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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
JOE CANNON WILL FIGHT
CASE

Formal papers were served on
J. F. Cannon at Concord in the
alienation suit brought by the di-
vorced husband of his daughter,
F. Brandon Smith, Jr., of
Charlotte. The amount called for
is $250,000. Mr.. Cannon, who re-
turned last week. from Hot
Ark, improved in health
says he will contest the case before
the courts. Hartsell and Hartsell
and B. w. Blackwelder of Concord,
and Stewart and Bobbett of Char
lotte are said to have been retained
as counsel for Mr.. Cannon.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
KNEW BEFOREHAND.

KNEW BEFOREHAND.
A negro boxer was to fight a
heavyweight champion. When he
reached the ring it was, noticed that
he hung back
Its all right, Sam. said his
second. Just say to yourself,
I'm goin gto beat him, and you'll
That's no good, replied Sam,
"I know what a liar I am"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
Do You Know The Answer?
Continued on page four
Continued ON page +

l.. Who were the Troubadors?
2. Which state.of the union has
the largest forest area?
3. What is correct, pants leg or
pant leg?
4. Where is Colgate University:
s. What does the name Michi-
gan mean?
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
DANIELS VISITS HOME

MR.. DANIELS VISITS HOME
Ambassador and Mrs. Josephus
Daniels are spending five weeks at
their home in Raleigh before re-
turning to his post at Mexico, D.
F. Mr.. Daniels is quoted as saying
that the United States must either
stick by the new deal, go back to
the old deal that put us in the de-
preston, or accept a raw deal from
the hands of the opponents of the
new deal"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
THE COOLEST APRIL

April of this year is destined to
go on record as the coolest of anv
since the establishment of a wealth
,er bureau at Greensboro. The
killing frost of April "a is said to
be the latest on record, and to have
done much damage to early plants.
Old winter is accused of staying
on the job 10 days later than usual.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

&. Which was the most famous
city of Greek legend?
7. Who said "Trust in God
and keep your powder dry?'
g.. Is the death of Eve recorded
In the Bible?
9. Name the capital Of the Mex
a state of Colima.
10. Who were the Midianites?
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

General johnson was insistent
that the Government had no pur-
pose to impose harmful restrictions
upon business and industry; all that
MIRA was trying to do was to get
business interests into cooperation
for the common good. He was
distressed at the idea that anything
like force was being used or con-
templated, and the notion that
small business men were getting
the worst of it under NRA was en-
tirely wrong, he said. He did not
think the Government had been
moving too fast in imposing the
codes, because any of them could
be changed over night if it proved
oppressive or didn't work. The
purpose of speed had been to try
to get men back to work quickly.
( The next big effort to put men
back to work will be in the build
ing trade, by means of a plan
Continued on page fve
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
FIRES AT WAKE FOREST
COLLEGE

During the past year there have
been a number of suspicious fires
among the several buildings at
Wake Forest College, and thous-
ands of dollars in damage has re-
suited. A renewed attempt seemss
to have been made Friday night
when tire was discovered in a
closet in the alumni building.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
GOOD
MORNING
COCOA COLD

|COtOA tOLD
"A customer in a restaurant called
the negro waiter and complained:
Waiter, my cocoa is cold"
We'll, sah'', replied the son of
Ham, why don't yo' put yo' hat
on, sah?''
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
CHILD DIES FROM MATCH
BURNS

The %three-year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wilson of
the New Hope section died in a
Reidsville hospital where she had
been taken for treatment of burns
eceived while playing with matches
in the home.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

FATHER AND CHILDREN
INJURED
S. ]. Brawley of Troutman and
three of his children were serious
~ injured near Salisbury when
the car they were driving collided
with another last Friday. Mr..
brawley received a broken arm,
the children receiving bad ~lacera-
ions.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

Five Conclusions
Righteous Aim
johnson and NRA
Tugwell Stops Critics

Your correspondent had the
privilege a few days ago of talking
and listening to the three most inn
portant men in the Administration
on three successive days: Presi-
dent Roosevelt or Thursday, Gen
eral Hugh Johnson on Friday and
Professor Rexford Tugwell on Sat-
urday.
All of them talked freely,
though much of what they said
was not for publication. Nothing
that the President said can be
quoted, but it is entirely permissible
to express an opinion on his state
of mind and the direction in which
he is heading, deduced from what
he said. The talk with him lasted
nearly two hours, with General
Johnson nearly as long and with
DR.. Tugwell about an hour.
Certain conclusions are inescap-
able; they were noticeable in what
all three men said.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

First, a definite sensitiveness to
criticism of the "New Deal"
amounting almost to th;n-skirned-
ness.
Second, a definite effort to dispel
the idea that there is something
RADICAL about the New Deal.
Third, a definite purpose to slow
down on Govrnment borrowings
and substitute for Government fin
ancing of private business new
means to stimulate investment OF
private capital.
Fourth, a definite intention to
resist any further inflationary mea-
sures, especially such as contained
in the effort to compel the Presi-
dent to remonetize silver on the
16-to-1 or any other basis.
Fifth, a definite, deep-rooted
conviction that what the Admins
rration is doing is right
On that last point, a high Federal
official recently compared the writ
ten Constitution to the old wooden
man-of-war Constitution, sol
rehabilirated and sent on a
tour of the nations seaports. I'll
was a fine ship in its day and
everybody reveres it and respects it
for the service it did in the War of
1912, but nobody would think Of
sending it to sea to fight again!
There is a fine fervor, almost re-
ligious in it's tone, when some of
the New Dealers talk about the
necessity for social regeneration by
Governmental dictum and financial
aid.
Taking up the points enumerated
in their order, the tone, rather than
the words of all three of these Ad-
ministration leaders indicated that,
although criticism had been invited
it was not relished. Indeed, one of
them used the word wicked" in
discussing certain attacks upon ADJ
ministration policies. Professor
Tugwell was especially sensitive at
the use of the word "regimenta-
ton" in connection with the Or
ganization of business, industry
and agriculture. He thought it a
wrong use of the word: it was a
word he would use to describe the
conditions under which men en-
ployed in industry worked. The
same day he said that, the President
signed the Bankhead cotton re-
%striction bill, Of which Sknator
Bankhead and his nephew, Repre-
sentative Bankhead, were the spon-
sors. 1t put a heavy penalty on
any cotton grower who grows more
than his quota of cotton this year.
The President took pains to explain
that it had been agreed to in ad-
vance by more than 80 percent of
the cotton growers who had ans
wered the Governments question
naire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-23
Production Relief Here

Early in June the Democrat predicted the rapid spread of the Progressive League as it was known then in certain government circles. It was actually news behind the news. Today it's known on every side that production relief" is one of the greatest steps taken to make self sustaining great mass of the un- employed of the United States. What we predicted in no idle vein has come to pass.
 The idea is quite simple It has proved effective wherever tried, It will continue to spread so long as there are men and women anxious to go to work at some trade that will enable them to live con- fortably. Idle factories are the background of "production relief. The government is taking them over through various relief agencies where it believes they can be operated successfully,
 The worker still receives what might be doled out to him as his relief allowance. In addition to that he is entitled to a cer- tain amount of the merchandise he may be manufacturing with hundreds of others. If the product is something for which he has no use at the time it can be exchanged with that of another unit of "production relief. The chain is endless. And so long as there is demand for such things as shirts, suits, dresses, stockings, shoes, and the like among the needy ones there will be movement in the units of this guild the government is creating.
 It's socialstic in sense. There's this difference, though. No manufactured articles in any of these government-oper ated and relief list-manned factories goes on the market to compete in the commer- cial world with private enterprise. And it is on this sole point that relief officials are counting heavily on selling the plan to manufacturers all over the nation. Nothing is lost by removing the trade of those now unemployed. It couldn't be se- cured unless the man or woman secured a job. But they now get both a job and food and clothing. Idle factories make idle hands. Idle hands make mischief. Reverse the process and the reverse result is true,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-23
One Task Ahead

What will actually constitute task for the incoming Legislature is the duty ot realigning our congressional districts. It never was intended that state elect con- gressman-at-arge This is merely pre- text to avoid the troublesome business of reapportionment. Then if it is trouble some, why not keep on with the congress- man. at- large, we can hear someone eX- claim. The answer is obvious There are many troublesome things that must be done in our political world. Chopping up a state into fairly equal districts is not the hardest.
 The Legislature of 1883 ducked the reapportionment issue as did the previous one which could actually have made ready for the new congressman whom we elect ed for the first time in 1882. Now that we have six representatives and will con- tinue to have at least six for another de- cade it hardly seems fair that he should be denied definite constituency in all that period. The argument was raised during the last legislative session that by 1940 our population might not entitle Us to sixth national legislator. That's most unlikely. .-......... ...,.
 If the truth were known it's barely pos sible that in the next twenty years we may find the number going up again. Despite all the claims about urban residents de- serting for the country, industrial Connec- ticut continues to grow. It will be many a year, we honestly believe, before she starts to go in the opposite direction. Her population will remain stationary long before that period and we don't think the top has been reached yet. In the interest of every voter of the state it behooves the Legislature to make reapportionment a starred" item in the program for 1885. And let's include senatorial reapportion- ment, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-23
China Pays Appalling Toll

Half million people may starve to death this summer because of the drought. Not in a century has there been drought so severe. Crops have withered under blazing sun which kept the temperature at 115 degrees, day and night, for weeks. Rivers have dried up, springs have stopped flowing.
 There is no food to be had at all, over wide areas; in scores of villages and towns even the supply of drinking water has become exhausted. The federal gov trnment wants to do something to relieve suffering, but it is so weak, so overburd- ened with previous efforts to combat the drought and so short of funds that it IS very doubtful that it will be able to do anything effective.
 These few sentences present living
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-23

paying half as much for it," he says. "The rate has dropped from ten cents per kilowatt hour to three cents. And for this pow CT the city, which owns the dis tributing systems, pays IVA only 5 ia mills. It pockets the profits between this and the three cents. As a result it's in- come has skyrocketed."
 Byhalia, Mississippi, is 170 miles from Muscles Shoals. But the corner drygoods store bears a notice tackled on a shutter, an- nouncing that the borough al- dermen "have determined upon reconsideration of rates for electric current"
 Jackson, Mississippi, is beyond IVA transmission range and therefore unable to secure its power. But its citizens recently have discovered that they were sitting on top of a natural gas field, and now some of them propose that IVA shall set up '. a new generating plant at Jack son, powered by gas instead of falling water. BAND WAGON RUSH
 Stumping politicians through out Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi get a big hand at every town or crossroads when they proclaim: I'm for IVA"
 This popularity of course has aroused intense bitterness. It comes from a small minority. and perhaps is more virulent for that reason.
 Said m official of the Missis. sippi Power and Light company: "TVA has, hurt us plenty. It Is making the people rate-con. scious."
 Ice manufacturers are alarmed at IVA plans to sell electric refrigerators throughout the valley. Coal companies oppose the wholesale distribution of power. Together they have filed suit to restrain the Alabama Power company from selling its distributing systems to IVA in 14 north Alabama towns. BITTER TEARS
 Bitterness is especially intense on the part Of power interests in Knoxville where the Tennessee Public Service company was force dto sell it's distributing sys- tenn to IVA.
 Power interests claim this was a "brazen exhibition of ruthless ness" that the government is squeezing private business to the wall. Unquestionably part of this is true.' Private power-in this area at least-is being squeezed to the wall. But in the case of the Tennessee Public Service IVA actually proved a rescuer.
 For the city of Knoxville pro. prOscd to set up a competing distributing system. had public works funds with which to do 1t. when IVA offered to buy out the Public Service company.
 Henry L. Stimson, former sec retary of state, now New York city attorney representing Elec- tric Bond and Share, negotiated the deal. He dickered with IVA Director David E. Lilienthal.
 Stimson put a plea Tor the investors who had bought Ten nessee Public Service stocks and bonds. His argument was con vincing. He asked total Of $O.' 900 900 from the government.
 Lilienthal kept poker face,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-23
So They Say

Divorce can happen in any family When an inharmonious, intolerable situation exists, divorce is the humane and justihabe remedy. Judge c. J. Guild, Nevada, who granted two Roosevelt divorccs.
 The cost of unpanncd production is prohb- tive in terms of deccncy and human happiness. -ReXford c. Tugwell, undersecretary of agricu- ture.
 Trade unions the only to have de- mocracy in industry. We can't have democracy all along the ne-in sports business, society," unless it exists also in mill shop, and factory. Mrs Clifford Pnchot, wife of Pennsylvania gov ernor.
 Strikes fewer in number. more readily adjusted. and the loss of man hours of work less than in periods of recovery from previous Impressions.
 -Erances Perkins, secretary Of labor
 
 Within two or three months the public VIII find a decided change for the better in the kind of songs which the radio carries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-23

nightmare. They do not apply, of course to the United States. They do apply, however, to China. They were taken from a recent news dispatch telling of the hor- rible crisis when China is facing this summer.
 The Chinese drought is one of the worst in living memory. So is the one that has hit the United States. Indeed, the weather seems to have been about the same in each nation - much heat, no rain, steady depletion of all water supplies burning and blistering of all growing things.
 In the United States it has meant great financial loss for the farmers and higher prices for the city dwellers. In China It is meaning nothing less than widespread starvation - people dying by the scores of thousands because they cannot get food and water.
 The contrast is instructive. The disaster was the same, in each case; but In one land there was social and economic organ- ization capable of meeting the crisis, while in the other land there was not. In other words, these terrible natural catastrophcs that come upon us every so often can be robbed of their worst terrors if society Is organized to meet them properly. Man. kind can triumph over nature if it will Its worst dangers are those which come when the human element itself proves in. capable of meeting the challenge which fate periodically offers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-23
In To-day's Mail
Government Should
 Control Munitions

Editor, Waterbury Democrat: Federalization and complete con- trol of all intuition plants within the confines of the United States is a step that will prevent the sale of armaments to nations that
 might declare war upon the Unit ed States. Operation of all such
 munition plants should be confined strictly to the manufacture of
 munitions and such armaments as may be needed for the use of the federal government itself.
 There is today increasing pub- bile recognition of the fact that munitions manufacturers through out the entire world have amassed huge fortunes through the sale of
 munitions to belligerent nations. There is every reason to believe that revolutions, insurrections, civil
 wars and international conflicts
 have been aggravated by the greed and avarice of those who make and sell munitions and the instru- ments of warfare. American sol
 diers have actually been killed by guns and ammunition manufactur- ed in the United States and sold to native armies in Central Amer ica.
 The membership of the veter- ans of Foreign Wars of the United States, which is the largest Ameri- l can overseas veterans organiza- tion, is composed exclusively of
 men who have served in all the
 branches of this country's armed services on foreign soil and in
 hostile waters. We, more than the average civilian, hate war and
 dread it's future possibility, for we are all too familiar with it's cost and it's futility.
 As veterans of Americas over seas war service, we believe that Congress should enact legislation which will permit the federal gov ernment to draft industry and
 wealth as we'll as man power, in the event of war. We also main-
 tain that all individuals identified
 with the federal government in time of war be required to serve
 on the same basis of pay as that
 accorded to those who wear uni- forms in the army. navy and ma
 rine corps.
 We believe that this program would serve as one of the most ef- fective means of preserving the
 neutrality of the United States in
 the event of another world con- fiict.
 Very truly yours,
 VINCENT c. MAHONEY Commander No. 10l. V. F. W.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-23

Pussyfoot Johnson is still spreading the gospel of prohibition. Instead of spend- ing his best efforts in preaching temper ance, he prefers to remain an eXhorter ot prohibition. At least that's what we are to assume from the press releases issued by him through the American Business Mems Research Foundation of Chicago. In the one released this week the esteemed MT Johnson gives us such stuff as this. . "As Fong Flu Sees It. Dr Fong Flu came to America. Then he went to Australia tell ing the people how Yankees mix cocktails. He said They put the whiskey into it to make it strong, water to make it weak, lemon to make it bitter, sugar to make 1t sweet, gin to make it hot, and ice to make it cool. Then they hold it out to us say ing, here's to you, and drink it them selves" Yes, MT Johnson, you and other fanatics made more Americans drink conscious by giving us prohibition than all the temperance speakers in the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-23
Turkey Letter
BY FERDINAND C. Nj. JAIN

BY FERDINAND C. Nj. JAIN United Press Stan Correspondent
 Istanbul-Ankara apparently fur nishes a good preparatory training for diplomatic work in Moscow.
 Edmund Ciuntu, Rumanian min ister in TurkeS will be the first Rumainian diplomat to represent his country in Moscow since the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
 ..Nikola Antonoff, Bulgaria's rep resentative in Turkey, who had car ried on negotiations with Yakoff Sakhadovitch Souritz, the Russian ambassador, in Ankara, which led to recognition of the Soviet Russia by theGeorgmeff government, like wise is expected to be appointed as Bulgarian minister to Moscow.
 Hungarian Legation
 Von Jungerth. although he still holds the title of Hungarian min ister to the Turkish government. Is in Moscow to prepare teh in- stallation of Hungarian legation there. It Is believed in diplomatic circles that he will not return to Anakara, but remain in Russia. The agreement for for Lieut. Col von Nemeth Hungarian military attache at Ankara, for the same post in Moscow has been sought by the Budapest government.
 Souritz, for many years rean of the diplomatic corps at Ankara. where he had been the first for cign diplomat after the >proclama- tion of the Turkish republic, is in Berlin as new ambassador, accred- ited to the Nazi government His task ther will be doubly delicate because he is of Jewish origin.
 Real Diplomat
 Not only the maintainance Of cordial delations between Turkey and Russia as we'll as quick set. tlement of occasional differences has been largely due to the ability of SouritZ, but he also has infiu- enced the general policy of bouth coutries.
 Close frendship between Souriiz and Nodolny. the German ambas- sador from Ankara to Moscow, has been helpful in smoothing out many difficulties between the two coutres. Souritz is believed to have had aided in consumation of the Belken pact.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-23

O. How many visitors did New York city have in 1888?
 A. Approximately 25,492,725..
 O. Is the length of railroad trains limited by law?
 A. Arizona is the only State having a law limiting the length of trains.
 o. What was the value of U. $. exports to Germany and German imports in the United States In 1888?
 A. Exports $1S9,966,575; and imports $7s,167,612.
 Q. Is it possible to telephone from a moving train to a tele- phone station in some city? A. The Canadian National Rail- ways has train telephone service by which passengers can com municate from a moving train with all regular telephone lines of the Bell system. A train with this equipment operates between Mon treal and Toronto. o. When and where is the Iowa State Far and Exposition being held this year?
 A. Des Moines, August 22 to 3l
 O. What is Big Ben?
 A. It Is the 13 1-2 ton bell ir the clock tower of the British House of Parliament in London and was named for Sir Benjamin Hall, London's commissioner oi works in 1856.
 Q. Which was the first railroad to establish passenger service?
 A. The Stockton and Darlington Railway of England, opened in September 1925.
 Q. Was the funeral of Anatole France conducted with religious services?
 A. He was free thinker, sceptic and. humanist in religion, and in accordance with his own request there was no religious service.