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POPULATION DATA
(193-0 Census)
Salisbury _16,951
Spencer -— 3,128
E. Spencer-2,098
China Grove_1-1,258
Landis _:---1,388
Rockwell_ 696
Granite Quarry_ 507
Cleveland_ 435
Faitli_1_ 431
'Gold Hill _ 156
(Population Rowan Co. 5 6,665)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 193 5
THE REAL BOGEYMAN
From all the reports that come
out of Europe about the war situa
tion, it seems to us that the main
reason why England, France and a
lot of smaller nations are trying
to keep Italy from grabbing Ethio
pia is not so much sympathy for
the Ethiopians as that to let Mus
solini get away with it would set
a bad example to Germany.
Europe didn’t worry much
when Japan grabbed off Manchuria.
That is a long way from London
and Paris, and none of the "Great
Powers’ ” toes were trodden on.
But Ethiopia is close to home, and
Italy is one of the neighbors. If
they let neighbor Italy go out and
pick up new territory wherever it
wants to, how are they going to
- stop Germany when Hitler’s gov
ernment gets repay to annex a
slice of the Ukraine, Or take over
Czechoslovakia? 0
German rearmament is giving all
the rest of Europe the jitters.
Sooner of later, statesmen believe,
the Germans are bound to make
another armed drive for a "place
in the sun.” And that’s another
reason why the other powers are
trying to conciliate Mussolini with
one hand while trying to curb his
territorial ambitions with the other.
They want his support when the
time comes to make another stand
against Germany.
Hitler is the real bogeyman of
Europe.
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"CIVILIZATION’S SYMBOL”
The annual Roll Call of the Red
Cross is under way. Its banner,
the red cross on a white field, has
been aptly termed "Civilization’s
Symbol.” Frist used as a warning
flag in war, it has become the em
blem under which the armies of
peace are enlisted in the never-end
ing warfare on disease and disaster
in civil life. \ :
It is a banner under which every
citizen should enroll. To display
the Red Cross emblem in the win
dow is evident that those who
dwell in that house do not live for
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themselves alone, but are sharing
the burden of caring for the af
flicted.
The record of the Red Cross
comes as near to being a record
i of unselfish humanitarianism as
can be found anywhere. Whether
it be the emergency created by a
major disaster, such as fire, flood,
shipwreck or tornado, or the more
prosaic work of safeguarding pub
lic health, producing garments for
the poor and needy, printing books
for the blind, or any of th£ scores
of other helpful services which the
Red Cross constantly renders, it
must at all times be prepared to
meet the calls upon it. Its funds
come from voluntary contributions
of all the people. The Annual
Roll Call gives every citizen an
opportunity to show his patriotism
in the broadest and truest sense. In
giving to the Red Cross, one gives
to the service of all mankind.
WE ARE not going to say that
THIS HAPPENED here in Salis
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BURY, FOR we do not have
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ENOUGH MUSIC stores to hide
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THE IDENTITY of the clerk in
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THE STORY. To say that it did
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HAPPEN HERE would almost be
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MENTIONING NAMES, which is
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STRICTLY AGAINST the rules.
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"HAVE YOU kissed me in the
MOONllGHT?” ASKED the
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BEAUTIFUL YOUNG girl, Ad
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DRESSING THE new clerk in the
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.MUSIC STORE. He turned and
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.LOOKED AT her. "No,” he said,
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"IT MUST have been the man at
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THE OTHER counter. I’ve been
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HERE ONLY a week.”
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I THANK YOU.
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
—BY—
Frank Parkbr Stockbridck
FOOD . . emergency
, The Pilgrims were hard put to
it for food, more than once. That
is why they established Thanks
giving Day, to celebrate the first
year .in which they had enough to
eat. But out of their necessity I
they developed a Variety of foods
which have become American
staples.
The Indians taught them how to
get sugar from the maple, trees,
and how to cook the swamp cran
berries. It must have been one of
the Pilgrim mothers who first made
jelly out of the beach plums that
grow so profusely on the sandy
shores of Cape Cod Bay. Certain
ly the American taste for clams,
in chowder or on the half shell,
harks back to Plymouth Colony,
as well as our national taste for
salt codfish. I know few foods so
palatable as a properly made cod
fish cake, but maybe that’s just
my Yankee upbringing. Indian
corn was new to the Pilgrims, byt
out of it they evolved Johnny
cake—which is as different from
cornbread as chalk from cheese—
and its improvement, blueberry
Johnnycake.
But I wish I knew who invented
that supreme dessert, Rhode Island
Pandowdy. I’d try to get his—or
her—statue into the Hall of
fame.
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BEER . . . evaporated
One thing the Pilgrims yearned
for and couldn’t make was beer.
They wrote back to their patrons
in England, asking them to please
send some beer by the next ship.
A tragic-coming episode in his
tory over which I have often
smiiea, was me iate oi mat Deer,
as recorded by Governor Bradford.
The beer was shipped, all right—
many hogsheads of it. But it was
a long and stormy and—apparent
ly—thirsty voyage. For when the
ship reached Plymouth all the
beer barrels were empty. The cap
tain thought the beer must have
evaporated!
Not until trade began with the
West Indies and rum and molasses
began to be imported did the New
England settlers get anything they
thought fit to drink.
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LIFE . . . Russian law
I’ve just been reading the most
illuminating book about Russia
that I have yet seen. It is Walter
Duranty’s "I Write As I Please.”
I got new light on the Socialist
experiment in Russia.
What strikes me most forcibly
in his revelations is the supreme
indifference to life, not only on
the part of the ruling minority,
who apply the death penalty ruth-1
lessly for any sort of insubordina
tion, but among the Russian peo
ple themselves.
.. The mjiiri reason .why. Gonptuui
ism can’t succeed in America, it ;
seems to me, is that we set a high
value on human lives. At this stage
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in the world’s development radi
cally new ideals of government
:ai^pot be successfully implanted
without killing off those who
don’t like them and are bold
enough to resist them.
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THANKSGIVING . . and fixin’s
Around this time of the year my
New England heritage begins to
assert itself. I’d like to sit down
again to an old-fashioned Thanks
giving dinner, with all the rela
tions gathered around the long
table, stuffing ourselves with tur
key and all the "fixin’s”—includ
ing, of course, three or four kinds
of pie.
One of my-most vivid recollec
tions of childhood is a Thanksgiv
ing dinner at my grandmother’s
house in Maine, sixty years ago.
Twenty-eight of her sons and
daughters and their husbands and
wives and children sat around the
table. We all went to church
first—for Thanksgiving Day was
a religious feast-day, even more
important than Christmas.
Thanksgiving is America’s own
holiday. I hope its spirit never dies
out. It is a good day for every
body to give a little serious thought
to the roots from which we
sprang.
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PILGRIMS . . . and now
I get annoyed at times at people
who persist in referring to the
Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony
as "Puritans.” The Puritans came
along later and settled Massachu
setts Bay Colony. They were a dif
ferent sort of folk, religiously and
otherwise, from the Pilgrims.
They took fewer chances, for one
thing.
When I think of the courage of
the Pilgrims and the gallant fight
they made against almost over
whelming odds, I wonder how
much of that spirit of independ
ence still persists. I find it hard
to imagine any group of young
men and women of today cutting
loose from all their old ties and as
sociations and facing starvation
and terrific hardships merely be
cause they felt that their right to
act and believe as they thought
right was being infringed by au
thority.
I wonder if life hasn’t become
so easy for us in America that we
lose sight of its real values. I’ve
never been able to believe that dol
lars can oompensate for the sacri
fice of independence and convic
tions.
Route One Items
H. J. Thompson, also George
Fink visited George Powlas on the
17th.
Mr. and Mrs. -J. A. Fink and son
Milo, were among those to enjoy
a birthday dinner at the home of
B. Graham on the 17th.
Mrs. J. C. Goodman spent the
latter part of the week with Mrs.
W. T. Barber.
A shucking at the home of
Luther Freeman on Tuesday even
ing, at the home of Harold Mor
gan on Wednesday P. M,
Colds bne prevelant over the
vicinity.
Those entertained in the home
of Mrs. W. B. Myers on the after
noon of the eighteenth were: Mrs.
Swicegood, Mrs. T. F. Barber and
son, Tommie, Mrs. W. D. Myers,
Mrs. J. T. Myers and son Tommie,
Mrs. Henry,, Myers, and'Mrs.' J. H.
Myers. , •; ;j-f/
Thpse who enjoyed recreation
shucking corn were: Rev. Olin
.Swicegood, Messrs. Levi Deal,
Luther Freeman, J. H. Myers, J. T.
,Myers, W. D. Myers, D. W. Wood,
M. B. Fink, G. F. Powlas, L. F.
Powlas, ;J. A. Bost, J. C. Godbey,
L. E. Godbey, Harold Morgan, T.
F. Barber, J. A. Fink and W. B.
Myers.
WHY NOT PLAY BEAR?
Voice on Phone: “Are you the
Game Warden?”
Game Warden: “Yas, Ma’am.”
Voice: "Well, I’m so thankful I
have the right person at last! Would j
you mind suggesting some games^
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A CONSIDERATION OF EMPHASIS
(The Pioneer)
For fear that people may read into this editorial a meaning which
is not in mind, much less meant to be conveyed, it seems necessary to
emphasize particularly that athletics are not being criticized in any
way at all. Not only are athletics designed to play an important part
in college life, but they do that very thing, arousing spirit and pride
in the college, and, in a sense, cementing the student body closer to
gether by a common loyalty. The competitive spirit is created in stu
dent spectators as well as players, and a gentlemanly manner of re
ceiving wins or losses can be acquired. Again, athletics are important,
and this editorial is not criticizing the athletic program.
The suggestion is merely being made that perhaps athletics are being
emphasized out of proportion to and at the expense of, the cultural
program and purpose of the college, which is stated to be "the culti
vation of the knowledge and appreciation of human achievements> in.
the arts and sciences; the development of love of excellence, broad
human sympathies,” etc. Most colleges have a program which offers
to the student body at various times throughout the year speeches by
prominent men or recognized authorities upon some subject, concerts
by leading orchestras, bands, or choral groups, and dramatic presenta
tions by capable companies. Catawba students last year had the op
portunity of hearing a fine talk by the great American poet, Edwin
Markham, if they attended his lecture at Livingstone College. High
Point College has already this year had two such performances provid
ed for the student body, one of which was a concert by the famous
Kryl Band, probably the leading concert band in the country. The
writer has heard speeches by Wilfred Grenfell and Count Felix von
Luckner, the “Sea Devil,” at Pennsylvania colleges of the size of
Catawba. Such a program would be beneficial to all the students.
Every one, in a sense, would be participants, whereas the development
of mental and physicial coordination, which the athletic program
specifically offers, is received only by a very few under present condi
uons at vatawDa.
Moreover, the organizations and activities on the campus which are
of a cultural nature,receive, in a financial way, college support which
seems literally insignificant beside what is spent in athletic channels.
The case of the band was “aired” in the last issue. The band practices
regularly and participates in campus and community functions, handi
cappe by a lack of music. And the love of music shown by the
members is the only cohesive force. There is, likewise, sufficient
musical talent at Catawba for a college orchestra, and one is certainly
in keeping with the musical department of which Catawba boasts.
But the "non-provision” of a trained leader prevents its formation.
For each of the past two years practically a dozen people represented
Catawba at inter-state intercollegiate forensic tournaments, and the
debating teams have travelled into South Carolina and Pennsylvania,
-part of the expenses being paid by the debaters thejnselves. The col
lege support is $50.00 a year. The Blue Masque, which offers a cul
tural appreciation of dramatics, is entirely self-supporting. And the
extended tours of the Glee Club have largely jaeen funded by the or
ganization itself.
The reason why college money is not forthcoming seems to be that
no fees are paid by the students to provide for programs or support
of organizations. Flowever, an athletic fee of $15.00 is included
among the expenses, and must be paid. Surely this shows a dispropor
tion which needs correction. To collect that amount of money and
spend it all on athletics seems unjust when cultural activities are not
provided for at all. Again, TFIE ATHLETIC PROGRAM IS NOT
BEING CRITICIZED. But the emphasis and lack of proportion cer
tainly deserve to be brought to light and to receive consideration;
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