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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_ 43 5
Faitji - 431
Gold Hill _ 156
(Population Rowan Co. 56,665)
FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 1936.
POLITICAL EDUCATION
A careful statistician has figured
out that it would cost eighty mil
lion dollars to conduct a nation
wide campaign of political educa
tion that would reach every voter
in the United States. Nothing like
that amount is likely to be spent
this year, but the indications are
that both major parties will spend
more money than ever before, be
tween now and November 9.
The largest amount of money
ever spent in a political campaign
in America was in 1928. The
Democrats spent a shade over seven
million dollars that year and the
Republicans about nine and a half
millions. This included both the
national and state campaigns and
those conducted by independent
groups.
There were 36,772,695 votes cast
in that year, so the average amount
spent on each voter’s political edu
cation was something under 50
cents. That was not, of course,
taking into account the thousands
of meetings, debating groups, and
gatherings which were addressed ty
volunteer, unpaid speakers on be
half or one party or another.
The United States spends about
three thousand million dollars a
year on its educational system. If
one-hundredth of that amount were
spent on political education it
would cost but 30 million dollars a
year.
Someone has put forward the
brilliant suggestion that the cost of
political campaigns ought to be
borne by Government appropria
tions, state and Federal, apportioned
among the parties in proportion to
the number of their voters of the
last previous election. In some re
spects that might be an improve
ment over the present system of
raising funds by private contribu
tions. That will not happen this
year, but it is apparent that the
voters of the nation are going to be
exposed to a more intensive cam
paign of education than ever before.
UNEMPLOYMENT
It is quite clear that nobody has
any exact information of the num
ber of employable persons still un
employed in the United States.
That is the number who would take
jobs if they were available. To
the claim that there are still eleven
million industrial workers unem
* ployed, the reply has lately been
made, based upon Government sta
tistics that at no time, even at the
peak of prosperity, did industry
ever employ more than nine million
persons, and as there are now more
than seven million on industrial
payrolls, the unemployment in that
field cannot amount to more than
two million.
In one sense, of course, all the
persons on relief are unemployed.
But it does not follow that all of
them were employed before they
went on relief. In the best of
times there have always been five or
six million persons without jobs,
either because they preferred not to
work or were unable, for various
reasons to attach themselves to pay
rolls. A large proportion of these
have always been recipients of char
itable relief, and it is impossible to
imagine a situation in which there
will not be a very large number of
people who will depend for subsis
| tence upon the generosity of public
! or private relief organizations.
, In the meantime, however, more
people are going back to work every
day and the outlook is hopeful for
a job within a year or so for every
body who is willing and able to
work.
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
—BY—
Fuank Parker Stocrbiudge
Unless the League of Nations
finds itself otherwise occupied, this
is the year in which it is expected
to take up in a serious way the mat
ter of calendar reform.
Most of the opposition to calen
dar reform has vanished, and the
main question now seems to be
whether it will be a 13-month year,
as was advocated by the late George
Eastman, or a 12-month year with
the months rearranged by subtract
ing days from some of them and
adding them to others. At present
the 12-month plan seems to be in
the lead.
Changing the calendar is a good
deal like changing from standard
time to daylight saving time; a lot
of people seem to think that it is;.
human tinkering with an act of
God. But our present calendar has
been revised twice since it was first
promulgated by Julius Caesar and
the last revision was directed by
Pope Gregory VI. The present
Pope has expressed a friendly atti
j tude toward further revision and
so have the leaders of other religi-j
ous groups. Ithink something is
going to come of this.
* * *
CHICKENS .... tattoo
The principle obstacle to bring
ing chicken theieves to justice is the
difficulty of identifying the stolen
chickens. Some bright poultryman
invented a method of branding
chickens and the movement for
registering the individual tattoo
marks of each professional poultry
raiser is spreading, throughout the
northern and eastern parts of the
country.
Cattle rustling and horse stealing
were made difficult and finally al
most eliminated by the use of pri
vate registered brands. I don’t see
any reason why it should not work
equally well in the war on chicken
thieves.
* * *
ADMINISTRATION_man
It is a rare thing in this country
to find a man so well trained in
public administration that cities bid
against each other for his services.
The city of Toledo, Ohio, has just
appointed John N. Edy as City
Manager. Mr. Edy was city man
ager of Beckeley, California, at
$7,5 00 >a year. Flina Michigan,
hired him away from Berkeley by
offering him $15,000. Dallas,'
Texas, offered $16,500 and got him
away from Flint. Then Uncle Sam
drafted him as assistant director of.
the budget. Now, Toledo has hir- j
ed him to run the town, at $12,000
a year.
i There are 426 American cities
now managed by professional, non
partisan city managers instead of by j
politically elected mayors. There
would be more if there were more
trained administrators available. I
can think of few more useful or
profitable careers for which ambi
tious and intelligent young men
might train.
I * •{« -Jt I
RAILROADS ; . . . motors
Just as the railroads are waking i
up to the fact that they can com-|
pete successfully with motor ve-|
| hides for passenger transportation, j
| the motor people are showing the
railroads some real competition in
iong-distance freight hauling.
A motor caravan of trailers haul
ed by trucks, a week or two ago,
'carried a pay-load of frieght from
l Chicago to Los Angeles, bearing the'
i best railroad schedule by 46 hours.
Then it turned around and carried (
I'F YOU can name over the local
BOYS WHO are in the Navy, it
IS POSSIBLE that you can guess
THE NAME of one of the
CHARACTERS *IN* today’s little
* * *
DRAMA. A certain kind-hearted
* * *
LOCAL LADY was talking to her
« * «
SAILOR LAD who was home on
* * *
FURLOUGGH. "SO you are on
A SUBMARINE?” said she. "And
o * *
WHAT DO you do?” He paused
* * *
A MOMENT, and then replied
SERIOUSLY* "OH, I run forward,
* * *
MA’AM, AND hold her nose
WHEN WE want to take a dive.”
[THANK YOU.
a full load from Los Angeles to
New York in 72 hours less than
the best railroad freight time.
But the western railroads and
some of the eastern, with their new
light-weight, high-speed, air-condi
tioned passenger trains are finding
that their once despised passenger
business can be made profitable in
spite of the automobile competition.
This is the kind of competition in
which the public gets the chief
benefits.
* • •
ECONOMICS .... fore!
Somebody remarked not long ago
:hat everybody is an economist,
these days. Certainly there has
aever been since the early 1890’s
such widespread dscussion of eco
iomic questions and so much mis
nformation and loose thinking
ibout them.
Thomos W. Lamont, partner in
the House of Morgan, gave a half
million dollars the other day to
Harvard University to establish a
new chair of political economy,
in making the gift, he said: "Poli
tical economy concerns itself as
much with the behavior of man as
i social animal as it does with any
snown laws of industry and trade.”
That, it seems to me, is the most
sensible statement I have seen in a
ong time. Professional economists
ire as apt to overlook the laws of
luman behavior as the amateur
:conomists are to overlook the
mathematical side of the subject,
[f Mr. Lamont’s gift enables Har
vard University to discover a for
mula for reconciling human nature
ind the cold facts of business and
finance, it will be one of the great
:st possible services to humanity.
PICAYUNES
Teacher: "Your answer is about
is clear as mud.”
Pupil: "Well, that covers the
ground, doesn’t it?”
NAUGHTY TEACHER
Mother: "James Eliphalet, what
do you mean by teaching that par
rot such bad words?”
James Eliphalet: "I was only
teaching him wha he mustn’t say,
mom.’
Boy—"Mother, do you beleive in
love at first sight?”
Mother—"Of course. Do you
suppose I would have married your
father if I had taken a second look
at him?”
"With feet like yours you should
get a job with the government.”
"Doing what?”
"Stamping out forest fires.”
Woman (about to attend politi
cal meeting)—"I’m not prejudiced
at all. I’m going with a perfectly
open and unbbiased mind to listen
to what I’m convinced is sure rub
bish.”
Telephone: "Hello, I’d like to
know where I can get hold of Miss
Osgood?”
Operator: "I don’t know; she’s
awfully ticfclish.”
“I wish,” complained the preach
er, "that I could make my flock
take more of an interest in Heaven.
None of them seems to want to go
there.”
"Tell them that children under
16 are not admitted,” suggested
the helpful friend.
Teacher was trying to impress
the class with the danger of bad
habits. She asked, "What is it we
find so easy to get into and so hard
to get out of?”
"Bed,” came the answer.
Tommy—"Father, how do they
catch lunatics?”
Father—"With attractive cloth
es, face powder, alluring smiles,
and soft words, my son.”
Bobby—"Mother, who's that wo
man all dressed in lack?”
Mother—"Flush, Bobby, she’s a
sister of charity.”
Bobby—"But mother, which is
she, Faith of Hbpe?”
"Some folks uses big words de
same as a turkey spread his tail
feathers,” said Uncle Eben. "Dey
makes an elegant impression, but
they don’t represent no real meat.”
USING GOOD ENGLISH
"You are in pain,” doc declared;
"That I can plainly see.”
"No sir,’ the English student
said.
"The pain is here in me.”—Path
finder.
NOT ST. PETER
The motorist, while trying out
his new car at its utmost speed, re
moved ten feet of a stone wall.
As he was recovering conscious
ness in the hospital, the doctor (an
old friend) said to him: "Don’t you
know me? I’m Peter.” The patient
gave a start. "I’m Dr. Peter.
Don’t you know me? Why did
you jump?”
"Oh, said the injured one, "you
gave me a fright. I thought at
first you you meant St. Peter.”—
Pearson’s Magazine,
Dentist—"Now, open the mouth
wide, I won’t hurt you at all.”
Patient (after tooth is out) —
"Great suffering Beelzebub! Now
I know what business Ananias was
in. He was a dentist.”
LIKE TO GET STUNG
Lucile: ’Im going to sell kisses
at the Legion fair. I wonder if
25 cents would be too much?”
Laura: "Of course not. You
know, people expect to get stung
at such chartity affairs.”
SOMETHING LACKING
An injte enthusi .st who had
watched his home team go down in
defeat, stopped the umpire as he
was leaving the field.
"Where’s your dog?” he demand
ed.
"Dog?” ejaculated the umpire.
"I have no dog.”
,’Well,’ said the grouchy one,
"you’re the first blind man I ever
saw who didn’t have a dog.”
—■
VETERINARIAN NEEDED
A doctor was called in to see a
very testy old aristocrat. The doc
tor, radiating good cheer, asked
the old fellow what the trouble
might be.
"That, sir”, growled the patient,
"is for you to find out. Why do
you suppose I sent for you?” And
more of the same.
The doctor sat thinking a mo
ment, then started out of the
room.
"Where are you going?” asked
the hardboiled old cross—patch.
"Well, if you’ll excuse me for a
few minutes,” the doctor said, "I’ll
go and get a friend of mine—veter
inarian. He’s the only doctor I
know who can make a diagnosis
without asking questioons.”
Football as we now have the
game was originally introduced
into American colleges by Harvard
University.
—-1
^HERE'S A BUILDING FULL
OF FELLOWS OVER YONDER.
WHO ARE WORKING ON THE
THEORY THIS COUNTRY \S
GOING TO BE flooded
WITH SUNSHINE THIS YEAR.
•*’ IT'S AN AWNING FACTORY
ON THE GASOLINE CIRCUIT-by A. B. Chapin
|g? the depths of Despair.
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AWD THE GAWG HAP LEPT HIM PLAT,
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THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
(Continued from page 1)
relief requirements, which he said
would run from one billion to three
billions, and he made no allowance
for the Bonus payments, which no
body in Washington doubts that
Congress will authorize speedily.
Mr. Roosevelt’s speech to the
Congress on Friday eevning, Janu
ary 3, which was broadcast all over
the world, is held to have been the
opening gun of the 1936 Presiden
tial campaigp ,as well as a notice to
the rest of the world that they need
not count on any help from Uncle
Sam if they start another war.
The neutrality issues is very much
to the fore on Capitol Hill.
If Senator Nye of North Dakotta
has his way—and that seems likely
—the Administration of whatever
party that happens to be in power
when and if the expected European
war breaks out, will have no leeway
whatever. It must stop all exports
of anything but food and medical
supplies to any belligerent nation,
and keep American ships off any
part of the high seas where warring
nations warn them off.
On the theory that the United
States was drawn into the last war
oy the machinations of international
bankers, .the Senate Committee is
to investigate the whole subject of
munitions of war. It has summon
ed all the partners in J. P. Morgan
& Company to appear for question
ing.
POLITICAL GOSSIP
The latest purely political gossip
fearing on this year’s Presidential
campaign is the suggestion that the
conservative Democrats may put a
third-party ticket into the field for
the purpose of slicing off a lot of
President Roosevelt’s support
among the rock-ribed artisans of
his own party who nevertheless
don’t like the Ne* Deal. If they
could induce Al Smith to head up
such a ticket, some of the smart
ones here think, the scheme might
work. Mr. Smith is to speak in
Washington on January 2 5 under
the auspices of the American Liber
ty League. He is expected to ex
press himself very vigorously, but
whether anything will come of the
idea of having him head a third
ticket is rather doubtful.
Third-party talk at the opposite
extreme is also heard in many cir
cles. The Townsend threat of a
radical third-party movement with
old age pensions for everybody as
its main plank is beginning to be
taken more seriously. It is far too
early to be definite about its pros
pects of getting anywhere.
It is hardly necessary to add that
the Republican leaders are watching
with great interest, if not actually
encouraging, both of these potential
third-party movements. And
numerous leading Republicans were
observed to be giving three rousing
cheers when the ^news of the Su
preme Court decisions came down.
Again, however, it is too early to
estimate what effect that may have
on Mr. Roosevelt’s chances for
re-election. j
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■WOMf‘fACTS
=========== 4y BAR BARA nAiv =====
iroiessionals keep out. It you
are clever with your needle this isn’t
for you. I speak for the woman
who makes her own clothes but
wishes they did not have that home
made look. I know. I’ve spent
more hours ripping than sewing.
Jot down these items in memory’s
reticule.
Pre-shrunk all wool materials be
fore cutting. A tailor will do this
for you. Or you can do it yourself.
Roll the material sandwich fashion,
in a heavy damp cloth wrung dry.
Leave twelve hours, unroll and let
the material dry in a free circula
tion of air. . . .Use more pins than
you think you’ll need, to pin the
pattern to the material. . . . Cut
with bold strokes and a large shears
for an even edge. . . . Baste double
folds of material, as well as all
seams. You can’t do too much
basting. . . . Press every seam re
ligiously as you construct the dress.
Press particularly, all joining seams.
And press again when the garment
is finished.
Therein lies the reason behind the
well-tailored look. But remember,
pressing means, with pressure. Iron
ing implies a stroking motion with
consequent stretch and pull to the
seams. Most pattern directions
haven’t the space to emphasize these
points. So be fore-warned and put
these hints into practice next time
you make a dress. Careful sewing
has its own reward this side of
heaven.
Hard to fit yet you prefer to buy
your clothes ready made, seek out
dresses that come in half sizes.
These usually require no alterations.
They have been designed to take
c*re of the very short, or taller than
average, for the broad of beam, or
the deep full-bust with proportion
ately narrow hips.
Low-cost menu hint. The lowly
ground clove enlivens bean or onion
soup, fish, hamburg, French salad
dressing and cole slaw. Try it. A
fourth pound of salt pork, chopped
fine and fried to a crisp, lends
savorin^ss to the meatless dish.
Add it to baked kidney beans, spag
hetti and tomato, rice and tomato
loaf, hot muffins and vegetable
hash.
j A chemical engineer told me this
one. Paint your radiators with
bronze or other metallic paints and
you cut off as much as twenty per
cent of the heat. Enamel paints dc
not have the same powers of heat
absorption and consequently make
that ton of coal go further.
Cole or Cold Slaw. Which will
you have? Exponents of the "cold”
nomenclature claim "Kold Skaal”
meaning "cold bowl” in Danish, as
reason for the term. Adherents to
the Dutch school interpret the dish
as "cabbage salad” from the Dutch
"kool” pronounced cole, meaning
cabbage, and the colloquial term
"sla” meaning salad. We like it
either way.
There’s a new cleaning fluid that
is fireproof, leaves no odor, and re
moves, besides the usuals (grease
and its allies) tar and chewing gum
Excellent, we’ve heard, for ridding
the car of tar and oil.
j Paprika is found to be a good
source of Vitamin C. Now there is
'every excuse to crown your scal
i loped potatoes, baked squash, salads,
i fish and meat dishes, with a scarlet
halo of Vitamin C potent paprika.
A shoe fashion research organi
zation predicts flat heels around the
clock. It is true that the smartest
women are wearing flat heels morn
ing and evening. Strangely enough
it was a man who was responsible
for the first vogue in high heels.
Louis XIV, chagrined by his less
than average stature ordered all his
shoes to be made with high heels—
to impress the Court.
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