Carolina Watchman
Published Every Friday
Morning By The
Carolina Watchman Pub. Co.
SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA
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isbury, N. Ci, under the act of
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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 Qnarry- .107
Cleveland- 435
Faith*_ 431
Gold HiU - 116
(Population Rowan Co. 56,665)
Friday, October 18, 1935
HAZARDS OF HOME LIFE
It was Mark Twain, we believe,
who used to say that the most dan
gerous place for anybody to be
was in bed, because he had learned
from statistics that more people
died in bed than anywhere else.
Admiral Carey T: Grayson, head
of the Red Cross, has just given
out some similar statistics, which
are to be taken a little more ser
iously than Mark Twain’s humor
ous remark. More people are kill
ed every year by accidents in their
own homes than are killed on the
highways in automobile accidents,
the Red Cross has; discovered. Last
year more than 34,000 lives were
lost by such things as falling do^vn
stairs, fires, accidental poisoning—
usually from taking the wrong
pills out of the bathroom medi
cine closet in the dark—and such
haards as lightning, forgetting to
turn off the gas, and standing on
top of wobbly step ladders.
The Red Cross is starting a cam
paign for safety in the home. We
will do our part by trying not
to step on the soap the next time
we get out of the bathtub.
CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTS
Some adults think otherwise, but
children do have rights.
A list of them as drawn up
for the State Congress of Parents
and Teachers at Buffalo includes:
The right to health.
The right to a happy home.
The right to adequate, proper
schooling.
The right to be recognized as
the greatest responsibility of any
community.
The right to a childhood proper
ly divided among study, work and
play.
Give those rights to children and
have no fear for the men and wo
men of tomorrow.
12 THINGS TO REMEMBER
1. The value of time.
2. The success of perseverance.
3. The pleasure of working.
4. The dignity of simplicity.
. 5. The worth of character.
6. The power of kindness.
7. The influence of example.
8. The' obligation of duty.
9. The wisdom of economy.
10. The virtue of patience.
11. The improvement of talent.
12. The joy of originating.
WASHOUT
Once a year the newsboys of a
certain district of London are
taken for an outing up the Thames
by a gentleman of the neighbor
hood, where they can bathe to their
heart’s content.
As one little boy was getting
into the water a friend observed:
"I say, Bill, ain’t you dirty!”
"Yes,” deplfcd Bill. "J missed
the train last year.”—Vancouver
Province.
ONE AMONG MANY
A young man entered the offi
ces of Messrs. Smith, Smith, Smith
& Brown, lawyers, and demanded
to see the latter partner.
"Sorry,” said the office boy.
"Mr. Brown is out, but can see
THEY WERE married less than
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FAIR LAST week. (It settled
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IN HIS chest, and so he got the
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LITTLE WIFE to make a mustard
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PLASTER AND put it on him.
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OF COURSE, we can’t mention
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NAMES BUT you should be
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ABLE TO do some fancy
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WHEEZED A bit. "Well.” he
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SAID SADLY, "your mustard
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PLASTERS DON’T hurt like
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THE ONES mother used to make.’’
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any of the Mr. Smiths.” j
"No, thanks,” came the retort.
"I want a smart lawyer, and any
man who can break into an army
of Smiths like this chap Brown has
done must be clever!”— El Paso
World News.
SICK SLICKER
Condemning her son, who palm
ed off sickness in preference to
work, old lady Blotz says:
He kin git the sickest the quick
est and git well the slickest of any
feller I ever seed.”—Jacksonville
(Fla.) Times-Union.
ON THE JOB
Customer—I inserted an adver
tisement for my lost dog in the
paper here. Has anything been
heard of it? I offered a reward.
Office Boy.—Sorry. All the edi
tors and reporters are out looking
for the dog.—Stuttgarter Illus
trierte. I
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CHIT-CHAT |
Officer (to colored driver who
has been whipping his horse) —
Don’t whip him, man—talk to
him.
Driver (to horse, by way of
opening the conversation,— Ah
comes from N’Awleans. Where
does you come from?—Southern
Lumberman.
JOLT
Hotdog — What’s the matter
with your wife? She looks all brok
en up.
Soybean— She got a terrible
shock.
Hotdog—How was it?
Soybean—She was assisting at a
rummage sale at the church and
she took off her new $2 hat and
somebody sold it for 30 cents.—
Pathfinder.
BRASS
The mistress of the house was
going out of her way to find extra
work for he maid. In the end the
poor girl began to get fed up.
Just then the mistress entered
the kitchen.
"Mary,” she said sharply, "have
you finished polishing the brass
ornaments yet?”
"Yes, madam,” replied Mary;
"all except your rings and brace
lets.”—Pathfinder.
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TODAY AND
TOMORROW
— BY—
Frank Parker Stockbridge
WASHINGTON . . .Distance
Many years ago someone called
Washington "the city of magnifi
cent distances,” and the appellation
has stuck. I was again reminded of
it last week, when on a trip to the
Nation’s capital I had to call at a
dozen or more Federal offices.
Washington is more like the great
European cities than any other
American municipality. Its growth
has been horizontal instead of ver
tical. About the tallest building in
the city is the National Press Club,
and that is only 1J stories. Most
of the Government buildings are
under six stories high.
It is not at all uncommon to have
to travel three or four miles, or
farther, to get from one Govern
ment building to another, and in
the course of a day around Federal
offices the visitor has to walk along
literally miles of corridors.
It occurred to me than one of
the reasons why Government busi
ness takes so long to transact may
be the time and energy wasted in
getting from one office to another.
Washington is not geared up to
speed and efficiency.
BEAUTY .... In Marble
Major L’Enfant, the brilliant
Frenchman who planned the Fed
eral city, conceived it as the most
beautiful city in the world. It
seems more beautiful every time I
visit it—and I’ve known Washing
ton since 1881. In another fifty
years there will be nothing to com
pare with it for beauty.
The Supreme Court moved into
the most beautiful of all Washing
ton buildings, last week. It is built
all of white marble. Outside, Ver
mont marble, corridors of Alabama
marble, interior courts of Georgia
marble, floors of Italian, Spanish
and African marble.
Everything about the building is
freshly new and gleaming, except
the Justices’ chairs. They sit in
the old, comfortable chairs they are
accustomed to. When it was pro
posed to buy a new chair for Jus
tice Cardozo, he replied that the
old chair that was good enough for
Justice Holmes for 20 years was
good enough for him.
TENANTS . . . Everywhere
In spjttse of the multitude of
Government buildings, there isn’t
room for all the new Federal of
fices. Uncle Sam is the biggest
tenant in Washington. After tak
ing all the available office space
in town, public offices are spread
ing out into hotels, apartments
and private housese.
Some of the "temporal^” build
ings put up during the World War
are still in use by Federal oxices.
Uncle Sam is Washington’s larg
est taxpayer. He pays half the cost
of running the District of Colum
bia. In return for the Federal
Government’s assumption of the
tax burden, the people of the Dis
trict, 60 years ago, gave up their
right to vote on local affairs. If
they want to vote on state or
national questions, they can do so
in their old home towns.
HOUSING .... Problem
I hear a lot about the "housing
shortage,” but I don’t know of
any place where it is as acute as
in Washington. More than 100,000
new Federal employees have been
trying to crowd into the city in
the 'past kwo years. Ther|e just
isn’t room for them.
I heard of one landlord who had
145 applications on file for his
next vacancy. Another built a
50-family apartment house and
rented every apartment from the
plans before the foundations were
in! Rents are down most every
where else, but not in Washing
ton.
One result has been the spilling
of population away out into the,
Maryland suburbs and across the
Potomac into the beautiful Virgin
ia hills. I met one Federaf^official
who "commutes” to Washington
every day from his home in Balti
more, forty miles distant.
FLAG.The Salute
I read in the papers the other
day that a Boston schoolboy had
been disciplined for failing to sal
ute the flag. Somehow, I don’t feel
that compulsion is the "best way to
instil patriotism.
Saluting the flag is no evidence
of how anybody really feels. It is a
meaningless gesture unless it comes
from the heart out. In Germany
under Hitler everybody is forced
to salute the Natzi emblem, but
you can’t make me believe they all
mean it.
If I could teach every child
what our flag really means, the
first thing I would try to make
them understand is that it does not
stand for compulsion, even com
pulsion to salute it. If Old Glory
means anything, it means—to me
at least—the completest liberty of
every individual under it to be
lieve and behave as he pleases, so
long as he doesn’t try to interfere
with other people’s beliefs and be
havior.
PICAYUNES
Q. What is the name of the cow
boy song which John Boles sang at
Will Rogers’ funeral?
A. The correct name is "Ole
Faithful.l’
Q. How much money do Ameri
cans manage to spend on foreign
lotteries in a year?
A. Representative Kenney of
New Jersey, author of a bill to
establish a national lottery, esti
mates that about $200,000,000 is
taken out of the United States by
foreign lotteries. The Post Office
Department places the figure much
higher, asserting that it has reach
ed $1,000,000,000 a year.
Q. Is it dangerous to smoke af
jer taking an alcohol rub?
A. The National Safety Council
says that persons have died from
lighting matches before the alcohol
vapor has disappeared.
Q. How long have there been
reindeer in Iceland?
A. They were introduced into
Iceland in 1770.
Q. When did Speaker Thomas
B. Reed answer critics of the ad
ministration regarding a billion-dol
lar appropriation to be spent over
a two-year period, by saying: ',This
is a billion-dollar country”?
A. It was his valedictory at the
close of the Fifty-first Congress, in
March, 1891.
Q. What per cent of the popu
lation of the United States is now
in the birth registration area?
A. The entire population has
been since 1933 in registration
areas for births and deaths.
Q. Who first used colored car
toons?
A. Joseph Keppler, founder of
Puck, was the first person in the
United States to apply color lithog
raphy to caricature.
Q. Who was Joe Miller, who
compiled the joke book?
A. Joseph or Josias Miller was an
English comedian, for many years
a favorite at Drury Lane, where
he played minor comedy roles. He
was illiterate and learned his parts
by hearing them read by his wife.
As compiler of "Jos Miller’s Jests”
he is chiefly remembered.
Q. How many acres of land are
planted to soy beans in the United
States?
A. There are now more than
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RUPTURE
E. J. MEINHARDI
COMPANY SALESMAN
OF CHICAGO HERE AGAIN
He will show you the "Mein
hardi Rupture Shield” privately
in his rooms at the Charlotte
Hotel, Charlotte, N. C., on Fri
day and Saturday, Oct. 25 th
and 26th, from 1:00 p. m. to
5:00 p. m. and 7:00 p. m. to
9:00 p. m. daily. Please note
dates and hours carefully.
Ask the Hotel Clerk for the
numbers of Mr. Meinhardi’s
rooms. Only men are invited.
The Meinhardi Rupture Shield
retains the rupture on the aver
age case regardless of size or
location—no matter how much
you exercise, lift, or strain. The
Meinhardi Rupture Shield is
skillfully molded to each indi
vidual as a Dentist makes false
teeth. (No leg straps and no
cumbersome arrangements).
It is waterproof, sanitary,
practically indestructible, and
may be worn while bathing or
sleeping (continuously day and
night) until no longer desired.
Do not neglect to see him on
the above date. He will Be glad
to refer you to local men who
have used the "Meinhardi Rup
ture Shield”. There is no charge
to investigate. This visit is for
white people only.
Chicago Office, Pure Oil Bldg.
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5,000,000 acres in soy beans.
Q. How did -the Jimson weed get
its name?
A. The jimson weed or James
town weed derived its name from
the fact that Captain John Smith
of the Jamestown colonists report
ed its effects as early as 1607.
Q. Where did Geraldine Farrar
study music?
A. Her musical education was re
ceived in Paris under Trabadello and
in Berlin under Lilli Lehmann.
Q. How long is the Rhone Gla
cier?
•A. It is about 6 miles long and
gives origin to the Rhone River.
Q. Who founded the first hospi
tal in the United States?
A. Thomas Bond (1712-1784),
an American physician, founded the
first hospital in the United States,
was influential in establishing the
first medical school, and according
to Benjamin Rush, introduced the
use of mercury into general prac
tice in Philadelphia. He aroused
the interest of Benjamin Franklin
in a hospital for the sick, injured
or insane, and together they secured
the funds to open it in 1752. Bond
gave his services as physician to the
institution until his death.
Q. What is the origin of the
essay?
A. It is derived from the Essais
of Montaigne, who created the
form.
PICAYUNES
Q. How many locks for mail
sacks and pouches does the Post
Office Department use?
A. The number is estimated at
13,000,000.
Q. How much of the population
of New York City lives in houses
which might be called substand
ard?
A. About 2,000,000 people, or
one-third of the population, is not
healthfully housed or safely hous
ed, according to the Welfare Coun
cil of New York.
Q. What is the origin of the
quotation, “Nothing in his life be
came him like the leaving it”?
A. It is from the first act of
"Macbeth.” The speech is made by
Macbeth in reporting the execu
tion of the thane of Cawdor,
whose title is bestowed upon Mac
beth.
Q. What is the present tense of
the verb wrought?
A. The present tense is work.
Q. Why is the north light con
sidered best? J
A. The National Bureau of
Standards says that north light is
considered the bast for microscopic
work because it is diffused more
completely than light coming from
a portion of the sky where direct
sunlight exists.
Q. What is the name of the edu
cator who originated the personnel
system used in the Army during
the World War?
A. Dr. Walter Dill Scott, pres
ident of Northwestern University,
was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal for devising, instal
ing and supervising the personnel
system in the United States Army
in the World War.
Q. Who gave the first minstrel
shows in this country?
A. The introduction of minstrel
shows in the United States is cred
ited to Thomas D. Rice (1808-18
60). a white comedian who was
inspired by the "Jim Crow” song
of a Negro stage driver to repro
duce song and character in costume
on the stage in Pittsburg in the
early nineteenth century.
Q. Why is oil sometimes poured
on the water around a vessel dur
ing a storm? ! i 'i
A. Viscous liquids are stronger
than water,, though their surface
tension is less, and for this reason
oil is sometimes thrown upon the
water around a ship during a storm.
The effect of this is to smooth out
the surface as though a strong elas
tic blanket were stretched over the
water and the waves are then kept
from breaking over.
Q. Please give a biography of
Fargo, who founded the express
company.
A. William George Fargo was
born in Pompey, N. Y., on May
20, 1818. He became a freight
agent for the Auburn & Syracuse
Railway Co. in 1841 and express
i manager between Albany and Buf
falo a year later and in 1843 a
resident agent in Buffalo. In 1845
he organized, with Henry Wells
and Daniel Dunning, the first ex
press company to engage in the
carrying business west of Buffalo.
The lines of the company were
rapidly extended. In March. 185 0.
when the American Express Co.
was organized, Fargo became secre
tary, and in 1851 he organized the
firm of Wells, Fargo & Co. to
conduct an express business between
New York and San Francisco by
way of the Isthmus of Panaina.
From 1862 to 1866 he was mayor
of Buffalo and from 1868 to his
death in 1881 he was president of
the American Express Co.
Q. Why was the custom of caps
| To Wed Lawson Little
UM1UAUU . V' Miss Dorothy
Hurd (Above), 18-yeAr old. daujrli
ter of Ktra. Robert- Maxon of
Chicago, is to be an autumn bride
of W. Lawson Little, British and
American amateur -golf champion.
Announcement of the engagement
was made last week.
and gowns introduced into col
lege?
A. The medeival universities
were maintained by clerics, and the
forms of caps, gowns and hoods
were really the medieval forms of
clothing retained and made regula
tion for the glergy when the lay
community changed to more mod
ern dress. Caps were a necessity in
the cold churches; copes and capes
with hoods attached were needed
for warmth, and the hood was
selected by the university men as
the article to be made distinctive
for the various degrees by color,
trimming, and lining.
Q. Can plants be grown with
out soil?
A. The raising of plants, such
as corn, in trays without soil is
a new idea which has been devel
oped in England, Germany and
Denmark for the providing of feed
for cattle. It has recently been in
troduced into the United States
and there is a cabinet of this type
on a farm near Summit, N. J.,
where secret tests are being made
to determine the feasibility of the
idea for American agriculture.
Q. Which Louis was called the
stammerer?
A. Louis II (846-879), King of
France, was called le Begue, or the
Stammerer.
Q. Is quicksilver a conductor of
electricity? Can it be charged’
A. The National Bureau of
Standards says that quicksilver is
a conductor of electricity and can
be charged.
Q. Is it true that Rhode Island
abolished capital punishment be
cause of the execution of a man
for murder upon evidence that
many people thought was not con
clusive?
A. Capital punishment was abol
ished in Rhode Island in 1852 be
cause of the great resentment taken
against the hanging of John Gor
don, alleged murderer of Amasa
Sprague.
—Buy in Salisbury—