Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1935-11-15
TODAY AND
R
BY
FRANK Parker STocKBRIDGE

WILDCAT L.. ventures out
One of my neighbors, Merice
Lacoli, saw a Strengthening beast
on the grounds of the Berkshire
Country Club the other day. HI
had his gun with him, so he took q
shot, and brought down a 20
pound wildcat. Old timers up ou1
way say it is the first wildcat seer
in Berkshire in so years.
There's still a lot of wild, unset
tied country, even in New En-
gland. Up On top of a rocky spur
of West Stockbridge Mountain
there is said to be herd of wilo
goats. I've never seen them, bu,
venturesome boys sometimes scale
the crags and bring back reports Of
being menaced by fierce, long
horned, bearded billygoats. Now
and then hunters up our way
sight a black bear, and every SC
|often we have a wolf scare, while
the deer seem to be increasing in
numbers.
I hope this country never gets
so crowded that there won't be-
room for all the wild things a:
we'll as all the people.
TERMITES moving north
The other day Fred Shaw and ]
went up into my farmhouse attic
to see about winter-proofng the
gable ends. Say, did you know
you've got termites in your raft.
ers?" asked Fred. He pointed te
half-a-dozn mounds of sawdusr or
the attic floor.
Sure enough, the little white
ants were at work there. I though,
I'd stopped 'em, seven years ago
when l found they'd eaten away
one of the old hand-hewn 12x12
stills that the old house rests on
Now I've got to spend a lot NOR
money maybe put on a whole new
roof, if I don't want the house tt
fall down on our heads.
Termites have been working
their way north from the Gulf Of
Mexico for twenty years. Now
the expert bug men tell me, they're
busy even in Canada. They ge'
inside of a piece of timber and ca,
the heart out of it, leaving it only
a hollow shell.
Looks to me as if we've got tt
figure out new ways to keep insects
from licking the human race ane
taking possession of the world.
GERMANY holds cash
A New York friend of mine Of
German descent owns, with ,hi'
mother, a number of houses If
Berlin. A Berlin bank manage
the property and collects the rents
My friend can't get any of the
money, for the Hitler Government
won't let cash go out of Germany
except to pay for imported goods
Last Summer his mother go1
permission to take $1,000 out, il
she would come to Berlin in person
and satisfy the authorities shs
needed they money to live on. Sht
and her SON got as far as Paris
where the old lady slipped ane
broke her hip. She couldn't go tt
Berlin, and the money is still there
doing nobody any good.
My friends account of that ex.
perience brought home sharply tt
me the effects of nationalictic poll
cies carried to their extreme, anc
the trouble caused by setting Ut
artificial barriers to free interna.
tional intercourse.
TELEPHONE improved
l saw a new kind Of telephone
instrument the other day, which
the telephone people say will b
in universal use in a few years. Il
doesn't have any box to fasten tt
the wall; the bell is contained il
the base of the receiver. There art
two clappers to strike the gongs
One is the usual metal one, thu
other is made of wood, to give {
softer note for the benefit of nerv.
Gus people who lump out of thei1
skins" whenever the telephone
rings. And the two gongs art
pitched to different tones, giving
a musical effect as the clappe'
vibrates between them.
A little thing, perhaps, but on,