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THANK YOU.

folk to poverty, and the onse-
quent beginning of mortgage fore
closures on a wide scale.
1t takes more than a few heavy
rains to restore the fertility of land
after a prolonged drought. The
water le-th is, the depth of
ground-water below the surface
dropped nearly 100 feet in some
parts of Kentucky and Tennessee as
far back as 1930-31, and it hasn't
got back to normal yet.
To my way of thinking, the
drought is the most important
world event that has occurred since
the nations were at war. Perhaps
even more important in its future
effects on civilization.
HISTORY go. Back in 1898
This isn't the first time a drought
has had profound economic, social
and political effects in the United
States. Back in 1898 we had a
panic" which, for its time and the
size and wealth of the nation then,
was quite as severe as that which
we had in 1929. And the underly-
ing cause of the economic distress
which resulted in the demand by
the people Of the Middle West for
more money-infation by the sill
yer route-and the failure of Presi-
dent Cleveland to obtain a renom-
nation, was a drought almost as
widespread as the present me-.
Then as now, the stricken farm
ers and those dependent upon their
trade turned to the Federal Gov
eminent for help. The idea that the
Government could or should dish
out tax money in direct benefit pay
ments to farmers or anyone else had
not been born. 1t is only a year
and a half old, or Whereabouts. But
the demand for laws which would,
it was believed, make it easier for
debtors to pay their debts and hard
er for creditors to collect, was as
keen then as now.
1t may fairly be said that Will
liam J. Bryan owed his nomination
for the Presidency in 1896 to the
drought of 1898 and its influence
upon popular economic thinking.
ICE recedes to North
If drought conditions continue as
they are now, or grow worse, we
may see history repeating itself.
Twenty thousand year ago or so,
several successive years of severe
cold resulted in covering most Of
the northern quarter of the world
with an ice-cap a mile thick. The
glaciers extended as far south as the
Ohio river. All the people who
lived in the northern regions fled
before the ice to warmer climates.
nearer the equator.
The whole scheme of the worlds
development was changed by the
of nature. AS the ice began
to melt, people followed it back
northward. 1t is still receding and
population is moving farther north
ward every year.
In more recent times the drought
which turned the mid-Asian plateau
into a desert drove great hdrdes OF
Asiatic people westward into En-
rope. The Turks, the Hungarians
and the Films are among the sur
vivors of that old Asiatic stock.
1t is not likely that any such
great movement of population will
occur in our time, but it is possible,
if the drought continues.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
DISTRIBUTION OF COAL

The state school commission has
started something which may bring
about some %farreaching changes in
the distribution of coal, a commo-
'dity widely used for heating pur-
poses. In an effort to ave money,
the commission decided to use the
school trucks which are idle during
the summer for hauling coal from
the mines to- the school buildings,
thus effecting a savings Of approx
mately $4,000 per year. The
trucks are already moving coal
into school house bins and base
ments, in spite of the fact that re-
tail coal merchants are protesting
vigorously. However, the coal
code authority has ruled that the
school commission may haul its
own coal if it so desires.
Regardless Of the fairness or I'M
fairness of this method of saving
money, it may well be recognized
now that the small consumer Of
coal is not going TO be satisfied tc
see a savings effected for a big con-
sumner which might also be afford
ed to him. The retail coal dealer.
are helpless because the freight
rates are against them, and they
are demanding a REIMBURSEMENT If
rates now. 1t hardly seems RICH,
to have to pay freight charges or
a ton Of coal which approximate 81
per cent of the retail selling price
Of the coal.
Distribution has always been thu
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
Bought Her Son Back From Kid

Bought Her Son Back From Kid
.napers. but Will Not Buy Him
Back From His Wife. Paid $4,000
for Ransom, but Will Not Pay One
Cent for Alimony. Read About 1t
in The American Weekly, the Mag
azine which comes on August, II
with the BALTIMORE AMERI-
CAN. Buy your copy from your
|favorite newsboy OF newsdealer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
NEGOTIABLE

NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENT
In the contribution plate at DR.,
Channing's Church, in Boston, or
Sunday, was found a Bank Check
in the following words: "Pay te
Count Pulaski, my commander at
the battle of Brandywine, his breth-
rem, or bearer, One Hundred Dol
lars"
100 years ago, Charleston New:
& Courier.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10

big problem in the use Of any COM
modify. We feel hat the salvation
of the railroads of the country lies
in meeting some of the competi-
ton, and this can be done with
skilful management.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
LUM GOES OUCH THE
MOTIONS

Lum Grant, colored man, was
out at the swimming pool last week
watching the big boys dive off the
high diving board and as the diver
left the board, Lum would stoop
under the strain until he almost
reached the ground. When the
diver hit the water, splash, Lum
would dodge back and straighten
up again, and start all over again.
-Catawba News Enterprise.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10

WE Col a great big kick out OF
THIS STORY, for we were told the
OF the chief character. OF
COURSE IF it wasn't against our
RULES, WE'D mention names:
BUT, rules are rules. "Your
GRANDFATHER SEEMS to be
A LITTLE hard of hearing"
REMARKED A friend of a
CERTAIN YOUNG person in
e
TOWN., REFERRING to one of
+
OUR LEADING citizens.
"a LITTLE!" exclaimed the
X =
OF the old
GENTLEMAN. "WHY,' once he
THE family
PRAYERS KNEELING on the
cat"
T THANK YOT
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
STATEMENT
MILL OWNERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

MILL OWNERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Chicago, Ill.
Condition December 81, 1888, as shown by Statements Filed
Amount Ledger Assets Dec. 31st previous year, $751;
S1452; Increase paid-up Capital, $------ Total sss7Sl457
lncome-From Po%licyholders, $527,94653; Miscellaneous,
$45,156.22; Total 81, 1o,7r
Dsbursements-To PoGcyholders, $3o,6s4.26; MsceL '
- lane'us' $3s4,666.37; Total --- 415,55os5
Fire Premiums-Written Or renewed during year, $685.
26o.65; In force 72e,455z4
Value of Bonds and Stocks -------------- ~s7s,57555
Deposited in Trust Companies and Banks on interest 2z7s3oe
Agentss balances, representing business written subsequent
to October l, 1888 5oz31u
Agents balances, representing business written prior to
october l. 1888 1,47sSs
A'e'eS' hi Nen u N accrued $1,000 -- 9,42s5s
Total $s5499623
AS nSe'S 10 aom1eeea 10l79996
Total admitted Assets s75319627
LIABILITIES
Net amount of unpaid losses and claims ---------s 2zs1ae
Salaries, rents, expenses, bills, accounts, fees, ETC., due
Estimated amount payable for Federal, State, county and '''N
municipal taxes due or accrued -------------- 2eOoo
Total amount of all liabilities except Capital s375,235z
surplus over all liabilities ------------ $37796O53
Surplus as regards Poicyholders 7zzonu
Total 1lc 1ab1ise IS $755,19s.u
Losses lncurred-Fire, So; Paid
Losses incurred-All other $50; Paid ---------- 90
President, H. N. Wade, Secretary H. T. lam
Home Office % S: LaSaIe St. Chicago, Ill. '~N"
Attorney for service: DAN c. BoNEY, Insurance Commissioner Raj
Manager for North Carolina Home Office.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, INSURANCE DEPARTMENT..
Raeigh July End, 1884.
T. DAN c: BoNEY, Insurance connnisaoner do HEREBY a..;fu
that the above is a true and correct abstract Of the statement Of The d
nMl Owners Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Chicago, Ill
on the 31st day Of December, 1853.
Witness my hand and official seal, the day and year above written.
DAN. c. BONEY, Insurance Commissioner.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
TODAY AND
BY
FRANK PARKER STocKBRDGE

NATURE 80. and population
Within a range of twenty miles
from my New England farm
know of nine or ten herds of dairy
cattle and two or three herds of
beef stock that have been shipped
east from the drought-stricken
West within the past two or three
months. Their owners and their
families have come with them.
Nature is more powerful than
man-made laws and rules in infu-
encing the distribution of popula-
ton and the regulation of agricul-
ture. 1t would not surprise me if
future historians were able to trace
more far-reaching and fundamental
changes in human affairs to the
worldwide drought of 1904
than to all the human efforts to
change the scheme of things.
-. almost world wide
There is hardly a region in the
world that is not suffering from a
shortage of water. What rain has
fallen seems to have dropped chiefly
the ocean.
In England there has not been a
rain of consequence for eleven
months. A friend of mine who
lately returned from abroad told me
that the great River Thames had
idwindled to little more than a
brook. Continental Europe is suf-
|fering for lack of rain. 1 hear re-
ports from South America that the
snowfall in the Andes this winter
its mid-winter there now-is so
light that they fear a drought next
December or so, when their grow
ing season will be at its height.
They have had an exceptionally dry
two or three years in China and
other parts of Asia.
All of that points to great eco
nomic shifts, movements OF popu-
lation, distress and suffering, short
age of money and decrease in actual
wealth, and general disruption Of
trade. That sort of disturbances
can't be cured by politics.
FAR REACHING .... as war
Folks with good memories realize
that the present drought situation
is not something new or sudden. 1t
has been coming on for four years,
a. least. Back in 1880 the drought
which affected the regions border
ing on the lower Ohio river and the
mid Mississippi states sowed the
seed from which much of our later
economic distress sprang. 1t was the
direct cause of the failure of many
small banks in several states, the
rad,,c+;op Of GREAT numbers of farm
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
EGG

If Charles Thomas Waters
doesn't follow his fathers foot
steps and become a photographer,
it won't be because he wasn't pho
tographed early in life. The baby
was born Thursday morning and
Mr.. Waters photographed it three
minutes after its birth.
Sink, Lexington Dispatch.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
SHANE HE WASN'T ENTERED
IN THE BALLOON RACE

While the rodeo was here, Mem
Howard walked into the arena and
called for a bad horse. The man in
charge said, take your choice. And
Lem crawled up on the fence and
dropped astride. The horse bursted
|out and beloved and Lem went
Into the air so high that he passed
beyond the clouds.
IT. B. Laney, Monroe Journal.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
KILLING TwO BIRDS WITH
ONE STONE

MI. and Mrs. Andrew Lane, Mrs
Elma Sparrow, Ann Broadwaters
Love Lupton went swimming Sat
urday evening.
|-Florence Item, New Bern Tri'
bune.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
PRETTY GOOD JOKE FOR 4
CORPORATION
MAGAZINE

IS. P. U. Magazine.
Doctor: "What you need, my
dear young lady, is a little sun and
Sweet Young Thing: "Why:
Doctor, how dare you! Why, I'm
not even married"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
SHH!!

SHF1!!
Quiet profit taking was the order
of the day on the Stock Exchange
floor today. That must be a nice
way to pass the time.
George G. Myrover, Fayetteville
Observer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10

FIRST TIME WE EVER MET
THE INGULAR OF OATS
Mrs. Oat Morgan visited Miss
IDoxie Bruer recently.
-Blantyre Breezes, Transylvania
Times.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
IT'LL BE THE CREDI-
TORS IN BAD SHAPE

Tobacco is curing up mighty
nice, I think. If the prices are as
good as the grades look it will be
somewhat extra well. If it don't
sell kindly high somebody will be
in awful bad shape on account of
debt.
Ridge Item, Lumberton
Robensonian.
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81

LIQUID TABLETS, eALvE
n NOSE DROPS
Checks Malaria in ; days, Colds
first day, Headaches or Neuralgia
in so minutes.
Fine Laxative and Tonic
Most Speedy Remedies Known.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-08-10
STATEMENT
MICHIGAN MILLERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURA

ICHIGAN M1LLERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Condition December 81, 1888, as shown by Statement Filed.
Amount Ledger Assets Dec. 31st previous year, $780,
1885; Increase pad-up Capital .$------ Total $4,2o6,45sS
Income-From PoGcyholders, $2,215,3s3.s5; Miscelane-
Di'b; ;ssess:z Psl;y5eldsf, s~3l,s2ss2; Misc S;sssl: '-'&l'
Fire Premluns-Written or renewed during year, $3,112,-
o15Y In Force 2~,soo,419.15
All Other Premiums-Written Or renewed during year
Mortgage Loans on Real Estate 1,471, s14o7
Loans secured by pledge of Bonds, Stock, or other col
Value of Bonds and Stocks 111zssssS
Deposited in Trust Companies and Banks not on interest 5o3,792.21
Deposited in Trust Companies and Banks on interest 1924
Agents balances, representing business written subsequent
to October 1, 1888 1s1,64754
Interest and Rents due and accrued ---------- 63,3312S
AL enc Assets, as detailed IN statement ------- 43,22949
Total $4,1os,145z3
Less Assets o admitted 223,O1199
Total admitted Assets ------------------ $3,ss5,155z4
LABIIITIES
Net amount of unpaid losses and claims ------- s 25.3ozz2
on n premiums 1,549,17l59
Salaries, rents, expenses, bills, accounts, fees, ETC., due or
accrued 100000
Estimated amount payable for Federal, State, county and
municipal taxes due o accrued --------- 22,5s4z5
Contingent commissions, Or other charges due OF accrued 1O,8OOO0
ALI other Liabilities, as detailed in statement ------- 409,56SSo
Total amount Of all liabilities except Capital s2,257,,7e55
Surplus over all liabilities ------- $1,627,754.1S
Surplus as regards ~Pohcyholders NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. $1,627,7541s
Total Liabilities ss,ss5,13374
BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA DURING 1888
Fire Risks written, ~$1,234,59s: Premiums received, S 1888
All other Risks written SHOPS; Premiums received 314
Losses i~ncurred-Fme, $780,; Paid --------- 1899
President A. D. Baker, Secretary, L. H. Baker.
Home Office 2os N. Capital Ave, Lansing, Mich.
Attorney for service: DAN c. BoNEY, Insurance Commissioner Raj
egh, N. c.
Manager for North Carolina Home Office.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA INSURANCE DEPARTMENT,
Raleigh July End, 1884.
(SaD
T. DAN c. BONEY, Insurance Commissioner, do hereby certify
that the above is a true and correct abstract of the statement Of the
Michigan Miners Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Lansing, Mich.
filed with this Department, showing the condition of said Company,
On the 31st day of December, 1888. ~
Witness my hand and official sea-, the day and year above written.
DAN. C. BONEY, Insurance Commissioned.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
1000 More Passengers.
From the Rockford Register-Republic.

From the Rockford Register-Republic.
Scheduled air transport lines operat-
ing In continental United States carried
Bats passengers in November, 1898, it
is announced by Eugene L. Vidal, di-
rector Of aeronautics. Department Of
Commerce. This is clear gain over
the 30.671 passengers carried in Novem-
Der, 1882, but seasonal reduction from
the 5O,413 and $3.50 passengers carried
in October and September, 1888, re-
spectively.
There were reports available from 23
of the "a companies operating during
the month. showing the lines flying
3,705,85 miles. or 13.248 passenger
miles, during November. This was g
gain in mileage over the previous year
and larger gain in passenger miles,
indicating increased patronage on each
scheduled trip.
In November Of 1892 the 81 lines
then operating carried 88,573 pounds Of
express. In November, 1888, the ex-
press business by air was nearly double
that Of the corresponding month Of the
preceding year, or las, ,889 pounds.
There Is peculiar vitality in the
figures on air transport in relation to
economic conditions. In comparison to
the preceding November the improve
ment is notable.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
Sees Evil in a Bill to
Permit Race Gambling

To the Editor OF The Star:
see that Mr.. Loring Black Of New
York Is sponsoring bill to inflict race
gambling on the District of Columbia
I think time might be saved If some
one offered bill in Congress to take
the hinges off the gates to hell and
let every one in for a good time There
Is no use doing the thing piecemeal.
II there are any two rackets in this
country more malevolent than prize
f1ghting and the racing racket I don't
know what they are. A racing plant
in the District Of Columbia would cost
the merchants of the city hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
I wonder what the good sane, re-
sponslble, normal people who fought
the fight for prohibition repeal are
beginning to think now. They believed
they would get rid of some of the evils
quite evident under the prohibition re-
gime. We were not going to have the
saloon; the bootlegger was going to 20:
racketeering and gangsterism would be
a thing of the past. Now we have the
country pretty well peppered with the
saloons, the bootleggers, racketeers and
gangsters go on their merry way, and
the liquor trade is standing out against
every counsel for moderation and de-
cency. I do not know what we would
have done II the President had not
helped, to some extent, by blishing
the F. A. c. A. DEETS PICKETT.
Evening star., 1934-01-23
Gen. Araki's Retirement.

Gen. Sadao Araki's resignation as
japanese war minister, ostensibly on
account Of Ill health, is an omen OF
'unouestionable significance. Hailed at
Toxic as the end of the "Araki era" it
denotes the retirement Of the man who
for more than four years has persona
ned the spirit of militant imperialism
which found expression in Japan's in
vasion and conquest Of Manchuria. her
cynical disregard Of international
treaties, her departure from the League
OF Nations and the present effort to
saddle upon her tax-burdened people
the costliest military and naval budgets
N their history.
-, While the disappearance Of Gen.
II Nraki's dominating influence upon the
VkSvernment Of Japan, which he has
Trractically controlled ever since the in
eeption Of the Manchurian adventure,
does not mean immediate abandonment
Of all the policies which it typifies,
Toxic Is convinced that the long sup
pressed anti-militant movement will
2now re-assert itself. Abroad that lib
eral school Of Japanese thought is as
ISOLATED with the name Of the respected
Baron Shidehara, once ambassador to
=, the United States and later foreign
: minister.
- For some time the Araki policies have
! been suffering q steady decline in pres7
tise among the japanese people. Lately
Evening star., 1934-01-23
Indians at Work. "

Among the most interesting of Gov
eminent publications is the mimeo-
graphed periodical, Indians at Work"
which John Collier established when
he assumed Office as Commissioner of
Indian Affairs. 1t is an unpretending
presentation, but it serves its purpose
effectively enough, and it may be hoped
that it will become an institution, a
permanent feature of the Offices work
The public surely desires to know what
is being done by and for the Indian
community. and a paper of this type
can be a valuable medium for the dis
semination of useful information on
the subject.
Mr.. Collier appears to have grappled
with the problems of his position with
his accustomed ardor and enthusiasm
Curious combination of dreamer and
crusader that he is by birth and train
ing, he has seized the opportunity to
accomplish the reforms which many
years of study have suggested to his
mind. His present philosophy he out
lines in the words:
Indians want self-government. This
Indian administration wants it for
them as strongly as any Indian wants
1t for himself Let Indians begin now,
by examining their own problem of
land legislation and self-government
legislation
Let them think these questions
down into operative detail as applied
to their own local lands and lives. Let
them organize for study of these mat
tiers and for action upon them. Let
them register their judgments and their
Evening star., 1934-01-23
Amended Measure Is Urged
For Filipino independence

why, In either case, lay tariff against
products not produced in sufficient
quantities in the United States proper?"
Figures show" according to the
Houston Chronicle. that the erection
Of high tariff walls between the coun-
tries will bring complete wreck to
Philippine industry. and vast depres-
sion to its agriculture. Despite all talk
Of gradual adjustment and the grant,
ing of more rights to the Flipinos to
make trade treaties with other nations,
during the 10-year period Of prepara-
ton, there seems no possibility that
the eventual goal of sound economic
system could be reached. The prospect
is that the islands either will remain
within the trade walls of the United
States or they will sink back to the
level of the Malay countries"
"The United States desires" as con-
tended by the San Antonio Express,
'only that the Philippines be able to
maintain stable government before
granting them independence The
islands now exercise almost complete
autonomy and the inhabitants are not
called upon to contribute a dollar to
the United States Treasury. The in
sular revenues are expended solely for
the archipelago's own benefit The
Federal Government looks after the
Philippines defenses without cost to
them and enrolls $500 Filipinos In its
military establishment, paying them
from War Department appropriations.
1t is doubtful whether an independent
Philippine republic could protect itself
against aggression. If the islands could
not count on American aid they might
fall victim to some strong. intensely
nationalistic Old World power, eager to
enlarge its POSSESSIONS"
Evening star., 1934-01-23
Wills with the department and With

Wills with the department and With
Congress.
Hard and persevering factual think
ing by Indian tribes Is called for, II
self-government Is to become q reality.
Such hard and factual thinking Is first
of all needed in the shaping of the
enabling legislation for self-government.
Equally is this true II lands are to be
safeguarded, and new land acquisitions
provided for, and new business capital
acquired, by means Of new legislation.
1t Is not meant that only the Indians
must think steadfastly, boldly and yet
cautiously. We at the Washington Of
fice must think hard. as likewise must
the committees Of Congress, and the
field forces Of the Indian Service must
join with the Indians In finding light
and supplying to Washington the need
ed light.
An unrolling, cumulative achieve
ment, stage succeeding stage, across
years; such, II 1t be destined to sue
coed, must this self-government and
this land regeneration program be-
Let us work together.
There Is a novel note in this appeal,
and 1t has the attraction Of its diff
ference from traditional concepts Of
the relation between the Government
and the Indians. First viewed as
enemies, then as wards, the surviving
remnants Of the Indian race success
sively were prosecuted and vicariously
coddled. But now under q phase of the
new deal Mr.. Collier Is attempting to
place Indian men and women on a par
with other Americans of a similar
cultural and social status. He is
neither fighting them nor catering to
them. He is reasserting an unreserved
confidence in their essential humanity,
and is calling upon them to solve their
own problems by the exercise of their
own genius, granting them guidance
and help as needed. but remaining
faithful to the ideal of self-determina-
tion throughout
Thousands deeply interested In
Indian welfare will pray that the ex-
pertinent may succeed. Its key, per-
haps, is the word work"