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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-18

ton Mills, and being better known as
1705 North Lee Street, Salisbury, N. C.
Being the same land conveyed to L.
w. Hess and wife, Nancy C. Hess, by
deed from P. E. Smith and wife, Roxanna
Smith, dated the 18th day of July, 1928,
and filed for registration on the r4th
day of July. 1928, in the Office of the
Register of Deeds for the County of Row.
an, State of North Carolina, recorded in
Book 203, Page As.
This the 3rd day of December, 1881.
CAROLINA MORTGAGE COMPANY,
Trustee.
E.. w. G. Huffman,
Attorney. Dc.11-Jn.1.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-18
North Carolina,
North Carolina,
In the Superior Court.
Rowan County.
B. WILSON

vs.
LILLIAN ELIZABETH WILSON
NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION
Lillian Elizabeth Wilson, the defendant
above named, will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been commenced against
her and is now pending in the Superior Court
of Rowan County, North Carolina, the pur-
pose whereof is to obtain for the plaintiff
an absolute divorce from the bonds of mat
rimony existing between plaintiff and defend
ant on account of the adultery of defend
ant.
And the defendant will further take notice
that she is required to appear in the office
of the undersigned, in the Court House at
Salisbury, N. c., on
DEC. 23, 1881,
or within thirty days thereafter, and answer
or demur to the complaint filed in said ac-
ton or the plaintiff will apply to the Court
for the relief therein prayed for.
This 81 day of November, 1881.
B.. D. McCUBBINS,
Clerk of the Superior Court of
Rowan County.
Nv 07-Do 10
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-18

Product = Diverslhcatlon, E14;
specialization, 3; modifying
product to appeal to customers,
II; product research, IL; new
products, 20; quality of prod
ucts, 20; packaging, 5
Observation-Disclosures, 5; in
stallation of modern equip
ment, IA; reduction of operat-
ing expense, "a; reduction of
overhead, 7; balanced produc-
ton, 9
Financial policies
Other Observation-Disclosures
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-12-18

increased sales force, 4; sus-
tanned sales efforts 5- At
Advertising Increased, %; main
tanned, 10; extensive, s; ag-
gressive, s; careful, 4; reduced,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10

Law, and 20 the game goes on in &C.
cordance with the rules Of organized
sport.
One Of the fundamental principles
OF base ball law Is the inviolability
Of the umpire. He Is veritably sacro-
sanct. His decisions are Anal, his
rulings are unreversAble, and his per.
son is "untouchable." For the mo-
mont of the play and for the hour or
so of the game he IL the embodiment
OF supreme Law. To strike him lie a
heinous offense, punishable by long sus-
pension and heavy fine His Judgment
may be bad, his vision may be imper-
feet, his own temper may be hot. but
his rulings stand and must be ac-
cepted
City Recorder John L. Gone of At
lanta, however, takes another view of
the umpire's rights and privileges and
immunities. He has just dismissed a
disorderly conduct charge filed against
Manager Dobbs of the Atlanta Crack
ers," who, q few weeks ago, fiouted
paSc Jail law anu ldnueQ mighty
right on the chin OF an umpire who
had infiamed his resentment by an ad-
verse decision. When the case was
finally heard before him, the recorder
declared that it was an inherent char
acteristic OF q base bali player ITO
relieve pent-up emotions now and then
at the expense Of some umpire"
Recorder Cones ruling will not sup
plant base ball law. Manager Dobbs
may go free Of fine In the civil courts,
but his way is likely to be hard in
deed in professional base ball If he
stands upon the inherent" right Of
the individual to resent q grievance
st the expense of the srbiter of the
play. Few ball players have ever ap-
pealed from base bail law to civil law
with any degree Of success. And the
Atlanta decision is not likely to lead
to the transformation Of the national
game into an arena of combined pugil-
ism and wrestling, much as the public
likes to see an occasional scrap on
the ball field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
Coal---and What Next

There is nothing particularly new in
the suggestion that the Government
take over regulation Of the bituminous
coal industry as a public utility through
some agency set up along the lines of
he. Interstate Commerce Commission
For several years the proposition has
been talked about as the inevitable
remedy for the many ills that have be-
set an industry for which no other cure
has been devised. The interesting fea-
ture of the suggestion now is that II
apparently denotes a final conviction
among the operators that Government
intercession is necessary and that some
movement is about to be put in molten
to get 1t.
"Too many mines and too many
miners" is the succinct, yet very ads-
quate. diagnosis Of what ails the b.
luminous coal industry. But there is
another equally important factor. The
operators themselves, bound by the
terms Of the Sherman act, have not
been able to effect among themselves
the agreements and restrictions that
would sufflce to curb overproduction.
They have tried 1t through vari-
Gus expedients, and they have failed
For many years their battle against
economic odds has been aggravated by
internecine strife, with cut-throat price
cutting. labor dif1culties, failure and
ruin as the natural Accomplishments.
If the operators themselves come to
Washington with plea for a form of
governmental regulation that would eff
feet mergers. control production. fix
prices and close a proportion of the
mines, the necessary legislation would
probably follow. Labor has asked for it
before. Coal operators, among themselves,
have agreed that IL Is the obvious course.
Legislators familiar with the difficulties
Of the industry have more than once
committed themselves on the eventual
necessity of the step. when there is
such agreement on the principle, the
details will furnish plenty of grist for
the legislative mill for some time to
come.
The proposal contains the usual COM
mentary on governmental regulation of
private business. There are those who
will fight it on principle, who will see
in 1t another step toward pyramidins
bureaucracy In Washington, toward So
cialism and worse. They will echo the
objections that we're heard toward Gov
eminent regulation OF the railroads
But, as usual. they will be unable to
advance anything more practical than
choice OF the alternative evil Of emas-
culating or repeating the Sherman act
and the whole principle that 1t repre-
sents.
Railroads. water power, coal-how
long win it be before the oil operators.
sick Of Gov Murray's picturesque shin
digs and the condition that brought
them about, come trooping into Wash
ington with demand for governmental
regulation and control? And how long
can it be denied?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
The Source of Dividends.

American security holders, in this era
of curtailed dividends and shrinking
profits, should be interested in proceed
angs now pending In the criminal d.
vision Of the British law courts at Lon
don. At the end Of July, following
protracted trial Lord KylSant, head Of
the famous Royal Mail Steamship Line
and far-aung afiliates, was convicted
of defrauding the investment public
and sentenced TO one years ifnprison-
ment. After spending night in Worm-
wood Scrlbbs, he was released on bail,
pending outcome Of an appeal
Not alone because Of Lord Kylsant's
pre-eminence in the shipping world,
but because Of the broad issues in
volved. his conviction has produced D
sensation throughout financial Britain.
Writing In The Star, special corre-
spondent narrates that the fall Of Lord
Kylsant was like the fall of one of the
central pillars Of the London business
districts structure" He was prosecuted
on two counts--flrst, issuing annual re-
ports intended to deceive shareholders,
and, secondly. Issuing a prospectus
which he knew to be false, with intent
TO deceive investors.
The first count raises the more criti-
cal issue For a fortnight the Old
Bailey. where the shipping peer was in
the dock, was the scene OF q battle be-
tween expert witnesses over the right
OF directors 70 conceal from sharehold-
ers the fact that dividends were being
paid from hidden reserves" instead Of
current profits Witnesses testified that
dividends are frequently derived from
shidden reserves The practice, thus
justified by custom, was defended on
the ground that the purpose OF these
reserves Is to average prosperous with
unprosperous years. II was further
testified that 1t is undesirable, In share
holders interests, 10 disclose to COM
petiturs facts which it is to the COM
petitions interest to know. Although
the presiding Judge held this practice
10 be reprehensible. Lord Kyisant was
acquitted on the count to which it re-
ferred. he was found guilty Of Issuing
4 prospectus with intent 70 swindle
wonld-he investors.
fne City'-Icndons farhsd sguAEs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
Rrnening's Triumph.

The German Republic is saved-for
the time being, at any rate. Yester-
days plebiseite in Prussia whereby the
Reich governments Nationalist, Fascist
and Communist foes hoped by making
common cause, to bring down the
Socialist Centrist regime enthroned in
Germany's principal state, failed of its
purpose. That purpose was to precipitate
dissolution of the Pfussian Diet, the
expulsion of the Braun ministry. gen
eral elections and the entry of re-
dictionary government into power.
The plebiscite to be carried would
have required clear majority Of the
Prussian electorate or roundly $4,000
votes. According to the latest returns,
little less than 100000 yes" bal
lots were cast. The anti-republican
coalition, therefore, fell some 100000
short of the poll 1t would have had to
roll up in order to win the day Instead
the day was lost.
Europe and the world at large
awaited the result with justifiable trepi-
dation. who holds Prussia holds the
Reich was the slogan with which the
steel Helmets, the Hitlerites, and the
Communist Reds marched. They
planned not only to mupiiiSe their own
full strength, which they evidently did
not do, but to derive support from
other parties. recently flied with dis
content by the stern emergency meas
ures taken by the Hindenburg-B ruen-
ing government TO bring order out OF
Germany's economic chaos. Had the
forces of reaction triumphed yesterday,
their later victory In Reich elections
seemed an almost unacceptable certainty.
The work of rehabilitation, which the
Germans have just undertaken amid
the good viii Of the whole world, would
have been brought down in ignominious
collapse.
The tactics Of the Reich authorities
ii. advising their adherents to boycott
the plebiscite we're indicated. Rela-
lively only q few of them ignored
Chancellor Bruening's advice TO remain
away from the polls. The Berlin CEN
trail government has weathered storm
of undeniably menaeing dimensions In
warding of the attack on the existing
order in Prussia. When the regular
elections take place in May, 1882. the
elements that are loyal 10 the republic
will enter the fray panoplied with new
prestige as result of the decisive battle
fought in Prussia on August Q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
ALI According to Hoyle.

Judging from what we have seen by
the papers In the last few years the
first thing that would occur to a pub
lie utilities magnate, bounded by a
newspaper so bold as to question the
fairness Of his rates, would be to buy
another paper and talk back Mr.. Henry
L. Doherty, head Of Cities Service. Inc,
has done what was expected of him.
He has bought an interest in the Kan
sas City Journal-Post in order to put
the Kansas City Star out Of existence.
The Kansas City Star has waged q long
and bitter campaign against his gas
rate structure IN Kansas and Mr..
Doherty has already retaliated to the
tune Of libel suit, asking the record
sum Of sl2000.o0o in damages.
All Of which raises the old question
whether a mans intelligence can be
measured by the number OF dollars he
has made. Mr.. Doherty's fortune must
be reckoned In millions But it is hard
to estimate the extent of stupidity
that would hope to settle such an issue
as he has raised in Kansas by the pur-
chase OF rival newspaper and its died.
ication. in effect. to the special interests
it now must serve.
There should be a long and merry
night, and one envies those who will be
on the ground to witness it. Mr..
Doherty's terms OF purchase are as
interesting as they are unique. He has
bought half interest in the paper, but
agreed that ten per cent of his stock
cannot be voted, thus leaving control of
the papers policy in the hands Of its
present owners. He can say what he
pleases, editorislly or through the naedi-
UNI Of most-favored advertising, and
has agreed TO assume liability and re-
sponsibility for his statements. At the
same time, the owners Of the paper re-
serve to themselves the privilege Of
replying, or taking an opposite position.
in parallel columns. The resulting
product viii be a new journalistic n.y.
Bird, which must sink its teeth into the
vttals Of the crusading Star, but wag
its tail playfully in the interest of the
consuming public.
Anybody, OF course, can foresee the
result. And 1t might not be bad idea
to tempt Mr. Doherty with wager
that in few years gas rates in Kansas
will be lower, the Kansas City Star viii
be even more of an institution than 1t
Is today, and another chapter win have
been written on the already well de-
veloped art OF how 10 wreck news
paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10

mile OF Big Businese--believes that far
reaching changes in the laws govern
ing the responsibilities OF directors to
shareholders will ensue in consequence
Of the Kylsant disclosures. 1t is agreed
that the existing statutes provide ade-
quate protection for investors, but the
"concealment OF essential truths" from
shareholders knowledge, even though
permissible by established custom. con-
jures up disqiieting possibilities. While
holding hidden reserves to be entirely
proper, the trial judge deprecated the
practice of using them to hide fun
iamantal facts" about corporations
position.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10

lies Of such Importance should have
found themselves, in swift succession.
With topping and crashing govern
ments. II the occasion in each instance
was political, the cause was economic"
the journal maintains, suggesting that
In prosperous era the Captains of
these revolts might have been no more
formidable than soap-box orators. But
lean years make fat agitators."
The overthrow was typical In the
sense that economic conditions hast
eneu IL and that 1t was directed at die
tator. It is encouraging in the sense
that 1t Is popular and civil rather than
military" In the opinion Of the Haver-
NH Evening Gazette. "1banezs fate is
but repetition OF world history" ae-
cording to the Davenport Democrat
which goes on: "It extends back to the
days OF the Romans, to the reign of
Napoleon, and other great rulers whose
Unsuitable lust for power and glory in
the end brought about their downfall.
FORMER Dictator Primo de Rivera of
Spain Is present-day example. Not
satisfied with the honorB and authority
vested in the presidency Of Chile, Carlos
iDanez sought further supremacy BY
declaring himself possessed of divine
guidance. He quite readily followed in
the steps OF Mussolini. But In 80 do
ing ne nisjudeed the temperament Of
his people"
As the Toledo Blade points out. .rhe
Chileans have long been known as the
Yankees Of South America. Intelligent.
aggressive and proud of their racial
purity, they. will not long tolerate any
Dictator. They would resent any such
arbitrary administration of their affairs.
Even though It might be successful and
Deneficent, they would insist upon hav-
ING q voice in it, and now, with cur
rency instability, depression In the nj
trate nelds and many strikes in the
cities, 1t is but in the natural sequences
OF things that the Chileans get rid IL
this self-styled man of destiny" The
Blade considers that wisely guided its
destiny should be peace and plenty and
not turmoil for everybody and poverty
for the working people
Chile Is going to try" according to
the Lincoln state Journal, "a true con-
stituuonal government with full per
sonal freedom. The new President.
Pedro Opaso, former president of the
Senate, has promised as much. The
reign or terror is over for a while .
Inc Chattanooga News declares: THE
provisional government announces that
II win establish q purely civil regime
ana devote itself to solving the finan-
cial problems"
As the Goshen Daily News-Times
puts II: Conditions in Chile should be
better, now that Ibanez has been olsted
A constitutional government has been
set up, ana the indications are that II
VIII endure. Friends of democracy
everywhere will hope So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10

FrqN the Providence Journal
We should not allow the interconti-
mental flights Of the present era to OBJ
sc1ire the fact that the airpIane is conn
ing steadily into use a. q commercial
carrier over short as wen as extended
distances
On Saturday the new aerial service
Of the Boston q Maine Railroad in con-
junction. with PAn-American Afrways
was put IN operation, beginning q daiIy
transportation system between Boston.
Maine cities and the maritime prov
fnces. The railroad and the aviatior.
company are partners IN the euterurise
on this side Of the international hoa,n-
dary, while the latter provides the serv.
Ice on the other side.
Thus we have near at hand anokher
important demonstration Of the noexi-
biiity OF adapting the airplane to ROUTES
previously served by rail. The Boston
q Maine management would not have
1naugufhted the new service II 1t had
not believed that the time has arrived
70 supplement surface trains with the
swifter medium. Whether the financial
results win prove satisfactory 4 a cues
ton yet to b answered, hut throurhcsit
the country the number o. commercial
afrcfAft y belng constantly increased
md one must - bind indeed not 20
vlsIAsi1 - ElltH = inncFta1
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Hebraic origin" The yarn is bobbing
up again. There is no trace Of such an
cestry in either OF the Bakers.
y =
Wonder what historians of the U. s.
A. writing, say, so or 100 years hence,
are going to think about present -hour
American life, If the compiled Wicker
sham reports are drawn upon as source
material? They will hardly be able to
escape the conclusion that the country
was only half civilized. They will read
about the fragrant violation of the pro-
hibition laws, OF the black terrors OF
our prison system, Of the alleged rot
tenneSs of police administration, OF the
breakdown Of our courts, OF the inhu-
mainly of our immigration laws, and
whatnot. Perhaps some discerning
James Bryce OF future generation will
deduce that the tones exuded by the
Wickershammers were copious compen-
diufns of glittering generalities Either
that, or the verdict may be that not
even ii such best minds as adorned the
Hooverian era could within two years
so pontifically diagnose the ills OF ma
ton Of 120,oo0.000 souls.
y 4
Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, who
has just been taken from the literary
and artistic scene she 30 conspicuouSly
graced, was the clevereSt, If not the
most brilliant, woman In washington.
Her talents were innumerable. She was
scintillating conversationalist, with
the born raconteurs flashing wit. She
could draw. She could paint. She
could recite. She could compose charm
ing verse. She wrote fascinating books,
one after another. She was ainbidex-
trous Either when cutting silhouettes
at which she was especially gifted, or
sketching, the merry Marietta" could
use either her right or her left hand, or
Goth, which she frequently did, at the
same time. Mrs. Andrews was passion
ately Southern. She lived and died In
the conviction that Virginia was Gods
country. Her heart was ever with the
Army. for all the men Of her family. In
Guiding her surviving son, fought in one
or other of our wars. Marietta
hoped to cap her career as a creator of
pageants with the scenario for q George
Washington Bicentenary pageant. She
passed away in the midst Of that work.
Joseph Z. Ransdell, Democrat, of
Louisiana, who fell by the wayeide last
year when he aspired. against Huey
Long. to another term in the United
States Senate, doesn't dream of mac
tivity, despite his 70 years. He is in
tenstvely devottng himself In Washing
ton to the executive dictatorship of the
National Institute Of Health, which was
created by Congress in 1890 mainly at
Ransdeils instigation Just now he is
seeking to interest men Of wealth in the
wisdom Of endowing the institute with
large gifts. The act establishing it spe-
cifically provides for the acceptance by
the Secretary of the Treasury OF such
benefactions. II is in the field of sci
entif1c research that Senator RAnAelell
thinks the institute has its future.
{C1onyriRht fGaf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

Neglect.
They sing of the roses that blush but
to fade;
They sing Of the wild flowers that
brighten the glade;
With rapturouS joy
Our songsters employ
Their arts on the useless adjournment
displayed.
There are chanting and cheers for the
poisoning scenes,
But nobody sings Of the cabbage and
beans!
Alasl 'Tis too oft the unfortunate lot
OF the plain, honest friend to be swiftly
forgot.
We enthuse DER the bird
Who from treetops Is heard,
But who never helps out In the pan OF
the pot
We welcome the robin again and again
But nobody sings of the duck or the
hen!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
Tense Interest.

Tense Interest.
A game of ball she went to see;
She deity kept the score.
And when the bleachers cheered with
glee
She helped the general roar
She talked of strikes and liners hot,
OF grounders and OF flies;
She seemed to know q wondrous lot
That filled him with surprise.
But when. en- route for second base,
The star performer slid,
She said, with terror in her face,
'Oh, Jack, what made him skid7"
And. spite Of the exulting throng.
She worried and she fused,
And thought the play had all been
wrong
Because his clothes got mussed.