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I FOUNDED 1^32—105TH YEAR SALISBURY, N. C., FRIDAY MORNrNG, NOVEMBER 20, 1936 ’ VOL 104 MO 17 , rnMrc
Now that the final election re
turns are in and it is definite^
certain that the Democrats havi
even a larger majority in botl
Houses of Congress than before
Washington is no longer concern
ing itself with possible opposition tc
whatever program the Presidem
may adopt. Whatever he wants hi
can get, and until he declares him
self, speculation is rather futile ai
to what the program of the seconc
Roosevelt Administration will be
Washington, as always, is con
cerned with personalities as mucl
as with issues. One of the most col
orful personalities who has ben seer
on Capitol Hill in the past genera
tion is coming back, to the delighi
of the newspaper paragraphers anc
his associates in the Senate. He ii
Senator James Hamilton Lewis ol
Illinois, usually referred to as "Jin
Ham.”
Mr. Lewis has many claims tc
distinction. He is, for example, thi
only man who ever served in thi
United States Congress from twc
different states. As a young man
with a fiery red beard, he wenl
from his native Virginia to the ther
pioneer state of Washington in thi
1890’s, leaped into politics and wn
twice elected Congressman-at-Largf
from that state. He served in thi
Spanish War, both in Cuba and the
Phillipines. Then he moved to Chi
cago, where he combined politico
and the practice of law, and bj
1912 he had made himself such an
important figure in the political af
fairs of Illinois that he was elected
United States Senator.
BEST AND WORST DRESSERS
For ten years "Jim Ham” was
missing from Washington, but in
1930 he was again elected Senator
from Illinois and this month he
was re-elected. Senator Lewis is not
only the only owner of a beard in
the Senate, but is easily the best
dressed member of either House of
Congress.
There is rejoicing in Washington,
also, over the return to Congress of
the only other full set of whiskers,
those belonging to Rep. George H.
? Tinkham of the Tenth Massachu
setts District. Mr. Tinkham is a
picturesque figure, although an
entirely different type from Sena
tor Lewis. He pays so little atten
tion to his personal appearance
that he is frequently referred to
as the. worst dressed man in Con
gress.
Unlike Senator Lewis, who loses
no opportunity to impress his per
sonality upon the electorate, Repre
sentative Tinkham is reputed to
have never made a campaign for
election.
A new figure in the next Con
gress whose advent is looked for
ward to with considerable interest
and curiosity is Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr. of Massachusetts.
Mr. Lodge has two definite claims
to distinction. 'He is the grandson
and namesake of Theodore Roose
velt’s closest friend and supporter,
who was Senator from Massachu
setts for 30 years. Also, he defeated
Gov. Curley of Massachusets in the
Senatorial election.
Senator Lodge is just barely old
enough to be eligible for the Senate,
in which no one under 30 may sit,
by the terms of the Constitution.
Young Mr. Lodge was 34 in July
last. He has the further distinction
of being one of the few members of
Congress whose principal career has
been that ot a wonting newspaper
man.
Young Lodge started on the Bos
ton Transcript in 1923 and in 1924
joined the staff of the New York
Herald Tribune with which he has
ben connected almost down to the
present time.
CABINET CHANGES HINTED
Turning from Capitol Hill tc
the other end of Pennsylvania Ave
nue, where the executive depart
ments of the government center,
gossip about personalities focuses
largely on possible Cabinet changes.
It seems to be in the cards that
the movement to establish a nets
Cabinet Department—that of Pub
lic Welfare, will take form before
long.
This new department would be
charged with duties which now de
volve variously upon the Depart
ments of Labor, Interior, Agricul
ture and Treasury. It would take
in such activities as those of the
' children’s bureau, the administra
tion of the mother’s pensions, anc
of many of the other phases of the
Social Security Art.
^ The new department may alsc
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LOCAL MILLS BOOST WAGES
Thousands Will
Benefit From
Bigger Payrolls
Payrolls In Salisbury,
Kannapolis And Vicin
ity Will Be Swelled
Millions Annually
ABOVE N. R. A. LEVEL
Headed by the Cannon Mills, lo
cal cotton mills have increased, ot
plan to increase in the near fu
ture, the wages of their employes,
according to information received
this week by The Watchman.
The Salisbury Cotton Mills this
week announced a substantial in
crease in the wages of its em
ployees.
Cannon Mills company announ
ced a general increase in wages
that will affect practically every
one of the concern’s 16,000 em
ployes in the Carolinas, pouring
more than an additional $1,000,
00C annually into their collective
pay envelopes.
The increase will add more than
$7$0,000 to the annual pay roll in
Kannapolis, Rowan and Cabarrus
counties.
Charles A. Cannon, president of
the large textile company, gave out
the announcement of the pay in
crease.
Cannon Mills continued to oper
ate on NRA wage and hour scale
even after the National Recovery
Act was abolished and is now op
erating on that scale. The pay in
crease to go into effect soon brings
the average wage far above even
the NRA.leveL&ow-aid which nwiy.
of the nation’s textile plants are
striving but have not yet reached.
The Cannon company was the
first major Southern textile con
cern to announce an increased
wage for employe*, again leading
the nation’s cotton textile industry
in this respect. Other Southern
mills are expected to follow suit.
Divided out among the com
pany’s 16,000 employes the rise in
pay will amount to an average of
approximately $62.50 per year pet
employe or an average per capita
increase of $5.21 per month. The
method of distributing the pay rise
has not Ijeen announced.
Decision to make the huge in
crease in pay was reached by Can
non Mill officials after steadily in
creasing general business conditions
had been reflected in the com
pany’s trade volume over a period
of months. It has always been the
policy of the firm to share profits
with its employes, either in the
form of annual bonuses or general
pay increases when business justi
fied such action.
Over ten thousand residents of
Rowan and Cabarrus county and
this immediate section will benefit
directly from the wage increase.
roresee Peak
In Population
Baltimore.—Two research work
ers counted noses throughout the
world, figured trends and came to
the conclusion that the peak of
world population probably would
be reached in 2100 with 2,645,
500,000.
Present population was placed
at 2,073,300,000, an increase of
nearly five-fold over the 445,
300,000 in the world in 1630, the
earliest time of recorded estimate.
The present rate of growth is
approximately 1 per cent annual
y, but the research workers do
not expect this rate to continue
long and believe that in shortly
more than a century and a half
:he top will be leached.
The scientists who made the
:ounty are Dr. Raymond Pearl
and Sophio A. Gould of the Johns
Hopkins University school of hy
giene and public health. Their
study, published in "human biolo
gy,” cited the tremendous popula
tion increase of the last 300 years
is a possible basis of some of the
unsolved complexities and problems
uf the modern age.
SEEK SOCIAL SECURITY DATA
Applications
Are Mailed Out
By Postmaster
Must Be Returned By
Saturday Night
All Persons, With Cer
tain Exceptions, Em
ploying One Or More
Persons, Must Furnish
Information.
The vast task of putting into
operation the provisions of the
Social Security act passed by the
last Congress began here in earn
est Monday when Postmaster J. iH.
McKenzie began the distribution
of employer’s applications for
identification numbers. These ap
plications will be mailed or deliv
ered by postment to every indivi
dual, firm, trust or estate, part
nership, corporation, association,
joint stock company, and insur
ance company who has one or more
persons less than 6 5 years of age
actually in its employ on No
vember 16, 1936. Exceptions in
clude the following classifications
and groups: self-employment, rail
road employees under pension
plan, agricultural labor, domestic
service in a private home, casual
labor, government and state em
ployees, and employees of organi
zations operated exclusively for
religious, charitable, scientific, lit
lerary or educational purposes.
These applications must be filled
out by all employers and returned
to the local postmaster by Satur
day night, November 21. The ap
plication calls for only a small
amount of information, which in
cludes name, address, nature of
busine*:, and products or services
sold.
as soon as employers nave Deen
given identification numbers, all
employees will be asked to file
applications for numbers. This
work is expected to be started
within the near future.
The following information
about the Social Security act is in
cluded in the employers’ applica
tion forms:
"The federal old-age benefits
system provides for retirement
payments from the federal govern
ment to qualified persons, begin
ning at the age of 65. It was es
tablished by the Social Security
act and goes into effect on Janu
ary 1, 1937. It’s purpose is to
bring to those persons employed in
the broad fields of commerce and
industry increased assurance of an
independent old age. The system
is administered by the Social Se
curity board, Washington, D. C.
"Benefits are based on the wage
record of the individual and arej
of three types: (1) Monthly bene
fits at 65; (2) lump-sum pay
ments, and (3) death benefits.
"These benefits are based on to
tal wages for v/ork done in this
country after December 31, 1936,
and before a worker becomes 65
years of age. This includes every
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"London Okeh, but—”
NEW YORK . . . “London may
have its attractions for Wally
Simpson,” smilingly stated Sally
Eilers (above), as she landed here,
“but here’s one American girl glad
to get home, to husband and baby.”
Sally’s been in London for screen
work. Hubby is Harry Joe Brown,
movie director.
OUR OWN
SNAPSHOTS
ii mbs......*. mm in 11 m ...
BEAUTY IN TRUCK DESIGN reaches unmatched heights 1
in the streamlined White cab-over-engine tank truck
pictured above. It was styled by Count Alexis de Sakh
noffsky, internationally noted authority on streamlining,
and is typical of ultra-modern types, embodying new
safety features as well as beauty, now in regular pro
duction at The White Motor Company, of Cleveland. A
far cry from the ugly truck designs of a few years ago.
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LAUGHING AT THE WEATHER MAN —
Eleanor Whitney, motion picture star gets
ready to celebrate with old man winter. C
Penn State Agricultural Scientists in iour
year tests on 6000 chickens increased win
ter egg production by feeding twice the
usual amount of Vitamin D. Results, con
ducted under Nopco Laboratory fellowship,
shows (above left) yearly
production of 167 eggs per
bird when fedadequate
quantity, (right) only 79
eggs from hens receiving
insufficient amount. C
MASKED RIDERS—Girl members 1
British Red Cross Society visit a 1
riding school at Scotland and ccir- 1
ry out their riding lessons with 8
gas masks. This is part of their 1
training in chemical warfare.
i
1 An excellent studio portrait oi the
1 probable queen of England, Mrs Er
1 nest Simpson, and left, her mother,
i Mrs. Alice Montague Warfield Rasin
1 Allen, who died in 1929. —»
.
MUSICAL CAMERAMAN—
Josef Chemiavsky, inter
nationally famous conduct
or, who directs the "1847
Musical Camera" heard on
Sundays over the NBC red
network. Chemiavsky's pro
gram is unique in that it
portrays a series of pictures
in music. ^ ^
"Hi-Ho Everybody”
fc, '■ll—Ji SB
NEW Y O R k!^ Th^7>e "yTuF
ban of black antelope with rows
of stitching to emphasize the slant
ing lines tops the season’s smart
hats to be awarded the moniker
of “Chimney Top." It is new; it
is correct and it has already caught
the fancy of clever stylists.
The Committee for Industrial Organization
PITTSBURGH, Pa. . . . Pictured above are members of the Commit
tee for Industrial Organization, headed by John L. Lewis, President of
the United Mine Workers of America. Left to right they are: Charles
P. Howard, Indianapolis, head of the International Typographical Union;
Sidney Hillman, New York, President, Amalgamated Clothing Workers
of America; Lewis; and Glenn McCabe''Columbus, Head of the Flat
Glass Federation. Their peace bid to President Green of the American
Federation of Labor, hit a snag when Green stated that he lacked au
thority to change the policy outlined by the Federation’s executive com
mittee.
N. C. Road
Commission To
Meet Nov. 24
Raleigh.—Capus M. Waynick,
chairman, said the Highway and
Public Works commision will hold
its next meeting here on November
24. The commission will receive
bids November 30 on $1,470,000
worth of construction work.
Week-End Toll
Is Heavy
—
Charlotte — Seventen persons
had ben killed and 3 3 injured in
week-end automobile accidents in
the two Carolinas, as was shown
by a Sunday night survey. Nine
of these deaths and 19 injuries
were in North Carolina, while
South Carolina’s toll showed eight
killed and 14 injured.
Girl Seriously
Injured By Hit
And-Run Driver
Struck down by an unknowt
hit-and-run driver shortly afte
dark Tuesday night as she walkec
along the highway at Yadkin, nea:
Spencer, Miss Ruby Morris o:
Yadkin was carried to Rowan Me
morial hospital in a serious condi
tion.
Yule Lights To
Glow Again In
Salisbury
The Christmas decorative lights
that attracted much attention last
year will be ready for operation
again on Thanksgiving night, and
will spread the Yuletide glow and
spirit until New Year’s night.
Merchants of the city, in a meet
ing Wednesday, named Ervin Lam
pert, Richard Dodkins and Victor
Yost as a committee to proceed
with the plans. Through the co
operation program, an additional
block in the business section on
East Innes street will be added to
the five blocks lighted up last year.
East Spencer
Claim Denied
An answer from the county
boards of education and county
commissioners to the petition from
the town of East Spencer that the
county assume $43,200 bonds is
sued for schools years ago, has been
filed in the office of clerk of su
perior court.
The defendants deny any lia
bility and go into detail about the
school law, East Spencer’s special
legislative measure in 1921 to en
able the town to construct a new
school, and about the participation
of the town in a general county
wide levy, per capita debt and such I
following the State school law ml
1933. The defendants deny that
the town is liable to recover any
thing. The statute of limitations
is also pleaded.
Trial of the case will likely come
in the early spring.
GAME WARDEN IS
MURDERED
Hendersonville. — Henderson
county’s game warden, Joseph D.
Whitaker, 3 3, was shot to death
Sunday morning about 3 o’clock
on the North Mills river road. IHis
assailant, an unknown man, fired
from an automobile when he was
approached by the warden, then
fled. Whitaker was accompanied
by his brother, David, and the two
had spent the night at a house on
the North Mills river road which
Warden Whitaker recently pur-|
chased. At a late hour Sunday]
night the killer or killers remained
at large or unknown.
FALLS 14 STORIES TO DEATH!
New York—David Brooks, 26
year-old broker, plunged to his
death from a window of his 14th
story apartment Sunday, after los
ing his balance while opening a
window of his bedroom. His bride
of four months, formerly Miss
Adelaide Moffett, hearing her hus
band scream, rushed into the room
in time to see him topple from
the window. Brooks was a nephew
of Lady Nancy Astor and son-in
law of James A. Moffett, vice
president of the Standard Oil com
pany of New Jersey.
To Head Cornell
i HI X IeU
• ITHACA, N. Y. . . . Dr. Edmund
E. Day, (above) ) Darthmouth
graduate of 1905, is' to be the next
president of Cornell University, to
■ succeed Dr. Livingston Farrand
who will retire on June 30th, 1937.