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POPULATION DATA
(1930 Census)
Salisbury _16,951
Spencer _3,128
E. Spencer_2,098
China Grove_1,2^5
Landis -1,388
Rockwell_ 696
Granite Quarry_ 507
Cleveland_ 43 5
Faitli - 431
Gold Hill _ 156
(Population Rowan Co. 56,665)
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1936
ANOTHER TERROR
ELIMINATED
In the old days, before the dis
covery of anesthetics, dentists’
chairs used to be equipped with
straps to keep the patient from
leaping out of the window when
the dentists instrument struck a
nerve. Folks didn’t bother much
with filing, in those good old days.
If a tooth ached it was pulled out,
and the best dentist was the one
who had the strongest fingers.
Teeth that couldn’t be pulled by
the fingers, were knocked out with
: a mallet and chisel!
Seeking a way to make dentistry
less painful, an American dentist
named Horace Wells discovered, in
1844, that nitrous oxide, which
used to be called “laughing gas,”
would render a person unconscious
of pain—and everything else—for
long enough to extract the most
resistant molar. That was a great
stride forward in human know
el edge; and an even longer step was
taken two years later by another
American dentist, Dr. W. T. G.
Morton, who discovered the ane
sthetic properties of ether in 1846.
For the first time in history,
major surgical operations could be
performed without pain to the pa
tient. Previously surgeons either
had to knock their patients uncon
scious by hitting them on the head,
or strap them to the operating table
and let them scream.
Now the dental profession has
once more added to the world’s
knowledge and its comfort by the
discovery of a compound which,
applied to a tooth, renders it in
sensitive to the pain of the dentist’s
drill. Dr. LeRoy L. Hartman, pro
fessor of dentistry in Columbia
University, produced the formula
after 20 years of research, and in
stead of patenting it has given it
freely to the world. Thousands of
dentists began to use the new
"Hartman’s Solution”—which any
pharmacist can make—on the day
the formula was published, and
yrjoile it still does not make a visit
CONSTITUTION AND THE
COURT
It is interesting, in view of the
general discussion of the recent de
cisions of the Supreme Court de
claring certain acts of Congress un
onstitutional, to look at the rec
all of the nation’s history,
Durt has passed on
irhich had been
beyond the
kder the Con
^eld Congress
jivolving 62
sorts in his
United States News.
In the first 72 years of the Re
public, down to President Lincoln’s
administration, only three Acts of
Congress were held invalid by the
Supreme Court. The two Grant
Administrations hold the record so
far, 14 of their laws having been
reversed. In the two administra
tions of Woodrow Wilson twelve
laws were passed by the Congress
which failed to meet the constitu
tional test. In Mr. McKinely’s ad
ministration there were six, in those
of Lincon and of Theodore Roose
velt, five each, in the Johnson,
Harding and Coolidge administra
tions four each, and the same num
ber in the two Cleveland adminis
trations, while acts of the Taft re
gime were reversed in three in
stances, and one of those enacted
when Benjamin Harrison was Presi
dent met a like fate. The record
of the present administration of re
versals of its acts on constitutional
grounds is ten.
On the whole, the record of the
Supreme Court throughout its his
tory, in sustaining the Congress in
more than 24,000 cases in which
the power of the Legislative arm of
Government was challenged, and
overruling it in only one case out
of every 3 S 0, does not seem to fur
nish very solid ground on which to
demand either the abolition of the
Judicial branch of our system, or
the imposition of restrictions upon
it. 1
Recent events have focused pub- .
lie attention upon the structure of
the Federal Government as one of <
deelgated powers, which may not
be overstepped without further au- <
thority from the states and the peo
ple. The right of the people to ^
change the system and the precise
means whereby that may be done
are set forth in the Constitution ]
itself.
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TODAY AND 11
TOMORROW ;
1 Frank Parker Stockbripge *
PARDON .... for Roger <
In my home state of Massachu- <
setts, Justice may sometimes move ;
sloyly, but wrongs are usually ]
righted in the course of time. For c
instance, the Great and General i
Court of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts has just pardoned ^
Roger Williams, after 30 years! j
Williams’ offense was that he i
held and taught in his church school
at Salem such subversive doctrines '
as that the civil power could not
control a man’s conscience, and that <
the Indians be paid for lands. ,
For such teachings he was sen- ,
tenced to banishment from the
colony. Pie escaped deportation to
the West Indies by fleeing with
some friends, in 1636, across the
border to a pleasant spot at the
head of Narragansett Bay, where .
he bought some land.
That was the beginning of the !
state now named "Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations,” which is
celebrating its 300th anniversary
this year. And when the tricen- ,
tenary committee discovered that
Roger Williams was still under sen
tence of banishment, an appeal was
made to the Masachusetts authori
ties, who formally recorded that
Williams was at last pardoned for
his crimes.
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WEASELS .... and cats
Nothing can happen anywhere
without affecting somebody some
where else. King George V. died
Unless careless motorists
*END THEIR WAYS IT IS
ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
UNTIL THEY'LL 6£ TRADIN'
THEIR HORNS FOR HARRS.
WE ARE not going to mention
s . * * *
THE NAME of this local citizen
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OF SOME prominence, but we
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HAVE A feeling that perhaps you
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WILL GUESS his name right
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QUICK. HE was on his way to
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VISIT A friend in one of the
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LARGER CITIES, and he was
EXPECTING THE friend’s
CHAUFFEUR TO meet him at
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THE STATION. After waiting
SEVERAL MINUTES, the
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“HAUEFFER DID approach and
MAKE FflMSELF KNOWN. Our
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LOCAL CITIZEN began to
BERATE THE chaueffer. "Well,
[ THOUGHT you wern’t coming
ro MEET me,” he said. "Didn’t
if OUR BOSS tell you how to
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RECOGNIZE ME?” The chauffeur
TESITATED* "YES*” he said
LAUTIOUSLY. "BUT there were
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SEVERAL GENTLEMEN with
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ARGE STOMACHS and red
'JOSES GETTING off the train.”
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THANK YOU.
he other day and the royalty and
iobility of Europe will have to at
end the coronation of King Ed
ward VIII next year. If you’re in
hat class, you’ve got to wear an
rmine robe or cape or they won’t
Ct you in. Fur-dealers are now
couring the world for ermine furs.
The ermine is nothing but the
irdinary weasel in his white winter
oat. It takes 110 ermine skins for
:n ordinary cape. So up in the
Northwest the fur buyers are bid
ing up these winter weasel furs and
he trappers are reaping a harvest.
If you’ve got a white kitten that
ou’re fond of, keep it indoors until
11 those coronation robes have been
nade.
'BEEN” .... you’re right
I have heard folk deride the great
Quaker poet, John G. Whittier, as
incouth and uncultured because he
vrote in "Maud Muller” these lines:
"Of ali sad words of tongue
or pen
The saddest are these: 'It
might have been.’ ”
Probably Whittier never heard
inyone in his New England home
pronounce "been” in any other way
han to rhyme with "pen”. That
vas the way I always heard it
'Down East,” except that my
nother, who was raised in York
itate, said "bin.” But when I went
:o High School in Washington, I
earned to pronounce it "bean.”
It must have been a rude shock
to the purists and pedants who
chink that good English is spoken
pnly in England, when Dr. A.
Floyd James, professor of phonetics
n the University of London, ar
rived in New York the other day
md remarked that "bin” is just as
permissible as "bean,” and that all
>ur other "Americanisms,” so long
is they are intelligible, are as good
inglish as the King’s English itself.
1
Tiends, or
icular sect of
mown as
he spiritual
cendants of
ounded their
The Aga Khan, a
British Empire and an
portsman, is a direct
>f Fatima, daughter of the Proph
et. So every faithful Ismailian pays
wo percent of his income to the
Vga Khan.
The other day he celebrated the
iftieth year of his ascension to
smailian leadership by standing in
ine pan of a pair of scales while his i
followers piled gold into the other
pan until the scales balanced. His
weight in gold was 152 pounds,
worth around $125,000, which he
gave to charity.
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NATIONALISM_the trend
From all I can learn, from friends
who keep in touch with Europe, the
nations that have been trying to
run on the principle of buying
nothing from other nations are hav
ing a hard time of it.
I hear that the German people
are hard put to it for food and
clothing and are getting restive un
der the Hitler dictatorship. From
Italy, I get similar reports of inter
national unrest and a strong move
ment to restore to the King the
power which Mussolini now wields.
France, Holland and Switzerland
are having trouble in maintaining
their currencies on the gold stand
ard.
When the present national bar
riers break, I look to see some new
international combinations that will
put it up to America to take a
larger part in world affairs or get
run over.
PICAYUNES
WHEN DAD WAS A BOY
Jim: "My dad must have been
into all sorts of mischief when he
was a boy.”
Sam: “What makes you think
so?”
Jim: "He knows exactly what
questions to ask me when he wants
to find out what I’ve been doing.”
OBVIOUSLY
"My poor husband was a won
derful artist,” sighed the landlady
ts she hacked at the pie crust,
"and always said he found inspira
tion in my cooking.”
"A sculptor, I presume,” said
the gloomy boarder, surveying his
bent fork.
PERCY KNEW
Teacher: "How many bones
lave you in your body, Percy?”
Percy: “About 25,000.”
Teacher: “That’s impossible,
Percy.”
Percy: "No; it’s the truth. I
ite sardines for lunch.”
UNDECIDED
1st Moth: "The weather man ;
;ays the weather is going to be
thangeable.” :
2nd Moth: "Yes. I don’t know 1
whether to get a spring coat or a <
winter coat.” i
iND WAS IN SIGHT i
Customer: "You said the alliga- •
:or I bought from you would live
!0 years and it died before I had (
t a week.” ]
Dealer: "Now wasn’t that too <
>ad? The 200 years must have
aeen up.” <
[UST LIKE A MAN \
Mother-in-law: "How does your (
lusband account for the high cost -
if living?”
Bride: "He just blames it on
me.”
SOOD PRESCRIPTION
Nadine: "Doctor, don’t you think
[ look terribly pale?”
Doctor: "Yes, I do.”
Nadine: "What would you advise
me to do?”
Doctor: "Wipe some of the pow
Jer off your face.”
PRACTICE
Izzy: "I’m thinking of becoming
a debt collector. What do you
think of the idea?”
Moe: "It’s a good idea. All you
need is practice. You lend me $S
and I’ll let you practice on me for
nothing.”
WHERE HE GETS IT
Professor (to mother of fresh
man) : "Your son has a great thirst
for knowledge. Where does he get
it?”
Mother: "He gets the knowledge
from me and the thirst from his
Lady Took Cardui
. When Weak, Narrow
"1 can't say enough for Cardui If
: fadWH all day," enthusiastically
father.” ....".
ALL THERE
Mother: “Anyway that child
doesn’t get his temper from me.”
Father: "I’ll say not. There’s
none of yours missing.”
ANCESTORS
Mamoulean: "We in this genera
tion know more than our parents
did, and our parents knew more
than their parents did.”
Simolean: "Maybe that’s true—
but I hate to think what fools your
grandparents must have been.”
A DAY LOST
Rosie was just home after her
first day at school.
"Well, darling,” asked her fond
monther, "what did you learn?”
"Not much,” replied the child.
"I’ve got to go again.”
Magnolia—‘When Opaline syent
and got married us girls done give
her a shower.”
Pansy—"Dat sho was nice. Ah
bet her husband was glad to get
her all nice an’ clean an’ sanitary.”
Clerk—"So you want a gift for
your wife? Something electrical,
perhaps?”
Local man—'Yes that’s not a bad
idea. Er—have you any electric
:hairs?”
Pat—"Why are you wearing so
many coats on such a hot day?”
Mike (carrying a paint brush)
—"I was going to paint me fence
ind it sez: To obtain best results
put on three coats.”
Young Angus had been out for
:he evening with his best girl.
When he arrived home he found
bis father still sitting up. The
>ld man looked up and shook his
read.
"Have ye been out wi’ your las
lie again?” he asked.
"Aye, dad,” replied young An
gus. "Why do ye look sae wor
ried?”
"I was just wondering how
much the evening cost.”
"No more than half a croon,
lad.”
"Aye? That was not sae much.”
'It was a’ she had,” said Angus.
The bride’s mother—"What’s
vrong with you, darling? What
re you crying about now?” ,
The bride—"My husband is such j
deceiver! Every time I ask him .
low he likes my biscuits he .
ihanges the subject and tells me
/hat beautiful eyes I have.”
setters To The Editor
Concord, N. C., January 31, 1936.
Editor of The Carolina Watchman, !
alisbury, N. C.
Col. G. F. McAllister, Supervisor i
f the Census of Business, today :
nounced that seven enumerators i
iave been appointed to present the!!
'ensus forms to business houses <
and help them fill out the neces
sary information. They are: W.
M. Bailey W. W. White, Jr., L. L.
Goodman, James M. Smith, and
Mrs. H. W. Goodson; all of Salis
bury, and Mr. Coy D. Frick, of
Granite Quarry, and Marvin R.
Kester, of Spencer
Members of his office staff nam
ed to date include, Mr. Chas. F.
Reisner, Jr., Assistant Supervisor,
of Salisbury, Mrs. Opal Clayton
Secretary, of Kannapolis, and Mr.
Whitehead Miller, Clerk, of Spen
cer.
Mr. McAllister stressed the fact
that information given enumerators
will be held in strict confidence.
All enumerators and other persons
connected with the Census work
are under a drastic Census Oath
not to disclose any information
submitted for Census purposes J
The Census is the oldest bureau of
the Government, established nearly
15 0 years ago, and never has been
convicted of a violation of con
fidence.
He asked all business concerns to
cooperate with the enumerators
who call upon them for business
census data.
Describing the value of the
Census, Mr. McAllister, said that!
from the results, banks and finan
cial agencies are enabled to extend
commercial credit more freely be
cause of more accurate knowledge
of what constitutes sound operat
ing expenses and stock ratios; news
papers are enabled to establish the
consumer market in their circula
tion fields; wholesale dealers are
able to make a better appraisal of
their immediate and potential
trade territories and thus avoid un
productive expense; advertising
agencies can determine comprehen
sive and accurate markets for vari
ous products; retailers are supplied
with needed data on their compe-j
titive situation, not only in their
particular field, but also regardingl
the extent of other kinds of com^
petitive business. Real estate
values, proper rentals and the basis
for percentage leases are frequent-'
ly determined from business census
data, which have great weight, be
cause they are strictly factual state
ments without prejudice.
As fast as reports are received
they are sent to Philadelphia by
registered mail, where they are
carefully guarded. Five to eight ,
tabulating cards are punched to
■ecord the information on each re
>ort, but no names or addresses ap
>ear on these cards. The cards
ire tabulated with othet cards to
produce the figures which are pub
ished and become the recognized
sasic statistics of business.
Yours very truly,
g. f. McAllister,
Supervisor 9«h District, N. C.
SEES JAPANESE-U. S. ACCORD
New York—Hirosi Saito, Japan
:se ambassador to the United States
aid he is firmly convinced that
he navies of Japan and the United
States will "never be used against
me another.”
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
(Continued from page 1)
a month pensions to all the aged
people of both sexes. It seems un
likely that the present Congress will
adopt anything of the kind, but it
does not seem quite possible that
amendments may be made to the
Social Security Act to increase the
benefits under that measure for
workers who are aready old, and to
make them available much earlier
than the date set in the original
act, which is January 1, 1942.
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THE TAX OUTLOOK
The financial situation of the na
tion is giving Congress food for
thought. In spite of political re
luctance to increase taxation in an
election year, some new taxes are
definitely in the offing.
Among these are some sort of an
excise tax on processors of farm
products to take the place of the
old processing taxes. New inheri
tance taxes, higher corporation
taxes, and higher individual income
taxes seem to be a reasonable ex
pectation.
The farm relief situation is still
far from being clarified. As good
a forecast as can be made as this
time is that existing AAA con
tracts will be paid up, and that 400
or 500 millions a year will be pro
vided for new land lease subsidies.
Whatever form the new farm plan
takes, it is pointed out that there
are plenty of trained employees to
put it into operation.
SENATE REPEALS
BANKHEAD ACT
(Continued from page 1)
program, to which these three acts
were auxiliary.
The AAA was pronounced un
constitutional by the Supreme
Court four weeks ago and the
Court clearly indicated in that deci
sion that it would rule out these
auxiliary acts when the occasion
presented itself.
By this action President Roose
velt evidently decided to beat the
Court to it.
The President’s message to Con
gress consisted of only one para
graph. It follows: ,
"I recommend to the Con
gress the prompt repeal of the
act of April 21, 19J-*. =*
amended, known as the Bank
head Cotton Act; of the act
of June 28, 1934 as amend
ed, known as the Kerr-Smith
tebacco acc, and of Title 2
of the act of August 24, 1935,
known as the ‘potato act of
1935. This recommendation
is made because of the pro
gram of agricultural produc
tion adjustment under the
act of May 12, 1933, as am*
ended, known as the agricul
tural adjustment act, to
which the three acts mention
ed were auxiliary.”
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g STATEMENT OF CONDITION jjj
3 Home Building & Loan Association 5
of Salisbury, N. C., as of December 31st, 1935
(Copy of Sworn Statement Submitted to Insuurance Commissioner as Required By Law.) _j
ASSETS LIABILITIES ?
t—I \—K
3 The Association Owns: The Association Owes: H
Cash on Hand and in To Shareholders Funds en
Banks-$ 4,023.76 trusted to our care in the
, Stock in Federal Home form of payments on stock .
Loan Bank- 2,700.00 as follows: 2
P North Carolina State Installment P
Bonds_ 5,000.00 Stock_$202,264.3 5 Hj
Mortgage Loans_ 476,057.10 Paid-up
Money loaned to shareholders Stock_ 260,500.00 462,764.35
for the purpose of enabling Interest Paid in Advance_ 223.45
►q them to own their homes. Undivided Profits_ 22,480.21 H
Each loan secured by first Earnings held in trust for dis- SC
2 mortgage on local improved tribution to shareholders at "
H real estate. maturity of stock. H
Stock Loans_ 10,190.00 Contingent Reserve_ 27,500.00
Advances made to our share- Special Reserve_ 3,485.05
holders against their stock.
H No loan exceeds 90% of , d
amount actually paid in. yd
S Real Estate Owned- 15,850.00 jij
*■> Other Assets—Interest Ac
rued, Due Less than 6
^ Months- 2,732.20 g
P TOTAL_$516,453.06 TOTAL-$516,453.06 2
*■1 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA—County of Rowan, ss: 1-5
E. H. Harrison, Secretary-Treasurer of the above named Association personally ap
peared before me this day, and being duly sworn, says that the foregoing report is true
to the best of his knowledge and belief. >q
E. H. HARRISON, Sec-Treas. X
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 31st, day of January, 1936. 2
ggs^ H. P. BRANDIS, Notary Public. 3
w My commission expires Aug. 11, 1936.
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