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Carolina Watchman Published Every Friday Morning By The Carolina Watchman Pub. Cov SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA -- E. W. G. Hlufifman._President SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In Advance One Year_$1.00 6 Months_ .JO 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. POPULATION DATA (1930 Census) Salisbury _16,951 Spencer -3,128 E. Spencer_2,098 China Grove_1,258 Landis _1,3.88 Rockwell_ 696 Qranite Quarry_ 507 Cleveland_ 43 5 Faith _ 431 Gold Hill _ 156 (Population Rowan Co. 56,665) A COUNTRY DOCTOR Ten thousand people tried to crowd into a hall that holds only three thousand, the other night in New York, to see— what? A mar vel of science, a freak of nature, a great musician or a famous explor er? Nothing like that drew that great throng to Carnegie Hall. Nothing but a country doctor! The greatest medical specialists of America, the heads of the great hospitals and medical schools, and thousands of ordinary folk turned out to see a simple, unpretentious, untravelled rural practioneer from Canada. It was such a tribute as few country doctors ever get, but which most of them, we think, de serve. Dr. Dafoe sprang to unexpected fame because of the Dionne quin tuplets. To his skill and devotion the whole medical world attributes the survival of those five little French-Canadian sisters, the only set of quintuplets that is known to have lived more than a few hours after birth. Now six months old, they afe as strong and healthy as any normal infants of that age, due to Dr. Dafoe’s intelligent care. Not every country doctor has a chance to prove his skill by bring ing up quintuplets, but the coun try towns and villages of America and Canada contain thousands of medical men who are just as devot ed, just as self-sacrificing, just as able, on the average, as Dr. Dafoe. We are glad to see this homage paid to him, since he has shown no signs of swelling of the head, be cause to us it seems a deserved tri bute to the country general prac titioneer, who too seldom gets pub lic credit for what he does for his WU11UU111LJ • We venture that, deep down in their hearts, the great specialists who went to that meeting in Car negie Hall envied this country doc tor. If he is like other country doctors we know he occupies a place in the life and the hearts of his community that no city prac titioner, however skillful, can hope to attain. They make more mon ey, but they lose the more Import ant and valuable considerations of life. The good country doctor oc cupies a position of security and, contentment which the greatest, may envy. He deserves and gen erally has the respect, and the love of his people to a degree that few men in any other calling ever com mand. It makes little difference to him whether his patients can pay their bills promptly or not; noj difference insofar as his duty tO( 'them in time of illness or accident goes. They come to him with their troubles and their secrets, and often 'it is his wise advice and counsel, far more than his medicines, that helps to keep them going. We do not believe that any scheme of "socialized” medicine will ever become so useful as the "humanized” influence of the in dividualistic country doctor. WOMEN IN PUBLIC OFFICE Whenever we look over a list of people holding public office, in Congress, in the Federal depart ments and elsewhere, we are always impressed anew with the increasing number of women doing public service. And the more we think about it, the more it seems to us like a right and proper thing. Intelligent women are much more interested in serving others than men usually are. There is something in a woman’s nature that impels her to see the job through and pay little attention to outside influences. Women in pub lic office are less likely to be fired by personal political ambitions than men are. Likewise, they are more apt to be economical in their administration of their jobs. We could think of a great many things less desirable than to have a large part of the government run by women, preferably grandmoth ers. We believe one result would be lower taxes and less waste of public funds. There also probably would be less graft and fewer scandals. TODAY AND TOMORROW —BY— Frank Parker Stockbridge ANIMALS . . . and children It was Sidney Smith, the famous English wit of a century ago, who said: “The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.” The reason why every normal human being finds the lesser animals interesting, it seems to me, is that when you come to know them you can always count on their attitude toward any situation. That is decidedly not true of mankind, except in rare in stances. Some of the finest friendships I have ever known have been be tween children and their pet ani mals. Children seldom understand grown-ups, who live in a different kind of world and do the most un expected things, from the child’s point of view. But a dog or a cat or almost any other animal meets the child on a level of equality. Neither is concerned with any problems except those of the mo ment. What the future has in store for them doesn’t worry them, be cause the idea that there is any future finds no lodgment in their minds. When a man or a woman gets too self-centered to be interested in animals and their ways he or she is out of balance. I would hate to trust a child to the care of anyone who didn’t like the little beasts of the hearth and the fields. sJ. A it MICE . . . they sing Did you ever hear a mouse sing? My own old ears are not keen enough, but several of my friends have told me of singing mice in their homes, and I heard the other day of one old gentleman who suc ceeded in taming one of the little creatures so that it would come every night and share his late sup per of bread and cheese, singing between bites. The notes are like a canary’s, only very low and faint. A British scientist contends that all mice sing, if we could only hear them. I have one friend with ears sharp enough to hear the bats talk to each other as they pursue mosqui toes on Summer nights. He says that they, too, sound like rather squeaky canaries, with a range of several notes. As a boy I used to catch bats and try to tame them. One became an interesting pet. He slept all day, hanging upside down, sus pended by the hooks on his wing joints from the picture-molding in my bedroom. But a conscienti- j ous maid-servant, who believed the' old superstition that bats carry bedbugs, and are bad luck anyhow, killed him with a broom one day. «• s- * FOXES . . . in U. S. I feel sorry for city children, who grow up without seeing any animals except dogs, goats, cats and horses, unless* they go to the Zoo. To them all other animals] I seem dangerous, because they see them only behind the bars of their cages. The other day a little gray fox from the Long Island woods stray ed into a New York suburb, and women and children ran shrieking into their houses, crying “Wolf!” The police finally captured the frightened beastie and took him to the city Zoo. Probably nobody concerned Real ized that the gray fox, which is becoming rarer and rarer in the East, is the only native fox south of the Canadian border. The com mon red fox was unknown in America until about 200 years ago, I when a group of sportsmen, trying to introduce their English sport o£ 'fox-hunting into the colonies, im ported a few pairs of red foxes | from England and turned them i loose on Long Island. Now their progeny have driven the gray foxes | back into the deep woods, all over New England, New York, New I Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. t *r MONKEYS ... and us I don’t think I know anybody jwho isn’t interested in the human dike antics of monkeys, who are so much like miniature people that we instinctively feel kinship with them. But most folk feel an in stinctive terror of the great apes, the orangutans, gorillas and even1 chimpanzees. They are so very much like humans that we can’t feel sure how they will react to emotional stimuli, and they are so much stronger, size for size, than any human being, that there is gen erally a decided fear of personal violence should something anger them. My friend Ben Burbridge brought a baby gorilla home from Africa a few years ago and I got to be well acquainted with her. She was anj affectionate creature, who would tear the clothes off anybody she liked, in the effort to show her af fection. She didn’t realize, of course, how much stronger she was than a man or woman. After a while she, like all the __• _v.. i_i t! v/tiiwi apvj in va^iuuj, iiau tu uv | sent to a Zoo, for safety. It would have been kinder to have left herj ready among the returning Senators, and members of Congress for the immediate payment of the Veterans Bonus, and there are some signs that the Administration may yield a point and propose some compromise plan, which would provide for an issue of new currency to take care of this demand and remove the matter from the public arena. That would involve a moderate amount of currency inflation. The extreme inflationists are withhold ing their program for the present, j Senator Elmer Thomas, of Okla- j homa, leader of the inflationists bloc, says they will not make any new ■ demands unless they think further devaluation of the dollar, another increase in the price of silver, and perhaps some printing-press money,, are essential to speedv recovery. More attention is likely to be focussed on new tax measures. There will probably be a strong drive for a national general sales tax. No proposals for increase in income taxes are likely to be made, however, by the Administration, until after the middle of March, when returns for 1934 incomes are filed. LAND POSTERS—For Sale at The Watchman Office. i checks COLDS and FEVER first day Liquid - Tablets |_| J I Salve - Nose neadacnes Drops in 30 minutes -----.1 NOW ON DISPLAY FAIRBANKS-MORSE STOKER The World’s Greatest Automatic COAL BURNER C. J. W. FISHER Your Plumber 113 E. Innes St. Phone 370 RADIATOR REPAIRING Let us inspect your radiator for spring driv ing. We flush, clean and recore all makes of ra d ia tors. We sell or trade new and second hand. We are the oldest a ltd most reliable See us. EAST SPENCER MOTOR CO. E. Spencer, N. C. Phone 1198-J LEGAL NOTICES SALE OF FARM LANDS Pursuant to an order of Court in Special Proceedings entitled Eliza beth Swaim, Anna Belle Randolph, Meta Phifer, et al, against Florence E. Owens, and George B. Owens, et al, appointing the undersigned Commissioner to sell for division the lands herein described, the un dersigned will sell, at public auc tion, at the Court House Door, in the City of Salisbury, on Monday, February 4th, 193 5 for cash, at 12 M. the following described real estate, to-wit: One tract of land in Scotch Irish Township, and bound ed and described as follows: Beginning at a post oak, the ori ginal corner, and corner of Ben jamin Huie; thence with the said Huie’s line, E. 48 Poles to a post /\n1r nil a r\-f tmf\r lr nricrinsl --J-X- --7 W corner of said tract, and corner to Benjamin Huie’s; thence S. 43 poles to a hickory, said Huie’s corner; thence E. 56 poles to a red oak on said Huie’s line, and corner to Paul Phifer’s; thence with Rev. Paul Phifer’s line, S. 140 poles to a dog wood on the S. line of the original tract, said Phifer’s corner; thence S. 88 deg. W. 104 poles to a hick ory said Phifer’s corner; thence N. 2 deg. W. 187 poles to Vhe begin ning, containing 103 acres, more or less. For back title see Book of Deeds No. 108, page 60, and Special Pro ceedings in this cause. This December 20th, 1934. Ernest R. Alexander, Commissioner. R. Lee Wright, Attorney. Dec. 21—Jan. 25. BANKRUPT’S PETITION FOR DISCHARGE Julius Fisher, Laura Graham Fisher, Bankrupts. IN BANKRUPTCY To the Honorable Johnson J. Hayes Judge of the District Court of the United States, for the Middle Dis trict of North Carolina: Julius Fisher and Laura Graham Fisher, of Concord, in the county of Cabarrus and State of North Carolina, in said district, respect fully represents that on the 8 th day of October: last past they were duly adjudged bankrupt under the lets of Congress relating to bank ruptcy; that they have duly sur rendered all of their property and rights of property, and they have fully complied with all the require ments of said acts and of the orders of the court touching their bank ruptcy. Wherefore they pray that they may be decreed by the court to have a full discharge from all debts provable against their estate under said bankruptcy acts, except such debts as are excepted by law from >ucn uiscnargc. Dated this 26th day of Novem ber, 1934. signed—Julius Fisher, Laura Gra ham Fisher, bankrupts. DRDER OF NOTICE THEREON Middle District of North Caro lina, ss: On the 11th day of December, 1934 on reading the foregoing: petition, it is ordered by the court I that a hearing be had upon the same j on the 15th day of January, 1935,j before W. T. Shuford, Referee in Bankruptcy, at Salisbury, N. C., in said district, at 2:3 0 o’clock in the afternoon; and that notice thereof be published in The Carolina Watchman, a newspaper printed in said district, and that all known creditors and other persons in inter Here’s good news for you people whose nerves are so jangled, you can’t eat, sleep, or rest; who worry over trifles, start at sud den noises, have Nervous Indi gestion, Nervous Headache. DR. MILES NERVINE WILL RELIEVE YOU QUICKLY. It was originated by a Nerve Spe cialist especially for people in your condition. It has been making good for more Ilian fifty years. Hundreds of thousands of nerv ous people have had an experi ence like that of Maud Thomas. Read her letter. You too will find the dollar you spend for your first bottle of Dr. Miles Nervine the best investment you ever made. If you don’t think so, we will return your dollar. “Has done me more good than I can express” I am a Dr. Miles Fan all the way through. 1 have taken Nervine for 2 years with good success. It is more than it is recommended to be and it has done me more good than I can express. I am in better health now than I have been for ten years. Maud Thomas, Glasgow, Kentucky t est may appear at the said time and place and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said peti tioners should not be granted. j And it is further ordered by the court, that the Referee in Bank ruptcy shall send by mail to all known creditors, copies of said petition and this order, addressed to them at their places of residence, as stated. Witness the Honorable Johnson J. Hayes, judge of the said court, and the seal thereof, at Greensboro, N. C., in said district, on the 12 th day of December, 1934. Signed—Johnson J. Hayes, Unit ed States Judge. Our advice to winners and los- Personally, we see nothing wrong ers: Don’t forget, there will be with the slogan that every indivi sther elections. dual should have some work to do. 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