Snake Without Overcoat Or Spats
Braves Weather And Loses Its Life
A four-foot pilot snake crawling
over banks of snow was killed by
R. H. Gadd, of Charlotte, Saturday
afternoon on highway No. 74 near
the Union county line.
Traveling at moderate speed in
his Model-T Ford, Mr. Gadd was on
his way home after a trip to Laur
inburg, where he had gone to install
an air-conditioning unit in a resi
dence, when he saw the snake. At
first he thought that he was mis
taken, because people usually dc
not see snakes in snow and he had
not taken anything in the way of
beverages said to be good for
"snake-bite.” But upon arriving
at the point where the reptile was
crawling over the bank of snow
preparatory to crossing the high
way, he realized that what he
thought he saw he was actually
• seeing. He let the snake get well
on his way across the road and
then ran the wheels of his car over
it. and crushed its life out.
Mr. Gadd, who is associated with
H. L. Turner in the Turner Roof
ing company, 125 South Graham
street, brought the snake to town.
He exhibited it at the office of the
Charlotte Observer. He said that
wherever he has told his snake story
he has had to show the evidence
because it is generally an accepted
fact that reptiles are dormant in
winter and do not begin to wiggle
around till the weather warms up in
the spring.—Charlotte Observer.
Science Invents An
Eye For Darkness
St. Louis—Science has given man
a third eye, with which he can
see in darkness.
With it also he can see the world
in which there are no colors, a zone'
which when made visible is twice
as broad as that of normal sight,
a zone heretofore limited to a few
insects, eyes and to them only in|
a few areas.
The eye is a vacuum tube, shap-i
ed like an overgrown electric light j
bulb. Its socket end is a new iens,i
which picks up the invisible rays
of infro-red, or heat, and of ultra
violet.
Its bulb end is an artificial re
tina, a round, frosted glass screen.
On this screen things hidden in
darkness and those of the color
less world become visible in shades
of greenish black and white.
The discovery was announced
and the tube shown to the Ameri
can Association For the Advance
ment of Science last night by Dr.
V. K. Zworkin and Dr. George A.
Morton of the Radio Corporation
of America laboratories.
Dr. H. B. Mann, fertility agron
omist of the North Carolina Ex
periment Station for the past 15
years, has resigned his position ef
fective January 1, to become af
filiated with the American Potash
Institute with headquarters in At
lanta.
Lack of fuel wood in 12 eastern
North Carolina counties has caus
ed a serious situation which is re
ceiving the attention of extension
workers, farmers, bankers, and
others.
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Bureau Urges
Help Of Youth
Washington-Continued as
jsistance to youth in the transition
j period from school to work was
i recommended by Katherine F. Len
| root, chief of the Children’s Bu
reau in her annual report.
Miss Lenroot held that the ex
| perience of the National Youth
| Administration and other federal
j agencies should be utilized in some
| sort of continuing program of fed
eral leadership and cooperation in
i meeting the needs of youth. Her
j recommendation was made just as
I President Roosevelt released a sec
iond $10,000,000 to the National
j Youth Administration for commu
i nity development, recreational lead
ership, rural youth, public serv
ice training and research projects.
This is the second $10,000,000 giv
ien to the youth outfit.
Studies and demonstrations of
more effective methods of com
munity planning for prevention
and treatment of delinquency
among youth were also recom
mended by Miss Lenroot. The
Children’s Bureau has just com
pleted the third year of such a
demonstration in Chicago.
Other desirable steps for improv
ing family welfare and child pro
tection listed by Miss Lenroot in
clude: adequate provision for fam
ilies affected by unemployment,
including those whose needs can
not be met by a work program;
studies in infant and maternal mor
tality; conservation of gains made
in the elimination of child labor
under the NRA and extension of
safeguards to children in indusrial
agriculture and in street trades.
AAA KILLED BY SUPREME
COURT
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back. None disputed the tremen
dous potential effect on the presi
dential campaign.
Senator McNary, the Republican
leader immediately projected his
time-vetoed plan to make the tariff
effective for farming communities.
The packed court room was tense
and silent as the historic opinion
was delivered. The justices seem
ed calm.
"The suggestion of coercion
finds no basis in the record,” Stone
said in his dissent.
The ruling appeared likely to
doom other farm legislation such as
the Bankhead cotton control act
the Kerr-Smith tobacco act and the
Warren potato law.
These were compulsory laws.
However, the court had not an
nounced its opinions in those cases.
It took exactly,one hour to read
the main opinion and the dissent.
When Stone concluded the tension
of the audience eased, it shifted its
collective position and whispered
comments. !
Speculation flared as to whether
President Roosevelt might seek
reelection on a platform of sweep
in constitutional change.
Political observers agreed there
svould be considerable support in the
farm belt for a constitutional am
endment authorizing resumption of
the flow of benefit checks.
Some suggested an effort might
be made to swing this sentiment be
hind a broad amendment giving the
government specific power over in
dustry as well as farming. But
there was no immediate word of any
kind from the White House.
FOOD PRICES TO BE UN
CJI'ANGGED
(Continue from page One)
important branches of the food in
dustry declined comment. Chicago
packers were among them as they
saw hog quotations bound as much
as a $1 in one of the most spec
tacular sessions in the history of
big stockyards market, with the
top touching $10.35.
A spokesman for the industry
however, asserted that the price of
ork was finally determined by the
law of supply and demand and in
timated the Supreme Court’s ruling
would have little effect, in the im
mediate future at least, on the pro
duction of pork or the demand of
the consumer for meat.
Trade authorities in the milling
industry generally agreed that the
removal of the processing tax
would have little effect on bread
prices. They pointed out 300
loaves of bread could be made from
a barrel of flour on which the im
ipost was around $1.35.
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Putting on the Soldier Bonus Pressure
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WASHINGTON . . . Above are the three men who are in command in
putting the soldier bonus pressure on congress. Left to right, John Thomas
Taylor, director of the American Legion Legislative Committee; Bay
Murphy, National Commander of the American Legion; and, Win. C.
Barnes, executive secretary of the Legislative Committee.
Roper Predicts
Year 1936 Will
Be Still Better
Washington—-Secretary of Com
merce Daniel C. Roper reported a
10 per cent increase in national in
come in 1935 and predicted more
prosperity and fewer hardships for
the American people in 1936.
In an otimistic New Year’s
statement, the cabinet officer noted
many signs throughout the nation
which he said indicated plainly that
the general cumulative forces of
recovery were gaining headway
daily. Among these, he listed:
A 10 per cent increase in factory
employment.
A 25 per cent increase in factory
pay rolls.
Maintenance of the 1934 level of
factory wages.
A 25 per cent increase in produc
tion of durable goods.
A 20 per cent increase in sales of
general merchandise in rural areas.
An increase of 40 per cent in dol
lar expenditures for new passenger
automobiles.
A 5 per cent increase in urban
sales of general merchandise.
A continued growth in the dollar
value of American foreign trade. |
American exports highest since
1931.
A decline in railroad deficits.
A rising tendency in security
markets.
Further improvement in agricul
LU1C.
The most striking conclusion
warranted by the review of the1
year’s developments, Roper said, "is
that we now have a broader and
firmer foundation than in preced
ing years on which to build in
1936.”
"In dealing with the paramount;
problem of unemployment,” Roper
added, "we may take courage and;
renewed hope from the steady ex
pansion of production and distribu-!
tion in the last year. Just as the
forces of depression were cumula-;
tive in their effects, so the forces
of recovery operate to expand ac
tivity in an ever-widening circle.”
At the same time, the Securities
and Exchange Commission reported
the dollar value of sales on all reg
istered securities exchanges in No
vember was the largest since it be
gan compiling figures on this basis
in October, 1934. These sales to
taled $2,546,93 5,909 in November,
an increase of 15 per cent over Oct
ober and 142.3 per cent over sales
in November, 1934.
In analyzing business develop
ments during the past year, Roper
said previous gains had been con
solidated, but more imortant than
this was the fact that the steady
march toward recovery had not
been marred this year by shary re
cessions as occurred in the two pre
ceding years.
Fire In Prison
As 2,500 Sleep
Frankfort, Ky.—Fire broke out
in the State Reformatory at 4:30
A. M. Wednesday as the 2,300 pris
oners slept. At exactly the same
time, Guard A. F. Oadler, on a
watch tower, sounded the alarm.
Fie happened to be looking in the
direction of Ithie [prison laulndiry
and saw a sudden flare of flames
through a window.
The prison fire department
quickly extinguished the blaze at
tributed to pipes on which cloth
ing was drying becoming overheat
ed. Damage was small.
The second annual convention of
the North Carolina Dairy Products
Association will be held at the
Carolina Hotel, Pinehurst, January
9 and 10.
[ Slated For Cabinet
WASHINGTON . . . John H.
Fahey (above), Chairman of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
and a Massachusetts publisher, is
reported the choice as Secretary of
Commerce to succeed Se’cy Daniel
Roper who will be moved to Post
master General when James A.
Farley resigns to give attention to
Democratic National Committee
affairs.
Poultry Raising Is
Hard For Beginners
The novice who enters the poul
try business with expectations of
making easy money is doomed to
almost certain failure.
Poultry raising requires long
hours of work and study, careful
attention to detail, and a persistence
that refuses to admit defeat, said
Roy S. Dearstyne, head of the State
College poultry department.
Too often, he said, urban dwell
ers invest large sums in placing
buildings and equipment on a poul
try farm, then purchase low-priced
chicks and attempt to run the farm
with the cheapest labor obtainable.
Only by a miracle, he declared
can such a venture succeed.
Before any one, city man or far
mer, goes into the poultry business,
Dearstyne added, he should consult
the local farm agent, then visit a
number of successful poultry farms
to see how thay are run.
The beginner should start off
with a comparatively small number
)f birds. A year’s experience is
needed to get a working knowledge
af poultry production.
Secure the best chicks obtainable,
Dearstyne emphasized. Good
chicks cost only a few cents more
co start with, while inferior chicks
cost many dollars in lost profits la
ter on.
Before setting up a poultry farm,
iscertain whether there is a good
market for eggs and chickens.
There is no point to poultry raising
unless the products can be sold
readily.
Study measures for controlling
parasites and the common poultry
diseases, Dearstyne continued; feed
carefully but amply, exercise sani
tation at all times, and cull rigid
ly
Subscribe to two or more good
poultry magazines, and secure the
poultry bulletins which may be ob
tained free from the agricultural
editor at State College, Raleigh.
BIRMINGHAM JOB APPROVED
Washington—Public Works ad
ministration approval of a $3,430,
000 loan for the Birmingham, Ala.,
industrial water system was an
nounced by Senators Black and
Bankhead of Alabama. Black said
"Work will get under way soon.”
TO CITE MEDICO FOR HOAX
Jefferson, City—The State board
of health voted to cite Dr. Ludwig
O. Muench, St. Louis physician, for
allegedly signing a fraudulent birth
certificate, declaring his wife, Mrs.
Nellie Tipton Muench, mother of
the "gift of God” baby.
• Buy In "Greater Salisbury”.
Rather Die Than Send Her
Daughters To Public School
Chicago—I wouldn’t let my
daughters draw one breath in a pub
lic school if I were to be electrocut
ed for it.
Thus spoke the flashing-eyed,
fighting mother who is Mrs. Mar}'
Belle Spencer, stormy Chicago at
torney, in defense of her right to
educate her children in her own
way. And that way is one of the
most amazing in the annals of Am
erican education.
Here are Mrs. Spencer’s rules for |
educating her daughters—Victoria,!
fourteen, and Mary Bell, Jr.:
1. Permit them to come and go
as they please. (It may have been
this freedom of conduct which
fostered Mary Belle’s midnight'
horseback ride in her shorts last'
June, but that was all right with*
Mrs. Spencer).
2. Permit them to read or study
whatever or whenever they want to.
(If it was this practice which en
abled Mary Belle to buote from the
classics to a jury the other day,
that is all right with Mrs. Spencer,
too).
3. Permit them to learn the facts
of life for themselves. (If it was
this rule which resulted in a sixteen
year-old youth taking poison in
consequence of Mary Belle’s unre
quited love last week, perhaps, that
is not so good, but the young man
must learn to know better).
4. Never correct them for any
error of speech or conduct. (Mrs.
Spencer says they have found the
error of their ways themselves).
YOU MIGHT AID 'INSINCERE’
Miami, Fla.—To Republican cri
ticism of President Roosevelt’s
message to Congress, Secretary Ickes
retorted "Captious, trivial, petti
fogging, faultfinding and queru
ous. You might add insincere to
those,” he remarked.
• Watchman Classified Ads are
Profit Producers.
Lawyer Is Charged
With Firing House
Paul Swanson, Kenersville, at
torney and newspaper editor, was
arrested by High Point police on
a charge of arson in connection
with a fije started from kerosene
soaked newspapers at a house which
he owns there. He was later re
leased under bond of $5,000 for
appearance in municipal court.
Swanson was arrested in Win
ston-Salem, where he went to de
liver newspapers on a route which
he handles, and was brought back
to High Point and placed in jail.
He practices law in Winston-Sa
lem and edits a weekly newspaper
in Kernersville.
The North Carolina Experiment
Station recently received an order
for two Ayrshire heifers from Mrs.
Agnes Moore of Cable Beach, Nas
sau, The Bahama Islands.
[ Towsendite Winner j
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich. .
Verner W. Main (above), Town
sendite Republican who advocated
adoption of old-age - pensions on the
Dr. Townsend plan, was the winner
in election for Congress from the
Third District.
NAMED HARVARD
PROFESSOR
Geneva—Switzerland, Colombia
and Haiti included Prof. Manley O.
Hudson of Harvard university in
their nominations to fill vacancies
in the permanent court of interna
tional justice at The Hague.
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TpVERY dollar spent away from home in
other trading centers for home needs, for
apparel, for foods, for automobiles and up
keep, for amusements, etc., decreases by just
that amount, the opportunities of Salisbury
I stores and shops to grow and be able to bet
$ ter serve with larger stocks and wider selec
§ tions . . . Dollars spent in Salisbury stores
I and shops stay here to help develop home
town stores, pay new salaries, increase tax
revenues, and create business volume upon
I which communities thrive . . Even the small
est Salisbury property owner undermines his
own investment here in Salisbury when he
takes his dollars away from home on shop
ping tours ... If citizens want Salisbury to
thrive then we should all now resolve to trade
at home and help make our town the TOPS