Rowan County Herald
AND
THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN
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POPULATION DATA
(1930 Census)
Salisbury _16,95
Spencer _3,12!
E. Spencer_2,09!
China Grove_ 1,25!
Landis _1,381
Rockwell_ 69<
Granite Quarry_ 50>
Cleveland_ 43!
Faith _ 431
Gold Hill _ 15 i
(Population Rowan Ce. 56,665'.
The influence of weekly news
papers on public opinion exceeds
that of all other publications in
the country.—Arthur Brisbane.
Herald - Watchman’s
1937 Platform For
Salisbury
1. A Library Building.
^ 2. Municipal Auditor
iums. . '. -
3. A Y. W. C. A. Build
ing.
4. A Large City Play
ground. £ * >
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THE HORSE IS
STILL WITH US
Every so often we hear the pre
diction made that the horse wili
vanish from the American
scene in a few years.
Most of the prophets are fond
of' saying that their grandchildren
will be able to see horses only in
zoological gardens. But right on
the heels of these dire forecasts,
there always pops up some new evi
dence that the day of the horse is
not yet over.
It is human nature, we suppose,
to ’imagine that the new must al
ways displace the old. Not long ago
it was electricity that was going
to displace steam. More recently
the: belief was current that internal
combustion motors were going to
make steam engines obsolete.
Cut along comes uie unitca
States Navy with the announce
ment that the two new battleships
about to be built will be powered
by steam-engines without any elec
tric driving mechanism, although
five of Uncle Sam’s capital ships
have electric drives. And in spite
of the excitement anl publicity
about Deisel-engined locomotives
on come of the modern streamlined
trains, the newest highspeed loco
motives being built for important
railway systems are steam engines.
Coming back to horses, it is true
that there are not as many being
used as there were twenty years
ago, but there are more than there
were five years ago. The highest
count of horses on American farms
in 1918, when the Census enume
rators found 21 1-2 million. By
1931 the number had dropped to
under 13 million but the most re
cent count shows more than 15
million horses now at work.
New York state has just anno
unced that its farmers will have tc
import horses from the West this
year to provide the motive powei
they need on their farms. Good
work horses are no cheaper that
they ever were. An average of $20C
each is about the ruling price in
the East.
Horseshoe makers have just re
ported a heavy drop in sales sinc«
1933, but a good deal of that is
acounted for by the growing prac
tice of farmers of using unshod
horses. Where horses are used only
for field work and their hoofs dc
not have to hammer on the hard
highway, horseshoes are unneces
sary. Modern concrete roads full ol
automobiles have driven the hors<
off the thoroughfares, but he is
coming back on the plowed fields.
OUR NATURAL RESOURCES
There is a wide-spread revival
of interest in the subject of con
servation of natural resources. It
r is emphasized by the dust-storms
and floods, which are probably at
’ tributable in some degree to the
recklessness of humanity. Doubtless
j the plowing under of the buff ale
grass in parts of the Great Plains
Has contributed to the erosion ol
the soil by wind, while the cutting
off of the virgin forests probabh
has had some effect in making it
easier for rain to wash away th<
fertile soil and to flow uncheckec
into flooding rivers.
| Any program of conservation
j to be effective, must go below th<
! surface. There is serious talk ol
repossession by the State of Penn
j svlvania of the anthracite coa
mines, whose owners say they can
not operate them profitably, but
which are being mined by "boot
leggers” who have no legal right
to the coal. Some such talk is heard
^ about our oil resources, believed
' bv some to be in danger of exhaus
1 tion.
' The time may come when the
1 whole question of who actually
' owns the natural resources of the
nation will have to be reviewed.
One of the grievances of the New
England colonists against the Bri
tish, which resulted in the Revolu
tion. was the British contention
that all forests were Crown pro
perty, and no colonist might cut
timber fit for frames, masts and
planks of the Royal Navy without
permission from the government.
If that principle were carried to
its logical conclusion, then all of
the timber and mineral wealth of
the nation would be Government
nronertv, to be extracted onlv bv
Government permission anl under
Government regulation. Perhaps
that might work out well, but
more probably it would work about
as badly as did the system under
which the Government-owned
lands of the West were given to
anyone who would comply with
simple and easy regulations’.
There is no doubt that much of
our natural wealth has been deple
ted, and can never be restored,
More and more the population of
the United States vrill have to de
pend upon industrial labor to create
new wealth rather than upon taking
wealth directly from the land. This
is going to mean a progressive
shifting of population toward in
dustrial centers, and that will bring
a new set of social problems with
it.
The question is how far any go
vernment will ever be able to deal
wisely and effectively with these
social changs.
WAGES- the years
When I was a boy in New Eng
land my father, who was a minis
ter, thought that I ougnt to learn
some trade by which I could sup
port myself if I failed to make
| good as a professional man. Which
| was his ambition for me. He could
earn journeyman’s wages as a ca
binet-maker, and was an expeit
farmer.
It happened that the trade to
i which I was apprenticed opened
[ the door to a profession. I became
| a printer, and by that route a jour
nalist. I found myself several times
’ in my young manhood very thank
l.ful that I had a trade to fall back
on at which I could always earn a
I living.
It was a good trade too, and to
day is the best paid of all the crafts
Printers on newspapers and maga
j zines earn the highest average
■ hourly rate in industry, 87.2 cents
per hour, the National Industrial
Conference Board reports. Automo
; bile workers come next, with 79.3
cents an hour. That is more than
double what union printers got in
! the big cities when I worked at the
case.
* * *
PROGRESS-workers
It was my father’s idea that the
only honorable occupation was one
which helped to make the world a
better place to live in. The wage
| worker does that, when by his labor
he converts raw materials into use
. ful commodities and so adds to the
world’s store of usable wealth. The
employer of labor aids by providing
the machinery and tools—the "ca
pital goods”—to enable the work
ers to produce more wealth with
less labor. The merchants who dis
tributes wealth by bringing com
modities within everybody’s reach
is also helping to make a bettet
world.
In my lifetime the world has
steadily been getting better. Char
acter counts for more in human
affairs than it ever did before.
Standards of conduct in human re
lations are higher than they have
ever been. We are making progress.
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CHILDREN - work
In a world which is far more
j critical of social relations, more
widely intolerant of injustice than
was the world in which I was born
there seems to me to be a tendency
' to overemphasize evils and to over
look some elementary truths. The
renewed agitation for the ratifica
tion of the Child Labor amend
ment to the Federal Constitution
is a case in point.
Certainly children should not be
permitted to work in factories at
low pay and under unhealthy con
ditions. I used to see that in New
England cotton mills when I was
a boy. I am very doubtful, how
ever, that such practices are now
prevalent anywhere in America.
Yet the reformrfs talk as if millions
of children were still being exploit
ed by cruel taskmasters.
The tendency seems to me to be
too much the other way. There is
far too much coddling of adoles
cent youth. Anyone who hasn’t
acquired the habit of work in child
hood is not likely to grow up into
a useful member of society.
FLYING „*„_*_-*_risks
Flying is becoming safer every
year. Five years ago commercial
aviation had a record of one death
for every 4,300,000 passenger-miles
flown. The 1936 record is one fa
tality for 20 million passenger
miles. A traveler now can expect to
fly 1,000 miles a day for sixty
years without injury; five years ago
he could look forward with con
fidence to only ten years of fly
ing.
When we consider how young
commercial air-travel is—it is all a
development of the past 15 years—
this is remarkable progress. It was
nearly fifty years after the first
steam locomotives were built be
fore railroad travel became as safe
as airtravel is today; ocean travel
is still more hazardous than flying.
The death-toll of automobiles is
far greater in proportion to mileage
than that of any other form of
transportation.
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ALASKA - air minded
There is one part of the United
States in which aviation is the prin
cipal means of transportation and,
through a good part of the year,
the only means. That is Alaska.
Many Alaskans who have traveled
for years by air have never seen
a train or an automobile. It is
cheaper for the miners who go in
land in Summer to travel to and
from the railheads and seaports by
air than by dog-team.
In northern Canada great new
* leiJs have hem made accessi
ble by ’plane which would be al
most cut of touch with the world
otherwise. The airplane has enabled
prospectors to develop the gold
mines in the mountains of New
Guinea, where white men take their
lives in their hands trying to pene
trate the jungle filled with savage
headhunters.
The time has come when every
square mile of the earth’s surface
will have been mapped and explor
ed by the aid of ’planes.
Cows Are Electrocuted j
- i
When Berry Lewis, Tarboro|
dairyman found two of his finest!
cows dead on the barn floor he was|
puzzled as to the cause. But he was!
not long in finding out, and the
reason was quite a shock to him.
In fact, it was such a shock that
it sent him sprawling on the barn
floor.
In some way, the electrical wir
ing had come in contact with the|
sheet metal walls of the barn, and
when the cows brushed up against
them, the high voltage killed them.
Lewis discovered the cause of hit
cows death when he leaned against
the wall to ponder over the situa
tion.
NAZI DEATH AXE SWINGS
Berlin. — Three Germans met
death at dawn in macabre forma
lities of the Nazi chopping block.
Three times the top-hatted heads
man swung his gleaming axe to ex
ecute one man for high treason
and two others for "non-political”
murders. At least six more remain
in Reich jail cells waiting a similar
fate.
cA cVoice from the cTast —---by A. B; Chapin j
I CAN NEVER BELIEVE
THAT I>COVIDENCE,
S> WHICH HAS GUIDED US SO LONG- ^
And through such a labyrinth,
WILL WITHDRAW its PROTECTION
At THIS CRISIS." —
GTORGE WASHINGTON 9 IT^7 •
ON MIS feETIftEM£NT
mOs. To private Life —
SrV
Under The Dome
Washington.— President Roose-i
velt’s unexpected message to Con
gress for legislation authorizing him
to add six justices to the nine who
how constitute the Supreme Court
is regarded here as the most im
portant and far-reaching proposal,
yet put forward as a New Deal
measure. Nothing which the Pre-j
sident has said or done has ever|
raised such controversy.
While his message to Congress:
contained tecommendations fori
many needed reforms in the proce-j
dure of the Federal Courts in gen->
eral, these are almost lost sight of!
in the discussion of his |
major request and upon which'
members of his own party are still'
divided.
In brief, the President’s proposal J
is that whenever any Federal judge,!
having served ten years, upon'
reaching seventy, the age of per-;
missive retirement, fails to retire,
the President may appoint an ad-j
ditional judge to sit in that court,'
and as many as six such additional
judges to the Supreme Court.
That this proposal has its basis
in the refusal of the Supreme Court!
to uphold the constitutionality of j
many New Deal stttutes is general
ly accepted here. In his message the
President expressed the view that
the older judges are out of step
with the time "New facts become
blurred through old glasses, fitted,
as it were for the needs of another
generation,’’ he said.
Court Retirement Age
Of course, if any Supreme Court
Justice now past seventy should re
tire now on full pay for life, the
President would need no further
authority than he alredy has to ap
point his successor.
Four consistent opponents of ad
ministration legislation are among
the six Supreme Court members,
who could retire at full pay now.
They are: Van Devanter 77, Re
publican; McReynolds, 75, Demo
crat; Sutherland, 74, Republican;
Butler, 70, Democrat. Justice Bran
ded, regarded as the most "liber
al” member of the Court is also the
oldest, being 80. Chief Justice lHu-[
ghes is 74.
Eleven of the Roosevelt Admin-1
istration statutes have been declar-j
ed unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court. Five have been sustained.
The Court now has under conside
ration another vital New Deal law,
the Wagner Labor Relations Act.
The Court was unanimous in in
validating NR A, and divided 6 to
3 on AAA. The Administration!
was upheld 5 to 3 in the gold de-j
valuation cases, and lost by the same,
margin on the original Railway,
Pension Act and the Municipal;
Bankruptcy Act
The Court was unanimous in up- i
holding the tax on silver profits!
and the barring of prison made
goods from interstate shipments.;
The Government’s position in the!
TVA Act was upheld, 8 to 1 and
the Chaco Arms Embargo Act by i
7 to 1. Justice Stone being absent.
By 6 to 3 the Court declared un- :
constitutional the Guffey Soft Coal
Act and the provision of the Sectxri
ties Commission Act under which
that board claimed unlimited power
of subpoena. Federal regulation of
"hot oil” shipments was invalidated
S to 1, and the Court was unani
mous in holding that AAA proces
sing taxes impounded "in Federal
courts must be refunded. The Court
ruled that the President did not
have the authority to dismiss a
member of the Federal Trade Com
mission; also that building and loan
asociations cannot be required to
take out Federal charters wheft op
posed by their state authorities.
Law on Appointments
While the chances of favorable
action by Congress on the Presi
dent’s court proposal are still un
certain, the odds seem to be in its
favor. Gossip is already picking
candidates for places on the Sup
reme Court bench.
If none of the present justices
dies or retires, there will be no place
for any of the present Senators
and Representatives known to have
judicial ambitions. Under the Con
stitution no member of either
House can be appointed to any of
fice created during the term for
which he was elected.
The proposed additional Justices
would come under that heading, of
new offices, which would bar Sena
tors Robinson and Wagner and
Representative Sumners of Texas,
who have been regarded as likely
candidates in case of a vacancy.
Attorney-General Cummings
Chairman Landis of the S.E.C.,
Professor Felix Frankfurter of Har
vard Law School, Donald R. Rich
berg, former general counsel of the
NRA, and Stanley Reed, Solicitor
General, are the names most fre
quenuy mentioned.
Legislative Outlook
The Supreme Court issue has vir
tually overshadowed other matters
pending in Congress. It is expected
that if the President’s proposal is
approved and he is given authority
to name new Justices, new bills for
the revival of NRA and AAA
will be introduced.
There is a considerable grist of
farm legislation in prospect, regard
less of any AAA revival. Secretary
Wallace’s "ever-normal granary”
plan with its concomitant of crop
control under the soil Conservation
Act, requires further enabling le-l
gislation.
New pressure blocs are organiz
ing lobbies to press for legislation
in behalf of their respective Inter
ests, and the old lobbies are more
active than ever.
A national association of tenants
is being formed, calculated to make!
demands for special laws to keep
rents down. The WPA' workers
union is said to be planning a new
march on Washington.
An enlarged lobby in the inter-]
ests of independent merchants in
preparing to put on pressure for an
ti-chain-store legislation. The ce
ment industry is organizing to get
behind the public works program
which will use a lot of cement if
President Roosevelt’s five-billion
dollar six-year flood-control and
conservation program is carried
out.
Nancy Hart
Home News
Captain Edward Molyneux fore
: asts a riot of color for spring fash
one. In monotone silks, as in prints,
color is the watchword. A wide range
of blue tones is being accented in
j pring silks. Misty blues and etrong
purple-blues are new. Purple is new
| y accented, and the capucine range
I s an important one, highligting
glowing yellow-orange and pumpkin
tones. Henna and horse-chestnut
j 'ank high. A hint of ashes-of-roees
j verlaye the copper range for resort
and spring Wear. Brownish gold is
another favored tone. Red ranks
high mauve pink and pale mauve
red are leading tones. A wide range
of green tones includes bright yel
ow-tgreen, turquoise green, reseda
green and stronger hues.
* * *
Book of the week:.... Dorothea
Brande's '‘Wake Up and Live” is a
welcome spring tonic easier to take
than the old-fashioned sulphur and
molasses, and ever so much more
effective. Very ably and interestingly
written; Mrs. Brande shows how
to recognize the “will to fail” and
substitute for it the will to
succeed.”
* • •
For reducing hips and waistline, a
Hollywood dance authority puts the
tarlets through a simple routine of
rolling and twisting exercises,
’wenty-three inches is the maxi
num waistline measurement permit
ted on one leading movie lot. Here
are the three exercises which have
proved most effective: First: lie flat
on the back on the floor, hands clasp
ed above the head and ankles to
gether. Then, without moving feet
or head, twist the body from side
to side. Second: after rolling comes
the riding-the-bicycle exercise. Lie
flat on the back and raise legs up
ward, balancing the body with your
hands. Then move your legs up and
down exactly as when riding a bi
cycle. Third: the twisting exercise
consists of turning the 'body in a
twisting swnng from side to side
while keeping the feet together.
• • •
With the vogue for patent leather,
for those who would like one shade
which will harmonize with prints
and solid dark dresses as well, we
suggest bronze patent. There are
matching bags too.
• / *
Views of old New York and other
historical points are included in
some wooden trays decorated with
Currier and Ives prints shown at a
smart local shop. One is of a mare
named Lucy, winner of a race in
Buffalo in 1872. The trays are im
pervious to heat and can be washed
in hot water.
* * *
Sheer black capes are a new even
ing vogue. They are especially
effective when appliqued sparsely
with large white daisies yellow cen
tered.
* * *
A flower cart such as you might
see on metropolitan side streets
may bloom in miniature in your own
home. It is made of tin, painted
white or black with appropriate de
signs on the side, and with the cor
rect handle and wheels. To hold its
wares are four little pots which might
be filled with ivy or 'flowers. It is
an amusing and effective little affa.r.
* * •
Household Hint: When vegetables
have been burned in a aluminum
pan. soak the pan overnight in wa
ter to which vinegar has been added.
It may then he easily cleaned.
Dansville, N. Y.—Plans for a
flight to Bombay, India, next sum
mer by a flotilla of four or more
light planes were revealed here Fri
day by Maj. Merrill K. Riddick,
Dansville aviatot. The major de
clared Edward Coon, Hamburg, N.
Y. student pilot, and two or more
other aviators would accompany
him.
IF YOU will learn the name of
* * *
j THE MA'N who has just given a
* * *
I YOUNG WOMAN a diamond,
* * *
YOU MAY discover the folks
* * *
ABOUT WHOM we are talking
* * *
l EVEN IF you do guess correctly.
* * *
TODAY. BUT we won’t tell you
HOWEVER HE lives right here
* * *
IN SALISBURY he took her
HAND IN his and gazed proudly
X X X
AT THE engagement ring he had
*{. ;t- }{.
PLACED ON her finger only
THREE DAYS before. "Did your
H- !(• :r
FRIENDS ADMIRE it?” he
X x X
INQUIRED TENDERLY. "They
X X X
DID MORE than that,” she
* * #
REPLIED. "TWO of them
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RECOGNIZED IT.”
* * K
I THANK YOU.
hose suffering from STOMACH OK i
DUODENAL ULCER J, DUE TO HYPER
* ACIDITY-POOR DIGESTION. ACID L
3 DYSPEPSIA. SOUR STOMACH. GASSI- H
i NESS, HEARTBURN CONSTIPATION. B
BAD BREATH, SLEEPLESSNESS OR H
4 HEADACHES. DUE TO EXCESS ACID ■
l Explains the marvelous Willard Treat- B
■ merit which is bringing amazing relief, Sj
Sold on 15 days triaL V
CARTER & TROTTER, INC.
Hints for Homemakers
By Jane Rogers
HERE Is an ideal calorie cheater
that will fit in any ordinary
reducing diet. The recipe is one for
oyster stew prepared with skimmed
milk. The'recipe, giving the caloric,
value for each ingredient, MW :■*:
1 cup (8 ounces)
skimmed milk. Bd . .os
1 teaspoon butter . SO “
6 medium oysters . 55
180 calories
Scald milk, add butter, oysters
and liquor, salt and pepper. Heat
until oysters get plump and curl at
♦he edges. Ample for two servW-s
calories each.
* * *
The depleted shelves in t le jam
closet can be refilled duri >g the
winter season with a delicious jelly
prepared from canned Hawaiian
pineapple juice. Make pineapple
jelly by the following method:
Measure 3 cups of Hawaiian pine
apple juice and 0)4 cups sugar into
a large saucepan and mix. Bring to
a boil over hottest fire and at once
add 8 ounces- (1 cup) of liquid pec
tin, stirring constantly. Then bring
to a full rolling boil and boil hard
% minute. Remove from fire, skim,
pour quickly into clean jars. Paraf
fin hot jelly at once. Makes about. 9
eight-ounce glasses.
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