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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04
Conscience Fund
Passes 100000
Largest Item Was $4,000, Small
est, Ore Cent; Some "Cou-
science" Letters

Washington.-.Thc Conscience
Fund" at the Treasury department
has crawled up above 100000
which goes to show that some peo-
pie insist on being honest.
The federal government has had
a conscience fund since the day of
President Madison. 1t was started
by a fellow who had defrauded the
U. S. A. of IS and gotten away
with it clean as a whistle, as the
phrase went in those days. Blu
years later his conscience began tt
hurt, so he sat down and sent s.
to the treasury. Didn't put hi
name on the letter, though; they
seldom do, but it doesn't matter
much because the treasury keep
all names confidential.
Other people started doing i
until now there has been a tota
of more than 100000 collected
! All of it is just velvet for the gov.
eminent, because they never hae
missed it.
The largest single sum ever col
lected was $4,000. The smalles,
is one cent. That was paid by
man who strayed across the horde,
into Canada. He was in Buffalo
anyway and figured he would just
run across the bridge so he could
say he had travelled in a foreign
country. That's where his trou-
bic started, for once he got in
Canada he started spending money.
First thing you know, he had
bought a pencil for two cents.
Well, he got back to America and
started using the pencil. Then his
conscience began tormenting him,
Technically, he was a smuggler.
because he had not paid duty on
the pencil. Sc he sat down and
wrote this letter to the treasury:
Herewith I hand you a one
cent stamp for duty on a lead pen
Gil which l bought from a Cana
dian. The pencil cost me two
cents, SO I have decided to pay one
cent duty"
A lady wrote to the government
the other day to tell them she had
got religion. Said she was very
happy now except for M thing
that matter of the stamp.
81 am duly impressed" shf
wrote, Ito restore to the u. S
Treasury a postage stamp which
Il used once. 1t had served its pur.
pose once but seemed not to have
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04
THICAGO. July co.
~ Kisses are words in a
universal 1an011ape.

L july w.
" Kisses are words in a
universal language.
Perhaps that explains why
thousands of visitors to the
Chicago Worlds Fair-A Cen
fury of Progress-roar their
applause to the colorful street
festival that daily makes the
market square of picturesque
Belgium" one of the gayest
and loyliest spots of the Fair
Nesting Intimately in the heart
of this Belgian Village. with its
houses and chapels and shops
built from actual moulds of Old
World buildings that date from the
18th century. is an outdoor stage,
surrounded by dining tables and
beer garden balconies. and ter
raced in by a broad expanse of
cobblestone steps leading upward
to a cluster of hillside shops and
the setting SUI.
Kisses to Music.
At the start of every hour sight
seers scramble for seats on the
rtorc md of thu tohlnS fn vyotnh
the f1a%xen-haired maidens and
peasant boys of old Belgium pre-
sent their native folk-dances and
songs with a spontaneous pleas
antry and delightful naivete that
spring from happy hearts. The
rhythmic waltzes, dainty and
graceful for all the cumbersome
ness of the heavy wooden shoes
of the dancers. W a charm that
is well appreciated. even though
most of the onlookers have never
been abroad. know little of the
customs and traditions of the "old
country, and understand little or
nothing of the symbolism of the
dances.
But in the grand finale-the
kissing game"-is' a world of
clean, fast fun thoroughly under
stood. A kiss is a kiss. be it in
Brussels or Chicago. Moscow or
Mayfair. Paris or Tangier.
To the strains Of the Hitting mu-
sic, the boys and girls dance about
the stage in a circle. with n boy
or girl alone in the center. The
dancer in the center chooses a
partner of the opposite sex from
the outside ring. and the two then
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04
Here Is How
Beer Is Made
At Brewery

Since beer was last a legal drink,
a new generation has grown up.
Presumably everyone used to know
how it was made. Today the pre-
sumption is the other way. The
Scientific American, New York,
for the instruction of youth, pub
fishes what might be called a
primer of beer" 1t runs as fol-
lows:
1.-THE basis of beer is matted bar
ley and hops, altho other cereals,
mainly rice, are used: The malt is
either made by outside maltsters or
is sprouted and Kindred in the
breweries own malthouse.
"The object OF. the mailing pro-
cess is to soften the walls of the
grain so that the starch becomes
accessible and can be resolved into
malt sugar (maltose) and dextrin.
In the process the barley is steep
ed in water and then allowed to
sprour, the grain being turned
from time to time. This usually
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04

Take it from Stanley C. Arthur,
biologist, who knows his CHG
gers" that when the bug bites you
he doesn't get under your hide
Arthur recently blew up that
:allacy when he explained re-
searchers had shown the infam-
nation of a chigger bite, popu-
arly believed to be caused by the
chigger's presence under the skin,
is caused by + poisonous saliva.
The chigger matches, with the
irst warm weather, from the eggs
Of the harvest fly, he explained,
and attacks man only when in the
'.arva stage. As adults, they leave
humans strictly alone. But when
'arvae-ouch! the little pests crawl
along ankles and bite unmerciful-
ly, injecting the poison as it feeds
on blood.
The bug even feeds On small
wild animals, snakes and lizards,
and young chickens, without be-
ing the least bit "choicy," Arthur
said.
But the bug we call chiggers is
no more a chigger, or 'chigoe" a:
it is properly pronounced, than
ileas are bats, he declared. Our
bugs really are closely allied to
spiders and mites.
The real 'chigger,' 'jigger," Oh
properly, chigoe, is a curious flea
of the West Indies and South A.
merica, and does not inhabit North
America, he said. In those region.
where it is found, it often doe,
burrow beneath the skin of the
feet, and cause serious irritation.
The bug popularity known as tht
chigger here, he said, is easy te
control; simply dust the feet ane
legs with powdered sulphur before
putting on hose, and it won't give
any bother.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04

been cancelled much, if at all.
Nevertheless, l usedlEaS-L-Mas at
the time very much in need of
one. l am restoring it four-fold
(eight cents enclosed) and |
haven't been guilty of it any more.
May the Lord bless each one and
save our souls"
Then there is the LAST of the
man who went down to Tia Juana.
He had a terrible day. Every
horse he bet on ran backward and
his bankroll shrivelled away. By
the time he got through with the
chuck-a-luck game, the bankroll
was exactly the size of Frances
June IS war debt payment, which,
if memory serves, was a neat or
derby row of zeroes. All he had
left was $40 worth of souvenirs.
A few months later the govern
ment got a letter from rim.
Enclosed find duty on SIC
worth of goods bought at Tia
Juana. Buyers did not wish tc
smuggle, but was o prepared tic
pay duty at the time. | am sending
81 which 1 believe will cover the
amount due"
The conscience fund income is
remarkable stable. In 1880 the
government got s6,389.75; in 1881
it got $6,39S.77. The biggest year
was 1916-more than $4,000
Treasury officials believe it was be-
cause citizens thought America
might be drawn into wal and need
all the money she could gez.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04

When visitors leave the kissing
game. they r sure to have be-
come genuine admirers of the Bel
gian Village. and are ready to &C.
cept the more serious beauty of
it in a proper mood.
Display Famed Painting.
There is plenty of beauty about
the historic old buildings. Here is
Antwerp's st. Nicholas church.
built in 1850 as a chapel of the
shoemakers' guild; here is a con-
vent house from Diest. a home
from formal, the house of the
Hangman of Bruges 13OO). There
is the gateway where Napoleon
spent his last night before Water
loo; there is st. Donatus bridge
of Bruges in 1900. with it's water
mill and pond of swans; there is
the beautiful city hall of Damme
in the distance the slim white
watch tower "Pagode" of Antwerp.
All about III guards. attend
ants. bar-maids and peasant girls
in the authentic and gaily-hued
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04

consumes about eight days.
"The sprouted barley is then
dried in kilns and is elevated from
storage bins or loading platforms
to the top of the brewhouse where
grit and dust are removed. The
malt, after grinding, is fed by
gravity to a cylindrical 'grist
hopper in readiness to be weighed
betore going to the mashtub be-
meath. Meantime rice has been
ground and cooked and is also held
in reserve.
"All of these operations have
been carried On with view to the
chemical reactions which are to
follow, assisted by mechanical
means. The maltg,iAt and rice
are run into the mashtub, water
is added and live steam is admitted,
the mixture being constantly agi-
tated by means of mechanically
driven paddles. When the brew
master decides that the conversion
of starch to sugar has been carried
out sufficiently, the solubles are
filtered off and the solid residue is
then drawn off to be made into
cattle feed.
1.-The remaining liquid, known
as wort drains off into huge brew
kettles and cooks for four hours.
The hops are added to the liquid,
one and one-half to two hours be-
fore the end of the boiling. The
action of the hops is to give a
slight bitter and stimulating taste
to the beer, and also to promote the
keeping quality of the product.
THE work of the hops ended,
they are removed and brew is
pumped into receiving tanks, COOL
ed, and prepared for fermentation,
which accomplished in steel and
glass enameled tanks. Yeast in the
proper quantity is added at this
point. Here the sugar is trans
formed into alcohol, carbon-diox-
ide gas being given off and saved
for future carbonation of the
beer.
THE fermentation process takes
from twelve to fifteen days. Then
the beer is aged in tanks, usually
enameled lined, in cool vaults for
two Or three months. From bot
Ting tanks the beer, still cool, is
divided for kegging and bottling.
The barrels are soaked, scrubbed,
and filled; the BOTTLES are washed,
tapped, pasteurized, and
labeled. Both keyed and bottle
beer are carbonated." q.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04

become the leaders OF the dance.
At given breaks in the music they
kneel. and first he kisses her. then
she kisses him. Dancers Of the cir
Gle follow suit.
Game Pleases Crowd.
It's great fun. but the big laughs
are yet to come. There is a pause
in the music. One of the peasant
boys leaps from the circle and
takes the hand of a girl selected
at random from the audience. Then
she must become his partner in
the center of the dance. When the
dance is over. all the boys rush
to initiate the new dancer with
their kisses. much to her embar.
rassment and to the merriment of
the onlookers. The stunt is then
repeated with a boy from the au-
dience.
After the show coins rain from
the seats of the amphitheater and
the dancers are thrown into a mad
scramble for the money. more than
often with comic results.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04
DEMAND ACTION TO HALT
DEATHS OF POLICEMEN

Chicago.-Incensed by the kill
ing of policemen, officials were de-
handing action to prevent further
losses in the police department.
Nine policemen have been slain
in line of. duty thus far this year,
including two shot to death last
Saturday night by a pair of alleged
hoodlums, and Policeman John 6.
Sevick, killed by a gunman, John
Scheek, in the criminal courts
building.
eff l had my way we would
have more inquests on hoodlums,
Coroner Frank J. Walsh said in
continuing the inquest into the
deaths Saturday of Policemen John
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04
Bad Taste in Mouth,
Sour Stomach

For quick relief from constipation
troubles, such as are mentioned
below, get a ascent package Of
Thedford's BLACK-DRAUGHT
and begin taking it today.
II have suffered a great deal
from b~iliousness and constipa-
tion," writes Mrs. D. C. Jones, of
Waterloo, Ala. when 1 get bill
GUS I have a bad taste in my
mouth, have sour stomach, my
color is bad, and I get dizzy and
feel awfully bad. l have head
ache constantly. When l take
Black-D raught 1t relieves me and
I feel like a new person. I don't
think there is a better medicine
than Black-D raught." =
Not0 you can get Black-Drou0ht IN
the form of q SYRUP, for CHILD4lN.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04
IT'S JUST NOT DONE

We are more convinced than ever
that North Carolina should abolish
capital punishment. Our convic-
ton arises from maudlin sentiment
but from the demonstrated fact
that the penalty is never suffered
except in the case of "nigger or
a pore white" We have made
some progress in that the influen-
tial can now be sent to the peniten-
tiary but it will be many a day be-
fore an influential man is executed.
1t is Just not done. A law that
discriminates, especially when a
life is at issue, should be abolished
-(Cbarity and Children.)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04
ASKS DEATH OF HER PET

Media, PA request hat her
Pekingese, Mana, be put to death
by poison and buried on the day
her mistress died, was made in the
will of Mrs. Caroline Calhoun of
St. Davis's, probated here. The
will directed that money from life
insurance be used Ito pay for my
funeral and Nana's."
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04

London.-The poor benighted
infantry apparently are still to
have their place in the next wars.
The British War Office is ex-
perimenting with a new rifle and
bayonet, and if accepted the "P-
B. l." will have to re-learn all
their musketry exercises.
The rifle has the aperture sight
on the sliding bar foresight, and
is said to be a step nearer scien-
tifc perfection for accurate shoot
ing.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04
'Chigger' Fallacy Given
Knockout, Bug Expert

Skopek and Elmer Ostling.
1.-THE sooner we deal with such
hoodlums as they deal with society,
the sooner. will be solved this pro-
blem," the coroner said. "These
atrocious murders bear out my
contention that we are dealing with
such killing in the wrong manner"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04
SALES TAX
TEST

Directors of the state merchants
association decided in Raleigh to
abandon the proposal to have a
court test of the constitutionality
of the 3 per cent sales tax, and in
stead to concentrate all efforts on
naming a 1885 general assembly
which will remove the AK.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04

Americanism: Viewing with a
because Junior takes. a snifter
at college; going back for the big
day and getting soused with other
old grads to set an example.
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666

LIQUID TABLETS = SALVE
Checks Malaria in 3 days, Colds
first day, Headaches or Neuralgia
in 80 minutes, FINE LAXATIVE
AND TONIC.
Most Speedy Remedies Known.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04
New Taxes Add
To Collection
Beer And Excise Taxes Gain AS
Do Otber Revenues; Deficit
Is Cut DoWn
by Richard L. Gridley)

Revenue other than income taxes
is pouring into the United States
treasury at a faster rate than at
any time since the wartime taxes
were repealed, official figures show
ed.
Miscellaneous internal revenue,
which includes beer, tobacco and
various manufacturers excise
taxes, reached approximately
s11o,O00,oOO this month, the
highest collections from this class
of taxes since August l, 1928,
when the capital stock tax of that
year boosted miscellaneous internal
revenue to S113,661,S44. Last
month miscellaneous internal reve-
nue. collections amounted to $780,
4S5,764.
Total revenues of the govern
nnent, including income taxes,
Panama Canal tolls and customs
receipts this month were NEARLY
double those of the corresponding
period of last year and went far
iii cutting down the present excess
of expenditures over receipts.
In the first u days of July the
government collected s144,563,-
7S9 in all classes Of revenue, against
s76,o15,4o4 in July, 1882. At the
same time expenditures other than
those in the recovery program fell
from S335,581,467 a year ago to
s212,729,O74.
This left a deficit in "ordinary'
operations for this period of S21,-
100000, against a deficit of $780,
100000 in the first u days of
July, 1882. Not included in these
figures is 100000, 900 spent in re-
lief activities this year as compar-
ed with S125 10000 spent by
the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poratlon a year ago.
The newly-imposed beer taxes,
now running close to s15,000,ooo
monthly and the new excise taxes
not in effect a year ago, naturally
improved this years comparison.
An impressive growth of miscel-
laneous internal revenue, never
theless, is showed in the first seven
months of this year.
Internal revenue collections
other than income tax for the first
even months of this year COM
pared with those of a year ago
are as follows:
1882: 1888:
Jan. s~37,e07,S43 $66,769,261
Feb. s35,56S,9oo s~64,353,75S
Mar. s~39,513,223 s67,1S8,717
April . s56,27o,1o S93,501,924
June S46,507,247 1O6,483,764
July (esti-
mated) s42,ooo,oo 100000 900
Along with the improvement in
miscellaneous internal revenue
other income of the government
has risen above the corresponding
period of last year Customs re-
ceipts, a lucrative source of reve-
nue. in the first II days of July
were s20,626,235, against s16,-
O94,O46 in the corresponding mon
tn Of last year, the highest in a
bout eight months.
Income tax collections, repre-
senting payments for last years
income are we'll below the previous
year. AS these cover the calendar
year ending December 81, last,
they do not reflect the business i'm
provement that has taken place
since March.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-04

BRITAIN TRIES OUT NEW
RIFLE
The Omaha guide., 1933-04-22
LOOKING BACK
Sex Instruction
by Videtta Ish
or the Literary Service Rn

Many are the opinions as to the
how and when or the when and how.
OF sex instruction. There are many
books on this subject, so / shall not
enter into the show, I do contend
that health, happiness and longevity
are dependent on proper instruction
given in time.
Two girls asked for an audience
with a lecturer, a man. They began
asking questions concerning personal
hygiene. Surprised. he asked. "Why
did you not ask your mothers these
questions?" One said. 81 tried. but
my mother told me she was too busy
to bother with such things" The 9th
er mother had said, "This is nice talk
for you to be talking to your mother;
go get your mind on a better subject
An old woman stood up in a meeting
for women and said, ri have suffered
all my life from mistakes which I
would not have made, if my mother
had Enlightened me concerning my
person and my health.
Girls have had their health ruined
because they did not know how to care
The Omaha guide., 1933-04-22

be well cared for.
Father Flanagan conducted an in
tensive survey of the case Of each
boy. He discovered the reason for
each homeless boy coming to his
Home. If times were normal many on
these boys could have been cared for
by relatives, but few people now are
in a position to assume further res
possibility. Hence the boys are left
homeless and neglected to become the
prey Of all the vices of a hobo life.
Father Flanagan found that 100
of his 304 boys were here because of
the death of one parent. The remain
ing parent was unable to care for the
family and earn a living for them.
Neglect followed and the boys were
admitted to the Home.
Fifty n of the boys were those
whom n parent deserted. Forty
were full orphans. OF the remaining
boys, as had both parents living, but
they had either become a problem. or
poverty, unemployment and disaster
had broken the home and the child
rem were turned on the world uncar-
ed for. Twenty-Five Of the boys were
homeless because one of their par
ents was dead and the other aband-
oned them.
Nine boys had foster parents but
the home had been broken or they
did not fit into it. Eight boys had
been taken from undesirable parents
whom the court did not deem fit to
care for children. Nineteen of the
boys were homeless through divorce.
where the separated parents had
either deserted the children or thew
could no longer provide a home for
them.
These are the boys whom Father
Flanagan is caring for, giving them
"a chance to rebuild their lives, so
they may become good citizens. They
are from 10 to IS years Of age.
Only 54 of the entire number had
been in any trouble with the courts
This trouble ranged from ~truancv to
other offences which neglected BOYS
are led into. Many of them needed
only a firm, kindly hand to discipline
them. The states from which the bows
came were: Nebraska. Iowa. Kansas !
North and South Dakota, Minnesota,
Missouri, Colorado, Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Michigan, Indiana, Washington.
Kentucky, Texas, Montana. Wyoming
Tennessee, California, Vermont. Pen
nsylvania, New Mexico, and Arizona.
The boys were all n~ationalities and
religions, 188 being Catholic boys and
116 being non-Catholic.
Father ~Flanagan's Boys Home was
started in 1917 with five boys. The
Home has cared for more than 3 600
boys. It is located eleven miles west
of Omaha. The Home is supported by
the general public and through wills
and requests. 1t receives no assistance
from state, city, church or commun-
ity chest.
Following are the members of the
Board of Directors of Father Flana-
gan's Boys Home to whom the report
was made:-Bishop Joseph F. Rum
mel; Monsig. J. W. Stevenson; J. E.
Davidson, president of the Nebraska
Power Company and former presi-
dent of the National Electric Light
The Omaha guide., 1933-04-22

cared for 304 boys from % different
states during the past year, accord
ing to the report.
The Home was filled to capacity
with homeless boys at all times. Ev-
cry effort was made to find good
homes for the boys in order to care
for the maximum number of boys.
The report stated 128 boys we're plac-
ed either in relatives homes or in
good foster homes where they would
The Omaha guide., 1933-04-22
FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS
HOME

Father E. j. Flanagan, founder and
director of Father Glangagan's Boys
Home, delivered his annual report to
the Board of Directors of the Home
April 18th. Rising to the emergency
which exists throughout the land in
the "a Of homeless and abandoned
boys, Father F1anagan's Boys Home
The Omaha guide., 1933-04-22

for themselves at the beginning of
puberty. Boys have gotten into bad
habits and been injured by venereal
disease and secret vice because they
had not been instructed concerning
these things. Parents who fail to in
struct, enlighten and advise their
children are guilty Of criminal negli-
gence.
The Omaha guide., 1933-04-22

association; Francis P. Matthews,
Knight Of st. Gregory, member Of
the national executive committee Of
the Knights of Columbus; Henry
Monsky, member Of the national exc
cutive committee of the B'nai Birth.
and Mrs. Arthur Mullen, former pres
ident of the National Council of
Catholic Women.
The Omaha guide., 1933-04-22

NOTE:-Your question printed free in this column.
For Private reply send 25c and (self addressed
stamped enevelope for my New Astrological Read
ing and reeve by return mail my advice on three
questions free. Sign your full name birthdate, and
correct address. Address Able Wallace,
?. Q. Box-11, Atlanta, Georgia.
The Omaha guide., 1933-04-22

+. M. Why husband is good to
me and gives me everything I ask
for, but leases me and tells me he
IS deeply in love with another girl.
lie goes to night school, gets out at
nine and home by nine thirty. He
stays out a few hours on Sunday rs
he cheating on me?
Ans: If every woman had a husband
as loyal and true as yours, her life
would be a paradise. You should be
ashamed of yourself for even think