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The Washington times., 1932-02-06
No Repetition of the
Hoover Campaign

hoover OdmP0ASH
Four years ago everyone
knew where Smith stood on
everything; and no one knew
for certain where Mr.. Hoover
stood on anything, except
that he stood for a "chicken
in every pot" and sanitary
plumbing" and radios, and
electric washing machines.
In North Carolina he stood
for prohibition and in New
York is was whispered that
he stood against it; and he
hid behind the promise Of a
commission to investigate.
But in 1928 ''business" was
"booming," as the super
ficial thought, and never has
the American appetite for
bunk been so keen as it was
then.
But never has the popular
impatience with bunk or
double meanings been so pro-
found as it is today.
The campaign this year
must find leaders getting
down to cases, discussing
principles, pitching the argu-
ment on the higher plan.
There can be no repetition
of the Hoover campaign OF
1928.
The Washington times., 1932-02-06
Prohibitions Development
Wet-Dry Auto Plates

Auto plates which tell where you stand prohibition will
soon sale automobile accessory shops The designed
by the prohbonists reads Help the President With Law
Enforcement That designed by the ants says Repeal the
Eighteenth Amendment For Prosperity"
The dy plate red with white letters and blue border
It costs 25 cents the price of glass of beer The we
plate white with and blue letters It dollar the
price of two shots of whskey.
you private citizen you take your choice If
you happen to be member of Congress you will want both
one for the front Of your car. for the rear. -
The Washington times., 1932-02-06

NINE ELSIE ROBINSON
AMBITION. KEEP WOMAN
WORKERS IN THE OFFICE
BOY CLASS?
Read this letter. Think it
over.
Dear Miss Robinson
"I am taking this means
of asking you what you think
of THE MARRIED WOMEN
IN OUR GREAT CITIES, WHO
ARE WORKING WHILE THEIR
HUSBANDS HAVE GOOD
JOBS,
One of Many
"I am a graduate of the High
School of Commerce just
one of many, of the class Of
$780, I have looked for work
in offices and department
stores, as bookkeeper, stenog-
rapher or clerk, and nine times
out of ten my interviews will
be with some married woman,
and when I ask for work, her
answer will be Nothing today
In our city hall there are twice
the number of married to sin
gle women. perhaps with hus-
bands working in the same
office.
"You speak to these women
and say the depression is ter
rible and their answer will be,
We don't feel it. OF COURSE
THEY DON'T FEEL 1T! WHY
SHOULD THEY? THEY HAVE
TT SOFT WHILE THE SINGLE
GIRLS STARVE.
"Now I ask you! DON'T
The Washington times., 1932-02-06
Hoover's Record Now
sneaks For Him

No one yet knows where
Mr.. Hoover stands on any
thing, positively, unless it is
on prohibition. He is salts
fled with existing conditions
and wants no change. But
it does not matter much this
time whether he expresses
himself articulately or not;
his record now speaks for
him.
But he has the advantage
of being in.
The Democratic candidate,
whoever he may be, is out
and must make it plain to the
people why he should be in.
He must have a policy,
clearly defined, and based on
principles, and must battle
for it miIitantly, not gingerly.
Unless he shows by his
frankness and earnestness
that he believes in himself,
he cannot expect a disillu-
stoned public to believe in
him,
The Washington times., 1932-02-06
Be Thankful

Be Thankful
If you have a fair job and re-
muneration is steady, be thank
full.
Perhaps you do have to work
harder to earn it these days.
Some of the work which used
to be done by others may have
been added to your job, but
what of it?
In some instances it may be
true that men are imposed
upon in the name of present
depression, and compelled to do
more than their share.
Notwithstanding, you should
still consider yourself lucky to
have work.
Thousands of men more capa-
BILE than you would be pleased
to accept your place and would
The Washington times., 1932-02-06

YOU THINK THAT WHEN A
WOMAN GETS MARRIED,
SHE SHOULD STEP DOWN
AND LET THE YOUNG GIRLS
HAVE A CHANCE?
"IF THEY'RE so FOND OF
WORKING, WHY NOT HAVE
THEIR HUSBANDS QUIT
THEIR JOBS, SO SOME OF
THE REST OF US COULD
EAT? HAZEL"
Sounds like a hard break,
doesn't it? And you'll be SYM
pathizing with Hazel, just as I
am. But suppose she had her
way. suppose all women had
to quit work when they mar
ried -. WOULDN'T EVERY
WOMAN, SINGLE OR MAR
RIED, SUFFER?
Take Hazel herself. She has
ambition. She is looking for
something more than a small
immediate job with beginners
pay. She doesn't intend to stay
a file clerk or stenog. She has
prepared herself for seriol is
work. . for a position with a
future. Some day she hopes,
Just as a man hopes, to be. a
Big Shot in some large COM
pany.
Just Suppose
That's fine. That's the way
a girl should feel about her
work. The whole human race
will profit because working girls
feel that way.
BUT SUPPOSE A GIRL HAD
TO STOP WORKING IF SHE
FELL IN LOVE AND MAR
RIED?
What would happen, then, to
her ambition? How would that
affect her standing in the busi-
ness world?
HOW WOULD TT AFFECT
= A MANS STANDING.
He wouldn't have any stand
ing, under those conditions.
He'd remain a transient worker
in the office-poy class. It
takes time and money to train
workers and Big Business
doesn't groom people for i'm
portant positions if it knows
that they will step out just
when they are getting good.
That's what would happen to
the man worker if he retired
when he married. And that is
what would happen to woman
workers-to all women workers
if retirement on marriage
were compulsory.
WOman's Job
At present some of our most
serious and valuable work is
performed by women. BUT
NO WOMAN WOULD HAVE
A CHANCE TO DO SERIOUS
OR VALUABLE WORK IF A
LAW WE'RE PASSED AGAINST
THE MARRIED WON AN
WORKER. For no employer
could tell when a woman
might marry. Therefore no en-
ployer could bank on a woman
workers permanency-or would
bother to train her for a larger
program. or trust her with
heavy responsibility
If THE MARRIED WOMAN
IS NOT PERMITTED TO
WORK, NO WOMAN WORKER
WILL BE TAKEN SERI-
OUSLY.
Is THAT a happy solution
for the working woman'S prob
lem?
Copyright. 1892. King Features
Syndicate. Ine.l -
The Washington times., 1932-02-06

the house? THINK of the
beautiful things in the Metro.
politan Museum that you
wouldn't care to have around
the house!
"Desertion" is the modern
substitute for paris green,
ground glass and shooting-ironS
just as arbitration" is the
civilized substitute for war. A
divorce, ''by any other name"
would not be half as sweet!
Happy landings!
Copyright, 1882, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1932-02-06

more polite than "cruelty"; since
it implies nothing except that
one of you didn't care to have
the other around, any more.
In some States, if a husband
insists on sitting in another
room, in order to concentrate
on his newspaper, it constitutes
"desertion." But, in others, you
have to prove that he went as
far as the club or, speakeasy
and wouldn't come back when
you DARED him to.
"Desertion" is an india-rubber
term, warranted to stretch over
a. multitude of sins, running all
the way from a golf-complex to
a. nde-complex. It comes IN
the usual 81 varieties, all tastlly
prepared and put up-by your
lawyers.
There are husbands who sneak
away stealthily. those who run
away defiantly, and those who
Just go out and bang the door
\ and never come back again.
There are those whose wives
have to pack their grips, order
the taxi, and make their reser-
vations for them, before they
will consent to desert"
And those who just cheerfully
turn over the Pekinese and the
The Washington times., 1932-02-06
MARRY-GO-ROUND
By 7. E. Powers
BY Helen Rowland

keys to the apartment and go
off pleasantly and live at the
club.
There are husbands who take
"the little woman" to Paris or
Mexico and help her to PROVE
that they are "deserters" and
"brutes all that sort Of
thing.
And there are those who ode
sert" by merely staying at
home and looking after the dog
and the garden, while their
wives go to Reno, for the
climate.
But probably the most popu-
lar and painless form Of deser-
ton is simultaneous desertion,
when you help pack each
others trunks, divide the books,
the shoe-trees and the bridge
prizes-and then go off to
Paris and California, respec-
lively, after a warm good-by
and the solemn promise to post
card each other.
Everything chummy-and no
misunderstanding!
After all, why be rude or in.
sulting to a man just because
you can't stand him around
The Washington times., 1932-02-06

hapS you, too,
think it would
be a great
thing in gen
eral If mar
ried W o m e n
were forbid
den to work.
B y T
WOULD TT?
OH WOULD
1T CHEAP
EN- ALL FEM
IN IN e LA
B o r
BLOCK ALL
The Washington times., 1932-02-06
A Truce to- Bunk: A
Nation, the Starving
Bu Claude G.. BOWers

Author Of Th Party Battles of the Jackson Period The strUvs
forD Democracy in America" "Jefferson and Hamilton"
"The Tragic Era" and other important works.
The Washington times., 1932-02-06
LISTEN, WORLD!
RY Elsie ROBINSON

Here's a letter. You've read
dozens like it lately. Per-
haps you'll agree with it. Per.
The Washington times., 1932-02-06
No Candidate
Can pussyf0ot

Three are now three candi-
dates in the field avowedly;
for while Mr.. Baker has not
announced and probably will
not, his recent statement is
tantamount, to a declaration.
He rendered a service IN
The Washington times., 1932-02-06
Junking the Husband

VW41AaAb WAAN &&NASUtSAAW
With Dakota and Nevada
making faces at each other, this
"Land-of- -the-Free- -and-Grave of
the-Home" bids fair to blossom
with a bumper crop of "de-
serted wives" when spring
comes.
"Desertion' is the most po-
lite ground on which you can
divorce a husband. It is even
The Washington times., 1932-02-06
Must Know the Attitude
Of Candidates

~SS@SS~SS@~~S~S
1t is imperative that tho
American people know the
attitude Of candidates on
the transfer of the debts Of
II nations from the people
who "hired the money" and
used it to the taxpayers Of
this country. There is a
droll unanimity among the
debtor nations that the So
luton of all problems de-
mands that we pay thei.
debts-pay them by adding
billions in taxation to a
people seriously burdened
now, whose government faces
an enormous deficit.
Neville Chamberlain, the
British chancellor of the
Exchequer, has officially an
nounced in the Commons
that this is the expectation
and the policy Of the British
government.
Mussolini. announced it as
his policy some time ago,
M. Laval announced it on
his return to Paris.
1t is the policy Of Europe
and it is not the policy
of the United States; and
America will not knowingly
put in power any man or
party that favors the policy
here.
The Washington times., 1932-02-06

eliminating the League as a
possible issue; and now Gov
ernor Roosevelt, who has re-
Trained thus far from express
sions on national policy, has
just taken a position def
nitely on three things.
He is not in favor of enter
ing the League of Nations.
He is not in favor of the
Cancellation" of the debts.
And he is against the tariff
act which has contributed
nightly to the economic
chaos of the world and the
loss Of our foreign markets.
His speech to the farmers
in New York more nearly
met his duty as a candidate
than the formal noncOmmit-
tai declaration to the people
of Dakota.
And Governor Ritchie's
views have been frankly ex-
pressed on everything.
Before, and long before,
the Democratic convention
meets, it will be found that
no candidate can pussyfoot
his way to the nomination;
each must fight his way by
standing definitely on the
issues that are real
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15
Light Growing Corn
Best For Poor Land

Small-stalked, light-growing varie-
ties of corn are best adapted to poor
land conditions and will yield more
grain per acre on such land than the
single-eared, large-stalked, rank-grow-
ing, late-maturing varieties.
G. M. Garren, cereal agronomist for
the North Carolina Experiment Sta
ton, has conducted a duplicate test
with certain corn varieties at the
Mountain Branch Station near Swan
nanoa for the past three years. In one
place, the varieties were all planted on
a rich bottom soil and at another place
they were planted on a poor, thin~up-
land soil. AS in all tests of this kind,
the same cultivation, fertilization, dis
lance of planting and other factors
were used in both tests. The idea was
to see which corn made the best of
conditions under the two different en-
vironments.
AS a result of this work, Mr.. Gar
rem found that the rank growing corn
represented by a variety known as
Big Corn, very popular in the western
section of the State, made 43.1 bush
els on the fertile land. When it was
grown on the poor land, however, it
produced only 81 bushels an acre.
The small light growing corn, repre-
sented by a variety known as Hick-
DRY King, also we'll known in western
Carolina, produced 33.9 bushels per
acre on the rich land but on the poor
land its yield was IA bushels an acre.
Three other varieties representing grad
ations in type between these two ex-
tremes produced varying yields.
The Hickory King, a light growing
corn, produced best on the poor land,
and the Big Corn, a rank growing
type, produced best on the fertile land.
Since North Carolina growers plant
thousands of acres of poor land to
corn each year, it might be wise for
them to keep this fact in mind, says
Mr.. Garren, and prepare to use the
light growing types On such land this
season,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15
Venus Up To His Old Tricks Again.
.Flirts With Prettiest, Girl In County

Retreating Rattlesnake" by Charlie
Sloop; cause of the Depression" by
Earl Lipe; mot Safe Yet" by Earl
Freeze; "Forgetful Jim" by Carrie
Ethel Moose; 1.-The Little Prestigia-
teur'" by Pauline McCorkle. A song
by the Goodnight children.
Mr.. ]. P. Davis, who has been con-
fined to his home for two weeks with
mumps, is convalescing.
The Patterson-Fleming club met
Friday afternoon at the club room.
Miss Mamie Whisnant gave an inter-
esting demonstration on curtains and
curtain hanging. The president, Mrs
F. D. Patterson, presided over the
meeting.
Several boys of the neighborhood
attended the Junior-Senior Banquet of
the Farm Life school at the Yadkin
hotel, Salisbury, Thursday night.
The people of Thyatira church en-
tertained Presbytery several days this
week.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15

We know where the prettiest girl
in the county lives. We don't care who
knows it.
One man came to Faith today from
near Mount Pleasant. He showed me
his legs. They were sore from his knees
to his feet but he will soon be healed
up now; that's the way to do, don't
suffer when this salve will cure it
right away.
Write and tell me where money is
buried.
If you want to know anything, Wis
it me and I will tell you.
How many miles is it around the
earth?
Where will we all be ten thousand
years from now?
l dreamed l saw a boy jump into a
we'll full of mud and he never came
up any more.
The Carolina Waterman is read by
everybody in Faith with much pleas
ure.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15
CLEVELAND R. 2ITEMS

MI. and Mrs. C. E. Steele spent the
weekend with relatives here.
The Old Time Fiddlers Convention
was held on last Friday night at Cool
spring high school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Smith Of Kan
napolis were visitors of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Burton, over the
weekend.
Miss Estelle Wilhelm spent Sunday
afternoon with Miss Sadie Wilhelm
Mr.. and Mrs. Haywood Beaver were
Sunday visitors of MI. and Mrs. J. H.
Steele.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. P. Wilhelm and
Haywood Tiscer were Sunday visitors
of Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Wilhelm and
family.
The regular meeting of the Cleve-
land-Scotch Irish Grange was held on
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Fer
tilizer was the main feature of the
evening.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15

"The story of the Civil War in pic
photographs Of Abraham Lincoln are
described by DR.. Louie A. Warren, di-
rector of the Lincoln Historical Re-
search Foundation Of Fort Wayne, Ind,
one of the foremost of Lincolnian
scholars.
The first picture, INT of the most
celebrated Of the beardless Lincoln
portraits, was used as a campaign
photograph in the presidential cam
paign of 1860. 1t was taken during
the week of June IS, 1860, by the
photographer, Hesler, of Chicago, and
is known to Lincoln students as 1.-THE
Candidate Lincoln" 1t depicts the
martyred president as he vas in the
prime OF life just before he entered
the White House.
The other picture, known as "The
Triumphant Lincoln" was taken just
five years later and is believed to
be the last photograph which President
Lincoln ever had taken. 1t was made
by the Washington photographer,
Gardner, and the date is believed to be
April 9, 1865, IN the very day that
news of General Lees surrender at
Appomattox reached the President
Just Ave days before Lincoln's assas-
sination by John Wilkes Booth.
Doctor Warren, whose studies of
Lincoln's life attracted such attention
that he was appointed director of the
Lincoln Historical Research Founda-
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15

rived at City Point to observe at first
hand some action by the troops. He
became so intensely interested in the
maneuvers that he remained there
until April Z. Just two days later,
after he had arrived in Washington,
the news of L ee's surrender reached
him. 1t seems to have been accepted
generally that this photograph was
made on that day, April 9. There was
usually some specific occasion or ur-
gent demand that brought him to the
photographer, and the winning of the
war would be a sufficient incentive to
suggest the taking of his photograph.
Lost 25 Pounds in Weight.
1.-THE expression on Lincoln's face
in this picture, while it seems to con-
vey the news of a great victory, is
tempered by the compassion which he
had for the vanquished.
IF one will observe the photograph
made by Hesler when Lincoln became
the presidential nominee and compare
it with this n taken just five days
DefOre MS Qedtn, lie Will pe uAWllliAs
to believe that only five years had
interviewed between the two sittings.
Lincoln is said to have lost % pounds
in weight during his first administra.
ton; certainly he was aged by far
more than Eve years between these
two pictures.t
Indeed, these two photographs con-
stitute the story Of the Civil War in
pictures"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15
Salisbury Has $1,04444 ,594
Outstanding In Back Taxes
And Street Assessments

Mayor B. V. Hedrick recently is
sued a financial statement of the city
of Salisbury which shows that the city
has a sum in the excess of $4,000
owned to it in back taxes. Uncollected
street and sidewalk assessments bring
the total owed the city to $1,044,594.
These figures represent an aggregate
of taxes and assessments extending
over a period of 10 years.
The following figures show the
amounts owed the city in back taxes
for the various years:
1881 unpaid taxes amounting
1880 unpaid taxes amounting
to 71,199
1929 unpaid taxes amounting
to 51,32S
Street and sidewalk assessments
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15

planned Arthur F. Hall, president of
company, which endowed the founda-
ton.
After four years of work under the
direction of a distinguished Lincolnian
scholar, DR.. Louis A. Warren, we have
laid the necessary groundwork for an
expanded program designed to per-
petuate Lincoln lore and stimulate in
terest in his life"
Doctor Warren, who started his
study of Lincoln's life while editor of
the Larue County Herald at Lincoln's
birthplace, H%odgenville, KY, has or
ganized the foundation into eight bu-
reaus to conduct research, gather ma
terial for exhibits, mark sites of his
torical significance, compile all avail
able information, conduct educational
programs, publish books, pamphlets,
and magazines, and to provide speak
ers for all occasions identified with
Lincoln's career.
Interest in Lincoln Growing.
"Many new and intensely significant
facts are being added to the Lincoln
lore through our research" Doctor
Warren stated, "and we are finding a
growing interest in this subject on the
part of the public. In our library we
now have the largest private collection
of literature ever assembled about
IA nnnn. HAeAi~aA characters ex-
copied, n we plan in the e few
years to expand this wealth of mate
rial and make it available to the vast
number of Lincoln FANS"
"The foundation is meeting with
exceptional success in its work as a
result of the splendid cooperation we
are receiving from the entire personnel
of the Lincoln National Life Insurance
Company. The representatives of this
institution, situated in all parts of the
United States, are constantly on the
lookout for new material and often
run across some incident or relic that
adds materially to our collection. The
company's officers, meanwhile, have
been extremely liberal in making it
possible for US to acquire many costly
documents, relics, and other interest
ing items"
Constantly Adding to Collection.
Doctor Warren explained that all Of
the company's officers, from the day Of
its founding in 1905, had been diligent
students of Lincoln's life and had
striven to make his ideals their COM
pany's ideals. The decision to endow
the research foundation came in appre-
citation of Robert T. Lincoln's authori-
zation for the company to use his ia
theirs name and favorite photograph.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15

ton when that organization was en-
dowed by the Lincoln National Life
Insurance Company, possesses in his
library at Fort Wayne original prints
Of these two photographs. Referring
to 1.-THE Candidate Lincoln" Doctor
Warren says:
Best of BeardIess Pictures.
"This photograph, made at Spring
field, ILL.,, by the Chicago artist, Hes
Ter, is by all odds the most popular Of
the numerous beardless pictures of the
Emancipation. After it was made and
exhibited to Mr.. Lincoln, he told the
photographer:
swell, that looks better, and ex-
presses me better than any 1 have ever
seen; if it pleases the people I am
satisfied
"The original negative from which
this picture was made came very close
to being destroyed by a fire that swept
Mr.. Hesler's Chicago studio in 1868.
Mr.. Hesler had sold his studio less
than a year previous to the fire and
had removed the negative with his per-
sonal belongings"
OF the other photograph, The Tri-
umphant Lincoln" Doctor Warren
comments as follows:
"The expression OF Lincoln's face in
this picture. as in so Aany of the
others, seems to interpret the very at
mosphere in which the Photograph was
taken.
sat 9 a. M, March "a, 1865, he ar
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15
Washington Letter
Found In Old Bible

Richmond, Va.-An old book, pub
lished in 1902 and containing a letter
written in 1898 by George Washing
ton to President John Adams, is own
ed by R. P. Gregory, Richmond. In
the letter Washington promised Adams
to accept the post of commander-in-
chief of the armies of the United
States, in view of an expected Val with
France. The book was entitled 1.-THE
Art of Reading" and evidently was
used as a school textbook.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15

which have gone unpaid for a num-
Der of years amount to $704,767.
Total issuance of bonds from No
vember 1, 1928 to December l, 1880
totals $2,12O,00O.
From June l, 1881 to April 8,
1882 the statement shows that the city
has paid out a total of $4s9,2S2.79.
The city has paid to the schools of
Salisbury So, on the 100000 ap-
preparation, leaving a sum of $685.
900 to be paid.
The complete statement of the city,
financial condition will be found else
where in The Waterman. Every ef-
fort is being made by the city to col
lect back taxes and assessments and
during the last few months exception
al progress has been made.