Carolina Watchman
Published Every Friday
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~ SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA
E. W. G. Htiffman.^President
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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)
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1935
TREE MONTH
It is one thing to quote Joyce
Kilmer and sentimentalize about
trees that lift their leafy arms to
pray. It is another to come to
their rescue.
April is a month of Arbor Days
in the states. It is a fitting time
to assay America’s first serious
movement to reforest naked waste
land and eroded hillsides.
According to Charles Lathrop
Pack, president of the American
Tree Association, last year saw
more than 85,500,OOP trees plant
ed on 84,000 acres of state forest
land, and some 78,000,000 trees set
out in 77,000 acres of national
forests. This year there will be
many more state plantings and at
least 150,000,000 trees started
growing in national forests.
spring plantings along tne shelt
er belt” project alone will aggre
gate 2,000,000 trees, a small begin
ning compared with the 10-year
program for this magnificient ad
venture in soil saving and water
conservation. FERA also is financ
ing tree-planting projects for high
ways and city parks.
The chief factor nationally in
forest rebuilding is the Civilian
Conservation Corps, which last
year tripled normal plantings in
national forests, and will do much
better under the new enlarged pro
gram. The states have piled up cre
ditable records. New York with
40,000,000 plantings, Wisconsin
with 11,000,000 new trees, and
Michigan With 12,000,000, led the
states last year.
Encouraging as are these projects
it is equally important that private
timberland be protected from de
struction. The conservation of
timber on the privately owned
three-quarters of our total forests
should be assured. Stricter conser
vation between the Government
and the industry is required.
A MATTER OF DISCRETION
Members of the President’s fami
ly inevitably occupy a very deli
cate position. Their activities are
certain to be watched with keen
interest. Partisan critics may be
expected to publicize every act of
questionable propriety and to im
pute improper motives to transac
tions that are at most merely in- 1
discreet. To avoid unfavorable j
comment of this kind a son of the ,
President must hold himself aloof
from positions and associations out 1
of which any possible suspicion may ’
(
grow.
It is impossible, of course, for <
members of the President’s family
to hibernate on a desert island dur
ing his term of office. Nor is it
fair to ask them to forego remun
eration for work they may be well
qualified to perform. There are,
however, certain positions from
which any close relative of the
President should be excluded by dis
cretion if not by precedent or law.
In this category must be included
all lobbying jobs and others in
which political influence might be
employed.
The reason for observance of a
high ethical standard in this respect
is obvious. No one supposes that
any President would be influenced
to favor some special interest re
presented by a member of his fam
ily, even if some member should
be so injudicious as to discuss his
personal interests at the White
House. But Government bureaus,
corqmissions and members of Con
gress often find it difficult to as
sume an impartial attitude when a
member of the President’s family
is known' to be interested in the
subject before them.
Two of President Roosevelt’s
sons have been named in congres
sional discussions of political in
fluence during the last fortnight.
In neither of these cases is it even
suggested that they solicited favors
for firms they represent. But thC|
Senate Munitions Committee has
shown that the name of James
Roosevelt was used in soliciting
contracts for the construction of
two Navy destroyers.
Unpleasant incidents of this kind
can be avoided only by complete
aloofness on the part of the Pre
sident’s kin from the arena of poli
tical influence.
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
—BY—
Frank Parker Stockbridge
JTOPIA . . . More’s book
One day last week Pope Pius XI
lid two things* He denounced all
aersons who seek to bring about
ivar, and he approved the canoniza
:iqn of John Fisher and Thomas
More, two Englishmen who were
beheaded in 193 5 by order of King
Henry VIII, because they set the
authority of the then Pope above
that of the king.
i imagine liic x upc & uciiuiieia
cion of war may have a powerful
effect in Europe, but I am wonder
ng whether His Holiness did not
imile inwardly over making a saint
jut of Sir Thomas More. It seems
io appropriate to these times, when
:he whole world is experimenting
with new schemes of government
designed to make everybody happy,
:o glorify the author of the first
modern schemes to do just that.
"Utopia,” Thomas More’s descri
ption of a mythical island where a
perfect system of government was
n force and all human relations
were adjusted and regarded so that
chere was no poverty and no unhap
piness, was the most sensational
book of its time. Published more
chan four hundred years ago, it
itfected the political thinking of
generations of Englishmen. Its title
ias come to symbolize the ideal
iocial state, or rather the dream of
in unachievable ideal of perfection.
I think Thomas More will be re
membered longer for "Utopia” than
is a saint of the Catholic Church.
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HAMMOND ... at 80
Forty years ago a young Amer
can mining engineer was sentenced
co be hanged in South Africa. He
lad taken part in a raid by English
idventurers against the government
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jublic in the Transvaal. He wasn’t
ranged, but got off with a fine of
$125,000, and on the 31st of March
this year John Hays Hammond
:elebrated his eighteieth birthday
ry bringing out his autobiography.
The Jameson raid, however, re
lulted in a war between Great Bri
tain and the Transvaal Republic,
which began in 1899 and lasted
three years, ending with the absorp
tion of the Transvaal into the Brit
sh dominions. It was a good deal
ike the prospective war between
'taly and Abyssinia, and just as the
ympathies of most Americans now
ire with Abyssinia, so we were al
nost unanimously on the side of
he Boers.
This won’t be a perfect world so
ong as powerful nations continue
o gobble up weak and unprotected
:ountries.
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ICOUT . . . who knew
I can’t think of the South Afri
can war without recalling my old
friend Major Frederick Russell
Burnham, still living at 74, Born
in Minnesota, he escaped the Indian
massacre at New Ulmby being hid
den as a baby under a corn shock.
He grew up to be one of the best
scouts of the Southwest in the days
of our Indian wars. Then he went
to South Africa to help the British
pioneers in their efforts to control
and pacify the native tribes. Zulus
and Matabeles. I have sat with
him many a night while he told me
enough hair-raising tales of his ad
ventures to fill a book.
When England decided to go to
war against the Boers, Lord Rob
erts—Kipling’s "Little Bobs”—was
appointed to command the troops.
Before he left England he asked
men who knew what the army
would need most. "Scouts,” he was
told. "Scouts who know the coun
try; and the best of them all is
Fred Burnham.” Burnham had
come back to America. A cable was
sent to the British Embassy in
Washington to get hold of him at
any cost. Burnham had just reach
ed Juneau. Alaska, and was about
to start inland for the goldfields
when the message reached him. He
turned around and went back to
South Africa, as chief of scouts of
the British Army.
It was from his admiration for
Burnham and the qualites which
the American drilled into his scout
corps that General Baden-Powell
got the idea for the Boy Scouts or
ganization. That is, perhaps, the
most far-reaching result of Fred
Burnham’s adventurous life.
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CANADA . . . new boss
A Commoner has been appointed
Governor-General of Canada, John
Buchan, Scottish novelist, historian
and dramatist.
It is hard to imagine John
Buchan maintaining the almost
royal state of the Marquesses,
Dukes and Earls who have pre
ceded him. In my boyhood, close
to_the Canadian border, the Mar
quess of Lome, afterwards Duke
of Argyll, was Governor-General,
and his wife was the Princess Louise,
daughter of Queen Victoria. Later
in life I came in contact, as a news
paper reporter, with two Gover
nors-Generals, Lord Aberdeen, an
affable, courteous gentleman who
rather liked newspaper men, and the
Earl of Minto, who never felt com
fortable except on horseback.
Canada, under Governor-General
Buchan, will keep on running its
own affairs, as it has really done for
a hundred years. And sometimes I
think they have made a rather bet
ter job of it in many respects than
we have on this side of the border.
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HANDY . . . the autogiro
The handiest contrivance I’ve
heard of yet is the new combination
flying machine and automobile
which the Department of Commer
ce has just ordered. It’s an autogiro
with folding vanes, that one can
keep in his home garage. When
you want to fly, just run it down
the road a piece till you come to a
good place for a take-off, then
soar.
I hope the blame thing works.
But I’m wondering what’s going to
happen to all our magnificient high
way system when everybody trav
els by air. Maybe we’ll just leave
the concrete roads to the trucks. It
will be a relief to get away from
them.
PICAYUNES
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Q. When was San Francisco
founded?
A. It was settled at a fortified
town and Spanish mission in 1776.
GEORGE’S OATH
Q. Give the chapter and verse in
the Bible on which President Wash
ington took his first oath of office.
A. It is a Masonic tradition that 1
he kissed the open Bible at Gene
sis 49:14. The page was adorned
with a picture of Issachar as "a
strong ass, crouching down between
two burdens.”
HOOVER SUMMER CAMP
Q. Where was the "summer
White House” during President
Hoover’s Administration? Does
President Roosevelt use it?
A. President Hoover spent long
week-ends in his camp at Rapidan,
Va., in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
After he retired he deeded the camp
to the State of Virginia for recre
ational purposes. President Roose
velt has visited it, but he does not
use it during his summer holidays.
GRAY
Q. Is gray spelled with an a or
an e?
A. Either is correct, but grey is
more common in England, and gray
in the United States.
U. S. INCOME
Q. What was the national income
of the United States in 193 3?
A. It was estimated at $46,800,
000,000.
COINS
Q. Are there any United States
coins with heads on both the ob
verse and reverse sides?
A. No.
KING EDWARD VII i
Q. When did Edward VII succeed
to the British throne and when did
he die?
A. He succeeded Queen Victoria
on Jan. 22, 1901, and died May 6,
1910.
Q. What does pomiform mean?
A. Apple-shaped.
HEAT IN ICE
Q. Does heat contain ice?
A. Yes, every particle of mutter
:hat is above the temperature of
absolute zero contains heat.
Q. How many musicians com
prise the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra?
A. From 100 to 110.
Mrs. Hadley: "Our baby is very
smart. He’s only a year old and he’s
been walking since he was eight
months old.”
Stoudemire: "He must be awful
tired by now.”
WE COULD tell you the name of
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THIS COUPLE, but perhaps half
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OF OUR readers will guess it right
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QUICK ANYWAY. "My dear,”
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SAID THE husband to his wife
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WHO FOUND him in the jbed
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ROOM WITH a wet towel Clasped
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TO HIS brow, "I simply can’t
STAND THESE people any long
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ER. I’VE got-a splitting headache.”
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HIS WIFE protested, "but I can’t
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POSSIBLY ASK them to go home.
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THEY ARE our guests, remem
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BER.” He gave her an agonizing
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LOOK. "CERTAINLY you can’t
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PUT THEM out,” he said, "but
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YOU COULD at least go and seat
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YOURSELF AT the piano.”
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