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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
FIRST HIS SPLEEN AND
THEN HIS RISIBLES

Did you happen to see the gen
tleman asleep in a a parked a.
the side of the Francis Marion
hotel, being awakened by a a in
front which backed into his car,
becoming engaged in a heated de-
bate with the gentleman driving
the car in front and in the middle
of the debate being hit by the car
in back :. the whole situation
becoming so foolish that even the
irate gentleman in the middle who
had been hit by the back of the
car in front and by the front of the
car in the back began to laugh?
Item, Charleston News ane
Courier.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
L~ynchings In 1894
Below Last Year

Lynchings for the first six
months of 1884 showed a decrease
of two over the same period in
1888, with six in the current year
against eight last year, an an
nouncemen from Tuskegee normal
and industrial institute said.
All of the victims of lynchers
were Negroes. the report compiled
by the department of records and
research said. and all were in
southern states.
The lynchings by states were as
follows: Florida l; Kentucky 1;
Mississippi 2; Tennessee /, and
Texas l..
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
The Influence of weekly nevs-
papers on public opinion exceeds
that of all other publications in
the country.-Artbur Brisbane.
STILL HAS HIS RESERVES

No more timely, subtle nor eff
fective communication was ever
made by an executive than was the
late address to congress in which
President Roosevelt set forth the
primary detectives of his policies.
1t did several things beside heart
ening his friends and confusing
his enemies. 1t made the issue so
plain that the every day nan could
it. Shelter, a job, and some kind of
insurance for old age and misfor-
misfortune-these are appealing
subjects. No enemy of the new deal
can object. no friend can fail to go
forward for them.
The so-called mastery of cong
ress by the President has been at
tanned in a very simple way-by
appeal to the people. Except for
the multiplied ease for making this
appeal the President reforms would
have gone to pieces in congress be-
fore now. And of these means of
appealing to the people we must
place first of all the radio. The
President could speak literally face
to face with the people as never
before and no hostile press and no
hostile orator could relay that mess
age in a distorted way. The people
could hear with their own ears and
unerstand with their own minds.
Except for this power of the
President we should have had a
demoralized congress, democrats
pulling against each other, re-
formers and hobbiests at cross pur-
poses, selfish interests warming the
lobbies and getting in their work on
every hand, newspapers giving the
usual biased and fragmentary in
formation about what was going
on. Radio has been the Presidents
gun behind the door. And nothing
shows better his wisdom than the
way he has used it. He hasn't grab
bed his gun and turned loose at
sparrows, however annoying they
might be. He keeps it as a reserve.
And now that congress has ad-
jectives before the people and in
getting better and better acquaint-
ed with them and seeing more and
more of the country. And then
along about August-that is the
month suggested by some one-he
will hook up the radios and talk
to the people along the lines of
what is needed in the next congress.
And it will be a sour old stand
patter that will not have to trip
his sails in accordance in order to
get back to Washington.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
Drops Z Names
AS He Becomes
Citizen of u. S.

Charleston, S. C.-His name
was Anthony Albert Alexander
Adrain Paul David Napoleon Maria
Salvatore Soittle Restiva when he
went into Federal Court to be nat
uralized.
He came out just plain Anthony
Albert Restiva, no longer an ltaI-
ian, but an American citizen. He
explained:
II decided I'd just get rid OF
some of my names"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
4-H Clubs Gather in Washington

RIGHT. Like an old-hand at broad
casting, c. L. Granting, Jr., OF
oranxeburg, S. c., tells the unseen
radio audience how he has completed
eight years of outstandingly u c
cessful Ali Club work in corn. cotton
and swine. Young Mr.. Gramlins's trip
to Washington was made possible by
The Barrett Company, distributors
of Arcadian, the American nitrate
of soda. As part of its agricultural
development work, this company
takes a keen interest in both the All
Club and Future Farmers of America
and co-operates with their leaders 1t
has found that it's contests and do
nations of American nitrate of soda.
not only help the boys towards better
farming methods but also enable
them to learn first hand what fine
results this improved product of the
South gives. photo by u. g W.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
MYSTERIOUS VISITOR
DOWN EAST

Strange as it may senior may
be not so strange as it should
seem-a highway patrolman was
seen to pass through here a few
days ago; but from whence he
came, or whittier his leisurely des-
tination, no one would attempt a
definite solution.
-Ingleside Items, Franklin
Times.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
THIS WEEK IN
WASHINGTON
Continued from Page One)
the highest point our National Debt
ever reached.

Nobody worries much about
paying off a National Debt-no-
body but Andrew Mellon, that is,
Mr.. Mellon approached the public
debt as a banker does all debts, as
something to be paid. Statesmen
look at debts as something to Of
fer to the investing public as a safe
source of income. "Buy a Gov
eminent bond and you can't lose
your capital" And that is true
so long as the Governments credit
is good. So the important question
is: How much of a debt can the
United States carry without i'm
pairing its credit? And the gen.
orally accepted answer is IS bill
lion dollars.
To pay interest on double the
debt of 1882 would seem to call for
doubling the tax income; but the
definite effort is to reduce all in
terest rates to percentages compar-
able with those prevailing in the
older nations. The day of { per-
cent returns with any degree of
safety on any sort of private in
vestment is regarded as having
passed; five percent is the interest
rate talked of most on private OBJ
legations. And considering the abb
solute safety of a Government
bond, the effort will be to refin-
ance the old issues and issue the new
ones on a basis of around 2 to Il
percent, so that the same old tax
income will carry the doubled load
of debt.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

MOVIES . house cleaning
There is great promise in the
latest move to "clean up" the
movies The Federated Council OF
Churches of Christ in America:
representing practically all of the
Protestant denominations has join
ed forces with the Council of Ro-
man Catholic Bishops to take di-
rect and aggressive action to safe
guard the morals of the young folk
who constitute the bulk of the
movie audiences.
1t is time that the churches, as
the source of moral instruction,
took a position in the matter of the
movies from which they cannot be
cajoled by the powerful political
and financial interests which fatten
On the distortion of truth and the
debasement of ideals.
|BARUCH picks up pen
My old friend Bernard M.
Baruch has shaken off all his bust
mesh connection and will devote
the rest of his life to writing mem
oirs.
They ought to make interesting
reading. A native of South Caro-
lima, son of a Jewish surgeon in
the Confederate Army, Bernie
Baruch made himself one of the
most powerful figures in finance
as we'll as one of the richest men
in this country. When the wal
came, he was one of the first tc
volunteer his services to President
Wilson, and as chairman of the
Industries Board and general
financial and business adviser tc
the Administration, he played a part
in the war as important as that OF
any general in the field.
If Mr.. Baruch will set down all
that he knows about the inside
of Wall Street and of the other
activities which have occupied his
life, it will be one of the most i'm
portant books ever written.
HOUSES -. cost too much
Most houses cost too much
Everybody who has given serious
study to the subject of housing
agrees to that. Better houses car
be built for less money, and thu
day is coming when everyone will
realize that. | don't know how
long it will take before one car
buy a house as one buys an auto
mobile, all ready to set up and liv'
lin, but many folk predict that
coming soon.
If automobiles were built with a
much waste of time and labor a
goes into most homes, the cheapes
car would cost $4,000 or so.
On the other hand many house
cost little enough. I read the othe
day of a family in Serbia that bull
itself a new house for 16 cents
That was all the money they spent
and it went for Window glass. TIL
men-folk of the family quarrie'
the stone cut the wood did all tn
work and built a bigger house 70
a growing family.
Some of my country neighbor
have done almost the same thing
Good houses, too. they have con
structed with their own hands
That was the way almost ever,
house in America was built, in tn
pioneet days, and some of them ar
still available. My own farm
home, built in! 1886, is good for an
other hundred years or more.
think we are going to see a return
to simpler and less expensive hous
ling for everybody.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

A noted educator said that the
need Of the times is straight think
ing, but straight throwing to the
bases produces more applause dur
ing the baseball season in Salisbury.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

ABOVE. Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace, whose informal
address at the recent All Club Camp
in Washington was read with interest
throughout the nation, autographs
the programs of two lucky All mem
bers from Iowa. They are James F.
Kearns and Miss Florence E. Meier.
Attractive Miss Meier has specialized
in canning, clothing and room i'm
provement since 1927. Although Sec
rotary Wallace's recent writings have
shown him to be a believer in world
trade, he has made the point that GER
tain vital industries have to be built
up in this country. While he did not
name any of these, many people feel
hat the nitrate of soda industry is
one of them. photo by L. N. P.)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

The popular theory of how to
save the people who bankrupted
themselves by borrowing 0 much
money is to lend them come more.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
BY
FRANK PARKER STocKBRIDGE

RUBBER from gas
The discovery of the DUPONT
Company of a way to make a sub
stitute for rubber out of gas is one
more proof of the value of pure
science Only chemists familiar
with every phase of that complex
science would have dreamed of the
possibility that you can heat coal
and limestone and from the cal
cium carbide thus obtained produce
acetylene gas by adding water, and
then by adding salt get a new
chemical chloroprene, which CO.
agulates into a substitute which,
while not real rubber. makes just
as good automobile tires as rubber
does.
Natural rubber is so cheap now
that it doesn't pay to use this new
product. But if another war
should send rubber up to 81 a
pound, as the last one did, or even
an eighth Of that price, the United
States would be independent of the
South American and East Indian
rubber growers.
Now almost the only things that
we have to import r things we
could get along without in case Of
war, such as coffee, tea and choco-
late.
PLANES and Russia
A good many people seemed sur
prised that Russia should be able
to build an a%irplane carrying forty
passengers. The new "Maxin
|Gorky" with eight engines of 1000
horsepower is reported to be a great
success. Most Americans have for
gotten, apparently, that the larg.
est phase that had ever been built
anywhere until after the great wa
was the giant Sikorsky plane If
1913. Sikorsky, the Russian de
signer, came to America after tn
war and built some of the bes'
planes we have turned out.
The war, instead of stimulating
commercial aviation, set it bacl
many years. by centering attention
on military planes. which have tt
be totally different from CONNER
cial planes. Passenger arid expires
planes did not really get a fair star
until the old wal planes had beer
strapped.
The first public flight of an air
plane was only 26 years ago, il
June. 1908. when Glenn Curt
flew the "June Bug" at Harmon
sport, N. Y. Considering all tina
has happe1ed since, we've gone
llong way in flying, but there is
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

Some folks who can't stand it to
have their feet stepped on, will
howl down a prizefighter who quits
after being pummeled almost into
Inconsistencies.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
ARKANSAS

ARKANSAS IRAVELEK
Mr. Tadlock, of Eldorado, Ark,
is visiting his niece, Mrs. Robert
Linker He formerly lived in
Union county but moved to Ark
ansas in 1882. He is 81 year, old
and walked a good part of the way
back here (for the novelty.
River Correspondence,
Concord Tribune.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

SHOT,; FIX 'EM SO THAT
CHARLOTTE, WHEN 1T GETS
READY, KIN KILL TWO BIRDS
WITH ONE STONE
Raleigh commentator lows as
how state and federal revenue de-
partments ought to be in close
proximity for convenience of tax
payers. It's o. k. by US, Bro.
Bring the state department on over,
Greensboro News
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

ABOVE. A general view of the All
Camp. Note Washington Monu.
ment in the background.
photo by Globe Phofos)
LEFT. An important quartet in
agricultural affairs, these officials
have been working day and night
to aid the drought-stricken West
but were not too busy to take an
interest in the All Camp. Left In.
right, they are: Col. l.. w. West
brook, assistant to the Federal
Emergency Relief Administrator.
VIM. l. Myers, Governor of the
Farm Credit Administration; Ches-
ter A. Davis, Agricultural Adjust
ment Administrator, and Rexford
Tugwell, who has just been an
pointed under-Secretary of Agri-
culture. Mr.. TugwelPs address
vas one of the high-spots of the
Camp. photo by U. G ~
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

The men who married for money
frequently find that they have also
married for alimony.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

Principal thing needed now is less
hammer work by the knockers, and
more X work by the economizers.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

NUDIST PERFORMANCES
OUGHT NOT TO LACK
FOR FANS
Nudist wedding at Chicago Fair
might be called a religious dispen-
sation to Sally Rand.
Raleigh Times.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06

You can always increase the size
of the doughnut by making the hole
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
GENERALS
HOLIDAY

university to bestow LID,
on Postmaster General Farley.
What in the world does he want
with any more letters?
Norfolk Ledger-D Dispatch.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
OLD
CUSTOM

When the good Gutter Modoc
stopped at Southport last week to
invite the State Pilot to visit
her and take tea, she was following
the established custom of the Uni
ted States in extending courtesies
to neighboring powers.
State Port Pilot.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
M SEAT BUILT FOR
A CROWD

n ONO
Mrs. w. 0. Dunbar of Boston
gave her Sunday school class a
weiner roast at Seven Springs last
Tuesday P. M. Mr.. Dunbar
brought them on his trailer.
Seven Springs Correspondence,
Goldsboro News-Argus.
NOW ALL THEY NEED is A
COMPULSORY N D
LAW AND LOW
P~AID-TEACHERS
The Baptist church runs a
truck on Sunday morning to bring
pupils to Sunday School.
Lake View Correspondence,
Lumberton R~obesonian.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-07-06
|MUST'VE HAD A OCEAN
IBREEZE OR ELECTRIC FAN

OR SOMEP'N
Mrs. Carrie Buck and son, lola
Midyette and Floyd Dunn were
visitors in Comfort Wednesday
night.
-Peelsboro Correspondence, New
Bern Tribune.
Evening star., 1934-10-15
Tausht BeskJepihg.

At Killernent, Scotland. IS vorkIe6b
men tuusti& ene1ne1r4 ehdpnuj1dnE1,
and catpsntefss Als being inskfucted "a
beekeepine - ssudesps Of livelihood. /
Evening star., 1934-10-15
.LEGIONNAIRES| |aQskD
THREATENED CHILD
Extortionist Asks 81, 900 to Pre-.
vent "Loss'' Of Little Ohio
Girl. IN +

~ the Associated Press. =
SALEM, Ohio. October l5.-A
threat to kidnap or kin the 2-year -old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram
Greiner, jr., was revealed today when
an American Legion guard was posted
over the child. ------ "a
A note warning the parents to ~ex-
pect TO suffer the heart-throbs Of los
Ing" the child unless they paid 5000
to the extortionist was received by the
parents . week ago.
Neatly typewriter, It was found by
the family beneath the front door.
Its receipt was kept secret by the
parents and police, and Department
Of Justice agents were reported to have
been summoned here to make IN in-
vestigation.
Evening star., 1934-10-15
LLOYD GEORGE e!Ritlas
'omsial eirelilia london shoel.ss
By Death.

LONDON. October Is tR-Tributes
TO the warmth Of Raymond Poincare's
cooperation with Great Britain In
the days Of the World War were paid
today by David Lloyd George and
other figures Of that period.
"PoincAre was the last Of the great
outstanding figures Of the war
Clemenceau, BRAND, Ribot, Painleve
and viviani have already gone-and
now Poincare," said Lloyd George.
Omcial circles were shocked by the
death and opinions were expressed
that Britain has lost IN outstanding
friend. Older figures In the gov
ernment, most Of whom knew poincare
well personally, were deeply moved.
Evening star., 1934-10-15
Fine Specimen.

DR.. Mann said the bushmaster vas
the finest he ever saw. He hopes to
devise . means Of prolonging It's LIE
20 that scientists and amateurs alike
may see the snake.
The bushmaster Is said 10 seek out
is man and has killed numerous r,a-
Evening star., 1934-10-15
U. S. AIR BOARD EXPECTS
IINDBERGH TOMORROW
Flyer Due to Appear Before Com.
mission at $50 AM. in Com
I merce Building.

Assurance that Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh would be through with his testi-
mony before the New York courts in
time 10 appear before the Federal
Aviation Commission tomorrow morn
ing has been received by oficials of
the commission.
Lndbergh Is slated to appear at
$50 am. In the hearing room on the
seventh floor Of the Department of
Commerce Building and probably win
be before the commission throughout
the morning.
Evening star., 1934-10-15

6-FoOT red and black bush-
master, deadliest snake in
the Americas, was placed on
display ut the reptile house
today, the only one In any.
Evening star., 1934-10-15
BUCKLEY OPPOSES
CHANGE N DOLLAR
Presidents Intention t
Keep Content Same Is
Held Reassuring.

The prospects Of further depalg-
alton Of the dollar In the ne1t
session Of Congress are discussed
here by the Democratic Senator
from Ohio, Who q q Nssmbsy OF the
Senate Banking and Currency
Committee.
BY ROBERT J. BULKLEY,
United states Senator from Ohio.
CLEVELAND, October 15.-Are We
likely to have further devaluatton oi
the dollar by further reduction Of iti
gold content? Mol = there any pos
sibility that we may still have such
further devaiuation? Yesl
Let us examine the Qualification for
the action Of the Congress and the
President In reducing the gold con-
tent Of our dollar, and consider ouI
present position after that devalua-
ton.
Commencing in 1929 there was IN
unprecedented decline al over the
world In prices Of commodities and
property, expressed In terms of gold.
In the first part Of this period the de-
cline was very sharp, but It has grad
ually flattened out. and In recent
months world gold prices have tended
toward stability, and although they
lre still practically at the bottom,
there IL reason to hope that we have
already felt the worst Of the decline
and that the next move - more likely
to be up than down, though there Il
no probability Of any great change
either way.
Alteration Justified.
BY March, 1888. according to . state
ment made BY the President last week
prices had 20 far declined In the United
States that the actual total value OF
al property In the country was lesa
than the amount Of Indebtedness
which existed against 1t. This desper-
ate situation tustified an alteration In
our standard Of value. Whatever might
happen to prices expressed in terms OF
gold, 1t was necessary to force an i'm
provement In prices expressed In terms
Of dollars, In order to save the country
from such wholesale bankruptcy as "a
create q business chaos.
To meet this situation the Congress
authorized the President to take
certain measures Of currency infia-
ton, and It also authorized him to
reduce the gold content of the dollar
by any amount not exceeding so per
cent. He has not taken the steps
which would have inflated the cur
rency, but he did order Q reduction Of
the gold content Of the dollar 90 that
the dollar now contains about 50 per
cent Is much gold as the old dollar,
or, stated the other way around, the
amount Of gold In the old dollar would
have Q present value Of about $l.69.
He still retains authority to make .
further reduction Of the gold content
down to 50 per cent Of the old dollar,
In which case one old dollar would be
equal in gold content to two new
dollars
Certain Dangers Seen.
A change IA the national standard
Of, valhe q coneededly attended with
certain dangers. afd there seres tRd6n
who seem 10 fekr tint any change
yhatevnsp ~ n snn the MY feeNnea
disastxpu1 yeeults as attsndea H ~
Evening star., 1934-10-15

tives and plantation workers, espe-
cially those toiling In sugar cane. 1t
causes. more fatalities than copper
heads or rattlesnakes.
Another addition to the Zoos coll
lection today was . wild ass from the
highlands Of Central Asia. The speci-
men was obtained in . recent swap
and will be mated with Q female
already at the Zoo.
The two represent the only pair of
wild asses Of Asia In captivity, DR..
Mann said.
Evening star., 1934-10-15

today, the only one In any
ZOO in the world.
Collectors and scientists have
sought for years to obtain . specimen
ia Trinidad and sections Of South
America for display In the United
States and Europe.
The snakes are swift, cunning and
their capture Is both difncult and
dangerous. Collectors have been dis
appointed also by their high mortal
ity rate in captivity.
Within the past few months two
bushmasters have died In Zoos, one
Of them brought back by DR.. Ray
mond Lee Ditmars, curator Of rep
tiles and mammals ct The Bronx
Zoo, . world authority on snakes.
Ditmars Reptile Dies.
Dr.. Ditmars, after several trips to
Trinidad and South American jun
giles, brought back bis specimen.
which had been delivered to him by
. plantation worker. The captive
died soon after It was placed On dis
play.
Thus the arrival Of an especially
hne sbushmaster here was highly well
come to Dr. William M. Mann, direc-
tor Of the Zoo. The snake was the
gift Of Russell Arundel, secretary to
Senator Metcalf Of Rhode Island,
who obtained 1t during . visit to
Trinidad.
In Q carefully secured box, the rep
tile was forwarded by Pan-American
Always from Trinidad and trans
shipped by express from Miami. For
some time the airways ofacials were