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The Washington times., 1933-10-14
Traffic Deaths
Seven In Two Weeks

Traffic Director William Van Duzer alarmed and very
properly the number of traffic fatalities that have
CURED in Washington first weeks of October
In recent statement Mr. Van Duzer directs attention to the
fact that persons killed in that short period se
ousy marng what had started out be rather good traffic
record for the year.
Four of those killed pedestrians and according to Mr.
Van Duzers statement they killed while attempting to
cross streets in the middle Of the block.
This alarming increase in fatalities raises question which
has not yet been considered extent and that whether
not District drivers coming to depend too much the
traffic lights at intersections ....
The direction and control of traffic left almost
trey to these signals Except Of emergency the police
do little to control moving traffic. .......,......
Consequently drivers have to place almost all of their
dependence upon the intersection lights.
There persistent speeding up of automobiles between
blocks order that the driver may make the next light and
long the light green the driver thinks that he has per-
feet right to pow straight ahead.
This is dangerous psychology for the driver to develop
OF course pedestrians should streets the middle
of the block but the other hand drivers should operate
their machines reessy with undue speed between inter-
sections.
The way traffic controlled parts of the city
1t would to the pedestrian safer attempt crossing
the middle of the block than at an intersection.
At the intersection his rights to crossing fagranty stolen
from him by motorists making turns
Frequently the pedestrian left stranded the middle of the
street between two lanes of onruhng traffic. despite the
that he had started the crossing on the direction of
policeman the green light.
Possibly Traffic Director Van Duzer could accomplish his de-
sired aim he to find mpressing upon
drivers that there other things be considered besides
traffic lights.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
Railroads Finance

Ever since the first President
Roosevelt found it necessary, in
order to get the Panama Canal
built, to take it out of the
hands of railway engineers and
put it in the complete control
Of Army engineers with General
Goethals at its head, the Corps
of Engineers has been the obiec.
tive of sapping expeditions for
which the railroads and other
special interests are responsible.
OF late, these railroad propa-
gandists have concentrated their
propaganda upon flood control
in the Mississippi Valley. BY
every trick of debate and dis
cuSsion these propagandists
have attempted to saddle on
the United States the blame
for wet weather and floods.
They have attempted to compel
the United States to spend vast
sums to improve the railroads
which were built on the ground
of the Mississippi Valley some
20 feet below the flood plane.
These exorbitant claims have
been carried to the courts with
railroad money. The railroads
have hired their own engineers
and per diem consultantS to dis
pute the facts presented by the
Army engineers, whose sole pur.
pose is to protect the public
treasury.
When the railroads get a de-
cision from the lower courts in
their favor, they then exert
pressure at Washington to pre-
vent the Federal Government
from appealing the case to
higher courts.
Every Administration is under
pressure from these lobbyists
and their allies. Every Admin
istration requires as Chief Of
Engineers the best qualified Off
GER that the Corps of Engineers
can supply to lead the fight in
defense of the national welfare
against the sapping expeditions
of special privilege.
The new Chief of Engineers
whom President Roosevelt will
soon announce will have to be
both a brave soldier and an
eminent engineer to discharge
with distinction the militant re-
sponsibilities that lie ahead Of
him as the defender of the ma
tional welfare against the forces
of special privilege.
Copyright. 1888. The Washington TimeSO
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
ONCE OVERS

Restraint has no rightful
place when you are out for
amusement.
Of course you won't over
step sensible bounds, for that,
too, would be an excess and
just as bad as being held down
all the time.
It is the easy getting-out-
from-under and the desire to
excel, whether it be work or
sports, that gives the recrea-
ton that everyone should take.
To be sure you must give
some attention to your sport to
make it interesting and worth
while, but not as if your life de-
pended upon it, certainly.
When every play and every
action is fraught with the de-
sire for perfection, joy and
recreation are nil.
Copyright, 1883, King Features
Syndicate. lnc.)
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
Lobbyists Fighting Army
Flood Control Plans
By James T. Williams, Jr.-

President Roosevelt will soon
announce a new Chief of Engi-
neers to succeed Maj. Gen.
Lytle Brown, whose four-year
tour of duty in that office has
expired.
When Mr.. Roosevelt entered
the White House, he promptly
put on notice his Secretary of
War and his Secretary of the
Navy that they were to protect
the Army and Navy from the
raids of pork-barrel politicians
and patronage-chasers.
1t was his firm resolve, the
President declared, to fill mill
tary and naval vacancies in the
armed services with officers
whose service records demon
strated their preeminent fit
ness. The heads of these two
departments were instructed to
make their recommendations to
the White House, after consul
tation with their military and
naval advisers, and to pay no
attention whatever to political
busy-bodies who attempted to
trespass upon the official prem
ises assigned by the Constitu-
ton to the President and Com
mander-in-C Chief.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
LISTEN, WORLD!
BY Elsie Robinson

FEAR OR FALTERI G.
REACHING OUT UNTIL IT
GETS THAT THING.
Memory and Faith are both
invisible reachings. There are
certain definite steps toward re-
membering. You don't realize
you use them; but wise men,
who. study the mind, have map
ped them out. When you want
to remember something, this is
what you do.
Some need in you urges you
to remember something.
Instantly your mind turns
back toward remembering that
one certain thing. It begins
searching-begins rejecting all
other memories-goes on dog
gedly looking, looking, certain
that the thing it wants is
there. Suddenly-perhaps in a
split second, perhaps after long
hours-your mind presents you
with the picture or the fact
you want.
That's how memory works.
And faith works in much the
same way. Faith isn't an aim
less, emotional hocus pocus. It,
too, has definite steps which
you must observe.
FIRST-You must decide
what you want to get, just as
you decided what you wanted
to remember.
SECOND You must feel
that it's practical and possible
to get that thing; that it is
within the range of your per-
sonal handling. There's no
sense in making a lot of cock
eyed demands, and then beef
ing because you can't get
them. There, are certain things
which belong in your life
certain things you can handle,
and other certain things which
you can't. Decide that the
thing you want is possible for
you and right for you.
THIRD-Having decided this,
put all other desires and doubts
out of your head. Go after that
thing you want. as your mind
went after that memory. Go
after it doggedly, unfalteringly.
Use all ipgenuity-every prac-
tical help within your power.
But don't depend on those out
ward gestures to do the trick.
The real power lies in your own
mental aim. Keep that aim
unfaltering. Don't let your
self be diverted. Don't waste
your energy in thinking over
past failures. Cleave through
your confusions as your mind
Glove through the chaos Of
memories.
THE THING YOU NEED
THE THING YOU HAVE A
RIGHT TO-IS WAITING FOR
YOU. GO GET IT!
And you CAN get it!
With what?
WITH THE WEAPON LIFE
MADE FOR THAT PURPOSE.
WITH FAITH!
Copyright, 1888. King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

Bankrupt though you may be,
you have the strongest weapon
on earth at your command.
You have-FAITH.
You laugh at that, don't
you? A bitter, angry laugh.
Faith? That's the bunk!"
you cry. "A lot of religious
hooey. Faith is all right if
you haven't anything really the
matter with you. But what
good is faith in a mess like
this? Faith won't feed me,
will it? Or get me a new job?
Or cure my sick baby? Faith!
Maybe you get a kick out Of
preaching stuff like that, but
it's cruel to talk such fairy
tales when people are up
against it,"
Yes, I know. I've been up
against it, too, and I said just
what you are saying now. But
I was Wrong-and so are you.
Faith isn't a fairy tale. Faith
isn't religious hooey." It has
nothing to do with religion-or
even with righteousness. Bad
people can and do use Faith
quite as successfully as good
people. For Faith is simply a
normal function of our minds
which can be made to work as
practically, and as powerfully,
as any other function of our
bodies.
Our minds have many func-
tionS. For instance, there's
Memory. Every hour of your
life you use Memory. You reach
back into the past. You don't
know how you do it, but you
do it, nevertheless. And you
re so used to doing it that you
wouldn't know how to live with
out remembering.
Just as you reach back into
the past and find what you
want, so you can each out into
the present and future and find
what you want. You can do it
by FAITH.
FAITH IS THE MIND
REACHING OUT TOWARD
THE THING 1T WANTS
REACHING OUT WITHOUT
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
Crippen Caught

Three days later, when they
returned to question Crippen,
the bland doctor had gone and
with him had disappeared Ethel
Leneve, a young woman who
had been his secretary. Further
investigation revealed the re-
mains of the doctors wife.
buried in the cellar of the house
in London where they had 'ived.
Circulars describing the miss
ing doctor and his companion
were sent to the four corners
of the earth.
Meanwhile, DR.. Crippen was
falsely reported in almost every
capital of the world. Arrests
were made of entirely innocent
persons in many parts OF Eu'
rope. In America, DR.. Crippen
was said to have been seen IN
Chicago, New York, and Phlla-
delphia.
It remained for the captain
of a Canadian ship in MID
ocean to find the fugitives'
Captain Kendall. of the Canadl'
an Pacific Steamship Montrose'
had cast a sharp eye on two
of his passengers, listed as
John Robinson and son.
The skipper had them watched
and soon concluded that the
pair were none other than the
missing DR.. Crippen and MS
companion, Ethel Leneve, the
girl disguised as a boy. Captain
Kendall notified his home OF.
flee, and when the ship reached
Montreal the chief inspector OF
Scotland Yard, who had come
over on a faster ship, was walt
ing at the dock.
It was then about mid autumn
They hanged DR.. Crippen in the
week between Christmas ana
New Years. Once more ScoF
land Yard had got its man.
(CopyrigNt 1893. King Features
Syndicate. lnc')
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
Merit Appointments

Thus far in his Administra-
ton Mr.. Roosevelt has adhered
to this rule. His nominations
to date to fill vacancies in the
administrative officers of the
Army and Navy have highly
commended themselves to the
armed services because they
were based upon merit, as DEM
onstrated by the record, and in
utter disregard of political or
other considerations.
For these reasons 1t is gen.
orally expected that the new
Chief Engineers will be &C
claimed by the Corps Of En-
gineers and by the Army gen.
orally, as prominently quail
fled for this important post.
And the Importance of this
post was never greater than
now when special interests are
striving to deprive public works
having to do with the improve
II1GI1GS VI 11VC4O OAAN 4Ac~A OSA0
and with flood control of that
protection and expert super
vision which only the Corps of
Engineers of the Army can
provide.
Among the special interests
which have long offered the
most sinister opposition to this
protection are the railroads.
Their lobbyists labor year in
and year out against the inn
provement of rivers and har-
bors and the development Of
water transportation.
Aiding and abetting these
lobbyists are a horde of pork
barrel politicians who make a
business of sacrificing the ma
tional welfare to serve local
and individual greed.
The subtle activities of these
lobbyists and their allies has
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
Of Old School

Neil is a detective of the old
school. He has little use for
modern methods of crime detec-
ton. America, France ana Ger
many, he says, make specialists
of their men. They stick chem
istry, surgery, toXocology and
pathology into them. But they
don't teach them what the Brit
ish school doeS-a knowledge OF
human nature.
The real detective, Neil says.
knows that all the expert knowl-
edge is his for the asking. But
his job is to get to the criminal.
And nothing will help him more
in that job than thorough
knowledge of his fellow beings.
There is something in what
Superintendent Neil has to say
about the old-faShioned methods
he favors. They certainly bring
results. The two major factors
responsible for keeping down
crime in England are the good
work of Scotland Yard and the
swift work of the courts.
Superintendent Neil makes
no reference to the Crippen
murder case. DR.. Hawley H.
Crippen was an American doc
tor, who had received his de-
gree in Cleveland, and had
practiced in New York, De-
troit and San Diego, Cal. He
went to London as the repre-
sentative of a famous firm OF
patent medicines. His wife dis
appeared suddenly and DR..
Crippen gave out that she had
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

The worlds greatest man.
hunter is giving up the hunt.
Forty years of his life has he
given to it. For 40 years he
combed the underworld of Lon
don. He brought to justice
hundreds of the worlds most
notorious criminals.
The curses they called down
upon him passed over his head.
The thought of their fate never
disturbed his sleep at night.
For they were the enemies OF
society. He was hound OF
the law. He sets forth the
record of his career in a book
just published by Doubleday
Doran. The title is Man
Hunters of Scotland Yard"
The author is Arthur Fowler
Neil. for two-score years one
of the chief detectives of the
great police center of London.
The book bristles with thrills.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
Law Aside Dignity Now and Then

Lay Aside Dignity Now and Then
It might be we'll for you to
try to forget, once in a while,
the dignity of the reputation
you hold"
Get out into the open and
free yourself, in spirit and in
action.
If you want to indulge in
small talk with others, what's
the harm?
Don't suppress your enthus-
iasm when something along
your line of sports is we'll done.
If you want to laugh loud and
long, give free expression to the
impulse.
What is recreation for, if noS
to rest and relax, or to shooG
and sing-to swing yourself in
a way you dare not do within
the confines of your regular oc-
cupation?
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

been skillfully augmented by in.
sidious propaganda to prejudice
the public against the splendid
work of the Army engineer.
Well advertised consulting
engineers outside the Army are
employed from time to time by
railroads at large salaries to
support this attack. And there
is an association of railway
engineers which has established
a committee on rivers and har-
bors to bore from the inside
against established waterways
policies as formulated and car
ried out by the Corps of Engi.
neerS.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

a jam lik e
t h a t bat
t lin g on
h opel essly,
no t h i n g to
battle with.
H o m e
money, 10 b
a ii g ne
Health fail
ing. Utterly
d i Scouraged.
HoW'S a man
to fight with
out weapons?
B u t ou
h a v e a
W e a d O n !
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
The Human Side of the News
.By Edwin C.. Hill.
land Yard Chief Writes His Memoirs

died in a small town in Con.
tinental Europe. The suspicious
of Scotland were aroused by
a letter from America, written
by a friend of the former act
ress-Mme. Ginnette.
Crippen was questioned and
admitted that his statement
was a lie. He told Scotland
Yard that he and his wife
had quarreled and that she
had left him and sailed for
America.
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
Marriage, Spinach and Sensible
Girls
Mae West may have brought
petticoats back into favor
but those dear, dead days of

the perfumed mauve decade,
when men were gents" and
girls were credulous, will never
again return!
About the only thing a mod
ern girl seems to learn by get
ting married is what sort of
man she DOESN'T want to
marry, next time"
Men seldom fall in love,
and are never really "lured"
into it. Most of them are
merely showed into it by
chance, fate, accident or "the
girl before the last"
Many a marriage has been
preserved because when the hus-
bands kisses began to cool,
the wife simply closed her eyes
and decided that he was grow
ing too old for romance.
It may once have been
cheaper to move than pay.
rent" but not in these days,
when a woman insists on
The Washington times., 1933-10-14
MARRY-GO-ROUND
BY Helen Rowland

changing the color scheme, and
refurnishing in a different
period" every time she
changes her address.
Never try to crowd your
self into a mans heart, when
it already shows signs of a
traffic jam. There's always
room for one more, of course
but. why get smashed in the
crush?
A husband and wife who
have never had a word Of
difference" either love each
other blindly or are too indif-
ferent to each other to have
the energy to scrap.
In every love affair there is
a psychological moment when
it hangs in the balance, and not
even a psychiatrist can tell you
whether it will turn into an en-
gagement or into an "entangle-
ment," or just go to smash.
A mans chief objection to
marriage, spinach and sensible
women is that everybody keeps
nu% ooGr IN M
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The Washington times., 1933-10-14
Faith Isn't A Fairy Tale

Tough times, these! So many
of us fighting with our backs
to the wall. Perhaps you're in
The Washington times., 1933-10-14

A mans chief objection to
spinach and sensible
women is that everybody keeps
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-03-17
BARTER O ARTISTS

The artists of Paris are having
quite a success in their bartering.
So much so, that a second barter
salon has been organized. The first
resulted in many of the artists OBJ
tanning meal tickets to give them
food for a stated length of time,
and some, in exchange for their
works, received a card entit!ins
them to a bottle of wine every day
for a year. The only unfortunate
thing about the system is the
of the artists traditional
poor business sense. Some of them
trade their paintings for most alb
surd objects, thinking they. have
struck a bargain. Perhaps it would
be better if they got a business
man to- handle the bartering. But
then they wouldn't be Partisan az
lists.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-03-17

closed by the report of the Presl-
dents Research Committee on So
cial Trends show that there has
been a very definite movement OF
population from the town and
cities back to the farm since the
present depression began.
Investigators report that the
farm population of the United
States is today as great as it ever
was. 1t had reached its peak in
1910 and then began to decline.
but has been increasing steadily in
the past three years. More than
ten thousand men who have gone
back to the farm from the cities
and large towns in the past two
years were asked why they made
the move. Sixteen per cent of
them said they could save more
money on the farm, IA per cent
felt that city work was too uncer
tain and too hard, 10 per cent
liked the independence of farm
life, 20 per cent disliked the
city, 20 per cent said the city was
not a fit place in which to rear
children and that they returned to
the farm for the sake of health and
better all round living conditions.
Naturally, most of the fami-
lies who leave the cities for the
farm are those who were brought
up in the country. City us
without any rural background are
to have a pretty hard time
of it III making a living at farming.
But nearly IS per cent of til e
who have migrated to the land
lately were city people without
any previous farm experience, and
many of these are reported to be
very well.
We have always believed that
the only real stability for the av-
erage citizen is in having his own
under his feet, that the only
who are reasonably sure of
Living, regardless of general ecoro
mic conditions, are those who get
their own living from the soil.
But when good times come again,
watch the youngsters rush from
the farm to the factories!
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-03-17
GENTLEMEN
TAKE THE CASE

Some years ago a judge was pre-
siding over a civil term of court in
a western state. His Honor was
convinced from the evidence in
one case that both the plaintiff and
defendant had misrepresented the
evidence, instructed the jury as
follows:
Gentlemen of the Jury, you
have heard the evidence in this
case. If you believe what the
plaintiff and his witnesses testified
to you will return a verdict in fav-
or of the plaintiff. If, on the other
hand, you believe what the defend
ant and his witnesses said you will
find in favor of the defendant.
However, if you share the opinion
of the Court that neither the
plaintiff nor the defendant, nor
their respective witnesses, are to
be believed, God knows how you
will reach your verdict. Gentle
men, take the case"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-03-17
Salisbury Battery
Co. Gets Large
Number of Tires

The Salisbury Battery and Igni.
ton company, 122 West Fisher
street, local dealer for Pharis tire.
and tubes, has just received a large
shipment of the popular low pricec
Pharis Tires.
Pharis Tires are manufactured
by the Pharis Tire and Rubbe,
Company, of Newark, Ohio, anc
r leaders in the low price tire
field. In addition to the low price
an attractive offer of two tires for
the price of one is meeting with
approval throughout the country.
The Pharis tire company at the
present time has a capacity Of g.
500 tires and tubes per day.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-03-17

MONEY - a definition
l think we are going to come
out of our economic troubles with
a much more general understand
ing of the unimportance of money,
than most of us had before.
Millions of people have learned
how to get along with substitutes
for money. A lot of them have
learned hat money is not wealth,
but is merely a symbol Of wealth.
Real wealth is commodities that
can be used, and nothing else.
The best definition of money !
have ever seen was written by a
German economist, Paul Helt-
ferich. He said:
Money is a medium for stor-
ing commodity values and convey
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-03-17
RETIRED

Down in Maine a man owns an
old foxhound. He is fond of the
dog. They had hunted many
times together. But lately the
dogs joints have been getting
creaky. Nevertheless the master
decided to have one last hunt. So
he loaded the dog on a sled and
pulled him miles out into the woods
by hand. He did this so that the
dog would be fresh when the hunt
ing started. When they arrived in
the woods, the dog merely yawned
and did not hunt. So the master
hauled him home again. A case
of an animal going into retirement
and successfully staying there.
Some humans are like this.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1933-03-17
Now
At Hedrick
Auto Co,

The Hedrick Auto Company,
located at 120 West Innes :,r,et,
announces that Mr.. Charlie Nor
gan has been placed in charge of
promotional work in the sales and
service departments.
Mr.. Morgan is a mechanic of
some % years experience, having
devoted practically all his time
while in the auto business to Ford
engineering problems. Before NOV
ing to Kannapolis two years ago
Mr.. Morgan was employed in the
service department of the Rouzer
Motor Company, serving in that
capacity for II years. While in
Kannapolis, Mr.. Morgan was head
of the repair department of the
Towel City Motor Company.
In addition being an expert me-
chanic, Mr.. Morgan is we'll known
as a race driver, having established
record runs between Salisbury and
Washington and Salisbury and At
lanta, Ga. In both of these runs he
bettered the time of the Crescent
Limited, the Southern Railways
fastest train.
Mr.. Morgan plans to move his
family to Salisbury as soon as
school is out.