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papers on public opinion exceeds
that of all other publications in
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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_ 43 5
Faith _ 431
Gold Hill _ 156
(Population Rowan Co. 56,665)
A YOUNG FOLKS’ WORLD
More than half of the people in
the world at any given time are
under 3 0 years old. In the United
States only 5 5 percent of the popu
lation enumerated in the Census of
1930 were more than 21 years old.
^evenLeen years ago me w oriu
War began, resulting in social and
economic upheavals so widespread
that it is fair to say that since 1924
no part of the world has returned
to its former normal conditions.
More than half of the people of
this country have never had any
conscious experience of the world
that older folk knew and lived in.!
It is hard to teach the young to
see through the spectatcles of the
old. Men and women of mature
age lock back to a background to
tally outside the experience of;
youth. Young people who are now
arriving at voting age have had no
contact, since childhood, with any- j
thing but economic depression.\
Since they were fifteen or so they
have heard little from their elders
but moans of anguish over vanish
ed prosperity, a prosperity which,
so far as the young ore concerned,
is entirely mythical; they never ex
perienced it.
It is not to be wondered at that
young folk are easily led into belief j
in economic and social experiments
which older ones deprecate as im
practical and unworkable. We
don’t know what anybody Can d<j
about it; we are not suf£ tnat any
thing ought to be done about it.
It’s their world, and they have to
learn from their own experience.
And maybe, somehow, they’ll find
ways to make it a better world
than the one upon which the old
folks look back with longing and
regret for the "good old days.”
A NOBLE CAUSE
It was a splendid idea to make
President Roosevelt’s birthday the
occasion for a great national drive
for funds for the aid of sufferers
from infantile paralysis. Last year
more than a million dollars was
raised from the balls and parties
that were given in several thousand
communities on January 3 0th.
This year, we understand, seven
ty percent of all the money raised
by the "Birthday Balls” will go to
hospitals and sanitoriums in the ter
ritory where the money is raised.
This is entirely right and proper.
There are some 69 hospitals equip
ped to care for the 200,000 or more
children who are victims of this
frightful disease, and every dollar
that is contributed will enable them
to extend their care to those whose
parents cannot afford to pay for
treatment.
The other thirty percent of the
funds raised this month are to go to
pay for further research work in
Jthe causes and prevention of infan
jtile paralysis. It is still obscure tc
; the medical world, the precise me
thod by which children are infect
|ed; and no effective means of pre
vention has been discovered. Hun
jdreds of able research workers are
studying the problem, and the bet
ter they are supported and equip
ped, the better the chance of find
ing out how to curb the ravages ol
the disease which makes cripples ol
| tens of thousands of children an
nually.
We dan think of no nobler service
that the people of our community
or of any community, can rendei
on Wednesday, January 30th, thar
to "throw a party,” charging a fail
admission fee, and send the money
so received to the Birthday Ball
Committee at the Waldorf-Astori:
Hotel, New York. With more
money in the hands of more people
than there was a year ago, and a
general feeling that the crisis is
past and that recovery is in sight,
this year’s appeal for this worthy
purpose ought to result in at least
doubling the amount of money
raised throughout the nation last
year.
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
—-BY—
Frank Parker Stockbridge
SHAKESPEARE . . . insight
The other night I was asked to
stand up and talk about Shakes
peare before a hundred or so young
men and women, training to be
come Shakespearean actors. Two
things surprised me. One was the
enthusiasm for Shakespeare’s plays
among the younger generation; the
other was their utter ignorance that
Shakespeare had been anything but
an actor writing plays for actors.
When I told them for every per
son who had ever seen one of
Shakespeare’s plays on the stage
there were probably thousands who
had read and re-read them still for
their literary quality, many of my
hearers were amazed.
Shakespeare’s place in English
literature rests on the firmest of
foundations. His writings were the
first to give our language the form
and shape which it has. Phrases
and idioms which he first coined
are commonplaces of everyday
speech. It is hard to write for cul
tured people or to talk with them
without using Shakespearan ex
pressions.
And for deep understanding of
human nature in all of its phases
no writer has ever come near to
Shakespeare’s insight.
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AMERICA . . . still leads
Every little while I rediscover
America, and realize again what a
wonderful country it is.
The other day I dropped into a
New York sporting goods store,
and ran into two people I knew.
One was buying heavy woolen socks
and cap, to take along to a ski-ing
party in the New Hampshire
mountains. The other was about to
start for Florida, and was getting
a new bathing suit.
That same evening I met two
other friends. One has a news
paper job in Paris and comes home
once a year tor a vacation, the
ether is an English journalist who
had just got back from a three
months tour of the United States.
"I’m going to tell England that
America is the happiest, most pros
perous country in the world,” said
the latter; while the man from
Paris painted a word-picture of the
war-terrior of the people of France
that was little less than shocking.
I am getting pretty tired of
Americans who "knock” the Unit
ed States.
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GARNER . . . speaks up
I hear from Washington that
"Jack” Garner has advised the
President to tell some of his New
Dealers to keep their mouths shut.
The Vice-President has plenty of
sound common-sense.
"Some of these bright young
men remind me of Christopher
Columbus,” my informant reports
him as saying. "When Columbus
started out he didn’t know where
he was going; when he got there he
didn’t know where he was, and
when he got back he didn’t know
where he had been.”
Not mentioning any names, the
Vice-President left.
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METROPOLIS . . . simple life
The average American thinks of
New York as a city of gay frivol
ity. That is because he sees and
'hears of only the part of it that is
j staged for the entertainment of
visitors from out of town.
| In the Winter I "hole up” in one
| of the old parts of New York where
everybody knows each other and
most of us live simply, in ancient
houses, and take life easily. One of
my neighbors, nearly 80, lives still
in the house in which he was born.
Few of us in this Washington
Square section patronize night clubs
or pay the prices out-of-town folk
are taxed for restaurant meals and
theater tickets. When we go to the
theater we sit in the balcony, and
when we dine out it is generally at
some Italian restaurant near home
where a gocd dinner can be had for
75 cents.
Folk can live the simple life as
well in New York as anywhere else.
ADVERTISING . . . some faulty
I find more fault with a great
deal of the advertising that is being
done than with the movies. Much
of it, when it isn’t an effort to bo
"smart” is pure silliness.
No advertising is as good as plain,
unvarnished statements of the truth
abcut the advertised product and
—this is important—the price. But
when I see advertisements which
make extravagant and unwarranted
claims I wonder if the advertiser
thinks he is really fooling anybody.
It would be a good idea, it seems
to me, to introduce into the early
grades of the public schools some
sort of education in advertising. In
this practical world, nothing is
more important than to know real
values and how to determine them.
It could easily be impressed upon
the minds of children that certain
types of advertising are only traps
for the ignorant, and that goods of
quality are never offered for less
than they are worth.
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
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labor organizations instead of three,
and may result in new and younger
leaders gaining control of the Fed
eration. Meantime, it is reported,
the Administration is considering
offering legislation to prohibit any
sort of a strike for any cause on
any public works project.
The Administration’s housing
projects are all tangled up, and new
measures consolidating all the
bureaus concerned into one, with a
broader and more workable pro -
gram, are looked for.
Those on the inside of things
take very seriously the President’s
announced desire to redistribute
population, taking millions of peo
ple out of the big cities and put
ting them back on the land.
New banking legislation is in
preparation, intended to give Fed
eral Reserve Board greater power,
and to force banks to more liberal
lending.
Administration insiders say that
all of the hullabaloo about power
companies isn’t aimed at operating
companies, the ones that actually
make and sell the "juice,” but at a
few—only a few—holding com
panies. The President’s announced
intention to make electric current
available on every farm is now be
ing taken to mean that Govern
ment will aid private companies to
extend their lines and sell their cur
rent, except for "yardstick” pro
i jects like that in the Tennessee Val-,|
ley.
Don’t look for balancing of Fed
eral budget before 1937, if then.
Income can’t exceed outgo unless
new taxes are imposed, and inclina
tion now is to let the tay question
alone. The President’s "budget”
message, calling for 4 billions for
work relief, puts an end to many
rosy dreams.
| PICAYUNES
Q. What was Mae West’s first
screen appearance?
A. She played in "Night After
Night,” released late n 1932, with
George Raft and Constance Cum
mings in the leading roles.
WAR DECLARATION
v. When did Japan declare war
aga;nst Germany?
A. Aug. 23, 1914. ,
AUTHOR
Q. Of what book) is Edna Ken
ton the author? Is she a college
graduate?
A. Her books are "With Hearts
Courageous,” "The Book of
Earths.” Clem” and "What Man
ner of Man.” She took her A. B.
degree at the University of Michi
gan.
PAN-AMERICAN UNION
Q. What is the Pan-American
Union?
A. The offical organization,
supported by the republics of North
Central, and South America, and
devoted to the encouragement of
Pan-American commerce, friend
ship and peace.
CHINOOK
Q. What is a chinook?
A. A warm, moist southwest wind
on the coastal regions of Oregon
and Washington; originally so call
ed by the white settlers at Astoria
because it comes from the direction
of the Chinook camp. The name
applies also to a warm dry wind
that descends the Rocky Moun
tains.
PASSENGERS
Q. How many passengers did the
Class 1 railroads of the United
States carry in 193 2, 193 3 and the
first six months of 1934?
A. 1932—478,800,122; 1933—!
432,950,000; 1934 {(January toi
July)—261,610,000.
More About Seawell
(Continued from page one)
Judge Henry Groves Connor, and
judge William R. Allen. This was
the famous impeachment assembly
and Mr. Seawell took a prominent
part in preparing the articles on I
which the senate tried and acquit- j
ted the justices of the Supreme!
court.
The attorney general is 70 years
old solely because he was 37 some
33 years ago. Nobody looking at
him can get him above 5 5 and few
will concede him more than 451
years. His red hair is but slightly
greyish and his mind is as fresh as
a collegian taking his M. A. There
was just one comment about him.
Everybody said that the governor
did exactly the right thing, a right
to the dead man, who often dis
agreed with the executive, right to
the office which needs a great law
yer, and right to the executive who
showed that he does not bestow
state position upon persons noted
chiefly for partisan efforts or fac
tional strategy.
Mr. Seawell lives at Chapel Hill, |
but he commutes daily and is as j
eaily and as late in his office as any
resident in Raleigh.
Egg for Freedom
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HOLLYWOOD , . . When the
National Inventor's Congress
meets here in January the dele
gates will get to see Biddy Hen
doing her stuff . . . namely, "get
ting her freedom by laying an
egg.” The trick nest has a trap
door which is opened when the egg
rolls down to the basket below. The
rooster is Master of Ceremonies.
I WE WOULDN’T think of
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MENTIONING A name for it
i a- a- a
I WOULD BE a reflection on tthe
a a a
SARTORIAL ELEGANCE of a
a a a
CERTAIN WELL-KNOWN
Si- 3*- Si
GENTLEMAN. IT was at a
si- :’c
BOARDING HOUSE right here
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IN SALISBURY. "I say, old man,
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WHAT’S THE idea of wearing
a a a
MY OVERCOAT,” said one lodger
a a a
I TO ANOTHER as he started out
a a a
LAST SUNDAY. "Well,” said the
a a a
SECOND ONE, "you don’t want
a a a
YOUR NEW suit to get wet, do
you?”
a a a
I THANK YOU.
Wouldn’t We Squawk?-ky A*B r
IF we HAD TO THAW OUT
THE OLD
CISTERN
PUMP TO
G-ET i
WATER ;
FOR OUT ,
MORNING^
Coffee ?
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IF VAJE HAD TO CHOP ICE
OLD POMD SO THE COWS ,
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IF WE HAD TO TAKE OUrt. RE&(jLAf^5
"SATURDAY MIGHT" ^ 2
LIKE DAD USED
TOW?
! F we HAD TO WALK. Two MILES IS SCHOOL ?
\V- The Bov friend had to freets us stiff
EVERT Time WE HAP A 'PARTY PATE ?
Timely Farm Questions -
Answered at State College
QUESTION: What benefit will
a peanut grower receive for sign
ing a reduction contract?
ANSWER: Each grower whc
signs and complies with the con
tract will receive benefit payments
at the rate of $8.00 a ton based on
the 1934 production. In addition,
the producer will receive diversion
payments up to 20 percent of his
crop diverted into peanut oil or
livestock feed. These payments will
be $20.00 a ton on Virginia type
peanuts, $15.00 a ton on the
Spanish type, and $10.00 a ton on
the Runner type. These diverted
peanuts may be sold for livestock
feed, fed on the producers farm, or
sold to the mills for oil production.
QUESTION: How can my
poultry house be rid of mites?
ANSWER: Where the house is
heavily infested it should be thor
oughly cleaned and treated with a
solution of three parts of crude
petroleum or carbolineum to one
and one-half parts of kerosene. The
perch poles should first be removed
and the poles anr supports cleaned
and treated with full strength
petroleum or carbolineum. All lit
ter from nests, and floor should be
removed from the house and burn
ed. Where the mites are found only
in the nests and on the perch poles,
treating these areas may sometimes
be sufficient, but the best plan is
to give the entire house a complete
treatment.
QUESTION: Should sows be fed
mmediately after farrowing?
ANSWER: As a general rule it
is best to withhold all feed for 24
hours after farrowing, but there are
exceptions to this rule. Where the
sow comes to the trough apparent
ly hungry and is not satisfied with
water, a very thin slop made up of
wheat bran with a liberal handful
of linseed oil meal may be given.
This should be repeated at the next
feeding time. Care should be taken
not to feed any rich or heavy feeds
such as corn or tankage. The ra
tion may be increased by gradually
making the slop thicker until the
animal will be on full feed in about
two weeks time after farrowing.
Want Protection
For Small Frowers
The widespread sentiment for
protecting small growers in the
crop adjustment programs is sum
med up in resolutions adopted re
cently by the Orange County
Board of Agriculture.
A copy of the resolutions was
sent to the Washington office of
the AAA by W. A. Davis, secre
tary of the board, suggesting the
following policies for 1935, re
ports Don Matheson, county agent
of the State College Extension Ser
vice.
That small farmers living on
their own land dependent upon its
products for support who have
raised tobacco within the past five
years be given a tax free allotment
equal to their largest base year,
provided the allotment does not ex
ceed three acres.
That no rental or parity pay
ments be given these farmers, and
that small growers who have al
ready signed contracts be allowed
to come under the provisions of
this ruling.
That small cotton growers living
on their own land who have raised
cotton within the past seven years
be given a tax free allotment equal
to their largest base year, but not
in excess of two bales.
| Such policies, the board pointed
out,, would encourage farm and
home ownership by providing more
liberal allotments to tenants and
young farmers who wish to buy
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small farms.
Tenancy and absentee ownership
would be discouraged it was point
ed out, and the price of farm land
would be stimulated, while farm
wealth would become more equit
ably distributed. Country-minded
people in the cities would be en
icouraged to move back to farms.
Production would be on a more
[economical basis and small farmers
: who have diversified their farming
[would not be penalized with un
fairly small allotments, it w a,
[brought out.
I The rights of the small mar.
[would be upheld and the burden of
[the cotton and tobacco tax on ex
Jcess sales would not fall on the
i small growers, the board continued.
Und the future of the AAA would
become more secure because there
would be more satisfied farmers.
The children, it is said, should
learn about all kinds of tools, but
when the jokers used to send out
to get a round square, we were nev
er able to find one.
People used to be "all dressed up
and no place to go,” but now when
they are all dressed up there are so
many places to go to, that they may
not get home before morning.
People used to dream about
finding money in the road, but
about all they find there now is
some automobile that knocks them
down.
Needle Queen
INDIANAPOLIS . . . Indiana is
mighty proud of Miss Lucile Morris
(above), 20 year ojd Greenwood,
Ind., girl crowned National 1934 4-H
Club Style Champion. She modeled
and made the wool school suit she is
wearing in the photo above, at a
cost of $27.92 with complete acces
sories including a $2 hat; $2 gloves;
$3.95 shoes and 69 cent hosiery..
PERMANENTS
Try our Fredericks Vita-Tonic
and Eugene Permanent given on
our recently installed latest
model waving machine.
WHERE QUALITY IS
HIGHER THAN PRICE
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309 Wallace Bldg. Phone 1065
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H Why pay an added penalty on your
H County Taxes? m
| PAY NOW [
I . . . and avoid additional cost effective fi
H February 1st.
I J. H. KRIDER I
Sheriff of Rowan County. |||
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