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POPULATION DATA
(1930 Census)
Salisbury -16,951
Spencer -3,128
E, Spencer-2,0?8
China Grove-1,258
Landis -1,388
Rockwell- 696
Granite Quarry- 507
Cleveland- 43 5
Faith _ 431
Gold Hill _:- 156
(Population Rowan Co. 56,665)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1936
PROPAGANDA
We hear more and more about
"propaganda.” The word has
come to have a sinster implication.
It is loosely applied to any effort of
any kind to influence public opin
ion. To those who don’t agree
with the point of view of the pro
pagandist his efforts are vicious and
should be suppressed. To those
who do agree with his opinion he is
a praiseworthy apostle of a highly
laudable doctrine.
There never has been a' time and
there never will be a time when in
dividuals groups and organizations
holding certain things to be true
will not attempt to convince others
of their truth. The very word
"propaganda” was first used to
describe the efforts of the Christian
chu ch to spread—that is to propa
gate—the doctrines of Christanity.
Doubtless there are atheists and
others who consider even that noble
purpose an entirely vicious one.
And beyond doubt a great deal of
propaganda has been carried on in
recent years for entirely selfish and
often sordid purposes.
Propaganda in the real sense is
an effort to educate. There can
be no honest quarrel with the desire
of anyone to convert others to his
way of thinking. The real quarrel
with propaganda arises from the
subtle and underhand methods
which are too often used. Propa
ganda conducted in the open with
the motives and purposes behind it
clearly disclsoed is a sound and
legitimate method. It is only
when the identity and motives of
the propagandists are concealed
that it becomes dangerous.
WHERE AMERICA STANDS
These are exciting days. Not in
many years have the minds and
tongues of so many Americans been
busy in the consideration and dis
cussion of public affairs. And at
no time in recent history have there
been such wide divergences of opin
ion as to what is the best course for
the nation to pursue.
From now until the Piesidential
election in November these differ
ences of opinion will become more
acute and their expression more
heated. We shall hear public men
and party measures both fulsomely
praised beyond their deserts and de
nounced in terms of unsparing cri
ticism. A great deal of the langu
age that will be spilled in print,
over the radio and in face-to-face
controversies will be the product of
emotion rather than of reason.
That is always the case when pub
lic opinon is aroused.- But it would
be beyond the facts to conclude
that the sober processes of self
government are always the products
of emotional reactions.
In the long run the underlying
sound commonsense of the people
always decides the important issues
in a democracy likesaours. But. de
mocracy arrives at its own conclus
ions through the wholesome pro
cesses of debate and discussion,
however emotional.
There are no signs on the horizon
to justify the alarm which we hear
expressed in many quarters. Those
who feel that we are on the verge
of a revolution, that there is grave
C/'n"'rnonism on
one nano o. a as^i-rn -..j ^ -1 e r
may supplant our traditional and
well-fried system of representative
government have not learned the
lessons of history. The United
States is the oldest government in
the world that has continued un
changed in form or principle. In
our 147 years of Constitutional
Government we have come through
far more serious crises than any
which confront us now.
We have prospered as no other
nation in the world has ever pros
pered. We have achieved a meas
ure of individual liberty unparall
eled in the history of mankind. We
are not going to sacrifice our lib
erties or imperil our prosperity by
yielding to the passions and emo
tions of the moment.
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
— BY—
Frank Parker Stockbridgf.
PENSIONS .... ALL HANDS
The people of the United States
seem to me to have been infected
with the pension- craze as I have
not seen them since the 1890’s.
Even then, nobody thought of pen
sions for anybody but veterans of
the Civil War. Now the American
Legiorf comes out for pensions for
soldiers’ widows, and the Veterans
of Foreign Wars is advocating pen
sions for all veterans, and on top of
that, Dr. Townsend and his fol
lowers would pension: everybody
over 60 years old, while almost
every class of public servant, from
school teachers and policemen to
governors, are nawadays being
pensioned at public expense.
It is an understandable human
desire to live comforaably in old
age without working. But I have
never been able to convince myself]
that it is society’s duty to provide
anything beyond decent subsist
ence for the indigent aged.
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THRIFT .... BEST PENSIONS
I have not seen in any of the
projects for supporting old peo
ple at public expense anything that
does as much for them as every
man can do for himself, if he wills.
Even the contributory old age ben
efit plan of the Social Security Act
does not provide for as large old
age annunties as the ordinary man
could buy for himself from any in
surance company, if he would pay
out of his Wages the same percent
age that the government now pro
poses to take from his in old age
taxes.
I am reminded of Bob Davidson,
an Albany newspaper man who1
died only a few years ago. Bob]
never earned more than $28 a weekj
in his life but when he died, after]
40 years of work, he left an estate
of $100,000. He had the quali-j
ties of thrift and self-denial, which
are so repugnant to the folk who
are now loudly demanding old age
pensions winch they have done
nothing to earn.
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CONSTITUTION . . CHANGE
The latest decisons of the Su
preme Court holding that Con
gress had exceeded its delegated
powers in undertaking to regulate
business and agriculture have re
vived talk of amending the Con
stitution. Half a dozen amend
ments have been proposed to give
the Federal Government broader!
powers than it has yet been grant-1
ed by the states.
No good American can quarrel j
with the idea of amending the Con-j
stitution. We have done it a good
many times and doubtless will do it
many more times in the future.
The Constitution itself provides
three ways for its own amendment. |
The only thing it doesn’t provide
for is amendment in a hurry. And
that, it seems to me, is very wise. J
Whatever party is in control at
Washington would always like to
have more power. But it can’t get it
without giving all the people and
a_ll the states plenty of time to think
it over.
I am not worried a bit about the
Constitution.
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HAMILTON . . . influence'
Every time I pass Trintiy
Churchyard, in New York, I pause’
to look at the tomb of Alexander:
Hamilton, who died when he wasj
only 47 years old. I believe no man
in our history has exerted such a:
strong and enduring influenc. I
was impressed anew with that be-1
lief when I read the two opposing
opinions of the Supreme Court in1
the AAA case.
It was Alexander Hamilton who:
first put forward and maintaned the
view that the taxing power of Con
gress under the "General Welfare”!
clause of the Constitution was un
limited. That vie’tv was Trljcerb
WE ARE not going to say where
THIS LITTLE incident happened,
* * *
BUT YOU Know it could have
* * *
HAPPENED RIGHT here in
SALISBURY. IF you will make
* * *
A FEW investigations you will
» * *■
FIND THAT perhaps it did happen
HERE. ANYWAY your guess is
AS GOOD as ours. The
DEPENDANT HAD been found
* * *
GUILTY BY the jury, and he
* * *
HAD MADE a direct appeal to
THE JUDGE. "And why should
* * *
I BE lenient with you?” asked the
JURIST ON* the bench. "Well,”
* * *
SAID THE guilty one cautiously,
* * *
"IT’s MY Lawyer’s first case.”
I THANK YOU.
contested by Jefferson and Madison,
but every one of the nine justices of
the Supreme Court unheld Hamil
ton, although they did not all agree
on the AAA case on other points
at issue.
There is hardly a phase of our
national development that has not
followed along the lines and princi
ples first laid down by Alexander
Hamilton—who died at 47.
MONEY . *. * . , evil
J. P. Morgan proved himself the
other day a better student of the
Bible than his partner, Thomas W.
Lamont, who is a minister’s son.
Mr. Lamont remarked before the
Senate Committee on Foreign Af
fairs that "The Bible says money
is the root of all evil.” Mr. Morgan
correrted him. "It is the love of
money that is the root of all evil,
according to the Bible,” he said.
Nine people out of ten misquote
St. Paul who never expressed any
hatred of money as such, but was
everlastinglyy right when he said
that the love of money is the root
of all evil. Those who love money
for its own sake and not for the
good it enables them to do are the
real enemies of the people. But
money itself can be and often is a
tremendous power for good in the
hands of possessor who is imbued
with the Christian spirit of service
to mankind.
Money is no more evil than any
other inanimate thing. It is only its
human owner who is evil.
FAST PLANE TESTED
Miami, Fla.—A (Fairchild)
single-motored monoplane, said by
Pan American airways to be the
fastest amphibian in the world ar
rived here for test flights before
assignment to the "jungle run.”
is from Belem, Brazil, to Manaos,
800 miles up the Amazon.
The last volcano in the United
States, Mt. Lassen, will not erupt
again, according to scientists; its
last eruption was in 1914.
rHE DOCTORS
ARERIGHT
Women should take only
liquid laxatives
4any believe any laxative they
night take only makes constipation
?orse. And that isn’t true.
Do what doctors do to relieve
his condition. They use a liquid
THREE STEPS
A cleansing dose today; a smaller
quantity tomorrow; less each time,
, until bowels need no help at alL
axative, and keep reducing the
lose until the bowels need no help
at all.
Reduced dosage is the secret of
aiding Nature in restoring regularity.
You must use a little less laxative
each time, and that’s why your laxa
tive should be in liquid form. A liquid
dose can be regulated to the drop.
The liquid laxative generally used
b Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. It
contains senna and cascara — both
natural laxatives that form no habit
even with children. Syrup Pepsin is
the nicest tasting, nicest acting laxa
tive you ever tried.
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
(Continued from page 1)
before. Mosj of the union labor
groups, some of the farmers’ or
ganizations, a very large proportion
of the radical element, and the ad
vocates of economic planning by the
Government, are expected to back
one of the proposals for amendment,
in the hope that the present session
of Congress may submit them to the
states. How far this movement*
will get at this session is rather
doubtful. There is no desire on the
part of the Administration to make:
the Constitution an issue in the'
coming campaign. Certainly the!
President is not likely to advocate'
Constitutional changes before elec-j
tion, which would tend to break
down the rights of the stare.
REVENUES WANTED
The killing off of the processing
taxes knocked a big hole in the
Treasury budget estimates. These
had been counted on for more than
$5 00,000,000 of revenue. It looks
as though the Government would
have to pay at least that amount
to farmierp under existing con
tracts, so some new way must be
found to raise money for this pur
pose. Also to pay the bonus. Un
der any of the bonus plans that are
now under consideration at least
a billion dollars of cash will be re
quired.
Seemingly, the only answer to
this situation is more tax revenues,
which may take the form of upping
the income taxes and extending
them further down the economic
line, or the imposition of a general
manufacturers sales tax. The lat
ter plan is not believed to be pop
ular, with the voters, because it
makes the ordinary man tax con
scious. But the idea is being reviv
ed on Capitol Hill and it may
shortly be taken seriously.
BORAH BACKS VANDENBERG
Political interest still centers on
the question of whom the Republi
cans will nominate. Recent devel
opments indicate^ that Senator Bo
rah is really working for the nom
ination of Senator Arthur Vanden
berg. Borah does not want or ex
pect the nomination himself but
he wants to control enough dele
gates so that, he can dictate the
nomination of Vandenberg. The
influence of former President
Hoover, it is believed, will be
thrown to whichever candidate he
thinks is best equiped to put up
a vigorous knock-down-and-drag
out fight with President Roose
velt. Governor Landon, it is being
said here, has not so far dem
onstrated his fifhting spirit and
ability.
Those who hold that the coming
campaign will be a batle of person
alities regard Frank Knox of Chi
cago and Senator Dickinson of
Iowa as the two best-equipped
scrappers now in sight.
Route One Items
Herbert and Earl Lyerly visited
G. R. Fink recently.
Horace Shaver has been working
in Woodleaf.
Shaver and Hutchins spent
Thursday nite with George Dean.
Frank Rex of Salisbury spent
Thursday night with N. C. Shaver.
The Rawleigh salesman canvass
ed this vicinity during the week.
W. B. Myers and O. T. Nesbit
motored to Mocksville on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Morgan and
children visited Mr. and Mrs. T. S.
Thompson the afternoon of the
nineteenth.
Dorothy, the little daughter of
John Pouflas is sick.
HUNT MISSING AIRLINER
Marseille, France—Planes and
ships joined in a search for a Mar
seille-Tunis airliner with six aboard
which vanished off the coast of
Corsica after radioing for help.
Many a Friend Recommends
BLACK-DRAUGHT
People who have taken
Black-Draught naturally are
enthusiastic about it because
of the refreshing relief it has
brought them. No wonder
they urge others to try it! ...
Mrs. Joe G. Roberts, of Portersville,
Ala., writes: “A friend,recommended
Black-Draught to me a long time
ago£ and it has proved its worth to
me. Black-Draught is good for
constipation. I find that taking
Black-Draught prevents the bilious
headaches which I used to have.” ...
A purely vegetable niedicine for the
relief of
CONSTIPATION, biliousness
Policemen Are Called
Upon To Rout Snorous
Snorer From Under House
Dunn—Empie Hall, Dunn busi
ness man didn’t know whether to
be afraid .frightened or scared one
night when sitting beside his com
fortable fireside, he heard loud
yawnings and snores coming from
under the house beneath the living
room.
He listened. Evidently some
drunk—or maybe a fugitive from
justice—had crawled undei; the
house to get out of the rain and
cold and snuggling up beside the
warm chimney base, had gone to
sleep.
Mr. Hall thought and thought
hard. Finally he got down his
double-barrel gun, shoved in a
couple of buckshot shells and sallied
forth. But another thought struck
him. What if the man proved des
parate and had a gun himself? He
called the police.
Patrolmen Broughton, Pearce and
Smith, who represent exactly two
thirds nf Dunn’s nnlirp f nrrp rp
sponded. They held a hurried con
ference with Mr. Hall, all the while
listening to the snorous snores un
der the house. Getting out their
artillery, blackjacks and flashlights
they deployed figuring on making
a mass attack on the intruder.
"Who knows” they reasoned, "it
might be another Dwight Beard”
and they weren’t taking any
chances.
Creeping up with the chimney
between them and the snorer, they
yelled in unison: "Come out with
your hands up and no funny busi
ness.” But the snores grew louder.
Finally, since something had to be
done, they threw heads and tails
to see which one would go under
the house and drag out the desper
ado. Patrolman Broughton lost but
was game to the core. Pistol in one
hand and flashlight in the other, he
crawled under the house and edg
ing around the chimney camman
ded: "I give you, put ’em up and
come on out.” The sleeper awoke,
gave a long gapping yawn and
followed the officer to the open
where Pearce and Smith stood with
drawn automatics and blackjalks
—the snorer was a mangy yellow
dog. No arrest was made but the
coppers gave Mr. Hall some rath
er insinuating looks.
Trench Silos Increase
Winter Milk
Production
X
Over 500 farmers sold three mil
lion pounds of milk to the cheese
factory at W“st Jefferson to be
processed into 250,000 pounds of
fine cheese says F. R. Farnham,
dairy extension specialist at State
College. This is the largest volume
of milk delivered to the factory
since it was established in 1929 and
the cheese production was upped
40 per cent over 1934.
Farnham says the income from
milk was increased 60 percent for
the winter and much of this is due
to the construction of trench silos
throughout the area during the
past year or two.
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Lady’s Painful Trouble
Helped By Cardui
■
Why do so many women take Car
dui for the relief of functional pains
at monthly times? The answer is
that they want results such as Mrs.
Herbert W. Hunt, of Hallsville, Texas,
describes. She writes: “My health
wasn’t good. I suffered from cramp
ing. My pain would be so Intense it
would nauseate me. I would Just
drag around, so sluggish and ‘do
less.’ My mother decided to give me
Cardui. I began to mend. That tired,
sluggish feeling was gone and the
pains disappeared. I can’t praise
Cardui too highly because I know
It helped me.” ... If Cardui dees not
help YOU, consult a physician.
NEW HIT-RUN TRICK
Lansing, Mich.—Something new
in hit-and-run cases—a driver who
picked up his victim solicitiously
as witnesses watched, drove him
away from the scene of the acci
dent, then threw him out of the
car—was reported to police by
Frank Drake, 63, who said he was
the victim.
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