CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL
AND DIXIE FARM NEWS
302 South College Street—(Second Floor)
»•*»« 8n>t«**r n. IMl. M th* rm\ Office at Cwrtotte. N. C
•a ike A t c* March I, 187>.
W. M. WITTER-Editor and Publisher
CLAUDE L. ALBEA......Associate Editor
CHARLOTTE, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1939
CAPABLE AND UNBIASED BOARDS SERVING GRATIS
Two unpaid bodies that are of the greatest service to Char*
lotte is our School board and Parks and Recreation commission.
They are entrusted with a great responsibility, the former more
than the latter. But upon second thought, health, exercise and
recreation are necessary to a physical state that will place the
boys and girls in a condition to receive the former. If ever good
men were needed these two honorable bodies call for them, and
The Journal believes both boards are composed of men capable
and unbiased, and that they will give a good account of their ac*
tivities when the day of reckoning comes. The members who
have left both boards have worked faithfully and have retired
with honors. The public at times fails to appreciate what these
men have, and are, sacrificing for the welfare and advancement
of “The Friendly City.” They have no axe to grind, but are
merely serving to their own detriment, at times, to give society,
as a whole a better city to live in.
The Journal commends all public servants who are faithful,
but to those who sacrifice, without remuneration it thinks especial
praise is due.
And another unpaid body that means much to our community
in health, civic uplift and dollars and cents, is coming in for criti*
cism, namely our Federal Housing Board. 'The plan is good and
the board is composed of men beyond reproach.
Our esteemed and Honorable Mayor is getting in the Kirk*
Patrick class. He telegraphed greetings to England’s King and
Queen, who are in Canada. The Colonel sent greetings to “Emp.
Wm.” (defunct now) and all the others, it pays to advertise “The
Friendly City,” and our present mayor has no moss growing on
his back, or grass under his feet. The Colonel was “Watching
Charlotte Grow.”
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DEALING WITH “ISMS!”
BT WM. S. GREENE
JINGOISM? A pointed cartoon
printed in a popular magazine this
week showed a politician making a
fervid, rabid, patriotic address, and
in the next scene, on the stage, a one
legged veteran is seen asking the
speech-maker where was he during
the late war. Of course the vet lost
his leg in the war, presumably, and
the audience caught on immediately.
Your guess as to who got the audience
applause is correct.
PATERNALISM? The standard
court room lawyer, in his jury speech,
usually addressed to the packed gal
lery for the colored race, always seems
to contain a sort of sales talk for
more clients, on the part of many of
the robed. This of course is good
Procedure, and justifiable. Then a
ew go to the length of calling the
colored race ‘The white man's bur
den,’ with all the hard work on the
lawyer’s part being to give the in
ference that he is doing a great deal
to help that race.
PATERNALISM? Beware of that
kind of so-called aid. That kind of
said means low wages, and loss of
freedom for the individual. Do your
own thinking. Try to get ahead by
yourself. The U. S. is proof indi
vidual initiative gets one farther,
not only from the viewpoint of Labor,
but also of Capital, and above all,
of Management.
BLANK - BLANKISM? Another
ism, invented of course, you know to
supply the BLANK-BLANK part,
gentle reader, is that ism which deals
with Rackets, Grafts, Vultures, Dis
honesty, Blank, Blank, etc. You
can fill out the items marked Blank
from your own experience. That
kind of ISM is so bad, that the word
to describe it wouldn’t be able to be
printed in decent language. Wolves
in sheeps clothing, such tactics do
more to destroy DEMOCRACY than
the ordinary acts known as the acts of
a criminal. One sell-out of a Judge
to some wolf, does more harm to our
country, than a thousand of the usual
criminal acts.
CAROLINISM? Drove up to
: ha pel Hill Monday, and played with
!ie University of North Carolina Or
hestra in their annual symphony
jncert. It was a revelation to me,
aving gone by way of Asheboro for j
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ie first time, instead of by San-1
.rd. The new route goes through,
nd that reminds me of the turpen
ne woods of Northern Florida and
mthern Georgia. If prosperity is to
me to North Carolina, this idle land
North Carolina must be put to
ne use. An increase of double our
sulation in the farming section may
ne day bring a great deal of pros
■ity to North Carolina. And every
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e‘'should~admir"that farmjwpula
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in, that owns its own small slxea
rms, is the best insurance for »
ly prosperous country.
AMERICANISM? The $FW had
eir May 20th celebration and con
ntion at the same time. Everyone
id a good time. Ernest Morgan,
!W Commander of the VFW and
resident of the Federal Labor Union,
id the job of providing for the con
THURSDAY NIGHT
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low-coet cooking. tic the
brilliant, beautiful new 1939
Electric Ran gee. Let in
how to mtc "money tad
save work in a kitchen that
all your iriinda will envy.
Tew minute* at our Range
Diaplay will bring you up
to-oate on electric cooking
may give you more
leisure aw
lira than you
known ... aa it 1
many other
Come in today. Find ant
how LITTLE it REALLY
costs to cook electrically.
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vention. This camp of the VPW is
a live wire organisation, and does
a lot of good in the community. Let
us give more attention to the living
heroes of the war, and less atten
tion to the dead heroes, if that is
necessary. Is that good sense or
not? As Commander of the Queen
City Chapter of the DAV, I know that
wounded men, still alive, could have
many added years of life, if patriotic
orders would concentrate on living
issues, rather than dead ones.
CITYISM? Take a trip around
the country, immediately outside of
the city limits of Charlotte, and see
if you arrive at the same conclusions
as this writer. Building is going on
at a gwwQrate, and either Charlotte
is growipg' by leaps and bounds, or
j residents of Charlotte are moving
I into the county to avoid the city taxes.
What would an analysis show?
Wrestlers All Set
For Next Monday
Night’s Mat Card
One of the roughest wrestling
matches ever to be seen at the Char
lotte Armory will be fought there
Monday night, May 29th, when rub
ber-man Sol Slagle with vengeance
in his blood meets the unscrupulous
Purple Flash in a second grudge
match, Sports Promoter Jim Crockett
announced.
Immediately after the bloody battle
between the two fast and husky grap
piers Monday night, Sol Slagle chal
lenged the Flash to a one-fall finish
match with no time limit, anything
going and the winner take all. Pro
moter Crockett okayed the match.
The feud between limber-limbed
Slagle and the mean man of mystery
began several weeks ago when the
Texas rubberman claimed the Flash
beat him by rubbing soan in his eyes
till he couldn’t see. Monday night
the two met in a grudge fight. Each
had won a fall when the Flash ram
med Sol’s head foremost into a ring
post, cutting a long gash across his
forehead. Referee June Thompson
stopped the match, giving it to the
Flash, as the wounded Slagle stum
bled about the ring in a daze trying to
wipe the blood from his eyes.
Slagle says he’ll get even with the
Flash if he has to do it outside the
ring.
Matros Kirilenko, strong and clever
Russian Cossack who won a decision
over rowdy Black Jack Hader Mon
day, will meet Tommy O'Toole in the
semi-final. O'Toole, handsome Irish
fighter last week grappled with Jim
Londos 45 minutes before the cham
pion pinned him, retaining the heavy,
weight title.
Lou Newman, popular young Can
adian wrestler, returns to Charlotte
to meet Black Jack Hader in the pre
liminary match.
SCIENTISTS ANALYZE
FABRICS FOR WOOL HEARING
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Swinging
the resources of science into the fray
for the first time, proponents of
truthful labelling of wool products in
troduced scientists as witnesses at re
cent hearing in Washington to demon
strate by photomicrographs that the
presence of fibers other than those
of virgin wool can be detected in fin
ished fabrics. Colored photos greatly
enlarged were introduced showing
studies of three fabrics originally
sold as garments to consumers. These
offered convincing proof that science
is no longer mystified about the true
content of woolen goods although the
Consumer and manufacturer may be.
Congressional committee which heard
witnesses was considering the
Schwartz-Martin wool labelling bill.
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Auto Union Strike
Spreads In Detroit
65,000 Men Are Out
DETROIT, May 24.—Failure of at
tempts to open settlement negotiations
yesterday marked a strike which in
two days has thrown out of employ
ment some 66,000 persons in nearly
a score of automobile plants.
Neither the Briggs Manufacturing
company, seven units of which closed
yesterday when their union employe*
struck, nor official, of *• ££ £
-a
3Brs->r^oVS
the Chrysler c0'T“rVj^)ln^ fivtaion
47,600 persons; the Lim»m «
of the Ford company, with 6,ow
oloves and 250 workers at the L. A.
Young Spring A Wire Co. here.
BUY A BARGAIN —
DRIVE A BARGAIN
A USED CAR FROM
THOMAS CADILLAC-OLDS, INC.
IS ALWAYS A BARGAIN
1935 Buick
Sedan -
1936 Buick T
Sedan -
1936 Buick T
Sedan -
1932 Chevrolet
Coach -
1934 DeSoto
Sedan -
1936 DeSoto
2-Dr. Sedan
1937 Dodge
Coupe _
1935 Ford
Sedan -
1935 Ford
Sedan _
1938 Ford 2-Dr.
Sedan -
$375
$465
$575
$180
$250
$395
$520
$265
$265
$490
1930 Ford
Tudor -
1936 Hudson T.
Sedan____
1936 LaSalle
Touring Sedan
1937 LaSalle
Sedan -
1933 Olds
2-Dr. Sedan -
1937 Olds T
Sedan —
1938 Olds T
Sedan _
1937 Packard
Sedan _
1936 Plymouth
Coach _
1936 Plymouth
Sedan__
$65
$395
$495
$775
$575
$495
$775
$745
$365
$395
Wise people investigate the used car they buy and the firm
from which they buy—investigate.
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500 W. Trade Dial 7159
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FIRST SHOWING IN CHARLOTTE
Thrills leap from a nation’s front pages as G-men snare a
vast spy network!
“SMASHING THE SPY RING”
with
RALPH BELLAMY — FAY WRAY
REGIS TOOMEY — ANN DORAN
Coming! “THERE’S THAT WOMAN AGAIN”
Mon. - Tues. Melvyn Douglas — Virginia Bruce
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