Newspapers / Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) / Sept. 11, 1936, edition 1 / Page 4
Part of Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
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 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 _1,3-88 Rockwell_ 696 Granite Quarry_ 507 Cleveland_ 43 5 Faith’ ___ 431 Gold Hill _ 156 (Population Rowan Co. 56,665) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936 ___ LIFE'S BESTS > r /•:*.' ■ LIFE’S BESTS ARE SUMMAR IZED BY The Pennsylvania School Journal and the job is superlatively done. The best law—The Golden Rule. The best education—Self-know ledge. The best philosophy—A conten ted mind. The best theology—A pure and beneficent life. The best war—to war against one’s weakness. The best medicine—Cheerful ness and temperance. The best music—The laughter The best science—Extracting sunshine from a cloudy day. The best journalism—Printing the true and beautiful on memory’s tablet. The best telegraphing—Flashing a ray of sunshine into a gloomy heart. The best biography—That life which writes chairty in the largest letters. The best mathematics—That which doubles the joy and divides the most sorrows. The best navigation—-Steering clear of the lacerating rocks of per sonal contention. The best diplomacy—Effecting a treaty of peace with one’s own tunaciciicc. The best engineering—Building a bridge of faith over the river of death. NEW LIGHT ON CHAIN STORES As a result of investigations into the chain store situation, made by the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Bureau of the Census, new light has lately been thrown upon the extent and effect of chain store operations. It develops that while the num ber of independently-owned retail stores increased by 46,000 between 1929 and 1933, the number of chain stores decreased by 6,400 in the same period. Chain stores, it is reported, do about 25 percent of all the retail business of the nation. In the grocery and food field they do about five-fifths of the total volume of business. Their prices to consumers, the Trade Commis sion reports, are about 8.1% below those charged by competing retail ers. According to the Census Bureau figures, the average wages of chain store employees are $1,079 a year, and those paid by independent store owners about $947 a year. On the vexed qftstion whether chain stores take money out of a community, the Institute of Dis tribution points out that all the i WE WOULD like to mention a * * * NAME TODAY, but rules are still * * * IN THIS column. Most of our * * * READERS KNEW the man whom * * ■ OUR LITTLE drama centers to * * * DAY, SO it will likely prove just ■ * * * ■ AS INTERESTING as if we did * >r * CALL A name or two. “Did your * * ♦ GRANDFATHER LIVE to a ripe * a- # OLD AQJE?” asked one local citi * * * ZEN OF another just this week. ♦ ♦ * “NO,” WAS the very prompt re * * * PLY. “HE lived to a green old * * * AGE. HE was badly swindled four * * * TIMES AFTER reaching the age ♦ * * OF 70.” * * * [ THANK YOU. money any retailed takes in, except what he pays for local help and rent and his own profit, if any, goes out of town, to the whole- I sale houses from which he bu^s. It is also pointed out the average salary of a chain store manager who if he is a good manager de fends largely upon his local con :acts and part in the community ife for the success of his store, imounts to as much as the average ndependent small retail merchant makes in nef profits. ; And that’s the story of the chain ] store, based on these reports. COMMUNISM VS. FASCISM i Two concepts of government, ‘ both relying upon force, are war- j ring for control of the world. They ire Communism and Fasicsm. The present civil war in Spain is distin- ( :tly a war between these two for- 1 :es. When Spain rose in rebellion 1 igainst its ancient monarchy and ^ txpelled its King, the idea of the .eaders of the revolution was to set ] ap a democratic form of govern- 1 ment, a republic somewhat on American lines. The Spanish people, having never j had any experience or training in j self-government, fell an easy prey \ to the Communist propaganda, and t two years ago the government got ( into Communist hands. Now the ' [eaders of the auri-monarchist re- , volution are in rebellion against the Communist government, seeking to < set up another sort of dictatorship, < of the type to which Mussolini ^ gave the name of Fascism. It has been Europe’s experienc that only a dictatorship can ovei come Communism, once that doc- ; trine has taken root among the 1 masses. Communism is interna ' tional. From Moscow the effort is unceasing to stir up discontent all over the world and convert the workers to its program of seizur of power by force. The first na tion to feel this influence after the World War was Italy. Communism threatened the throne and the church. Mussolini’s bold seizure! of power was a successful effort,! with King and Church giving tacitj encouragement, to resist force withi force and set up a stable govern ment. Hitler’s rise to power in Ger many came about in much the same way. A Communist uprising was imminent among the impov erished German people. Hitler seiz ed the opportunity to gain control of the government and its armed forces, and has brought about a semblence of internal order, though at a frightful cost not only in hu man lives but in the suppression of human liberties. We in America want neither Communism nor Fascism. We have learned how to operate a de mocracy and we will sustain it. I-11 ‘Which ‘Way, ‘Wind?- by A. B. Chapin ' 'THE WIND is Blowing . THIS \WAY — I '/'s-TQAW _ vore / ! x/\iv v mvJLJ . . . juu years The whole world of scholarship i paying compliments this month o the oldest American institution >f learning, Harvard University, vhich was founded in 1636, three mndred years ago. Harvard’s tercentenary interests ne particularly because one of my arliest American ancesters, Dr. lenjamin Stockbridge, was one of he first students in the "colledgej r schoale” which the Rev. John! iarvard endowed in the townj irhich was named for his own inglish university town of Cham iridge. In its beginning Harvard was a ' --’-----O -» /here Nathianel Eaton, the master, ialf starved and mercilessly whip ied the unfortunate boys. B ut rom that seed sprang what is, 1 ielieve, the most far-reaching edu ational influence in America, and he most democratic. * * * iOTTON . . . for roads New York state is about to try iut the new type of cotton road, in a six-mile stretch in the Mo lawk Valley. Cotton roads have >een quite successful n the South, s the cheapest improvement on the irdinary gravel or clay road. I havp been trying to remember i time when the cotton planters1 if the South were not in distress, eeking new uses and markets for heir surplus product. It was a 'ear or so before the World War hat the "buy a bale of cotton” propaganda was started all over :he country, to help the Southern planters. The truth about cotton, it ieems to me, is that it can be *rown profitably only in especially favored regions or where there is i plentiful supply of the cheapest ppanual labor to "chop” and pick t. Most of cotton’s troubles arise from trying to £jow it under con ditions which militate against pro fits. * * * PIGS . . . from abroad "Pigs” as my friend Ellis Parker Butler pointed out in the story _1_• i __ ii * r_ «• • jj rviiAwi iiidut xmu xamvuo, xo In "Pigs is Pigs” it was a country railway agent who insisted that ^uiena-pigs should come under the same classification as regulair pork :rs. In England, where they have been breeding pigs since long be fore Columbus discovered America, pigs is also pigs, but they know they are not all alike. The kind that bring home the bacon in England are known only by the name of Large Black pigs. They are said to be far more docile than the 'fancy” breeds, and also more profitable. J Uncle Sam has just imported four Large Black pigs, two boars ind two sows, and is going to try :rossing them with familiar Amer can breeds. Which is interesting to aog-raisers, but to most of us pigs s just pigs. * * * JATS . . . some useful I have long accounted bats as imong the most interesting as well is the most useful little animals nrO V*--StTO Tlia.r 'lea ra-f 1.1 f you have plenty of bats flying iround your house on Summer eve nings you won’t have so many mosquitoes. Indeed, one Texas town some years ago built a "bat cower” in which these flying mice could live and breed, and so get rid of a serious mosquito pest. Only a few persons with excep tionally keen ears can hear the squeaky cries of bats as they fly. rheir tone is pitched in a key be yond ordinary audibility. Not all bats are harmless, how ever. The great vampire bats of the tropcis and some parts of Eu rope are actually a menace to hu man and animal life. And the 3ther day the Federal government ordered the killing of eight "flying foxes” from India, fruit bats with i three-foot wing spread, which destroy orchards and fruit groves Df all kinds. Still, I like bats. * * * CHILDREN . . . work A new law has iust sone jnto sffect in New York, raising from 14 to 16 the age at which a boy may leave school and get his “working papers.” Boys of 12 are still allowed, however, to sell news papers and shine shoes on the I have never been convinced that it is always a good thing for a boy to keep him from earning his own wav in the world, whsf ever his . age. I know too many| men who have risen to real great-' ness, who had very little formal schooling but got their education throus^» their contacts with life itself. Of course, it all depends on what the boy has got in him; but I think most boys who want to go to work don’t get very much of value out of compulsory school at tendance. LAND POSTERS—For Sale at The Watchman Office. Refreshing Relief When You Need a Laxative Because of the refreshing relief It has brought them, thousands of men and women, who could afford much more ex pensive laxatives, use Black-Draught when needed. It is very eco nomical, purely vegeta ble, highly effective... Mr. J. Lester Roberson, well known hardware dealer at Martinsville, Va, writes: “I certainly can recommend Black Draught a3 a splendid medlrdnp., J have taken it for constipation the dull feelings that follow, and have found it very satisfactory." BLACK-DRAUGHT Gold Hill|Rt. 1 News SVe are glad to report that the health of the people in our section is good at the present time. The farmers are gathering their rough feed stuff, hay, tops, etc. The revival meeting at St. Paul’s Holliness church closed Sunday night. "The meeting was conducted by the pastor, Rev. T. R. York, and Rev. Castevens of Virginia, the meeting was attended by large crowds and we trust much good was accomplished tor the uogd Master. Rev. Walter Lanin and Rev. J. P. Waggoner just recently closed a meeting at Zion M. E. church on the New London charge.. Rev. C. P. Fisher of Landis is helping Rev. Lee Shipton of Piney woods Lutheran_church conduct a meeting this weeKT Mr. C. P. used to preach in this section and he said it was like being among home folks down here. P. H. Wagoner and family visit ed his brother last week, 'Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wagoner, in Pensacola, Fla. Ralph and his son, Lonnie have jobs with the government naval air station there putting up some large brick buildings. P. H. returned by Tallahassa, St. Augustine and Jacksonville. To one who has never Kpen in Fla it- is a lot of scenerv there to see. You can see old forts dated as far back as 1513, also see the cattle running at large, and the land is principally level. Mr. Ralph Shaver, one of our promising young men, is teaching school in the Boyden high school at Salisbury. We wish for Mr. Shaver much success. We are expecting to go to the Fraley reynion next Saturday at Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Fraley’s near Misenheimer. Mr. Fraley is a twin brother to Mrs. J. A. Bolton of Misenheimer. HOME MAY BE OPERATED LIKE A GOOD BUSINESS A good housekeeper can take a few hints from a well organized business office, said Miss Pauline Gorlon, State College extension specialist in home management. For example, she said, the house keeper can make a work schedule to divide the day among the dif ferent tasks that have to be done and to show which tasys are or can be done by parious members of the family. The family needs should be studi ed, and the family income so bud geted that the greatest returns for all concerned may be secured, Miss (jordon continued. A record book is helpful in keep ing a check on household activities and in making plans for the future. Such a book is a good place tc set down addresses, facts about the household and the family personnel, automobile data, books owned, borrowed, and loaned, Christmas cards to be sent or acknowledged, gifts given or desired, clubs and their dues and meeting days, cloth ing sizes and measurements for the family, preferred, brands and a mounts of food needed, harden plantings and suggestions, means Bruce Barton Says NO ROOM FOR WORD ! "NEVER” Back in 1926, I happened to be riding with a vigorous middle-aged man who had just sold his business for several million dollars. The contract provided that he should remain active in the company, but his intention was to take things easy. "I am never going to let myself have any 'more financial worries,” he said. "In addition to my stocks, I have $700;000 in the moss-pack bonds. Whatever hap pens, they can never get me.” In 1929, his stocks began a nose dive. By 1931, he thought the de pression was over sufficiently so that he could make a large com mittment on behalf of one of his riPn^C Tkp rnmmirfment nearlv wrecked him. For five years he has worked harder and worried more than ever before. The other night I saw him again. His business is getting better, his stocks are improving. Always an optimist, he said:4"This country is going to have another very profit able period. The 'question will be. Have we learned anything? W( didn’t know enough to salt awaj our winnings before; shall . w< know enough to do it this time?’ Another man remarked recently "My principal mistakes have beer not in believeing too much in th< country but in believing too little I sold some perfectly good securi ties in 1932 because I was finalh persuaded that this depression wa different, that, however nobly thi country had recovered before, i could never recover again. Thosi same stocks are selling today a prices which I thought I neve should live to see.” Here are two smart men. On< was sure the depression could neve\ go far enough to involve him; th other was equally sure that recov ery would never come in sufficien proportions to life him “off tin hook.” Both are intelligent; anc both are wrong. This is a bif country; it is big enough to con tain almost every thing. But then is one litjje word that apparently is too big even for it—that is the little word never. -- ■ * * * LAUGHTER IS GOLDEN At an informal party Tmet Herb for company, things needed, insur ance date, magazine subscription; carried, and numerous other things An inventory should be made oi house furnishings to show wha is owned, the condition of the fur niture, and what may be ntede; now or in the future. A reminder file is good for call ing attention to special householc tasks that must.be done within cer tain periods, visitors due, birthdays special anniversaries, dates whet payments must be made on insur ance, taxes, or articles purchased oi the installment plan, and many oth er duties that may be lost sight of . Williams, that comedian whose vaudeville drollery has made me laugh a score of times until my stomach muscles ached. Earnestly and reverently, I pumped his hand. "If I should never see you again,” I said, "please remember that you carry with you always the undying regard of a very grateful custom er.” Being a top-notcher he is, of | course, modest. |He seemed a bit ! surprised that anybody should say "thank you.” He is one of a precious little group of folks to whom I should like to make similar acknowledg ment. Are they not the world’s most valuable citizens? Of almost every kind of talent there is an oversupply. We have plenty of bankers, lawyers, writers, income tax collectors, and investment counsellors. But only a handful of j men who can literally make you I Imio-b until vnn rrv. If rbprp PVA1* should be another war, surely they should be put in a special classifi cation under the draft. One of Charles Lamb’s essays re cords a touching conversation be tween an elderly man and his wife. They are recounting the joys of their young days—the theatres they attended, the books the bought, the sacrifices they made together. At length she says wistfully: "Yes, we have more things now, but we do not laugh so much.” Laughter is golden, and youth should lay up as much of it as possible in the bank of memory. Only the most important business should be allowed to interfere with the chance for an extra laugh. LIARS’ CONTEST | Ticonderoga, N. Y.—An annpsl ! "liars’ contest” will be conducted by the Champlain Valley Archeo logical Society of this village for residents of Essex, Warren and Washington counties. This year’s contest is to be con ducted in the grove on Thomas J. Cook’s farm, North Ticonderoga, at a date to be announced in late September. The board of directors of the I Archeological Society will act as I judges and a prize will be awarded for the biggest and best lie. No women will be permitted to L enter. —Buy In Salisbury— CASH Paid for CEDARLOGSAND . TIMBER i i For details write j j Geo. C. Brown & Co. of N. C., Greens* \\ boro. N. C. IF YOU’RE LOOKING! FOR % TUTonnu'i mmmm immbmw—— majmesaetme VALUES *-M. • * TRACE YOUR STEPS TO | [ HERRINGTON’S J HERE’S where the biggest values in town hang out! Values that carry the high* est quality atj unusually low PRICES. Spend shopping time here. We assure prompt effic* I ient delivery service. HERRINGTON'S The Store of Better Quality _r_
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 11, 1936, edition 1
4
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75