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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-23
Votes
Cast In. State
Bumcombe Boasts Lar
gest Democratic Total,
Wilkes Largest COP.

North Carolinians cast 502,359
votes, or thereabouts, in the general
election on November s, it was in
dicated in unofficial complete tab
ulations of the state board of cleo
lions.
Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy Of
the supreme court led the entire
successful Democratic ticket, it
was indicated, with 319,7S2 votes
while his Republican opponent, A.
A. Whitener, got 1857.
Leading the Republican ticket
was Calvin Zimmerman, who got
1925 23 votes compared with Bly,
169 gwen Stanley Winborne, the
democratic incumbent.
All of the figures tabulated thus
far on the election are subject to
further checking and revision be-
fore the state board of canvassers
meets November u to officially
make known the result of the bal
loting.
1t was indicated by the total of
5O2,359 that the states vote fell
about 100000 short of the record
of 710,21S cast for the guberna-
torial nominees in 1882. The vote
was about $4,000 short of the off
year vote of 1880 when the sena-
torial nominees got 535,134.
The Democrats on the statewide
ticket, including Associate Justices
Michael Schenck and Heriot Clark
son of the supreme court and
Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, got
totals of from 1896 to 317,694
each. The vote for the 10 Demo-
Gratis seeking superior court judge
ships varied from 317,175 for
Clawson L. Williams of the fourth
district to 5l5,72s for ]. A. Rous-
seau of the seventeenth. The high
Republican in the judgeship con-
tests was w. C. Berry, running in
the seventeenth, who got 1s2,6S6.
Chowan county showed only
seven Republican votes as COM
pared with 343 Democratic ballots.
Northampton listed only nine Re-
publican ballots and 1,O77 Demo-
cratic, while Warren county cast
IL Republican and 1864 Democra-
tic tickets.
Buncombe county cast the high
est number of Democratic ballots,
14,023, and gave the Republicans
6,e65. Wilkes county gave the G.
O. P. its biggest total, $3.50, and
gave the Democrats 1903.
Graham county had the closest
vote, 1929 Democratic and 1912
Republicans, with Clay showing
1880 Democratic and 1928 Re
publican.
By districts the vote for con-
, 'gress with the Democratic nominee
!, winning in each was indicated a.
follows: First, Congressman Lind
say c. Warren, 11,786 to 1857 fol-
r. Clarence Dozier; Second, Johr
H.. Kerr, 1882; Third, G.. A. Bar
den, 20,21S to 1922 for w. B
J Rouse; Fourth, Harold D. Cooley
29,431 to 1867 for Hobart Brant-
ley; Fifth, F. W. Hancock, Jr., U.s.
221; Sixth, w. B. Umstead 21,241
to 9,543 for B. C. Campbell; Sew
enth, ]. B. Clark 17,774 to 4,747
!: for Louis Goodman; Eighth, J.. W,
Lambeth, 1874 to 1914 for
Avalon E. Hall; Ninth, R. L
Doughton, 44,7so to 32,171 fol
Joseph Prevette; Tenth, A. L. Bull
Wrinkle, 43,4S3 to $500 for Cal
vim R. Edney; Eleventh, Zebulor
| Weaver, 5000 to 38,117 for H
B. Leavitt.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-23

We used to hear about the girls
giving us the cold shoulder, but
on modern styles a lot of chappies
are going to get the cold back.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-23
FOUR DIE IN PLANE CRASH

-FOUR DIE IN PLANE CRASH
Flying against a hill side 200
miles north of Los Angeles an air
plane crashed and carried four peo-
pie to their death, including W. E.
Tommy Thomas, So, veteran
pilot and president of Pacific Air
motive corporation of Burbank,
Cal. All of the victims were en-
ployees Of Pacific Airmotive Cor
poration.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-23

The people are urged to see the
light and they get quite a flash of 1t
when they speed up their cars and
run their heads against a tree.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-23

GENUINE STEELE'S JUMBO"
pansy plants, guaranteed the
finest on earth, s1.2s per 100.
Violets, Princess of Wales, $3.50
per 100; large Purple Fragrant,
$1.10 per 100. All delivered.
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5. G.. II 6 At.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-23

CHATTEL E
BLANKS-For sale at The
Waterman office, 1le East
Fisher Street.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-23

FEDERAL ADMINISTRA
TOR AND A.
Moffett and his bride, the for
mer Mrs. AdeIine Moran.
were secretly married in New
York and started on their
honeymoon to Florida aboard
the brides palatial yacht.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-11-23

CLOSE HARMONY - The pretty
Pickens sisters from Georgia, p0pu-
lar singing stars, prepare to hear
their latest monograph recording on
a remarkable little record player N
larger than a cigar chest,
which plays records through
any electrically operated radio
set. The new mechanism is a .
recent RCA-Yictor Co. develop B
ment. ;##*
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07
"Slurn Boulevard"

We don't know how Connecticut likes to have it's Boston Post Road, at least that section of it from the New York state line up as far as New Haven, referred to as "slum boulevard" but that's the way it appears in cold print in survey Just issued by the National Council for Pro- lection of Roadside Beauty. Perhaps we can draw some consolation as state from the fact that the same report places Con- necticut at the top of the list of states Tn highway Identification, but we're sure that the uncomplimentary words above will make Fairfield county residents more than determined that the new Merritt parkway be built speedily and according to their own approved specifications
 True there is some cause for the vivid description. The Post Road has sut1ered from commercialism of recent years, put until some authority is delegated to the proper department we're afraid that sucn conditions will continue along existing rights of way. However, that need nct prevent the state developing such park, ways as are now planned for Fairneld county. Nor can it lessen our desire to continue to earn the reputation as the best-dressed state. Our pastoral beauty is indeed to be preserved at all cost. It IS our chief stock in trade when the tourist comes within our midst, whether the sea- son be summer, winter, fall or spring.
 We're inclined to take bit lightly the councils warning that the billboard bus mess will increase materially through outdoor advertising of liquors, wines, and beers. Newspapers and the radio ex- pected to reap rich harvest in this new source of material, but it has not yet de- veloped to the point desired. Perhaps in another year it may reach high peak. Still we're not worried about it. endanger- ing our roadside beauty at the presene moment. What we are more concerned with is the synchronization of existing n-operty with road development plus the added feature of Identification through planting, etc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07
Hope For Settlement

The conference between Postmaster General James A. Farley and Senator Augustine Lonergan in Washington yes terday was certainly important enough to call off a scheduled democratic gathering in Hartford Monday night. We don't say that the democratic pow-wow at which Governor Cross and prominent officials and party leaders were going to discuss the al-important topic of the party's tu- ture plans hinged on this Washington conference, but it seems logical to believe that the state leaders preferred to await developments from the Capital before do- ing anything themselves.
 It is high time that the democrats or the state got together and threshed out their problems. If there are to be two factions in the state let them be simply the republican and democratic parties. It is as foolish for members of the one party to buck their own partymen as it IS for those of the other. We don't know whether the conference at which Cover nor Cross was to preside Monday night would have thrown oil on troubled waters. It might merely have stirred chem up a bit more Still it was step in the right direction.
 However, the Farley-Lonergan get together is something quite different. 1t leads us to believe only one thing. There will be complete settlement of the Con- necticut patronage problem. That's as It should be. Democrats of this state waited a long time to get appointments. Those who have them really ought to be assured of their permanency or advised that they are merely temporary. We find no fault with Senator Lonergan in holding up various appointments in his official ca pacity, even though we might approve ot the very persons affected by his action. He acts within reason, for as the lone democratic senator from the state he IS by all precedent and custom entitled to some say in patronage decisions. This to date seems to have been denied hiW. We feel sure that the status of the party will be strengthened materially by whatever decisions Senator Lonergan ard Post master-General Farley arrived at during their session.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07

rate dropped to an ast0undingly low point. Instead of killing someone every day, its motorists killed no one at all = until the storm had passed and traffic conditions became safer.
 Tn this startling reversal of logic, there is a neat little moral for motorists all over the country. It is pretty clear proof that auto accidents do not come from dangers inherent in the flow of traffic. They come simply because motorists and pedestrians take risks that they have no business to take.
 When the streets are dry, and every car can be kept under perfect control, and drivers and pedestrians alike can see without difficulty in every direction - then is the dangerous time. Motorists drive too fast, they cut in and out of traf- fife lanes, they try to beat the other fei- low across intersections. Pedestrians trust to their nimbleness of foot to dart through lines of heavy traffic. The re- suit, of course, is that many people get killed and far greater number gets maimed.
 But when bad weather comes, so that it's hard to stop car suddenly, and the footing is uncertain Well then we get wise to ourselves and stop taking chances. and, as a result, accidents diminish. If we could take the trouble to be as care ful when conditions are favorable as we are when they are unfavorable, our auto traffic toll would cease to be national scandal.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07
HISTORY

At the start of the reconstruc- ton period following the Revolu- tionary war there were very few people of wealth in. Waterbury. Wealth in this day was not meas ured in figures that wealth today
 Is, and $20,O00 was considered a fortune. Wolcott, ,.iddlebury and Watertown in those days were in
 advance of Waterbury as far as wealth was concerned, and the Wa
 in advance of those here. It was
 the custom then for people from Waterbury to go to Westbury lWatertown) to do their shopping, and today we have it reversed with suburban Watertown coming to Waterbury. q
 Most of. the; ..inhabitants had speep, people here following agri-
 cultural. pursuits principally. and wool from these was spun in the home. Houses for the most; part were unpretentious, with few
 mansions, There were few car- riages used here. Families went to church on horseback. Traveling weavers visited each household, and twice year Q tailor made up various garments for different fam . flies. A shoemaker came at set seasons and saw that feet were shod for the year. The social rank at this timeS placed the, minister first, the lawyer second, and the doctor third. The doctor usually made his rounds in a two. wheeled sulky,. The homeiy duties ard GUS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07

committee members before. they are selected had slipped up,s
 fst4 MODEL { ' A twenty-year- old model Is be- ing used by experts of the senate banking .coinnaittee in drafting the drastic Stock Exchange reg ulation bill trey have been or- dered to prepafe. 2S8 s-i
 Back in 1914, following a. bit- ter denunciation by President. Wilson of predatory business and financial interests lobbying against his reform measures, the house ordered an inquiry. The inquiry became known as the Puj0 investigation. one of the most sensational and historic in the long line of congressional probes.
 Samuel Untermeycr, New YOrlS's brilliant, Orchid. wearing lawyer, was the Fcrdinand Pc. cora of that day. As . result of his disclosures of the machina- tiOns of high- finance, he drafted q rigorous stock exchange con. trol bill. i@
 Public sentim entt was aroused, congress was in a mood to act, and the measure seemed cer- tain of passage. Then, suddenly, Europe burst into flames. War spread it's pail over the whole world. The Untermeyer bill, other important reform measures, were swept aside in the rush of international events. f4 y s
 For 20 years the bill gathered dust in the archives of the Lib rary of Congress. Now experts of the senate committee, headed by John T. Flynn, brilliant econon1- list and author, are pouring oyer It, using 1t as the model for the legislation soon to be offer- ed.
 MERRY.GO.ROUND
 Ernest Gruening, slated to be administrator of the newspaper code in place of Ralph, Pulitzer, / Is one of the administrators most vigorous critics and at the same time, staunchest friends. As adviser of the American dele. gntion to the Montevideo con- ference. Gruening became inti- mate with Secretary Hull despite the fact that his weekly, The Na- tion, was bitterly critical of state department policy in Cuba. At the last White House recep- tion. Will Rogers appeared among tails, white ties and boil ed bosoms wearing plain busi- ness suit. .. Informed that a young lady to whom he was in- troduced was a "Ph. D." will said, "Oh, that's one of the new recovery agencies, isn't it2" The ffteen-year-old son of Am bassador Troyanovslsy of Russia can speak English and Japan csc far better than his father. :. Eddie Bowling sent this telegram to Huey. Long during ! the latter's lodging of the fistic prowess of Mayor Walmsley: Dear lucy; Would you consider appearing in the, leading role of my comedy hit, 'Big-Hearted Herbert at the Biltmore theater. New York. It's a great show I'll meet any terms within reason and guarantee you protection against Walmsley. Am trying to engage Mabel Walker Wille- brandt to play opposite"
 Copyright, 1884, by United
 Feature Syndicate, .Inc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07
Watch Your Driving

One of the queerest things about au- tomobile traffic is the fact that when ever there is a spell of nasty winter weather, which coats the streets with ice and makes driving extra-hazardous, one is almost certain to find the accident rate dropping abruptly. One good-sized city gave graphic illustration of this last month. It's police traffic department is under-manned, and it does not ordinarily keep it's traffic situation very well under control. Since the start of the year, fatal automobile accidents had been occurring ct the rate of about one 2 day. Then came q violent cold spell. The streets were icy, treacherous; snow flurrles filled che air. cutting down the vision of drivers and pedestrians alike, and adding an extra risk to the situation.
 And Immediately the citv'S accIdent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07

Z, o.. Whit, is the,os Henry Me. morial award? S,sf, S.,iR "A. Cash awards .of; $500. $2So, and $1oo offered annually for the best short stories by American ,lisiied in American periodicals, '
 Q. What does it. mean to Say that 2 man wears, Soup, and < "A. "A: It Is a, slang term for formal evening dress. 1.: a.gs.
 e.. How do ocean steamers get their fresh hsfwater? 1si e'' s'.e z A. Small boats carry sufficient water toiiast between ports; large vesesls have apparatus by which fresh watery,is. distilled from the sea water.~ t';i i
 Q. Do telegraph cables lie on the floor of the ocean4 ,s, S < s A. When laying ocean cables sufficient slack is laid out to in sure hat 1t will follow the con- tour of the bottom of the sea, and will actually lie upon the bed at all points. If suspended across chasi1ls the, weight of the cable would sooner or later cause rupture.
 Q. Do American ministers and ambassadors receive the same sal-
 A. Ambassadors receive. sl7,-l 800 2 year and ministers receive
 ll.
 Q. When did Kipling. write "The Light That Faiied?" Was 1t his first novel?
 A. It was his first novel, writ ten fin 1890. sies
 O. How long did Franklin P Roosevelt hold the office of assist ant secretary of the navyl $.
 A. From Marchg1sfs to March, 1921. thsl
 c. Has any state of the U. s. . Negro governor?
 A. Mo- ift sS
 e. what form of govsFnment
 A. Republic. ~ M ,.f
 e. Do rubber heels and rubber soied shoes have q bad effect on 'eAs IA. 'sssss ss. Z f q. what;is tho value ofUnited States iifty-eeilt paper money Issue of 1875 with bust Of Dexter, and also with bust of crnwferd7
 "A. The former Co eetaiogued at 70 cents and the latter at'tb cenis. .ff sFn~nms~sIft Fff
 c. What kind of political unit ie calie1 c leffIfery1 v
 ~. fn American politics, lt iB a 1opeH4eut Nnlt Whoae ReyefufnsDt in nIsnIiar iH D1anY Fesree5q 70 list nf . sf 'ss ''s'f s'',nse1 nni'''esi %- {
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07
Berlin Letter
By PAUL KECSKEMETI United Press Staff Correspopden

Berlin (UP)-Despite the Nazi- fication of Germany, the remhants of the liberal press still hold their own againSt .Iitlerite newspapers. Official statistics on the circula. tion of newspapers show that Ger. many's largest circulation Is still that of the liberal Berlin Morgen. post of the Ullstein family with al, average of 342,88S copies daily The Voelkischer Beobachter ranks fsecond with 311,3s4 copies. The latter figure, however, includes both the Berlin and the Munich editions of the Hitlerite organ, while the Morgenposts sales are confined to the Berlin area. The Nazis' second Berlin news- paper, the Angriff, has circula. ton of 94.2O0--onIJ half as big as Hugenberg's evenitng paper, the Nachtausgabe, ard ranking below Ullstein's evening sheet, the "B. z
 Am Mittag," of which nearly 100,. 900 copies are pritned daily. In the field of provincial jour. nalism, the Nazi organs have suc- ceeded in outranking all others. Germany's biggest circulation outside Berlin now is that of the Hitlerites' w es q eutscher Be. obachter" of Cologne with over 200, ,000 copies daily, The former ly pacifist, now Nazi, 'Dortmund General Angzeigef" ranks second with 190.000 copies.
 In the pre-I1itlerite era, this Dortmund paper was Germany's most-read newspaper outside Der. lin. Although the papers tenden. cy was changed diametrically from radical pacifism to radical Nazi. ism, the number of its readers did
 not substantially decline.
 It is curious to observe what happened to the mastodons of tho
 German press of the pre.Hitlerits era.
 Two of Beriin's biggest dailies HugenberR'g nationalist Lokai. Anzeiger and Mosse'g democratic Berliner Tageblatt lost, with thei' influence, many Of their readers Both were nearly haived, the Lo. kal-Anzeiger's circulation now be,
 lng iso,ooe and the Tagebiatti Tb,OO0.
 it is noteworthy that few non. Nazi newspapers which, despite ths Nazi g0veFnment's right control ol pubic opinion have maintained { eeFihln indapenaene succeeded | ln iDGreaaing theiF circulation, Thns. the frnnkfuFseF Ne''"ns
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07

It looks as if Senator Hiram Johnson of California would be a democrat this year. The veteran legislator is destined to receive the democratic support for sen- ator. And this after long and stormy career in republican and Bull Moose ranks. Most of the members of the dem- ocratic congressional delegation from the sunny state view with favor the plan to support Johnson. We haven't yet heard how Senator William Gibbs McAdoo feels about it, but he'll undoubtedly agree with the others Senator Johnson, of course, supported President Roosevelt in the 1882 campaign and this is the way he is being repaid. Unfortunately it's only the democrats who show such magnanimous spirit as this Whenever democrat SUD- ports republican and then expects con- sideration in return he usually is laughed out of the county.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07
A Book a Day by BRUCE CATION
Uncle Sam Works Quite Efficiently

In "T N T-These National Tax Eaters" T. Swann Harding takes up the current theory that the gov- ernment is mad spendthrift oper- ating through clumsy and inefIic- lent bureaucracy, and tosses if bodily out of the window.
 Examining the figures in page after page of well -documented evidence, he announces bluntiy that the government is a lot more efficient and economical than .pri. vate business itself. '., pense Of running the government has increased enormausIy In the last two decades. Why? Because the people have demanded it: be- cause 1t has had to set up divi- sions and bureaus to give the people service which they cannot get 1t any other way. s.f
 The taxpayers, says MT. liar. ding, gets value received for his tax dollar. The government spends large sums for him and saves vastly larger sums for his business. It gives him an almost limitless variety of services which 'S SouAu hoI spCSSiDty puy TOT nlm-
 By increasing its activities, 1, simply has acted in accordance with memorable social trends. Its numerous employees are hard working and conscientious and generally underpaid.
 Then, Hr. Harding turns his att tention Ito business and industry, and gets downright nasty. Here he. says. and not in the field oi government, is the true stamping ground of inefficiency and waste
 It was the blindless and colos- sally expensive waste Of private initiative he says, that got us in to our. present mess; nothing but the good sense and efficiency of government will get us out. NJ All in all, a provocative and spirited hook. Published by Long and Smith, 1t sells for $2.76. W
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07
So They Say.

I have more trouble with ani- rnals different in sex than with those of the same sex. --ciyde Beatty, animal trainer,
 rnf 's v Z am opposed to revolutionary changes without popular mandate. -~oEden T.. Mills, former secretary
 of tho treasury. F' ', a
 America never will become a truly musical country until the Dos calIeo yTnn'en people take it into -.waitcr pbmrosch,
 Every man and weiaaB lD thIs country who ie willing aHd abie Co work nee1g f0 be psFmHneutiy and securely empieyad. e'3 ' -~es1retsFv 0s iah0F ReFkjDs,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07
What We Do With Our Time

In the average life of 70 years, says Siegfried Bergengrun, German psycholo- gist, man works 25 years; sleeps 20 years; gives to walking and sports z years; devotes years to shaving, dress ing, etc; spends years in such pleasures as dancing, drinking, holding hands, etc; waits (for wife, etc) 3 years; dimes for 2 years; uses telephone 1 year, and spends 30 hours year looking into mir TOTS and another hours wiping the nose.
 Perhaps tditors should beg forgiveness for passing along these findings to an in- nocent public all unaware of what lies ahead of any long-lived individual. The full horror of the revelation may be ale viated by the realization that life really isn't like that. There are mornings when a man wishes, as the alarm clock goes off, that he really might sleep for 20 years. ceeded his waiting -for-wife quota in one There are times when he feels he has ex- session. Fortunately, in living, the activi- ties scheduled by the psychologist are mostly so nicely divided and blended and interspersed with others he did not men, tion that the whole mixture is interesting and generally satisfactory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-07

The United States is approaching the delicate diplomatic problem of the 1886 Olympic games with true caution. They are scheduled to be held in Berlin, Ger many, and there is widespread feeling among various nations that some sort of boycott might well be practiced unless the Hitler regime in Germany shows dispo- sition to regard Jewish athletes, not to mention Jewish men and women of the ordinary walks of life, more favorably. There'll be no action taken here for some weeks as our Olympic committee was given it's executive board power to act as it pleases.