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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-18
While Codes Are Voluntary Agree
ments, Review OF Situation
Sbows President Roosevelt
Holds Ace Gard OF Pub
Tic Opinion

The blanket code is a practical
plan that is bringing immediate,
practical results that were impos-
sible under the original code pro-
gram of President Roosevelt.
This is the view of some editors,
economists and many business men
now engaged in measuring progress
under the code. Although President
Roosevelt and General johnson in
sist that the blanket code is en-
tirelv a voluntary agreement, the
Business Week Magazine points out
in a survey of the entire methods
being pursued in putting the code
into operation that it is going to
be very hard for any industries to
say mo" to the Presidents pro-
gram. In reality the President will
have public opinion on his side.
Prices went up too fast and in
dustries came across too slowly.
That is the whole story back of the
socalled blanket CODE" which
really isn't a code at all but a vol
untary agreement. There's a diff
erence.
Whether industries came across
50 slowly because prices went up SO
fast or because rhe speed required
10 make the original MIRA plan
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-18
QUICKER, BETTER
Relief from use Of
Black Drauqht

II have taken Black-D raught, off
and on when needed, for twenty
five years, for it is easy to take"
writes Mr.. George T. Wharton, Of
Petersburg, Va. II take it for con-
stipation and when I have that
dull, tired feeling. I take It for
colds and other complaints where
a good laxative is needed, and I
believe 1t gives me. quicker and
better relief than any other medi-
cine I know. 1t certainly has
been a help to me-"
p. S.-H you haze CHILDREN, 0tve
them the ne1o, Demonstrating
SYRUP Of Thedjord's Black-Draught.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-18
No Industry Can Say "No"
To Presidents PROGRAM

N -r g. .
effective in time was wholly inn
practical, does not matter now.
The original plan has been supple
mented by the Presidents Re-
employment Program" which
makes possible the immediate and
simultaneous enlistment of all in
dustries and furnishes thoroughly
practical reasons for it. Most prac-
teal: the full weight of public
censure if going to be turned on
those that don't enlist.
This second phase Of recovery
does not end the first. While pass
ing out Blue Hawks" to business
men who get under the blanket
the NRA will keep right on hear
ing individual industries and pro-
mitigating separate codes for them.
Part OF the reason for designing
the new ready-made code for bust
ness was that it will hurry in appli-
cations for the individually tailored
regulations still available.
A third phase of recovery lies
ahead. "For all trades or industries
which have not submitted codes
-. by September l, the President
will begin to hold hearings under
Sec. ; (d) as fast as proper notice
can be given and hearings afrang-
ed" Section ; (d) of the Recov-
cry Act empowers the President to
prescribe codes willynilly. Beyond
lie licensing and penalties-the
draft.
So far, MIRA is still on a vo!un-
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-18

labor's share of the in
come, as you will-but not to the
point Of killing the goose.
The question of what can be
done in the case of the unionized
shop in which hours and wages are
fixed by contract is. more difficult.
MIRA can't break the contract,
says General Johnson, but he didn't
add that social pressure might, and
social pressure is what he is going
cunning with. Employers and
unions are both likely to find this
out if either side tries to take re-
fuge behind a contract.
The long and short of it all is
that this blanket agreement isn't
going to be perfect for everybody
but that the American people are
going to conclude that a
little individual injustice is less i'm
rortant than the universal injus-
tice of the situation it is designed
to meet. Furthermore signers will
get room to wiggle even in the
straight jacket If some parti-
cular provision because Of pecu-
liar circumstance, will create great
and unavoidable hardship" to a
isner, he may, after signing it
send in a petition approved by his
trade association asking for a stay
of that provision pending a sum-
mary investigation by NRA-pro-
vided he agrees in advance to abide
by the decision.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-18
tary basis. No one will be forced
to sign the blanket agreement any

tary basis. No one will be forced
to sign the blanket agreement any
more-or any less-than anyone
was forced to buy a Liberty Loan
bond in wartime. Signed, it is not
a contract and cannot be enforced
by any legal process or can viola
lions of its provisions be punished.
That is the official word from
Washington. OF course, there is
a forgotten Section 10 (a)' in
the Recovery Act that authorizes
the President "to prescribe such
rules and regulations as may be
necessary to carry out the purpose
Of this title and any such rule
or regulation shall be punishable
by fine or not to exceed $1,000 or
Imprisonment for not to exceed six
months, or both" That may be
broad enough to cover any change
Of mind, but it's entirely alien to
the present psychology of the re-
employment drive. There is no
force here" says Bulletin No. ;,
except conscience and opinion"
There is shrewd correction of the
errors here and a laying Of past
uncertainties. For instance, some
industrialists were made wary of
codes raising labor costs by warn
ings against p~rice-raising that Cen
eral johnson intended for prof.
teers but dispatched without a very
clear address. The blanket agree
ment specifically permits price in
creases made necessary by actual
increases in production, replace
ment or invoice cost of merchan-
disc"
Washington is all done with the
wage-sharing plan of blessed mem
ory. 1t intends to increase labor
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-18

Pueblo, Co1p.-Convicted of
selling Pueblo housewives butter"
that was almost two.thirds water,
j. H. Turley and Marvin A. Brock
were recently sentenced to SO days
in jail and fined SIC and SIS res
1pectively.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-18
ASKS UTILITY
PR

Governor ]. c. B. Ehringhaus,
in letter to Stanley Winborne, Of
the corporation commission asks
the body to get to work at once on
an Investigation of values and rates
Of public utilities in the state, cit
ing the fact that $4,000 in special
funds is available for the purpose
and more can be secured from the
contingent fund.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-18
SIX FOR FLOGGING

Six men are in jail at Laurinburg
charged with removing Douglas
Monroe, %, from his bed, taking
him into the woods and beating
him so severely with blackjacks
and sticks that his recovery is
doubtful.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-18
ELEPHANT EARS CHEAP

ELEPHANT EARS CHEAP
New York-The elephanprehr
market has hit a new how. Al an
auction of trophies collected by
Capt. David Mackenzie, big game
hunter, a pair Of elephant ears were
knocked down for 5O~cents.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-08-18
INDIAN KILLS HIS WIFE

Garlic Clarke, Robson county
Indian, is held for the murder of
his wife. He admitted shooting
her after she had gone to church
with R. H. Hill, white, but says he
thought he was shooting at Hill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10
WAR ON RACKETEERS

MOT least significant of recent develop
mentS is the fact that the Crusaders,
originally organized to fight prohibition. now
have converted themselves into an organiza-
ton to make war on racketeers.
Because of the intimate hook-up between
the prohibition law and the racketeer. any
group which works for the repeal of prohi-
bition must give some attention to the
racketeer problem.
There is no question that the racketeer
has done a great deal to swing public senti-
ment against prohibition. Justly or other
wise the eighteenth amendment has been
blamed for his existence
But we should be making a tremendous
mistake if we took it for granted that all we
need to do to abolish him is to abolish the
eighteenth amendment
That would help of course The boot
leg liquor racket was first of the large-scale
rackets. and from the very start it was the
most lucrative. But no one who reads the
daily newspapers and sees ever-recurring
headlines about the milk racketeers," the
DRY cleaning racketeers," the labor rack
eteers," the gambling syndicates," and so on,
can be so naive as to suppose that the booze
racket stands alone.
During the decade that began in 1920,
the words organized crime" took on a very
real and definite meaning. Before that, big
cities had had scattered groups of criminals
operating Independently and they had had
more or less loose groups of hoodlums who
worked in gangs; but there never had been
any genuine Capitalization of any carefully
planned organization.
TIE powerful and cohesive underworld
gangs mat curse our cities today are creations
of the last dozen years.
In part these groups owed their birth to
pronibition-but only in part They are even
more indebted to the fact that through many
years we had let venality, favoritism, and
self-interest rule our city politics.
The ward leaders, the corrupt alderman,
the crooked political boss-these men presided
at the racketeer's birth, and they continue to
shelter the racketeer today.
That is why the Crusaders action is so
encouraging Repeating prohibition will only
be first step in the war on rackets.
To pretend that it will do the whole Job
would be to delude ourselves in a tragic and
expensive manner
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10
CYRUS II. <. CURTIS

CYRUS H. K. CURTIS will rest secure in
~ journalistic history and in national his
tory, and his fame will lie mostly in his Satur-
day Evening Post, which he bought for $1,000
and built into what became most widely read
popular magazine.
In this his name will be linked with Ben
jamin Franklins, for the Post had been built
upon Franklins Gazette.
Cyrus Curtis gave the people what they
wanted and they wanted, in the heyday of
the Saturday Evening Post, stories of the clean
variety that all the family could read without
a blush, yet we'll written written by the best of
the current American writer's.
living. Woodworking American rising from
capital of three cents invested in newspapers
as child and turned into a fortune which
ultimately placed him among the five largest
payers of income tax in America.
What was the driving force behind this
native of Maine? First, his physical vigor,
which brought him to the age of 49, His orig
inal poverty. Next his diminutive size
There was challenge. 1t is recorded that
when he first started selling papers he fed the
razzng of the veteran newsboys and found
newsboys' paradise IN an outlying neighbor-
hood where papers were little vended.
But it was wisdom and not cowardice that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10
NO POLITICS IN SCIENCE

DOLIT1CAL appointments should play no
part in the conduct of the scientific
bureaus of the federal government.
When President Roosevelt nominated DR.
Lyman J. Briggs to the dictatorship of the
National Bureau of Standards. repeating a
Hoover nomination unconflrmed by the lame
duck senate, he heartened the intellectual
world
Whether Dr. Briggs is a Republican or
Democrat is unknown and unasked at the
White House DR.. Briggs job is science. not
politics
In the famous patronage handbook" which
listed the non-civil service jobs in the govern
ment, the following were listed as potential
plumS: Surgeon general of the public health
service, commissioner and deputy commits
sloner OF fisheries, commissioner of patents
director of bureau of mines, director of coast
and geodetic survey, chief of the weather
bureau, director of geological survey.
Great confidence will be created bv Presi-
dent Roosevelt if steps are taken to continue
IN Office the efficient non-political incurnbents
and then insure adequate scientific and intel
lectual qualifications of future bureau heads
by placing them under civil service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10
It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, June 10.-I saw a
~ money changer in the neigh
borhood of the temple late yester-
day afternoon, and it Old not seem
to me that he was on his way to
catch an outbound train. On the
contrary, he was headed I'D the
steps. cool as a cucumber. u
wonder if the old place has
changed he remarked as we
passed.
In all probability he will not find
much alienation inside. There is
some Scafolding still up around the
main entrance, but the sign ''Busi-
ness as usual Is displayed prom
inently.
Reform has slackened Within a
month there has been a perceptible
slowing up. 1t may be that the
new deal was no more than a round
OF roodleS and that we are all go
ing back to the old game.
Stocks Soar to New Highs"
Market Boils in Record Session"
Pivotal Issues Up Ten Points"
Front page prosperity is with us
once again. Mr.. Morgan is going to
pay an income tax almost any year
now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10
The Message Center

professional atmosphere and a pro-
fessional staff in the state library,
l am much grieved to learn of the
course you are pursuing, and I feel
that have a right to protest against
such a policy, for I believe that it
will not only be destructive TO the
best interests Of the state of In
diana, but that eventually it will be
destructive to your own personal in
terests.
have been associated with pref
ty nearly every phase of library &C
tivity in the state of Indiana, hav-
ing served for thirty years as Ii
brarian of Earlham college while in
charge of the department of history
there, and for a number of years
was president of the Richmond city
public library board and served two
different times as president Of the
Indiana Library Association in addi-
ton to my part-time connection
with the Indiana state library men
toned above, SO that I feel that I
have right to know something of
the library background in the state.
I naturally am proud of my ma
tive state and follow her progress
with interest. I know that she is
being watched closely by people in
other states at the present time,
and I had hoped that you would give
the state such broad, positive,
efficient administration above per-
sonal, partisan, political motives
that you would reflect credit not
only upon the state, but upon your
self.
1 hope you will accept this in the
spirit in which it is written.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10
CLASS OF '33

THIS month upward Of 100000 young men
and women will emerge from the clustered
college campus into world that must look to
them like jigsaw puzzle.
Some will pity these youths as they did the
class Of 1917 that marched from the classroons
to the battlehelds Of France. The more robust
will envy them their chance to rebuild from
the bottom social order more fitted to their
dreams than the Harding Coolidge Hoover era.
Among the latter are two Roosevelt cabinet
members whose recent commencement adj
dresses we're in happy contrast to the usual
clap-trap exhortations TO success
we are witnessing the birth throes of a
new and, let us hope, a finer social order"
Secretary of the Interior Ickes told the grad
yates of Washington and jefferson university.
1--WE are in the midst Of social revolution.
We confess, frankly, that we have made a mess
of things. We have squandered recklessly,
thrown away our heritage on mad enterprises,
dissipated it in soft living.
But we must build new order and build
it together. Yours will be the rare privilege of
helping to build it."
MISS FRANCES PERKINS, secretary OF labor
spoke in similar vein to graduates of Goucher
college in Baltimore. Science, she insisted
must aid industry in evolving an improved
social order.
Planned production, with higher wages
shorter hours, and more security for the work
ers, must take the place of the planlessness
that produced chaos
The new graduates will find life far from
easy, whether they seek the old paths or blaze
new ones. But those who accept the challenge
Of the times will live, as all young people
should, adventurously and significantly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10
|M.E.TracySays:

Il EFFECTIVE control of industry calls for the
~ end OF stock watering dummy directors, and
Snam service contracts as well as wildcat COM
petition.
Business has suffered far more from financial
Juggling and manipulation at the ton than from
price cutting at the bottom
The public is compelled to play against a
stacked deck because of our highly technical and
thoroughly legalized system of ethics
About everything has been prescribed ex-
cept common honesty and fair play.
Driven by craze to get capital for this or
that purpose, we have permitted promoters, in
Vestment salesmen holding companies. and
moneyed interest to get away with about every
thing short of arson.
Worse than all else, we have told ourselves
lightened.
Big business not only has been condoned
but cheered, for doing things which the or
binary man would not do to his neghbor
WHEN you get right down to brass tacks
w a square deal between a billion dollar
concern and the investing or consuming public
is no different from one between a corner gro
Gerry and its customers.
Dummies on a board of directors imply the
same kind of welching or negligence as dunn
mics on church of club committee, except that
the former involve more risk
Giving Bill Smith a secret rakeoff On stock
IN exchange for the use of his name is the same
rotten practice, whether applied to a power
trust or neighborhood hail.
The crooked thinking of big financial oper-
atorS is more definitely responsible for racketeer-
ing than any other single phase of our social
and economic life
The prepoSterous service contracts by which
holding companies have MIXED subsidiaries
furnished the blueprints and specifications for
about every form of racket.
7 AM one of those stubborn souls who do not
believe that there is any substitute for COM
mon honesty and common sense
Any method which can't stand the daylight
is unsound. Any transaction built on the theory
that some people must be kept in the dark as
to what others are doing is baScally rotten.
The best kind of citizen and the solidest
kind of enterprise is one that can leok the whole
world in the face.
Secret business is made of the same stuff as
secret diplomacy. We have had and still are
having too much of both.
This idea that you can build a sound So
ciety or a sound economic structure by per-
hitting individuals or groups of individuals to
take advantage of other peoples ignorance or
inability just doesn't work
The great weakness of this country. eSpe-
cially from an industrial and financial stand
point, goes back to things that are done in the
dark. to locked doors and half truthful state
ments, to lack of OPEN straightforward records
which could not survive the daylight long.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10
Mosquitoes in Planes Menace Health

TN July, 1881, the United States
L Public Health Service began in
specting aircraft arriving in Miami
from South America for the pres
ence of mosquitoes. 1t was found
that cabin planes may carry mos
quitoes for ten hours or more, and
for a distance of 1850 miles.
Recently, these experiments we're
extended by DR.. F. H. D. Griffitts.
He proved that yellow fever and
dengue mosquitoes may be carried
on airplanes from and to countries
in which there formerly were en-
demic or epidemic centers of these
diseases.
1t should be obvious, therefore,
that every nation now must pro-
tect itself against the possibility of
introduction, by this route. of mos
quitoes capable of transmitting these
serious infectious disorders.
Up to recent times, the United
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10
Good Times, Ltd.

DUT the trouble lies in the fact
- that a rich mans boom hardly
will suffice to relieve the victims of
a poor mans panic. The rise of
stocks and bonds has very little TO
do with any upward turn in the
employment curve.
Shareholders may do extremely
we'll even in periods when millions
are out of work Congress is fond
Of denouncing Wall Street in
speeches from the floor. and vet it
takes far too much for granted on
no other basis than the rise in quo
tations.
Already there is disposition to
agree that the worst is over. If anv
dove has come f1uttering back with
an olive leaf We have a right to
Whatever cheer this bit of greenerv
may bring us. But the great trouble
is that the lessons of the flood are
forgotten so quickly.
Arthur Hopkins once produced a
play called The Deluge," in which
an assorted group of individuals was
~ - Ek|SN 80 a 1AOhSN ny bl1t IlSlllk wa
tiers OF the Mississippi. With death
staring them in the face. each mem
Der Of the community began to have
a closer understanding of his asso-
cates and a deeper sympathy. But
the waters receded. and so did the
little group which had seen a vision
of Utopia.
So it seems to be with the gov
eminent of the United States and
with its inhabitants. When the
banks were on the verge of ruin.
almost any sort of radical legisla-
ton might have been obtained, but
the very institutions which were
picked up out of the gutter have
turned high and mighty overnight
and now are arching their eyebrows
and talking about paternalism and
government interference. After a
short burst of candor, the Morgan
inquiry has gone back into the Sc
cret silenceS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-10
THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES

actuated the swift movement Of his heels.
Wisdom later led him to Boston and to his
phenomenal success in Philadelphia.
AS for his effect upon the progress of the
nation, that lay largely in the dissemination of
entertaining reading matter. He was conser-
vative. His magazines did not tinker with
outlaw ideas
hnal note; He loved music and was able
10 lmproylse by ear with excellent effect upon
pipe organs many of which he contributed to
towns and cities from Philadelphia to Maine.
His philanthropies were enormous.
He was typical American Of vast reach.