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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02

INSTANT WOULD we intimate
THE foundation for
o was laid
IN SALISBURY. Still we
WOULD NOT go so far as
TO SAY that it didn't.
TWO were
TALKING. my boss is
CERTAINLY SCARED of his
WIFE. WHEN she 'phoned him
HIS kness positively
SAID one. Rubbish,
= = =
MY DEAR. You are j..
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.~XAGGERATING," exclaimed
=
THE SECOND. Pm
=
DECLARED the first.
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~ NEARLY SLID off them"
THANK YOU.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
Take a Pinch of
LACK-DRAUGHT
For Distress After Meals

He had suffered distress after
meals, but by taking Thedford's
Black-D raught he was relieved of
this trouble, writes Mr.. Jess Hig-
gins, of Jacksonville, Ga.
II had sour stomach and gas"
Mr.. Higgins explains, land often
I would have bilious spells. I read
about Thedford's Black raught
and began to take it. It relieved
me of this trouble. I keep it all
the time now. I consider it a fine
medicine. 1 take a pinch of Black
Draught after meals when l need
1t. It helps to prevent sick head
ache and to keep the system in
good order"
NoW you a get Black-Draught IN
the form of a SYRUP, for CHILDREN.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
WE WONDER. JUDGING BY
MECKTIEC WE CTTJ WON

WE WONDER. JUDGING BY
NECKTIES, WE STILL WON
DER
To The Editor:
If Men Wore Dresses:
Good morning, sir, may l help
you?
Yes. | want a dress.
All, a dress. Something in tea
gowns, or decollette, perhaps?
No. I just want a dress-a blue
serge dress.
Blue serge? Blue serge isn't very
good this year. How about a pastel
or a green?-or better still, how
about this little model here with
the rufled collar?
Nope. l want a blue serge dress,
size SO.
Aha, size SO. Let me see-yes,
have just the thing, belted and
with b~ouffante sleeves. Would that
please you?
No. What about this blue serge
here?
Oh, that. That is midnight, sir.
Well, I'll take it anyhow.
Yes, sir. And will you try it on?
No, just send it out.
But what about the length of
the skirt, sir? Six, eight or ten
inches from the floor? People are
very particular about length this
season, you know.
Length? Why just make it the
same as last year. And say, take off
those fancy buttons, will you?
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02

Lux
being an excerpt from a tribute
to his dog, which died because it
refused food for five days during
the absence of its master, by the
blind Senator Schall as inserted in
The Congressional Record.)
-. Now, we moved off, in at
tendance on the days business, but
after a few ecstatic gambols LII <
grew quiet and changed. He stiff
fened as a soldier at the word that
may mean death, and l think his
eye must have steadied with that
look | remember to have seen in
man's-the concentrated, vigilant
look that's awake for danger. He
knew that to him had been in
trusted a heavy charge-the life
of his master. And so he was wher-
ever he led me that day, through
moving traffic, on elevators, or on
the subway at the Capitol. Some
times he'd growl as we moved
through crowds, a warning 20 those
who came too near that he, though
dunn, was leading the blind. And
once in traffic he blocked me with
his body, or else l would have step
ped before the wheels of a needless
car. And if l faltered, if the hid
den rush of danger for an instant
appalled, me, his ready nose logged
my hand in comfort, and his hearty
tug on the leash or bugle banished
my instinct to fear.
And thus went the day, with me
safe in his companionship and pro-
lection.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
COMMENT

WE KNOW HOW YOU FEEL,
FRIEND, MAYBE YOU DON'T
CHARGE OFF ENOUGH
To The Editor:
When one reads of the evasion of
income tax payments by the biggest
financial figures it is difficult to re-
strain a feeling of contempt for
laws which permit such wholesale
avoiding by those at the top and at
the same time are clamped down SO
tightly on the little fellow that
he must pay out sums to the gov
eminent that are hard for him to
raise.
Congress is now about to in
crease income taxes. The little
fellow" will be hit harder still, of
course the rates are increased in
the higher brackets too, but ap-
parently those who are in them are
never bothered.
About the only conclusion there
is to draw is that if a man is worth
more than a million dollars he is
automatically exempt from taxa
ton of his income.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
The Influence of weekly mews-
papers on public opinion exceeds
that of all other publications in
tbe country.-Artbnr Brisbane.
FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1888
THE OUTLOOK FOR A

That Europe has been for the
past two years On the verge of an
other war has been one of the
things which has delayed recovery
from the worldwide depression.
Everyone familiar with the subject
has pointed out that before there
can be any real economic adjust
ment nations must cease trying to
rival each other in arguments.
Now it begins to look as if real
disarmament were at hand. The
three men who hold the gre ,test
power in the world have AGED
upon it. They are President Roose-
welt of the United States Of Ameri-
ca, Chancellor Hitler of the Ger
man Republic and Premier Mus
solini of the Kingdom Of Italy.
Each of these men is today, in a
very real sense, the boss of his
country.
Roosevelt spoke first, when he
addressed an identical message to
every one of the 81 nations of the
world urging them all to agree to
abolish offensive" weapons and
limit themselves to defensive arm
ament; further, to agree never to
send an armed force across their
borders for purposes of aggression.
The whole world applauded.
Then Hitler spoke. With Presi-
dent Roosevelt's message before
him he declared that Germany ask
ed no more than to be recognized
as an equal among the nations, and
that she did not dream of war nor
ask for anything more than the
right to defend herself.
Now it was Mussolini's turn.
The leader of Italy called a con-
ference Of representatives of Great
Britain, France Germany and his
own country, and, to the surprise
of the world, they agreed, unequi-
vocally, to back up the disarma-
ment program and, what was more
to the point, to engage in no war
in Europe for at least ten years!
That leaves Japan as the only
nation threatening world peace.
Japan has withdrawn from the
League of Nations. President Roose-
velt's message to the nations sug-
gested the economic boycott of
any nation which should persist in
an aggressive war. What may come
OF that we cannot guess, but we
feel certain that the cloud of i'm
pending war, which threatened the
safety of the whole world, has
been lifted.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02


'LAME-DUCK BANKS IN WASH
iINGTON, D. C.
To The Editor:
In Washington, the city Of froz-
en- assets, there are about thirteen
lame-duck banks, And YET there
was no dishonesty, just incompet-
ence. There are no hidden assets"
that may be dug up to delight the
eyes of the bobtail depos;tors.
Really, it is more satisfactory to
deal with a knave than it is to do
business with a fool. The crook,
if tracked down, can be made to
fork out. But the honest sap has
nothing to fork out.
... r "
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02

Wrecked motorist (opening his
eyes)-"I had the right of way,
didn't II"
Bystander-"Yeh, but the other
fellow had a truck"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
PRICES

INlSEo gong up
1t isn't going to be long before
the prices of everything will be
higher. Good for producers, not so
good for consumers, except that
more people will have jobs and SO
be able to be consumers. when the
producers can get enough for their
products to make it worth while to
produce.
Cutting down the amount of any
thing produced is the popular way.
nowadays to raise prices. The coun-
tries where the cacao TIE grows,
from which we got cocoa and
chocolate, are trying to get togeth-
er on a plan to reduce the output SO
as to get a better price.
wonder what will happen, how
ever, when there is a worldwide
crop failure and people in the cities
can't get food enough. 1t seems 20
me that the governments which
are trying to curtail production
ought to see to it that a years sup
ply of the non-perishable food pro-
ducts is stored away out of the
line of trade, for just such an
emergency. They might look back
into the Bible and see what Joseph
did in Egypt.
TERMITES 80. house eaters
Little insects that can chew your
house up are spreading all over the
United States. Many people call
them white ants" but they are not
ants at all, but near relations of the
cockroach. Many wooden buildings
have been completely destroyed byI
these creatures burrowing into the
wooden beams.
Scientists have discovered that
the termites make tunnels in damp
wood in order to grow mushrooms
for food! Termites live under.
ground, and if cut off from the
ground they soon die out. The
best protection against them is to;
see that no timbers come in contact
with the earth and that all the.
beams of the house are thoroughly!
dry.
Some day all buildings will BE-,
constructed Of steel and concrete
and we won't have to worry about
h~ouse-eating bugs.
MESSENGER gets there
A Detroit messenger by has just
been given a $4,000 a year Job as
general manager of all the trans
portation lines in the city of Lond-
on.
He is Lord Ashfeld, who started
life running errands for a Detroit
trolley line. Somehow American
trained railroad men do pretty we'll
in England. The first subway in
London was built by an American
named Yerkes, and the men who
operate the greatest English railway
systems are largely of Americana
birth.
Europe is ahead of America in
many of the older things of civil
z~ation, but America is so far a.
head of Europe in everything which
is new in the past $50 years that it
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
THE SUSPECT

Excerpt from The Baltimore
Evening Sum-
-. When upstate New York,
the most ardent foe of Babylon,
votes wet by such a tremendous
majority, can even Kansas be relied
on to rally to the Anti-Saloon Lea
que standard North Carolina, the
only other State voting dry in The
Literary Digest poll, is already und-
er suspicion, since it elected the
wringing wet Reynolds to the Sem
ate last fall. Kansas is the only
fortress left, and we begin to cher
ish doubts about the Sunfower
State.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
NOR WE

NOR WE
David Sink in The Lexington Dis
patch.)
Policeman T. T. Going is a dig
nifed, dignifed officer. But be
wasn't always so dignifed, the boys
learned from an old neighbor of his
down in South Carolina, who was
in town recently. That is, ',e wasn't
unless you'd call catching
a neighbours mule, and whitewash-
ing it as dignifed, l wouldn't.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02

is no wonder our technicians and
managers know better how to run
them.
CURRENT and civilization
The Gulf Stream is owe 100
miles closer in shore off the New
England coast than it normally is.
That may make a lot of difference
in the climate of the North At
lantic coast, as we'll of some other
parts Of the world.
l always think of the Gulf
Stream as the steam-heating system
of Western Europe. 1t start in the
boiler-the shallow Gulf of Mexico,
where the water is heated clear to
the bottom by the sun. Then it
flows through the Florida stats
and up the American coast until
meets the cold Greenland current
and it shoots off eastwardly, to,
Europe.
Ireland and England, 500 miles
farther north than New York,
would be uninhabitable if it were
not'for the warming effect of the
Gulf Stream.
In the past there have been great
migrations of people because of
changes in the ocean currents afe-
citing the temperature. 1t would be
curious if a shift in the Gulf
Stream should make palm trees and
oranges grow on the Maine Coast
and icebergs to form in the
Thames. Curious, but not impos-
sible.
REGULATION controversy
There is going to be a lot Of con-
troversy over the proposals of the
Government to regulate ali kinds
of business and industry. | am one
of the old-fashiend Americans who
believe hat the less the Govern
ment has to do with business the
l think that more of our
business trouble is due to too much
Government regulations in the past
than to too little. But l am afraid
am n of a small minority just
now.
There are some things, however,
properly should be regulated.
Those are lines of business which in
the nature are more efficient as
monopolies than in competition.
That would include railroads, tele-
graph and telephone lines, electric
lighting and power system-every-
thing which depends upon a public
franchise. Then such natural pro-
as are i~rreplaceable, like oil
coal and minerals, should not be
left to whoever wants to grab them
off, but placed under Government
restriction or stimulation of pro-:
.uction, as circumstances demand.
But that is about as far 1 would
like to go in Government control
Of anything.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
ANTITHESIS

In company
as cold as seel, :;
And none supposed
That she could feel
The passion of
A lovers kiss;
The ecstacy
Of such as this.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
OF HIM NICE
caption in Twin-City Sentinel
CARRIED PAPERS WHEN A
BOY FOR THE SENTINEL

Spencer Murphy in The Salisbury
Post.)
Correct this sentence: II pledge
my personal fortune that every de-
position will be paid one hundred
cents on the dollar" said the bank
president; THAT goes for me too
volunteered the chairman of the
board.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02

STATISTIC
If all the pretty school teachers
in the State would just spend their
last dimes in beauty p%arlors and
descend upon the School Commits
sion, who knows what would hap
pen?
TIL, ID .Ja:oL T..
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
DIRTY DIG

DIRTY DIG
On an island in the South Seas
wives are said to be selling for 500
apiece. 1t is understood, though,
chat the necessities of life there are
still reasonable.
The Norfolk Ledger-D Dispatch.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
ASSERTION

RASH ASSERTION
The Southport Pilot, comment
ing on beer, says: cit may do harm
and it may not" That shouldn't
offend.
The Greensboro Record.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
PESSIA1IST!

PESSTMIST!
Said a monkey a-swing by his tail
To his little ones, male and female,
From your offspring, my dears,
In a few million years
May evolve a professor at Yale"
The Atlanta Journal
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-06-02
Borrowed Views
NATIVE WIT

Nor does one swallow make
much difference if it happens to be
81.
The GreenviHe NeWs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
Play the Game!

Big business started to play the recovery game according to government rules There was nothing else to do. Business was flat the government was its only hope. Indus try was ready to do anything for salvation, Possibly the business tide turned too quickly. With orders pouring in. factories humming and stocks soaring, cooperation eools off. Some industries hesitate. post pone their recovery codes. stop playing the game. So the government may have to swing big stick. It has the power and will use it if necessary.
 Surely. though. there are enough com bined brains and patriotism in American business to play this game through, doing the sporting thing. which is also the logical and the patriotic thing. Surely every intelligent business man --- and no others have a right to be in business - knows by this time that the most promising boom will fall flat if wages are held down. prices kited and pro- duetion allowed to roar ahead with profiteers sitting on the safety valve. It was this very thing that brought on the depression from which we have just begun to emerge. If we slump back. it will be infinitely worse.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
Higher Farm Prices

One of the most favorable developments in President Roosevelt's recovery program is the increase in the value of farm products, which adds many hundreds of millions of dollars to the eountry's purchasing. It is true that grain crops were small, but farmers held over unusually large amounts which they are selling at the advanced prices. This is true also with regard to cotton. The average of farm prices on July IS was 76 per cent of the average between 1909 and 1914. compared with 57 per cent year ago. A bushel of wheat is now worth twice what it was year ago, even after the recent market collapse. and cotton has doubled in value. Ten bushels of corn now sell for as much as 17 did last year.
 Added to this price increase are the bene- fits which the farmers will receive from payments for restricting wheat and cotton crops. Money is now being paid to cotton farmers for destroying part of their grow ing acreage. The reduction in wheat acreage applies to next year. but producers will be paid the greater part of their money this year for agreeing to restrict planting. A total of more than $200,000.000 will be dis tributed, and this will be added to purehas- ing power this season.
 It is too early to predict the outcome of the efforts to curb production, or of other measures taken by the government to increase farm prices. The cotton farmers accepted the governments proposals willingly, and there is every evidence that the wheat farmers will do likewise. There are many difficulties to be met before success is as- sured among them the problem of export ing products maintained at artificially high prices. Also. the effect of the processing taxes is yet to be revealed.
 A major problem is to maintain farm prices at fair level and at the same time keep them from going SO high that an un- bearable hardship will be imposed on con- jumers. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has warned that runaway markets will not be tolerated. ,H He has ample authority to keep prises from going too high. but the adjustment is delicate one. Meantime, industry will at once benefit from the greater purchasing power, of the farm pop ulation. "'Fliere is: an immediate relation between factory output and farm income, and the impovershment of farmers in recent years had seriously impaired the great home market and destroyed the prosperity of cities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
A Statue To a Leg

Don't let this title mislead you. It has nothing to do with the glorification of Follies ehorine. It is simply one of the odd things that may be seen in visit to the Saratoga Battlefield in New York state. Anybody who has been puzzled by the monument of solid marble on which appears no heros name can now learn that the Saratoga Monument Association has chosen this unique way of honoring one of the heroes of the great battle. but the man whom every American today knows as traitor to his country = Benedict Arnold
 IN This odd monument stands in one cor- ner of the restored battlefield And it might not have been erected had not an officer of the association believed that after all Arnold was deserving of some credit for the part he took in the Battle of Saratoga and for the fact that he lost his leg due to bullet wounds received during this decisive conflict of the Revolutionary War. So this man, Major General John Wattse de Peyster commissioned sculptor to erect monument showing the left leg of the much abused Arnold. His name does not appear on 1t.
 That was away back in 1877 But the monument still stands. an enigma to all who are not familiar with these facts nor with the part Arnold took in the battle. Incidentally the great shaft at Sehuylerville eommemorating the battle has vacant niche on one side where the figure or Arnold should repose. but which has never been filled for the same reason that Americans speak in hushed voices of this great figure who, when tempted, succumbed to lose his birthright. We don't think any other man in the world is remembered by nameless monument, but at Saratoga can be found the traces of feeling that persisted long after Asnold's action and his later sad death.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

The public service commission of Penn sylvania has placed ban on all privately owned toll bridges and roads in that state
 It issued this ultimatum when refusing to approve plan for Sl,20000O bridge over the Schuylkill river in Montgomery county. Said the commission in its refusal. This commonwealth has indicated clearly its adoption of a thoroughly crystallized public policy against privately owned toll highways, whether roads or bridges. .. This policy is clearly established by statutory action and expenditure of public funds to eliminate toll roads and toll bridges. . :" This is about in line with the policy in this state where a private corporation was re- fused similar privileges some years ago. It proposed a toll express route diagonally across the state to form link in mammoth
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
Kissing By. Code

Hollywood has a code for kissing. It applies only in the making of motion pie lures and has nothing to do with the private lives of screen actors and actresses It regu- lates the length and degree of torridity or coolness for such specialties as the "cinging kiss, the platonc kiss. the Latin kiss Con the hand), the parental kiss, the kiss for rela- tfons, the strictly social. the dutiful matri- monial, and SO on.
 kiss is kept down to four seconds for Amer ican pictures which are to be shown abroad, but may run as long as 40 seconds for American viewing. The platonic kiss, i'm planted always on the brow, is allowed only one second. The Latin kiss has two forms, one on the back of the hand and one in the palm, the former getting only two seconds while the latter gets three. Very wealthy aunts and unces rate longer kisses than other relatives. It all sounds rather sloppy, but the funny thing about it is that the code is supposed to be nicely adapted to public taste in these matters. One wonders.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07
DEADwooD DAYS
tNew York Herald-Tribune)

's- (NeW YOrk HeralQ-IrlDun0Js e
 The mad, bad days of Deadwood, South Dakota, have come into be- ing again, recalling the glamorous verisimilitude, the rugged and spa 'cious times of the gold rush to the
 Black Hills, when "red-eye" was g.
 universal solvent and Bill Hickok, former marshal of Abilene, was the toughest customer the old lawless
 west ever knew. Deadwood is celebrating a Days of '76 pageant in honor of its lusty and roaring youth. Wheels click, the bars are
 handsomely open (and we'll wager, not altogether devoted to. raspberry ipop), the entire masculine popu-, lace has grown 8 magnificence of
 whiskers and, in general, reminis- cent merriment Is unconfined.
 ; Towns the size of Deadwood and of Central City, the ghost town of Colorado that Delos. Chappell has
 brought back to two weeks of an- nual life in the name of the Central City Opera House productions, the great. cities of the land, that pages of time this way. The en- tire community can get into the spirit of such colorful revivals as these, where an attempt to relive the days of sIittle old New York; would of necessity be confined to c very small part of it's citizens. Ever in Boston the recent celebration oS the city's tercentenary with pag. eants and costumes and open house was confined to the, reaches of Bea~ con Hill, but when Deadwood oS Coon Hollow or Lynnfield Center has an old home week and jollifi. cation 1t can go 1t whole hog. ;.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-07

fell below i.0o0.o00 a year. The divorce rate fell, too, which should reassufe some people. 5 a,4l.
 The editorial was in Chicago newspaper and death with the fact that marriages in Cook County made moderate gains in April and May over last year. and jumped in June to AZ more than for Jnne l932. This seems to indicate better employment oppor- tunities and brighter prospects generally. It might be added that more marriages now will soon mean more call for homes and home furnishings The marrying young folk are doing their part to push along far ther the very recovery which gives them courage to wed.