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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
HIT DEPRESSION ON THE
CHIN

One reason why revival of the
construction industry is regarded
as being so vitality important te
recovery by most authorities is that
the bulk of the employment i,
would provide is where it is most
needed-among skilled and I'M
skilled laborers.
In 1880, 100000 persons were
employed by the building industry.
About 100000 more were en-
in construction work in
other industries, bringing the to-
tai to 3,6OO,O0O. Managerial, pro-
f%essional and office workers con-
stituted less than II per cent of
these. The ratio was 7 or 5 wage
earners to l "white-collar" en-
Again, it is reliably estimated
that for every worker actually en-
on a building job, another
worker is employed behind the line
in industries supplying necessary!
supplies. The upshot is that, in not
NAL times, more than ten per cent
of all the workers of the country
are directly or indirectly depend
emit for their livelihood upon the
building industry. The terrific drop
in construction work that came
with the depression was as a re-
suit, very possibly the largest sim
gle factor in causing unempioy-
ment.
Today American industry is ex-
panding as rapidly as it car. And
the individual should follow that
lead, by building and repairing his
own property now, while prices are
still down. A national movement
among home-owners to renovate
their property would be a blow de-
rectly to the chin of depression.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01

more definite and durable value
than the impressions and knowledge
such as this, takes away with him.
That sort of thing is wealth that
nobody :an take away from its
possessor: and in ali of the f:c:ntic
pursuit Of happiness too many peo-
pie think they can gain it only by
making money" and too few rea-
lie chat happiness comes from an
inner content OF knowledge. men,
cries. hopes and beliefs which have
nothing at all to do with money.
In a very real sense, it seems to
us, such international expositions
as this one at Chicago are genuine
purveyors of happiness. Enter
tainment alone is not happiness;
but there is plenty of that promis-
ised for this season of 1884.
We have an idea that a very
much larger numbe- of people this
year than last are going to find
themselves in a position to motor
to Chicago, or fly there, Or go by
rail or bus or boat-what a lot of
ways there are to go places nova
days!-and that there will Be a
great desire on the part of those
who missed out on the exposition
last year to go now and see for
themselves the wonders and the
beauties which their friends who
went last year have been telling
them about.
We can't think of any bettre
way to spend ones vacation thar
to take in the Century of Progress
this Summer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
KNOCKS

How would this strike you as an
Investment opportunity?
You are given a chance to turn
a certain part of your monthly or
annual earnings over to a group
of financial experts. A contract
is drawn whereby you ''buy' a
definite sum on the easy-payment
plan. They will take your pay
ments and invest them n govern
ment bonds, in the best of indus
trial securities, in first mortgages
On good rural and urban property
Their total investment, made uE
by hundreds of thousands of small
payments such as yours, embrace
the whole sweep of sound Ameri.
can business and productive enter
prise. Stringent laws, passed fo1
your protection, regulate the typ'
of investments that can be made.
In order to assure you the ultl.
mate in safety, the concern you
turn your money over to has 81
gantic cash reserves, built up owe
many years, to stand behind YOU
comparatively small investment.
This isn't all by any means. l
you die, even though that shoule
happen after you have made Blu
one payment, the full amount yo'
have contracted for will be paid t.
your heirs. After a few years, yo1
may borrow against your invest
ment if need be-or you may dro.
further payments and receive a cas-
settlement, in case of dire neces
slty.
That sounds too Utopian to b
true. But it is true-and the In
stitution offering you that is lif
insurance, which has survived thes
recent years of black depressio
with colors flying.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01

MENTIONING I Any 4 ! names
TODAY, AND you can
BET ON that. look here, Mrs
HEPBURN, WHY have you beer
HITTING MY little Bobbie?" =
A certain
WOMAN righ'
HERE LAST week. "Mrs.
BAKER | only hit him because hi
WAS RUDE and called me a fat
OLD Pig, was the reply.
GRACIOUS, Mrs.
HEpBURN", her
NEIGHBOR, "YOU ought to
BETTER than that.
THRASHING M son won't do
N good-you'll have
&c :s ::
TO START dieting.'
"A YOU.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
T TO CREDITORS
By albert 7: Reid

Having qualified as executors of
the estate of Fannie F. Durham,
this is to notify all persons having
claims against the said decedent to
file an itemized, verified statement
of same with the undersigned on
or before the lst day of May,
1885, or this notice will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery. Per-
sons indebted to said estate are no.
titled to make prompt settlement.
COMMON,
COMMON and FEB TREK
LER, Executors of the estate of
Fannie F. Durham.
and Rendleman, Attys.
May 4-June 8.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01

If you have never been to New
York, you may think, as l did, that
a stretch of Broadway is just one
theater after another. The fact
is, however, that the great MAORI
ty of theatres for the drama and
musicals are located east and west
of Broadway on the streets from
And Street all the way up to the
Guild Theater in Sind Street.
Summer bus top two
elderly ladies from out of town
identifying dozens of license plates
from other states What was
that blue one? =. pardon me, la
dies, but that's from Connecticut
80. And why the c~heesecloth on the
front of hat car? 49, was stump
ed on that n till l inquired: it's
stuck on with drybacked water
proof adhesive tape to keep bees
and bugs and moths out of the
adiator combs.
One of the hottest days of the
year ushered in legal drinking at
bars recently And there were
a lot of old-time bartenders grum-
bling about the women who insisted
with the men, too and then
with the men, too and hten
complaining because the language
at the bar wasn't exactly what they
wished to hear.
New York roof tops begin to
approach the limits of nudist camps
warm weather sets in. And
many a spy glass is put to unac-
customed use. Or perhaps l should
say-usual use.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01

The banking situation has been
put on a firm footing. In spite of
many failures, breakdowss and
changes in experiments, the feeling
is quite general that basic perma-
nent improvement will come out of
the MIRA and the AAA. Even
hose most directly affected by the
plans for regulating the trading in
ecurities admit that the former
conditions were extremely bad and
needed reforming. Not everybody
agrees hat the methods of regula-
ton selected are the best and most
workable, but they will at least
cure the worst of the old evils,
even though they may bring new
ills in their train to some.
Washington still believes that if
the widespread program of relief
had not been put into effect:
through the PWA, CWA, CCC:
FERA and other agencies, there
would have been a real revolution
in America. Different folks have
different ideas about that, but sc
long as the Administration believed
it, it probably did the best thing to
avert it.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
PURVEYOR OF HAPPINESS

The second edition. Of the Cen
fury of Progress Exposition, which
opened on Saturday, May %, is
said by those who have seen it tic
be better, bigger, easier to see and
more interesting and varied. than
the great show on Chicago's lake
front last year.
The management is said to be-
lieve that there will be even {
larger attendance that the record
breaking figure of 22,ooo,0oo who
went through the gates in 1888
We hope that will prove to be true
for we know of nothing that is Of
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
THE CAROLINA wATCHMAN

Kitchin's campaign manager, has
the refusal of the Supreme Court
Associate Justiceship vacated by
Justice H. G.. Connor in, accepting
President Taft's appointment as
Eastern District Judge.
-25 Years Ago, Raleigh News &
Observer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
AN OLD MYTH PROVED TRUE

ago there was a decided tendency
in this skeptical world to scott al
all the beliefs and traditions tina,
have been handed from generation
to generation from away back II
the dim mists of antiquity. Fol
countless thousands of years al
mankind implicitly believed that
there existed in the worlds youth
and presumably still existed in it
unexplored regions, strange mons
tiers of various forms. Then mod
ern science arose and it became the
fashion to ridicule these folk
myths, so that several generation:
have been brought up to distrust
everything that their ancestors be-
lieved.
But science is, after all, merely
the endless search for truth; and
the deeper science delves the more
it discovers in proof of these anci-
ent beliefs. Probably the most
widely-spread belief is in the ex-
istence of the strange monsters
which folklore Classics under the
broad name of dragons" The
dragon has been for countless CEN
turies the emblem of Imperial
China. The legend of St. George
Staying the dragon which issued
from his cave and devoured the
young women of the community
is older than the written word.
Some years ago scientists discover
ed the remains of fossil reptiles,
any n of which might have pass
ed for the dragon of ancient myth;
but it was thought that all of these
animals had persisted long before
Man made his appearance on earth.
Lately, however, real dragons"
were discovered on a remote island
in the Indian Ocean. They are
not as big as the dragons of myth
ology, but they are clearly surviv-
ors of one of the oldest forms of
life, and their survival clearly in
dicates that larger and earlier types
may we'll have been contemporary
with primitive man. These giant
lizards from the Island of Komodo,
Of which living specimens have
been brought to the New York
Geological Gardens, conform In
every respect except that of size tc
the monster which St. George slew
They are only eight or nine feet
long, but they live in ave from
which they sally forth with great
ferocity and kill human beings, il
any happen to get in their way, Oh
deer or other large animals, dra&
the bodies to their caves and devoul
them at their leisure. They ar
incredibly powerful and fierce
and it is easy to imagine the panic
into which the appearance of
dragon in the neighborhood mus
have thrown the settlements o
primitive man. No wonder tn
dragon myth" has persisted in tn
songs and stories of the human
rae
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01

It's a fine thing to be stirred by
he beauty of the blossom time, but
don't be so much stirred that you
must sit down and write a poem
which the editor will have to re-
gretfully turn down, when you
might be planting some good flow
,ers and vegetables in your garden.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
AND THE CAT CAME BACK

Mr.. and Mrs. S.. w. Whitener
and Mrs. Donahue and children
visited the airport Sunday to see
Mr.. Cat come sailing down from
the plane by parachute but alas! he
wrecked the chute and came down
like a plummet and we hear that he
still retains his nine lives.
Salem correspondence, Morgan
ton NeWs-Herald.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
COOKING (CHEF'S
HONEY

Better than any tale of a cat
and a dog living together in
amicable relationship is the story
told ay a sign put up by a near
Raleigh filling station proprietor
attempting to attract hungry mo-
florists. The display announces
Home Cooking-New York
Chef"
Tom Walker, Tar Heel.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01

There is no disputing the tend
ency toward a more even distribu-
ton of wealth. If this Admins
tration can have its way for an
other six years, there will be no
more enormous fortunes left undis-
tributed. 1t will take a genera
ton or two for new Accommodations
of capital to concentrate in a few
hands.
The President is not willing to
go nearly as far in the line of con-
;fiscation of wealth as some of his
advisers. He is a 'middle of the
broader" with natural tendencie:
toward conservation and if he seems
to veer to the left at times, it is
because by yielding a yard he car
keep himself from being pushed g
mile in the direction of radica.
Socialism.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01

1t may take great persuasion to
junior to eat his vegetables
he ought to, but if you give him
10 cents he will no doubt give an
Exhibition of eating an angleworm.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
Wfh HUGH KENNY

l read all the signs in subway.
when l take an unfrequented route
No transportation system has ever
succeeded in SO thoroughly mixing
my sense of directions There
men in a row on the subway at 9
a. m. They're freshly shaved and
obviously going to work. Yet all
three of them nod stupidity in their
sleep! Must have come from the
end of the line an hour way in
Brooklyn Central Park was
crowded with happy kids at play
on Saturday. Too bad it's SO far
from many of the tenements.
That fountain in Rockefeller
Center plaza-I don't like it. Why
they did it in shiny gold is beyond
me. But the green of the garden
is a relief in that section of nothing
but gaunt granite and concrete -.
Helen Hayes in Mary of Scotland
=. superb acting, but makes my
history seem weaker than ever =.
First warm weather filled the high
ways to the beaches Sunday, and
some optimists went swimming in
the Atlantic. June third was my
earliest last year and even then |
came out numb A woman
caught between lines of traffic in
the middle of Broadway. She's SO
frightened that she shakes her arms
and stomps her feet like an angry
little girl. I've felt that way, too.
!. The ex-Vice Consul wore a
cutaway Sunday. I wonder if he
rode the subway up to 6Sth Street,
It's much faster than a cab. But
you do-oh dear yes-so lose caste!
A New York attorney, Lloyd N.
Scott, recently proposed an Inter
national Grand Jury composed of
average citizens of every civilized
nation. In his address at Hunter
College in New York, Mr. Scott
explained that such a body would
express the majority will of citizens
everywhere and would be empow-
cred to subpoena officials of ag-
gressor nations endangering worlc
peace, and to make indictments te
the World Court which would rem
der judgments and designate the
nations to enforce these -. All one
needs to be certain about the ma
jority will is to look over a car full
of New York subway riders. They
may be brilliant or stupid, but pu'
them into an organized body ane
ask them what they want. With
out propaganda to run emotion tt
high pitch, you know the answe
will be, peace!
5 That part of New York human
ty that calls itself Broadway leave
| town about this time of year to TT,
out it's new scrips in rustic sum
mer retreats. Of 145 plays triee
out in Westport, Pasadena, South
4 ampton. Provincetown and else
t where, some 81 eventually arrived
/ on Broadway. And of these 3
which appeared this season, onl
five were apparently successful
i each running for more than TO-
= performances in "the forties" nea
/. Broadway.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
YEH; GALS is A ROVIN'

Some of the Antioch folks are
still visiting. This is a very fine
time to visit, anyway, since there
isn't so much field work to be done
along now, especially for girls.
Girls do most of the visiting, any
way.
'-Antiocb correspondence, Monroe
Journal.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
AS GETS CURB SERVICE
WANTS MORE OF THE SAME

WANTS MORE OF. THE SAME
S. C. Bennett, of the Dry Ponds
community gives us a remedy for
bean beetles which he says is sure
to kill them. 1t is this: Go to
the proper authorities and get a
sack of "relief" flour. Take it to
the bean patch and sprinkle some
ON each end of every row. The
crafty beetles will go to the flour
eat it and then sit down and
starve to death waiting for you
to bring them more
Cole Savage, Morganfon News-
Herald.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01

CALL OUT THE S. P. c.. A.!
Did you happen to see the midget
car proceeding down Wentworth
street carrying six passengers?
LIEN Charleston NeVs & Courier
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
MUST LIKE TO WORK

Last Monday was a holiday, cele-
brating the declaration of Neck
lenburg independence, but contrary
to all uses and customs the Peoples
Bank did not observe the day by
closing. When asked about it Mr.
R. L. Harris, who happened to BE-
present, said it vas simply ar
versight.
Do.Lo. Co,.:o.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01

GOING UP TO SEE 'EM SOME
TIME.
Miss Valley Mae West left last
Friday On an EXTENDED visit to rela-
tives and friends in Whittier and
Winston-Salem.
-Franklin Press.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
FAINT NOTHING BUT TUR-
NIP TOPS WITH SAND IN 'EM

NIP TOPS WITH SAND IN 'EM
Mrs. David Simpson decided I
needed some spinach to eat and
brought it along from the big farm
south of town. I am going to do
my best, but may fall down on the
job. I am just a plain old citizen,
and when people bring me corn
bread and buttermilk, beans and
peas, I know what to do with them.
But this fancy stuff l knock a
foul on every time.
II. B. Laney, Monroe Journal.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON

Continued from page n
for more and better methods of
bringing prosperity back. Action
has taken the place of inaction, and
no one questions the fundamental
honesty of purpose behind every
thing that is being done here.
There has been great courage dis
played in the face of strong oppo-
sition to any kind of change.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
A MERE TRIFLE

The women's bathing suits are
said to be causing concern at GER
tain beeches. Some people worry
about mighty little.
Norfolk ~edger Dispatch.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01
.Roxboro Courier.

FELL OFF SOMETHING BUT
TWAN'T A HOSS
did you ever see a dream walk
gurgled the radio crooner-
Yes! and the young woman that
we saw recently under the influ-
ence liquor looked like a nightmare.
W. Curtis RnSs, WaynespiHe
MOHntaineer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-06-01

The influence OF weekly news-
papers ON public opinion exceeds
that of all other publications in
the country.-Artbur Brisbane.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-03
PROGRAM OFFICIALS
EXPECT FEATURE TO
WIN GREAT ACCLAIM
Star Characters Are Two
SWANS Operating Corner
Store IN Small Town
PREDICAMENTs HUMOROUS
Change in Hour Of Armchair
Traveller Program Next
Week Announced

One Of the most popular programs
on the Pacific Coast will be heard
five times weekly over KFYR. Bis
marck radio station beginning Tues
day, Nov. 5, It was announced Sat-
urday by KFYR program officials.
The new program is built around
the affairs Of "Eb and Zeb" and will
60 on tho cir at Sis p. m. (CST.
Eb and Zeb operate q corner store
In small town and the predicaments
In which these two SWANS find them
selves and the antics they maneuver
in solving them are described as
livery, very humorous
This program promises to become
one Of the most popular presenta-
tons from KFYR, In the opinion Of
the station staff.
KFYR also announced that the
Armchair Traveller" who In the past
has been heard Wednesday evenings
At 6:l5 O'Clock, will, beginning next
Wednesday. Nov. Z, broadcast at
3:15 p. m. (CST each Wednesday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-03
Rudy vallee and Eddie Peabody

Rudy vallee and Eddie Peabody be-
gan their friendship under unusual
circumstances. They were headliu-
ers six years ago at rival theatres in
Brooklyn, N. r.. when they first met.
Rudy took the banjo wizard under
his managerial wing and installed
him at his Club Vallee.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-03
MARY PICKFORD HAS
SELECTED VETERANS
FOR RADIO PROGRAM
Gale Gordon, jeanette Nolan,
Theodore Osborn, craW.
ford Kent Chosen

Hollywood, Nov. 3.-Mary Pick
ford has selected group Of mi
crophone veterans to support her in
her first radio series. Organizing the
company for her Mary Piekford and
Company dramatic broadcasts over
an NBC-WEAF nationwide network
each Wednesday at Z p. m. (CsT1.
the Queen Of the Screen has elected
to surround herself with seasoned
radio actors and actresses.
From hundreds Of applicants, who
bid for q place in the cast with
"Americas Sweetheart" Miss Pick
ford chose rs her leading man Gale
Gordon, who has been starring In
many radio series.
Educated In England
Born in New York, educated at
woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Cor
don has been featured in stage plays
as well as being one Of the leading
radio artists on the Pacific Coast.
jeanette Nolan. recent winner Of q
radio contest In which she was cred
tied with having the best feminine
voice on the West Coast, was picked
by Miss Pickford to play important
female roles. Miss Nolan has been
heard on important nationwide
broadcasts. She has been In radio
for two years and Is one Of the out
standing radio stars Of the West.
Osborn, Kent Experienced
Theodore Osborn, who began his
radio career in New York. and has
played In stock across the United
States, likewise has . wide radio
following, and Crawford Kent. vet
eran Of pictures. stage, grand opera
and musical comedy, has recently had
great success on the air. Kent. born
in England, was the leading man n
the original cast Of pink Lady" IN
New York and has been starred and
featured In pictures for the past five
years.
James Eagles, In the theatre and
films all his life, is the only member
Of tho company without extensive
radio experience. Eagles took . tes!
In "Coquette" with Miss Pickforo
four years ago. The actress remem.
bered his face and name from that
occasion, gave him . chance ana he
made good In the final test for the
broedcasts.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-11-03
FAMOUS BARITONE
HELPED PROGRAM
Emilio De cogorza, Former
operate Star, Assisted
Conrad Thibault

New York, Nov. 3.-(P)-It may
seem incongruous to identity great
singer Of . classicist era with radios
first original musical comedy serial.
but there's no denying that Emilio de
Gogorza, famous baritone Of yester-
days operate stage. has made con-
tYibution to The Gibson Family,
which Is presented each Saturday
night over MIC networks.
Conrad Thtbault. who sings the
leading role In the popular program,
says 30. AL the praises that have
been heaped upon the young baritone
star for his singing IN the original
air show, ne modestly shares with
his tutor, de 0ogorza, whom he re-
spects and reveres.
II Thibault possesses vocal quail
ity different than any baritone
voice heard on the air, rs some
critics have observed, It IS because de
Gogorza, as few other musical men,
tors have been able to do. has given
him the traditions Of q golden era
and shown by example how to inter-
pref them for modern audiences.
Which explains why Thibault,
while keeping his eye on the clas-
sicists, hasn't lost his perspective in
popular music. He can sing Brahms
and the current favorite with equal
understanding and feeling. Jazz?
Il like jazz" he says, 'as we'll as the
more serious type Of composition, and
as to American composers, they have
done quite well"
The 29-year-old baritone who, a.
singer In . church choir In North
ampton, Mass, attracted the atten-
ton Of Calvin Coolidge, began his
first serious study Of voice at the
Curtis Institute in Philadelphia
where he first came under the wing
Of de Gogorza.