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Carolina Watchman
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^ POPULATION DATA
i&> (1930 Census)
Salisbury -16,951
Spencer _3,128
E. Spencer —_2,698
China Grove_1,258
Landis _1,388
Rockwell_ 696
Granite Quarry_ 507
Cleveland_ 43 5
Faith _ 431
Gold Hill_ 156
(Population Rowan Co. 56,665)
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1036
MAN’S GREATEST ENEMY
I am more powerful than the
combined armies of the world.
I have destroyed more men than
all the wars of the nations.
I am more deadly than bullets
and I have wrecked more home
than the mightiest siege guns.
I spare no one, and I find my
victims among the rich and poor
alike, the young and the old, the
strong and the weak. Widows and
orphans know me.
I loom up in such proportion^
that I cast my shadow over every
field of labor from the turning
point of the grindstone to the mov
ing of severy railway train.
I massacre thousands upon thou
sands of wage-earners in a year.
I lurk in unseen places. I do
most of my work silently. You are
warned against me, but you heed
not.
I am relentless.
I am everywhere—in the house,
on the streets, in the factory, at
crossings, and on the sea.
I destroy, crush, and maim. I
give nothing but take all.
I am your great enemy. I am
Carelessness.
EROSION A NATURAL PERIL
There are people in the United
States wiho have heard of eroison
and believe that the term is a fairy
word, describing a non-existent
danger, even, if occasionally some
tract of land is washed away by
heavy drainage.
mere are rarmers in many parts
of the nation who find it hard to
accept the statement that 735,
000,000 acres, once fertile, have
been damaged from 25 to 100 per
cent at a loss that is estimated at
ten billion dollars and that the
nation’s ability to feed itself in the
future is threatened.
However, this is the conclusion
of experts in the Soil Conservation
Service after a survey that covered
1,889,000,000 acres, all of which
was once fertile land. Counting
wind and water eroison the esti
mate shows that an area four times,
the size of Texas and 146 times the
size of Massachusetts have been
denuded of topsoil to an extent
varying from 52 to 100 per cent.
Viewing the nation as a whole
it is said that only the New Eng
land States and certain widely
separated areas in other sections
have escaped serious damage. If
the nearly 2,000,000,000 acres sur
veyed less than one-third had suf
fered no erosion damage and much
of this area is not adapted to agri
culture.
Certainly the nation faces a seri
ous problem' in preventing the loss
of valuable top-soil through erosion
It is a fight in which millions ofj
farmers should co-operate. They
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must be on the lookout for danger
signals, realizing that not all soil
loss comes through gullies or wind
storms, but that the gradual shav
ing off of the top soils of unpro
tected farms through "sheet wash
ing” is an enemy to be mastered.
THE PROGRESS OF
RECOVERY
According to the Federal Labor
Department, 88,000 persons were
added to the payrolls of the na
tion’s industries in the month of
May, making the total of new jobs
filled in the past year 650,000. In
the past four months a quarter of
the persons employed on Federal
work -relief projects have been
dropped, reducing the number so
supported by 700,000. Standard
Statistics reports that corporation
profits in the first five months of
this year are nearly 50 per cent
greater than in the corresponding
period last year.
All of these facts are distinctly
encouraging. They indicate clearly
that business in general is picking
up.
There is no adequate information
available, however, as to how much
of this increase in private employ
ment and business profits affects
different classes of business. A
large part of the reemployment
and profits is in retail trade, which
has benefitted most from the wide
spread distribution of Federal funds
to farmers, veterans, the unemploy
ed and the indigent. Some of the
newer industries are making great
er strides than the older ones.
Aviation in all of its aspects is ex
periencing something like a boom.
The building and building supply
industries, on the other hand, are
little, if any, ahead of where they
were three years ago.
We have been very busy this
year in replacing worn-out auto
mobiles, but widespread prosperity
md reemployment are not likely to
arrive until we start in earnest to
replace the obsolete homes of the
nation and build enough new ones
to house everybody who needs a
home.
INTERSTATE MOTOR
TRAFFIC
Problems arising out of com
merce between the states keep bob
bing up in the most unexpected
places and ways. The Constitu
tion of the United States, and the
Federal Government built upon
it, had their origin in disputes be
tween states over the control of
commerce on the Potomac and Del
aware Rivers. The newest phase of
the problem involves the right of
commercial automobiles from one
ocate to use the highways of an
other state without contributing
toward their maintenance. That
has long been a sore point in sev
eral states who6e highways lead
across them to major markets in
other states.
Now some of the western states
have taken the bull by the horns
and set up systems of controlling
the entry of commercial vehicles
from outside, by establishing what
they call "ports of entry” on e v’ery
interstate highway. Kansas has 65
of these ports of entry, with 176
operating them. Every commer
cial car with a "foreign” license
must stop on reaching a port of
entry and get a clearance before it
can proceed to use the highways of
Kansas. The vehicle itself is in
spected, its operator is required to
show that he has liability insurance
for the protection of Kansans who
might be injuried in their cars or
their persons while he is operating
his truck inside the state, and he
must also pay a tax toward the
maintenance of Kansas thorough
fares.
New Mexico, Nebraska and Ok
lahoma are experimenting with the
Kansas idea in various degrees.
Maine and Utah have incorporated
the plan in their motor vehicle re
gulatory systems, and bills to set
up such a system have been intro
duced into the legislatures of six
other states.
There is apparent merit on the
face of it, in requiring outsiders to
i pay for the commercial use of state
[owned highways. But the plant
seems to border closely on the verge
of Federal functions under the in
terstate commerce powers of Con
gress, especially as there are few, if
any, important highways for which
the Federal Government has not
contributed a large part of the
cost.
NEXT GOVERNOR OF NORTH
CAROLINA
The democracy of North Caro
lina has chosen wisely its nominee
for the Governorship in selecting
Hon. Clyde Hoey as against Dr.
Ralph McDonald.
Age, poise, judgment scholarli
ness, statesmanship and strength of
character are the proper attri
butes to be applied to Mr. Hoey.
Few men in North Carolina
should be more competently quali
fied to fill the high office of Gov
ernor of this great, achieving, pro
gressive commonwealth.
Mr. Hoey has emerged from this
campaign, which was allowed,
through no fault or suggestion of
his, to grow filthy in spots, with
his character untouched by the
prejudiced javelins of his oppon
ents.
In spite of the organized cam
paign of abuse and vituperation
which was engineered against him
for the mere ends of political suc
cess of his adversary, the mud
mac nab uccn &iung nas ici i mm
unstained and irreproachable in his
personal life and even brought
more conspicuously out into the
clear the fine qualities of patient
restraint and disciplined will and
tolerant spirit and Christian for
bearance of this abused and villi
fied statesman.
It must have cut into the quick
of a man of Mr. Hoey’s recognized
character and generally accepted
reputation to be forced into such
an atmosphere of cheap and vulgar
politics as he encountered in the
campaign just closed.
Men whose lives are lived out in
the open, who have no dark recesses
which they try to keep sheltered
from the spotlight of public curio
sity and contumely, who have
spent their whole careers among
their fellow citizens of North
Carolina and enjoyed the confi
dence, esteem and high regard of
their fellow-citizens, must revolt
against the type of maliciousness
that he has been compelled to suf
fer at the hands of political influ
ences bent primarily upon the
achievement of power and lured to
such tactics by their lust for of
fice.
Through it all, however, Mr.
Hoey has played the man of
strength and in patience "he has
possessed his soul.”
Offended as few men, of char
acter and without it, have ever
been offended in the long history
of political raillery in North Caro
lina, he has exercised a spirit of tol
erance and gentility that only adds
to the statue of sublimity of char
acter.
It has been this revelation of the
inner control and spiritual capaci
ties of Mr. Hoey, as he has been
confronted with his crucifiers who
knew not what they did, that
makes him loom larger than ever
as a character who will adorn the
office of the Governorship.
Admitting his superlative equip
ment in mind and in training and
in experience and in statecraft,
these can not seriously be question
ed by informed and intelligent
critics, that which reveals him now
as looming toweringly over the
head of his fellows, like a Saul a
mong his brethern, is this gentle
manliness under such wicked fire
a$ no man who 'has ever offered for
the Governorship of North Caro
lina has felt.
This newspaper has been among
the tens of thousands of well-wish
ers for Mr. (Hoey during the second
campaign. More than ever now, is
it convinced that its faith in him
was well placed.
Ip >■» rr ♦"/>«* mm in
basic attributes of personal char
acter than he has ever before had
opportunity to demonstrate, and
North Carolina is, therefore, to
have a Governor who, whatever
may be his accepted and recognized|
capacities in mind and in experi
ence, abounds in those graces and
in those virtues which can be fast
ened into one’s character by the
development of the deep and mast
erful spiritualities.
Our compliments to him, there
fore, not merely that he has won a
bitter and a gruesome battle with
an adversary whose popularity is
well attested by the enormity of
the vote received, but that he has
won for himself appreciation from
the fair-minded and sober-thinking
and justice-loving electorate ol
North Carolina for the nobility of
his convictions and for his personal
worthiness. Whatever else any
man may have, whether Governor
or lowly and forgotten, there is no
human asset comparable to that of
quality of character.—The Char
lotte Observer.
TIME TO THINK OVER
BONUS
Ima, O.—Albert McGill, 36
year old Negro veteran, will have
from one to 20 years in which to
meditate on how to spend his $762
in bonus bonds. Only a few hours
after the postman delivered the
bonds to his jail cell, McGill was
sentenced to the penitentiary for
manslaughter.
D
BACK IN the good old days when
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RIDING ON trains was in style
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ONE OF the favorite rackets
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WORKED BY some mothers was
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TO FIB a little about the age
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OF THEIR children in order to
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SAVE ON Vhe fare. Which re
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MINDS ME of an incident that
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HAPPENED SOME years ago, and
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THE CHIEF charaoter in our little
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DRAMA IS now a smart young
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BUSINESS MAN right here in
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TOWN. "STOP staring at that
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MAN, SAM,” said the mother to
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HER SON as they were riding
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ALONG ON the train. "Stop it,
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OR I’LL give you a slap.” The lad
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PUT ON a bold front. "Not a
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SINGLE SLAP, Mama,” he said,
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"OR I’LL tell the conductor how
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OLD I am.”
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I THANK YOU.
TODAY AND I
TOMORROW
—BY—
Frank Parker Stockbridge
(Continued from page One)
TAXES . . . and of line
I have been studying the revenue
act of 1936, passed in the closing
hours of the 74th Congress. It
proposes to raise $800,000,000 a
year of new revenue by a new
plan of taxation.—on corporate re
serves. If it does that it will cost
every one of us who earns a living
a little over four cents a day; for
nothing is more certain than this
tax, like all other taxes, will be
passed on to the ultimate consum
er, who are us.
We who earn the money pay the
taxes. We pay most of them to I
the involuntary tax collector, the
retail merchant. Concealed in thej
price of everything we J>uy are all
the taxes paid by the producer,
manufacturer and distributor allj
along the line. They pass their (
taxes on co us. The parade ends in
our pockets. We can’t pass them'
on. We are the end of the line.
• Buy In "Greater Salisbury”.
cAnother Ravage Outbreak---— ky a. b. Chapin
The Removal Of HOLC
(AN EDITORIAL)
While it is to be regretted that
the state offices of the HOLC
have been removed from Salisbury
to Greensboro, it should not be
overlooked that Salisbury was for
tunate .originally in being able to
land the state headquarters, thanks
to the influence and activity of
Congressman R. L. Doughton, of
this district. With Charlotte,
Greensboro, Raleigh and Asheville
bidding for the state headquarters,
Salisbury was selected over all of
fers and competition. That was
in 1933. Now that the primary
objectives of the formation of the
HOLC have been accomplished,
hundreds of thousands of homes
saved over the nation, and the
staffs of the various offices and
agencies reduced to a minimum,
it is only reasonable to suppose that
further economies via the consoli
dation route would be effected as
a matter of good business.
There appeared recently in the
press, as an advertisement, an open
letter to Hon. R. L. Doughton,
Representative in Congress of this
district, signed by representatives
of several business firms of this
city, regarding the removal from
Salisbury of the state offices. In
this advertisement, or "letter” if it
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may uc su wuaui
"statements of fact" with subse
quent "questions" were listed, de
manding that the Congressman of
this district "GET THAT OF
FICE BACK.."
Investigation will disclose that
Congressman Doughton has done
everything in his power to retain
the state office of the HOLC in
Salisbury; that he has repeatedly
and vigorously protested its remov
al to Greensboro and that he has
wholeheartedly and emphaticaly
urged its retention in the Rowan
county seat; however, in spite of
such protests, the HOLC authori
ties in Washington deemed it wise
to transfer these offices elsewhere.
Mr. Doughton secured the
HOLC for Salisbury, where the
state headquarters have been locat
ed for the past three years, employ
ing a large number of local peo
ple, bringing in a considerable
number of new citizens, releasing
a substantial payroll, and practi
cally every line of business in Sal
isbury and Rowan county has
benefited from this agency during
its maintenance here.
It might also be well to recite
that it was largely through the ef
forts of Mr. Doughton that Salis
bury and Rowan County have been
the beneficiaries of federal funds
for local projects, amounting to
approximately three quarters of a
million dollars. This would de
finitely indicate that Congressman
Doughton has been exceedingly ac
tive in the interest of his constitu
ents in Rowan County.
Hoey Opens
Campaign In
September
(Continued from page One)
Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Car
taret, Catawba, Chatham, Chero
kee, Crowan, Clay, Cleveland,
Craven, Currituck, Dare, David
son, Davie, Gaston, Gates, Gran
ville, Greene, Guilford, Haywood,
Henderson, Hoke, Iredell, Jackson,
Lincoln, McDowell, Macon, Madi
son, Mecklenburg, Mitchell, Mont
gomery, Onslow, Orange, Pamlico,
Pasquotank, Perquimas, Person,
Polk, Randolph, Robeson, Rock
ingham, Rowan, Rutherford,Samp
son, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Swain,
Transylvania, Tyrrell, Union,
Bance, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin,
Yancey.
Those carried by Dr. McDonald:
Allegheny, Bertie, Bladen, Caswell,
Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin,
Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth,
Franklin, Graham, Halifax, Har
nett, Hertford, Hyde, Johnston,
Jones, Lee, Lenoir, Moore, Nash,
New Hanover, Northampton, Pen
der, Pitt, Richmond, "Scotland,
Wake, Warren, Washington, Wil
son.
Hoey carried his home county of
Cleveland, receiving 11,25-4 to 1,
709 for McDonald.
McDonald carried his home
county of Forsyth, receiving 12,
757 to 6,445 for Hoey.
A farmer in Cabarrus County
has found out that it pays to de
worm pullets before placing them
in the laying house. Killing a hen
that was emaciated, he found in
her body 42 round worr , several
tape worms and pin worms "too
numerous to mention.”
Amateur Typing Record j
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wm
CHICAGO . . .. Miss Gioconda
Zumpano, 20, of Salt Lake City,
Is the amateur type-writing cham
pion of the world, having set a
new record of 106.7 words a min
ute in a national contest here. The
old record was 0.7 of a word less.
Tames Wild Birds
IfBT^WfaHI 1Hi ' ill1
VANCOUVER, B. C. . . . Charles
Edward Jones (above) of this dis
trict, is conceded to be the world's
champion wild bird tamer He has
more than 400 different species
in his private aviary, all so tame
that even strangers do not fright
en them. Photo shows Mr. Jones
with a tew of his friends.
Named Lemke Manager |
W Asti IN G't'O nT^ "ftJ s h e r UB^
dick (above), representative-at
large from North Dakota, has
been named campaign manager by
Representative Vm Lemke In his
race for the Presidency on the
new Union Party ticket
In Arkansas Flogging
LIT'rLE ROCfC^ArlcTTT^^
flogging by six men of Miss Willie
Sue Blagden, 29 (above) when Bhe
went to Earle, Ark., to investigate
the alleged beating-to-death of a
negro, is reported as being investi
gated by federal authorities.
BOOKED
"Well, mother,” said the smart
young fish, "I have been following
your advice since I was a minnow
and have been letting those plump,,
juicy worms strictly alone, I think.
I am now old enough to go on my/
own hook.”
And he did.