v Watchman ESI A NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF ROWAN COUNTY FOUNDED 1^32—105TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1936 ' VOL. 104 NO. 2 PRICE 2 CENTS The other day we got into the car and motored out to Quaker town, Pa., where my friend Charley Meredith runs one of the best country weekly newspapers I know of the Quakertown Free Press. I was struck J>y the apparent prosperity of that section. I talked with several business men and a number of farmers in Bucks coun ty. It’s good farming country and there is no distress that I could learn of among the farmers there. Very few people are on relief. About the only sign of relief act ivities are the trainloads of city unemployed sent out to work on some projects in the southern part of the country. Self-reliance is a traditional char acteristic of these strudy Quaker and "Pennsylvania Dutch” people. » • » HOUSES . . . 2-ft. walls We had luncheon in an old stone farm house built more than 200 years ago and still occupied by descendants of the original builder. We saw rundreds of similar stone houses, with two-foot walls and state roots, built to witnstana the elements. There is plenty of stone all round that region, both red sandstone and limestone, and the early settlers did what the first set tlers in every new country always do—built their homes of the native materials close at hand. We hear a great deal about "pre fabricated” homes, built of steel or plastic slabs made in factories, and I have no doubt that we shall see great developments in that line. But I think they will be mostly erected in city suburbs. They arej not likely to replace local materials, where those, are available, assem bled by local labor in country dis tricts fhere almost every man can! turn his hand to carpentry or mas-| j oary. j, WASHINGTON . . . crossing 1 We crossed the Delew are River »t the. ’very spec where George Washington crossed it in a rowboat on his historic retreat from Tren ton. The bridge at Washington’s Crossing connects two state parks, one maintained by Pennsylvania and the other by New Jeisey. Paralleling the Delaware River on both sides are canals, dug by early colonists to provide safe navi gation no matter what the stage of «-Ua wifflr WT-SC in file river. Both canals have been long since aban doned except as millraces for oc casional sawmills and gristmills along the river bank. But the State of Pennsylvania is making a park a hundred miles long out of the banks and bed of the old Delaware Canal, to provide picnic and recrea tion grounds and smooth, safe wa ters for canoeing. Even an abandoned canal has its uses. « * * GADGETS ... seme wanted I saw a new g idget the other day which its makers tell me is selling faster than they lan turn it out. It is a garbage grinder that you put in the kitchen sink. It grinds the table and kitchen waste to a fine powder which is then washed down the drain, saving all the labor and smells of garbage cans and their emptying. It struck me that its inventor was a genius. It takes a genius to forsee that people are going to want something which hasn’t yet been made. Forty years ago there was no public demand for automobiles or radios. Nobody had ever seen them so nobody knew that they wanted them. Half of the things that wo men buy in the stores are things they did not know they wanted un til they saw them in the show windows. Too many inventors, on the oth er hand, make the mistake of try ing to produce something which they think people ought to have, without knowing enough about human nature to realize that the things we ought to have are not always the things we want. «• * » SPORT ... the rules I have no sympathy with the conception of sport as an organized business. Even the so-called ama teur sports are becoming largely that. I confess, however, that I arr unable to share the popular indig nation over the dismissal of Mrs (Continued on page Four) CITY TO GET FED. SECURITY OFFICE ' ' " ' '" ■■"■" ' ■■ 1 ■' 1 — - - ■ ■ — _ ■ - ‘ ^ ^— Watchman Completes 104th Y&k Salisbury Will Get One Of Two Federal Offices Doughton Says Is To Be Permanent Or ganization And Under Civil Service. OPEN ABOUT NOV. 1. Congressman R. L. Doughton, who was in town this week to ad dress the members of the Pomona Grange at their annual meeting, stated that Salisbury is to have one of the twp National Security of fices that are to be located in this state, and the other will be in Ral eigh, the state capital. The office here will open some time in October or November and it is expected to be a permanent or-1 ^anization. With the exception of the dis :rict manager, the personnel will >e under civil service. Mr. Dough on believes the organization will ;row and become a large unit. A census of employment of the rariou* business and industrial es :ablisbments will be compiled to bring them under the old-age re tirement system. The state' is to work in cooperation with the Fed eral unit. Salisbury and community gives Congressman Doughton due credit for one of th$ offices being located here. He pointed out that the geo graphic location was ideal, it being centrally located with such a large industrial, population.. “The Good Old Days” Are Here Again Yes, sir, Pete Nossar, of the China Grove Department Store, China Grove, says "The Good Old Days Are Here Again.” Pete gives the Roosevelt admin istration credit for a big part in the returning of the "Good Old Days,” but says the values which are to be found in his store for the next few days will make these days even better than the good old days of the old. This popular merchandising con cern is now in the middle of their great expansion sale, and are offer ing unheard of prices on new sea sonable merchandise, and invites i the public down to see them Friday and Saturday. This sale is under the personal direction of Mr. McDoffie of the McDoffie sales system of Lexing ton, and everything has been done to make the event profitable to you in every respect. They have ar ad in this issue of The Watchman Read it, and give them a call. 709,400 Persons Get Drivers Licenses " Raleigh.—Ronald Hocutt, assist ant director of the State Divisior of Highway Safety, said 709,40( persons received automobile driver licenses between November 1, wher the law requiring licenses wen into effect, and July 1. Of this number, 64,613 paid $: each after the time limit for fre< licenses expired early in the year Eight hundred ninety persons wcri refused licenses because of inability to drive. Centen’s Sweetheart SAN ANTONIO . . . Janice Jar- -j ett, this 'town's model beauty, has been commissioned the “Sweet heart ot the Texas Centennial by Governor Allred, to rule during the celebrations now under way. Salisbury Tax RateNow$1.35 The city council, in special ses sion Wednesday morning, adopted the budget for the current fiscal year which calls for estimated re venues and expenditures of $489, 428.42. The budget is based on a tax rate >f $1.25, which is 10 cents higher than last year because of that amount having been voted in a spe cial election to add a ninth month to the school term. Other provi sions of the budget are practically the same as last year, it is stated. Publishers Of Small Papers Meet Today Concord.—Publishers of weekly, semi-weekly and tri-weekly news papers in the Piedmont district of North Ca/olina are to meet Friday at the Kannapolis Y. M. C. A. ban quet hall for the purpose of organ izing a press association in this area. Jake Wade, sports editor of The Charlotte Observer, has been in vited to make a short talk, and music will be furnished by a well known orchestra. B. Arp Low rance, publisher of The Mecklen i burg Times, is also slated to talk. ( T. 1HL Wingate and J. I.. Moore of The Kannapolis Independent are | handling arrangements for the j event. Wilson, Moore Rum Shops Clear $100,045 Wilson.—Profits from jointly operated liquor stores in Wilson and Moore counties during their first year of operation totaled $100, 045.89. Arranges Funeral For His Two Sons, Finds Them Alive Nemacolin, Pa.—A grief-strick en father trudged slowly home aft er making funeral arrangements foi his two sons—and found then alive. Joseph Swartz, a WPA worker 1 earlier had identified the bodies o : two boys taken from the Monon i gahela river as his 12-year-old soi ■ Thomas and 11-year-old step-son Francis Pytack. While he made plans for thei ! funeral at an undertaking of fie . | in Masontown, the boys were sat : at home, playing in the yard. • Buy In "Greater Salisbury”. Roosevelt Foes Blinded By Greed Or Ignorance Declares Olin Johnston Columbia, S. C.—Governor Olin Johnston defended policies of the Roosevelt administration and lashed its critics in an address here. "Most of these critics are blinded by selfishness or ignorance,” he said. "With their own nearsighted gaze, they cannot sdb the prophetic vision of President Roosevelt whose aims are not only for his term of office, not only for his generation, but for generations ?yet to come.” The Governor said the President's "insight into the heeds of this country” and his "courage to tread where no man has trod” were build ing up "a carefully^lanned eco nomic structure whose worth we cannot begin to appreciate.” President Roosevelt’s mistakes, "although admitted, by him,” John ston said, "are few in comparison with the vast benefits he has con ferred upon this nation.” The Governor said opponents of the "New Deal” have cried "ex travagant,” and "dictator” but similar charges were made against George Washington, Thomas Jef ferson and Woodrow Wilson. "The Republicans are not so ill advised,” he asserted, "as to go to the country with the promise that they will sepnd less on relief than the average of 7.50 per week 4, 200.000 were attempting to live on in August. "Neither will they disallow the 925.000 home loans made by the HOLC, or the 700,000 farm loans made by the land banks and land bank commissioners. “Neither, if they are wise, will they argue that the 475,000 CCC workers, 75 per cent of whose $)0 a month goes to their dependents, are overpaid. "On the contrary, they will doubtless find themselfes before the campaign is over, climbing into bed with some such money-spending group as the Townsenders.” Doughton Praises Farm Program In Speech At Grange Meet Wednesday Citing the AAA, the farm credit administration act, the . establish ment of the-CCC camps and est ablishment of good roads as ac complishments of the present ad ministration in aiding agriculture, Congressman Robert L. Dough ton was the principal speaker here Wednesday before several hundred Rowan county farmers at the fifth annual meeting of the Pomona Grange, held at Peeler’s Lake. Mr. Doughton told the audience, that he was born on a farm and had been striving to aid agricul ture for more than 25 years in congress. He stated Rowan farmers had good* land, good climate and a proximity to market, three essen tial advantages. The veteran legislator pointed out that in 1921 farm prices began to decline which precipitated farm ers into heavy debt, caused many to go into bankruptcy, and the | lack of purchasing power of the | farmer induced a national ecnomic disaster to all lines of business act ivity, the speaker said. "The administration found it self in this situation in 1933 and President Roosevelt called upon the farmers to evolve some plan by which they might solve their prob lems. The AAA was the result and while this agency was in ef fect prices of all farm products advanced from a starvation level t to that which enabled the farmer to make a profit. __ Cotton at 5 cents a pound, tobacco at 3 to 4 cents a pound, were some of the disastrous prices in existence.” Mr. Doughton held no censure of the Supreme Court for declar ing the act unconstitutional but I pointed out that the present admin i istration had supplanted the AAA ! with he present soil conservation ! program. Mr. Doughton stated that this State had received $29,000,000 ifrom the Federal treasury since 1933 for good roads, and that he | had asked to be removed as a mem ber of the House committee on ! banking and currency in 1916 in ■ i order to serve as a member of the II roads committee. | WIFE WINS AGAIN ■j "My wife won an argument : | with me this morning by a hair?’ : "What_was the argument, hand j some?” "That I’d have a blonde’s head I resting on my shoulder.” Protected Americans | BOSTON . . . Eric C. Wendelin. 31, of Quincy, Mass., third secre tary of the American embassy at Madrid, Spain, was in command when riots and revolution started ilitre and it was up to him to pro tect hundreds of Americans who rushed to the embassy. Auto Sales In N. 0. Increase Raleigh.—Sales of new automo-j biles and trucks spurted in July,! the motor vehicle bureau reports,! with a total of 8,230 compared] with 7,483 in July 1935 and only 5,261 in June this year. There were 6,170 new cars and 2,060 new trucks sold last month, compared with 6,053 cars ana 1,430 trucksj in July 193 5 and 4,282 cars and 979 trucks in June. For seven months this year car sales totalled 28,2zl and trucks 8, 872 compared with 31,972 cars and 8,021 trucks in the similar period of 1935. Pigeon Is Back At Home After 2,000 Mile Flight White Plains, N. Y.—Two years ago Fred McCane, an explorer, re leased in Colombia 12 pigeons own ed by H. P. Urban, of White Plains. Four flew back to White Plains, completing the 2,000-mile journey in two weeks. The others were thought to have perished. But today Louis, a \2-yurposes of comparison, Draper said, because it represented "ap jroximately the bottom” of busi less activity. Home-Coming At Organ Church Sunday The annual home-coming , at his toric Organ Lutheran church, in eastern Royan, will be held Sun day, with an all-day program to be given. Escaper Surrenders Voluntarily To Local Jailer Stating that he was "ready to go back and build ’em,” Frank Finney, white man of this county who was sent to the roads for 20 months last March and who escaped from t|ie Mt. Pleasant camp a short time ago, went to the county jailer here about 2 o’clock Tuesday morning and surrendered himselft He stated to the jailer that he had been on a short vacation in New York City. He was sentenced for breaking and entering and lar ceny and receiving. N. C. Ranks Eighth In Reducing Auto Deaths Raleigh.—Arthur Fulk, director of highway safety, announces tabu lations on automobile fatalities by an insurance company showed that North Carolina ranked eighth in 28 States in reducing deaths for the first six months of this year. A reduction of 9 per cent foi the State was noted, with 439 autc deaths in six months this year anc 480 in the similar period of 1935 "And to my divorced wife 1 leave a kiss,” concluded the wil of J. C. Roberts of St. Louis, whid i disposed of a $250,000 estate. State's 4dest Paper Growing In Service Founded By Hamilton C. Jones in 1832 And Has Been In Continuous Publication Since. 5th Year In Present Plant The Watchman ha* had another birthday. Last week we celebrated our 105 th anniversary. We are starting our 105th year with this issue with a determination to be of a greater service to the people of Salisbury and Rowan County, and to all others with whom we come in contact. Foj? one hundred and four years this newsaper has served the peo ple of Rowan and adjoining coun ties. In 1845, The Watchman had subscribers in 51 counties in North Carolina. This was before the ad vent of the daily newspapers in the larger cities of thes tate. The watchman has ever been devoted to the upbuilding of the . city, county, trite and nation. Whether or not this newspaper has made a worthy contribution toward . , these political subdivisions is for others to say. . i It is a fact, however, that during the long span of its existence, The Watchman has played a constant » part in the building up of the com munity it serves. A brief outline of the history of The Watchman follows: Founded July 28, 1832, by Wil liam Hamilton C. Jones, Esq. Purchased in 1839 by M. C. Pendleton and J. J. Bruner. Part nership dissolved in 1843, Mr. Bru ner retiring, selling his one-half in terest to Mr. Pendleton. In 1844 Mr. Bruner, in partner ship with Samuel W. James, re purchased The Watchman. Six years later Mr. Bruner bought out the interest of Mr. James and be came the sole owner. Mr. Bruner continued the pub lication of the paper until his death in 1890. The Watchman was then sold to the Stewart family and W. H. Stewart published it until 1931. Upon the death of Mr. Stewart, the paper was purchased by The Carolina Watchman Publishing Company, which corporation now publishes it. With this issue The watchman starts on its 105th year of printing and publishing, and we now have the best equipped shop that we have ever had. In December, 1933, we purchas ed modern machinery and moved to our present location, 119 East Fisher street, where we have con stantly been adding new and mod ern equipment for our job printing department and are now in a posi tion to render you the best of ser vice in this line. Help us to make The Watchman a better paper by asking your friends and neighbors to become news from your communityM,lf one of our readers. You can also help us to print a , better paper by sending us the local I news from your community each week. STILL OUT Harduppe: "I say, old fellow, can you lend me a dollar for a day ■\ r> or so? Tyte: "I’m very sorry, but the dollar I keep for lending purposes is out at present. However, I can put your name on my waiting list.