The Carolina Wah vian L“J
A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY
FOUNDED 1832—104TH YEAR SALISBURY, FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 29, 193 5 VOL. 104 NO. 18 PRICE 2 CENTS
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Washington, particularly as the
national election approaches, looks
at every official act with an eye
to its possible political effects.
Theretofore, political sharpshoot
ers of both parties are scrutiniz
ing the new RjecipA>ci|ty Tariff
agreement between the United
States and Canada, which was ne
gotiated by President Roosevelt in
person with Premier Mackenzie
King of Canada. There are as
many points of view about its pos
sible effects as there are commen
tators. Some of the President’s
friends are expressing alarm, point
ing out that it was President Taft’s
Reciprocity Tariff agreement with
Canada that wrecked his Admin
istration and the Republican Par
ty in 1910. Others point out
I that conditions are different now,
and that there is an apparent de
mand by consumers on both sides
of the international poundary for
larger supplies of goods at lower
prices.
DUTY RATE REDUCTIONS
Under the new agreement, Can
ada reduces rates of duty on 180
commodities imported from the
States, including fresh fruits, vege
tables and wheat. The largest
single reduction is on wheat, where
the Canadian duty is cut from 30
cents a bushel to 12 cents. Maine
potatoes and Florida oranges are
now on Canada’s free list.
The United States reduces the
duty on imports from Canada of
beef cattle, dairy cows, cream, seed
potatoes, lumber, hay, horses, live
poultry, cheddar cheese (which is
ordinary mouse cheese), apples and
maple sugar, among other items.
The American tariff on Canadian
whiskey is reduced from $J to $2.JO
per gallon. On the other- hand,
Canada admits American magazines
free of duty.
What alarms some of the Presi
dent’s advisers most is the list of
Canadian agricultural products that
will be admitted to the States free
or at reduced tariff rates. These
timid ones expect a storm of-ex
cited protest from American farm
ers, but that fear is discounted by
those who point out that we are
already importing, over a high
tariff wall, a considerable part of
the nation’s food supply.
Whether this new Canadian
agreement is another straw point
ing toward the abandonment of the
Administration’s policy of reduced
production and high prices, in fav
or of general lower prices to con
sumers for everything, is an open
question.
SIDELINE COMMENT
There are very clear evidences
of an official desire to put the Ad
ministration of the Government on
a more economical basis. The Civil
Service Commission reported the
other day that there are now 794,
467 civil employees of the Gov
ernment outside of those in the
CCC and on Work Relief projects.
Those figures, which don’t include
the Army and Navy, are the high
est ever reached in time of peace.
Considerable amazement is being
expressed over the disclosure that
Dr. Tugwell, as Administrator of
the Rural Resettlement, has em
ployed more than 12,000 persons
in his division.
Some of the things that rise to
the surface of the bubbling poli
tical pot:
The President’s remark the other
day that if he were a voter in
Nebraska he would work for the
return to the Senate of the pres
ent Republican Senator, George A.
Norris. This was in answer to
Senator Norris’ statement that he
wanted to retire fibm public life.
Senator Borah’s statement, on
>' his return to Washington, that he
has definitely determined his policy.
This is variously interpreted, but
generally taken to mean that he is
an astive candidate for the Repub
Ilican nomination. He did net say
what his policy would be.
The declaration by Governoi
Olsen, of Minnesota, tKat a na
tional third party is inevitable, per
haps in 1936.
Former President Hoover’s speed
in New York, in which he mad<
H his most vigorous attack yet upor
the New Deal and especially criti
cized the Administration’s monitarj
policies. It was the most humoroui
and epigrammatic speech Mr
Hoover has ever made. Its prin
^ cipal effect in Washington ha:
been to strengthen the convictior
that lie is actively working for ;
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$110,326 FOR ROWAN WPA WORK
Supreme Court Enjoins AAA Tax Collections „
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Order I^ C'ii
to/js Case
Justices At Same Time
Agree To Pass Upon
Constitutionality Of
1935 Amendment
Washington.A Supreme Court
jrder temporarily enjoining govern
ment collections of AAA process
ing taxes for eight Louisiana rice
millers this week augmented dif
ficulties besetting the New Deal’s
farm program.
The action of the justices, who
simultaneously agreed to pass upon
the constitutionality of an AAA
unendment forbidding injunctions
to restrain processing tax collec
tions, directly affected a compara
tively small sum.
Some legal observers, however,
contended the action served to
tighten for the present lower court
orders impounding from $125,
000,000 to $150,000,000 of taxes
pending a high court ruling on the
AAA’s constitutionality. Govern
ment attorneys looked for the order
to prompt new injunction suits. ,
By the high court’s ruling grant
ing the injunction petition of thJBflj
rice millers, they will continue to^E
pay processing taxes. But instead^H
of going to the treasury, the
will be paid into a court-approvedU
depository for holding until th^BggJ
constitutional question is decided. flBl
Quick after the Supreme Court^^B
order the administration issued a
statement by M. G. White solici
tor of the Agriculture department,
which said no significance was at
tached to the injunction "insofar
is the constitutionality of the Agri
cultural Adjustment act is con
cerned.”
"This action of the Supreme
Court will have no effect on the
availability of funds to meet con
tract payments since such funds
are advanced by the Treasury, out
af the general funds of the Treasury
to meet the current needs of the
AAA.
"Furthermore, even a final deter
mination of the question of con
stitutionality by the district court
and ultimately by the appelate
court in this case, would not have
any effect on the government’s ob
ligations with respect to existing
adjustment contracts with the far
mers of the country.”
The court set December lfi for
argument on the AAA amendment
forbidding tax injunctions.
Chemist Hurt In
Auto Wreck
Carl E. Trexler, recently-elected
chemist with the city water sewer
department, and who assumes his
new work Dec. 1, is receiving treat
ment at the Rowan general hospital
for injuries received in an automo
bile wreck near Granite Quarry on
Saturday evening. To avoid hitting
a car which swerved into the road,
he cut deeply and drove his own
auto into a ditch.
Fire Causes $10,
000 Damage To
Rowan Co. Farm
The most extensive fire to visit
Rowan county for a long time de
stroyed a large barn, livestock, and
agrarian equipment at the rural
home of G. M. Bamhardt about
two miles from Salisbury on the
old Concord road evening.
Local fire fighting; 'apparatus
rushed to the scene was instrumen
tal in saving adjoining buildings.
Total loss was estimated at $10,
000. '
N. C. Alloted
Over 7 Million
By Government
Big Sum Will Be Spent In
State On Road Main
tenance And Con
struction
OTHER FUNDS
Rowan county has been allotted
$110,326 by the Federal govern
ment for WPA projects.
North Carolina was allotted over
seven million dollars to be used in
the several counties of the state.
A large portion of the state allott
ment will be spent in road wort.
Upwards of twenty million dol
lars is now at the disposal of George
W. Coan, Jr., State Works Progress
administrator for North Carolina,
by virtue of the comptroller of the
treasury having countersigned
warrant No. 684, for $7,171,830
for projects throughout North
Carolina. This is the third large
warrant that has been approved by
the comptroller making funds
available for construction work in
the State.
Is is stressed by die comptroller
of the treasury that selection of,
projects for which money is approv
ed, is solely within the discretion
of the State administrator, who may
select projects most adaptable to the
speedy prosecution of a State pro
gram.
Should Auld
Subscriptions
Be Forgot—
—and never brought to mind?
A friend this week presented us
with a subscription receipt issued
by the Watchman almost 100 years
ago.
The recipt was issued to "Jno.
Craige” by M. C. Pendleton and
was dated July 28, 1842, just ten
years to the day after the Watch
man was founded. The receipt was
for one year from date and was
for $2.50.
It read as follows:
"Jno. Craige To M. C. Pendieton,
Dr.
"To your subscription to "Carolina
Watchman,” from 28 July, 1842
to 28 July 1843. . . . $2.50
"Received payment:
Signed: “M. C. Pendleton.”
Verily, gentle reader, for more
reasons than one, old subscriptions
SHOULD be .brought to mind!
Uzzell Heads
Bible Class
Election of George R. Uzzell,
local attorney, as president of the
city union of the Baraca -Philathea
and other adult and Bible classes of
Salisbury and Rowan county, feat
ured the annual meeting held Tues
day night at the First Methodist
church. Mr. Uzzell succeeds Dr.
David E. Faust, of Catawba Col
lege.
Following is a list of the other
officers who were elected to serve
with Mr. Uzzell for the ensuing
year:
Mrs. R. G. Kizer, vice president;
Mrs. H. C. Morgan, secretary;
Miss Myrtle Trexler, assistant sec
retary; C. E. Fesperman, treasurer;
C. F. Daniel, press reporter; Dr.
David E. Faust, county advisor.
DANGEROUS YAWN
Senior: "You should put youi
hand over your mouth when you
yawn.”
Frosh: "What! and get bitten?”
Government in Linndale, Ohio
CLEVELAND . . . The women of Linn dale, a
here, decided to “cleanhouse” politically, and electing a slate
of their own which included mayor, treasurer, clerk two of six council- /
men. The new booses were pketoed above at the first town meeting. Left to
right, Mary Boginsky, treasurer, Ann C. Lhkowita, mayor and Helen
Lashutha, clerk.
U. S. Will Call For
War Debt Payment
Washington. — Despite indica
tions that it will receive only one
cent on each 42 dollars, the United
States is preparing to go through
the motions of telling 12 nations
that their semi-annual war debt
payments are about due.
The total due on December 15
is $965,414,177.54. Of that sum,
all that the United States is hkejyj
to receive t? $2J ),t)©0 fromj^i^
land. Altogether, the debt on which
these installments is due totals
totals around $22,000,000,000.
The following table shows the
total installment due from^ each
country December 15, including
the regular semi-annual payment
for tha tdate as well as unpaid past
installments of principal and inter
est:
Belgium, $33,630,2 9.70
Czechslovakia, $9,584)149.73
Estonia, $2, 11,886.45
Finland, $230453.00
France, 150,292,292.86
Great Britain, $582,803,306.83
Hungary, $290,381.27
Italy, $47,853,383.64
katvia, $961,995.14
Lithuania, $776,319.97
_ inland, $32,335,988.55
JPJPfeSilKSa, $3,843,7)50.40
TTotal $965,414,177.54.
Two other countries, Greece and
Yugoslavia, alsa are in default, but
their payment dates differ from
those of the other war debtors.
Greece, whose installments are due
in January, May, July, and Nov
mber, owed $4,263,338.40 on the
occasion of the last reminder to
that country and Yugoslavia $1,
150,000.00.
HOLC Says Debtors
Employing Politics
Try To Escape
Paying Loans
* ""
Agency Reports Borrow
ers Enlisting Aid of
Colons In Attempt
To Avoid Payments
Washington—The Home Own
ers Loan corporation disclosed that
"several hundred” borrowers have
attempted to apply political pres
sure to avoid payments on loans.
Officials said about six cases
daily are recorded in which bor
rowers have trieid unsuccessfully
to enlist the aid of congressional
representatives in attempts to cir
cumvent- terms of their mortgages.
The congressmen and senators, it
was said, always check the HOLC
to ascertain if there has been any
unfairness.
"In every case,” one official re
marked, "we have explained the
facts and there has been no further
kick-back.’
"They just want to be sure we
are fair with the borrowers, and
are co-operating very wholeheart
edly and reasonably.” >
Attempts to ring in politics was
said to come largely from "willful
delinquents” who refuse to pay
when able to do so. These efforts
are made when payments are past
due and foreclosures is threatened.
The corporation made public a
letter from Senator Bailey, Demo
crat of North Carolina, informing
a constituent that "the only thing
for one who owes the Home Own
ers Loan corporation to do is to
comply with the terms of the mort
gage.”
"The fact that the money is due
the government does not change
the situation,” Bailey continued.
"Funds loaned by the government
are, after all, trust funds.”
The corporation said Bailey’s let
ter was indicative of “the position
which many senators and members
of Congress have taken in the pub
lic interest, in asserting that the
HOLC must pursue a firm policy
of collection, and in expecting the
corporation to act justly upon the
circumstances of individual cases.”
To Co-Operate
With Railways
Proposed Truckers Body
To Harmonize Interests
With Those of Shippers
Washington.—A movement foi
harmonious co-operation amonj
trucking operators, railroads, and
shipers has been inaugurated by the
organized trucking industry, as a
new motor vehicle laws goes into
effect.
The executive committee of A
merican Trucking Associations,
Inc., meeting in Washington, a
dopted a resolution calling for the
appointment of a conference com
mittee, comprising an equal num
ber of spokesmen to represent eacl
of the three interests.
The resolution recomm endec
that "such conference committe<
arrange to meet, confer, and re
commend rules, regulations, rates
and practices of the transportatior
industry for consideration of thi
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Board Reports
To President
National Resources Or
ganization’s Summary
Includes Work Being
Done In N. C.
Washington, Nov. 23—The
march of the new industrial order
in North Carolina, especially the
western section, has awakened a de
sire to preserve the old order of
things for future posterity, the Na
tional Rsources board finds in a re
port which has been sent to the
President.
The report says that in many
ways, "the advent of State plan
ning in North Carolina comes at a
fortunate time.Throughout most
its history, the State has been
largely rural and agricultural, but
during the last few decades indus
trialization has been proceeding
apace. The organic changes occa
sioned by this have demanded new
ways of thinking and acting. Two
major movements have emerged:
TIT Village planning and (2) the
activity of the institute for re
search in social science at the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
Due to the newness of the
board, most of its energies have so
far been devoted ' to preliminary
organization problems and to for
mulating a working philosoophy.
To guide the work of the 10 com
mittees which were organized, the
following points of policy have
been agreed upon:
"(1) Other things being equal,
the planning board is eager to en
courage projects which, being very
much needed in the State, also con
stitute valuable units in the pro
gram of national reconstruction.
"(2) Relative permanence and
broad social value are two import
ant criteria for judging projects;
the board intends to give priority
to those which seem to contribute
to the wealth, values, and general
welfare of the State.
"(3) The board intends to place
special emphasis on the problem of
reintegration of agrarian culture,
to which end it will lend its sup
port to three major projects: Rur
al electrification, soil erosion ser
vice, and rural rehabilitation pro
grams. Each of these ^constitu
tes a major plank in the national
program, and each will contribute
materially to increase of values, in
cre-se of income, and increase of
standards of living in rural North
Carolina.”
Football
Results
Catawba 7—Lenoir-Rhyne 0;
University North Carolina 61—
Virgina 0.
N. C. State 0—Catholic Univer
sity 8.
Davidson 14—Wake Forest 7.
J. C. Smith University 12—Liv
ingstone 0.
Furman 8—Clemson 6.
HEAD OF THE HOUSE
Matteossian: "For five years I
have been looking forward to hav
ing a house of my own—and now
I’m going to have it”
Alden: "I suppose the plans are
: all completed?”
Matteossian: "Oh, yes. My wife
, has laid out all the cupboards and
l closets, and now all the builders
! have to do is build/ the houtse
around them.”
Survey Shows
Home Repair
Bathroom Gets First At
tention, While Kitchen
Comes Second Find
ings Reveal
Case studies of 450 requests
from all sections of the country
for modernization information as
a result of a survey by a nationally
circulated magazine shows an in
teresting tabulation of what form
of repairs and improvements are
uppermost in the minds of that
many householders.
The breakdown of inquiries fol
lows:
Type of Percentage of
Modernization People Interested
Bathroom_47.3
Kitchen_._43.1
Dining room_24.8
Living room_32.3
Bedroom _31.6
Painting interior-39.1
Painting exterior-42.9
Roofing__ 31.0
Porch repairs_31.4
Heating plants_~_25.5
New plumbing-27.5
Cellar modernization_22.2
General repairs-40.0 j
Additions -- 2S.S
Ask WPA Work
Hours Be Cut
The executive council of the
North Carolina Federation of La
bor adopted a resolution here ask
ing that the hours of work on WPA
projects be reduced to conform
with preveiling wages throughout
the State with a minimum of $1.10
an hour for skilled labor and 30
cents an hour for unskilled labor.
The resolution follows:
"Whereas, we recognize the fact
that wage scales for WPA projects
are set by the Federal government
according to regions; and,
"Whereas, authority has been
given State administrators to ad
just working hours in accordance
with prevailing wages; and,
"Whereas, present hours being
worked at the present wages re
ceived are proving detrimental to
the wage structure of private en
terprises, threatening to wreck
agreement and general accepted
wages, ^
1 heretore, be it resoivea, 1 nar
the executive board of the State
Federation of Labor go on record
demanding that the hours of work
on WPA projects be reduced to
conform with prevailing wages (in
conformity with the Davis-Bacon
prevailing wage act) throughout
the State with a minimum of $1.10
an hour for all skilled labor and 3 0
cents an hour for all unskilled la
bor.”
Christmas Lights
Turned On
Through the cooperation of the
merchants and firms of Salisbury,
four blocks of Main and two of
Innes streets have been decorated
with Christmas lights which were
turned on Thanksgiving night.
The lights will burn each night
throughout the holidays and will
add much to the beauty and spirit
of the Christmas season.
As the lights were turned on
Thursday night, there was a for
mal program held in keeping with
the occasion. '
The public was invited and a
large crowd attended.