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CENSUS BUREAU FINDS 72,329 NORTH CAROLINA HOMES WITH RADIO SETS New York.—A table of figures from the federal census bureau show ing how the homes of the United States are equipped with radio, pub lished in a late issue of Advertising Age,'of this city, shows that North Carolina had 72,329 radio receiving sets April 1, 1930, and South Caro lina had 28,007. Not allowing anything for sets re placed--through trade-ins, abandoned and dismantled, it is reported by ra dio manufacturers that 22,300 sets were sold in North Carolina homes without radios and 8,650 in South Carolina homes without radios be tween April 1, 1930, and December, 1931. These figures, added to the cen sus bureau figures, would give North Carolina 94,626 radio sets and South Carolina 36,657. According to the 1930 census, North Carolina’s population is 3,164, 446 and South Carolina’s 1,732,271. Counting five persons to the home as an average, North Carolina would have 632,889 homes and South Car olina 346,454. A simple calculation will show that this means one radio set to every six and eight-tenths homes in North Carolina and one to every nine and four-tenths homes in South Carolina. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (ANSWERS BELOW) 1— Approximately how many slaves were freed following Lincoln’s proc lamation. 2— What is the most essential ele ment in supporting life? 3— What science deals with pedi grees? 4— What state has the most navi gable streams? 5— What famous military organi zation of France admits foreigners to enlistment? 6— What U. S. city makes more iron and steel than all of England? 7— What is Edgar Allen Poe’s most famouX work? 8— What is the science of motion called? 9— What is the significance of "Yom Yippur?” 10— What is the sacred-river of India? H—What U. S. city is the center of the silk industry? 12— What famous Indian was a British brigadier-general? 13— What was the war-cry of the United States in the Spanish-Ameri-. can War? 14— What is the largest American rodent? 13—What country in Africa was founded and modeled after the U. S.? 16— At what age did Alexander the Great conquer the world? 17— What is the name of the front teeth? 18— What was the "golden age” of American literature? 19— What is the term of life of a house fly? 20— Where in the United States is the largest fresh-water fish-produc ing point in the world r 21— What state is popularly known as the "Sunflower State?” 22— Who are the two national he roes of Scotland? 23— Which planet most nearly re sembles the earth? 24— What country is watered en tirely by the overflow of a river? 25— What was the earliest metal to be used? 26— Where is the largest leaf-to bacco market in the world? 27— What affliction did Homer and Milton have in common? 28— What is the meaning of the word "Catholic?” 29— What is the largest river in western Asia? 30— At what battles did the poli tical existence of the United States begin? (ANSWERS) 1— More than 3,000,000. 2— Oxygen. 3— Genealogy. 4— Kentucky. 5— The French Foreign Legion. 6— Pittsburgh. 7— "The Raven.” 8— Dynamics. 9— It is a Jewish holiday, the "Day of Atonement.” 10— The Ganges. 11— Patterson, N. J. 12— Tecumseh. 13— "Remember the Main.” 14— The beaver. 15— Liberia. 16— 32 years of age. 17— The incisors. 18— The period before the Civil War when flourished the five great poets, Bryant, Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell and Holmes, and the three famous prose writer?, Emerson, Thor eau and Hawthorne. 19— From 10 to 15 days. 20— Sandusky, Ohio. 21— Kansas. Miss France Doesn't Drink Mile. Emilienne Caisson Souzac, daughter of an attorney at Nice, has been chosen “Miss France of 1931” State Needs More Sheep And Beef Cattle For the mouptain section of North Carolina the production of feeder cat tle should be continued in spite of present low prices for beef and in the piedmont and coastal counties, the plan of fattening such feeder cattle for market might be a profitable method of using the surplus feed stuffs. Where sufficient pasture can be grown economically, the keeping of a cow herd and the fattening and marketing of the calves at from 8 to 12 months of age will offer a depend able source of income. If it is imprac tical to keep a breeding herd, it is probably best to buy the feeder cat tle from the mountain breeding grounds and fatten them for market, especially where the buyer has suffi cient feed on hand. The mountain area as well as the foothills and piedmont section is al so ideally suited to the production of sheep. Every piedmont farm should have a farm flock of sheep and in the higher altitudes the production of market lambs might continue to be a good farm program. These give in a brief way some ot the recommendations made by farm ers attending the regional agricultural conferences held in the western parr of the State this winter. These west ern farmers say there are good per manent pastures in the mountain and foothill counties. The climate is fa-_ vorable; the drainage is adequate and there is an abundance of land too steep and rough -for the profitable production of other crops. Especially in these, areas should the growth of sheep and beef cattie be promoted. Bow'd in the lowlands, the grow ers should buy the feeder cattle for fattening and keep only small farm flocks of sheep. Kobe Ranks First For Lespedeza Hay The Kobe variety of lespedeza pro duced the most hay per acre in both eastern and piedmont North Caiolina in 18 field trials conducted by farm ers last year in cooperation with E. C. Blair, extension agronomist at State College. In the piedmont section of the state, the tests were made on six dif ferent types of soils, all of which are adapted to the crop. In these trials Korean produced an average yield of 1844 pounds of hay an acre; common, 1996 ^pounds; Tennessee 76, 25 32 pounds and Kobe, 2623 pounds. In the coastal plain section, the tests were made on four different soil types with the average acre yields as follows: Korean, 2300 pounds, com mon, 243 5 pounds; Tennessee 76, 3, 100 pounds; and Kobe, 3103 pounds. For the whole State the average wiplrk were: Korean. 2047 nounds an acre; common, 2191 pounds; Tennes see 76, 278 5 pounds and Kobe, 2835 pounds of hay an acre. In reporting the results of these tests, Mr. Blair says the rank of the four varieties somewhat on different fields due largely to soil type and abundance of the rainfall, but the average results were in favor of the Kobe. This variety is comparatively new to North Carolina and is not yet so popular as the common or the Ko rean. The Kobe variety is a native of Japan and is similar to the common in appearance except that the stems are taller and coarser. The leaves and seed are both larger. It is an annual plant having the same habits of growth as the common but matures a few days earlier and the stems have a tendency to stand erect. Mr. Blair believes the Kobe to be on of the best varieties for hay, and it is excellent for soil improvement. Full-blooded Indians never have to shave. 22—Robert Bruce and William Wallace. ?3—Venus. 24— Egypt. 25— Iron. 26— Louisville, Ky. 27— Blindness. 28— General or universal. 29— Euphrates River. 30— Battles of Concord and Lex ington. Time To Consider Selection Of Seed Raleigh.—It is too early to plant cotton in this section but it is not too early to begin to discuss the sub ject of selecting cotton seed for the coming season, according to U. Ben ton Blalock, general manager of the North Carolina Cotton Growers Co operative Association. "North Carolina,” says Mr. Blalock in the current issue of the Cotton Grower, "without a doubt is going to continue the production of cotton as one of its chief money crops. It has reduced acreage very heavily for the past two or three years and no doubt there will be some further reductions the coming year, but probably not as great as in some of the other cotton growing states since it has previous ly reduced acreage.” JOBLESS, OFFERS TO ‘SELL MYSEF’ Marion, O.—Discouraged as the re sult of months of futile efforts to sell his services to prospective employers, William Schassberg, 40, is now offer ing, to sell himself. This proposition he has made in ad vertisements sent for publication in two large city newspapers of Ohio. "I mean just what the advertise ment says,” Schassberg declared to night when asked for further details. "I have exhausted every means of obtaining employment and now I am ready to literally sell myself for any reasonable purpose. "I am at the end of my resources and must get funds in some way. How I am to do this will be up to whoever accepts my proposition.” Schassberg, a former resident of Adrian, Mich., came, to Marion last October as Ohio salesman for an Adrian furniture company. He is now a lodger in a home here. He says he has been a bookkeeper, store manager and sales director and has always earned a substantial in come until his present long period of unemployment. His wife, who lives in Adrian with their three children, is suing him for divorce and one of his objects in striving for funds is to bee able to fight the suit, he explains. Schassberg says the idea of "sell ing” himself is not exactly original with him. He saw in the newspapers where another unemployed man made the same proposition, setting his price at $10,000. But Schassberg leaves the matter of price open to "the highest bidder:” N. C. LEADS IN TEXTILE TRADE North Carolina’s leadership of the southeast in the growth of textile man ufacturing was maintained in 1931, when interests of this state invested $3,360,100 in additional productive equipment and mill buildings neces sary to house this equipment. Figures on the seven southeastern states were compiled by Ralph C. Maultsby, southern editor of the Tex tile World, from reliable sources. They do not include machinery replace ments purchased by the textile con cerns. The total for the seven southeast ern states was $8,722, 00. Next to North Carolina came Georgia with expenditures amounting to $1,953, 000. For other states the totals were as follows: Tennessee, $1,620,000; South Carolina, $1,003,000; Virginia, $434,500; Mississippi, $237,000; and Alabama, $115,000. Equipment included in these pur chases consisted of 45,000 cotton spindles, 3,574 cotton, silk, and ray on looms, 1,652 circular knitting ma chines and 216 full-fashioned knit ting machines. Mr. MauitsDy touna in ms survey that the majority of this equipment was of new and improved type, al though there were several transfers of machines from other sections of the country. In addition to the fig ures given, there were several installa tions of bleaching, dyeing, and finish ing equipment in the southeast dur ing the year. Pacific mills, one of the largest pro ducers of cotton goods, are now add ing printing equipment at their Ly man, S. C., plant. Thread finishing equipment was installed in Gastonia by two companies, Groves Thread Mills, Inc., and Threads, Inc. One of the largest projects of the year was construction of a rayon plant at Kingsport, Tenn., for the production of acetate yarns by the Tennessee-Eastman corporation. Sev eral plants increased their capacities for throwing and twisting silk and rayon to take care of the large in crease in the fabrication of these fi bers in the south. There were 40 in stallations of additional hosiery knit ting machinery in the section during the year. Subscribe to The Watchman. Perfect Show Girl A Kansas actress, Dorothy Adams, 19, of Great Bend, defeated one hun dred others for the coveted title in a Chicago contest MONKEYS GO BALF SAME WAY AS MEN Washington.—Men who find their hair thinning out according to a defi nite pattern—a round spot on top, a pair of blunt "horns” above the tem ples, or a general recession of the front line—are only following a phy siological style by primates, the great zoological group of which the hu man family is a part. These baldness patterns are shared by our "poor rela tions” in the treetops, the apes and monkeys. In a new Smithsonian Institution publication, Dr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., curator of the division of mammals, sums up several years of research on human hair and primate patterning. The patterning noticeable in thin ning or graying hair can be traced to analogues, in a number of species of apes and monkeys. These other primates, in fact, normally show the patterning earlier in life than do hu man beings, some developing bald or 'white-haired areas in adolescence or even infancy. The gradually receding hairline in front is characteristic of one species of chimpanzee as well as of men. The bluntly wedge-shaped bald areas above the temples seen in some black ape. Bald spots right on top of the crown, often seen in men, some times occur in the toque macaque. And the final complete baldness on men can be found also in the Celebes top, with a hedge of hair still left on the sides, is a pattern found also in one of the South American mon keys; only the monkey still retains a short, light-colored "fuzz” of fine hairs over the nearly bare middle area. Men go gray according to more than eight definitely marked patterns, Mr. Miller has found; and counter parts of these patterns may be seen in various of his humble kindred of the trees. Some men’s beards turn white while their hair is still dark. Many monkeys are white-bearded in the same way. Another pattern that is surprisingly common is a dark line at the cheek margin of a gray beard, accompany ing a gray or bald head. Many mon keys have this pattern. The graying about the temples is also seen in the gelada baboon. Georgia Woman Uses Husband As Mule Juniper, Ga.—For the want of a mule, Mrs. T. Humphries, of Juni per, hitched up her husband to a plow and carried on the work of the farm so successfully she paid off the taxes she owed. A field agent of the Department of Agriculture was authority for the as sertion that "this is no fiction, but happened right here in Georgia in 1931.” It was explained the Humphries had searched in vain over a twenty-mile radius for a mule of suitable price to meet their requirements. BIG JOB The visitor to the small travel ing circus found two of its junior members weeping bitterly. "What’s the matter?” he inquired, kindly, of the boys. "The elephant’s dead,” they sobbed. "Did you, then, love the big animal so dearly?” asked the visitor. "Love him nothin’,” said the two, together, "the boss has just told us we’ve got to dig his grave.” "Hey!” cried Satan to the new ar rival, "you act as though you owned this dump.'” "I do. My wife gave it to me.’) 15 LIQUOR CASES HEARD IN COUNTY COURT LAST WEEK Twenty-eight defendants appeared before his Honor, C. E. Gooch, Judge of the Rowan County Court, during the past week. While the week’s dock et was just a trifle larger than during the preceding week, there was a not iceable increase in liquor law viola tions, as may be seen from the follow ing summary: Violations of liquor laws _10 Drunk and disorderly _ 5 Driving drunk _ 1 Disturbing public worship _2 Assault with deadly weapon _ 2 Fornication and adultery ____ 2 Resisting arrest _ 1 Illegal train riding_ 2 Beating hospital bill _ 1 Larceny and receiving _ 1 Tampering with automobile_ 1 False pretense _1_ 1 Carrying concealed weapon _ 1 One of the defendants charged with being drunk was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon, and an other charged with false pretense was also charged with resisting arrest. Of the 28 defendants brought before the court. 16 were charged with some phase of liquor law violations. The docket for the week was as follows: Doddie Holshouser and Vada Reece, fornication and adultery, Holshouser, 90 days on roads or $35.00 fine; Reece, 45 days in workhouse or $20. Wilson Rogers, drunk, costs. John Sides, drunk and carrying con cealed weapon, $50.00 and costs. L. E. Morgan, violation prohibition laws, 60 days or $3 5.00. G. B. Walters, drunk and disorder ly, costs. Lizzie Oglesby, violation prohibition laws, 30 days or $15.00. George Boyd, drunk, costs. J. C. Harrison, violation hospital law, $100.00. C. C. Buff, violation prohibition laws, cont. 1-19-32. Mary Jane Witherspoon, larceny, 60 days or $25.00. M. A. Hall, resisting arrest, 30 days; false pretense, not guilty. _ William Asburry, tampering with auto, 60 days or $35.00. K. K. Doby, assault with deadly weapon, 30 days. Brunell Whirlow and Odell Griggs, violation prohibition laws, cont. 1 19-32. - J. H. Browing, violation prohibition laws, 7 months or $300.00. J. B. Cooley, violation prohibition laws, 15 months or $500.00. Willie Hudson, drunk, 30 days. Lonnie and Claude Bulloughboy, disturbing public worship, nol pros with leave. Clyde Bringle and Gaither Fouts, violation prohibition laws, Bringle, 7 months in workhouse or $150.00; Fouts, 60 days or $3 5.00. G. W. Baker, driving while drunk, dismissed. BARBER GRANGE INSTALLS OFFICERS The regular meeting of Barber Grange, No. 63. was' held on Thursday night, January 7, 1932. This was the date set for the installa tion of officers for the coming year, the meeting was public. The meeting opened in charge of the Master John Lippard. He then in troduced the newly elected Rowan County Pomona Master, Mr. Herman Frick, who served as installing officer. Mr. Frick is Master of Gold Knob Grange. Mr. James Lyerly of Union Grange acted as Installing Officer’s Marshall. Mrs. Ford Lyerly of Bar ber Grange acted as regalia and em blem bearer. The ceremony was very impressive. The officers installed are as follows: Master, John Lippard; Overseer, D. W. Wood; Lecturer, P. H. Satterwhite; Steward, W. D. My ers; Assistant Steward, Dempsey Shaver; Chaplain, J. C. Barber; Treas urer, Mrs. R. L. Watson; Secretary, Pearl Thompson; Gate Keeper, Jack Waller; Ceres, Alice Barber; Flora, Alda Thompson; Executive Commit tee, J. T. Thompson. After the close of the installation Mr. Frick gave a short inspiring talk encouraging greater work in the Grange this year. The visitors were invited to stay after the meeting and enjoy a picnic supper with the Grange members. Barber Grange is actively at work and its meetings of the past year have been very enjoyable. Virginia Member Grows Inch Or Better Cotton Raleigh.—Of the number of bales Clarence Joyner, of Fitzhugh, Va., delivered to the North Carolina Cot ton Growers Cooperative Association this season not one graded below mid dling one-inch and much of it grad ed strict middling 1 1-16. U. S. Skating Champion Maribel Vinson, a Yankee girl, is the women’s skating champion of the United States She is represent ing the U. S. in the international contests at Lake Placid. N Y YOUTHS LIVING SLOWER LIVES New York.—English youths are living slower lives, drinking and swearing less and marrying younger, says Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, for mer member of the British Parlia ment, upon her arrival from England, CLERK’S—OFFICE CLOSED Gastonia.—The office of the Gaston county clerk of superior court was closed here pending the action of the resident judge in appointing a succes sor to the late S. C. Hendricks. WAREHOUSE FIRE Reidsville.—Brown’s warehouse and a quantity of tobacco which it con tained were destroyed by fire of un known origin. Dense smoke handicap ped firemen in their efforts to check the blaze. ADDITIONS APPROVED Columbia.—Plans for $150,000 ad ditions to the Columbia hospital have been approved by Dr. W. S. Rankin, director of the Duke hospital fund, from which the hos'pital received aid. TO USE VACANT STORES Charlotte.—Chamber of Commerce officials have arranged to use the win dows of vacant stores. Seasonal goods will be used to decorate the bare win dows on the theory that "clothes make the man,” so "clothes will make the window.” Avoid if at all possible the extrac tion of your teeth. i* • « - ~ ■ • ———. Gambling? j YOU are gambling if you keep your valuables in your j home without ade I quate protection from fire and theft. Why take this I chance when you j can buy a Meilink Fireproof Chest for $IO°° SEE THEM AT ROWAN PRINTING CO. 126 N. MAIN ST. PHONE 532 SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA t I