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The Washington times., 1931-06-29
Husband Declares
Wife Deserted Him

Charging he was deserted, Ber-
nard T. Barnes, of Silver Spring,
Md. through Attorney Kenneth
Lyddane, of Rockville, Md, has
filed a suit in the circuit court
at Rockville, for an absolute di-
vorce from Marion B. Barnes, of
Forrestville, Md, whom he mar
ried in 1925.
She is alleged to have left him
June %, 1928. They have no
children.
The Washington times., 1931-06-29
Football Player
Injured in Crash

Carlin Peyton, 20. former all
State football player at the Alex
andria High School, is in the
Alexander Hospital suffering
from injuries to his head and
arms. sustained Saturday night
when his car collided and turned
over near Oakcrest in ArlingJOn
county.
The Washington times., 1931-06-29
Religious Drift Blamed
On RELIGIOUS Speakers

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, June
29.-It is not the atheist and
agnostic who is responsible for
the tendency in the schols to
drift away from the church and
God, but the fault lies with
those who speak in the name
Of religion, Dean Luther A.
Weigle Of the Yale Divinity
School, declared at the opening
session of the Institute of Public
Affairs.
The Washington times., 1931-06-29
Rockville Issues
MarriUge Licenses

Marriage licenses were issued at
Rockville, Md, to Joseph A. Sari,
%, and Virginia A. Lam, 20, both
of Washington; George T. Far
mer, 26. and Eula Helen Farmer.
%, both of Pulaski. Va; Russell
j. Thomhill, 26, of Culpeper, Va,
and Lovelle A. Rosson, 81. of
Washington: Harvey E. Simms,
81, of washington. and May
Katherine Pennelle, 18, of Brent
wood. Md. and Richard w. SUIT
ton, 2l, and Doris Green, 18, both
of Washington.
The Washington times., 1931-06-29
BAND CONCERT POSTPONED

Director of Public Buildings
and Public Parks of the National
Capital announces that the park
concert scheduled for July 3,
by the Community Civic Band at
Rock Creek Park, Sixteenth and
Kennedy SITS. N. w., has been can
celed, as the band stand is need
ed for the celebration on July 4.
The Washington times., 1931-06-29
Firemen to Decide
On Attending Meet

The executive committee of the
Alexandria Firemen's Association
will meet tomorrow night to de-
eide whether to attend the State
firemens convention in Win
chester.
The Washington times., 1931-06-29
HURT IN BALL GAME

Elvin Shanks, 1886 C st. N. E.,
was treated at the Alexandria
Hospital yesterday for injuries to
his mounth. He was struck by
a ball during a sandlot game in
Alexander.
The Washington times., 1931-06-29
STATION ROBBED OF GAS

Robbers last night entered the
Shell Gasoline Station at Rock
Vile, Md. making way with sew
eral gallons of gas and oil.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04

put into immediate operation certain projects
for the development of North Carolina along
the lines suggested by Tyre C. Taylor some
months ago in his Ten Year Plan for North
Carolina" is getting down to work at once.
Plans are already being formulated for the
raising cf a fund Of 100000 to start work
on the first project to be undertaken-that
of attracting more tourists and permanent
residents to the state through better advertis-
ing of the states historic and scenic spots.
Plans are also being considered whereby Ten
Year Plan, Incorporated, will be able to tie in
some of its activities with the unemployment
and relief agencies and thus assist them in Civ
ing additional employment to those out of
work. Part of this program calls for the i'm
mediate Inauguration of an extensive tree
planting campaign, in which many of those
now out of work will be given employment.
1t is hoped that fully 100000 trees can be
planted along the highways of the state with
in the next few months as the initial step in,
the roadside Identification plans of the Ten
Year Plan corporation.
The three committees that will be named
to study the three principal projects which the
corporation intends to emphasize have not yet
been named, but will be within the next few
days.
One of these committees will study and rec
ommend a plan Of procedure for attracting
visitors and desirable permanent residents to
the state.
A second committee will study and devel-
op a program for agricultural and industrial
research with a view to attracting additional
industries to the state, especially those that will
use native North Carolina produce and re-
sources.
The third committee will be charged with
the task of developing a definite and work.
able country life program for the better de-
velopment of the rural and agricultural sec
lions of the state and tie into this program the
tourist and new resident program so that the
rural sections will profit as much as will the
urban sections.
North Carolina is not 'broke," but that the
state is still sound economically and financial
1y, but it needs to turn its attention away
from lines and pursuits that have become un-
profitable and to develop new avenues of in
come and revenue that heretofore have gone
virtually unnoticed and undeveloped.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04
TIL MUNICIPAL PARK

If present plans mature, Salisbury will soon
have a municipal park containing sixteen or
more acres. The park will be ideally located
and constructed and will be a decided asset
to our city.
For many years, Salisbury has been in need
of a park. Heretofore, the highways have been
used as the lone source of diversion by the
majority of our citizens for the sole reason,
they had no where else to go. The park will
change this.
The city of Salisbury is indebted to the
sponsors and promoters of this movement.
1t is stated that a number of the unemploy-
ed jobless- workers will be given work when
the park is under construction. This is also
another cause for gratitude.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04

commission appointed by Governor
Gardner under authority of the last
legislature is now considering proposed
amendments.
Doubtless the commission, which is
headed by Chief Justice Walter P.
Stacy, would welcome constructive
suggestions and proposed revisions
from thoughtful citizens. AS a general
revision of the old constitution, which
is 81 years old, is to be undertaken, it
is the proper time to advance ideas
for desired changes. Of course the con-
stitutional commission cannot change
the fundamental law or adopt a new
one, as that must be done by vote Of
che people. However, while the state
is going through with the process of
overhauling and moderpizing the con-
.stitution is the time for making all
revisions that ought to be made in
many years to come.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan.
Mr.. Gilmer Robinson,
Captain Catawba Football Squad,
Salisbury, N. c.
My dear MI. Robinson:
1t was with pleasure that I read
of your selection as captain of the
Catawba Football team for 1882.
l have observed your excellent work
on the team during the past year and
l am confident a better choice could
not have been made.
I hope you will have a successful
season in 1882.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan.
To the Citizens of Salisbury and
Rowan County:
The sale of Christmas seals is get
ting underway for this Christmas sea-
son.
The goal is set at $1,000. l hope this
mark will be reached as the purpose
of the seal sale is high and noble.
Headed by a group of capable lead
ers, l predict the fund will be raised
with little difficulty.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04
ing employment to those in needl
Also, tax all billboards by the square
foot to help raise funds.
r. w A

AAAoO ~NA ~A ~ NAS SAoO1$
foot to help raise funds.
T. W "A.
SAFETY ON THE HIGHWAYS
\ + r
To the Editor:
Please let me call your attention
to a rule l think is very good: Do
unto others as you would they should
do unto you. This says do something
and that leads to acts sometimes that
are contrary to public opinion and
sometimes your own family IS
ashamed Of you: bur If you are not
true to your convictions you are NOT
worthy Of their confidence. If / sec
the course they are pursuing will
lead t danger Or to their hurt l
should warn them whether they think
so or not. I should oppose anything
I think is wrong and work for any
thing l think is right. The giver of
that rule gave some plain truths; one
thing was, many of us are going to
be disappointed in the next world,
many of us are going to say "Have
we not prophesied in thy name and
in thy name done many wonderful
works." And he will say Depart
from me, l never knew YOU Many
of us think we know a better way
than He taught. If we try and way
that is not according to that rule it
is not His way. y
And as the public highways are
for all, the walker as we'll as-the
rider, do we respect or keep that
rule? Suppose there is a child or
grown person going along the high
way one way and an automobile is
going the other, and there is some
object between SO you cannot see him
and he cannot see you; the object
may be a curve or another utomo-
bile. When you see each other you
can not get out of the way. At the
speed he is coming he has a deadly
weapon that he cannot control. He
will say if he kills you it was un-
avoidable; he will say why because
you were in the highway and he
could not stop. Would he be willing
for you to be in his place and you b:
in his?
See the mothers going with their
children to school, afraid of the dan
ger of the automobile. There is more
danger on the highways han l have
ever known.
l would be glad if someone that
has the responsibility would do some
thing to divide the responsibility at
least.
Why not build sidewalks for the
children. and places for them to cross
where they will have the right of
way?
E. MITCHELL.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04
LAND GIVEN GOVERNMENT

Raleigh-The last tract of land
needed to complete the inland water
way course through North Carolina
has been decided to the United States
government. The section lies between
Shallotte river and Bowens Point in
Brunswick county.
l. M. Bailey, executive secretary of
the transportation, advisory COM
mission, in charge of the states work
on the inland waterways, said North
Carolina was the first state to COM
plete its transfers of land to the
government for the waterway.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04
SUPPOSE YOU WERE DICTATOR?

What would you do to meet present condi-
lions if you were a dictator in America?
Stuart Chase, in an article, IF | Were Die
tator," opens with this diagnosis of present
day conditions:
Too Much Wheat and Not Enough Bread!
Too Much Cotton and Not Enough Clothes!
Too Many Bricks and Not Enough Houses!
Too Much Drudgery and Not Enough Jobs!
Too Much Goods and Not Enough Money!
With this situation, how could a Dictator
work a remedy? Mr.. Chase essays to say what
he would do if he had all power. Here are
some of the things he would do:
1. Abolish the protective tariff, save in ex-
ceptional cases to aid an infant industry.
2. Cancel all war debts and request other
countries to do likewise.
3. Abolish the Army and Navy and substi-
tute a magnificent air force at 5 per cent. of
the Army and Navy, and would abolish that
when Europe ceases to NINE
4. Put the war schedules of income taxes
into operation with just a shade more empha-
sis on the higher brackets.
5. Recognize Russia at once and sell her a
billion dollars worth of American goods and
thus give the depression another sock in its
estimable nose.
{. Issue three to five billion dollars in Pros
perity Bonds for the purpose of Immediately
utilizing a million or more unemployed on
public works.
7. Put in effect unemployed insurance so
designed that only a brazen liar can attach to
it the term of dole.
8. Until employment insurance gets to
functioning, Federal relief must supplement
local relief, and no American family will be
permitted to fall below a certain minimum
standard of living, $50 a week.
9. A complete system of old age pensions.
10. Withdraw all children under 10 from
industry, putting them back in schools, and
making their jobs available to adult workers.
IL. Make wine and beer legal.
Some of the suggestions are without merit
and some decidedly needed in these trying
times. What would you do?
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04
.WHO Is SIMPLE SIMON?"

Anent the new British tariff law, passed as
reprisal for the American law, The Baltimore
Evening Sun says:
"A dispatch from Washington in The Ev-
ening Sun, after describing the furry produc-
ed by Jews of the British tariff, said:
"tDuring the past eight months Americans
have bought 154 sites for branch factories in
England, and leading real estate firms will now
increase the sales campaigns they recently have
inaugurated to lure still more plants there.
s'The tariff has long been touted as the bull
wark of the American standard of living, but
an American workman without a job cannot
sustain the American, or any other, standard
of living. And when American factories go
abroad American jobs go with them. When
the tariff begins to drive American factories
abroad, it is menacing, not sustaining, the
American standard of living
rect Indictment of a host or retaliatory tariffs
raised against us by nearly every country in
the world. But American manufacturers have
nc intention Of losing their foreign markets
simply because Congress has enacted a silly
tariff law. They get around the foreign tariff
wall by the process of erecting branch facto-
ries behind that wall. In these factories, of
course, they employ foreign workmen to fill
jobs that otherwise would have gone to Ameri-
cans, thus adding to the unemployment prob
lem at home. This is one way in which the
worker pays the bill for tariff wars.
"At the same time many of these manufac-
turers support the tariff which enables them
to charge a higher price for their goods in the
domestic market. So the workers in this coun-
try are compelled to pay higher prices for all
they buy by the very tariff which is making
jobs harder and harder to get. The American
workman pays the bill, going and coming.
"Yet the Republican party is kept in power
largely by the votes of American workmen:
Query: Who, in this situation, is the chump?"
The American laborer hasn't faced a more
disastrous piece of legislation han this Repub-
lican tariff law. 1t has sent him from his work
into the streets, and it will continue to do so.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04
THE
WATCHMAN
Tower

To the Citizens of Spencer:

To the Citizens Of Spencer:
I am glad to know the postohice
department at Washington has sent a
representative to your fine city to in
vestigate the ACCESSIBILITY of establish
ing free mail delivery.
I am informed there is a great de-
mand for this service by the citizens
of your city and + trust your petitions
will be honored and request granted.
1t is difficult to understand why
this service had not been established
years ago.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04
COM ENTS

AW, WHO CARES ABOUT PEDES-
TRANS.
X X =
To the Editor:
, Why not build side paths along all
roads used by automobiles, thus sav-
ing many lives of pedestrians and Civ
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04

This newspaper is published as a community
asset, with the hopethat our citizens will use
it, write for it, read it, like it and, maybe, sup.
port it.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04

There are some people who don't believe in
buying what they need in Salisbury although
they are anxious to sell what they have to the
people here.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04
To Professor Arthur Rich and
the Catawba College Glee Club:

the Catawba College Glee Club:
Please allow me to congratulate
you upon your excellent work at
Catawba this year. Especially do |
want to commend you for the Christ
mas program you have prepared and
which will be broadcast over WBT
December E.
l wish you continued cce in
this fine work.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-04
To Coach G.. A. Kirkland and
Members of the Salisbury High

To Coach G. A. Kirkland and
Members of the Salisbury High
School Football Squad:
You have just closed a successful
season and l want to congratulate
you. l doubt if Salisbury has yer pro-
duced a finer or stronger aggregation
of pigskin artists.
Salisbury is proud of you.
1t wasn't necessary to defeat Char
lotte in order to- accomplish a
Successful season." Few teams go
throughout a season with only n
defeat. No team is perfect or unbeat-
able. Victory isn't the greatest thing
about football, anyhow; although
Everyone likes to see a winning team.
It's the spirit that counts and the
fine things that grow out of the ex-
pcriences on the gridiron. You not only
made an enviable record this year, but
you also built up and maintained a
wonderful spirit the spirit of fighting
hard, fighting we'll, fighting fair.
.dof my hat to you, Coach Kirk
land, and to your fine bunch of boys.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan.
Mr.. B. V. Hedrick, Mayor;
The City Council, and
Mr.. Marvin Snider, General Chairman
of the Unemployment Relief Com
|,mittee:
During the past week there has
been a noticeable decrease in the num-
Der of jobless workers on the streets
Of Salisbury. My surmise is that the
decrease is due to your program OF re-
lief for the unemployed. Your relief
| agencies deserve commentator.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan.
To the Citizens of Salisbury
and Rowan County:
Doubtless most of us from time to
time have felt that certain changes in
the state constitution should be made.
Now is a good time to advance sugges-
tions for revisions, as the constitutional
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
$4,000 PEARL
NECKLACE LOST

NEW YORK. May II GNSD.
Mrs. Grafton w. Minot, member
Of a socially prominent family,
was revealed today as the loser
of pearl necklace, said to be
worth between $4,000 and
100000.
The necklace was lost last
Wednesday while Mrs. Minot was
shopping but no report was made
to police. 1t consisted of cwo
strings of pearls with diamond
clasp.
Theft of four pieces of jewelry
from the home of Mrs. ]. T.
Johnston Mali, wife of the ,Gel-
gian consul, was also learned to.
day. The jewels, worth $500,
were stolen last Friday from
bureau in the Mali home.
Mrs. Minot is the former Mrs
Anne Kountz Douglas Bur0en.
She was married to Minot, who
is we'll known in Boston and New
England society," in 1927.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
PROBE STARTED
IN CHURCH FIRE

MONTREAL, May II GN.SO .
Authorities here were today in
vestigating the cause of $780,
900 fire which destroyed the
Church of the Village of Stesprit,
As miles from the Laurentian
mountains.
AS a result of the fire, holy
mass was celebrated yesterday in
the open air.
A mysterious telephone call to
Father Sinai Barette by someone
who said, Something is going to
happen to the church," was being
checked.
The fire, which occurred Sat
urday, threatened the village of
Stesprit. The church was insured
for $65 900. 1t was built in 1902.
Father Henri Gaudette, curate,
was able to save some of the val
uables in the church.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
Pope to Broadcast
From Vatican Friddy

ROME, May II UNSO The
speech of his holiness, Pope Plus
XI, who will address participants
in the international pilgrimage to
Rome on Friday to commemorate
the fortieth anniversary of the
Encyclical Rerum Novarum, will
be broadcast from the st. Dam
asus courtyard of the Vatican at
5 D. M, over a wavelength of 1884
meters, it was announced today.
All cardinals in Rome today
visited the Pope to express good
wishes for his nameday tomor-
row. The Pope, before his eleva-
ton, bore the name of st. Achil-
leus, Achille Ratti.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
MOVE To GUST
AIMEE DENIED

LOS ANGELES, Calf, May
IL QN.SD Emphatic denials
were given today to reports that
some members of the Angelus
Temple, religious organization
planned to unseat Mrs. Aimee
Semple Mcpherson as leader of
the group and replace her by Mrs
Minnie Ma" Kennedy, cstranged
mother of the Evangelist Mrs.
Kennedy was quoted as saying:
II don't want to be head Of
the church"
Unrest in the temple affairs
was reported after Emma Schaf-
fer, for eight years confidential
secretary to Mrs. Mcpherson, was
asked to resign.
Mrs. Mcpherson, with her
daughter Roberta and the lat
terS new husband, are 20 arrive
here Saturday from a world tour.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
UPSETS
.CAROL-HELENE
REUNION
Rumanian Princess Seeks
Cash Settlement; Will Go to
England, Bucharest Hears

BERLIN, May II GN.SO.-A
slight to Princess Helene, inten-
tional or accidental, was respon-
Sible for Helen'S refusal to appear
in public with King Carol at the
Rumanian independence day cele-
bration yesterday, and may have
upset the carefully laid plans for
a reconciliation between the Ru-
menian royal couple, Interna-
tional News Service was advised
today through uncenSored dis
patches from Bucharest.
One Lady-In- Waiting
Following the intervention by
King Alexander of Jugoslavia in
the marital affairs of King Carol
and his divorced wife, it was pub
licly announced that Princess
Helene, returning from surprise
visit to Jugoslavia, would stand
by Carols side in the reviewing
stand during the celebrations yes
terday and, with the king, take
the salute of the marching troops.
Helene returned to Bucharest
to carry out this plan, but then
refused to go to the reviewing
stand because she felt she had
been sighted when only one lady
in-waiting was assigned to meet
her on her arrival at the Bucha-
rest railway station.
AS a result of this new flare
up, the International News SerV-
ice informant stated, a reconcilia-
ton between Carol and Helen is
now regarded as virtually impossi-
BILE.
Seeks Cash Fund
Helene herself is said to have
given up all thought of such, and
is asking the King for a cash
settlement which would enable
her to live in England.
Helene, it was stated, feels now
that she and the King are wholly
upsuited to each other, and is
reconciled even to the loss of her
son, since Carol has come out
victorious in the months-long
silent battle which he and Helene
have waged for Crown Prince
Michaers affections.
BUCHAREST, May II G.N.SO .
Keen disappointment was ex-
pressed throughout Rumania to-
day over the apparent breakdown
of the latest attempt at recon
ciliation between King Carol II
and his divorced wife, the for
mer Princess Helene of Greece.
An official announcement had
stated that Princess Helene would
appear with the King in the re-
viewing stand at the Independ-
ence Day celebrations here yes
terday, and although a crowd of
100000 persons waited expect
antly she failed to put in an ap-
pearance.
The King reviewed a parade
of troops alone.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
Army Asks for Bids
On FGst-GOing Tank

Bids have been asked by the
chief of ordnance of the War De
partment, from manufacturers for
furnishing the Army with con-
vertible tanks of the Chrystie
type which can be operated on
its wheels on good roads or on
tracks off roads and under COM
bat conditions.
The tank, the War Department
announced today. must not weigh
over Is tons with a sustained
speed of 40 miles an hour on
wheels on a hard road, and Of
25 miles on level open terrain.
Each tank is to carry a machine
gun and a -37mm cannon with
crew of two men.
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
Reports To Be Made
On Base for Zeppelin

At the meeting of the member
ship of the Alexandria Chamber
of Commerce tonight, Business
Manager Dan Hollenga will sub
nit the preliminary meteorologi-
cal reports on the proposed
Zeppelin base on the Atlantic
Coast.
The reports we're made under
the supervision of Ward Van
Orman and include Hybla Valley
near Alexandria, Richmond, Bal
timore and Philadelphia.