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The Washington times., 1933-11-14
Why W Mrs. Walker Turned Lady Squser Her ubbys Dbmaned Home
feminine Necessities !-Mrs. Walkers
Makeshift Makeup Kit.

feminine NocssSities!- !-Mrs. Walkers
Maksshift Makeup Kit.
1.-TWO friends, calling on Mrs. Mary
J. Walker, who presides over
an imposing 13-room mansion in
Pittsburgh's fashionable East End, are
asked to sit down. But Mrs. Walker,
the hostess, must stand during the visit;
and if there are three friends in the
party, one Of them must stand, too.
The furnishings Of this sumptuous
dwelling-onO Of Pittsburgh's show
palaces - consist Of two chairs, one
bare mattress, q radiator-top desk and
one canary named ''DicIis." Mrs.
Walker, who once had servants to at
tend her amid rich rugs and costly an
tiques in this same house. now car
ries on the routine Of life in the dig
nifisd, somewhat Spartan simplicity Of
. home scraped to the bone by unsym-
pathetic moving men.
Mrs. Walker IL neither q victim Of
the depression nor an eccentric ad-
vocats Of the Simple Life. A wrecked
marriage and the bitterness which fol-
lowed left Mrs. Walker stranded on the
shoals Of her own determination not
to give in, no matter what.
Once upon q time John L. Walker,
confidential secretary to the Lockhart-
Mason estate and to Henry Lee Mason,
wealthy philanthropist, occupied the
house with Mrs. Walker and two
daughters by his first marriage. They
seemed happy. Then diScOrd exploded
into headlines; Mr.. Walker, charging
10Ma wa..
The Washington times., 1933-11-14

Latest Photo of Mars, Taken with IA
Old Style Telescope. Look at This
and Remember That the New RitehiO
Sky Tubes Will Reveal CratsrS 40
Small as 20 Feet in Diameter.
enough to bring into focus q Marian
city, if cities exist there. The new ones
may be able to show Q building as tall
as the Empire State in sharp relief
and will give the architects Of the fu.
ture, it may we'll be, precepts to numb
the imagination.
Writers since the dawn of astronomy
as q science have woven tales around
the possible inhabitants of Mars. Edgar
Rice Burroughs laid several Of his fast
moving romances on the Red Planet,
endowing its inhabitants with bestial
horror in some cases and intellectual
superiority in others. He is only one
Of a multitude of story -tellers, in
cluding H. G. Wells, who have de-
scribed the citizens of Mars. The rule
has been to make them super-human,
builders Of a civilization many times
more ancient and advanced. than ours.
The tendency of scientists has been
to postulate a type of life on Mars, if
there is, much lower than ours-belngs
twisted by environment into grotesque
shapes, mentally undeveloped because
Of the need of using all vital resources
in the combat against alternating SUBJ
zero cold and sizzling heat when the
ice caps melt once a year and sluice
the Martian valleys. The year on Mars
is 687 days long.
Charles G. Fort, strange man
who led hermit-like existence in New
York, wrote books in which newspaper
clippings describing startling and unex-
planned phenomena were adduced to
suggest visitations from other planets
to Earth. He got good deal Of sur
prised attention in some quarters. One
Of his items described a Martian visi.
tor-who returned home disgusted with
Earth after a brief stay-eighty-five
feet tall, according to an eyewitness"
If beings of that size exist on Mars,
DR.. Ritchey's telescope will be able to
spot them. -
Both Earth and Mars, to accentuate
their kinship,. were torn from the sun
by some celestial cataclysm in the
dawn Of time. Mars not always the
same distance from US, varying from
35,000,000 to 265,000, 900 miles. Nat
urally, the great battery Of Ritchsy
telescopes will see clearest when Mars's
orbit swings it closest to US, and the
Doctor and his staff will wait for that.
The Washington times., 1933-11-14

"Privation PAlIet"-Mrs. WalkOr's Bed,
and "Diclxie," the Companion Of Her
Resistance to Siege.
cruelty, various indignities and Mrs.
Walkers friction with his two chill
dren, demanded-and was granted
. divorce.
Mrs. Walker promptly appealed the
case, but the State Superior Court up
held the divorce. Walker suggested
that he had no further obligations to-
ward her; that she should therefore
move, take herself thence, in short,
"scram."
These things, singly and collectively,
Mrs. Walker refused to do. MI. Walker
retaliated by obtaining q writ empower
ing him to remove the furniture. Out
went the furniture, every stick Of it,
along with everything movable in the
house--but in stayed Mrs. Walker.
Walker stationed watchmen in front
Of the house to prevent other furni-
turs from being moved In. But some
The Washington times., 1933-11-14

A TELESCOPE so powerful that
~ the few scientists privy to its
secrets may murmur ecstatical-
ly; well be able to sit on earth and
read q Marian newspaperw is about
70 bs hurled into the age-oA attack
upon the most absorbing enigma Of the
heavens.
The boast about deciphering Mar
tian journalism, if indeed the Fourth
Estate hourishes on the Red Planet,
is a slight exaggeration-but it is close
enough to the literal truth to stagger
brilliant astronomers.
Actually, the new peeping-tube will
be able to descry pit seventy feet in
diameter in the planets traditionally
crimson crust. In it are embodied prin-
The Washington times., 1933-11-14
NAKED TO ScIENcEl

NAKED TO SCIENcEI
Latest Photo of Mars, Taken with IA
Old Style Telescope. Look at This
and Remember That the New RitehiO
Sky-Tubss Will Reveal Cratsrs 40
Small as 70 Feet in Diameter.
The Washington times., 1933-11-14

mirrors are Of course the key Of the
telescope principle. Now C. H. Lutz,
an associate of DR.. Ritchey, has de-
veloped an all-metal mirror at his New
Jersey metallurgical laboratory. It will
not tarnish nor react to weather or
temperature. In the past a 200-inch
mirror was the limit of practicability.
The metal mirrors may be made of any
diameter.
DR.. Ritchey 10 hurrying preparations
with all speed consistent with scien-
tifc exactitude. He knows, even better
than the layman can imagine in his
fevered dreams, what wonders-per-
haps shining cities, great engineering
projects, weird monuments-may flash
from the great mirrors when they are
turned toward Mars. He is keyed to a
pitch of anticipation, but this time he
is going to make sure that everything
is ready for the Big Peep.
Not one, but battery Of mammoth
telescopes will be turned Simultaneous
The Washington times., 1933-11-14

friend muggled in a few candles; an
other managed to break the blockade
to the extent Of few tins Of canned
heat, a few pots and pans. A mattress
got in somehow. And a policeman,
his chivalry touched, walked in with a
couple Of chairs 50 that Mrs. Walker
no longer had to sit on the floor, Japan
ess fashion.
She Il adamant.
"YOu'rs q squatter" charged Walk
or, after he had had the facade plas-
tered with "For Rent" and "For Sale"
signs.
20. K.," retorted Mrs. Walker
Here I shall continue to squat"
"What il ! rent the house?"
"Let them move in. don't care"
Mrs. Walker knows that evictiOns in
Pittsburgh take ninety days-and at
the end of that time Mr.. Walker may
have tired Of the prosecution. Mean
while she has carried her point. He
hasn't got her out.
And also meanwhile, MrA Walker
The Washington times., 1933-11-14

ly upon Mars.
e ach, eneom-
passing o limit
ed sphere, will
make for COM
prehensive &C.
curacy when'the
results are tai
lied. The first
will be mounted
in Arizona on
the edge Of
the Grand Can
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
This Letter Mill Bring
Joy To Fat Folks and
Neuritis Sufferers

Dear Sirs: l was SO crippled
with neuritis all down left side of
my head and arm and both knees SO
swollen that l could hardly get up
and down. At times my feet pain
ed SO badly l thought my toes
would break off. l tried every
thing. The doctor told me | would
be NO better while / lived here but
I stopped in a drug store in Brook
Ign, N. Y, n day last November
and the man in charge told me to
take Kruschen for 3 weeks steady
and l would get relief which l did.
Never felt better and along with it,
have lost weight. l weighed 2lo
then. Now | weigh 154 and while
Pm over SO yrs. old l feel 80. I
took it for n thing-got two
so | now have s others here taking
it." Mrs. A. V. Carr, Fl. Tilden,
Y.
Its the little daily dose that does
it" so take a half teaspoonful of
Kruschen in a glass of hot water
every morning before breakfast.
Get Kruschen at Purcell's Drug
Stores or any live druggist in the
.orld-a jar lasts 4 weeks and costs
bdt a trifle.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
More
Factory Jobs
Secretary Perkins Estimates Tbal
Many NeW Ones In July.

Secretary Frances Perkins cites
added figures to show that while
retail food prices in the nation in
creased s l-3 per cent during the
month ending July IS, factory
pay rolls expanded 10 per cent, OF
a total of s7,500,0O during the
same period.
The labor secretary interpreted
the massed statistics as encourag-
ing, particularly figures she pre-
sented to show what 100000 fac
tory employees had returned to
work between March and July.
If the pay roll index, the high
est since March, 1882, continue.
to climb at its present rate, she
said, S39O,OOO,o 900 would be addec
to the pay rolls of manufacturing
plants this year.
Reports furnished by the bureau
of labor statistics led Miss Perkin.
to estimate that 10000 additiona.
workers got factory jobs in July
compared with June. The latter
month, she said, showed a similar
unemployment over May. Fur,
ther, she estimated that the pur.
chasing power of the workers hac
been increased 10000, 900 in July
yer March.
Another 100000 emplov~,
gain was cited for July over March
in l6 non-manufacturing indus
tries, but> this was interpreted by
officials as largely seasonal.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
Keep Garden In
Fall Vegetables

Most garden crops must be plant
ed by the second or third week in
August if they are to mature suf-
ficiently for food before frost in
the eastern and central parts of
North Carolina.
There is an old adage of take
a vacation yourself but do not
give the garden one," says E. B.
Morrow, extension horticulturist at
State college. There are a num-
Der of standard crops which might
be planted now to provide fall
vegetables and where the spring
garden was hurt by dry weather
it would be wise to make paintings
as early as possible. A good fall
garden is always possible in this
state and should be planted"
Among the crops recommended
by Morrow, snap beans have first
place. They should be planted
every three weeks up to within SO
days of the date of the first killing
frost. This means that beans may
be planted as late as September
first in some parts of the tate.
Beets prefer cool weather but
may be seeded in August. The
Early Wonder and Crosby's Egyp-
tan are two varieties which will
nature ten days earlier than most
of the Others.
The Copenhagen Market and
Jersey Wakefield are two early va
~rieties of cabbage which may be
set with reasonable ssurance of a
crop even at this late date. The
cabbage must be grown rapidly.
however, with applications of nj.
trate of soda given to promote
growth. Cabbage worms cause
trouble at his season and may b<
controlled by calcium arsenate OF
lead arsenate.
Cowpeas and rurnips are two ole
"standbys" in the fall garden.
Success with turnips depends on a
good seed bed and the land being
heavily coated with w~ell-rottec
manure. Give the main-crop vari,
cites, such as Purple Top Globe
10 to II weeks time to mature.
Morrow advises.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25

Slaughter 100000 hogs, give
the meat to the unemployed, add
10000 900 to the farmers income
and increase the price of pork
that in brief is the corn hog plan
announced by Secretary Of Agri-
culture Wallace.
He told sevesSal thousand farmers
in the court Of states at rhe Cen
fury of Progress exposition the plan
is a deliberate attempt to "change
the economic facts" and give the
corn and hog farmer chs share of
the national income" He said the
New Deal for the farmer would
be put into effect Immediately and
completed by October l..
The secretary said the govern
ment would buy heavily, enough to
reduce the fall supply of pork BY
16 per cent and would pay more
than the present market prices.
The hog farmers, he explained,
would get more than the market
price for hogs sold in the big butch
ering drive, and should get highet
prices later for the rest of their
pork because of the reduction in the
supply.
He told them there was a new
element in their troubles. The
NRA program, he said, would raise
prices and make it impossible for
the farmer to buy, unless his con-
! diticn were improved Immediately
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
Use< This Laxative
made from plants

THEDFoRD's BLACK-DRAUGHT is
made from plants that come up
from seeds and grow in the
ground, like the garden vegetables
you eat at every meal. NATURE
has put into these plants an active
medicine that stimulates the
bowels to act Just as Nature put
the materials that sustain your
body into the vegetable foods you
eat.
In Black raught you have a natu-
raj laxative, free from synthetic
drugs. Its proper use does not make
you have to depend on cathartic
chemical drugs to get the bowels to
act daily.
Find out by trying Black-D raught
what a good medicine it is for con-
situation troubles. In 25e pkgs. (dry).
P.S. For Children, get the neto,
pleasant tasting SYRUP of Thedford's
Btdch-Draught. 2N& & SOC bottles.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25

Plans For Wheat
Campaign Made

Machinery is being oiled at State
college for the punching of a
wheat reduction program affecting
p important producing counties in
North Carolina.
Dean l. O. Schaub, Director of
the College Agricultural Extension
service has assigned John W. Good
man district agent, to take charge
of the drive with headquarters to
be at Salisbury.
Meanwhile, he said, an intensive
educational program will be set in
motion o familiarize growers with
the importance of the reduction
plan but no definite date has been
set for the campaigns beginning
in this state.
The adjustment program stipu-
lates that the wheat producer
agrees:
I To reduce his wheat acreage as
required for the crop years, 1884
IS, but not more than 20 per cent
of his average during the three
year base period of l%93o-31-32, in
return for adjustment payments.
To SOW his wheat in a workman
like manner, the number of acres,
at his average yield for the 3-year
base period, should produce the
number of bushels allotted him
and upon which his benefit pay
ments are based.
To join the county wheat pro-
duction control association and
meet the requirements of its by
laws.
/ Not to use the contracted 1854
IS acreage for any purposes except
summer following; planting to soil
improving or erosion-preventing
crops; for food crops for home con-
sumption; for feed crops for pro-
duction of livestock products for
home consumption.
Not to use the contracted acre.
age for the production of any ma
tionallv produced agricultural COM
modities offered for sale.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
ROWAN r SCHOOL
HEAD TAKES NEW JOB

Miss Sue E. Reese, who for tbs
past - years has been supervisor
of rural schools in Rowan county.
has rendered her resignation cffec-
tive September l and will become
principal of elementary schools OF
the China Grove district. School.
under her charge will be Harri.
Chapel, Sumner, Central Park
Kluttz-M MENUS, Patterson, Flemins
and Kizer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25

The terms of the plan, as he pre-
sented it, were:
The government would buy
enough pigs, light hogs and sows
due to farrow in the Fall to remove
from the markets between $780,
100000 and 100000 900 pounds
of live pork. This would be done
"as rapidly and effectively as pos
sible', and the farmers would be
paid prices (which encourage CO.
operation"
Secretary Wallace put himself in
the position of middleman.i He
has already sold this huge order
of meat, he said, to the federal re-
lief officials. Another part NIGH:
go to export. About 5,o00,0 e0
hogs would be bought, one million
sows due to farrow, four millio1
pigs or light hogs. This sharp re.
dection in the supply of pork
should, he said, raise prices from
Is to 80 per cent. To pay for thu
hogs and the butohering a process.
ing tax of considerably less thar
a cen a pound' must be levied, tt
raise about $55,0O0,0 0O.
The secretary said the scheme
was not his, but came from thu
grass roots" He was presenting
the plan worked out by the bene.
ficaries themselves, behind which
farmers, packers and commission
men had agreed to stand. He alse
said the plan was full of danger.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
Most Feasible
Says Watkins
Explains Plan as Applied to Con-
troll Of Cotton Acreage
Questions Asked.

To the many people who are
already beginning o wonder just
what plan of control will be ap-
Piled to cotton production in 1884
to prevent a large crop from off
setting the advantages gained
through acreage reduction this
wear, D. w. Watkins, extension az
ricultural economist, says that un-
der the farm act the allotment
plan seems to be the most likely
and feasible plan. This allotment
plan applied to cotton would be ap-
proximately as follows, he explains:
The average production Of cot
ton in the United States for a period
of five years, would be determined.
The average domestic consumption
for the same period would be de-
sermined. Let us say it was IS
per cent of production. The do
nestle allotment of the entire COT
ton belt would be As per cent of
the average production. The allot-
ment to each state would be As
per cent of its five-year average
PRODUCTION, likewise for each coun-
~ within each state. A county
organization would take the county
allotment and divide it among the
cotton growers according to the
average production ct each. Tie
period for basins individual allot-
ments might be a two-year or a
th~ree-year period and allotments
would le adjusted pro-rata to fit
the county allotment.
With the purpose of raising the
price to pre-war parity levels the
secretary If agriculture would call
for a reduction in acreage, say
of so per cent, on the part of
those growers who are to receive
the benefits of the allotment plan.
The grower would agree in re-
turn for benefits received under
the allotment plan to reduce his
acreage and would be paid by the
federal government an amount that
would in effect give him the parity
price on his individual allotment
of approximately As per cent of
his usual production. For the rest
he would receive nothing more than
the usual market price. His en-
tire crop would be sold in the usual
way, the allotment benefits serving
OF raise his cash income offsetting
the possible loss from reducing his
acreage. Growers co : operating
would receive the ordinary or pre-
vailing market price on their entire
crop.
The benefits for a ptrticu1ar
year would be paid to cooperating
growers who reduced acreage &C
cordlng to agreement with the sec
rotary regardless of the price of
cotton for that season by reason
Of the fact that the processing
would have been applied and col
]ected and the acreage would have
been reduced by the individual. The
plan outlined here is very similar to
that now being applied to wheat.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
New Schedule
Teachers Pay
s45 To $40 Per Month Is Range
AAoWed By State Board.

A salary schedule for teachers
carrying an absolute maximum of
500 annually for teachers and
that only for teachers with Class A
certificates who have taught as
much as eight years has been ap-
proved by the state school COM
mission and is scheduled to be ap-
proved by the state board of edu-
cation.
The average reduction under
1901 salaries is 81 per cent but
that is by no means uniform, an
entirely new schedule having been
devised. The cut for teachers in
the best schools is much more Sc
we're as those schools operated nine
months instead of eight and sup
Elements ran as high as so per cent
of the state schedule, so that a
number of teachers will now receive
lesss than half of former salaries.
However, the teachers will get
the bulk of Sl6,o00,000 annual ap-
preparation for public shoots, s12,-
$4,000 a year having been set
aside to pay teachers and principals
The general control item, inluding
the pay of superintendent and their
office forces has been cut from
$S50,O0O to $425,o00, the trans
portation item from $~2,150,000 to
100000; and the operation of
plant item from $1,200,000 to
5000, 900. The remaining $780,
900 of the appropriation was set up
as an emergeny fund.
1t is estimated that there will be
$4,000 teachers in the state, Of
whom $4,000 are white and 5000
colored.
The announced schedule applies
to white teachers and it is expected
that the former practice of a so per
cent differential for colored teach
ers will continue in most cases.
Under the old schedule pay of
white Class A teachers, of whom
there are 5000 ranged from 500
to $133.33 per month, the later
figure being reached after four
years. The new schedule ranges
from $40 to $40, with eight years
required to reach the maximum.
The old schedule for Class B
teachers, of whom there are 1000,
ranged from $40 to $40. The
new range is from $50 to SIS.
The range for Class C teachers,
of whom there are 1000, was for
merly from $85 to sos. The new
range is from SIS to sos.
This range for elementary A
teachers was formerly from SIS tc
$95. The new range is from $50
to $55. There are 1900 of them.
In the other classes now only. $50
white teachers. Their pay for
merly ranged from $45 to $S5 per
month. The pay has been reduced
to a flat $45 per month.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
POWER OUTPUT GAINS

New York-Electric power out
put last week held its recent ratio
of gain over last year, despite in
dications of some seasonal recess
sion the Edison Electric institute
reported. Production amounted
to 1,661,504,000 k;Iowatt houfs
against 1,654,424,000 in the pre-
vious week and 1,440,3S6,0O0 in
the like 1882 period. z
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
DEACONS BATTLE

Kansas City.-Two deacons at a
negro revival meeting. had a battle
on their hands when James Battle
interrupted the sermon with a
threat to preach that Bible right,
or I'll put you on the spot" Battle
was elected but he returned with
a pistol and began shooting and
shouting at the same time. He was
subdued and turned over to police.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
PEDALS $500 MILES

Yosemite, Calif.-Just half way
on a bicycle ride of 1900 miles,
Ward Duvall of Atlanta, Ga, is
enjoying Yosemite before pedalling
back home. II did it on a dare"
he explained. Zone of my chums
in Atlanta said it couldn't be done
to California in 80 days. l made it
to Los Angeles in 26 days, elapsed
time"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
81 SHIPS COST $500, 900, 900

The navy has let a contract for
construction of FL naval vessels by
private shipyards, and ordered 16
ships built in government wards.
The 81 ships will cost 100000
and work on them is to begin at
once a spart of the federal works
program.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
STATES TO VOTE

Washington-The citizenry of
three more states will decide, be.
fore the month is out, what they
want done about the Eighteenth
Amendment. Here is the ~line-ut
of States which have set votes dur.
ing the month: August 10, Mis-.
souri,; August 26, Texas; August
%, Washington.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
WILL BOYCOTT BRITAIN

Tokyo, Japan-Japan rapidly is
preparing an aggressive trade war
against Great Britain in retaliation
for the action of the British gov
eminent in barring certain japanese
commodities from British markets.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-25
II GEESE MATCHED
FROM ONLY Is EGGS

Buhl, Idaho-Seventeen downy
goslins from l6 eggs were Matched
here, according to Mrs. Ralph
Eendia. One egg, she believes, had
a double yolk and hatcher twins, an
extremely are case.