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c lolina Watchman Published Every Friday Morning By The Carolina Watchman Pub. Co. SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA E. W. G. Huffman_President SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In Advance One Year_$1.00 6 Months- .10 Entered as second-class mail matter at the postoffice at Sal isbury, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. The influence of weekly news papers on public opinion exceeds that of all other publications in the country.—Arthur Brisbane. POPULATION DATA (1930 Census) Salisbury _16,951 Spencer -3,128 E, Spencer-2,0:98 China Grove_1,258 Landis _1,3-88 Rockwell- 696 Granite Quarry_ 507 Cleveland_ 43 5 Faith*_ 431 Gold Hill_ 156 (Population Rowan Co. 56,665) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 193?. THE PENSION OUTLOOK There is more talk heard every where about pensions than there has been since the days of the Civil War pension scandals, back in the last century. Now the talk is not only about military pensions but about pensioning everybody else. We seem to have caught the pension fever in a virulent form. Old age pensions, mother’s pen sions, pensions for school teachers, policemen, public officials of all kinds, are either in effect, or under way of being talked about. Now that the veterans of the Great War have got the bonus, agitation has begun for a general system of pen sions for all who wore the uniform regardless of whether they were disabled in war or not, and for their widows and dependent child ren. Nobody would want to let any man suffer who was injured or dis abled in fighting for his country— and America has never done that. But when the War Risk Insurance Act of 1917 was adopted, it was with the avowed purpose of ending forever the pension system which had grown up after the war between the states into a national scandal, Nearly eight billion dollars has been paid thus far in Civil War pen sions, and there are still more thar 13,000 veterans of that war and th< dependents of more than 100,00C deceased veterans, receiving pen sions that cost the nation $63,000, 000 last year. We are still paying pensions tc three widows of men who fough: in the war of 1812 and to 294 wid ows of Mexican War veterans Spanish War veterans and those o the World War will be with us fo many years to come, and thei widows and orphans still longer. It looks as if the the cost o: military pensions alone might cal for about all that the taxpayers o a generation hence can dig up. I we begin to put every old persoi on a pension, and continue the sys tern of mother’s pension, civil ser vice pensions and all the other kind of pensions, the question arises a to what the ordinary citizen, whi doesn’t get any pension at all, i going to have left after the pen sioners have got theirs. WOMEN IN POLITICS The appointment of Mrs. Hue] Long to fill the vacancy in thi United States Senate caused by thi death of her husband, raises thi number of women in this Congres to a total of seven. The onl] other woman Senator is Mrs. Hattii W. Caraway of Aransas, also ; Senator’s widow. In the Housp, Representativi Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachu setts has been six times elected t( the seat formerly held by her late husband. Mrs. Mary T. Norton oJ New Jersey is also serving her sixtl term in the House, as is Represen tative Florence P. Kahn of Cali fornia who also succeeded her hus band on his death. Mrs. Isabell; Greenway, Arizona’s sole Represen tative, is serving her second term and Mrs. Caroline O’Day, New York’s Representative-at-Large, i: in her first term. John Erskine, author of "The Private Life of Helen of Troy,’ who is supposed to know mon about women than most men do has just written another book ir which he says that women have n< business to go into politics or an) other mass movement. Maybe John knows what he’s talking about, but it would be easy to name a lot of male Senators and more masculine Congressmen who are worse fizzles in political life thar are any of the ladies who now grace the halls of Congress. TODAY AND TOMORROW —by— Fuank Parker Stockbmdge KING.human nature Edward VIII became King of England on the death of his father, George V, without even a mild pro test from those of his subjects who ! still believe that the throne belongs I by right to the family of Stuart. Less than 200 years ago, in 1746, the last battle fought on British soil resulted in the defeat of the | army led by Charles Edward Stuart the "Young Pretender” grandson of King James II, who had been de posed and banished in 1688. Until 1901, when the present King’s grandfather succeeded his mother Queen Victoria, there was a constant fear inEngland of another "Jacobite Rising” to put the House of Stuart back on the throne. Fin gerbowls were long banned at im portant public banquets, lest some I secret adherent to Staurt cause, in drinking the toast "To the King” should hold his winegllass over the fingerbowl and so drink to ’The King over the water,” In late years the Jacobites have contented themselves with gather ing at the statue of Charles I in Trafalgar Square on January 20 each year denouncing the reigning monarch as a usurper. This year, however, they postponed the de nunciation to March 27, so as not to annoy the mourners for King George V. Some of my Canadian friends tell me that their Jacobite 'Society of the White Rose,” has a jolly time at their annual dinners, denying the claim to the British throne of the monarch at whose call they would all go out and fight for the Empire. Human nature is funny in most of its manifestations. WOMEN.bonus Nobody knows exactly how many American women took ar 1 actual part in the World War, but : there were more than 14,500 ol . them regularly enlisted in the mili tary and naval services of the Unit : ed States, who are entitled to a bo nus on the same basis as the met who served. They are mostly mem ' bers of the Army Nurse Corps, en listed nurses who served in thf r Navy hospitals, and survivors ol . that interesting corps of younj ' women who were given the ratine : of "Yeoman” in the Navy, anc :.went through the war in uniforms J doing clerical work in the Navj I Department in Washington and ai the various naval bases. Probably fully as many womer s did war service overseas in thi 5 volunteer organizations, such as thi Red Cross, Y. W. C. A., Salvatior Army and the rest, and severa 5 times as many were engaged it ■ war work on this side; but onlj the ones who were on Uncle Sam’: payroll are due for the bonus. Folks who have the idea that al women are pacifists, don’t remem ber the enthusiasm of the womer ; of America the last time we weni : to war. yr >f- * WEALTH.needs watching ' When young John Jacob Aste: III quit his $25 a week job wit! : the steamship line of which hi: half-brother, Vincent Aster, is vice president, a lot of people spoki sneeringly of the "idle rich,” jump 1 ing to the conclusion that thi WE REALLY couldn’t tell you the NAMES OF the folks in this story •fc •?« -it EVEN IF £_here were no rules a a a AGAINST IT. And you’ll know : THE REASON when wc have FINISHED IT. *The hour was a a a SIX A. M., and they were having * # * A FUSS in bed. “How dare you a a a DENY THAT you had been ; a a a DRINKING LAST night? Here a a a YOU ARE in bed with your I a a a SHOES AND pants on”, she a a a RAILED AT him. "But you see, a a a MY DEAR,” he protested, "lately a a a I HAVE become addicted to a a a WALKING IN my sleep and I * * THOUGHT IT best to go to bed a a a PREPARED.” i a a a I THANK YOU. young man was nothing but a "playboy” after all. But to me his explanation that the 48 hours of work every week took up so much of his time that he couldn’t attend to his personal business affairs properly, sounds quite reasonable. "In times like these,” he said, "you have to watch things pretty closely.” He has had to learn young that it is easier to make money than to keep it. Heir to one of the largest fortunes in America, he has discovered that everybody is trying to take it away from him, and that he has to do his own watching, instead of leaving the guardianship of his property to hired men. I I know a number of very wealthy men. Most of them work harder at the job of keeping their wealth from slipping away from them jthan the rest of us do in trying to make a little more. HOUSINGG.for poor I’ve been hearing a lot of talkj about low-cost housing for the poor, but I haven’t seen anything tangible, so far, that convinces me that new houses can be built with high-priced labor, at a cost that will enable the lowest-paid workers to pay the necessary rent. They’ve done it in England by buying cheap farm land a long way from town, and paying building trade workers about one-third the wages they get in America. I’ve seen some of the European low-cost housing developments. They are all based on land values far below ours, lower labor costs, and remission of all taxes on lands and buildings for twenty years or more. Even then, the very poor can’t afford to live in them. It seems more reasonable to me to encourage the modernization of old houses for the use of the lowest income groups, and the building of new homes for the ones who can afford to live in them. * * * GLARE.killed Every motorist knows that the chief danger in night driving is the dazzling glare from the headlights of cars one meets on the roads. A young Boston scientist, Edwin Land, has developed a new trans parent material for headlights and windshields which is said to elimi nate this dangerous glare entirely. ■ The principle of "polarizing” light i has long been known, but up to now it has required expensive ap paratus to reduce lighc beams to a single plane, and so, as it were, take out the dazzle. I hope young Mr. Land’s inven tion will do all that is claimed for it. I like to drive at night, but I dread it more and more, as cars multiply, speed increases and head : lights get brighter. WEEK’S RADIO PROGRAM Advanced program of leading ■ stations for an entire week, another page devoted to interesting person alities of radio folk. One of many EXCLUSIVE features in the BAL : TIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN. Your favorite newsdealer will re serve your copy. I THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON (Continued from page One) is about the calm, analytical and liberal tone of the speech made by Governor Landon, of Kansas, which contrasts sharply with some of the more abusive and beligerent utter ances on both sides of the political fence. Goy, Landon, who now says that he prefers to be called "Alfred” instead of just plain "Alf,” has made a very decided impression among some of the Re publicans. So far he has not been vigorous enough in his partisanship to please the Old Guard leaders of the GOP. They like him better, however, thant hey do either Sena tor Borah or Senator Vandenburg, while the Democrats of the Libetry League school are intimating that they might be inclined to throw whatever strength they have to the Republican Party if Landon were the nominee. THE BORAH SPEECH Senator Borah also made an ex cellent impression by his Brooklyn speech, but political experts still re fuse to believe that he is a serious contender for the Presidency. He is looked upon as a stalking horse for Senator Vandenberg. The real struggle in the Republi can National Convention, which becomes more and more apparent, will be between the Old Guard and the liberal element, which con tains a strong nucleus of the old Teddy Roosevelt-LaFollette Pro gressive movement of years ago. With this situation in the Republi can Party, and a split in the Demo cratic Party some of the more hopeful political idealists are talk ing about a complete new align ment, with perhaps even the change of party names. In theory that sounds all right, but the more practical political ob servers point out that there are some 20,000,000 voters, pretty nearly equally divided between the two parties, who are wedded to the old party names and who would not be happy at all under such a new line up. And each party, naturally, wants to hold that solid backbone of votes in line at any cost. HOLLYWO&D STYLES IN NA TURAL COLORS Now you can see sow Hollywood film folks dress. Through a new' departure in newspaper printing photographs are reproduced in their true, natural colors. Enjoy this new feature by reading the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERI CAN. On sale by all newsdealers or by mail for 5 Oc a menth. Try CARDUI For Functional Monthly Palm Women from the ’teen age to the change of life have found Cardui genuinely help ful for the relief of functional monthly pains due to lack of Just the right strength from the food they eat. 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Don’t neglect It when you feel any of Its disagree able symptoms coming on. . . “We have used Thedford’s Black-Draught for 21 years and have found It a very useful medicine that every family ought to have in their home,” writes Mrs. Perry Hicks, of Belton, Texas. “I take Black-Draught for biliousness, constipation and other Ills where a good laxative or purga tive is needed. I have always found Black-Draught gives good results." Sold in 25-cent packages. BLACK-DRAUGHT MAN WANTED BY LARGE manufacturer of houshold neces sities to complete organization in Southeast Davidson, Stanly counties and Salisbury. Must be industrious and willing to conduct home service business. Hustlers can earn $25 first week and increase rapidly. Write today. Raweligh’s, Dept. NCB-197-W, Richmond, Va. Gold Hill Route 1 We are having a lot of colds and something like the flu, in this sec tion during the past few weeks. Mrs. P. H. Wagoner who has been right sick for the past week is some better now. The school bus in our section has failed to run a few times due to snow and bad weather. Building good fires and feeding the livestock on the farms is the farmers main occupations along now, as they cannot get out doors to do work due to the bad weather. I have not much to report at this writing as we have all been shut in for several weeks with snow and bad weather. We are having one of the coldest winters we have had in many years. Also more snow than we have had in a long time. Today, (Monday) when these few lines are being persued it is a beautiful fair day and the sun is shining bright and warm, but the earth is well covered with snow and ice. We are hoping soon to see some fine weather appear with less snow and ice. IN THE DIM PAST Reporter: "Now that you’re wealthy, are you ever bothered by the friends you had when you were poor?” Man of Wealth: "I never had any friends when I was poor.” ^^TYPICAL THREE MINUTE RATES Rate* from Station. P#r*on. Rates from Station. 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Reduced night rates are also now in effect on Person-to Person calls every night after 7 P. M. and all day Sunday on calls when the day person-to-person rate is more than 50 cents. These new “long distance” rate periods make long distance telephone service still more con venient and economical, and more useful to more people in more ways than ever before. Take advantage of these new low Sunday rates and enjoy a voice visit by telephone next Sunday, with some of the folks back home or with sons or daughters away at school. A telephone call, you will find, is like a face-to-face visit and as satisfying. Ask “long distance” for rates to wherever you wish to talk. __ Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. ( Incorporated ) m -m s3i "I S' : ... ■3 -:f. ;. WHIN YOU BUY THE tutAteute # You may win once in a while in a game of rhan*-»_but why risk your money on unknown razor blades! 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