until the legislature
meets in January the legislators will
spend many weary hours pondering
the vexing question of tax source,
and if this two million dollars of
tobacco money is dumped right in
their laps, they will hardly be in
clined to doubt that there is a
Santa Claus.
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
—BY—
Frank Parker Stockbridge
BRAINS ... they’re scarce
In the long run, brains rule the
world. The principal thing that
holds humanity back from perfec
tion is that there are not enough
first-rate brains to go around. The
world has produced few originial
thinkers. Those whose thoughts
have been preserved have exercised
far greater influence and for longer
periods than all the rulers, armies
and builders put together.
At a social gathering the other
night the question came up as to
who, by the power of his brains
alone, had most widely influenced
the course of mankind. Leaving
the past 100 years out of considera
tion, for it is still too soon to evalu
ate thoughts so recent, I picked as
my list Confucius, the Chinese
philosopher; Aristotle and Plato, the
Greek thinkers; Euclid, the father
agine that the world was round and
to guess that there was another side
to it; and Shakespeare, the universal
interpreter of human nature :o
itself.
If I were to come down to recent
times I would add Karl Marx and
Charles Darwin, as the foremost
brains of our times. But I can’t see
far enough ahead to guess whether
they will be as influential a thous
and years from now.
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IDEAS . . . put to work
The value of originial ideas is that
they set so many unoriginial people
at work trying to see whether the
ideas will work or not.
An idea is no good unless it is put
to work, no matter how' original it
is. Clerk Maxwell, the English
mathematician, originated the idea
that all matter, visible or invisible,
moves in rhythmical waves. He
set down the idea in a mathematical
formula. Herz, the German physi
cist, took Maxwell’s formula and
discovered that the idea was sound.
There were waves of space. He
wrote down his proof of that. Then
Marconi set himself to the task of
putting those waves to work for
the transmission of signals, and
wireless telegraphy was the result,
with its offspring, radio broadcast
ing.
One idea of an obsurce mathema
tician has thus given work to mil
lions, cut down time and space, and
'gives enjoyment and information to
! hundreds of millions. In its field it
has changed the customs and
, thoughts of the world.
Everything that we call progress
'got its start in the mind of seme
originial thinker.
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TOOLS ... aid to muscles
! Brains and their product, ideas,
are tools. The highly-skilled high
j ly-paid workers of the world earn
jbig pay because they add those
i tools to the mechanical devices with
which the ordinary worker has to
do his daily Job.
Industrial progress began when
men began building brains into the
tools of production, making ma
chines which could be operated
without the use of brains. That
made it possible to set men of little
brain-power at work turning out
the most perfect mechanisms. And
since labor, in the long run, is al
ways paid in proportion to the value
of its product, by multiplying the
number of perfect products the
worker could produce in a day the
brain-treated tools made it possible
for him to earn more than he ever
could have earned with his unaided
muscles.
And, on the whole, the product
of the machine is far better than
the product of the hand-working
THERE’S A certain young man in
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TOWN WHO is attempting to
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CONVINCE A well-known young
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WOMAN THAT she should marry
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HIM. YOU know both of them,
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BUT WE’D be breaking a rule if
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HINT OF whom they are. They
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iMYES, PROBABLY your income
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WOULD BE enough to keep us
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BOTH, IF only you hadn’t such
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EXPENSIVE HABITS,” she said
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TO HIM. "What expensive habits
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HAVE I got?” he asked in a
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PROTESTING MANNER. "Well
ME, FOR example,” she replied.
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jl THANK YOU.
craftsman.
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PATENTS . . . and ideas
You can’t patent an idea. All
that you can patent is the machine
or device that makes the idea work.
Ideas, once made public, are com
mon property for whoever can make
use of them.
My friend, the late Glenn Cur
tiss, had an idea which would make
it easier for an airplane to fly. He
tried it, it worked, and he got a
patent on the device. The Wrights
sued him for infringement of their
patent, though the airplane they had
patented was quite a different ap
plication of an idea that was far
older than either Wright or Curtiss.
They though they had patented the
idea of flying.
Inventors frequently claim that
someone else has stolen their idea.
What they mean is that some other
man beat them to it making a ma
chine that would work. And even
then, the inventor has to give every
body the right to make his inven
tion after 17 years. The word!
"patent” means to make public.1
Government protects him in the use|
of his device for 17 years in con-!
sideration of his making it public.|
Otherwise, he could keep it a secret
COPYRIGHT ... its purpose
There is a big row brewing over
the rights of authors to the profits
of their brain work. Under the
copyright law the author of a book,
'a story or a song, or the composer
| of a piece of music, can copyright
jit, and sue and collect damages if
j anyone uses his material for profit
j without his permission,
j That is the fairest sort of a law,
i but the radio broadcasters and the
|motion picture people don’t like to
pay for the right to use popular
music. So the authors and com
posers got together and are charg
ing a small fee to picture theaters
■and broadcasters.
j Now the Government is sueing
them as a monopoly! That seems
'absurd to me. But the world is full
,of pirates who make a living by
stealing other people’s property, and
maybe they’ll get away with it.
| me automobile authorities warn
! the people about the danger of
skidding on fallen leaves, which
j warning is well heeded by those
who would be careful anyway, but
very little attention is paid to it by
those needing the warning.
The people are urged to preserve
.their beauty spots, but just now,
the one that seems most beautiful
.is a ten spot.
^ Many boys here in North Caro
lina are convinced that home is a
slow old place, and they must get
out and see the world, but if they
propose to accomplish that end by
hitchiking, they are likely to see the
inside of some jails first.
Some folks feel depressed when
i they don’t get invitations to wed
dings but Father, who had been
figuring how he should buy the
wedding presents, will probably be1
able to conceal his grief if he is j
not included. |
The cities that are borrowing
money freely, show they under-1
stand the principles of up-to-date
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PICAYUNES |
Q. Is the word cheese plural or
singular?
A. It is singular; the plural is
cheeses.
NATIONAL PARKS
Q. What is the area of Grand Te- j
ton National Park and Yellowstone!
National Park?
A. Grand Teton—150 square
miles; Yellowstone—3438 square
miles.
AUTO DEATHS
Q. How many persons were kill
ed in automobile accidents in the
U. S. in 1933?
A. Approximately 29,900.
GARY’S WIFE
Q. To whom was Gary Cooper
recently married?
A. Sandra Shaw.
U. S. S. WYOMING
Q. Is the U. S. S. Wyoming in
commission?
A. It was withdrawn from active
service under the London Naval
Treaty, and is now used as a train
ing ship.
PRINCE OF WALES
Q. How old is the Prince of
Wales?
A. He was 40 years old on June
23, 1934.
. LEGAL
Q, Can a person named as bene
ficiary in a will be the executor
also?
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PEWTER
Q. When was pewter in general
use for tableware in America?
A. It was much used in the early
Colonial households, and some of it
dates from the 17th Century; but
the period which marked its great
est production was the 100 years be
tween 1750 and 1850.
Q. Is the word an ever used as an
adverb?
A. No.
NEGRO OFFICIAL
Q. What position in the Federal
Government does the Negro, Robert
Vann, hold?
A. He is one of the Assistant At
torneys General of the United
States.
THEME SONG
Q. What is the theme song of the
motion picture, "Dr. Monica”?
A. "When Tomorrow Comes,”
by Kahal and Fain.
REVOLUTION
Q. Which is considered the deci
sive battle of ' the Revolutionary
War?
A. The victory of the Americans
over Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga in
1777.
PHYSICS
Q. Is water compressible?
A. Slightly.
COMMENTATOR
Q. Is Boake Carter a native Eng
lishman?
A. He was born in Baku, South
Russia, of Irish-English parents.
ARMY AND NAVY
Q. Are men who have taken out
their preliminary naturalization pa
pers accepted for enlistment in the
Army and Navy?
A. Only American citizens are
accepted in the Navy, but men
who have legally declared their in
tention to become citizens are ac
cepted in the Army.
TOUGH
Q. What do prize fighters use to
toughen their hands?
A. They soak them in brine or
pure grain alcohol.
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The wild red man of former days
couldn’t tearb rbe modern virl
much about the use of war paint.
We are warned to beware of folks
who sneeze, but some of them were
perhaps trying to pronounce those
queer names over in Europe.
Some babies are said to be born
with gold spoons in their mouths.
With this new gold law in operation
Infant Willie should spit it out just1
as soon as he can, and order his
parents to turn it over to Uncle
Sam at the earliest possible date.
The people who complain about
their neighbors’ bonfire, will also
probably kick if rubbish is left
around the yard.
Amending the constitution said
to be too difficult, but it is much
easier than amending people’s con
duct.
Claimed some voters don’t know
whom they vote for ,but this seems
to put them in a position where in
any case they can claim to be on the
winning side.
The old political warhorses may
be scorned, but they don’t climb
the fence when they see a piece of
paper in the road.
The bandits and gangsters are
having extensive celebrations of Old
Home week in the cemeteries.
LAND POSTERS—For Sale at The
Watchman Office.
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DISTRIBUTE THE CREDIT
Not only North Carolina but j
the people of the entire nation^
should feel grateful to Secretaryjj
[ekes for routing the great Scenic j
Parkway over North Carolina soil.
[t has been placed where it ought
to be, and upon merit alone, as
anyone must conclude after reading
Secretary Ickes’ report.
In presenting North Carolina s
claims for the eastern entrance to
the Great Smoky Mountain Park,
the whole of the State’s congres
sional delegation and the State ad- ]
ministration had a share yet onejl
Raleigh correspondent creates the ]
impression that Governor Ehring ■ |
haus deserves the credit for chart
ing it through North Carolina. It i
is a victory that should be shared i
by all, and doubtless Governor^
Ehringhaus has no desire to hog j j
the show.
If the credit is to be analyzed i
and distributed then Congressman j
Doughton would come in for a big |
share. It is not generally known j
that he was responsible for bring-1
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Rock, thus giving this State an ad- ,
vantage from which it could worki
for further extension through this]
state. In his far-sighted, long-,
headed way he had Washington of-j
ficials committed to the charting
as far as Blowing Rock, before the
Tennesseans knew what it was all j
about. Yet Congressman Dough-’
ton has not done any bragging
about it.
In this achievement there is
enough credit to go all the way
around, but if it is to be turned to
personal political profit, then all
the factors entering into the selec
tion of the route should be parcell
ed out in accordance with the in
fluence exerted to bring it here.—
Statesville Record.
A REVOLTING MESS
A little cash can subdue a lot of
stench, so perhaps those engeged in
the battling over the Smith Rey
nolds millions can go right along
without holding their noses. There;
are some phases of the thing that
must be a bit revolting to othet
folks though.
Perhaps the most bizzare turn ini
the legal tangle is the insistence on
the part of a bank headed by the
father of the first wife that said
wife did not secure a legitimate
divorce out in Reno before Rey
nolds married the Holman girl.
This contention, if upheld, would
bastardize Baby Chirstopher and
make his little half sister the pro
bable heir to the whole pile. And
she would still be his half sister,
presumably.
Money rows can certainly be
nice.—Lexington Dispatch.
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Extracts Bullet In
Head For 18 Years
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Wilkes-barre, Pa.—Mrs. Joseph j
Bevilacqua, 36, of Simpson, is mak-j
ing her rounds without a bullet she j
had carried in her head since she :
was 18 years old.
The bullet lodged in the woman’s!
head during a shooting affray along :
a street in her native village in
Italy. She suffered no pain until (■
recently and doctors decided to op- <
erate. The missile, of a steel com
position, was found flattened j
against a bone near the base of the 1
brain.
Many people are trying to reduce ;
their hips, but anyway ours aren’t !
being swelled out by any over fat ,
purses in the hip pocket. ]
Rockwell News i
Mr. Bill Willette, a student at
enoir-Rhyne college, spent the
reek-end with his parents, Mr. and j
Irs. L. Willette, at Rockwell.
James Shuping, of near Shuping
Roller Mills, is making preparations
o build a new home. Bernard Lentz
vho operates a saw mill is doing
>art of the sawing for the build
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A fine rain fell here last Friday
vhich was very much needed. I
Grandma Fowler, of near Kanna-1
(olis, visited her son, Mr. Baxter
;owler, of near Organ church the,
tast week.
Miss Mildred Willette, of Rock-1
veil, who was suddenly attacked!
vith appendicitis and was taken to
:he General hospital in Salisbury
vhere she underwent an operation,:
s now at home and is doing fine
ter many friends will be glad to
tote.
Mr. Luther Goodman, of Rock
veil, is in a Salisbury hospital where
te underwent a most serious opera
don for appendicitis. Reports are
:hat he is doing as well as could be
ixpected.
Messrs. A. B. Saleeby, Dr. Foust
)f Salisbury made talks at the
Rockwell Methodist church last
Wednesday night in the interest of
Baraca classes in the churches of
D_i_it
Mr. L. Willette and family, of
Rockwell, are making preparations
to move to Salisbury sometime in
January, 1933. Mr. Willette has
been superintendent of the Cannon
mills at Rockwell the past 3 years
and was a member of Rockwell
school board, and a member of the
Rockwell Methodist church, which
position he filled with much honor
and ability and won the love and
respect of all in whom he came in
contact with. Rockwell and vicinity ■
regret very much to lose Mr. Will
ette and family but hope him much
success in his new position as supt. j
of the Kesler mills in Salisbury,
which is also a link in the Cannon
chain of mills.
Much farm work has been done
the past few weeks by the farmers
who have finished picking cotton
and seeding grain.
In the passing of Harvey Stire
walt this community lost one of the
most outstanding young men in the
:ommunity. One who loved his
family, his church, his community
ind his friends—one who lived a
juiet life. Funeral service was
:onducted from Organ church last
Wednesday afternoon by his pastor,
Rev. Paul L. Miller, assisted by Rev.
Charles Ridenhour, of China Grove.
Many friends paid their last tribute
In.m varnnnf trt flip rpmi 1 n C
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which was laid to rest in Organ
church cemetery. The floral of
ferings were many and beautiful.
The hunting season has opened
here and many are enjoying the
sport as the sound of the hound and
roar of guns can be heard most any
Jay at this season of the year.
Members of Washington Camp
No. 12, P. O. S. of A. are making
preparations to hold their annual
Fish and oyster supper sometime near
:he close of the year, 1934. Last
/ear about 90 members were pre
sent and enjoyed the event. Notices
will be communicated each member
when the plans are complete and
iate set.
The churches of this vicinity are
jusy planning and arranging their
Christmas program which is only
i short time off.
Prof, and Mrs. Edleman Kale
md family, of Stanly county, paid
Vfr. Kale’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
fames Kale, at Rockwell a most!
Peasant visit some days ago. ‘
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WASHINGTON |
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so he accepted the invitation. The
Administration has been followin'
his financial plans and ideas f0~
nearly a year now. And as Gover
nor of the Federal Reserve Board
he will be pretty near the big boss
of all banking in America.
Mr. Eccles’ ideas are all in the
direction of Government control o*
credit and currency rather than
banker control. The big banking
interests don’t like that at all, but
he holds the whip hand. Among
other things, he is all for compelling
the Federal Reserve Banks to sup
port the Government bond mar
ket, for a bigger program of spend
ing for public works and non-com
petitive Government enterprises,
and against direct doles from the
Federal Treasury to the unemplos
ed.
Unemployment insurance .got x
boost when the President declared
himself for it, under a system of
contributions by employees, em
ployers and perhaps, by states, but
the fund to be controlled and man
aged by the Federal government.
Old Age insurance advocates felt
disappointed when the President
said he wasn’t sure the time was ripe
for that, but those close to the Ad
ministration say he is for it, bu
his experts haven’t yet presented a
workable plan.
There is a strong swing of busi
ness support to the Administration
since the election. Business is
afraid the new Congress will pro
pose wild and radical schemes, and
even those who do not wholly agree
with the Roosevelt policies are be
ginning to feel that he will try to
hold the middle of the road, and so
are coming to his support.
The lowdown on the Administra
tion’s program of legislation is that
there will be a larger and -more
vigorous policy of spending, no cur
rency inflation but a great inflation
of banking credit.
All of the reports Irom business
and industrial sources coming to
Washington point to a record
breaking Christmas trade in the re
tail stores, but suggests that perma
nent recovery isn’t in sight much
before the end of 191S. The big
Doom will begin then, unless some
thing happens- that nobc'dy can
foresee.
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EVERY WEEK
THERE are fair and profitable
exchanges every week through
Want-Ad columns of The
Watchman. If you have
something to sell, tell of it
through a Want-Ad. If there
is something you want to buy
and want a bargain, then read
the Want-Ads. The Want-Ad
rate is only S cents per line
READ AND USE
THE WANT ADS
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2 Statement November 1, 1934 £
I ASSETS LIABILITIES h
North Carolina Bonds_$ 5,000.00 Instalment Stock _191,518.50
HOLC Bonds _ 1,975.00 Paid-up Stock -:- 229,440.00
P Certificates of Deposit_ 4,000.00 Surplus and Undivided H
§ Stock in Federal Home Profits - 50,551.31 K
pj Loan Bank _ 1,350.00 Indebtedness -£ NONE £
P Cash in Bank Checking H
Account _ 2,594.73
First Mortgages on Real
Estate _ 426(842.65
P Loans on Pass Book Stock_ 12,459.00 H
^ Real Estate __ 17,288.43 £
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P $471,509.81 $471,509.81 H
In the past thirty day period we have paid to our sharehold
f_ ers in maturities, regular dividends and extra dividends, ~
~ $28,500.00. %
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P Our Series No. 63 is open and we urge you to start systematic H
saving in it.
H Home Building & Loan Association -
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oi The Leading Building and Loan at Salisbury ^
£ A. W. HARRY, Pres. "At the Square” E. H. HARRISON, Sec.-Treas. ^
j Office: Pilot Building Phone 116
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