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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

The week of May 9TH has been
designated as safety Week" by the
Governor of our state and in accord
with this movement it seems to be
the proper time to acquaint our
selves with some of the more serious
aspects of the motor vehicle traf-
Ific situation as it exists in North
Carolina at the present time.
Fatalities due to traffic accidents
have increased from ga in 1882
to S53 in 1888 and the records for
the first three months of 1884
show 1913 deaths. The number of
persons injured has also increased in
about the same proportion.
The cause of the greatest per-
centage of those accidents investi-
lgated is shown to be wilful reck-
less driving. The leading place of
accident occurrence is the straight
stretch of the rural highway. The
prevailing time is daylight. The
prevailing weather condition. is
clear. And in $3.50 of the cases
investigated the cars involved were
apparently in good mechanical
condition.
OF the pedestrians injured or
killed by automobiles last year,
children playing in the streets led
the list by a large percentage,
closely followed by mixers walking
on the wrong side of the highway.
In view of the calculations above
we can readily see that as far as
our personal responsibility is con-
cerned the cause of the larger per-
centage of the injuries and fatalities
is solely the wilful and wanton neg
Iligence on the part of all of us and
the carelessness with which we re-
gard the rights and safety of others.
+ - !
"Let me drive my car on the
right side of the road,
$50 the Others may safely pass by
Drivers that are good, drivers
that are bad,
As good and as bad as l.
l will not sit meath the
steering wheel and pass the speed
ng van.
I'll drive my car on the right
side of the road
And be a friend to man."
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
NEED-AN OPPORTUNITY

The greatest potential business
development in this country today
is that of building, equipping and
furnishing better homes, according
to the American Builder.
Recent official surveys shows
that millions of Americans live in
homes without plumbing of any
kind-without kitchen sinks, run
ming water, indoor toilets or bath
tubs. Rural homes are particularly
bad in this respect-lack of modern
conveniences and comforts is the
rule in many sections, rather than
the exception. And more than
half of the entire population of the
nation lives in houses that do not
meet the accepted requirements for
a decent level of living.
Here is a great need-and a great
opportunity. It's not only an OPP
|p%ortunity for raising the standards
of housing, but for providing jobs
and payrolls, for stimulating a
thousand industries, for putting
money into circulation.
America needs homes-and she
needs the jobs and investment op-
|portunities that home construction
and modernization will provide.
When the boom starts, costs are
going to rise-and rise fast. Sup.
piles and materials and skilled labor
will, as compared with present lev
|els, be at a premium. The wis'
property owner, by building ane
repairing now, can spur recovery
and, at the same time, obtain
genuine bargain for himself.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
SHOULD
BUILDING

1t seems to be generally under
stood that the greatest measure of
unemployment is in what are known
as the building trades" Build
ing, except On public projects, is
almost at a standstill. In the big
cities there was an orgy o over
building up to 1880, but in the ma
ton as a whole we are told by
competent authorities there is still
a great deal of building and repair
work to be done.
In normal times the. United
States used to spend about four
thousand million dollars a year
building, constructing every yeaf
enough buildings to house a popu-
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
A SET-UP FOR A NATIVE DRINK

IERE is all the makeup for
/ pulque. a powerful native drink
indigenous to Central American
cowhide vat, the gourd-like cocote, a
pair of castanas strapped to the sad
die. and atop the burro. the tlachi-
quero himself. Pulque is a milky COL
ored drink made from the large cac-
tus. When the cactus has aged five
years. the tlachiquero cuts open the
heart of the plant with a sharp knife
and applies the cocote, a pear-shaped
gourd which resembles a bagpipe
When the small end of the gourd is
inserted in the wound the tlachiquero
induces the juice into the gourd by
suction applied through a hole at the
opposite end. AS the juice is drawn
cut the tlachiquero enlarges the open
ing in the plant with his raspador. a
small metal instrument in the form
Of a half noon.
Xhn 0~0ntapta Of the gourd are then
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
THE COST OF ADVERTISING

THE COST OF ADVERTISING
Somewhat amusing to the folks
who know is the statement that
nationally advertised products cost
more because so much is spent tor
advertising. For a fact, advertls-
ing actually makes it possible tor
goods to be sold at less cost. Some
figures recently collected by Ber-
nard Lichtenberg, former president
of the Association of National Ad-
vertisers, are of especial interest.
Campbell's Soup is taken as an
illustration. The advertised price
of C~ampbell's Soup is II cents a
can. The cost of advertising a
single can of Campbell's Soup, &C
|cordsng to the figures of Mr.. Itch
|enbeFg, is 36-1oooth of n cent.
The Loose-Wiles Biscuit Com
pany says that on a ten-cent pack
age the advertising expenditure IS
less than one mill.
A Lord Pepperell shirt for s1.95.
The advertising expense at that
price is one-third of N per cent,
or some 64-1OOOth of a cent.
A five-cent glass of Coca-Cola
costs for advertising 1576-10o,o 900
tbs of a cent.
The Eastman Kodak Company
has been a consistent advertiser.
1t has built its business and reduced
its cost, increased its volume, and
given the benefit of its business to
the public. The Eastman COM
pany justifies the money spent on
advertising by saying:
Savings to the consumer
as a result of consistent ad-
vertising are so many times
the amount of the money de-
voted to advertising that we
think any question of waste
full practice is untenable.'
The next time some smart person
tries to sell you an unadvertised
product with the argument that
you are getting just as good for
less money because of the saving
effected by not advertising, quote
him some of the figures given
acknowledgement 'News-Herald.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

.lation as large as the city of Los
Angeles, with dwellings, public
buildings, stores, factories, hospitals,
schools, libraries and the rest tt
meet the needs of a million popu-
lation.
With the cessation of that an
nual building program, carpen-
tiers, masons, ~plasterers, painters,
electricians, plumbers, paper-hang-
ers and all of the trades which
lc%ollaborate to construct a new
building began to feel the pinch of
unemployment. The furniture and
furnishing industries felt it next,
and so on down the line. And the
sources from which money ordi-
narily comes for building purposes
found themselves with ,'frozen"
loans and no money to lend eve to
those who wanted to build or re-
pair.
We think there are probably
enough office buildings, stores and
public buildings, sores and
probably enough factories, also.
But all of those need undermining
and repairing, and while there are
dwellings enough, of a sort, to
house everybody in America, many
of them ought to be abandoned and
replaced with new ones, and prac-
tically all of them ought to be re-
paired, many at the point of vir-
tual reconstruction.
For those reasons we await with
a good deal of interest further de-
tails of the Governments plan to
encourage longterm installment
loans for repairing and undermining
dwellings. We understand this
does not contemplate direct loans
from public funds, but rather some
sort of a guarantee to lenders
against loss when all the conditions
of the loan meet the approval of
Government experts. We do not
know how far it is proposed to go
to extend the same security and en-
courgaement to lend for new dwell
ing construction, but the Govern
ment would do we'll to try to sim
pity the present system of building
loans and cut down the cost to the
home builder Of the money he has
to borrow. for that purpose. One
of the great reasons why building
has slowed up is that mortgage
loans@under the present system are
hard to collect, and therefore the
borrower is required to pay alto
gether too high a profit to some
body when he tries to finance a
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

emptied into castanas, or wooden
Ike s, which are transported in pairs
by burro to the tinacal, o. brewery.
Here the sweet, fresh juice is emptied
through %strainers into large vatsI
made Of cattle hides reinforced by
wooden frames. Twenty-four hours OF
fermentation yields the best-havored
pulque.
When removed from the vats the
pulque is rushed post haste to market
Tor it is best WHEEL imbibed while
fresh. In cities where it ferments for
several days before reaching the GUS
toner the flavor becomes a bit strong.
In such cases the pulque is sometimes
cured" with pineapples. bananas, or
oranges to improve its flavor. Travel
ers visiting the Central Americas on
the weekly cruises between New York
and California seldom share the ma
tives' enthusiasm for the pulque be it
aged one day or n week.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
NOTICE TO

Having qualified as executors of
the estate of Fannie F. Durham,
this is to notify all persons having
claims against the said decedent to
file an itemized, verified statement
of same with the undersigned on
or before the LIST day of May,
1885,, or this notice will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery. Per-
sons indebted to said estate are 10
tied to make prompt settlement.
THEODORE CONNOR, SAM
UEL COMMON and FEB
TREXLER, Executors of the es-
tate of Fannie F. Durham.
Rendleman and Rendleman, Atty.
May 4-June 8.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
COMPULSORY CROP
CONTROL

We shall watch with a grea,
deal of interest the experiment ir
compulsory curtailment of crops
under heavy penalties, provided for
in the Bankhead cotton control act,
which is now the law of the land.
Under this law each cotton grower
will be given an allotment of the
number of bales he may market.
If he grows or offers to market any
more than his allotment he will
have to pay a penalty tax high
enough to take whatever profits he
might have made. from the sale of
his quota. .
The theory of limiting produc-
ton is, of course, to get a higher
price for the producer for what he
does raise. That is what lies back
of the wheat, corn-hog and tobac-
co control measures, however, are
voluntary agreements on the part
of the growers. No man needs to
join up unless he wishes to, and he
gets his compensation for limit pro-
duotion out of a. processing tax
paid by the handlers. In practice,
we have wondered whether this
method would ever be successful,
human nature being what it is.
We think the principle behind
the Bankhead law is, in some res
poets, preferable to the bonus sys-
ten under the other crop-control
laws. In the long run it, is better:
for any human being to get his
profit as a direct result of his own
labors rather than as a bonus. If
the cotton plan works, the price of
cotton will go high enough So a
bonus will not be added, and the
process tax need not be levied.
That is all to the good. Anything
which eliminates any form of tax
alton is always good. And, except
for the first compulsion, it leaves
the cotton farmer with more of his
personal independence. What he
does and earns does not depend up
on what his neighbors do.
In a perfect world everybody
would cooperate voluntarily and
completely in every program for
the common good. But that pre-
supposes complete agreement as to
what is really for the benefit of
everybody, and the utter absence
of greed and desire to take an I'M
fair advantage. When mankind
has reached a stage when everybody
agrees on what is right and makes
no effort to overreach his neigh
bors we won't need any crop con-
troll laws nor any other kind of
laws. Unfortunately, we haven't
got to that stage yet; and we shall
be much interested to see by what
means and at what cost the Bank
head law is enforced. -"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
Merchants Name
Head

Arthur w. Harry, prominent
business man and manager of the
Belk- Harry store of this city, was
elected president Of the Salisbury
Spencer Merchants association
Monday night at the first meeting
of the new board of directors. He
succeeds Edwin Earle, Jr., who has
held office for three terms.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
HOPING FOR THE BEST

HOPING FOR THE BEST
We had the pleasure of having
with us Mrs. Davis sister, and
niece from Gloucester. Misses Mag
gle and Florence Pigott. All were
able after "eatin' to take a few
steps and sit on the bottom of an
overturned skiff, and pose" in a
very graceful manner we are hop
ing will be good.
(Smyr"a CORRESPONDENCE, Beaufort
NeWs)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
DRINKS POISON N DIES

T. Jose E. Linney, 50-year old
school teacher and bachelor of
Alexander county, drank a fatal
potion of carbolic acid Sunday. He
was a son of the late ]. w. Linney.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

Until private industry is made
profitable and attractive, and the
rewards of success are made avail
able to business men, there can be
no full recovery from the depres-
sion. I. Walsh, United
States Senator from Massachusetts.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

ON O OF THEY
BEEN EATIN' THEIR SPINCH
AND CAN'T HELP 1T.
As Ye Photographer gets Japan's
statement, it sounds strangely like
iPopepe's II yam what l yam"
Greensboro NeWs)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
MIGHT TRY SW

MIGHT Try SW APPTNC
The Wilmington ball club has a
number of players sent them by
the Cincinnati Reds, and the Pirates
haven't lost a game. Looks as if
Cincinnati placed the wrong team
in the National league.
George G. Myrover, Fayetteville
Observer-
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
WRATH, HOPE AND

WRATH, HOPE AND
CLARITY.
Clarity Stephens of Richmond,
Va, spent Sunday, the guest of rela-
tives here,
pinnacle Correspondence, Mount-
Airy Times)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

WE ARE not going to give out any
FOR the very simple
REASON THAT it is against our
RULES TO do so. However, the
FAMILY LIVES right here in
SALISBURY + AND { you know
THEM WELL. A visitor in this
HOME WAS congratulating the
ON his nice family of
|CHILDREN. H E he was
ADVISED THAT the youngest was
THE FIFTH child, the visitor
REMARKED THAT he appeared
TO BE the healthiest of the lot.
YES, AGREED the father, "by
THE TIME he came along, his
MOTHER HAD
RUN OUT OF theories"
/ THANK YOU.
SOMETIME IT TAKES A
DIVORCE TOO.
1t takes courage to marry a sec.
ond time.
(Tbe High Pointer
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04
THE OTHER HALF or
POPULATION WOULD
HEAR ABOUT IT BEFORE

q THLL
lost, Pink satin slip on State
street between Broadway and Doug
lass" Advertisement in our town
a personal loss like that wouldn't
have to be advertised. Half the
population would be on the spot
before the garment had hardly
touched the ground.
Upton G. Wilson, Re'dspAHe
'RepieW.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

TURN FAIR PLAY.
Gods Friend" will be the topic
for discussion Sunday morning.
"The Devils Half Acre" is the sub
ject for the evening service.
Mount Holly News)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

dreafy day,
And sit in. a desk and watch the
hours creep away,
Have your lessons on the board and
your eyes up there,
But in your mind you are making
a beautiful rabbit snrae?
Did you ever go to school on a
hot summer day,
And lit in Il desk an! watch the
hour; creep away,
Have the sweat a-running down
you in long stream.
But in your mind you are making
some cold ice cream?
Did you ever go to school on a
a beautiful rabbit snare?
And sit in a desk and watch the
hours creep away.
Have to sit in the building and
wish it was cool.
But in your mind you are a-going
swimming in the OLD Swim
ming Pool?-James Boggan.
Mount Holly Ne1Vs.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

AS ONE LUCAS TO ANOTHER.
Those visiting in the home of
L. M. Whitley on Sunday were Mr..
and Mr.. Ratio Lucas
(Barbee's Grove CORRESPONDENCE,
(Stanley NeWs and Press)
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-04

PART OF THE NEW DEAL
"Tugwell Raised" says a head
line, but that was after they called
Writ and found he didn't have
anything.
Norfolk L~edger-Distatcb.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-22
$4,000 SILK OVERS STRIKE THURSDAY
Communist Party Lists
5 Demands In Election

Following the eight demands which the National Con-
platform Communist Party is based
DEAF attacks the living stand
against rising living costs resulting from monopoly
shorter hours shorter work week.
improved living standards.
Against capitalist the growing trend toward fas
against and oppression of the oegn-bOn;
against compulsory arbitration unons against the
troops workers right to join unions of their
choice picket demonstrate without restrcons for
the civil political rights of the
and social insurance at the Of
the Workers Unemployment Insur
Bill III r. 1885,
Agricultural Adjustment Act for
impoverished farmers with
the banks exemption of mpov
taxaon cancellation of the debts Of
farmers; fol the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill
Crowim and ynchns for equal rights for the
Negroes for the Black Belt for the Negro
of Rights
immediate payment Of the veterans back
(bonus).
Against their
graduated and greatly
increased taxation the rich.
S-Against Roosevets preparedness against i'm
the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-22
Philadelphia Answers
The Call!

The Daily Worker Management Committee
yesterday received the following telegram:
Daily Worker,
so East 18th Street,
New York, N. Y.
PHILADELPHIA DISTRICT RENTS ONE
THOUSAND DOLLARS WHICH WAS RAISED
AT MASS MEETING OF TWO THOUSAND
WORKERS HELD FRIDAY AT BROADWAY
ARENA STOP MASS MEETING UNANIMOUSLY
VOTED TO RAISE ONE THOUSAND OVER
QUOTA STOP MASS MEETING CALLED ON
ALL OTHER DISTRICTS TO FOLLOW PHILA.
DELPHIA'S EXAMPLE AND TO SPEED UP
THE DRIVE OF DAILY WORKER.
A. W. MILLS.
DISTRICT ORGANIZER, C. P.
DISTRICT 3
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-22
BY EDWARD NEWHOUSE

Underworld characters and IN
dividual policemen may speak of
"Lepke" and "Garrah" with emo
lions ranging from haired to awe,
but they will all agree that the two
gruff chieftains of the mob which
bears their name have most of
Manhattan's rackets under their
thumb, in their vest pockets,
wrapped up and ready to ship If
you can lay enough dough on the
line.
Lepke and Garrah are the sue
cessors of the late Little Augie,
whose name has more familiar
ring. Their front is in the Gar
ment Center, where they posture as
clothing manufacturers and opera e
some of their largest unions. Lepke
has masqueraded under the name
of Louis XAVIER, Louis Cohen. Louis
Buckhouse and Louis Buchalter.
Garrah is actually Jacob Shapiro
alias Morris Friedman, alias Sam
uel Dishuse. They have had a
number of occasions to put these
complicated identities to use. In
1927 they helped Sigman carry
through his reorganization In
the Amalgamated they were the
power behind Abe Knockout" Beck
erman. In 1888, as active members
of the Fur Dressers' Factor Corp,
they we're indicted for coercion, to-
gether with the same Knockout
Abe, Morris kaufman, Sam Mittel-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-22
Iepke and 'Garrah' Strikebreakug Mob Found
In Control of Union Rackets in Ne,o York

to their plans-the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union. To con-
troll an industry it isn't enough to
be able to shuttle the employers
organizations. You have to have a
union and the vast MAORI y of the
fur workers belonged to this one.
Trouble was, their leaders weren't
practical" men-they wouldn't play
ball.
Then the miracle occurred in the
A. F. of L.-Socialist Joint Council.
They had been breathing their last.
There were no electric ligh S, no
coal to heat up the deserted joint.
The boys were compelled to play
cards by candlelight. A pail hung
over the premises when it was
learned that the Associated Fur
Manufacturers had been forced TO
negotia with the Industrial Union.
The Associated refused to give in
to the demands OF the Industrial
and the moment the conference was
broken the lights went on in the
Joint Council which, according to
Norman Thomas, had held no
NEE ings for year preceding. The
lights went on and telephone was
put in and a stenographer engaged
and business started. A new man.
ager receiving $3.50 week was ap-
pointed, too, none other than Harry
Yurman, known. as Lepke- Garrah
lieutenant up and down Seventh
Avenue. Harry would have the pub
lie know that be has quit the racket
since and set up poolroom in the
district, and couple of weeks ago
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-22

man and other well-known Social
lists.
This brilliantly conceived Fur
Dressers' Factor Corporation typi-
fies their methods. When Lepke
and Garrah organized it, the A. F.
of L. International in the fur trade
wasn't going so good and something
had to be done.
The Fur Dressers' Factor Corp.
was got en- up to snatch control of
the industry by various means. 1t
would force all bosses to become
members and pay large dues in re-
turn for which the organization was
to prevent new shops from coming
into existence. The firms which
refused to join the racket they pro-
posed to drive ou5 of business.
Finally, they were to control pro-
duction in the industry by assign
ing so many units" per shop. An
other outfit, the Protective Fur
Rabbit Dressing Association, was
organized along the same lines to
run that particular division of the
trade.
To entrench themselves the rack
eteers stopped at nothing. They
bombed the Waverly Fur Dressing
establishment and killed the night
Waterman, they bombed the Acme
Fur Dressing Corp, the Hunts Point
Fur Dressing Co., threw acid into
the faces of Jay Joseph and M.
Lehman, fur merchants, stabbed
Albert Williams-one could con-
tinue to the bottom of the column.
There was single, great obstacle