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Carolina 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 Menths- .10 Entered as seeond-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_2,098 China Grove __-1,258 Landis -1,388 Rockwell- 696 Granite Quarry- 507 Cleveland - 435 Faith’ - 431 Gold Hill _ 1*6 (Population Rowan Co. 56,665) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1936. TRAVELING With the outlook for a general European war fading into the background, and a widespread in crease in the incomes of the most average Americans, the Trans-At lantic steamship lines are looking forward to the biggest tourist sea son in history, beginning this com ing Spring. The big addition to the Atlantic ferry system this year will be the new British "Queen Mary.” Whether the "Queen Mary” and the big French linei "Normandie” can ever be profit able is somewhat doubtful. Ship ping men point to the great succes; of the two moderate-sized Ameri can liners "Manhattan” am "Washington” as proof that oceai giants don’t pay as well as craft o: somewhat smaller tonnage. The operators of all the Trans Atlantic lines got together the othe: day in Paris and agreed to abolisl the distinction between first clas and second class. All of the bij ships are now what are termec "cabin” liners. The only differ ence in rates is in proportion to thi location and desirability of thi cabin accommodations. That i going to make it easier for a lot oi travelers who have truble in swal lowing their pride and would neve: travel "second-class.” Now the} can go to Europe on the same socia footing with the free-spenders it the first-class cabins. This looks like a good year to g< abroad. UNEMPLOYMENT A great deal of the talk abou unemployment is based upon insuf ficient knowledge of the facts There never was a time when every body was employed, just as then never was a time when everybody was employable. Manufacturers in many lines ar complaining today that they can not find enough skilled workers t< meet the needs of industry. Th American Management Associatioi reports that in the automobile in dustry particularly they are trying to train men to fill the skilled anc semi-skilled jobs but are facing ai acute shortage of competent work ers. A great deal of bunk is hearc about machinery throwing men ou of work. A survey recently mad by the Machinery and Allied Pro ducts Institute demonstrates tha since the general adoption of ma chines in industry the proportion o: employment has steadily increasec and wages have also risen. Tha is broadly true for all industries. The effect of the introduction oj machines has been, in almost ever) case, to stimulate the demand foi the product by making it cheaper and this stimulation, instead ol throwing men out of work, has lec to the employment of more work ers. In the 30 years between 1900 and 1930 the number of jobs in creased by more than 20 million. Today, the Institute reports, em ployment is more nearly normal in the highly mechanized industries than in those in which little ma chinery is used. With the general adoption of unemployment compensation sys tems by the several states, we shall be able in the course of a year or two to find out the real facts about unemployment. At present it seems prudent to distrust most of the so-called statistics on un employment. TODAY AND TOMORROW —BY— Frank Parker Stockbripge FAIR .... world’s greatest New York is going to have a World’s Fair in 1939. The date will commemorate the 15 0th anni versary of the beginning of our beginning of our nation. On April 30, 1789, the first President of the United States, George Washington, took the oath of office on the bal cony of Federal Hall, at the corner of Broad and Wall Streets, and for more than a year he lived as Presi dent in New York. The national capital was then removed to Phila delphia, where it remained until the new city of Washington was ready for President John Adams. New York City is almost a per petual World’s Fair in itself. The first World’s Fair in America was held in New York, in the Crystal Palace, in 1854. The promoters of the 1939 exposition promise something grander and more inter esting than has ever been held. At any rate, it will give every body an opportunity and an excuse to visit America’s greatest city. >5- * * MEMORIES .... growth Years ago I met an old man who claimed to have seen President Washington. That may have been true, for certainly there were many men alive in my boyhood who were born before Washington died. But I have found that many old people ^ "remember” things that never hap pened. 1 One old gentleman, Major George : Haven Putnam, who died at 83 a few years ago, told me a story that I do believe. As a small boy he was walking with his father on the ' Bowling Green, at the lower end of i Broadway. They met Washington ! Irving, the famous author, who was born in 1783. Irving patted the ’ little boy on the head, and said to I him: "Now you are only two pats on 1 the head from George Washing ’ ton. . He had been walking with his : own father, Irving said, at almost the same spot, when they met Presi dent Washington, who patted his little namesake on the head. ' When I hear such anecdotes and [ realize that only the span of two human lives lies between today and the beginning of our nation, I am always freshly amazed that we have ’ grown in so short a time to the wealthiest, most vigorous and al most the largest nation in the world. And I wonder how much . farther we are going. *}. * ' FARADAY .... and tax The other day a scientist in Lon ■ don, seated at the desk used by : Michael Faraday, struck a match . and lighted a candle. That started an electrical impulse which sped across the Atlantic and lighted a : lamp to signalize the opening of the ■ the new Museum of Science and In i dustry in New York. Faraday, the blacksmith’s son ! who invented the electric dynamo, 1 could not have foreseen a miracle ■ like that, perhaps, though he was a - good prophet. When Mr. Glad j stone, Queen Victoria’s Prime Min ister, asked him what good his dy 1 namo was, Faraday replied: "Some day you can tax it.” Our whole great structure of | public utilities is founded mainly on Faraday’s invention. And gov ' ernments have certainly discovered : that it is taxable! * * i? ; ICE .... harvest The biggest ice crop i n many . years is being harvested on the up per Hudson River and the lakes I of northern New York, and New : England. Two-foot ice is reported from Lake Champlain, and still freezing. Electric refrigeration in homes, and artificial ice plants everywhere, have pretty nearly ruined what used to be a prosperous and profitable in dustry. The annual ice crop used to bring more cash into the towns along the northern rivers than any thing else. While there is still a market for good natural ice, it is small and localized. Yet. I haven’t heard of the "ice farmers” asking the Government for relief! * * a FISHING .... winter Winter fishing through the ice is just as popular and profitable as ever. I had a letter from a niece in Vermont the other day, who wrote that her husband and five other men had built their fishing shack about three miles out on Lake Champlain and were making big catches of pike and picerel. I haven’t been around the winter fishing grounds for years, but I have vivid memories of one.Spring when the ice broke up unexpected ly on Lake Erie and several fisher men were carried down the Niagara River on floes, with onlookers on shore unable to do anything to save them. I supppse most young folks of to day would balk at taking such risks to earn a living. But forty or fifty years ago nobody expect ed somebody else to feed him if he didn’t work at whatever there was to do. Last Request Carried Out Miami, Fla.—The last wish of Walter Thompson, 78, retired ship builder, who died here was buried at sea as requested in his will. Thompson came here eight years ago from Perth Amboy, N. J., where he was a past master of the Raritan Masonic lodge. Surviving Thompson are his wid ow, Mrs. Ella Thompson, of New Orleans, and a daughter, Mrs. Bes sie Ten Eyck, of Linden, N. J. * * Si* OF WISE cracks in any st st st BARBER SHOP when a bold st st St HEADED MAN climbs in the st St st CHAIR, AND calls for a st St St HAIR Cl]T. For that reason, * * * THIS LITTLE incident could >t st st HAVE HAPPENED in a dozen st st St PLACES RIGHT here in town. st st st WE THOUGHT that the barber’s St St St REPLY WAS right smart, so >t st st WE ARE giving you the * st st SORRY. YOU can do your own st st Sf GUESSING AS to the ones * * * 1JN IriJb story. You oughtn’t * * * TO CHARGE me but half-price «■ * * FOR CUTTING my hair when I’M HALF-BALD”, said the «■ * CHISELER. "SORRY, Sir,” * * * REPLIED THE barber. "We DON’T CHARGE for cutting YOUR HAIT—we charge for the TIME WE spend* HUNTING FOR it” H- * * I THANK YOU. PICAYUNES | NO GLUTTON Unseen by the referee, the all-* in wrestler bit his opponent severe-, ly "You’re biting,” hissed the suf fered. "Well”, gasped his adversary, "do yer expect me to swaller yer in a lump?” NO NEED I One of the fruit-stall men in the city market was striving hard to add a few cents to the total of his sales. "We’ve got some fine alligatot pears,” he suggested. "Silly”, laughed the very, very young housewife. "We don’t keep a gold-fish.” DEFINITE PROOF Teacher: "Johnny, who was Anne Boleyn?” Johnny: "Anne Boleyn was a flat iron.” Teacher: "What on earth do yoii mean?” Johnny: "What on earth do you mean?” Johnny: "Well, it says here in the history book. 'Henry, having disposed of Catherine, pressed his suit with Anne Boleyn’.” NO? WELL TRY IT "There’s no difficulty in this world that cannot be overcome.” "Is zat so! Say, did you ever try to push the tooth paste back in the. tube?” __________ EMBRYO BRIDES Teacher: "Now, in getting a meal what is the first and most im portant thing?” Embryo Cooks (in chorus) r Find the can opener!” A dentist says that he had an ab sent-minded motorist in his chair, the other day." Will you take gas?’ he asked. "Yeah”, replied the a-m patient, "and you’d better look at the oil, too.” Mose: "Say Pete, could you lend me $3?” Pete: "On what security?” Mose: "Why, A’tell you! I’s gwine to get married tonight, and tomorrow Ah’ll give you mah wife’s watch!” HARD LIFE The pedestrian was walking slow ly down the street. The clock nearby showed that it was 2 a. m. Policeman (as he eyed the man suspiciously): "Out rather late, aren’t you?” Man: "Perhaps so, but this is about the only chance a pedestrian has nowadays.” ADDITION TO MILK "Oh, Martha,” the little girl called from the springhouse to the dairymaid, "there’s a mouse swim ming ’round in the the biggest pan of milk.” "Goodness,” said Martha, "did you take it out?” "No”, said the little girl. "I throwed in the cat.” THE DEBATE Sambo had joined a debating so ciety, and the day after his first meeting he was being questioned by friends. "What was de subject of de de bate, Sambo?” "De subject were 'What is de most benefit to mankind de sun or de moon,,” replied Sambo. "And which side did you take?” "De moon’s,” said Sambo. "I argued dat de sun shines when we doan’ need de light, but de moon shines by night, when dat mos’ certainly am needed. An dey couldn’t answer dat, sah!” BRIGHT YOUNGSTER First little girl: Why did your mother spank you?” Second little girl (professor’s daughter), "Because she is too un tutored, ignorant and archaic in her ideas to devise a mo're modern re formatory method based on [the superior intelligence of the younger generation.” A blushing young woman hand ed the telegraph operator a tele gram to be sent which contained only the single word “Yes.” De siring to be of real help to patrons of his company the operator said: "You know you can send nine words for the same price.” "I' know I can,” replied the cus tomer, “but don’t you think it would look like I am too anxious if I said it 10 times?” • Patronize Watchman Adver tisers. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON (Continued from page One) the powers of the Federal Govern ment, and also because it is re garded as an effort to curtail pro duction, whereas the erosion and soil-replenishment features would tend to increase production. The newest farm plan which is being given a good deal of con sideration here is sponsored by the National Cooperative Council, a federation of farmers’ cooperatives. The plan is to set up one or more; operations, in which the govern ment will participate, to manage the distribution and sale of sudi plus farm products both for ex port and the home markets. Whether this will come to a head at the present Congress is still a question. It may, however, be come a part of one or both party platforms. The repeal of the Bankhead Cot ton Control Act, the Tobacco Con trol Act and the Potato Control Act, at the request of the Presin dent, was expected after the Su preme Court’s decision on the AAA. \j It begins to look as if thera1 would be no important new ta:< legislation at this session except possibly some form of a tax on processors to provide funds for the agricultural program. Strong op position from within the Demo cratic ranks is shaping up to this j particular form of tax. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts is the spearhead of a new movement for a general manufacturers’ sales tax which will, of course, be opposed by the members from the western farm regions. In the realm of party politics! those observers who make it theis business to try to figure out what Senator Borah is aiming at, seem to be convinced that his declaration in Ohio as a primary candidate for the presidency is an effort to block the "favorite son” tactices which have often resulted in throwing the nomination into the hands of the party bosses. If Mr. Borah can get a good sized handful of in structed delegates, he can use them, as a club over the convention, but how he would use that club is still, somewhat in doubt. His main ob-j jective, it is believed, is to prevent Mr. Hoover and his friends in the Old Guard from controlling the Republican convention. There is only one other Repub lican of whom it can be said with certainty that he will have a group of instructed delegates at Cleve land. That is Governor Landon of Kansas. He and Senator Borah are now away out in front. ACTRESS GIVEN DIVORCE Los Angeles—Charging her hus band called her a "dumb little far mer girl,” Bonnie Bannon, movie actress, won a divorce from Charles Faye, assistant film director. Miss Bannon came to Hollywood via a Fresno, Calif., beauty shop. LOOK AT THE YELLOW label on the front page of your paper. If your subscription has expired it is important that you send in your renewal promptly. The Carolina Watchman. Girl, 14, Guards Afflicted Brother In Mountain Cabin Luray, Va.,—"I ain’t afraid of nobody with my daddy’s old rifle hanging to the wall and a .38 ’volver which I keep under my pil low,” Jane Susan Jenkins, fourteen, a Blue Ridge girl, told a newspaper man at her home. "My daddy stays away lots o: nights, and I have to remain here and take care of my eleven-year old brother.” The brother has been a mental wreck from birth, and is an hourly care for his sister. Epilep tic fits often seize the boy and he falls anywhere, often dangerously close to the old-time fireplace that warms the Jenkins home. In the fireplace the girl prepares meals for the family, when all of them are at home. Cabbage, pota toes, turnips, etc., are boiled in a on red coals beneath the tripod, in the fireplace. Hoe cake bread is baked in a skillet that reposes on red coals beneaths the criped. Continuing, the girl told the newspaper man: "I have never been more than two miles from home and that is to a store. Then pap minded 'Bud for me to go after some sugat and coffee.” At night when the girl and her afflicted brother are left alone, she has her father’s rifle hanging from pegs over her bunk in one of the two rooms in the mountain cabin. The revolver is kept under her pil low and her neighbors say she would not be slow in using it if occasion demanded. She is an expert marks man with either of the weapons. The only dresses she has ever had were of her own making, and her ideas of dressmaking are crude, some trail the ground, others end far above her knees. She revamps her fathers overalls for her brother. Despite her years, the girl is an inveterate (tobacco dhewer. She does not hesitate to say that she has tried "ever so often to get 'Bad’ to chew, but it always makes him sick and sometimes will bring on a fit if he takes a chew.” The girls’ home is immediately outside of the boundaries of tha Shenandoah National Park. Hei j mother has been dead a half dozen years. No public road is within sight and the only glimpse of a railroad train she has ever had was when she saw it ten miles away— across the Page valley. 25 UNC Grads Recommended Chapel Hill.—Twenty-five out standing graduates of the Universi ty of North Carolina have been rec ommended to the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the United States Navy as good prospects to fill com missions in the Civil Engineer Corps Reserves, whose number is being increased from 100 to 500, it was announced here today. The following graduates of high scholastic standing were recom mended: John N. Gilbert, Chapel Hill; A. S. Chase, Georgetown^ Mass.; Dwight Plyler, Monroe; Fred C. Ray, Leaksville; William Cram er, Willoughby Beach; M. F. Hetherington, Lakeland, Fla.; W. C. Johnson, Gastonia; J. S. Lewis, Jr., Rocky Mount; P. L. Aber nethy, Hickory; E. C. Dobbins Chapel Hill; W. J. Bolen, School field, Va. John P. Lynch, Raleigh; R. P. Howell, Washington, D. C.; R. H. Hayes, Kershaw, S. C.; M. F. Woo ten, Jr., Charlotte; W. H. Horney, Jr., Greensboro; A. Mitchell, Kins ton; A. C. Brown, Kinston; W. A. Brick, Jr., Chapel Hill; Fred C. Cain, Conton, Miss.; F. E. Culvern, Charlotte; C. C. Glover, Newnan, Ga.; R. M. Dailey, Hatteras; Sid ney Franklin, Brooklyn, Mass. TO FURNISH LEE’S HOME New York—Mrs. Robert W. Bingham, wife of the U. S. ambas sador to Great Britain, attended a luncheon of the Robert E. Lee memorial foundation and discussed plans for the furnishings of Strat ford Hall, Lee’s birthplace at Strat ford, Va. Climate varies in Texas more than in any other state of the Uni on, due to large differences in al titude and latitude. | I 6UESS YOU COULD SAY THAT THE LATE HANK SPIVENS LIVED A COLORFUL ; LIFE.Hr. WU2 ALWAYS CHASlNo RAINBOWS. |j|k} * V&YN&'Wi’&W. Nl>NSM^ ..... :;'vyc'AW <* 'S VkOT emewohe '♦iVkO "VVktC^ V^U’?. mWA4^^W%V0'^tM%a,PSS.PJ09.TPN OP WQ,lll?^', E. Carr Choate DENTIST j Office Over Purcell Drug Store No. 2 Phone_] 41 Office in Mocksville is Closed BENT FENDERS Straightened and refinished to look like new BAUKNIGHT DUCO PAINTER 129 S. Church Phone 1416 $50 REWARD $50 For any Stove I can’t repair. Furnace Repairing. McINTIRE 310 S. Main. Phone 231-J. DR. N. C. LITTLE Optometrist Eyes examined and glasses fitted Telephone 1571-W. 107 x/2 S. Main Street Next to Ketchie Barber Shop STAR LAUNDRY i "The Good One” Launderers and Dry Cleaneri Phone 24 114 West Bank St. ONE DAY SERVICE k
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