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POPULATION DATA
(1930 Census)
Salisbury -16,931
Spencer _3,128
E. Spencer_2,098
China Grove_1,25 8
Landis _1,388
Rockwell_ 696
Granite Quarry_ 507
Cleveland_.— 43 5
Faith’ _ 431
Gold Hill _ 156
(Population Rowan Co. 56,665)
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1936.
A DOLLAR GOES A LONG
WAY
Well, Walter Johnson did it.
There probably was more interest
in this year’s Washington’s birth
day celebration than in any previ
ous February 22 in recent years.
It was a bright idea of Congress
man Sol Bloom, of New York, to
bet that Walter Johnson, famous
former baseball pitcher and now
a Maryland farmer, could not throw
a silver dollar across the Rappa
hannock River.
Mr. Bloom had expressed doubt
that George Washington ever per
formed that feat, which was related
by his first biographer, Parson
Weems. The good Parson only
wanted to prove that the Father of
his Country was a powerful man.
There isn’t any other evidence that
Washington ever threw a dollar
away, either across the Rappahan
nock or anywhere else, but the story
has persisted. Now Walter John
son has proved that it could have
been done. That is, provided the
Rappahannock River wasn’t any
wider when Washington was a
young man than it Is now. It is
272 feet wide now at Fredericks
burg, Virginia but Mr. Bloom
thinks he has evidence that it was
1320 feet wide in Washington’s
youth.
Mr. Bloom was also skeptical
about the dollar story because he
said that dollars weren’t coined in
America until after Washington
became President. That is true,
but he forgot that "dollar” is not
an American word, but had been in
use for centuries, and that the Span
ish milled dollar, or peso, was a
standard coin all over the world
long before the American Revolu
tion. So it looks as if Mr. Bloom
had lost on all counts, and Walter
Johnson has proved that even
though he has quit big league base
ball to become a farmer, he is still
a mighty pitcher.
Some commentator once remark
ed that George Washington did an
even tougher job than throwing a
dollar across the Rappahannock,
when he threw a sovereign across
the Atlantic Ocean. Even Walter
Johnson couldn’t do that.
THE TVA DECISION
Everybody seems to be satisfied
with the ruling of the Supreme
Court of the United States in the
Tennessee Valley Authority case.
It reaffirmed that the Federal
Government has full control over
navigable streams and that this
control involves the right to build
dams and otherwise improve the
channels of such streams to make
navigation safer or easier. And
that, as the Court put it, the Gov
ernment then becomes the owner of
the power generated by the waters
flowing over the dams. Being the
owner of the water power, it can
sell the water power to whomever
wants to buy it, either as water
power or by converting it into elec
tric energy.
The Supreme Court decision
stopped there. It did not go into
the question of the Government’s
right to set up a model community
in the Tennessee Valley and go into
the business of distributing electric
energy at retail or doing other
things for the betterment of the
lives of the residents which have
been announced as parts of the
TVA program.
The Government’s case as pre
sented to the Court omitted all
reference to the latter items. They
likely will be brought before the
Court in another action. What
the decision will be remains for the
future to disclose. So far as the
TVA decision went it was clearly
in accord with Constitutional pre
cedents.
It seems clear from the language
of the Court’s decision that the
Federal Government cannot go into
the power business as a primary ob
jective and so compete with pri
vately owned utilities. It can
only sell power whose production
is incidental to the carrying out of
another purpose, so far as the Court
ruling goes.
It is difficult to see how tftt
utilities can be seriously harmed,
especially as they are probably in
the best position of anyone to buy
and distribute the power generated
at Federal dams, without going to
the capital expense of building the
dams themselves.
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
—BY—
Frank Parker Stockbridge
Every once in a while I feel like
waving the American flag and giv
ing three cheers for Uncle Sam.
What set me off this time is the
last two or three decisions of the
Supreme Court, especially the one
in which the Court reasserted the
right of the press to free expression
without restraint by any govern
mental authority.
Of course, the press is responsible
if it prints libels or scurrilous mat
ter of any kind; but the Court
pointed out again that no power
exists, either in Congress or the
states, to say in advance to any
newspaper "You may not print
that.”
It seems to me that the very
roots of all our liberties are bound
up in this liberty of the press. The
first thing a dictator does is to
suppress or regulate the newspa
pers. We will never lose our lib
erties as Americans so long as any
body can set up a printing pres's
and tell the people the truth about
what is going on.
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RADIO.rights
I agree with my friend David
Lawrence that radio broadcasting
should be as free as the newspaper
is. As things stand now, there is
a Federal commission in Washing
ton which has power to say what
may and may not be broadcast. I
don’t know that that power has
ever been abused, but it ought not
to exist.
Radio, like the press, ought to be
permitted to say anything it wants
to say—and should be punished, like
the press, if it uses indecent or pro
fane language or utters a libel re
flecting falsely against the charac
ter of any person.
In the long run, truth always
prevails. Sooner or later those who
try to deceive the people are found
out. In the meantime, I am letting
them all talk as long as anybody
wants to listen.
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OPPORTUNITY.today
One thing that makes me feel pa
triotic is the frequent instances I
encounter of young folk who have
found opportunities to get ahead in
the world and make something of
themselves when all around them
folk were wailing that there were
no opportunities left for the young.
There are greater opportunities
than ever for young people of
character, who are willing to work.
Six young friends of my daughter,
all of them under thirty, were at
the house the other night. All of
them have had to make their own
way in the world, and all have made
good in spite of these years of de
pression. One girl is breeding
dogs and making a good living at
it. One young man is getting
along by collecting and selling met
al from discarded automobiles.
Two of the girls started a laundry
three years ago, specializing in
washing baby clothes. They run
three delivery wagons now. An
other boy and his brother have
turned their taste for amateur
photography to account, and do a
good business in photographing
business men in their own offices.
Opportunity gone? Not a bit
of it.
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HISTORY.and us
At a dinner party in New York
the other evening one of the guests,
a Frenchman, asked me a question
about American history, which I
was, fortunately, able to answer.
"I’ve been in your country two
years now,” he caid. "and the lone r
I stay, the more I am impressed
with the durability of your Ameri
can institutions. You’ve been run
ning now for 150 years or so under
a system of government which has
enabled you to become the greatest
people in the world. Over in
Europe we have changed every
principle of government many
times. I’m still a Frenchman, but
I like your system better than my
own country’s.
"Since Washington became Presi
dent of the United States, France
has had five different kinds of gov
ernment. Our present Republic is
only sixty years old. We throw out
our Cabinet and President every
little while. We think we know
a lot, but one thing which we
haven’t learned and Americans have
is how to govern ourselves.”
Somebody—I don’t know who—
once said that "self-government is
better than good government.” I
think he was right.
FREEDOM.ours
I met a man the other day who
has just moved from Nebraska to
New York. The same day I called
on a friend who was moving his
office from New York to Califor
nia. Next morning came a letter
from a friend I had last heard of in
Chicago, telling me about his new
job in Texas.
There isn’t any other country in
the world where people have so
much freedom to move around as
they please. There are no barriers
to travel or employment from one
end of the country to the other.
Nobody has to have a passport or
a police permit to go 3,000 miles,
if he wants to; nobody cares where
he comes from if he knows his job.
Those conditions exist nowhere
else in the world. In Europe a man
may live for years in one house and
work at one job; but when he
moves into the house next door or
changes his employment, he has to
report to the police, or be fined if
he doesn’t.
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WE TURN today to the colored
&
RACE FOR our little story, and
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AND BEGIN by saying that it
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HAPPENED RIGHT here in the
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CITY. It may also be pointed
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OUT THAT the same plan is often
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DISCERNED IN the white race,
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THAT IS, the same basic plan.
"WHAT ATTRACTED you to
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YOUR BRIDE?” asked the minister
AFTER THE ceremony. "Well,
SAH,” REPLIED* the ebony
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GROOM, "de fust time Ah seed
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MARY ANN Ah tuk er fancy
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TO HER, ’cause she was so good
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LOOKIN.’ DEN when Ah
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LEARNED DAT she was doin’
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STEADY WASHIN’ for seben
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FAMILIES, RIGHT den and
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DAR, AH surrendered.”
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I THANK YOU.
PICAYUNES
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PRACTICE BEFORE
PREACHING
"That new minister of yours has
made a great hit , I understand.
Does he practice what he preaches?”
“Yes, I can testify to that, as I
live next door to him. Every Sat
urday night he practices till mid
night what he’s going to preach
next morning.”
CONSTITUTIONAL
Because he had been naughty
Willie’s mother had decreed that he
should not go to the movies to see
the usual Saturday afternoon west
ern thriller. Willie, however, had
been studying current events at
school and did not intend to give
up without a struggle. ,‘You have
no constitutional right to do this,
mother,” he said.
"Why not?” asked his parent.
"Because you are exercising rule
without consent of the governed.”
VERY MUCH ALIKE
Naomi: "You know, the more I
think about it the more certain I
am that I married a fool.”
Harry. "Perhaps you did, my
dear. You know that when you
married me you said few people
were so much alike as you and I.”
SHOPPING FORECAST
Min (at breakfast) : "I want to
do some shopping today, George, if
the weather is favorable. What
does the paper forecast say?”
George (consulting his paper):
"Rain, hail, sleet, thunder, light
ning, snow and fierce winds.”
NICE RETRACTION
Angry Caller: "Mister Editor, I
want you to take back what you
said about me in your old rag.
You said I was a reformed drunk
ard. You’ve got to apologize or
I’ll sue for slander.”
Editor: "Very well. I’ll retract
the statement cheerfully. I’ll say
you haven’t reformed.”
WOULDN’T BELIEVE HIM
Judge: "Didn’t I tell you the last
time you were here that I didn’t
want to see you here again?”
Prisoner: "Yes, Your Honor;
that’s what I told these policemen
but they wouldn’t believe it.”
DIFFERENCE
"That means fight where I come
from,”
"Well, why don’t you fight
then?”
" Cause I ain’t where I come
from.”
FACTS ARE FACTS
The reporter was sent to write
up a charity ball. Next day the
editor called him to his desk.
"Look here, what do you mean
by this? 'Among the most beauti
ful girls was Horatio Lucian Ding
ley.’ Why, you crazy idiot! Old
Dingley isn’t a girl—and besides
he’s one of our principal stock
holders.”
“I can’t help that,” returned the
realistic reporter. "That’s where
he was.”
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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
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erally run-down condition. Cardui
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Thousands of vomen testify Cardui bene
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consult a physician.
COMES THE DAWN -by a. b. cw*,
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NEWS
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
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was. He was a powerful influence
before the extent of his following
was known. Now Congressmen
generally pooh-pooh the notion that
he is actually able to influence any
important body of voters, suffi
ciently concentrated in particular
states or districts to influence the
election of paricular Congressmen
or Senators.
The Townsend old-age pension
bloc is a case in point. Outside of
a few spots on the map its strength
is not yet sufficiently concentrated,,
or at least so the leaders in Cong-]
ress believe. The impending Con
gressional investigation into the
Townsend movement is expected to
disclose its real strength. But it
will have the effect of postponing
any possible action along Townsend
Plan lines until next session, if ever.
One of the shrewdest political ob
servers here remarked the other day
that the one pressure group which
seems to be missing is the “econo
my bloc.” Congress wants to keep
on spending money, but shies like a
frightened colt from the shadow
of tax projects necessary to provide
the money to spend. The boys on
Capitol Hill all know that have got
to enact some new tax measures
this session, and how they dread it.
Congress has to appropriate a lot
more cash, for direct relief on top
of WPA. The strongest pressure
group of all is perhaps the one com
posed of governors of states and
mayors of cities who insist that
they cannot take care of the des
titute without Federal aid after
April 1, when direct Federal relief
theoratically comes to an end.
Distribution of Federal funds
through relief agencies, public
works, the bonus and farm relief
checks is expected to keep retail
business humming until after elec
tion. And shrewd observers are
pointing out that, whicnever way
the election goes, general business
will improve rapidly.
PRESIDENTIAL TALK
Discussion of Republican Presi
dential candidates is on every
tongue in Washington. Governoi
Landon’s apparent popular lead
steadily increases. Whether he is
bated by his friends and his oppon
too far out in front is being de
ents. It is pointed out that four
years ago, in February, Franklin D.
Roosevelt was away out in front of
all the contenders for the Demo
cratic nomination, and he was the
party’s nominee. It is doubtful,
however whether Governor Landon
has at his command the well-or
ganized machinery for gathering
delegates which Mr. Roosevelt had
at that time.
Four out of five of the profes
sional political observers here are
now saying that the Republican
nominee will be “either Landon or
a dark horse.” Talk about a
“dark horse” usually brings up the
suggestion of Justice Roberts of
the Supreme Court. Senator Van
denberg seems to be emerging from
the dark-horse class into that of a
regular contender.
TO SELL NAVAL STORES
Washington — Reptftesentative
Frank Boykin of Mobile, Alabama,
announced that he received a letter
from G. E. Rathell, Commodity
corporation treasurer, stating that
he was authorized to say "the cor
poration’s present policy with res
pect to pledged stocks of gum nav
al stores contemplates the sale of
as much thereof, up to May 1, as
the market will absorb at current
prices.”
• Buy In "Greater Salisbury”.
Cigarette Sales
Show Increase
America’s "tobacco habit” is be
coming more and more a "cigarette
habit,” according to the trend
shown in a comparative statement
of internal revenue receipts from
the tax on tobacco manufacturers
during the calendar year 1934-3 5,
released by the Treasury Depart
ment.
While the total revenue from
the chewing and smoking tobacco
and snuff manufacturers during
193 5 dropped below the 1934 total,
the cigar manufacturing tax little
more than held its own, the cigar
ette manufacturing tax receipts,
most of which come from manu
facturers in North Carolina, show
ed a tremendous increase over 1934.
Federal receipts from the cig
arette manufacturers in 1934 to
talled $377,478,601 in 1934, and in
1935 it jumped to $405,855,259.
Of these sums, North Carolina
manufacturers paid in 1934, $204,
459,808, and in the past year
$220,245,503.
At the same time this increase
was noted, the federal revenue
from chewing, smoking and snuff
manufacture dropped from $61,
972,136 in 1934, to $61,263,933 in
193$. North Carolina manufac
turers contributions showed a simi
lar drop, from $22,216,395 in 1934
to $21,187,837 in 1935.
Total receipts from the tax on
cigar manufacturers were $11,
934,074 in 1934 and $12,002,008
in 1935, a gain of but $68,000.
North Carolina’s share of this tax
was small, but showed an increase
in 1935, when it was $73,811,
over 1934, when it was $64,747.
All kinds of printing done prompt
ly at The Carolina Watchman,
119 East Fisher St.
•ffHERE ARE A LOT Of
WORKING FOLKS THAT AIN'T
WHAT YOU’D CALL CLOCK
WATCHERS*" BUT THEY’RE
MIGHTY FINE WHISTLE
USTENERS.
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P ASSETS LIABILITIES gj
North Carolina Bonds-.$ 5,000.00 Serial Stock_$202,462.86 H
Stock in Federal Home Loan Paid-up Stock_ 263,600.00
H Bank - 2,700.00 Surplus and Undivided
& Cash in Bank, Checking Ac- Projfits __ 51741.81
count- 3,394.57 Indebtedness_ NONE H
First Mortgages on Real S
Estate_ 478,307.10 g
Loans on Pass Book Stock 12,553.00 H
Real Estate- 15,850.00
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