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ways. 1t is not surprising. there
fore, that General Motors should
come out with an announcement.
as it did last week, that it will
spend $5o,O0o,o 600 in expanding
its plant equipment. Most Of this
will go for new machinery, to pro-
duce more of the lower-priced cars
in the General Motors list. That
will mean more employment for
factory workers, and the distribu-
ton of more money in wages,
which can be spent for new cars
or radios or home-building or what
have you.
Perhaps the figures issued a few
days ago by the Bureau Of Econo-
mic Research Of the Department of
Commerce give one of the reasons
for the business pickup. The ma
tional income-which means the
total income of everybody who re-
ceived any income at all-rose in
1884 by III percent over 1888. In
figures, the national income was
$40 440, OoO, 900 in 1884, as against
81, 43 l ,Ooo, 900 in 1888. Part of
this was, of course, due to the dis
tribution of relief funds, which
were income for those who received
them. Relief payments, however,
amounted to only about a third of
the increase. The rest came from
the general higher turnover in pri-
waite business.
The Bureau of Research points
out that the proportion of income
received by American workers in
the form of wages was somewhat
higher than in previous years, and
that earned by capital a shade low
Der.
We think these facts and figures
are about the most encouraging
signs we have seen in a long time.
We are almost tempted to throw
our hat in the air and shout:
"The Depression is Overt"
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the dishes and silver removed before
a program of after-dinner speeches
begins, otherwise the speaker COM
petes with the noise occasioned by
the activity of the walters.
Q. What is an inch of rain as
defined by the United States Wea-
Their Bureau?
A. 1t is measured in a rain gauge
devised so that the actual rainfull is
magnified 10 times for ease of
measurement. In its commonest
form, a rain gauge consists of a
cylindric vessel closed at the top by
a funnelshaped lid, having a hole
in the center through tube, rising
outside the vessel from near the bot
tom, shows by the height of the
water in it the height Of the water
in the vessel. A simple rain gauge
may be made of a copper funnel
the area of whose opening is exactly
10 square inches. This funnel al
lows the rain to pass into a bottle
and the quantity of rain caught
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gratiate himself in personal rela-
with the public, was
nevertheless, a king in his sphere,
king of the great above.
His exploits have been so rapid,
and so stunning in their uniqueness
and novelty that they had come to
be more or less commonplace.
With his motored chariots of the
air, he had spanned continents of
earth, continents of the great deeps
and continents of the stratosphere
as well, girdled the globe, raced
across the country like lightning,
spannd the oceans and explored the
heaven of heavens.
And he won by the sheer merit
of his repeated achievements the gla-
mour and the glory that belong to
the pioneer, the trail blazers in this
Twentieth Century science of tran
ssportation.
Thus within this more narrowed
world in which he cast his career,
that of aerial explorer and adven-
turer, Post earned for his name
more than transient admiration.
The history books will keep his ar
gosies fresh in recollection and gild
them with hat renown which is
his rightful inheritance.
America will not recover slowly
from the saddened pause into which
it was rudely shocked when the
first tidings came of this heart
breaking calamity.
Two famous characters whose
names were by-words in American
homes, idolized by fellow-citizens
from coast to coast and applauded
everywhere the heart of man ans
wers the call of appreciation and
affection, have yielded their mortal
presence as a sacrifice to their urge
for adventure and left a nation
gasping with grief.
Charlotte Observer
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THIS HAPPENED right here in
AND it is entirely pos
SIBLE THAT you will be able to
GUESS THE names before we have
EVEN FINISHED the story. Any
WAY, OUR suggestion is that
YOU START guessing right now.
THEY LIVE not a mile from the
SQUARE AND that information
SHOULD HELP you some. 'My
MOTTO IS: What is worth doing
IS WORTH doing WE'LL" said :he
MAN. HIS angry wife's eyes
SNAPPED. YES, I notice that
WHEN YOU are making a fool of
YOURSELF, SHE replied"
T THANK VOII
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| THANK YOU.

around particular industries is that
l have seen too many communities
fall into decay when the march of
progress moves in another direction.
MEN some marginal
l wonder if a good deal Of the
worlds troubles is not due 50 much
to marginal" agriculture and
marginal" industry, as to what
might be called marginal men,"
meet a lot of them. In a crowd
they pass for average, intelligent
human beings. Individually, there
is something lacking. They are too
content merely to get BY" They
are too eager to accept money or
help that they have not earned.
They are not quite skilful enough
to be worth top pay in any line,
but believe themselves to be super
ior to most.
A large part of the agitation for
a more equal distribution of wealth
comes, l believe, from these "mar-
ginal men" who do not quite fit
into the general scheme of things.
y
|PACIFISM old warrior
In my youth it was every
American boys ambition to be a
soldier. We felt-we did not have
to be taught-that the noblest pur-
pose to which a citizen could de-
vote his life was to fight for hi
native land and its ideals. Every
boy who could, at least among
those l knew, joined some sort of
quasi-military organization, learned
to drill and to handle a rifle. That
we felt, was the duty of a patriot
Today l am often aghast at TIL
expressions Of contempt for ma
tional honor and the duty of citi
zens to fight for it, which I hea.
from younger men. l read O
preachers and teachers counselin|
non-resistance and refusal to bea
arms. Such expressions give me
pain in the neck.
I have no particular respect TO
the national PHILOSOPHERS of Ger
many, Italy, and Japan, but l be
lieve their respective dictators hav
the right idea for the preservation
of their countries, when they brir;
up every boy to be a soldier.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-08-23
POPULATION DATA
1880 Census)
D AUGUST p, 1888
A SENSIBLE RULING

A "slum-clearanoe'' project is
under way in New York City.
With the aid of Federal funds, a
block of model apartments is being
built. 1t IS one Of the "'wpbk-n-
lief" projects that comes under the
Jurisdiction of the Works Progress
Administration. The workers are
men who we've formerly 'en direct
relief. The uaa1i1num pay for
skilled labor under W. P. A. is
$3.50 a month, for 120 hours
work a month. That figures out a
II "a cents an hour.
The building trades unions in
New York City have "a minimum
scale of $1.75 an hour. They
threatened to call all union work
Gas off a- 55saL, I &1e5~~sss-Aes
paid the full union scale. Every
WE'LL" SAID the relief administrator
in New York, "go ahead and
strike, If you want to, but if you
do, you can't ever go back On re-
lief" The man who said that was
General Hugh Johnson, who was
the head of N. r. "A. and lis now
New York's relief administrator.
General johnson is a vigorous per-
sonahty, and no bluffer. In n of
the most convincing speeches he
ever made he ndh the unions, and
the whole world, over the radio,
that a guarantee of six months
work at $3.50 a month figured
out more than the average income
of building trades wafkers, ever at
their high hourly rates, and III
flush times.
Washington backed up Genera
Johnson's declaration that the maj
who goes on strike on q <works-re'
lief project forfeits his right tt
go back on straight relief. That
it seems to us, is precisely as i
should be. 'One of the NEST i'm
portant tasks the Federal Govern
meat has to do is to impress 5apoi
those who have been cared TO
under the generous dole of the re
lief administration that they can
not go On forever living at public
expense. If they refuse work tina
they are able to do, or quit worl
voluntarily with the idea Of get
ting back en relief, they should
find a powerful public sentamen'
lined up against their efforts to ge'
local or state relief agencies to sup.
port them, after the Federal Gov.
eminent has given them thei
chance to earn a living by honest
work, and they have thrown tina,
chance away.
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BUSINESS IS BETTER

Business is definitely picking up.
There can be no mistake about
that. There may be room for ar
guments as to the causes of the
improvement, but there is none as
to the fact.
The most definite is in the auto
mobile industry. Anybody can
count for himself the growing
number Of new car on the high
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-08-23
TWO A FALL FROM
OUR HIGHEST HEAVENS.

Death with shocking suddenness
swallowed up two eminent and be-
loved Americans when it claimed
the National jester, Will Rogers,
and the National explorer, Wiley
Post.
1t could hardly have cut down
with the same stroke any two other
Characters more fasclnatlngly in the
public imagination or more affec-
tionately interlaced in the public
esteem.
In the case of Rogers especially,
his dwelling-place was in the heart
of the American people.
And his tragic death sends this
country into a pail of sincere grief.
One can imagine no home, indeed,
where the widespreading sorrow in
cident to this disaster has not left
its ache.
Will Rogers was a National hero.
a Nationally personality, a Nationa]
institution. Perhaps, the death Of
no other would have struck with SC
universal an impact as his
With his droll and adro1t wit
his infectious good humor, his cy.
nicism always shot through with
smile, his cutting sarcasm, hi
irony that hit its mark but left ut
wound, Rogers had wrought him
self into a place of admiration ant
even of affection belonging to m
other American.
He was the one man that KEEP
his fellow-countrymen smiling AM
in good ;humor.
i Through every contact that wa
at his command, and none wer
lacking, the forums of newspaper.
of public platforms, of ether wave.
he made merry the heart of the PEG
rEple.
:. Especially during these lat
years when there has been so muc,
more to cry about than to laugh, h
has been almost as one sent fror
on High to cheer, inspire and exal
the courage of his countrymen b
his quaint and hemely philosohy
his sound and convincing preach
ments, his oldfashioned outlook
upon fife and experience and hi
subtle satire and wit and humor.
It is not, therefore, in his cas-
as if a great historic sky-scrapin'
tree had fallen.
1t is rather, that the forest Ia
been moved down.
So close was he he to the breatl
of us all alike, so familiar his voice
so intimate his speech, 50 friendly
his writings, SO mighty the weapons
of his wit that when death cam.
to him it was like knocking at GU,
own doors and grimly invading on,
own firesides and the American
people are joined by this fatefuI
circumstance in a common sacra-
ment of sorrow that they r tc
know him no more.
Wiley Post, in his particular
sphere, far more restricted, to be
sure and one that was relatively
lacking in the opportunities to in
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is ascertained by multiplying the:
weight in ounces by OILS, which,
gives the depth in inches.
Q. How wide is the face of the.
Sphinx? -
A. The c~ountenance is carved out
OF limestone and measures - feet 7
inches from ear to ear. The lose is
5 feet 10 inches long.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-08-23
TODAY AND
TOMORROW
FRANK Parker STocKBRDGE

We have been hearing a lot in
late years about marginal lands
and the folly of farming them. l
wonder sometimes if that is not a
false point Of view.
Around my country home in the
Berkshires there are plenty of farms
which any economist would class
as marginal They do not and
cannot produce cash crops big
enough to bring in much more than
the axes. Yet they are occupied,
for the greater part, by %contented,
even happy farm families. They
get a living, and a good one, from
the land. Farming, to these folk, is
not an industrial or commercial en-
terprise, but a mode of living, in
independence and security.
I know of no farmer who looks
at his problems that way, ever on
these decidedly marginal" New
England farms, who is in real
distress.
MINES swimming hole
:: Last Sunday l drove over te
!, York State, past the remnants OF
a distinctly "marginal'' enterprise
That was the old Williams iror
: mine. Back before the Revolu.
a ton the colonists were diggin,
S iron ore out of the mountains Of
, western Massachusetts,. The mine
= were operated and the ore smeltee
i at nearby Richmond Furnace, TO
more than $50 years. Then tn
cheapest iron ore in the world wa
t discovered in Minnesota
The old Williams iron mine J
full of water now. Local tradition
has it that there is no bottom. Tha
isn't true, of course, but there i
loo feet or more of water undo
the boys who go swimming there
Unlike a marginal farm, nobod
can get a living out of a margina
A will come
Any plan of social-economi
planning which would fix every
thing as it would be silly. I go
to thinking over the change in on
-iNew Eengland County.
A mile from my farm is the oil
Freedlyvi1le marble quarry, whic]
produced most Of the fine buildin;
stone for the Eastern cities when
g was a boy. 1t shut down fort,
years ago, when bigger veins O
S better marble were found in Yer
mont. Two or three miles away
4 the first wood-pulp paper was mad
), the year l was born, and for a cen
. fury almost all the writing pape'
used in America was made in oul
valley. We no longer make wood.
pulp, and half the writing-pape'
mills are shut down.
Up to five years ago we were
shipping a quarter of a million dol.
liars worth of lime every year. Now
we don't ship a carload a month,
Better limestone, easier to quarry:
in other places, is the answer.
One of the reasons why I have
little faith in the permanency Of
any plan of building model towns
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-08-23
PICAYUNES
Q. At what hour of the day are

Q. At what hour of the day are
automobile accidents most nurner-
Gus?
A. A survey in one State showed
that traffic was heaviest about 6
pm. and 50 also were accidents. In
spite of a sharp decline in traffic
at 7 pm. accidents did not decline
at the same rate, and fatalities rose
to their peak at J pm
Q. Is Mary Lou on the Showboat
program really engaged to Lanny
Ross?
A. She is not. Mural Wilson,
the singing Mary Lou. is engaged
to Fred Hufsmith, the radio singer.
Q. Is there an easy way to solve
anagrams?
A. There is not. Study and con-
c%entration are necessary. One mod
ern game Of anagrams consists Of
transposing the letters in a word
and adding or dropping one letter to
form a new word.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-08-23

AIR CONDITIONING NOW
REACHES COTTAGES - Long
awaited unit for average house
was revealed to 1000 housing ex-
perts at Chicago preview this
month to cost less than electric
icebOx and condition sfx-roOm
home. Carroll Sudler, right,
Northern Illinois FILA Director,
congratulating Martin j. BERN,
left, Vice-President of American
Radiator Co., on the develop
ment. Left-Hugh Garden, prom
inent architect; right - Harriet
Vittum, women's head, Chicago
Better Housing, and Mrs. Frank
lin Bobbitt, chairman, Women's
City Club.
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Washington under construction?
A. The corner stone Of the or
|iginal Capitol was laid on Septem-
Der Is, 1898, but the building was
not completed until 1880.
O. What does the Indian name,
|Pocahontas, mean?
A. The word is a verbal adjective
meaning he or she is playful;
sportive.
Q. Which State produced the
most whisky in 1884?
A. Kentucky led with 81, 6o7,-
o63 tax gallons. Illinois was sec
ond with 2~4,245,17s tax gallons,
and Pennsylvania was third with
2o,4o5,145. Adding the whisky
deposited in bonded warehouses by
distillers in other States, a total of
1os,o51,325 tax gallons was pro-
duced.
Q. Please give the quotation from
Shakespeare Julius Caesar" about
dying young to escape the fear of
death.
A. "He that cuts off 20 years of
life, cuts off so many years of fear
ing DEATH"
Q. Where was William Make
peaceThackeray born?
A, He was born in Calcutta, In
dia, July IS, 1911. His father was
an Englishman, a judge and collec-
tor of revenues in India. He died
when his son was s. The boy was
sent to England to be educated. His
mother joined him there after her
second marriage.
Q. During what battle of the
World War did angles appear over
the battlefield?
A. The reference is to the tale of
the angles of Mons. This has be-
come one of the most notable myths
of all time. Arthur Machen, act
ing as a newspaper correspondent,
sent a fantastic and, he c~onfesses,
wholly imaginary story to his Lon
don paper, describing a purported
miracle. He told how, at a critical
point of the great Mons battle, the
vast, vague figures of angels ap-
peared as though in the clouds.
coming to the support Of theBritish.
The effect was greatly to enhance
the morale of the British troops. To
this day there are many soldiers who
were at Mons who will swear that
they saw the angels.
Q. Which of Dryden's plays was
his favorite?
A. The dramatist said his favor
lite was "A11 for Love-" which he
wrote solely to please himself, and
succeeded in his design.
Q. When did Great Britain first
send an Ambassador to the United
States?
A. In 1889 Sir Julian Pauncefote
was appointed Minister to the I'm
lifted States by Great Britain, and in
1898, when the office of Ambas-
sador was created, he was the first
to present. his credentials as Ambas-
sador.
0. Should china and silver be re-
moved from a banquet table before
the speakers begin?
A. 1t is always advisable to have
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-08-23

O. Which can travel faster for
100 yards from a standing start, an
ice skater or a runner?
A. The records for both are the
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-08-23

SCIENCE MAY YET PRODUCE A
RACE OF GIANT+Dr. Herbert n.
Evans, Biologist ut University Of Call
fornia has produced . growth extract
which can induce development Of ami
mails far beyond their natural stature.
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O. Should china and silver be re-
moved from a banquet table before
the speakers begin?
A. 1t is always advisable to have
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-08-23
same, 94-1O seconds, Jewtraw skat-
ing and Wykoff running.

Q. How long was the Capitol at
Washington under construction?
A. The corner stone of the or
iginal Capitol was laid on Septem-
Der IS, 1898, but the building was
not completed until 1880.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-08-23

O. What does the Indian name,
Pocahontas, mean?
A, The word is a verbal adjective
meaning he or she is playful;
sportive.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-08-23

Q. Please give the quotation from
Shakespeare Julius Caesar about
dying young to escape the fear of
death.
A. "He that cuts off 20 years of
life, cuts off so many years of fear
ing DEATH"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-21
MOdiSh autumn Suit
by ELLEN NORTH

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The pattern includes dress and
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Since rust color is so modish,
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Style No. 354 is designed for
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Cs BLUE DOOR ii S Sssa;1
eu.kE sNah~

Elaine Chalmers remained outside
the circle Of his perplexities. So far
as he was concerned today she was
only a scented letter in a grayish
blue envelope. a letter that had
told him something he needed to
know.
It was time for a conference with
the two senior partners. When they
summoned him he determinedly
brought his thoughts back to Nc
Nein pumps and ways to market
them He listened respectfully for
two hours while these two valued
associates of his late father talked
policies. But he made no sugges-
tons and surprised them by an I'M
usual apathy.
AS he was returning to his own
Office a telegram was delivered to
him. He tore it open anG read:
Hubert and twins seriously in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-21
AIDS CHOSEN FOR
AUXILIARY'S PARTY

Mrs. George Swain, chairman of
a luncheon bridge party to be held
Tuesday at the Lincoln by the
auxiliary to indianapolis Post,
American Legion, announces her
committee assistants. Aiding her on
the general arrangements commit
tee are Mesdames Louis Markum,
M. j. Spring, Herbert Winkler, Lee
Ingling, Claude Record and Turner
COuchman.
Mesdames E. S. Barnhill, Glen A.
MELVILLE and a. H. NJ. Graves COM
prise the decorations committee;
Mesdames Malcolm Lucas, Ralph
Hesler and H. B. Pike, prizes, and
Mrs. John Royse and Mrs. Clarence
R. Martin, cards.
Mrs. ]. P. Scott, Mrs. w. r. Nc
Geehan and Mrs. Swain are in
charge Of pencils and tallies.