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Rowan County Herald Consolidated with The Carolina Watchman February Jth, 1937 Published every Friday morning by The Independent Press Publishing Company, Salisbury, N. C. E. W. G. Huffman, Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In Advance One Year_$1.00 6 Menths_ .JO Three years_ 2.00 One Year Outside Rowan County _,-- $1.50 Entered as second-clast mail matter at the pestoffice at Sal isbury, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. POPULATION DATA (1930 Census) Salisbury _16,951 Spencer _3,128 E. Spencer_ 2,098 China Grove _ 1,258 Landis __ 1,3 88 Rockwell _ 6q6 Granite Quarry_ 5 07 Cleveland _ 4 5 5 Faith _ 431 Gold Hill _ 15* (Population Rowan Co. 56,465' The influence of weekly news papers on public opinion exceeds that of all other publications in the country.—Arthur Brisbane. Rowan Co. Herald’s 1937 Platform For Salisbury 1. A Library Building. 2. Municipal Auditor ium. 3. A Y. W. C. A. Build ing. 4. A Large City Play ground. ; BOOM EVIDENT IN BUILDING FIELD The increase in the volume of . new building construction '■ throughout the country in 1936 • over the previous year is en j couraging in many ways. In nor ; mal times building is one of the j largest industry, -employing at * its peak more than three mil j lion workers in the building I trades, besides other millions in the production of building ma terials and equipment. Last year ! was the biggest building year j since 1931, according to author ative construction reports. But : nothing which can properly be . called a building “boom” has as yet set in. ! The people of the United States built about 260,000 new homes in 1936, as compared with 75,000 in 1935. But the ■ total amount spent on new hous [ ing was only $12 per capita, as against $61 at the height of the last home-building boom in 1935. The outlook now is that about 425,000 new homes will be built this year. It takes about 400.000 new houses every year to house <our normal population increase iproperly and replace buildings burned or otherwise rendered uninhabitable. Much new home building will be necessary m the Ohio Valley because of flood damage, but apart from that the United States needs at least a million new houses now. There is considerable doubt whether there is enough skilled labor to carry on a real build ing boom if it got started. All through last year reports of a shortage of competent brick layers, plumbers, carpenters and other building mechanics came from every section where there was a marked increase in build ing operations, and contractors are reported as being prepared to offer “bonus” wages this Spring to good men. Wages are already near the high figure of the middle ’20’s, both for skilled men and ordinary labor. One reason for the shortage is that many building trades workers have established themselves in other lines. Forced by the de pression to find work wherever they could, half a million or so have found ways to make a living either as farmers or in other occupations. There is no new crop of journeymen workers to replace those who have died or become/ YOUR FIRST!!! mr Self piTy I EFFECTUALLY KILLS ' CHEERFULNESS, AMBITION AND INITIATIVE U ^CiEMTlSTS CLAIM THAT WE MAY UVE TO BE ; ONE HUNDJ4EDANDTEN YEARS tF WE UVE HMMT1! /£0F^k ^—C' ^ Jk LIGHT I COATING- 1 OF VASELINE WILL SERVE AS A A PROTECTIVE 9 .AGAINST 4 \CHAPPED 9 UPS .. I A ncapacitated by age, illness or rccident in the past ten years. With the revival of building, which is starting now and bids fair to continue for another ten or twelve years, the building trades would seem to offer a fine opportunity for boys who can find ways to become masters of almost w one of the building crafts. Good workmen will be in greater and greater demand for a long time. THE WORLD GROWS OLDER We are getting older. Every- i body has been doing that, ever since Time began, but now the; whole human race is getting old er, in the sense that the average age of the people of the United 'States is higher than it ever has been. The proportion of old people in the total of population' is increas’’r\fr and that of child :oi decreasing. On April 1, 1935, when the last Census Bureau count was made, there were 4.349,200 persons over 70 years old, or 34 out of every thousand indivi duals. At the beginning of this century, 37 years ago, there were only 24 in 1.000. In any aver age group of 1,000 persons there were 240 children under ten years old ; now there are only j 100 youngsters of that age, or only 10 percent of the total. One important reason for this change in the balance of ages! is the declining birthrate; an other is the general improvement in public health as a result of better living conditions, more facilities for ordinary folk to receive proper medical attention and the stamping out of epide-, mics. The public health cam paigns against communicable di-j seases, backed by the increased knowledge and improved re sources of medical science have also helped to enable the average person to live longer. i One result is the raising of the, average of the population at any! given time. Not many years agoi the majority of the people were] under 25 and the expectation of] life of every new-born baby was! 40 years. Now there are more Americans over 30 than under ; hat age, and the expectation of1 ire is 56 years. One effect, bound to make it-! self manifest in another fewj years in new and perhaps sur prising ways, is the increased at tention which the elders give to the education and upbringing of the young. Youth is scarcer and so more highly prized. The danger in all of the social effort to help youth solve its problems j is that the young may get too much help, and grow to maturity lacking in self-reliance and ini tiative. | . j Phosphate and limestone are] necessary for good pastures in piedmont and western Carolina according to demonstrations con ducted last year by the State Col lege Extension Service. ,'•,.3- -'---i r[...... J f jjV;: ’ ^ ? I * '•’■?* : _y-l.'TI^ f*Tv u ."j I I !/-:v j >. ••' is -j V f f j . - .v: as^ FPA.NK BARKER f'- . ..•*, V- ;'- ;r»" 1 ? 'la „ ’ . ^ >-_ FACTS.important Nothing is harder than to get people to look up the facts of history before they try to discuss them. Lately we have heard much talk about the Supreme Court thwarting the will of the people by declaring Acts of Con gress unconstitutional, and many point to the famous Dred Scott case as a glaring example. The fact is that Chief Justice Tanev, in the decision of 1857, i upheld Congress. The Missouri] Compromise Act of 1820 had pr-| ohibited slavery anywhere north of Missouri. But Congress, in 1854, passed the Kansas-Neb raska law, permitting those ter ritories to vote on the question of slavery, and specifically re pealing the Missouri Compro mise. So when the owner of a fugitive slaze. Dred Scott | brought him back from a free' state and the question came be fore the courts as to whether he was still legally a slave, the Su-I preme Court held that the Miss-! ouri Compromise law which had set him free had been repealed, and added that it had been un constitutional, anyway, though that was not the major question before the court. In that celebrated case the Supreme Court upheld the latest j Act of Congress on the subject. ] * * * CHRISTIANITY . united' I can see no good reason why ill Christians cannot unite in a single church Federation for the' defense and propagation of our religion. I see many reasons why it is particularly necessary at, this time. I was greatly pleased when I heard John D. Rocke feller, Jr., over the radio, call: an all Christians to unite in a: league or federation on the same' iasis that the states united to form the United States of Am itrica. The plan endorsed by Mr. Roc kefeller, who is a Baptist, was proposed by the Rev. Dr. E.J Stanley Jones, a missionary toj India. He would call it “The Church of Christ in America.” | “Only a united Christian world,” said Mr. Rockefeller, I ‘can stem the rising tide of ma teralism, of selfishness, of sha ken traditions, of crumbling mo-1 ral standards. If we who call, aurselves Christians could catch; the vision from the mountain! top we would see that there all! toads meet.” •e ?e * CHEESE . a cave; Roquefort cheese is one of I those things, like* parsnips, which i ane either likes very much or| positively detests. I am very; fond of Roquefort, with its | threads of greenish mould run-j ning through it. Roquefort cheese gets its name from a town in France, near which are some caves in \. Inch the temperature and mois ture do not vary the year around. The fable is that a shepherd boy who went into one of the caves for shelter left a piece of cheese from his lunch pail inside. Re turning some months later he found it mouldy but ventured to eat it and liked the flavor. Soon all the farmers and villagers be gan to take their cheese to the caves to ripen, and a great in dustry was born. Lately someone discovered that an abandoned coal mine in Penn sylvania has the same tempera ture and humidity as the Roque fort caves, and plans are afoot to use the old mine for ripening cheese. * * * OIL . from North Every so often we hear that the oil reserves of the world are petering out, and people begin to ask what we will use for mo tor fuel when the oil is gone. But just about as often we hear of new oil discoveries of vast extent so perhaps we are not in immin ent danger. The latest oil report comes from northern Alberta, in Cana da, up toward the Arctic circle. Geologists have found there de posits of oilbearing shale, cal culated to yield as much as all that is now being produced in the world. Canada’s enormous mineral wealth has as yet hardly been tapped. A high proportion of the world’s gold, silver, cobalt and nickel, and the largest part of all the radium produced comes from Canada. * * HOLE . heat Twenty-five year ago Sir Char les Algernon Parsons, famous British engineer, proposed to sink a shaft several miles deep to tap the semi-molten rock str atum and pipe the heat of the earth’s core to the surface, to supply power and heat for indus try. The cost would have been tremendous, yet the project was declared feasible and probably would have been attempted but for the World War. Now an American engineer lias demonstrated to an engin- , eering convention a drill which | will cut a five foot vertical shaft I to any depth, as far as the heat i will permit. It goes through the hardest rock, and it the most economical method yet devised for boring a big hole in the ground. It would not surprise me if ■ome practical application were made of Sir Charles Parson’s ] idea. How handy it would be to seat your house with a pipe from a five-mile-deep hole in your 1 back yard! ( DR. N. C. LITTLE Optometrist ‘ Lyes examined and glasses fitted Telephone 1571 -W. 107*4 S. Main Street Ne^t to Ketchie Barber Shop [T IS a known fact that folks * * * SAN GET in trouble a whole ♦ ♦ * LOT EASIER than they can • » » SET OUT of it, so you can * * • UNDERSTAND WHY we * * * HAVE RULES like we have. * * * THE OTHER day we sfr * * OVERHEARD A little con * * * v ERSATION THAT struck # * * LIS AS being so untrue to life • * » THAT WE just must repeat it * * * FOR YOU, without names, of * * * COURSE. “YOUR wife is a * * * FERY SYSTEMATIC woman * * * ISN’T SHE?” said one citizen * • * l'O ANOTHER. “Yes, very,” * » » REPLIED THE second » * * GENTLEMAN. “SHE works * » * 3N THE theory that you can * ' . FIND WHATEVER you want * * * WHEN YOU don't want it by * * * -OOKING WHERE it • * % WOULDN’T BE if you did * *► ♦ WANT IT." • * * I THANK YOU. READ THE ADS PERMANENT WAVES SI.00 to $8.0C CAROLINA BEAUTY SHOP 337 S. Main-Phone 9120 Liquid - Tablets 30 Salve - Nose minutes Drops Try “Rub-My-Tism”-World’s Best Linement WHERE to go and WHAT to do when your radiator boils or leaks. We flush, clean, repair, a'nd re bore all makes of radiators. We sell ©r trade new and second hand radiators. W e are most reliable —see ue before you buy. EAST SPENCER MOTOR CO. Phone 1198 - J N. Long St. EAST SPENCER )*a't ua* ametljr, greaajr^ alvea chat itaia and ruin [iracati and bed dothea! ScottJ Treatment Soethes instantly. Kills the tiny mites that burrov. under the skin and cause the itching. Clean, quick, cheap and sure. AH drug gists—XX stands for Liquids Of various flavors. That tickle the palate When appetite wavers. What would we do without our liquid foods? Few of us realize how much we depend upon them today. A glance at the neat rows or glass bottles on your emergency shelf will disclose vinegar, mayon naise, French Dressing, Worcester shire sauce, tomato juice, grape juice, vanilla, mustard, salad oil, mint sauce and perhaps half a dozen others. And milk, of course, always in a glass bottle so that you can see the cream line and so that you can reseal the milk not used and keep it fresh. The housewife With such an assortment of appetizers and flavor ing agents, may turn to any page of her cook book that strikes her fancy, knowing that she has the necessary ingredients safe and fresh in her stock of glass contain ers, ready to turn a simple recipe into a delightful treat. Here are two recipes that depend heavily upon bottled liquid foods: Caliente Salad 1 cup uncooked prunes S medium sized apples French dressing % cup sliced stuffed green olives % cup sliced red radishes 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Lettuce Mayonnaise Paprika STAR LAUNDRY " The Good One'* Laundcrers and Dry Cleaner* Phone 24 114 West Bank St. ONE DAY SERVICE Wash prunes and cut from pits in very small pieces. (If prunes are very dry, boil in sufficient water to cover for 10 minutes, drain and cool slightly before removing pits.) Core and peel apples and cut each apple in four slices crosswise, forming rings; marinate these rings in French dressing. Combine prunes, olives and radishes with enough mayonnaise to moisten, first adding the Worcestershire sauce to the mayonnaise and mix ing well. Arrange apple rings on lettuce-garnished salad plates, al lowing 3 rings to a serving. Place a portion of prune mixture in center of each ring, top with mayonnaise and sprinkle with paprika. Serves 4. Economical Sauce 4 tablespoons salad oil 4 tablespoons cream 3 tablespoons vinegar Mustard Salt Pepper Mix the salad oil, cream, vinegar, a little mustard, salt and pepper. Beat together quickly, with an egg beater. The sauce gets white quickly and looks like whipped cream. Soon It becomes as thick as the best-made mayonnaise. Moreover, eggs are not required, the sauce will not curdle, and can be made quickly. Ideal for cold meat and fish. TO RELIEVE NEURITIS PAINS FAST Demand and Get Genuine BAYER ASPIRIN i - - i GUILTY Don’t be guilty of face-scrap ing ! You’ll find comfort in Sum Single-edge Blades. Mad: 1880 by the inven tors of the original safety razor. Keen, long-lasting, uni form. ( I SLOW YOU OOW" j3«r r ISTOP IT WITH Alka-Seltzer Does Headache “slow you down?” You are a rare ex ception it it does not. One or two tablets of ALKA SELTZER in a glass of water makes a pleasant alkalizing solution that usually brings relief in just a few minutes. 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When You Meet a Laxative Thousands of men an. women knew how wise it‘is t; take Black-Draught at th-; first sign of constipation They like the refreshing relie! it brings. They know it: timely use may save then from feeling badly and pos sibly losing time at work from sickness brought on by con stipation. If you have to take a laxa tive occasionally, you can rely on | Used Car SALE ’36 Plymouth Coupe ’35 Plymouth Coupe ’33 Plymouth Coupe ’36 Chevrolet Coupe ’35 Ford V-8 Coupe ’34 Chevrolet Coupe ’29 Dodge Coupe ’34 Dodge Coach ’35 Ford V-8 Coach ’34 Plymouth Coach ’34 Ford V-8 Coach ’35 Chevrolet Coach ’29 Chevrolet Coach ’35 Plymouth Sedan ’34 Plymouth Sedan ’33 Plymouth Sedan ’32 Chevrolet Sedan '31 Pontiac Sedan ’31 Chevrolet Sedan ’29 Buick Sedan Look These Care Over If You Want a Good Buy McCANLESS MOTOR CO. Salisbury and Kannapolis
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