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Carolina Watchman Published Every Friday Morning By The Carolina Watchman Pub. Co. SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA E. W. G. Huffman_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 ___1,388 Rockwell ___ 696 Granite Quarry_ 507 Cleveland_ 435 Faith _ 431 Gold Hill _156 (Population Rowan Co. 56,665) FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1935 IT WON’T BE OUR WAR The action of the Hitler Gov ernment in tearing up the Treaty of Versailles and openly announc ing to the world that Germany in tends to conscript a huge army and mobilize an immense fleet of mili tary airplanes is the most serious threat to world peace since 1914. It is difficult to see how this can lead to anything but another Euro pean war. For months' the other European . nations have been aware that Ger many was secretly arming, in de fiance of the provisions of the Ver sailles treaty. Negotiations were under way, indeed almost at the point of conclusion, which would1 have relieved Gerniahy of most of the more onerous restrictions im posed upon her by the Peace of 1919. But the Hitler Government, apparently under the domination of the military element, was not con tent to wait. It would be. foolish to say that a new European war would not touch the United States. There is only the most remote possibility of our being drawn into the actual con flict, but such a war would inevi tably affect our foreign commerce, which is beginning to pick up. It would put an end for all time, it is likely, to any lingering hope of getting back from the European nations the money we lent them with which to fight the last war. Nor would there be the profitable business in supplying munitions to one side or the other which America enjoyed for nearly three years, be fore we actually entered the last great war, the three years in which the DuPonts were selling gunpowd er, Bethlehem Steel was building submarines, every rifle factory in America was working overtime making weapons for the British and the Russians, and every American ship that would float, even though it leaked like a sieve, was under charter to carry food and war supplies to the Allies. No European country can float a war loan in America again, as England and France did through the international bankers in 1914 15. We have more money than we had then, but we are not going to lend it on the doubtful security of national promises. We probably would not and could not refuse to sell food and non-military supplies to any na tion, war or no war—for cash. But as for financing their wars, or lend ing them money again for war pur poses, the United States is through with that sort of thing. ' MAN, THE CONQUEROR By climbing up into the sub stratosphere, four or five mile; above the earth, Wiley Post flew his ancient "Winnie Mae” airplam from Los Angeles to Cleveland at 340 miles an hour, though at nor mal heights her speed is only 18C miles. Across the Pacific ocean, as thi; is printed, a ship is carrying thf equipment for five or six "step ping stones,” flying fields on lonely islands, to enable aviators to refue and repair their planes as soon a: regular trans-Pacific flights begin this coming summer. A mysterious "robot” plane equipped with practically automa tic controls, is being tested in ex perimental flights by the Unicec States Navy on the Pacific Coast On top of the report, probably incorrect, that means have beer found to stop an airplane in flight by projecting a radio beam that would put the electric ignition sys tem out of business, comes the more probable report that Germany has perfected a type of Diesel en gine, requiring no ignition system, for airplanes. -rvnu aenor \^ierva, cne apamsn inventor of the autogiro, has suc ceeded in building one of his "windmill” planes that will rise without a forward run, making it possible to take off from any flat roof. Those are just a few items in a week’s news concerning the pro gress mankind is making in its con quest of the air. They seem to us pretty thrilling. "A little lower than the angels,” is one of the Bib lical promises that, physically at least, seems about to become true. TODAY AND TOMORROW — BY— Frank Parker Stockbridge FAITH ... a negro I do not think 1 exaggerate when 1 say that an old Negro who was buried the other day did more than scores of ministers and hundreds of churches to help restore thonsands of Americans to their faith in God. The funeral service for Richard B. I Harrison, the venerable actor whoi played the part of "De Lawd” in the play "The Green Pastures,” was conducted by the Episcopal Bishop of New York in the great Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as a tribute to the spiritual force that he had exercised in the last five years of his life. Cynics may sneer and agnostics scoff at the childlike absurdity, as it seems to them, of the simple faith of the Negro as portrayed in that play. But faith is not the product of reason or of logic; it springs not from the intellect but from the emotions. And few who have ever seen "The Green Pastures” have failed to be profoundly stirred. I thought the Bishop’s text might well have been taken from the 17th verse of the 18 th chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke: "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.” %r ** *■ MILLIONS . . . two girls The matrimonial affairs of America’s two richest young wo men are always first-page news. Everybody is interested in good looking young women and every body is interested in millions. The two in combination are irresistible. Barbara Hutton, the five-and-ten cent store heiress, has announced that she is going to divorce herself and her 42 million dollars from her Georgian prince, who hadn’t any thing but a title and good looks to trade for the $50,000 a year she has settled on him for life. I think both are getting a good bargain. Doris Duke, with her 33 millions of tobacco money, had the good sense to pick an American husband who has brains and ability in his own right, who didn’t have to mar ry for money, having plenty of it, and who is enough older than his bride to contribute the necessary worldly wisdom to make their mar riage a success. Knowing Jim Crom well, I think both of them got a bargain, too. * * * MAVERICK . . . sans party Old Sam Maverick, who signed the Texas Declaration of Inde pendence in 1846, has the rare dis tinction of having had his name be come a common noun. A "mav erick,” as every western cow-man knows, is an unbranded steer. Sam Maverick owned so many head of cattle, and had so much trouble during the war between the states in hiring enough cowboys to brand them all, that thousands of them ran wild, as did those of many others. When the unbranded cattle were rounded up at the end of the war Sam Maverick was foremost in his claim of ownership, until it be came a commonplace saying in Texas that any unbranded steer must be one of Maverick’s. The word came into ocher uses, until it signifies today any person who plays a lone hand and does not run with the herd. Sam Maverick’s grandson, Con gressman Maury Maverick of Texas, lives up to the definition implicit in his name. He is one of a little group in Congress, 3 5 of them, who have banded together to work for their own ideas of ad vanced legislation, regardless of party orders. Of course, they have been nicknamed "mavericks,” and the name fits. I think there is a very useful place in public life for mavericks— for men who refuse to be branded with party tags. * * * SUGAR . . . maple sap Up in Vermont they are tapping the sugar maples, five million of them. The mid-March thaw fol lowing a hard Winter has started the sap flowing all along the north ern border. Northern New York has begun to harvest its annual crop of maple sugar and syrup, though Vermont still produces more than any other state. ruuunu my uwn lawn m n»v, Berkshires some of the neighbors with large families still extract the maple sap, "bile” it down into syrup and then, usually, into maple sugar. The old "sugar bush” of somewhere above 100 sugar maples, two hun dred years old and more, at the top, of the hill above my house, hasn’t beejj tapped for a generation now. Hired help costs too much to make sugaring profitable, and my family doesn’t run to boys. I have to get my satisfaction out of the sugar season by recalling my own boyhood, and the fun we youngsters used to have riding on the ox-sleds that carted the sap barrels down to the big iron boiler. I probably wouldn’t enjoy it much now, but half the happiness of ad vancing years lies in remembering moments of youthful ecstasy. * * * SHORTAGE . . . draft animals While the AAA has been cutting down the number of hogs and beef cattle, it has been taking a census of horses and mules and finds that a serious shortage exists on Amer ican farms. According to the ex perts in Washington, the country needs ten million more draft ani mals than it has—whether for the purpose of plowing under every third row of something or other they do not say. Washington is discussing various schemes to bring up the number of horses and mules to the 21 million that were in use at the end of the war. To me this looks like another of those things in which the law of supply and demand will work out if Government keeps its hand off. t With one branch of Government trying to stimulate the manufacture and sale of motor-cars and tractors and another trying to provide more horses, it looks to me as If there were an absence of coordination somewhere. | PICAYUNES Q. What is a cosmopolite? A. The word means a citizen ol the world, one who is at home n every country. —o TIRE WEIGHT Q. Does a pneumaitc tire weigh more when it is inflated than it does does deflated? A. Air is ponderable so that an inflated tire has the weight of the air plus that of the fabric. EX-FIRST LADIES Q. How many widows of former Presidents of the United States are living? A. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mrs. Grover Cleve land (now Mrs. Preston), Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, and Mrs. Cal vin Coolidge. MEXICANS Q. Can Mexicans be naturalized in the United States? A. Yes. PHYSIOGNOMY Q. What is physiognomy? A. The face or features revealing character or dispositon, and char acter readng by the face or fea tures. NORTHERN-COTTON Q. Is it possible to raise cotton in Alaska and Canada? A. The growing season is too short to raise it in commercial quantities, but a few plants may be grown in protected gardens. If the summer is warm and the sea son long enough, the plants may flower, and even produce a few bolls. ANIMALS . Q. What are cold blooded and warm blooded animals? A. The former have a variable body temperature not internally regulated, but approximately that of their environment, as specifically applied to fish, amphibians, and reptiles. Warm blooded animals are those having a relatively high and constant body temperature, us ually above that of the surround ing medium, as birds and mam mals. WORLD COURT Q. Is the World Court the same as the Hague Tribunal, A. No. The World Court is an international court accessory to the League of Nations, established in accordance with Article 14 of the Covenant of the League. The Hague Tribunjal is a permanent international arbitration court es tablished in 1899 by the Hague Conference. Tax Collector Bill On March 21st House Bill No. 805, "To Provide for the Office of Tax Collector for Rowan Coun ty” was introduced and placed on the calendar. The bill would au thorize the Commissioners to ap point a Collector, fix his salary and bond, and arrange for his office supplies and help. Upon such ap pointment, the Sheriff is to be re lieved of tax collection duties, and he and his bondsmen are to be re lieved of such future liability. Cherry Pie Champion __ CHICAGO . . . The National cherry pie baking championship goes to Inez Todnem (above), of Marshall, Minn. Miss Todnem was state champion before competing here against other state winners for national honors. The winning pie is to go to President Roosevelt. THIS IS the best story we have a a a HEARD IN a long, long time, and a a a THAT IS the reason we are passing * a a ;IT ON to you. Mentioning names a a a IS OUT of the question, but we o a a HAVE A feeling that a little guess a a a ING ON your part might give a a * YOU A very definite idea. "Why a a a DO YOU refuse to have any busi » a ♦ NESS RELATIONS with so-and a a a SO?” ASKED one man here in >► * * SALISBURY OF another last »*• * * WEEK. "I always steer clear of a a a a MAN SHARPER than myself,” * * * WAS THE reply. "In what way a a a IS HE sharper?” queried the friend. a a a "WELL,” SAID the cautious man, » * » "HE ONCE had a chance to marry a a a MY WIFE.” a a a I THANK YOU. | TWAS EVER SLOW- by A. B. Chapin ! J Period of = N over-PROductiom = \ and = —yUKlDErc.-CONSuNi'PTlOlu|= More Than Half of Farm Famlies Reached In Modernization Drive Washington.—More than half of the 6,000,000 farm families in the United States have received direct information about the farm mod ernization phase of the Better Housing Program, while "Farm Improvement D^ytsi” and "Fartn Building Days” are being organized or have been held already in many sections, the Federal Housing Ad ministration announced. Reports reaching the Farm Sec tion of the Federal Housing Ad ministration in Washington show that farm families in increasing numbers are already availing them selves of the opportunities offered under the Better Housing Program to make much needed improve ments. With an increase in the national farm income, and a grow ing appreciation of the advantages of modernly equipped homes and farms, it is stated, there is evidence of a growing willingness to devote a larger proportion of the farm in come to a higher standard of liv ing. One of the results expected by the Administration from this spe cial effort to familarize farmers with the benefits available to them under modernization provisions of the Nationaal Housing Act is a sub stantial increase in farms with ef ficient equipment. All types of farm modernization are being en couraged, including additions, alt erations and improvements to farm homes, barns and other buildings; installation of permanently attach ed equipment, whether in the house or outbuildings; construction of fences, walks, drives, silos, wells, water systems, septic tanks, and similar improvements. More than ordinary response is expected from the farmers because of the present and prospective in crease in farm income. For sev eral years the farmers in most sec tions of the country have had a difficult struggle to meet expenses, especially in the drought areas. Im provement began in some sections in 1933 and income from both crops and livestock increased slight ly. The total income was $5, 326.390.000, a gain of $723,473, 000 over 1932, according to the estimate of the Bureau of Agricul ture Economics, Department of Agriculture. In 1934 the estimated income from crops was $2,727,594,000 a gain over 1933 of $342,212,000; the income from livestock was $2, 805.738.000, a gain of $302,991, 000. The total for 1934, includ ing rental and benefit payments, was $6,089,118,000, a gain of $1, 039,25 5,000, over the preceding year. The largest gain in 1934 over 1933 of any section, $383,204,000, was made last year by the West North Central group of States which also had the largest total in come, $1,557,434,000. The South Central States had an income of $1,130,519,000, a gain of $128, 632,000; East North Central, $1, 049.102.000, a gain of $168,476, 000; Western, $944,766,000, a gain of $192,229,000; South At lantic, $677,5 83,000, a gain of $163,5 81,000; North Atlantic, $636,932,000, a gain of $88,686, 000. Farm authorities believe that the income for 193 5 will show a decid ed increase over the 1934 total, and the farmers themselves in nearly all parts of the country begin again to feel that they can count on a larger income this year and can make improvements for which there is a crying need. This renewed confidence is re flected in the interest being shown by farmers in the Modernization Program of the Federal Housing Administration, now being furth ered by Better Housing Commit tees in the great majority of coun ties in the country. These county committees have organized their programs, under direction of State and District Fed eral Housing officials, in coopera tion with all the State and county agencies directly interested in the improvement of farm life. Activi ties of these agencies have been co ordinated through the Farm Sec tion of the Administration, which has a staff of field men, working with the State and District Hous ing officials. The first step in the program was the distribution of the Federal Housing booklet prepared especially for rural property owners, "Open This Door to Farm Property Im provement.” The next step in many rural communities is the organization of "Farm Building Day” or "Farm Modernization Day.” The local committees are aided in preparing their programs by the State Rural Housing Advisory Committee, which commonly includes one or more members of the State staff of the Federal Housing Administra tion, the State extension director, the State home agent, the home agent, the home management spe cialist, director of vocational edu cation, the emergency relief ad ministrator, heads of the State farm organizations and other leaders interested in the agricultural wel fare of the State. Usually, these all-day programs include education talks on farm improvements, an explanation of the National Housing Act and the operations of the Federal Housing Administration under its provisions, as well as entertainment features, contests, exhibits and demonstra tions. Some folks think too many laws are being made, but anyway it gives some people the satisfaction of breaking some new ones. thrift thrift thrift thrift thrift thrift ~~ H___- H 2 Statement March 1, 1935 2 P ASSETS North Carolina Bonds_$ 5,000.00 Certificates of Deposit_ 4,000.00 H Stock in Federal Ffome ^ Loan Bank_ 2,700.00 £ Cash n Bank, H Checking Account_ 7,068.24 First Mortgages on Real Estate_ 447,461.10 Loans on Pass ^ Book Stock _ 11,854.00 £3 Real Estate _ 17,026.41 £ _ TOTAL_$495,109.75 LIABILITIES ^ Installment Stock _$206,103.65 Paid-up Stock _23 8,100.00 Surplus and Un divided Profits _ 50,906.10 Indebtedness_ NONE m H H X 2 TOTAL-$495,109.75 H 1 • 1 m m _ we are prepared to mane immediate loans ror DUUding, re H modeling or financing homes at 6% interest, on long terms, ^ & with small monthly payments. No loan fees are charged. 7* X OUR SERIES 64 IS OPEN AND WE URGE YOU TO START 3 H SAVING IN IT . Home Building & Loan Association - £ 3 ^ The Leading Building and Loan at Salisbury £ g A. W. HARRY, Pres. "At the Square” E. H. HARRISON, Sec.-Treas. ^ Office: Pilot Building Phone 116 THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT
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