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E. Spencer-2,0£8
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FRIADAY, JANUARY 31, 1936
HAIL AND FAREWELL
The King is dead; long live the
King,
The passing of King George V.
of England is sincerely mourned by
all peoples. He was a great stab
ilizing force in a disturbed world.
As a man, he commanded the res
pect and admiration of everybody.
We in America have had a closer
view of royalty in his person,
through the motion pictures and
radio broadcasts, than we have ever
had before. And what we saw
and heard of him, we liked.
/vmencans ieei, tou, uiai nicy
know the new King of Great Brit
ain, Emperor of India, etc., etc.,
His Majesty Edward VIII. He has
4 visited us several times, and made
2 splendid impression whereever he
. went. To this young man, trained
though he has been for the high
position to which he has succeeded,
the task ahead of him is no easy one.
He comes to the throne of the
greatest Empire the world has ever
known, in a time when the relations
between nations are under such
strain as has never been felt since
the World War.
Edward VIII has had thrust upon
him the job not only of preserving
the British Empire, but in no small
degree that of preserving the peace
of the world. * Every American
must wish him success in both
tasks; for an important part of his
realm is our own nearest neighbor,
Canada. Also, perhaps, our
greatest national concern today is
peace.
KIPLING IN AMERICA
The cables report that Rudyard
Kipling, who died the other day at
the age of 70, left an estate esti
mated at nearly $4,000,000.
Every dollar of it he earned by his
writing, and the greater part of it
came from the American readers of
his poems, stories and novels. And
that is as it should be, because
Kipling had a love and admiration
for this country such as no othet
Britsh writer has ever expressed,
He knew and understood America.
His “American Notes,” written
back to his newspaper in India when
he was a young man looking for a
newspaper job in this country,
breath a spirit of understanding of
this country in every line.
"Oh, be good to an American
whereever you meet him,” he ad
jured his readers back in India. He
married an American girl, built
himself a home in the Vermont
hills and would have become an
American citizen but for an un
fortunate lawsuit begun by his bro
ther-in-law over the title to a few
acres of land, which disgusted
him with that particular kind of
Americanism.
Everybody is more or less fami
liar with Kipling’s poem "If,” but
few realize that the ideal man who
inspired it was George Washington.
No writer of modern times has
written so much quotable stuff as
did Kipling. One hundred years
from now the lovers of stirring
poetry and penetrating prose will be
reading Kipling.
TODAY AND I
TOMORROW
—BY—
Frank Parker Stockbridge
POLITICS.newspapers
It is just forty years since I began
as a young reporter to "cover” na
tional politics. In 1896 I spent half
the Summer on Major McKinley’s
front porch at Canton, Ohio, and
the other half traveling around with
William J. Bryan on his special
trains. That was the first time a
Presidential candidate had ever at
tempted to talk to all the voters. *
Political campaigning has taken
on an entirely new aspect since
radio broadcasting was first used in
the campaign of 1920. This year
it looks to me as if it would be a
battle of radio voices between Mr.
Roosevelt and whomever the Re
publicans may nominate. It will
be an interesting show. Each can
didate will do his best to stir up
the emotions of his hearers. But in
1936, as in 1896, I think the result
will be determined by the sober ex
amination of the facts as they are
presented in the newspapers.
* * *
-•ARMING .... still problem
I can’t' remember a time when
there wasn’t a farm problem
pressing to the front in national
politics. George Washington faced
a serious farm problem when he was
President. The "Whiskey Rebel
lion” of 1791 was a protest of the
farmers in what was then the Wesc
against a Federal tax on whiskey.
The only way they could profitably
market their grain was by convert
ing it into whiskey. That was be
fore there were railroads or good
highways.
After observing a succession ot
farmers’ political movements for
farm relief all my lifetime, they all
seem to me to have a common root.
Farming at best is a hazardous oc
cupation. To succeed in it takes
a combination of natural talent,
high intelligence, intense industry
and great capacity for self denial.
Also, usually, more capital than
most beginning farmers can com
mand.
In other words, farmers are just
about like the rest of us.
CABBAGES .... lose character
Agricultural experimenters at
Cornell University have developed
an odorless cabbage. I am still un
decided as to whether that is an
advantage or not. The senses of
smell and of taste are so closely
tied together that I would have to
eat a dish of the smelless cabbage
before I could be sure that it would
taste as good as the old-fashioned
kind.
I think most of the objection to
the odor of cabbage comes from
housewives who don’t like the way
it smells up the house.
Most people cook cabbage too
long, anyway. My wife pulls the
leaves apart and throws them into
boiling water for 20 minutes. Try
that way sometime.
WATT his engine
Everybody that uses electric light
pays for it by the watt—so much
per 1,000 watts—kiloowatts—per
hour. But the name "Watt” comes
from a man who never dreamed of
electric light. He was James Watt,
inventor of the modern steam
engine, who was born just 200 years
ago.
In a real sense, however, James
Watt, the Scotch boy who put
steam to work, was the great grand
SOMETIMES IT is not a good ides
* * *
TO QUOTE maxims and platitude:
TO CHILDREN who are too wis<
t » *
TO INTERPRET them in the waj
WHICH YOU want them
INTERPRETED. FOR instance
* * *
A CERTAIN vistor in a local1
* * *
HOME LAST week handed a
NEPHEW A dollar bill as he was
LEAVING. , "NOW be careful
* * » i
WITH THAT money, Johnny,”
* * *
HE SAID. "Remember the saying,
* * *
A FOOL and his money are soon
* * *
PARED’.” JOHNNY looked at
* * *
HIS UNCLE a moment. “Yes,
* * *
UNCLE,” HE replied, "but I want
* * *
TO THANK you for parting with
IT, JUST the same.
* * *
I THANK YOU.
daddy of electric power; for you
could cover the world with electric
wires and get nothing out of them
if you didn’t nave an engine to turn
the dynamos.
James Watt’s steam engine
turned the world upside down. It
started the industrial revolution and
the machine age. It is at the root
jf all our modern social and eco
nomic problems. It is no wonder
that we have not yet learned the
answers to all of these problems, for
it is less than 200 years since the
seed of them was sown. That is a
very short time.
* * *
RAILROADS .... distribution
The railroads have scored another
point in the battle with motor
trucks for freight transportation.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion has at last authoried the roads
to operate their own freight pick
up and delivery systems. This re
moves one of their handicaps. One
reason why motor transportation of
freight has grown so rapidly is that
the truck can back up to your door
and take on a load, and deliver it
at the other end of the line, while
the shipper and consignee of rail
road freight have had to provide
their own truck service to and
from the railroad stations.
The new system should make for
faster and cheaper distribution of
commodities, and so help in solving
one of our chief economic and
social problems. One of the chief
reasons why everybody cannot have
plenty of everything, when farms
and factories can produce enough
for everybody, is the high cost and
lost motion in the process of dis
tribution to the consumer.
PICAYUNES
ALARMING
Mrs. Peck: "Henry, do you think
we are prepared for war?”
Henry- (in alarm': "Why? Is
your mother coming to visit us
again?”
ODORIFEROUS
Choir Leader: *,What is that
terrible smell on Mrs. Pink?”
Organist: "I understand her hus
band has a garden and he used her
-jpifume atomizer to jspr*ay Jhis
cucumber vines.”
POLITICIAN
Minister: "Do you promise to
love, honor and cherish this wom
an?”
Politician: "Yes. Whatever the
platform says, I subscribe to it.”
EXTINCT
Sunday School Teacher: "Now,
Clarence, can -you tell us what
became of the ark,”
Clarence: "The baby sucked all
the paint off’n Noah and Pa step
ped on the ark and smashed it.”
IN PERFECT HARMONY
The actress whose engagement
had just been announced was re
I ceivinj* the congratulations of her
friends.
One of them said to the radiant
girl "I hope you are going to be
very happy.”
The bride-to-be smiled. "Of
course I am. Robert adores me
and so do I.”
A LONG-FELT NEED
He was showing a friend around
; his ultra-modern house.
"There are lots of points about
: it that I like,” said the candid
friend, "and there are some that
"I do not understand. Why, for in
stance, the round hole in the front
door?”
"Oh, that’s for circular letters.”
HARD OF HEARING
A lecturer, addressng a meeting
on "The Duties of the Housewife,
remarked that it was the duty of
every woman to mother her hus
band. Wishing to see what im
pression this had made on his au
dience he asked all those to stand
up who were willing to mother
their better halves. Only one wom
an stood up.
"Ah,” he said "I am glad to see
there is at least one of you willing
to mother her husband.”
"Mother your husband?” cried
the woman, "I thougt you said
'smother your husband,.”
COMEBACK
"I want a shave,” said the dis
gruntled Sergeant as he climbed
into the barber’s chair. "No hair
cut, no shampoo, no rum, witch
hazel, hair tonic, hot towels or face
massage. I don’t want the man
icurist to hold my hand, nor the
bootblack to handle my feet. I
don’t want to be brushed off, and
I’ll put on my coat myself. I just
want a plain shave, with no trim
mings. Understand that?”
"Yes, sir,” said the barber quiet
liy. "Lather,- sir?”
encouragement
Her Father: "Has my daughter
ever offered you any encourage
ment?’*
Suitor: "Oh, yeas. She said that
if I married her she’d get you to
pay the rent for us.”
Horseback riding gives me a
headache?”
"Quite khe contrary with mg, old
deah> 1
Doctor (examining unconscious
motorman)—"Did that automobile
hit his car?”
Conductor—"No sir. You see
the driver stopped his auto to let
the car go by and the motorman
fainted.”
"Dorothy is getting a man’s
wages.”
"Yes, I heard she was married.”
Condemned man—"Warden, I’d
like a little exercise.”
Warden—"All right. What kind
of exercise do you want?”
Condemned man—"I’d like to
skip the rope.”
A gentleman upon being asked
to have a drink replied, "No, I
don’t want a drink for three rea
sons: First, because I promised my
mother not to drink; second, be
cause my doctor told me not to
drink; and third, because I just had
a drink.”
"When I said my prayers last
night didn’t you hear me ask God
to make me a good boy?”
"Yes, Tommy, I did.”
"Well he ain’t done it.
"It says the man was shot by
his wife at close range.”
"Then there must have been
powder marks on the body.”
"Yes; that’s why she shot him.”
1
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
(Continued from page One)
as a last resort.
DEADLOCK ON FARM BILL
Seemingly little progress has been
made toward a solution of the farm
problem. Serious doubts have been
raised as to whether an effective
method of putting mony into the
pcokets of the farmers can be
worked out under the soil conser
vation act of 193 5. Also, the con
stitutionality of that act is being
questioned in the Congressional
cloak-rooms. In any event, it
would have to be amended in its
bounty provisions, and nobody has
so far presented a specific list of
amendments which seem likely to
meet the approval either of Cong
ress or the Supreme Court.
One thing is becoming increas
ingly clear as the size of the deficit
and the growing vol ume of the na
tional debt are considered by seri
ous-minded statesmen on Capitol
Hill. That is that the long-talked
of "inflation” is seemingly close at
hand.
The tremendous volume of un
used bank credit, arising from the
increase of bank deposits based on
Government borrowing, is bound to
find an outlet before very long, or
so some of the financial experts of
the Administration believe.
Secretary Morgenthau and Chair
man Eccles of the Federal Reserve
Board recognize this danger. They
are using all the influence they can
exert to block plans for inflation of
the currency. It has been pointed
out, however ,that the effect of
credit, inflation on a huge scale
might easily be as serious as would
the printing of greenbacks.
Money is cheaper now than it has
ever been in America. That is just
another way of saying that all
commodity prices are headed still
upward.
Very hopeful utterances are
heard here and there seem to be
pretty definite indications, that a
real movement for home building
on the greatest scale ever dreamed,
of is beginning, with funds supplied
by private capital under Govern
ment guarantees of the safety of
mortgage investments.
» * *
BONUS MONEY INTO HOMES
If this building movement were
once well started, the Administra
tion’s housing advisors believe, it
would absorb in the building and
building supply industries such a
high percentage of the unemployed
workers as to reduce the burden of
relief to a minimum.
The man who has his wealth in
real estate or other non-perishable
commodities instead of in cash or
bank credits, when an inflation
movement gets into full swing, has
usually proved to be better off than
the neighbor who did not see it
coming.
Strength is given to the belief in
a coming building boom by the re
port of the American Legion that
more than a quarter of the bonus
money will be spent by Legionnaires
for homes. That is the result of a
questionnaire recently sent out.
The spending of the rest of the
bonus distribution would be in the
payment of bills and old debts, the
purchase of life insurance, automo
biles, clothing, home equipment
and house furnishings. It might
prove to be a quick and powerful
stimulus to retail trade all over the
country.
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