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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*0® 6 Months- -I® 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-2,098 China Grove_1,258 Landis -1,388 Rockwell_ 696 Granite Quarry_ 5 07 Cleveland- 435 Faith’ _ 431 Gold Hill _ 156 (Population Rowan Ce. 56,665) "DON’T” FOR A HAPPY FOURTH Fourth of July is a safer holiday nowadays than it used to foe—but it still results in a great number of deaths and accidents. The stra gedy is that all those accidents and deaths are preventable. You can have a "safe and sane” Fourth that is also an ejoyable Fourth—If you’ll remember the following list of "dont’s”: 1. Don’t forget that the proof of Fourth of July patriotism is Hame protection. 2. Don’t shat your eyes to the great Fourth of July hazards: Fire works, automobiles, drownings, fires, firearms, falls, poisons. 3. If you must have home fire works, see that they are the safest procurable. 4. Tell the children why home fireworks are always dangerous. 5. Don’t neglect to clear your premises of all rubish. 6. Don’t discharge fireworks near buildings. Get out in the open. 7. Don’t let children play with matches. Keep matches lout of ’ their reach. 8. Don’t let children throw sparklers. They remain hot some time and are dangerous. 9. Don’t let children discharge fireworks unattended. 19. Don’t let children stand too close to fireworks that are being AischarsteA. 11. Djon’t let children pick up undischarged fireworks. They might explode. 12. Don’t keep fireworks in the home uncovered. Keep in tin box until used. 13. Don’t forget, above all, that most Ffourth of July accidents can be prevented. THE DEMOCRATIC PLAT j FORM The Democratic platform, adopt ed un?/iimously at Philadelphia, is commended for its brevity and conciseness. There is little side stepping and as little straddling, and, if platforms mean anything to the voter, the ten minutes spent in reading this one will be worth the time. The redbrd of the Democratic party covering the past four years is defended and commended in the "self-evident truths” that form a prelude to the party pledges. It enumerates certain inescapable obli gations that government in a mod ern civilization owes to the people, and that these lobligations shall not be neglected. The platform points with pride to party accomplishments in the protection of homelife, in the safe guarding of savings and invest ments, and the foundations it has built for the security of tHose who - I — are faced with the hazards of un employment and old age. It defends the power rate yard sticks, and declares that as a result electricity has been made available to the people at a lower rate, and pledges the party to a continuance of the program of rural electrifi cation. The document declares that "we have taken the farmers off the road to ruin . . . and promises a fair minded administration of agricul tural laws,and will seek to recognize and meet new problems and condi tions.” The labor plank is the broadest ever written into a party platform and what is more it is backed by past performance covering collec tive bargaining and self-organiza tion, free from ,the interference of employers. Unemployment is looked upon a< a national problem to be dealt with by the national government, rathei than through donflicting effort of forty-eight state legislatures. It promises .to maintain the lettei and spirit of the constitution, and that if problems cannot be effec tively solved by legislation within the constitution, clarifying amend ments will be bought to assure the proper power to deal with such problems within the jurisdiction of state ana national government. It endorses the merit system in government and through the class ified civil service, promises to em brace the many (Continuing posi tions which, because of emergency have been exempt from its opera tion. Again the platform is committed to a reduction in the expenses of government, and says: "Our re trenchment, tax and recovery pro grams thus reflect (our firm deter mination to achieve a balanced bud get and the reduction of the na tional debt at the earliest possible moment. Granting that platforms may be variously construed and that they are designed and built with a cer tain amount of flexibility, this one is sufficiently emphatic that if any ambitious soul unscrews a plank and scampers off with it, same can be used to build a fire under his feet. THIRD PARTIES The launching of a "third party” in this year’s Presidential campaign was not unexpected by shrewd ob servers, but nobody saw, a month ago, the combination of elements which have united to form the new Union Party. Back of its Presidential candidate, Represen tative William Lemke (of North Dakota, there are lined up, so far Father Coughlin and his Union for Social Justice and Dr. F. E. Town-i send, with his following of devotees of the Old Age Revolving Pension plan. Mr. Lemke himself is spokes man for a large element of farmers and others in the Northwest who hold that the way out of our eco nomic difficulties is by the issu ance of more money, regardless /of its gold backing. Not every third! party move ment has been entitled to be taken as seriously as this one. Whether or not the Union Party will de flect more votes fi'om the Demo cratic ticket or from the Republi can candidates no one now can pre dict; but that it will get a large vote in many states is hardly to be doubted. It is a new factor in the campaign, and one seriously do be reckoned with by both sides. Literally, of course, the Union Party is not the "third” party. Officially recognized in every state is the Socialist Party. In nearly all states the Communist Party has long had a place on the official ballot. In several states the Farmer-Labor party is the do minant one. Indeed, the Farmer Labor party, with one Senator and three Representatives in Congress, and the Progressive Party, with a Senator and seven Representatives, might properly be called the “third” and "fourth” parties. The test of a political party’s real strength, however, lies in its ability to carry states for its Presi dential electors. Only twice since the Civil War has a third party done that. The People’s Party, in 1892, won 22 electoral votes, and the Progressive Party of 1912 poll ed 88 votes for Thebdore Roosevelt in the Eelctoral College. Its name remains, but its influence does not extend far beyond the borders of Wisconsin. The Republicans who flocked to the Bull Mbose standard under "Teddy’s” leadership are now the nucleus around which the Re publican Party itself has been reor ganized. BACK TO THE FARH More Americans are living on farms today than ever before in the nation’s history, according to a replort just made public by the United States Bureau of Census, There were 31,800,907 in the farm population of Jan. 1. 1935. That is 1,356,557 more than on April 1, 1930, when the last previous farm census was taken. This increase in the farm popu lation may seem, at first glance, somewhat difficult to account for in view jof the widespread talk about distress and starvation a mong the farmers of America. But everybody who knows anything about rural America knows that there are two kinds of farmers. One is the speculative, commercial farmer, usually loperating on a one crop basis, whose situation is com parable more to that of a business man than to the typical farmer of tradition. The economic distress among this class (of farmers is far from being typical o'f farmers gen erally. It affects probably less than a quarter of all American farmers. The typical American farmer operates the "family type” farm. He has for the most part been neither a claimant for nor a bene ficiary of political efforts tf> "do something for the farmer.” With him, farming is a mode of living rather than an effort to enrich himself. And most of the new population Ion the farms falls into this class. According to the Director of the Census most of the current increase in farm population consists of fami lies who have rtloved back from industrial centers to the security and peace of the land. They are "subsistence farmers” in the phrase now current. They are the type of Americans who prefer to dig their own living out of the soil, even at the cost of remoteness from the movies, rather than to go on relief. Stokes County tobacco growers report a reduction of 20 per cent bellow the planned acreage this sea son due to the recent drouth. THERE IS only one place in this * * • TOWN WHERE the little incident * * * OUTLINED HERE could have * * «■ HAPPENED, BUT even at that * * * WE ARE not mentioning any » * * NAMES. "I wane to buy a present # * * FOR MY wife,” said a certain * * * WELL-KNOWN man to the * • • MANAGER OF this store. "How * * • LONG HAVE you been married, * * * SIR?” ASKED the manager, "ten * * * YEARS,” WAS the reply. "O. K.” * * * WAS THE prompt reply pf the * * * MANAGER, "THIS way to the * * * BARGAIN BASEMENT, sir.” * * * I THANK YOU. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON (Continued from page 1) campaign is being borne out. John Hamilton, the new Republican na tional chairman, is actively taking the field and expects to live mostly in airplanes for the next four mon ths. Col. Knox, vice-presidential candidate, will make more speeches than will Gov. Landon. Mr. Lan don, however, after a short vaca tion, plans also to "take the stump” and speak at several strate gically selected times and places. Again, as in 1932, Mr. Roosevelt will himself be the principal speaker for the Democratic ticket. Vice President Garner is not expected to be heard from. Postmaster General Farley, Democratic national chair man, expresses complete confidence in the practically unanimous re election of Mr. Roosevelt. One point of agreement here is that as things stand today the out look is for a very close election. All who make the study of such things their business are also agreed that the presidential contest in the long run comes down to the per sonalities lof the heads of the respec tive tickets. The. men themselves, Roosevelt and Landon, will count for a great deal more with the gen eral run of voters than will the party platforms. L. A. Zimmerman, Marshall, route 3, is proving that erosion on steep mountain farm land can be controlled by strip cropping and terracing. —READ THE WATCHMAN— <5fte Qee-lorious fourth-—— by A. B. Chapin /geeA l that* \ \ TM'NLTTSy - 4 GEE- \ TWO WHOLE I DAYS FOR A > HOLIDAY-*/ TODAY AND TOMORROW —BY— Frank Parker Stock.br.idge "TASHMOO” ... in race When the big excursion steam boat "Tashmoo” struck a rock in the Detroit River the other day and sank just as her captain beached her, the news carried my memory back 3 5 years, to Memorial Day, 1901. That was the day of the great steamb|Oat race on Lake Erie between the "Tashmoo” and the "City of Buffalo.” Both boats had been designed by the same man, Frank Kirby, one of America’s greatest naval architects. The "City of Buffalo” was design ed for overnight freight and pas senger service between Buffalo and Cleveland; the "Taschmioo” for car rying big excursion crowds up the Detroit River to Belle Isle Park. They were the two fastest raft that had ever navigated the Great Lakes and the question as to which was the faster of the two was so hotly disputed in shipping circles that, finally, permission was obtained from the U.S.Steamboat Inspection to stage a race between them. Enormous stakes were put up and hundreds of thousands of dollars in side bets. A measured 100-mJe course was marked off between Cleveland and Erie, Pennsylvania. The "Tashmoo” went into dry dock and had her bottom scraped and oiled for the event. The "City of Buffalo” made her regular over-j night trip to Cleveland, discharged cargo and passengers, took on coal and turned around without further preparation. I was on the press boat which went out from Buffalo to see the finish of the race. It was about as exciting a sporting event as I ever witnessed—and about as close. The "City of Buffalo” beat the "Tash-j moo” by less than one minute ini 100 miles! • * * SIDE WHEELERS . . . for me Somehow I have always been more interested in the Old-fashioned side wheel steamboats than I have ever been able to get about the big lin ers. I suppose that is because' my first venture to sea was on a r>de wheeler, the old "City of Portland,” which ran <between Portland and Boston overnight, and was lost without a trace some 25 years ago. I have travelled on almost all of America’s inland water ways on paddle-wheel steamboats, side wheelers and stern wheelers, and nothing concerned with navigation gives me quite such a kick as see iny the Fall River steamboat go up the East Rive-r, past my dining room window in New York. * * + MEDAL ... for George M. I think it was a fine thing for( the Senate of the United States to| vote an award of a gold medal to George M. Cohan for his service to the United States during the World War. George Cohan’s service con sisted in writing the most inspiring of all the American war songs, "Over There.” T nrkn it W4C flat said that he did Hot care who wrote! the laws of a country if he could be allowed to write the songs. There is more power to stir men’s souls and move them to action in the songs that everybody can sing than in all the laws that ever were made. It is quite possible that before the present presidential campaign ends somebody will write and set to music a campaign song so powerful in its popular appeal that it will de cide the election. That has happen ed before. 3b * * REGROUPING . . . regions More and mtore the idea is talked about regrouping the United States into regions instead of states. It was the main topic discussed at the Institute of Regional Development held rerently at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Certainly, most of our economic and social problems are regional. None is nation-wide; few are limit ed to a single state. If any group of states, such as New England, could agree by treaty among them selves to act as a unit on all matters Congress would have to ratify the treaty. But there are political limits to any regional plan. No state will give up its right to an equal voice in the Senate, for example. On the other hand, Texas can, whenever it wants to, send 10 Senators to Washington instead of two, for under the terms of its ad mission to the Union in 184$ it was given the right to divide itself into five states at any future time. I don’t expect to see that happen, nor any other material change from the present set-up of states. * * * FLETCHER . . . canal For 3$ years Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida bent his efforts to the digging of a canal across the Florida peninsula. He lived just long enough to win a victory for his pet project and his beloved state in the Senate; he died before the House of Representatives turned the canal project down. Duncan Fletcher was a great man and a great statesman. The Florida Canal will eventually be built. It will stand as an enduring monu ment to Senator Fletcher. • Buy In "Greater Salisbury”. | 3Vz Interest Rate Continuing Columbia, S. C., July 2.—Julian H. Scarborough, general agent of the Farm Credit Administration of Columbia and president of the Fed eral Land Bank 4>f Columbia, has been notified by Albert S. Goss Land Bank Commissioner at Wash ington, that the action of Congress approved by President Roosevelt on June 23, continues f(or one year the temporary Federal Land Bank in terest which otherwise would have expired on June 30. The 3 % per cent rate, will be ef fective for all interest payable in the year beginning July 1, 1936 on nearly $2,000,000 of Federal Land Bank loan made through National Farm Loan associations, according to the message from Mr. Goss. The continuation of the 3 % per cent rate for one year takes the place of the 4 per cent rate that would have prevailed for the com ing year. and the succeeding year Mr. Goss said. Under the law as now amended land bank borrowers will resume on July 1, 1937 inter est payments at the rates at which their loans were written originally. GREAT NEW NOVEL "Box Car,” new serial of a girl who was trapped by the fire of flaming love, starts in the July 12 issue of the American Weekly, the big magazine which somes every Sunday with the BALTIMORE AMERICAN. Get your copy from your newsdealer or newsboy. HOLLYWOOD BEAUTIES A full page of pictures reveal ing glamorous Hollywood stars at work and play in featured every week in the BALTIMORE AMER ICAN, the big Sunday newspaper. Get your copy from your favorite newsboy or newsdealer. BETTER JULY SALE OF LATE MODEL USED CARS OPEN UNTIL 9 O’CLOCK 18 months payments as low as $20.00 per month. Your car as down payment. 193 $ Dodge Sedan 193 5 Chevrolet Coupe 1935 Plymouth Coupe (2) 193$ Dodge Coach 1934 Chevrolet Coach 1934 Plymouth Coach 1934 Chevrolet Coupe and others. Also cheap cars. 1929 Buick. Sedan-125.00 1928 Chevrolet Coach- $5.00 1928 Chevrolet Sedan- £5.00 1929 Chevrolet Sedan-145.00 1930 Chevrolet Coach — 185.00 1929 Chevrolet Roadster — 95.00 2 "T” Model Fords ___ 15.00 McCANLESS MOTOR COMPANY THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT THRIFT fe*-—--—[ g Statement June 1, 1936 H H ASSETS North Carolina Bonds_$ 5,000.00 Stock in Federal Home Loan H Bank - 3,000.00 & Cash in Bank- 13,082.63 First Mortgages on Real p Estate - 491,210.00 Loans on Pass Bobk Stock_11,108.00 Real Estate- 15,850.00 Furniture and Fixtures_ 56.70 fc - 2 $539,307.33 m LIABILITIES g Serial Stock_$207,3 51.33 ^ Paid-up Stock_ 281,500.00 Surplus and Undivided ^ Profits_ 50,456.00 X P ►—I Indebtedness_ NONE 5 $539,307.33 g p We have MONEY to LEND to BUY, BUILD, RE- 1 MODEL or REFINANCE your home, at 6% interest, h with small monthly payments. 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