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Evening star., 1936-11-04

The perfumes dromotized in this greet pre- Christmos sole
erected by the finest perfumers in the world These
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not Of the highest quoty and full strength. Only be-
cause Of chonges in pockoging and in instances
changes Of oders are enabled to present these star
tlins values at such an opportune time.
Every Package Guoronteed
Evening star., 1936-11-04

Our perfumer corries one of the most
complete lines of Fine Perfumes and no.
tionolly-known beauty preparations in
Washington.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
TODAY AND
@ R
BY
FRANK Parker STockBRDGE
Continued from page One)

\OoAi'iaoeo page One)
TAXES and of line
I have been studying the revenue
act of 1886, passed in the closing
hours of the 74th Congress. 1t
proposes to raise $500, 600, 900 a
year Of new revenue by a new
plan of taxation-on corporate re-
serves. If it does that it will cost
every one of us who earns a living
a little over four cents a day; for
nothing is more certain than this
tax, like all other taxes, will be
passed on to the ultimate consum-
er, who are us.
We who earn the money pay the
taxes. We pay most of them to
the involuntary tax collector, the
retail merchant. Concealed in the
price of everything we buy are all
the taxes paid by the producer,
manufacturer and distributor all
along the line. They pass their
taxes on TO us. The parade ends in
our pockets. We can't pass them
on. We are the end of the line.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
THE PROGRESS OF
RECOVERY

According to the Federal Labor
Department, $4,000 persons were
added to the payrolls of the ma
tons industries in the month of
May, making the total of new jobs
filled in the past year 100000. In
the past four months a quarter of
the persons employed on Federal
work relief projects have been
dropped, reducing the number SC
supported by 100000. Standard
Statistics reports that corporation
profits in the first five months Of
this year r nearly so per cent
greater than in the corresponding
period last year.
All of these facts are distinctly
encouraging. They indicate clearly
that business in general is picking
up.
There is no adequate information
available, however, as to how much
of this increase in private employ
ment and business profits affects
different classes of business. A
large part of the Unemployment
and profits is in retail trade, which
has benefited most from the wide
spread distribution of Federal funds
to farmers, veterans, the unemploy-
ed and the INDECENT. Some of the
newer industries are making great
er strides than the older ones.
Aviation in all of its aspects is ex-
periencing something like a boom.
The building and building supply
industries, on the other hand, are
little, if any, ahead of where they
were three years ago.
We have been very busy this
year in replacing WORKOUT auto
mobiles, but widespread prosperity
and Unemployment are not likely to
until we start in earnest to
replace the obsolete homes of the
nation and build enough new ones
to house everybody who needs a
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
|Hoey Opens
Campaign In
September
CONTINUED from page One)

Continued from page One)
Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Car
taret, Catawba, Chatham, Chero-
kee, Crowan, Clay, Cleveland,
Craven, Currituck, Dare, David
son, Davie, CASTOR, Gates, Gran
vile, Greene, Guilford, Haywood,
Henderson, Hoke, Iredell, Jackson,
Lincoln, Mcdowell, Macon, Madi-
son, Mecklenburg, Mitchell, Mont
gomery, Onslow, Orange, Pamlico,
Pasquotank, Perquimas, Person,
Polk, Randolph, Robson, Rock
ingham, Rowan, Rutherford ,Samp-
son, Stanly, Stokes, Surry, Swain,
Pennsylvania, Tyrrell, Union,
Bance, Watauga, Wilkes, Yadkin,
Yancey.
Those carried by DR.. Mcdonald
Allegheny, BERTHE, Bladen, Caswell,
Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin,
Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth,
Franklin, Graham, Halifax, Har-
nett, Hartford, Hyde, Johnston,
Jones, Lee, Lenoir, Moore, Nash,
New Hanover, Northampton, PEN
der, Pitt, Richmond, Scotland,
Wake, Warren, Washington, Will
son.
Hoey carried his home county of
Cleveland, receiving 1884 to l.
700 for Mcdonald.
Mcdonald carried his home
county of Forsyth, receiving 49,
757 to 6,445 for Hoey.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10

BACK IN the good old days when
ON trains was in style
ONE OF the favorite rackets
WORKED BY some mothers wa.
TO FIB a little about the age
THEIR children in order to
ON the fare. Which re-
ME of an incident that
HAPPENED SOME years ago, and
THE CHIEF character in our little
OrN1MA 10 now a smart young
y =
BUSINESS MAN right here in
STOP staring at that
SAM" said the mother to
SON as they were riding
ON the train. "stop it,
OR I'LL give you a slap" The lad
ON a bold front. mot a
SLAP, Mama" he said,
OR I'LL tell the conductor how
OLD I am"
"A YOU.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1886
MANS ENEMY

l am more powerful than the
combined armies of the world.
l have destroyed more men than
all the wars of the nations.
l am more deadly than bullets
and l have wrecked more HON.
than the mightiest siege guns.
| spare no one, and l find my
victims among the rich and poor
alike, the young and the old, the
strong and the weak. Widows and
orphans know me.
I loom up in such proportions
that I cast my shadow over every
field of labor from the turning
point of the grindstone to the NOV
ing of severy railway train.
I massacre thousands upon thou
sands of wage-earners in a year.
l Turk in unseen places. 1 do
most of my work silently. You are
warned against me, but you heed
not.
l am relentless.
l am everywhere-in the house,
On the streets, In the factory, at
crossings, and on the sea.
l destroy, crush, and main. I
give nothing but take all.
1 am your great enemy. I am
Carelessness.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
INTERSTATE MOTOR
TRAFFIC

Problems arising out of COM
merce between the states keep bob
bing up in the most unexpected.
places and ways. The Constitu-
ton of the United States, and the
Federal Government built upon
it, had their origin in disputes be-
tween states over the control of
commerce On the Potomac and Del
aware Rivers. The newest phase of
the problem involves the right of
commercial automobiles from one
seate to use the highways of an
other state without contributing
toward their maintenance. That
has long been a sore point in sew
eral states whose highways lead
across them to major markets in
other states.
Now some of the western states
have taken the bull by the horns
and set up systems of controlling
the entry of Commercial! vehicles
from outside, by establishing what
they call ports of entry" on every
interstate highway. Kansas has IS
Of these ports of entry, with 176
operating them. Every CONNER
cial car with a foreign" license
must stop on reaching a port of
entry and get a clearance before it
J can proceed to use the highways of
Kansas. The vehicle itself is in
spected, its operator is required to
show that he has liability insurance
for the protection of Kansans who
might be injured in their cars or
their persons while he is operating
his truck inside the state, and he
must also pay a tax toward the
maintenance of Kansas thorough
fares.
New Mexico, Nebraska and Ok
lahoma are experimenting with the
Kansas idea in various degrees.
Maine and Utah have incorporated
the plan in their motor vehicle re-
gulatory systems, and bills to set
up such a system have been intro
duced into the legislatures of six
other states.
There is apparent merit on the
face of it, in requiring outsiders to
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10

pay for the commercial use of state
owned highways. But the plant
seems to border closely on the verge
of Federal functions under the in
terstate commerce powers of Con-
gress, especially as there are few, if
any, important highways for which
the Federal Government has not
contributed a large part of the
cost.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. The
1ogging by six men of Miss Willie
Sue Blagden. 20 (above) when she
went to Earle. Ark, to investigate
the alleged beating-to-death OF a
negro. is reported as being investi
gated by federal authorities.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
The Removal OF Hole
IAN EDITORIAL)

While it is to be regretted that
the state offices of the HOLC
have been removed from Salisbury
to Greensboro, it should not be
overlooked that Salisbury was for
tunate originally in being able to
land the state headquarters, thanks
to the influence and activity Of
Congressman R. L. Doughton, of
this district. With Charlotte,
Greensboro, Raleigh and Asheville
bidding for the state headquarters,
Salisbury was selected over all Of
fers and competition. That was
in 1888. Now that the primary
detectives of the formation of the
HOLC have been accomplished,
hundreds of thousands of homes
saved over the patton, and the
stats of the various offices and
agencies reduced to a minimum,
it is only reasonable to suppose that
further economies via the CONSOLE
dation route would be effected as
a matter of good business.
There appeared recently in the
press, as an advertisement, an open
letter to Hon. R. L. Doughton,
Representative in Congress of this
district, signed by representatives
of several business firms of this
city, regarding the removal from
Salisbury of the state offices. In
this advertisement, or letter. if it
may be so designated, certain
Statements Of fact" with subse-
quent Questions" were listed, de-
handing that the Congressman of
this district GET THAT OF
FICE BACK"
Investigation will disclose that
Congressman Doughton has done
everything in his power to retain
the state office of the Hole in
Salisbury; that he has repeatedly
and vigorously protested its remov-
al to Greensboro and that he has
wholeheartedly and emphaticaly
urged its retention in the Rowan
county seat; however, in spite of
such protests, the HOLC authori-
ties in Washington deemed it wise
to transfer these offices elsewhere.
Mr.. Doughton secured the
Hole for Salisbury, where the
state headquarters have been locat-
ed for the past three years, employ
ing a large number of local peo-
pie, bringing in a considerable
number of new citizens, releasing
a substantial payroll, and practi-
cally every line Of business in Sal
isbury and Rowan county has
benefited from this agency during
its maintenance here.
1t might also be well to recite
that it was largely through the ef-
forts of Mr.. Doughton that Sails
bury and Rowan County have been
the beneficiaries of federal funds
for local projects, amounting to
approximately three quarters of a
million dollars. This would de-
finitely indicate that Congressman
Doughton has been exceedingly &C
tive in the interest of his constitu-
ents in Rowan County.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
GOVERNOR OF NORTH
CAROLINA

The democracy of North Caro-
lima has chosen wisely its nominee
for the Governorship in selecting
Hon. Clyde Hoey as against DR..
Ralph Mcdonald.
Age, poise, judgment scholarli-
ness, craftsmanship and strength of
character are the proper attri-
butes to be applied to Mr.. Hoey.
Few men in North Carolina
should be more co%mpetently quail
fled to fill the high office of Gov
ernor of this great, achieving, pro-
gressive commonwealth.
Mr.. Hoey has emerged from this
campaign, which was allowed,
through no fault or suggestion Of
his, to grow filthy in spots, with
his character untouched by the
prejudiced javelins of his oppon-
ents.
In spite of the organized cam
paign Of abuse and v%ituperation
which was engineered against him
for the mere ends Of political sue
cess Of his adversary, the mud
that has been slung has left him
; unstained and irreproachable in his
personal life and even brought
more conspicuously out into the
clear the fine qualities of patient
restraint and disciplined will and
tolerant spirit and Christian for
bearance of this abused and Will
fled statesman.
1t must have cut into the quick
Of a man of Mr.. Hoey's recognized
character and generally accepted
reputation to be forced into such
an atmosphere Of cheap and vulgar
politics as he encountered in the
campaign just closed.
Men whose lives are lived out in
the open, who have no dark recesses
which they try to keep sheltered
from the spotlight of public curio-
sity and contumely, who have
spent their whole careers among
their fellow citizens of North
Carolina and enjoyed the conf
dence, esteem and high regard of
their fellow-citizens, must revolt
against the type of maliciousness
that he has been compelled to suf-
fer at the hands of political influ-
ences bent primarily upon the
achievement Of power and lured to
such tactics by their lust for Of
flee.
Through it all, however, Mr..
Hoey has played the man of
strength and in patience ''he has
possessed his SOUL"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
Offended as few men, of char

acter and without it, have ever
been offended in the long history
of political raillery in North Caro-
lima, he has exercised a spirit of tol-
erance and gentility that only adds
to the statue of sublimity of char
acter.
1t has been this revelation of the
inner control and spiritual capaci-
ties Of Mr.. Hoey, as he has been
confronted with his crucifiers who
knew not what they did, tina,
makes him loom larger than ever
as a character who will adorn the
office of the Governorship.
Admitting his superlative equip
ment in mind and in training and
in experience and in s~tatecraft,
these can not seriously be question
ed by informed and intelligent
critics, that which reveals him now
as looming toweringly over the
head of his fellows, like a Saul a.
mong his brethren, is this gentle
manliness under such wicked fire
as no man who has ever offered for
the Governorship Of North Caro-
lima has felt.
This newspaper has been among
the tens of thousands of well-wish-
ers for Mr.. lHoey during the second
campaign. More than ever now, is
it convinced that its faith in him
was well placed.
He is a far greater man in the
basic attributes of personal char
acter than he has ever before had
opportunity to demonstrate, and
North Carolina is, therefore, to
have a Governor who, whatever
may be his accepted and recognized
capacities in mind and in expert
ence, abounds in those graces and
in those virtues which can be fast
ened into ones character by the
development of the deep and mast
erful spiritualities.
Our compliments to him, there
fore, not merely hat he has won a
bitter and a gruesome battle with
an adversary whose popularity is
we'll attested by the enormity Of
the vote received, but that he has
won for himself appreciation from
the fair-minded and sober thinking
and justice-loving electorate OF
North Carolina for the nobility of
his convictions and for his personal
worthiness. Whatever else any
man may have, whether Governor
or 1ow1y and forgotten, there is no
human asset comparable to that Of
quality Of Characteristic Char
1otte Observer.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
EROSION A NATURAL PERIL

There are people in the United
States who have heard of eroison
and believe that the term is a fairy
word, describing a nonresident
danger, even, if occasionally some
tract of land is washed away BY
heavy drainage.
There are farmers in many parts
of the nation who find it hard to
accept the statement hat 1885,
100000 acres, once fertile, have
been damaged from IS to 100 per
cent at a loss that is estimated at
ten billion dollars and that the
nations ability to feed itself in the
future is threatened.
However, this is the conclusion
of experts in the Soil Conservation
Service after a survey that covered
1889, ooo,o oo acres, all Of which
was once fertile land. Counting
wind and water eroison the esti-
mate shows that an area four times
the size of Texas and 146 times the
size of Massachusetts have been
denuded of topsoil to an extent
varying from 81 to 100 per cent.
Viewing the nation as a whole
it is said that only the New Eng
land States and certain widely
separated areas in other sections
have escaped serious damage. If
the nearly 1000 ,ooo,o 600 acres sur
veyed less than one-third had suf.
fered no erosion damage and much
of this area is not adapted to agri-
culture.
Certainly the nation faces a seri-
GUS problem in preventing the loss
of valuable top-soil through erosion
1t is a fight in which millions of
farmers should cooperate. They
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10

A farmer in Cabarrus County
has found out that it pays to de-
worm pullets before placing them
in the laying house. Killing a hen
that was emaciated, he found in
her body AZ round worr , several
tape worms and pin worms too
numerous to mention"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
TIME TO THINK OVER
M

lima, O.-Albert McGill, Sc
year old Negro veteran, will have
from one to 20 years in which to
mediate on how to spend his $762
in bonus bonds. Only a few hours
after the postman delivered the
bonds to his jail cell, McGill was
sentenced to the penitentiary for
manslaughter.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10

0Buy In Greater Salisbury.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10

must be on the lookout for danger
signals, realizing that not all soil
loss comes through gullies or wind
storms, but that the gradual shay
ing off of the top soils Of unpro-
tected farms through sheet wash
ing" is an enemy to be mastered.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10
HOOKED

HOOKED
"Well, mother" said the smart
young fish, II have been following
your advice since l was a minnow
and have been letting those plump.
juicy worms strictly alone, I think
| am now old enough to go on myg
own hook"
And he did.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-10

THANK YOU.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-24
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE
SOVEREIGN VOTERS OF
NORTH CAROLINA.

Ladies and Gentlemen:
On the 10th instant the report of
the State Liquor Commission was pre-
sented to Governor Ehringhaus. En-
bodied in the report was the recon-
mendation that the existing county
option law be continued in force and
extended to all the counties of the
State, with supervision and a share
of revenue secured to the State. A
bill carrying these provisions is pro-
posed for enactment by the General
Assembly of 1887. Three of the Com
mission of seven do not concur in this
proposal-Judge Varser, Mr. Robin
son and Mr. Hines. They present
minority report. They stand for the
integrity and authority of the ballot,
the defense and safeguard of demo-
cracy. They maintain that the mem
bers of the General Assembly are the
servants of the people, elected to do
their will and bound under the pri-
mary obligation to find out what that
will is. They recommend, accordingly,
Statewide referendum for the set
Element of Statewide issue, yes
or no vote on the manufacture and
0c1AC "a 0ACOAACdJIA6 AlAuOA0s
And so the issue is clearly and
squarely drawn: shall we, the SOW
ereign voters of North Carolina, be
ignored by the men we have chosen
to do our public business? We have
twice announced our will on the liquor
business in thunderous tones-once in
1908 and again in 1888. We have not
been consulted since. Possibly we
have changed our minds. What we
resent is being ignored by our SER
wants. We protest against the con-
templated invasion of the sacred prin-
ciple of democracy, the blessing and
security of a free people.
But the Commission majority will
answer that in the very terms and
proposals of their bill they are act
ing upon that great principle and
seeking to apply it: let the people of
the counties say what they want. Of
course, we give the gentlemen credit
for honesty and patriotism, but we
beg to point out the error into which
they have fallen. Their policy denies
the unity and sovereignty of the
State and would manifestly land us
in confusion worse COMPOUNDED. Be
sides, before 1908 we tried local OPP
ton, municipal and county, and ac-
cumulated decisive experience on that
experiment That experience led us
straight into State prohibition. The
considerations which determined that
action have since then been multi
piled and reinforced. municipalities
were not walled towns with sentinels
at the gates. The boundaries of coun-
ties presented no barriers to people
going out or coming in. A dry county
could not maintain it's own will and
was at the mercy Of a wet neighbor.
Since that day q network of paved
roads has taken the place Of mud and
sand, and the automobile, noiseless
and swift, has displaced the cart and
wagon and buggy. There are million
or so more of us and we move about
more and faster than ever before. Our
business which takes no note Of coun-
ty lines Is enormously expanded and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-12-24
Legislature May Speed
Action On Liquor Bill
May Enact Whatever Law Will Pass by First of Feb
ruary; Want To Get Mat ter Over Before Drys Can
Build Up Their Fires Back in the Counties

1885 legislative session, it is generally
admitted that Burgess held two ace
cards up his sleeve, so that whenever
he threatened to play either one he
could hold his drys in Uneven
though many of them drank wet. One
of these ace cards was that he had in
his files letters from a large number
of members of the legislature in
which they had put themselves on re-
cord as being dry SO if they deserted
and voted wet, Burgess could have put
them on the well known spot back
home. The other ace card was the
boast by the dry forces that if the
1885 General Assembly enacted a IL
quor law and repealed the Turing
ton Act, the drys would unite with the
dry Republicans and elect an over
whelmingly dry mugwumpian legisla-
ture in 1886. 1t is admitted that the
skiliful manipulation of these two ace
cards by Burgess during the 1885
General Assembly prevented it from
enacting a Statewide liquor control
law and resulted in the last-minute
enactment of the present county Ii
quor stores system.
Members Not Amenablo.
But indications now are that Bur-
CESS has not been nearly as success
full as in the past in getting members
of the 1897 General Assembly on re-
cord on the liquor question, with the
result that he will no longer be able
to hold a stack of letters over their
heads to hold them in line. Nor is it
now believed, since the tremendous
landslide in the November election
that he will be able to frighten mem
bers into caniptions by the sugges-
tons of a political alliance between
the dry Democrats and dry Repub-
licans. The success of the county Ii
quor control program and county Ii
quor stores in the 18 counties which
now have them-and which Burgess
and the dry frankly said they pre-
ferred to a state liquor control sys-
tem-together with the desire Of 9th
err counties to increase their revenues
from the sale of liquor, as their neigh
bors have done, are expected to far
outweigh any of the arguments or
threats which Burgess and his forces
can present.
AS a result of these and other fac
tors, the control forces are already
confident they can push the liquor
legislation through in 80 days and
thus spare the people of the state the
agony they endured in 1885, when the
liquor question hung fire for more
than four months.