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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-08-12
THE
TOWER

Mayor B. V. Hedrick and
The City Council
Gentlemen:
You are due congratulations by
the taxpayers Of Salisbury for the 8
cents reduction in taxes effected by
you for the fiscal year 1952-1933.
The tax rate for this period will be
$1.35 per hundred valuation as COM
pared with $1.43 last year.
While everyone was hoping taxes
would be reduced, few anticipated a
reduction of eight cents under last
year. This, l am informed, was
made possible, by virtue of drastic
economies in the operation of the
city government and also by the eli
mination of all pon-ess entails, and
in spite of a large shrinkage in pro-
perty values. Credit also goes to
the mayor and council for the ex-
| cellent and efficient manner in
which the city has been run during
the past year.
The rate of $1.35 gives Salisbury
one of the lowest rates of any city
in North Carolina
Governor Matthew Rowan.
To All Pedestrians:
An extremely important phase of
the automobile accident problem is
carelessness or ignorance on the part
of the pedestrian. During 1881, pc,
| destrian deaths reached 1850, out OF
a total of $4,000 deaths caused by au-
tomobiles, and the number of pedes-
TRANS injured non-fatally was $780,
900. Consequently, if we are to make
definite progress in reducing deaths
and injuries, we must teach the pub
lie to walk.
In the case of the walker on the
highway at night, the old rule Of
Keep to the right may be suicidal
the left side is the right side. Wearing
dark clothing increases the hazard be-
cause of its invisibility. Weather con-
ditions are all important, and at the
hour between light and darkness, when
the pedestrian tends to blend into the
background and figuratively disappear,
he must be extremely careful, mas
much as the driver may not be able
to see him at all, and hence cannot
take care of him.
Carelessness in crossing streets, step
ping suddenly out from between park
ed cars, walking around the end of a
street car into traffic and thoughtless-
ness and abstraction regarding traffic
lights, court disaster.
If pedestrians can learn good walk
ing PRACTICES" deaths and injuries from
automobiles will be reduced.
GOVERNOR MATTHEW Rowan,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-08-12
By Albert T. Reid

THINGS ARE getting
WORSE AND worse, and
WE HEAR that it is
SO BAL that doctors
ARE TAKING advantage
OF THEIR professional
ADVICE TO improve a
BAD SITUATION. mo
TOBACCO, NO alcohol,
NO PARTIES, no theatres,
A QUIET life, plain
FOOD, AND early to bed
WAS WHAT the doctor
ADVISED A certain man
Il 4 y
RIGHT HERE in Salisbury.
r = X
Eyes, DOCTOR, and what
THEN?" INQUIRED the
PATIENT. AND very promptly
\ X n
THE PHYSICIAN said, Then
x = X
YOU WILL be able
TO PAY my BILL"
+ X
l THANK YOU.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-08-12

Better TO Eat Honey Than Smear 1t
On The Face, He Thinks
To The Editor:
Hollywood Talkie- Talk for Satur-
day portrayed Janet Gaynor applying
cold cream, soap and warm water to
her face night and morning, then
smearing the face with honey, pat
ting it in for five minutes, washing
it off with cold water and applying
astringents. Quite a messy, costly,
sticky and troublesome operation.
Miss Gaynor should eat the honey
and it will benefit her whole aystem.
Being a predigested food, honey does
not larry in the stomach, but passes
Immediately into the blood stream; it
will reach the cheeks and open the
pores in less time than was consumed
and the method will prove much
more pleasant to pursue.-Benjamin
B. Jones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
Assessing Work of Farm Board

Release of farm board wheat for the poor directs
interest toward the achievements Of this organiza-
ton. The report OF Chairman Stone OF the federal
farm board enables to form some precise impression
OF its work. 1t also allows us to estimate the
capacity of any such program to safeguard American
farmers against the vicsSitudes of worldwide de-
preston.
Coolidge, Mellon, Hoover, and the business interests
behind them rejected the original plans for aiding
the farmers through price-hxng and subSidy-the
McNary- Haugen bill and the export debenture. In
1928 Mr.. Hoover promised a better brand Of farm
relief Of his making. In particular he promised
increased tariffs farm products and aid to farm
marketing
The Smoot-Hawley bill was passed, but it raised
the tariff the manufactured goods the farmer
buys as well upon his products
Congress then passed the agricultural marketing
act which created the farm board. This board had
three -cornered program: Cd Encouraging of farm
ers cooperative societies for marketing products cD
loanng OF money to these co-operatives out of the
tsOoOOoOoo revolving fund possessed by, o, board;
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
TT CEENTG tn ME NV HAYWOOD
L OAL4V1O ~ 1V1A 01 BROUN

I read, Roosevelt Answers Smith"
But when got down to the body of
the address I found: This reminds
me of what Chesterton keenly re-
marked Abraham Lincoln could
say today AS Woodrow Wilson
so wisely put it i. I like Andrew
Jackson's blunt statement that 4. !"
And so when 1 was come to the
end of the discourse I was minded
to remark, why don't you speak
for yourself, Franklin?"
A careful tally of the fighting
candidates footnotes reveals the
following extracts: Woodrow Will
son. two; Thomas Jefferson, An
drew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt,
Abraham Lincoln, two, and G. K.
Chesterton. AS result, the speech
will be hailed in some quarters as
scholarly.
But it seems to me that Al Smith
is entitled to reply in kind and
quote from the works of H. I. Phil
lips, when he bluntly said, 1.-THE
delicatesSen dealers had a word
for it,"
After all, Al did make a very
definite statement of a concise pro-
gram in regard to the all-important
debt issue. You may think, if you
please, that Smiths remedy is in
adequate or undesirable, but surely
no man can be said to have an
swered that challenge merely by re-
marking that Chesterton once said
that members of the British empire
are like passengers in an omnibus
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A CCORDINC to circulars mailed out by self-styled
IA patriots calling themselves the Citizens Ma
tonal Safety committee all organizations and in
dviduals who desire to see reduction in military
expenditures are paciSts war reSisters atheists So
cialists, Communists un-American and ti-Amer-
lean"
UndesrableS, in short. It's too bad we can't all
be deported and leave the country to the patriots
Intimidations and threats are broadcast by these
circulars to every citizen who has international
point of view who dreams of world peace They do
not make pretty reading for twentieth century minds
Their tone is the tone of the Dark Ages They breathe
the groSsest intolerance and the most blatant lingo
ISM
This committee assumes monopoly patriotism
and thus gives us view of the chief of the mill
tary mind, which is Super-egotism.
MEN and women who believe in peace should re-
4vA sent the insults hurled at them by the bayonet
ratlers We should not be expected to bear in silence
has proved boomerang to those who loved best to
apply it to another.
And it is comparatively easy, of course, to desg-
nate towards all those who fail to agree with
Nevertheless heroism been known to exist outside
the ranks of the goosesteppers. The civilian less
than the soldier is capable of noble deeds.
We must have, if we are to survive at all, a new in
depreciation Of patriotism There those who handy
this word about loosely. True patriotism is after ALL
something higher than merely carrying a gun for
ones flag.
The hired soldiers in Rome did that And as for
courage, the gangster of today knows how to die
bad cause as bravely as the hero who gives up his
life for righteous one.
The man who truly loves his country these days is
the man willing to work for peace And does any
dare say that if the necessity arose he would not
hight as noby for his native land as any trained
soldier, or die as CALAMITY?
The truth is the patriots grow bit overbearing
They appear to forget that there Is virtue in the pow
share as well as in the sword.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
Less Bold Than Patrick

MIHICH reminds me that
w should have added Patrick
Henry to the list of those conscrint-
cd Tor the contribution of flowers
OF speech. Franklin Roosevelt
undoubtedly rang out his words
boldly and looked toward the audi
ence with flashing eye.
Here was a gallant and a coura-
geous figure, and hats went SAILING
up to the skylight. But what does
1t mean? Is it reasonable to hail
THIS as an answer to Al Smith?
After all, 1 can't remember that
Al ever said he was in favor OF
Americas being governed by a plu-
tocracy. Ritchie didn't say it or
Baker-or even Hoover, for that
matter.
So If we are all agreed that we
should not be governed by a plu-
tocracy, what earthly reason is there
Tor any candidate to stress his op-
position to it?
Certainly it took no courage TO
cry, If that be treason, make the
most of it,"
When Patrick Henry said that,
ne really was taking chance. He
might have been arrested, convict
ed and sentenced for his remark.
But hardly think Franklin Roose-
velt actually believes he is in dan
ger of the firing squad because of
his ringing declaration against plu-
tocracy.
No, I do not feel that Franklin
Roosevelt put anything much but
his larynx and his book of Bart
let's Familiar Quotations" into the
st. Paul speech. If you like preva-
lent styles in preconvention oratory,
l think that the address was no bet
ter and no worse than a hundred
others which have been made and
will be.
Indeed, I will go further and adj
nit that, in my opinion, Franklin
Roosevelt would make just as good
a President as Pierce or Polk. But
the time demands a true pinch hit
ter who will really take a cut at the
woes which assail us, and so far
Roosevelt seems to be the sort of
hitter who Is likely to let the third
strike drift over the plate without
even taking his bat from his. Shout
der.
tcoDvrisht. 1881. BY Ths rmssl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
HEALTH
Brains Offer Interesting Study

No doubt, most of us begin with
some brains, but they are of little
use unless they are trained properly
and adjusted to daily life. A motor
car is full of energy, but it can not
use that energy until the ignition
switch is thrown and the clutch en-
gagged. Control, therefore, is neceS-
sary for proper use of human brains.
After control comes energy. The
lazy man does not think, because
he does not try TO think. If he
tried, he probably would find he had
the mental equipment to accomplish
the result he was seeking.
One of the finest examples of the
presence of brains is the develop
ment of ideas through imagination.
The man with a perfect memory
may never create a single thought.
His brain merely records the
thoughts of others.
The artist, the genius, the intel
lectual leader, is the one whose
brains, through reasoning, develop
thought and ideas which all human
beings recognize as important.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Says

Speculation Has Tended to
Divert Attention From
Honest, Consistent Effort
IN the Development of
Business and Industry.
NEW YORK, April 22.-Richard
c. Whitney, head of the New York
Stock Exchange. says that short
selling is essential to speculation. I
am inclined to agree. Stock trading
without short sales would be like a
game of solitaire. But how essential
is speculation to legitimate bust
ness?
General Charles G. Dawes, head
of the Finance Reconstruction Cor
poration, describes the New York
Stock Exchange as peanut stand, /"
and operations on it as "picayunish'
compared to our real business ac-
tivities.
1t does not follow that Dawes is
wrong because Whitney is right. A
certain rule may be essential to stud
poker, but that hardly proves that
stud poker is essential to industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23

such as the ability to learn music,
the ability to figure accurately in
mathematics, and the ability to re-
member, probably are inherited in
many cases.
theoretically, it should be possible
to breed people with extraordinary
memories or of special musical
talent. Some day the world may
make a serious effort in this direc-
ton.
Memory is called on to play a
part in most mental activities.
However, all intellectual abilities are
capable of education and further
development, the degree of develop
ment depending, of course, on the
amount with which one begins.
Records are available of a light
ming calculator who was taken to
Cambridge university and who gave
marvellous answers to all the ques-
tions, but who could not tell how he
got his answers. Neither could he
apply his methods in practical use.
In his case it was too late to edu-
cate him. He did not have brains;
he had talent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
Market MiSIn9djno

EXPERTS, as well as ordinary
IL folks, have been mislead by
the results of speculation. They had
the utmost faith in values that
we're too high three years ago. They
have no faith at all in values that
are too low right now.
If stock quotations meant what
is claimed for them this country
would be only about fifth, or a
fourth, as we'll off as it was in the
summer of 1929. Hard as times
are, no one believes anything like
that.
Listed stocks seldom reflect the
true condition of our economic
structure. That is because they are
subject to forces and presSures
(which have little connection with,
or little interest in, it's true con-
dition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor TimeS-AS the time for the
state conventions of the major par
ties approach. it might be well to
make few suggestions to the new
delegates and issue, as it were, a
small handbook to guide the plat
form builders and candidates.
In general, a platform must be
adopted that is forgotten easily.
Something that often is referred to
during heated campaign, but, like
the Constitution, with the possible
exception of the eighteenth amend
ment, or the ten commandments, it
can be referred to, but outside of the
title, left to be looked up later.
One suggestion would be to get in
plenty of flag waving. Don't forget
Bunker Hill or Gettysburg. Refer
often to Lincoln or Jackson, but
don't quote them. Stand for law
enforcement, but avoid becoming
personal Stand squareIy for re-
duced taxes, but avoid mentioning
reduced expenditures.
Give both barrels to the public
utilities, but through an oversight,
don't mention the public service
commission. Don't mention the
campaign fund, but don't forget to
work out way to get it. Don't
mention the VolStead act, and by all
means don't say anything about 4
per cent.
That might lose the bankers vote,
for their rule is 8 per cent, The
finance company would demand AZ
per cent, the tax collector would
demand 10 per cent every three
months. That would not f1t in a
harmony platform.
So get by that issue by appealing
to the President to appoint COM
mission to report in five years.
Don't mention a chicken in every
pot" for the voter may remember
that it takes four eggs TO buy q
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23

and CD creation Of sterilization corporations to buy
up farm products when prices are low and to hold
them for sale until prices rose
1t hoped that withholding a considerable block
Of farm products from the open market for time
would raise prices thus stabilizng the general price
level Of farm products
What has the farm board achieved?
Some 500 cooperative associations have come
into existence since the farm board was set up Their
business activities have increased by per cent about
sloo,oOo,OOo. Just how far the farm board di-
recty responsible for development Of these agricultural
co-operatives not be said.
But it's alleged responsibility has increased the
bitter attack upon the farm board by private business
interests which oppose the co-operayes At any rate
this growth of cooperative agricultural enterprise
is healthy development
The farm board has loaned some 1862 2o9 100 to
these co-operaves of which $3176972o2 has been
paid AS these loans made up to 100 per cent of
the value of the holdings of these cooperative
ciatons at prices far higher than they today the
co-operatives were put in a bad plight
To save the situation the farm board formed sta
blization corporations in 1880 to hold up the price
of wheat and cotton. Some 329, 900 bushels of
wheat bought at average price of 81 cents
bushel and 1,5l9,809 bales of cotton at an average
price of 16 cents pound. Since that time wheat has
fallen below so cents bushel and cotton as low as
cents pound.
In spite of the heroic efforts of the farm board the
condition of the farmers has been going from bad to
worse AS Facts for Workers" summarizes the stua-
ton:
Prices of wheat have sunk to the lowest quotations
on record cotton is also extremely low as are most
other crops. The tariff the farm leaders predicted
has been totally ineffective in keeping up the price,
wheat has been selling farms for actually less
than the duty alone must be paid imported wheat
The experiment seems to prove that sterilization
do little for the farmers in face of severe world
wide depression in face of surplus of production
that piles up year after year.
"A the same time it is highly expensive to the ta1~
payers. The result of these experiences is turn the
thoughts of all concerned to more fundamental long
time measures, such agricultural planning and land
policy"
In short what American agriculture needs is an
operation, not a massage
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
Different Gamble

DROPONENTS of organized spec
l. ulation always are arguing that
it is nothing but the gamble which
goes with every phase of life, that
there is no difference between buy
ing, or selling stock and buying,
or selling restaurant, that who
ever tries to make a dollar must
take some risk and so on.
The comparison is false. 1t is
not the same thing to earn money
by betting on your own ability
that it is to make it by betting on
another mans ability.
There is no sense in the hypothe-
sis that the turn of card repre-
sents the same kind of gamble, or
same kind of risk as planting an
acre of corn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
Speculative Values

TAM a skeptic about open, or
i gained stock-trading as an
essential factor of economic
progress.
Speculation in stocks undoubtedly
has helped big corporations to
merge, or float capital loans, but is
that an unmixed blessing?
Speculation undoubtedly relieves
the banker of having to study and
analyze corporation reports. All he
needs is to read the last quotation.
Our credit system has come to
rest mainly on listed securities, and
the value of those securities has
come to be determined largely by
what professional traders will give,
or take, not for investment pur-
poses, but as a gamble.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
What Would Happen2

JUST what would happen if we
- closed the stock exchange, if
securities had to be sold over the
counter, if bankers had to study and
analyze each particular enterprise
in order to find out what it was
worth and if the presidents, vice
president, general managers and de-
partment heads of corporations had
little other chance to make money
than by doing better work?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
challenge of Al Smith finally

THE challenge of Al Smith finally
Il forced Franklin D. Roosevelt
into the warm espousal of an issue.
The fighting governor from Albany
is going before the country on the
proposition that Thomas Jefferson
was a better man than Alexander
Hamilton.
If the race grows hotter, it is not
too much to expect that the fear
less one eventually will come out
against the extravaganza of Grants
second administration. Already his
supporters can count upon the fact
that he is against the encroach-
ments of the Iroquois and the
poisonous colonial policy of Lord
North.
William Hale Thompson won an
election by promising to punch the
nose of George v. Franklin Roose-
velt hopes to float into Office by re-
pudiating George III.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
Questions and
Answers

Are japanese permitted to ac-
quire and own land in the United
States?
japanese aliens, that is all who
were not born In this country, can
not own or acquire land in Arizona,
California, Delaware, Idaho, Louisi-
ana, Oregon and Washington. In
some other states they can acquire
lands subject to some minor Hmi-
tations, and in others there are no
restrictions.
Is the bite OF tarantula fatal?
The ordinary tarantula's bite is
painful but not dangerous.
Why does glass covered with black
paint crack when exposed to the
direct rays Of the sun more readily
than plain glass?
Because black absorbs more heat
rays than plain or other colored
glass.
What Is a corduroy road?
One made of logs laid crossways
presenting a ribbed surface re-
semhling corduroy cloth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
How Mountains Grow

THESE minor readjustments or
Il warpings of the earth's crust
in time set up strains that cause
breaking and greater readjust-
ment between the rising and setting
masses of rock.
When these take place, large rock
masses frequently are buckled up
into great mountain ranges. Eight
readjustments of the sort which
bring mountain ranges into exist
ence are believed to have taken
place in North America during the
lifetime of the earth.
Finally there are the great
periods of readjustment when the
parts of the continents as units are
lifted above or sunk below the sea
level.
Biologists believe that there have
been six such major establishments
in the history of the world. They
believe that the earth passed
through period of major read
justment just prior to our present
era and that as result the con-
tinents stand higher above the
oceans today than they have dur
ing most of the earths history.
1t is necessary to keep in mind
the geological scale of time in or
der to understand these readjust-
ments.
To human being, century is
very long time; few men live 100
years. But in geology, $4,000
years is a rather small unit of
time.
For great mountain range to
rise may take from 100000 to $780,
600 years.
Next: Earthnuakes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-23
Next: Earthquakes
ALLIES ATTACK ZEEBRUGGE
AnFfl %

ON April %, 1918, the allies
" waged successful sea battle
against the German submarine
bases at zeebrugge and Ostend.
British naval forces, headed BY
Vice Commander Reyes. with the
cooperation Of French destroyers.
succeeded in bottling up the har-
Dor at zeebrugge by sinking three
oattleship hulks at the entrance.
All three were loaded with cement
that became solid concrete on
contact with the water. While the
undertaking was highly successful.
the allies lost fifty officers and 53a
men.
At Ostend the attempt to close
the harbor was unsuccessful. Two
ship hunks sunk in the water Off
the harbor were not effectively
placed, and another ATTEMPT was
planned for few weeks later.