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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_$1.00 6 Menths_ .10 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_ SO7 Cleveland_ 43 5 Faitli _ 431 Gold Hill_ 156 (Population Rowan Co. 56,665) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936! Dr. Gerald W. Johnson, a native North Carolinian and a former pro fessor of journalism and now an as sociate editor of the Baltimore Sun, was yielded space on the editorial page of the Evening Sun for a vig-j orous dissent to the position of op-| position to President Roosevelt which the Sun has taken editoriallv.! His argument is easily one of the' most forceful which has appeared in the campaign. Dr. Johnson said: "I am for Roosevelt. "The Sun has declared that it J cannot support him, and has stated its reasons. They seem to me wholly inadequate, because they, omit all reference to the greatest service that Roosevelt has rendered to the country, to wit, the intro-1 duction of intelligence into the conduct of the country’s affairs. "I am not against Landon; I am ■f rvr- U "The governor of Kansas seems 1 to be a very decent citizen. Doubt-) less he is a good administrator. 1 Certainly he has exhibited a cer tain appreciation of some things the Roosevelt administration has done, and has intimated that he will continue them if he is elected. But he has uttered no word that evidences an understanding of Roosevelt’s great achievement, which is the establishment of con tact between statecraft and reality. "I am not for Roosevelt the man; am for Roosevelt the states- : man. i "I wouldn’t give the traditional _1__•_i_ .L. r_: '' “V*** i Vl i UJ11V UJ - smile, the golden voice, the charm- ' ing manners. If he grinned like a gargoyle, rasped like a rain crow and had the manners of a Hoover i chasing veterans out of Washing ton, I would still be for him—in fact I am not so sure that I would n’t like him better. All this talk about his charm gets a little weari some. "I am for Roosevelt precisely be- i cause I. like the Sun, believe in a ’■ free, competitive system under i capitalistic government governed : Roosevelt is the great bulwark of : captalism, conservatism and demo- i cracy. "The most dreadful failure of ; which any form of government can : be guilty is simply to lose touch : with reality. Because of this fail- j ure, all imaginable forms of evil i grow. Every empire that has crashed has come down primarily because its rulers didn’t know : what was going on in the world and were incapable of learning. "This was the catastrophic fail ure of the Harding-Coolidge ’Hoover regime. Have we forgot- i ten how Coolidge and his man i Mellon repeatedly assured us that i all was well at the very moment when we were plunging toward the edge of the abyass? They were pro bably sincere enough; they simply didn’t know what was going on. "Then, when the crash came, they were incapable of learning. We had to sweat through four years of depression under Hoover, although every single thing that Roosevelt has done might just as well have been done years earlier. The banking system might have koAn aIpi n prl tin in 19^0 fit" 19^1 just as well as in 1933. The pub lic works program might have been started earlier. The problem of so cial security might have been tackled long ago. Something in telligent might have been done about the tariff while Cordell Hull was still merely a Congressman. "I say that these things might have been done, but, in truth, they could not have been done, because Washington at that time had not the brains and the courage neces sary to do them. The politicians then in power could not think, or act, or even feel otherwise than that the old traditional political svay. **T -im TCnncpvpIf kpransp Vip done, demonstrated that he knew tvhat it was all about. "Any man not an utter fool snows that new conditions demand new methods; but a great many Tien who are far from being fools are not aware that the conditions are new. With all respect, I am bound to say that The Sun itself is guilty of ignoring this factor. It says, 'Let us restore and preserve :he system which produces in ibundance the wealth with which we support the fortunate and un fortunate alike.’ "Nobody can quarrel with that, but that isn’t' the question at all. The very system which produces wealth has failed calamitously to distribute wealth. The New Deal, far from interfering with the sys tem which produces, apparently has stimulated it. At any rate, production for the month of July was 108 per cent of the average for the same month of 1924-26. Since it had dropped under the old -egime to about 5 5, it is pretty dear that the New Deal has not prevented the resumption of pro luction. "Has it, then, facilitated distri lution by the violent means of dis rributing through taxation ? I do tot know. I doubt that anybody tnows as yet. But I do know that ^ 1_1_1_. -11 • • . %. uoj uiwugin au us Pear on the problem. And I do tnow that none of the old, purely political-minded regimes had made tny effective effort to solve this problem. Yet, I am convinced :hat this, and not the problem of production, is the one that we must :olve, or suffer disruption of our economic life indefinitely. “I do not believe that this question s susceptible of solution by any )f the old formulae because it con :ains some entirely new factors, fet, I do not believe that the sort >f politicians who were in power :rom 1921 to 1933 are capable of ipplying any but the old formulae, t isn’t a question of honesty. They ire just too set in their way. "Roosevelt has brought into Washington a set of men who may, >r may not, be statesmen, but who ire unquestionably alert mentally,j mquestionably capable of harbor-' ng a new idea, even though it may >e nonpolitical. That they have nade mistakes is obvious. That nany of their methods may be vrong is highly probable; but ibout one thing they are everlast ngly right, and that is their reali sation that they can’t get by sim >ly by relying on precept, preced ent and tradition. It seems to me, iherefore, that wild as some of :hem may be, they are safer than nen who know nothing except vhat bitter experience has shown o be wrong. Ickes, Morgenthau, Wallace and Tugwell do not seem :o me ideal, but they do seem to be ntelligent; and I like them better han I liked Walter Brown, Doak, he ancient Mellon and the Wil AVERAGE Of $o COMBINED f STOCKS | But you know darn. j well if it were $oinft „ s) the other way,it wowTd. >. ggCoartw Chicago Ttffig, L_ bur boys. "I am for Roosevelt because he is not extravagant. "Extravagance is spending mon ey without getting anything worthwhile for it. .Hoover’s farm board was gross extravagance, be cause it spent money on hopeless project. The RFC was extravag ant, because it spent money attack ing the depression without making a dent in it. "During the war the country spent $30,000,000,000 in a year and a half, and all it got in return was 3 50,000 corpses and a lot of bad notes. Since 1933—that is to say in twice the time—the New Deal has spent a third as much and for it we have thousands of miles of roads and streets, countless school houses, bridges, dams, canals, power plants, forests, sewer/ and water mains, transmission lines and Other things. But above all, we have avoided getting a lot of corpses. Troops are not fighting milk farmers in the Middle West as they were just before Hoover went out. That fire, instead of spreading, has been quenched, and quenching it was worth the money if we had received none of the public works that have been built. "The man’s administration has been alert, honest and amazingly successful. More than that, it has I been libertarian. It is ridiculous to' describe as a dictator the man und er whom we have seen abolition of prohibition; the abolition of the more idiotic censorship of books, periodicals and plays; the abolition of great, national Red hunts, and the elimination of all suggestion of an underground connection be tween the government and the Ku Klux Klan. "I am sorry that the Sun cannot J support him, for I believe that he. represents, better than any other statesman of recent years, the great liberal tradition that the paper has supported for years and still be lieves in with all its heart.” R. Flake Shaw, a farm manage ment demonstrator in Guilford County, made 1,872 more pounds of lespedeza hay where he used the! triple superphosphate as compared1 with where he did not. The de-j monstration plot yielded 976 pound against 1,104 ,for the check plot. I Try CARDUI For Functional Monthly Pains 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 of Just the right strength from the food they eat. Mrs. Crlt Haynes, of Essex, Mo., writes: "I used Cardui when a girl for cramps and found It very beneficial. I have recently taken Cardui during the change of life. I was very nervous, had head and back pains and was in a gen erally run-down condition. Cardui has helped me greatly.” Thousands of women testify Cardui bene fited them. If It does not benefit TOD, consult a physician. Ir YUU want to know any names sf• * * TODAY, WE suggest that you do * sir * A BIT of checkng up and down * * * THE MAIN streets of Salisbury. * * * IT SHOULD not be much trouble * * * FOR YOU to locate the home * * * ABOUT WHICH this little con * * * VERSATION CENTERED. "We * * * ARE EXPECTING a blessed event • • » AT OUR house,” said one well * * * KNOWN CITIZEN to another * * * MONDAY MORNING. "Going * * * TO HAVE a baby?” Queried his * * * FRIEND. "NO,” was the reply * * *■ "MY MOTHER-in-law is going * * * HOME.” * * * I THANK YOU. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON (Continued from page One) Only once has the election of a President been thrown into the House of Representatives. That was in 1876, when Samuel J. Tild en, Democrat, of New York, ran against Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio. On the face of the returns, Mr. Tilden appeared to be elected, but charges of fraud in the Demo cratic vote in Louisiana were made and the Republicans contended that flhe Democratic electors of Louis iana had not actually received a plurality of the popular vote. The House of Representatives appointed an electoral commission to investigate and advise the (House. The commission reported that the Democratic electors of Louisiana had not been properly elected. The House adopted the report of the electoral commission and gave the Presidency to General Hayes. HOW TIE COULD DEVELOP A tie vote ot presidential electors is impossible unless Mr. Lemke or some other third-party candidate should receive an odd number of electoral votes, since the total num ber of electors to be chosen Nov ember 3 is 531. In the event of a tie the House of Representatives to be elected on November 3 will havei the say. A shift in 115 Congres sional Districts from the present set-up would be necessary to give a Republican majority. There will be no change in the party majority of the Senate, this year, no matter how the election goes. Senators are elected for six years and there are 51 Democrats svhose terms run for from two to1 four years longer, more than a ma-j iority of the 96 members of the senate. 1 AUTUMN ... up our way The most glorious season of the American year is now approaching. In no other country is Autumn so full of appeal to the lover of the out-of-doors. I motored over back roads through the Berkshire hills a week or so ago and saw the beginning of America’s most gorgeous spectacle, the color picture of the forest trees before the fall, of the leaves. No sharp frost had yet touched them, but around almost every bend in the road we encountered a lone maple which had not waited for frost, but had changed overnight from green to brilliant scarlet. Before October is far advanced, the New England landscane be comes a scene of such color and beauty as cannot be matched any where else the world over. Of all seasons, Autumn is, to my mind, theb est season of all up our way. * * ♦ JIMMY ... on his own Jimmy dropped in at the home of one of my friends the other evening, His face was clean, his hair was brushed and his clothes were neat and well-pressed. But his hands were covered with callouses and irremovable grime. Jimmy grinned from ear to ear as he told about his first adventure at facing life on his own. His fath er, one- of my friends, had been dis satisfied with Jimmy’s marks in his first year in colle^g. "Get out and get yourself a job and prove that you’ve got something in you, be fore I spend any more money on your education,” his father told him. jimmy got uui. .irrc gut a juu as a pipe-fitter’s helper at $18 a week —and he loves it. He’s got a sur prise for his father, for he’s saved $3 a week out of his wages. "I’ve learned what a dollar costs,” he said. Jimmy’s going to get somewhere. • * PROGRESS . . . the auto E. R. Thomas, the man who . built the first automobile to travel around the world under its own power died the other day at the age of 8 5. He was past fifty before he made his first car. I first knew Mr. Thomas around the turn of the country, when he took over a small bicycle shop in Buffalo and began to make motor cycles. He had a dream, which Ford, Winton, Chalmers, Haynes, Apperson Leland and Duryea shar ed, of making a practical four wheeled vehicle to be propelled by a gasoline engine. The French built the first ones that worked, but Thomas made about the best of the early American gas-buggies. It’s hard to realize, now, that we haven’t always had motor-cars. I bought a horse and buggy in 1900. I didn’t think then that automo biles would amount to much in my time! * * * HAEMOPHILIA . . transfussions The most dreadful disease of all is haemophilia. Its victims are born with it and seldom live to grow up, for they can bleed to death from a pin-pick. Their blood does not clot. Only males have this af fliction, but they inherit it from their mothers’ fathers. Alfonzo, Count of Covalonga, son of the former King of Spain, is in a New York hospital undergo ing frequent blood transfussions as the physicians try to stop the bleeding from a slight operation several weeks ago. His mother, the ex-Jueen, has come across the At lantic to be with her son. One of the world’s greatest med ical men, Dr. Alexis Carrel, had a son wno suirered irom naemo phia. The father invented a me thod of blood-transfusion which saved his child’s life, and which is now in universal use all over the world. As a result of Dr. Carrel’s research more has been learned about the blood in a few years than all that centuries of study had taught the men of science; and blood transfusion from one person to another is no longer ad angerous operation but an everyday com monplace in hospital work. » * * ATLANTIC ... air seamanship I saw the German flying boat "Zephyr” when it came into New York from Europe on September 10, after a non-stop flight from' AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY RECEIVES QUEEN MARY MEDAL Captain Sir Edgar T. Britten, master of the superliner Queen Mar7 and commodore of the Cunard White Star fleet, is shown presenting one of the bronze medals commemorative of the maiden Atlantic crossing of the new liner to Howland Wood, curator of the American Numismatic Society, when the ship docked in New York recently. Considerable de mand has been created here for the medal, of which there is only a limited supply. If Hoover Had Been Re-Elected John D. M. Hamilton, chairmai of the Republican National Com mitte, issued a warning the othe; day that voters should not be de ceived by what he termed thi "prosperity mirage” of the Nev Deal. "As a whole,” he added, "thi Roosevelt New Deal is a failure. Ii can’t succeed.” Mr. Hamilton does not want thi New Deal to succeed. It would b< unorthodox, in his view, to admi that the country was saved by De mocrats. But it was, nevertheless Only the blindly partisan deny t< President Roosevelt credit for hav ing rescued the nation from thi economic disaster that threatenec when he took office. Since Mr Roosevelt’s inauguration the fol lowing things have happened: Unemployment has been reducec the Azores. Two days later th( "Aeolus,” also German, flew ir from Germany via Bermuda. Whilt fliers of other nations are explorinj the northern routes across the At lantic, the Germans are studyinj the southern passages, where ther are islands at which stops can b made. Very practical, it seems to me is their idea of using fying boat instead of regular planes. The^ regard the ocean flight as a fea of seamanship, and fly only abou 50 feet above the water, where thi winds are least severe. I flew from Naples to Geneoa it one of these German flying boats a few years ago, never more that 100 feet above the water, and ’ liked it better than all the high fly ing I have ever done. i 27 per cent. ■ j Steel production, has advanced ■ 338 per cent. Automobile production has ad vanced 337 per cent. •j Department sw>re sales have ad vanced 70 per cent, j Exports have advanced 42 per | cent. Construction has advanced 111 per cent. :j Net farm income has advanced ; 141 per cent. J Stock prices have advanced 146 i per cent. j Bond prices have advanced 25 per cent. lj Bank deposits have advanced 38 Yet, such is the blindness of partisanship, that Mr. Hamilton presumes to say that the Roosevelt New Deal is a "failure.” One thing is sure. If (Herbert Hoover had.been re-elected in 1932 and his administration had. resulted : in the substantial recovery brought about by President Roosevelt, the ; Republican chairman would not :!now be describing the achievement : as a "failure.” Instead he would be proclaiming proudly that it was , all due to the Republican "miracle man” in the White House. MEMPHIS TO GET TV A POWER Memphis.—The city of Memphis sold $300,000 worth of bonds for . funds with which to begin con struction of a municipal system for the distribution of Tennessee Val ley authority power. The money was obtained from three Memphis banks at one per cent. HERRINGTON'S We’re safe in saying we’ll SAVE YOU MONEY We know we’ll satisfy you in both merchandise and service COME TO SEE US HERRINGTON’S! Complete Food Store I
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