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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
LATEST SEA G

THE LATEST SEA TRAGEDY
There is something especially
lhorrifying about disaster at sea.
shipwreck is a terrible thing tc
contemplate under any condition;
the sea is so vast and the chances
of rescue, even in these days, ap-
|parently so small. But when the
sea disaster takes the form of fire,
it is too CHASTITY to contemplate.
The recent disaster to the Nor
70 Castle, homeward bound from
Havana with a gay party of tour
lists, when more than $50 of them
lost their lives when the ship
caught fire almost within sight of
port, is in some Ways far more
shocking than the sinking of the
Titanic.
If, as seems to be indicated from
reports of the Government investi-
cation into the circumstances of
this tragedy of the sea, The fire was
deliberately set, the governments
of the United States and of Cuba
should spare no expense, utilize
all their available resources, to hunt
down the culprits and bring them
to swift justice. We hope that the
suspicion proves untrue We would
hate to believe that there are hui
man beings so callous and so filled
with hatred against their. kind as
to perpetrate a deed like that. But
human passions and hatreds are
running high in these troublous
times, and it is impossible to say
that any atrocity is impossible.
In spite of this latest seal tragedy,
mankind will continue to travel
the ocean lanes. On\ the whole,
we understand, there has been a
smaller percentage of lives lost a.
mong ocean passengers in the past
fifty years than among travellers
by any other means of locomotion.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
PROTECT THE
CHILDREN

Education has been called tn.
nations biggest business. More
than 25,ooo,ooo pupils attene
American schools, ranging in size
from little one-room shacks If
distant counrry-sides, to the mag
n1f1cent stone structures in GU,
major cities.
AS the National Board of Fire
Underwriters points out, the nation
owes these children a great respon-
sibiility-that of providing them
with maximum protection from
fire. The tragic records of the past
show. how badly w have failed
in discharging that duty. The his
tory of every state contains black
pages which recount school fires
resulting in deaths of HELPLESS
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
PROFIT FROM WAR MUST
END,

1t was Benjamin Franklin, we
think, who said that there never
was a good war or a bad peace.
Whosoever said it, we areyteminded
of it by the disclosures made by the
Senate committee which is investi-
eating the munitions racket.
Startling and shocking facts have
already been disclosed, and sinister
figures such as most of us regard as
creatures of fiction appear in their
true %colors, as nrofteers who make
money by arming the nations a
gainst each other. Sir Basil Zahar-
off, the mystery man. of Europe,
has been disclosed as the agent for
the great munitions manufacturers
of the world, without regard to
nationality. American builders of
submarines have been shown up as
unwllllng-on paper-to. sell their
submersible torpedo-boats to both
sides in a war, but through their
foreign agents doing precisely that
for a commission.
An international ring has con-
trolled the ornaments of the great
nations for years, apparently. The
competition between nations, each
striving to be better armed than
its rivals, has been stirred up by
high-pressure salesmanship and the
circulation of, rumors that this
that or the other country was con-
templating war. 49,
1t is time an end was put tc
this sort. of thing. 1t is a real SER
vice to- the cause of humanity, anc
world peace hat Senator Nye'.
committee is performing in bring.
ing the facts to light. If they
shock the other civilized peoples Of
the world as they have shocked
America, we may hope for actor
by the League of Nations or by
other mutual agreement to limi,
the manufacture of munitions al
war to governments themselves
War should no longer be profitable
to any individual or private com.
pany. =
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
Hurley Is
Moderator

Embracing "a churches of eight
counties which extend from the
|Stanly line to the Blue Ridge noun
tains, the 27sth regular stated
meeting of the Concord presbytery
opened Tuesday morning at the
First Presbyterian church, Concord,
with the sermon by the retiring
MODERATOR Rev. B. B. Shankel, pas
tor of Beattie Memorial church of
|Lenoir. At the first session, ]. F.
Hurley of Salisbury was elected
moderator.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
DIE IN TRAIN CRASH

D. T. Morgan, 81, of Spies, was
instantly killed and a son-in-law,
John A. Smith, 50, of Asheboro,
fatally injured when their coach
crashed into the tender of a Yad-
kin Railway locomotive at a cross
ing near New London,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

HE REMEMBERS WAY BACK
We remember way back when a
member of the choir in a certain
church cut a notch in the organ
everything the preacher delivered the
same sermon.
G. Myrover, Fayetteville
Observer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
BUT NOT THIS FAR BACK

AAAo
The Fayetteville Observer of the
9th inst. says: eve fear much dam
g has been done the Corn and
Rice crops on the Cape Fear, in con-
sequence of the Freshet during the
last week. The destruction of
Mills and Bridges has been great
and the consequence is an obstruc-
ton of the Mails, some of which
have been returned to this Post
Office, from an impossibility to pro-
coed.
years ago, Charleston News
& Courier.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
|BRITE IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S

1COKNER
Tom Brite, charged with driving
on the wrong side of the road Sat-
urday night and crashing into the
side of an automobile driven by E.
IF. Ernul, was assessed the costs and
ordered to pay Ernul costs of dam
ages to his car.
New Bern Tribune.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

The interesting point about this
scheme, however, is the plan to put
it into the class of self liquidat-
ing public works, by making it a
toll road, over which motorists
would have to pay, say, 40 cents
for each 100 miles of travel. This,
it is estimated, would pay back the
cost and interest in less than 80
years if only a million and half
motorists made the round trip each
year. Toll roads are one OF the
oldest and most certain means of
getting the money back on public
Improvements. Many of the ma
tons great bridge are toll bridges,
as are the vehicular tunnels under
the Hudson River at New York.
This project would employ a quar-
ter of a million men for several
years at IS a day, and it is looked
upon favorab1y in many quarters.
Its particular merit is that it would
not in the long run, be an added
burden on taxpayers.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

changed, but no social order has
long existed that was not based on
the durable truths derived from
countless centuries of human expert.
ence in living together. :
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
We have an aquarium in our
room. Miss Hyman gave US some
goldfish, but they died Junior Bar
bee brought some fish from the
branch.
-GeorgeviLle School item, Concord
Tribune.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
NATIVE WIT

NATIVE WIT
Curnel used to bring in stove
wood and light the evening fires
during the winter months, and it
was his chief delight to spring tall
stories on the writer. Once he
stated that over in Mag town a
stalk of corn grew SO high that the
sun had to back up and come
through his later patch to shine.
The Roundup, Caswell Messen-
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
WHAT HE MEANS IS LEAST

Hal he MEANS 10 LEASI
I'UNS
Charlie Fraley told the writer
of this news that there are four gen.
erations living in his home and all
them are babies of their immediate
parents.
-Misenheimer item, Stanly News
& Press.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

NOVELTY and living
1t is as easy to establish a wrong
idea in one direction as in another.
Against those who think nothing
is good that isn't new stand the ones
who think nothing is good unless it
is old. Neither upon what sort of
things-objects, ideas, entertain
ment or what not-one is talking
about. The sort of persons who de-
mand new ideas about life and liv-
ing and the social order are usually
the same type who regard every
thing else that existed before they
were born as being out-moded.
As a matter of fact, nothing is so
durable as a sound idea, and moth
ing so evanescent as a new idea
that is not sound. The test of time
has resulted since the beginning of
things in the discarding of novelties
in government and social relations
and the return to the ancient stand
ards by which the world, on the
whole, has been governed. Often
the symbols and the methods are
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
done.


REVEALS and taste
Further evidence that you can
please the t~heater-going public other
than by constantly giving them
something a little newer and a lit
tie rawer than what went before is
to be found in the current revival of
the Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas
in New York, by English COM
|pany which for years has played
nothing else. The largest crowd
to attend any New York play in
years swamp the theater every
night.
A great English actor-manager,
Sir Nigel Playfair, died the other
day. His chief claim to fame was
that he put IN a revival of John
Gays 'Beggar's OPERA" first pro-
duced about 1880, and it had a con-
tinuous run of more than LOO per
formances, proving that English au-
dience, like Americans, don't care
how old a thing is SO long as it is
good.
And, incidentally, one of the
most successful plays given at our
Berkshire Playhouse in my home
town the past Summer was Shake
peare's "As You Like It."
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

Don't do much good to send bills
to some folks, but anyway it helps
the postal revenues.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

HOPE SHE WILL DITTO
Miss Cordelia Pass, of R 1, went
to Greensboro last week where she
entered Greensboro College.
I-Davie Record.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
N HOW'RE ALL II

LITTLE ROES?
Several from this community at
tended the Herring reunion at
Seven Springs last Saturday.
Indian Springs item, Goldsbore
News-Argus.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
CONTINUED from page ope)

But instead of such ran they
have had to face such things as the
Presidents direct order to the cot
ton clothing industry to cut down
hours and increase wages, regard
less of profits; the more or less open
disagreement between the President
and General Johnson on p~rice-hxing
under the codes-the President OPP
posing and the General standing
firm on the original plan-and the
growing feeling that monetary in
|Aation is in the ofing.
That initiation will be unavoidable
if the program of increased Govern
ment borrowings for the purpose
of printing the pump of business
continues is the considered opinion
of many of the soundest economists
who are in touch with the situation.
The last Government loan did not
go so we'll and Uncle Sam had to
take up part of the issue himself.
To spend more billions there will
have to be more billions borrowed.
If the investing public will not buy
the new bonds at par or better, the
Governments only recourse will be
to put pressure on the Federal Re-
serve and its member banks to take
up the new loans. Such a forced
expansion of credit is held to be a
long step toward initiation.
The Government spendings for
its various relief programs for the
past three months have been some
what less than $2oo,o01,o 600 a
month. The certainty that the de-
mands for relief this coming Winter
will be heavier than ever points to
a very great increase in such spend
|ings from now until next Spring.
The latest scheme of making
work. which is seriously discussed
here is the project for a greet cir
cular highway" concrete, forty feet
wide, which would run from coast
to coast and back, taking in all the
|great national parks, touch Wash
|ington, New York, New England
and some thirty states in ali. The
estimated cost of this highway is
$500, o0o,o 900, through it probably
would run we'll over a billion before
it was finished.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

jMUST'A BEEN AFRAID OF THE
MILITIA
The regular monthly meeting of
the Rimer club was held Thursday,
September 9th, with Mrs. F. A.
IBarnhardt. There was no dem
onstration.
l-Rimer item, Concord Tribune.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

ADVENTURE always thrill.
A wholesome adventure story
dramatically told that will live
longer than its authors reputation
in other fields is Robert Louis
Stevenson's Treasure Island" And
if anyone has any doubt as to
whether a clean motion picture
will be a box-of1ce success he ought
to see the crowds standing in line
at the box-of6ce where the new film
of Treasure Island" is being
shown.
incidentally, I hear that one of
the large film companies is prepar-
ing to produce that other great
classic" of English literature, the
first novel written in our language,
Robinson Crusoe." I have long
why that hadn't been
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
PICAYUNES
NATIVE WIT

NATIVE WIT
Willie, of Nubbin Ridge, admit
ed the other day at Hill Brother
store that he had heard a little some
thing about the challenge to liberty
that Mr.. Hoover was accusing Mr.
Roosevelt Of making, but that see
ing as how he was getting 10 cent:
a pound for his tobacco when Mr.
Hoover quit office and is getting Is
cents now, it will be all right with
him if Mr.. Roosevelt challenges the
old girl again.
Upton G.. Wilson, Reidsville Re-
view.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

TOLD HIM ABOUT ALL THESE
ATHLETICS
Sam Weatherman is improving
after having a very bad foot all
ment.
Jonas Ridge item, Morganton
News Herald.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
WHAT OIL BR'ER POSTUM

WHAT OIL BR'ER POSTUM
N DAT?
A baptismal service of Mt. Home
church will be next Saturday, Sep
TENDER s, at 3 o'clock, down high
way IS, at what is known as the
opposum rock swimming hole.
Mount Home item Morganton
News-Herald.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

ANTIQUES and taste"
The interest in ancient things
does not end with plays and books.
There has grown up a great in
%terest, in the past forty or fifty
years, in the collection of what are
generally classified as antiques.
Old glass, old china, old books, old
furniture, old anything-and-every-
thing, command a market, even in
times of depression.
Here, again, there is great con-
fusion in the minds of the many,
who imagine that the value of these
things derives from their age alone.
That has much to do with it, bat
discriminating people never buy
anything merely because it is old.
Leaving historical associations out
of the picture, the value of antiques
depends upon whether they are,
frst, more beautiful than their mod
ern counterparts; second, better
made and more durable. The
beauty may in part be due to age,
and the durability and quality of
workmanship is often testified to by
the fact that they have exosted and
been in use for a century or two.
But when a common pine shoe
makers bench, such as I used to see
the village cobbler working at when
I was a boy, sells for the price of
a grand piano, then | can only think
that somebody has more money
than taste.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21

MORE TRUTH'N POETRY,
BROTHER
BATTIE-SCARED
VET ON PROBATION
Headline, Hickory Record.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
TODAY AND
R
FRANK PARKER SrocKBR1peE

Classics on the screen
Passing a motion picture theater
the other day / overheard two
young women talking. They were
typical cheap" city girls, the sor,
that demand emotional excitement
for happiness.
The picture at the theater was
Zane Eyre" Jaw, we don't want
Ito see that; it's nothing but a clas-
SIC" said one of them.
That attitude, hat anything that
isn't modern hasn't anything in
it for folk of today, is prevalent,
observe, among the u%nintelligent
and half educated. Yet ".Jane
Eyre" has been one of the great
successes of the films of 1884, as
was Little Women before it; sug-
costing to me hat the scornful at
titude of those who regard them
selves as sophisticated is not as
widespread as many people think,
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-09-21
POPULATION DATA
(1930 Census)

Population Rowan Co. 56,665)
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-20

the operation of engines, cars or
trains thereon; provided nothing
herein shall be construed as giving
or creating any claim, right, de-
mand or cause Of action in favor of
any person, firm or corporation, if
said claim, demand, right or cause
of action would not otherwise exist:
provided further said City shall
and will notify said Railroad Com
pany, its successors or assigns,
promptly in writing of any claim,
demand or cause of action made or
asserted against the City, arising
or claimed to arise from any of
the causes aforesaid, and said City
shall and will afford said Railroad
company reasonable and timely OPP
portunity to appear and defend in
the name of the City, any suit, ac-
ton or proceeding instituted
against said City, based on any
such claim, demand or cause Of ac-
ton, and if the Railroad Company
elects to defend the same, the City
will cooperate with the Railroad
Company in such defense. Any no.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-20

after having received ten (10)
days. written notice from the City
of Kennewick so to do, shall enti-
tie the City of Kennewick to de-
clare the forfeiture of the fran
chise hereby granted.
Section 10. At all times the
power and right reasonably to reg
ulate in the public interest the ex-
ercise of the franchise and rights
granted by this ordinance, shall
remain and be vested in the Coun-
ell of the City of Kennewick.
Section IL. Said Oregon Wash
ington Railroad & Navigation Com
pany, its successors and assigns,
shall indemnify and hold harmless
the City of Kennewick from and
against any and all claims, de-
mands and causes of action for in
jury to or death of persons or
damage to or destruction of prop
erty resulting from any negligent
act or omission of said Railroad
Company in or about the construc-
ton or maintenance of the tracks
hereby authorized, or in or about
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-20
Notice of Hearing on Final Account
and Petition for Distribution

In the Superior Court of I'll e
State of Washington in nd for
Benton County.
In the matter of the estate OF
Arthur v. McReynolds, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that
Sarah Caroline McReynolds, exc
cutrix of the above entitled estate,
has filed her final account and Pc
tition for distribution in the office
of the clerk of the above entitled
court and that the court is asked
to settle said final account, to dis
tribute the property of said estate
to the heirs or persons entitled to
the same and to discharge the exc
cutrix.
Said final account and petition
for distribution will be heard by
the Court at the Court House IN
Prosser, Benton County, Washing
ton. on the Bird day of January,
1886, at the hour of $3.50 o'clock in
E. o. KEENE,
Clerk of the Superior Court
By L. Keene, deputy.
Moulton & Powell, Attorneys for
Executrix, Kennewick, Washing
ton. 6'o-1'
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-20

tice hereby required to be given TO
said Railroad Company by the
City shall be deemed to have been
given when same is delivered TO
the Agent Of said Railroad Com
pany in charge of its depot in the
City of Kennewick, Washington, or
to the General Manager Of the Rail-
road Company at Portland, Ore
gon.
Section IL. Said Oregon Wash
ington Railroad & Navigation Com
pany shall file a written acceptance
of this ordinance and the terms
thereof, within thirty 500 days
after this ordinance becomes eff
fective. This ordinance shall be
and become effective at the time
provided by law.
Passed by the Council Decem-
Der Is, 1884.
Approved by the Mayor Decem-
Der Is, 1884.
Published December 20, 1884.
A. G. ANON, Mayor.
Attest: Winifred Campbell,
City Clerk.
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ORDINANCE NO. s1s

An Ordinance granting to Ore
gOn- Washington Railroad & Navi-
cation Company, corporation, its
successors and assigns, a franchise
to maintain, use and operate its
existing railroad industrial spur
track in, upon, along and across
Railroad Avenue, and upon and
across Dayton Street North from a
point westerly of the latter to a
point near the west line of Benton
Street North; also to construct,
maintain, operate and use a rail-
road industrial spur track extend
ing from the latter point in, upon
and along said Railroad Avenue,
upon and across said Benton Street
North and Washington Street
North, and in, upon and along Ave-
nue. B East, to a point therein on
the east line of MOOre's First Adj
dition, all in the city of Kennewick,
Washington.
The City Council of the City of
Kennewick does ordain as follows:
Section 1. That there be, and is
hereby granted, to Oregon Wash
ington Railroad & Navigation Com
jpany, a corporation, it's successors
and assigns, subject to the terms
and provisions contained in this
ordinance, a franchise to maintain,
use and operate its existing rail
road industrial spur track in, up
on, along and across Railroad Ave-
nue., and upon and across Dayton
Street North from a point wester-
ly of the latter to a point near the
west line of Benton Street North,
in the City of Kennewick, Wash
ington, the center line of said ex-
listing track being more particular
~ described as follows: Commenc-
ing at the southeast corner of
Block r of Northern Pacific Irri-
cation Company amended plat of
the Town (now City, of Kenne-
wick; thence northwesterly along
the south boundary of said Block
F distance of 80 feet to q point;
then northerly at right angles to
said south boundary a distance OF
% feet to a point, said point be-
ing in the center line of the Ore
gon- Washington Railroad e. Navi-
cation Company's spur track as
now located and constructed thru
said Block F, and being also the
point of beginning of the herein
after described center line: then So
nth rs degrees and 18 minutes east
a distance of Is ft.to point;thence
along the arc of curve to the
right having radius of 4OO.78
feet a distance of 1885 feet to a
point: thence south 70 degrees and
j minute east a distance of 11.15
feet to point; thence along the
arc of a curve to the right, having
a radius Of 383.O65 feet, distance
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1934-12-20
VERY Low ROUND-TRIP HOLI-
DAY TRAIN FARES-Dailv

VERY Low ROUND-TRIP HOLI-
DAY TRAIN FARES-Daily
from December Is to January 1,
coed for return until January Is.
the S. P. & s. Hy. will sell round
trip tickets to practically all points
In the United States on a bargain
basis. For instance Portland $3.50:
Spokane S 4.46, good in coaches,
and reserved seat coaches Or tour
list sleeping cars on payment of
seat or berth charges; slightly
higher for use in standard Sleep
ing cars. Similar fares to other
points in the Pacific Northwest,
California and the East. Tickets
are good on the famous North
Coast Limited, Empire Builder,
etc. The long period covered by
these tickets invites you to make
a delayed visit to the old home and
of course for shorter trips. Detail
ed information, sleeping car ac-
comodations, ETC., will be furnish
ed ON request. Spokane, Portland
& Seattle Railway. I. Serier, agent,
Kennewick, Washington. 36-7-8c