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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-08-07
Persons
Get Drivers
Licenses

Raleigh.-Ronald Hocutt, assist
ant director of the State Division
of Highway Safety, said 7o9,4oo
persons received automobile drivers
licenses between November 1, when
the law requiring licenses went
into effect, and July 1.
Of this number, 64,613 paid 81
each after the time limit for free
licenses expired early in the year
Eight hundred ninety persons were
refused licenses because of inability
to drive.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-08-07
N. c. Ranks Eighth
In Reducing Auto
Deaths

Raleigh.--Arthur Fulk, director
of highway safety, announces tabu-
l%ations on automobile fatalities by
an insurance company showed that
North Carolina ranked eighth in
2S States in reducing deaths for
the first six months of this year.
A reduction Of 9 per cent for
the State was noted, with 439 auto
deaths in six months this year and
4So in the similar period of 1885.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-08-07
STILL OUT

Harduppe: ST say, old fellow,
can YOU lend me a dollar for a day
or so?"
Tyte: "I'm very sorry, but the
dollar I keep for lending purposes
is out at present. However, l can
put your name on my waiting
list.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-08-07
States zdest
Paper Growing
In Service
Founded BY Hamilton.C c.
Jones in 1882 And Has
Been In Continuous
Publication Since.
5th Year In Present
& Plant -

The Waterman has had another
birthday. Last week we celebrated
our 105th anniversary. We are
starting our 105th year with this
issue with a determination to be of
a greater service to the people Of
Salisbury and Rowan County, and
to all Others with whom we come
in contact.
For one hundred and four years
this newspaper has served the peo-
pie of Rowan and adjoining coun-
ties. In 1915, The Waterman had
subscribers in 81 counties in North
Carolina. This was before the ad-
vent Of the daily newspapers in the
larger ~cities-zof thes tate.
The Waterman has ever been
devoted 70 the upbuilding Of the
city, county s<sre and nation
Whether or noe this newspaper has
made worthy contribution toward
these political subdivisions is for
others to say.
It is a fact, however, that during
the long span Of its existence, The
Waterman has played a constant
part in the building up Of the COM
munity it serves.
A brief outline of the history of
The Waterman follows: .:
Founded July 2s, 1882, by Viii
liam Hamilton c. Jones, Esq.
Purchased in 1889 by M. c.
and ]. ]. Bruner. PART
nership dissolved in 1s43, Mr.. Bru-
ner retiring, selling his one-half in
terest to Nh. Pendleton.
In 1874 Mr.. Bruner, in partner
with Samuel W. James, re-
purchased The Waterman. Six
years later Mr.. Bruner bought out
the interest Of Mr.. James and be-
came the sole owner.
Mr.. Bruner continued the pub
LEGATION Of the paper until his death
in 1890.
The Waterman was then sold
to the Stewart family and W. H.
Stewart published it until 1881.
Upon the death of Mr.. Stewart,
the paper was purchased by The
Carolina Waterman Publishing
Company, which corporation now
publishes it.
With this issue The Waterman
starts on its 105th year of printing
and publishing, and we now have
the best equipped shop that we have
ever had.
In December, 1888, we purchas-
ed modern machinery and moved
to our present location, 119 East
Fisher street, where we have con-
stantly been adding new and mod
ern equipment for our job printing
department and are now in a posi-
ton to render you the best of SER
vice in this line.
Help us to make The Waterman
a better paper by asking your
friends and neighbors to become
news from your communicate 1t
one of our readers.
You can also help us to print a
better paper by sending us the local
news from your community each
week.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-08-07
Wilson, Moore
Rum Shops
Clear $1O0,O45

Wilson Profits from jointly
operated liquor stores in Wilson and
Moore counties during their first
year of operation totaled $780,
O45.89.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-08-07
'Home-C Coming AT
Organ Church
Sunday

The annual homecoming at his
toric Organ Lutheran church, IN
eastern Rowan, will be held Sun
day, with an all-day program to be
given.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-08-07
WINS AGAIN

WIFE WINS AGAIN
MY wife won an argument
with me this morning by a hair?'
what was the argument, hand
some?"
"That I'd have a blondes heae
resting on my shoulder
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-08-07

"And to my divorced wife
leave a kiss" concluded the will
of 7. C. Roberts of St. Louis, which
disposed of a $250,000 estate.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-08-07

oBuy In Greater Salisbury.
Evening star., 1936-09-12
Brief Reviews of Books on Various Topics

History of the rise of the house of
Orleans, told in the intimate romantic
manner.
RUBBER. BY H. and r. Wolf. New
York: Covici Friede.
The history of the rubber industry
from the 18th century down to Good
year. BY two natives of Akron.
PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINS
TRATION. BY William E. Mosher
and J. Donald Kingsley. New
York: Harper and Brothers.
A study OF Government employment
methods Lots of charts, tables and
similar entertainment. BY the director
of the Syracuse School of Citizenship
and Public Affairs and the assistant
professor Of government at Antioch
College.
MODERN RELIGIOUS DRAMA IN
GERMANY AND FRANCE. BY
Margaret Hayne Harrison. Boston:
The Stratford Co.
What the title implies. Concisely
done.
ANCIENT LIFE IN MEXICO AND
CENTRAL AMERICA. BY Edgar
l.. Hewett. indianapolis: Bobbs-
Merrill Co.
Broad panorama Of early American
peoples-their arts. cultures and re-
Evening star., 1936-09-12

books and sedate magazines. The
stuff from the newspapers of the
era is the giddiest of the lot.
Prof. Hudson speaks of "a dog
fight relieving the tension of a
country funeral" The phrase is a
good description of early Southern
humor as shown here. With the
possible exception of Augustus Bald
win Longstreet, there is not one
author among those quoted who is
noted for sustained levity. Most of
the others smiled grimly in a half
apologize way and headed straight
for the nearest moral
This may be natural in the frontier
like society in the deep South in the
years covered by the book, 1540 to
1860. Each class and era had its
anecdotes and tall tales, and these
are listed by Prof. Hudson in con-
venient form. Many of them are
legends already known. Some are
particularly valuable because they
read like note books for a man who
was to turn them into literary gold
a man called Mark Twain.
JOCK, THE KINGS PONY. BY Row.
land Johns. Illustrated by Paul
Brown New York: E. P. Dutton
Co.
THIS is the story Of Jock, the favorite
pony of King George V. 1t is a
moving little piece of sentiment, an
attempt to have the pony tell, in first
person, what he felt about his long
association with his royal master and
how he guessed that that association
had at last come to an end. Senti-
ment-yes. But perhaps there is room
for sentiment between a man and his
horse. No one will smile at this, one
feels reasonably certain.
LAST OF THE FIvE-MASTE2S.
BY Charles Merriam. New York:
Claude Kendall.
IN THIS book the author tells how
he was driving by Portland Har-
Dor and saw tied up there boat which
he could not forget. 1t was a five
masted schooner. AS the experienced
reader may have guessed, he duly
succumbed to his sea hunger, re-
turned to the harbor, hunted up the
master captain to youD and took
passage on the next voyage. And then
wrote book about it.
1t is an acceptable tale, inclining
toward the humorous. 1t might have
inclined toward the grim, as in the
Max Miller manner, or toward the
mystic, in the style of so unsuccessful
attempts to initiate H. M. Tomlinson.
But it does neither-no. 1t inclines
toward the humorous, although at
times Mr.. Merriam is a bit literary,
Evening star., 1936-09-12
Trout Hit by Flood.

THE effects of last Springs fooA
and this Summers drought have
been such that one of the finest trout
streams in New York State is Just
about ruined.
The high water during the floods
swept large numbers of the fish down
out Of the Willewemoc into the Bea-
verkill, another noted trout stream.
and on into the Susquehanna River.
Then when the high water subsidized
and conditions began to return to nor
NAL, the drought came along and
dried up many Of the little feeder
streams which normally swell the
Willewemoc into a stream often 80
feet wide.
The deep pools now are mere shall
low holes through which one can
wade, and many of the rapids have
been reduced to rock piles through
which a stream which would disgrace
a garden hose trickles.
The result is that this stream, which
annually lures thousands of fv fish
ermen from all over lower New York,
will be of little use for fishermen for
several years to come.
Evening star., 1936-09-12

Bureau for consideration. Oficials
replied:
Among the difficulties that have
occurred to us in connection with
your ingenious scheme, which has
several times been suggested by others,
we may mention:
First, that the place Of beginning
of tropical cyclone is never definitely
known. 1t would therefore be i'm
practicable, not knowing where to 20,
to have the airplanes or the torpedo
boats at the proper place at the proper
time.
THE amount of energy involved in
the tropical hurricane is so exceedingly
vast that all the airplanes and tor
pedo boats Of all nations combined
would not furnish energy that would
amount to a drop in the bucket in
comparison with that of the storm.
"One storm of this type that was
carefully studied used up mechanical
energy in the form of wind and waves
at the rate of approximately 27oOO,-
600, 900 horsepower and liberated heat
as result of condensation at the rate
of 100000, 100000 horsepower.
From these facts you will see that
the small amount of energy that
could be contributed by man-made ex-
plosionS might tend rather to increase
the intensity of the storm than to de-
crease it."
Copyright, 1860
Evening star., 1936-09-12

mains. Scientific but also compre-
hensible to the merely interested.
THE HONORABLE COMPANY. BY
Douglas Mackay. indianapolis
Bobbs- Merrill Co.
A detailed and well-authenticated
history of the Hudson's Bay Co. Highly
interesting. ...
COMMONSENsE GRAMMAR. BY
Janet Rankin Aiken. New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
An effort to make the language
structure easily understandable. BY
a school teacher.
FARMING FOR FAMINE. BY E.
Parmalee Prentice. Garden City:
Doubleday Doran and Co.
A study of how the New Deal econo-
my has worked to paralyze American
agriculture. Some incredible instances
OF folly and destruction. Carefully
authenticated.
Fiction.
ALL ABOUT LUCIA. BY E. F. Benson.
Garden City: Doubleday Doran
and Co..
Four Of the Lucia" novels in one
volume-"Queen Lucia" Miss Mapp,"
Lucia In London" and "Mspp and
Lucia" With o foreward by Anne
Evening star., 1936-09-12

Parrish and an introduction by Gilbert
Seldes.
DARK DESTINY. BY Roswell Will
1ams. New York: Robert Speller
Publishing Corporation.
Love story with gypsy dancers,
Chinese demimondaines and finally an
"uncharted island In the Pacific.
Rather fancy trash.
LORDLESS. BY E. G. Kneen. New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Romantic loves in the days of Tanner
lane. Rather well done.
Juveniles.
WATCH THAT PASS! BY Ralph
Henry Barbour New York: D.
Appleton Century.
Franklin High School eleven wins
the championship.
FIERCE-FACE. BY Dhan Gopal
Mukerji. Illustrated by Dorothy
p. Lathrop. New York: e. p.
Dutton Co.
Story Of tiger cub, with charming
drawings.
THE SONGS WE SING. BY Hendrix
Willem Van Loon New York:
Simon and Schuster.
Notes and music Of such favorites as
"Au Claire de Ia Lune" and twinkle,
Little Star" Very colorfully illustrated
Evening star., 1936-09-12

clined to be part of Clapham. That
aloofness remained until this very day.
r EcENTLY, it seems, the residents
received eviction notices. One
could not help but wonder how indi-
Viduals would react on being told 70
quit the homes in which their fathers
and grandfathers had lived for 200
years. But so apart has White-square
lived that 1t was difficult to find the
place. Tobacconists and fruit vendors
within four blocks of White-square
denied ever hearing Of 1t. 1t was nee
essary to hail a pub" deliveryman
riding by on bicycle Yes, he knew.
In the poorer sections of American
cities it is the barber who knows all;
IN London it is the man in the pub,
or corner saloon. One had to 90
Evening star., 1936-09-12

M'INTYRE BOOK RATED BEST
ANatons Prize Winner Placed Far Above Wnred Van Eens
II Am the Fox" Which Captured $4,000 Atlantic Award;
Other Recent Volumes Reviewed.

of the part which consumer co-opera-
ton might play in our money and
credit system, our labor relations and
our education AS the author favors
cooperation, it should be fairly easy
to comprehend that he is optimistic
in his findings. Cooperation can
thrive best under free and demo-
cratic government, he says; commu-
nism, Fascism and Naziism are inimi-
cal to 1t. 1t Is the American future,
in Mr.. Kallens opinion, and the thing
which will save us from revolution.
One hopes that ne is right about it.
THE COUNTRY KITCHEN. BY
Della T. Lutes. Boston: Little,
Brown e. Co.
THIS is a curious little book, being
the account of an American
country childhood back in the 1905
told, largely, through memories of
food. Church suppers, strawberry
festivals, Sunday school picnics,
county fairs. Thanksgiving and
Christmas dinners-they are all re-
ported here in terms of rustic epicu-
reanism. Country life in the 70s is
vastly far away from the 1930s,
Evening star., 1936-09-12

is readable. Mr.. Merriam has a good
mercantile style. as his readers must
know. He is the author of one of the
Mexican adventure books, The Lit
erary Boys and Girls South of the
Rio Grande" series. It is called Ma
chete." Having polished off the sis
ter republic, what more natural than
that he should take to wind -jamming? =?
One looks for a dive into the Arctic
next. And after that-well, there is
always Tibet.
THROUGH MY TELESCOPE. BY w.
T. Hay, F. r. A. S. New York: E.
P. Dutton g. Co.
"A PYGMY stands on the outward
crust of this small planet, his
far-reaching spirit stretches outward
to the infinite and there alone finds
rest"
SO said Carlyle; so, in effect, says
w. T. Hay in this very entertaining
little book.
Astronomy is for Hay pure hobby
his occupation is far different-and
it is as hobby that he recommends
the study of the heavens to his fellow
men. Though an amateur, he sur
prised professional astronomers in Au-
gust, 1888. with his discovery Of a re-
markable white spot on the planet
Saturn. His knowledge is sound and
he has long been known among his
professional brothers for the keenness
and accuracy of his observations.
Do not expect, however, to find in
this book searching treatise. Hay
does not climb to his heavens upon a
ladder Of logarithms. He turns to the
skies for rest and peace and he finds
there profound grandeur and beauty.
He presents his book as a trustworthy
guide to the heavens he knows and
loves.
His comparisons are entertaining.
He likens the sun to street lamp,
around which fly moths and gnats,
each in its own circle. Upon the
fourth moth out from the lamp lives
small parasite. From this vantage
point the parasite sees his own par
ticular street lamp as the sun with its
circling planetary moths. Far away
he sees other bright luminaries which,
alas, are but more lamps down the
street.
Hays book Is not for the astronomer.
1t is for the layman and, from the
standpoint of the layman, the subject
is well and Interestingly handled.
There is enough practical astronomy
in it to give the beginner a solid
foundation. j. S. z.
Evening star., 1936-09-12
LONDON SLUM'S GAY GRIEF
Clearance Leads Evons in Whequare and People of Aoo
Circle Celebrate Observation-Disclosures Music Heard
as Ancestral Landmarks Pass.

Gordon player He was playing before
Granfer Dibble's house and all the
boys and girls around him we're sing
ing When Grow Too Old to Dream"
and Show Me the Way TO Go Home"
IT WAS almost dark. Three or four
men SUNK over toward me as I
leaned against one of the yard fences
and lit a cigarette. The bobby across
the square seemed quite distant at
that point. Almost abreast OF me the
men halted and stared at me in a
way peculiar to people making up
their minds I eyed the bobby and
waited One Of the men lurched
forward.
Il say, sir" he began, "the bobby
says as ow you're from Washington,
D. c.. in the States. Would you be
for telling US what the d. c. stands
for?"
would. and I did. And then I
had TO tell them whether there really
were such things as gangsters in
America. and what Omen were.
and how many British Isles would fit
in America.
In return they told me how they
had always celebrated Guy Favkes
night early in November
That's the night, tell youl" said
one. I'VE always build bonfire on
the green and you know what We
burn? All the doors We can pull down
and all the mattresses We can sneak.
You might ave noticed, sir. as 'ow
one of Mrs. Madden's doors was
missing"
Finally I left them and returned
to my friend. the bobby.
II wonder how they'll get along in
their new flats?
Il don't know, sir. I'm sure. But
to my way of thinking there is the
wealthy class. the laboring class and
the middle class. And frankly, sir,
if they're one class, wherever you
house them. they're going to remain
in their class. I shouldn't be sur
priSed as how some of the White
square people will be using the poroe-
lain bathtubs in their new fats as a
place to store their coal.
He didn't laugh. nodded and
walked away. AS I strolled back
down Bowland I could still hear the
accordion and the singing. 1t was
new song now. Just a Shanty in
Old Shanty Town"
Evening star., 1936-09-12
Non-Fiction.


VOW TO WORRY SUCCESS
FULLY. BY David Seabury
Boston: Little Brown and Co
Il L Eminent psychologist writes
of how TO meet life successfully. Think
of that, now.
METTERNICH BY II. Du Coudray
New Haven: Yale University Press
New eyaluation of the old arch
villain OF the liberals. He may be q
good man after all.
NEITHER PURSE NOR SWORD. BY
James M. Beck and Merle Thorpe
New York: The Macmillan Co
Study Of the Constitution, in the in
tentions Of the founders, and the subse-
quent drift away. BY the late one-time
solicitor general OF the United States
and the editor Of Nations Business.
THE CRIME AND THE CRIMINAL
BY Dudley d. Schoenfeld. New
York: Covici Friede.
A psychiatric study OF the Lindbergh
case by psychiatrist attendant on the
proceedings. A convenient record oi
the facts, for those who want to have
! them.
HOUSE OF ORLEANS. BY NJ
Coryn. New York: Frederick A
Stokes c..
Evening star., 1936-09-12

although only a generation separates
the days. A breath as from another
world comes from these essays. One
commends them as collateral folklore
for incipient Phi. DIS.
GOMEZ, TYRANT OF THE ANDES.
BY Thomas Rourke., New York:
william Morrow g. Co.
A FORTHRIGHT account OF the
= ruler of Venezuela who, in 27
years, brought about the complete
political degradation of his country,
together with its complete economic
emancipation. We are somewhat in
Evening star., 1936-09-12
By I. WiIliam HM,

Sf00 C0ffeSp0adeh 0J IHe S'"'
r ONDoN CBy MaiD For the
first time in its more than
200 years of existence White
- square, in Clapham, had out
a welcome" sign today.
White-square is the last Of the
London villages, those aloof and
clanniSh communities that refused to
surrender their distinctive identity
even after the city had crowded up
so close you could smell the roast beef
and Yorkshire pudding cooking in the
newcomers Kitchens.
All the other villages have been
forced to trade the provincialism ira
ditional with their squatty novels.
wood stoves and candles for porcelain
kitchens, electricity and bath tubs.
1t has been a part of the London
slum clearance program. But not
White e-squsre-net yet.
No one knows who founded the viii
lage. There is no mention of it in the
guide books and it isn't even included
in London street plans. Its history
Evening star., 1936-09-12

clined to go to Europe for dictators
to look at these days, it is to be. feared
so the suggestion is made that anti
Fascists spare a glance at the late
chieftain to our south. He seems
to have been sufficiently humorless
self -worshiping. dishonorable and
sadistic to have been the perfect
model for them ALL Mr.. Rourkeis book
is weil-authenticated but nauseating
reading.
HUMOR OF THE OLD DEEP
SOUTH, edited by Arthur Palmer
Hudson. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Co. 548 pages. IS.
COUTHERN writers have been noted
~ for everything except humor.
With the exception Of the sophisti-
Evening star., 1936-09-12

has never been recorded and White
square people remember only vague
details related to them by their grand
fathers.
Not century ago White-square was
surrounded by spacious green fields.
Then London grew. With growth of
industry came the need for housing
space for laborers, and the. territory
south Of the river Thames-sections
now known as Brixton. Camberweil
and Clapham-became the city's DOR
mitory. Clapham grew up around
White-square, but White-Square de-
Evening star., 1936-09-12

too, as when he remarks. on being
told that the dim, gray heap on the
horizon was South America: "A new
continent! I understood something of
the elation Columbus must have felt
when he first sighted these mountains
centuries before" Now, that bit Is
pretty overpowering imaginative writ
ing, certainly.
On the whole, however, the book
Evening star., 1936-09-12

Gated wit Of Mr. Cabell. Miss Glasgow
and the late Miss Newman, and the
farce of Mr.. Caldwell, writing has
been a serious business below the
Potomac. This collection of humor-
GUS pieces of a much earlier period
indicates that it has always been SO.
Not that these selections are somber
(although some of them are), but
that they are light lines from heavy
Evening star., 1936-09-12
Hurricanes

Continued From Page Bill
Evening star., 1936-05-10
Both Win Many Battles.

MILLER, after one scrap as an ANA
A teur, quit his job as an apprentice
baker and turned professional. OF
German-American descent, the cocky
champion has lost but 10 of more than
800 ring battles.
Neither of the fighters ever has been
f1oored, with the exception of when
they have won scraps on fouls.
Sarron is a familiar figure to local
fans, although he also has appeared
in France, Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica
Australia and New Zealand. Millers
resin rambles have taken him to
France, England. Scotland, Wales,
Spain, Cuba, Mexico and Canada.
Miller, who receives $4,000 for the
scheduled As minutes of fist Singing,
will get more money than any fighter
ever to show here and one of the
largest purses ever received by a
featherweight. Sarron will receive
$500.
Freddy has defeated. in addition to
Paul, such outstanding scrappers as
Baby Arizmendi. Frankie Wallace,
Phil Zwick, Lew Feldman, Johnny
Pena, Johnny Datto, Roger Bernard,
Speedy Dado, Ned Tarleton, British
champion, and James Torres, Spanish
champion.
Petey has trimmed Emil Paluso,
Johnny Leckie. New Zealand title
holder; Billy Grimes, Australian
featherweight ruler: Midget Mike
ODowd. Bucky Burton. Tommy Paul,
Baby Manuel, Joe Rivers, Patsy Severe
and Benny Bass.