Carolina Watchman
Published Every Friday
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SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA
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POPULATION BATA
(1930 Census)
Salisbury -16,951
Spencer _3,128
E. Spencer_2,098
China Grove-1,25 8
Landis -1,388
Rockwell- 696
Granite Quarry_ 5 07
Cleveland- 43 5
Faith' _ 431
Gold Hill _ 156
(Population Rowan Co. 56,665)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935
THE FLORIDA SHIP CANAL I
On the same day that the news
came from Miami that the Steam
ship Dixie had been driven upon a
coral reef off the Southern Coast of
Florida by a Caribbean hurricane,
word came from Washington of
the President of $5,000,000, from
his Works Relief Fund, to begin
construction of a sea-level ship
canal across the Florida Peninsula. ,
Had such a canal been in existence,
the Dixie” would not have been
compelled to make the treacherous ■
passage through the Florida Straits
in the hurricane season, on its voy
age from New Orleans to New
York. It would have taken the
shorter cut directly from Port Ing
lis on the Gulf of Mexico across to
the St. Johns River and Jackson
ville and the Atlantic. It would
have saved perhaps two days in
time, besides taking a safer course.
Ihe tact that an or tne passeng- ,
ers and crew of the "Dixie” were
rescued, comparatively uninjured,
does not alter the force of the ex
ample. The "Dixie” is only one
out of scores of vessels that have
come to rief in the troubled waters
between Florida and Cuba, and it
is only one of thousands of ships,
plying between ports on the Gulf
of Mexico and those of the Atlan
tic Coast, to which the new Florida
Canal will offer an immense saving
in time and cruising cost when it
is completed. The tropical hurri
canes which sweep the Caribbean
and sometimes brush the Southern
tip of Florida have little or no ef
fect, either upon land or water, as
far north as the location of the
Canal.
tew who have not given study
to the subject realize the immense
volume and importance of the sea
borne traffic between the Gulf of
Mexico and the Atlantic Coast.
From Vera Cruz and Tampico in
Mexico, from the Texas ports of
Galveston, Houston and Port Ar
thur, from New Orleans and Mo,
bile, Pensacola and Tampa, a tre
mendous stream of commerce is
constantly flowing to Savannah and
Charleston, Norfolk and Baltimore,
New York and Boston, and to Eu
rope, a stream which flows steadily
in both directions. Every one of
those ships today must pass between
Key West and Havana. Every one
of them in the future will save
hundreds of miles of steaming, cut
ting down both time and fuel con
sumption, by the new short-cut
from the Gulf to ocean.
To thousands of small craft the
new canal will offer the safe and
necessary connecting link between
the inland waterways along the At
lantic Coast and those which follow
the Gulf Coast. And to the Navy
of the United States the Florida
Canal might easily prove almost as
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Editor’s Note .. . . The above
map shows the route of the approved
sea level ship canal across Florida,
linking the Gulf of Mexico With the
Atlantic, saving time, money and
storm
valuable in case of war as the Pana
[ ma Canal.
Add to those considerations the
important fact that the Florida
Ship Canal will immediately pro
vide employment for thousands,
both in construction and in produc
ing equipment and materials, and
will, eventually, through the ex
penditure of the estimated cost of
$100,000,000, put many thousands
more to work. It seems to us to be
one of the most unjustilable of all
the undertakings of the Federal
Government. Moreover, it will defi
nitely be self-liquidating, as is the
Panama Canal, through the tolls it
will be paid by water-craft of all
kinds for the privilege of passing
through it.
To Florida, of course, the new
canal means more than to the rest ;
jf the country. New towns will ;
spring up along its route arid new '
business opportunities will thus be
>pened. Beyond a doubt, the com- t
jletion of this canal will make i
Jacksonville one of the most im- <
x>rtant seaports on the East Coast. 1
Jut entirely apart from its local j
ralue, we see a greater value as a
national asset of very high impor- \
tance indeed.
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
:
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Frank Parker Stockbridge .
DISTRIBUTION . . . weak spot
I read in a California paper the
jther day that several tons of
lemons had been dumped into the
Pacific Ocean in order to keep the
price of lemons up.
I have known of similiar inci
dents on the Atlantic Coast—whole
cargoes of bananas and carloads of
other foods dumped into the bay.
It seems to me that the greatest
weakness in our social-ecenomic
structure is our system of distribu
tion. There is no such thing as
over-production so long as any
body’s wants ^remain unsatisfied. I
would like to see statesmen and
economists giving more thought to
the problem of getting the things
people want into the hands of those
who want them, than to making
artificial attempts to increase the
profits of producers.
ENGLAND ... . not so slow
I was greatly struck by a state
ment published recently by Harry
Selfridge, the former Chicago mer
chant who moved to London and
now operates the largest store in
the world. Mr. Selfridge said that
the improvement in the system of
distribution of commodities in Eng
land has resulted in adding to the
payrolls of British retailers more
people than had been thrown out of
employment by the industrial de
pression.
We are inclined to think that we
Laxative combination
x'olks know is trustworthy
The confidence thousands of par
ents have in good, old reliable, pow
dered Thedford’s Black-Draught has
prompted them to get the new Syrup
of Black-Draught for their children.
The grown folks stick to the pow
dered Black-Draught; the youngsters
probably will prefer it when they
outgrow their childish love of sweets.
Mrs. C. W. Adams, of Murray, Ky.,
writes: “I have used Thedfcard’s
Black-Draught (powder) about thir
teen years, taking it for biliousness.
Black-Draught acts well and I an:
always pleased with the results. 1
wanted*a good, reliable laxative for
my children. I have found Syrup of
Black-Draught to be just that.”
BLACK-DRAUGHT
WE ARE going to leave out
a a a
DENOMINATIONS TODAY a
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WELL AS names, for to tell oni
a a a
WOULD BE to tell the other. A
a a a
MINISTER OF one of the local
a' a a
CHURCHES WAS called to th<
a a a
BEDSIDE OF a member of
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ANOTHER CHURCH who was
a a a .
VERY ILL. He was met at the
a a a
DOOR BY the woman’s small
a a a
DAUGHTER. "I’M glad your
MOTHER REMEMBERED me ijj
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HER ILLNESS,” he said. "I suppose
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YOUR OWN minister is out of
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TOWN,” THE child shook her
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HEAD. "OH, no,” she said. "He’s
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AT HOME, but we thought
MOTHER MIGHT have come
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THING CATCHING, and we
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DIDN’T WANT him to be expos
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ED TO it.”
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: THANK YOU.
ire a good deal smarter in all busi
less affairs than the English. While
t is true that it took a Yankee mer
:hant to show them the way, the
juickness with which the British
nerchants seized upon the basic
dea of low prices and quick turn
iver through stimulative advertis
ng suggests that John Bull isn’t as
low on the uptake as many of us
n America have imagined.
Mr. Selfridge’s theory that the
ime to advertise most is not when
business 'is good but when it is bad
eems to me an entirely sound one.
JACKYARDS . . . fertile
I get very tired of hearing people
ay there are no more opportunities
eft for the adventurous and enter
prising youth of America. There
ire more and ligger opportunities
;han our fathers and grandfathers
iver had.
A young friend of mine, David
Sross, has just written a book en
ritled "Gold in Our Backyard.” I
ivish every ambitious boy and girl
n America could read it. He points
jut literally hundreds of different
fields in which opportunity awaits
the enterprising and resourceful.
The prizes that we are hunting
for are not always on the other side
af the mountain range, but very
close to home.
it- it- it
STORIES . . . from wheelchair
I know a lady who has been
a cripple from childhood, unable
to move about except in a wheel
chair. She has never traveled more
than a few miles from her home in
a small Southern town. Years ago
I heard her bemoaning her inability
to get around and see the world.
If she could only do that, she
thought, she could write stories.
A friend suggested to her that
people were people and very much
alike in their emotions and reac
tions anywhere in the world. Why
didn’t she try writing stories about
the people and scenes with which
she was familiar?
My friend adopted the suggestion
and began to write simple little
fiction stories based upon incidents
in the daily life of the people she
knew. It took her a long time to
master the techinque of writing,
but now, at sixty past, she is still
earning $10,000 a year with her
pen.
She found gold in her own back
yard!
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Among some old papers which
one of my New Englad neighbors
found recently in an old trunk in
the barn loft were some interesting
records showing the wages paid a
hundred and eleven years ago to
rural workers on the highways.
Here are the figures:
For a man per day to the last day
of July, 83 cents; from the last day
of July to the last day of Septem
ber, 67 cents; from the last day of
September to the close of the year,
50 cents; for a team and four cat
tle and a cart to the last day of
July, 74 cents; from the last day
of July to the last day of Septem
ber, 75 cents; from the last day of
September to the close of the yea--,
56 cents; for a plough, 25 cents per
day through the year.
Those rates per day were pretty
close to the rates now paid per
hour. Of course, they don’t mean
much unless they could be com
pared with the cost of commodities
at the same time, but they are in
i teresting as indicating how the
scale of the ordinary man’s earn
: ings has gone up since 1824.
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I The Woman’s Angle
(By Nancy Hart)
When you accept an invitation,
make the understanding clear by
naming the hour of the appoint
ment in your acceptance. That
verifies it, and in the event that
your host or hostess finds the in
vitation was incorrect, there is an
opportunity to correct it and avoid
embarrassment on both sides.
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If you have an eye for color,
look at some of the fruit and ve
getable stands that are nicely ar-|
ranged for fancy display. And
when you realize how attractive |
foods can be, plan a meal some time
so that color in your cooked foods
will come somewhere near their
beauty when they’re raw.
a- * a
Curiosity is early displayed in'
the infant as he pulls the wheel off
his toy wagon. But a child of two
can be taught to appreciate the dif
ference between destroying his own
wagon and that of his brother—
laying the foundation for a proper |
respect of other people’s property.
. . . By the age of five, reason can j
be invoked. Before, it is usually a
matter of reward and punishment. j
<
Three points in which women (
most frequently show bad taste, are
the use of mascara, nail grooming i
and the use of lip-stick properly. 1
Figures are most frepuently prop
erly watched, but too dark eye
shadow and mascara, too red lips
and rather bad care of the nails are
still points to be criticized.
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The usual amount of fat in milk,
according to authorities, is but 3 %
per cent, which has little effect on
the weight of the steady consumer.
Protein, the largest constituent of
milk, forms muscles and lean flesh.
The rest consists of valuable min
erals. All of which would indicate
that milk is not fattening.
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Frozen desserts made in an auto
matic refrigerator, though they are
good, are not exactly like ice cream.
Remember that it is the whipping
and churning that makes smooth
ice cream. Hence the mousses and
parfaits—whipped cream, some
times with beaten egg whites, and
flavoring, are usually the most sat
isfactory frozen desserts.
Permanent
WAVES
at all times
$1.50 and up
Shampoo and
Finger Wave
50c
QUALITY BI
203 Wright Bldg. W. femes St.
Phone 347-W
All Work Guaranteed
DR. N. C. LITTLE !
Optometrist
Eyes examined and glasses fitted
Telephone 1571-W.
107 ]/2 S. Main Street — I
Next to Ketchie Barber Shop. !
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State Fair Adding
Zest To Club Work
4-H club members in North
Carolina are taking a lively inter
est in the club exhibits and demon
strations to be held at the State
Fair this fall.
Over the State, said L. R. Har
rill club leader at State College,
boys and girls have been working
hard to get ready for the fair, and
the 4-H department is expected to
be one of the main attractions on
the fairgrounds.
tne Doys are grooming tneir cal
ves and their hogs and taking ex
tra good care of their poultry flocks
Harrill pointed out, to say nothing
of the crops to be exhibited. The
club corn show is one of the an
nual features of the Fair.
The girls are practicing demon
strations with food, nutrition,
clothing, and home improvement
projects to illustrate the work they
have been doing during the past
year.
Many of the boys who have been
working with animals are busy
studying the points to consider in
appraising animals, so they may en
ter the judging contest.
Both boys and girls are interested
in making a good showing for club
work, Harrill stated, but they also
have the stimulus of the $1,667 in
jrize money to be awarded the
winners.
And all this, he continued, is in
:reasing their interest in club pro
ects at home, for they are exper
encing the joy of doing things
well and of realizing the fruits of
:heir own work.
In addition to the cash prizes,
here will also be the four-year
cholarship to State College offered
>y former Senator and Mrs. Cam
iron Morrison to the club member
naking the best record with Jerseys
>ver a period of two years, and the
Juail Roost Cup, offered by George
Whitts Hill, of Durham, to the
nember making the best record
vith Guernseys in 1935.
t^HAT does the typical American
business girl choose for her
noon day lunch? Recent observa
tions made In a number of popular
eating places in several midwest
em cities Indicate that most wo
men prefer a light lunch for their
noon day meal, consisting usually
of a sandwich or bowl of soup, and
a beverage. Iced-tea and bottled
beer are the favorite drinks, during
the summer months, with coffee
and milk gaining in popularity as
cooler weather arrives.
You’ll always find just the
kind of lunch you want at
BLACKWELDER’S
Many Salisbury women are en
joying daily lunches here, why
not you?
’’THE BEST ALWAYS”
The Smithfield Kiwanis Club Currituck farmers report an un
has started a pig club in Johnston usual amount of "horse trouble”
County by donating six pure bred due to mouldy feed and impure
pigs to 4-H club members. water.
Capitol
Sat. Sept. 21st
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