Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-01-08
FRANK PARKER
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flower gardens for their beauty. The,
called them ''love apples and though
they were poisonous. To the end o
her days-and she lived to be owe
Undergraduates was always
little suspicious of tomatoes.
Now we eat tomatoes in every
thing, even in clam chowder, wher
they have no business to be.
l saw some figures the other da,
about the latest development of tn
tomato business, the canned and bot
tied tomato juice. More than 7O0,oO(
cans and nearly half a million bottle
were sold last year. People drink to
mato juice because they think it i
good for them.
The world has changed a lot in :
hundred years.
BUYING
Everybody isn't broke, and not all
industries are on the verge of bank
ruptcy. I talked the other night with
the New York distributor of one of
the popular makes of electric refrig-
orators. He told me that his company
had just completed a nationwide sell
ing competition, in which every dis
tributor was given a certain quota OF
sales as the goal to aim at, and that
every one of them had sold more re-
frigerators than he had been asked to
sell. My New York friends organiza-
ton disposed of more than twenty
thousand ~refrigerators in twenty-one
days.
Since the cheapest of these refrig-
orators sells for $3.50, and the aver.
age is about $3.50, that means that
the people of this one locality spent
around 100000 for refrigerators in
these so-called hard times.
The truth seems to be that people
are buying things that they really feel
the need of, when they can get them
at a fair price and on easy terms.
THIEVES
A boy in the Navy who swipes a
bottle of milk or a piece of pie in the
cooks galley when he is hungry, or
who casually helps himself to a pack
of cigarettes from a messmate's lock-
er, is not to be branded as a thief,
the Secretary of the Navy has order
ed. l think Mr.. Adams is right.
The Navy takes boys at the age
of seventeen, most of them from
homes where such things as pie are
more or less common property, and
it is the most natural thing in the
world fer a hungry boy to help him
self to something to eat, without the
slightest suspicion in his own mind
that he is committing an ofense.
And boys are always hungry.
Discipline in the Navy and the
Army is, of course, essential. There
is a big difference, however, between
treating enlisted men as if they were
the officers slaves and treating them
as what they are, decent American
boys.
wooLLEY
In appointing Miss Mary Emma
Woolley, President of Wellesley Col
lege, as one of the American delegates
to the international Disarmament
Conference, Mr. Hoover has not only
recognized that women have a very
vital interest in the subject of war
and its prevention, but he has paid
a merited compliment to a great
teacher and a life long worker in the
cause of peace.
Miss Woolley will be the first wo-
man in history to be an official rep
resentative Of a government in an
international conference. Everyone
who knows her, or who knews any
thing about her thirty years career as
President of Wellesley, will agree hat
her part in the conference will be an
active one and that whatever she has
to say there will be listened to with
respect.
ECKER
Frederick Ecker, President of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, gave a Senate Committee some
interesting facts. His company is per-
haps the largest financial institution
in the world.
Mr.. Ecker said that he thought that
we are now very close to the condition
of business and industry which we
must for a long time to come regard
as normal. He thinks it is foolish to
look for a return of the boom times
we had in 1924 t 1928. And at the
very height of the boom, he pointed
out, there were a million and a half
unemployed.
How heavily the public has had to
draw on its reserves to pay off obi
cations incurred in boom times is
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