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Carolina Watchmai Published Every Friday Morning By The Carolina Watchman Pub. Co., SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA E. W. G. Huffman_President J. R. Felts,_Business Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In Advance One Year_$1.00 6 Months_ .50 Entered as second-class mail matter at the postoffice at Sal isbury, N. C., under the act of March 3, 1879. The influence of weekly news papers on public opinion exceeds that of all other publications in the country.—Arthur Brisbane. «■ dommimP POPULATION DATA (1930 Census) Salisbury _16,95! Spencer _3,12! E. Spencer_L_2,09! China Grove_ 1,25! Landis - 1,38! Rockwell_ 69 < Granite Quarry_ SO', Cleveland_ 43! Faith _: 43! Gold Hill _- 15« (Population Rowan Co. 56,665] THE LINDBERGH CASE The general rejoicing that a last a partial solution has beer found to the mystery of the kid naping and murder of the littli Lindbergh boy is, we believe, shar ed by everybody. No crime that we can remem ber, short of the assassination oi President McKinley, ever aroused such wide-spread horror and indig nation as the stealing of the famous avaitor’s only child from his crib. And the horror was mul —.ij plied when, more than tw< months later, the poor baby’s bod; was found in the woods near thi Lindbergh’s home, exposed fo crows to peck at, reduced to a piti ful little skeleton by the work o: insects and the elementsi The elemental sense of justice which dominates every sane hu man being will be satisfied with nothing less than the swift convic tion and equally swift punishment of the kidnapers and murderers, whether one man or a dozen. Yet we do not believe that even such fiends should be convicted on any thing but completely conclusive evidence. If there is a single rea sonable doubt of their gudlt, they should be given the benefit of it. So far we have nothing but the newspaper reports on which to base a belief as to the guilt or innocence of the man who has been arrested Undoubtedly accurate as far a! they go, these reports probably dc not tell the whole story -of the evidence which the authoritie: have up their sleeve. Nor, do we understand that the case againsi Bruno Hauptmann is yet so com plete that there is no question oi his guilt. Nothing is more to be deplorec than "mob law.” It is a natura human impulse to desire to take : hand in administering summary justice for crimes which revolt nor mal human instinct. We hope thai there will be no legal technicalitiee permitted to interfere with bring ing out the whole truth in thi: case; and we hope, even more de voutly, that there will be no at tempt at or encouragement oi lynch law. "WE MISS YOU, DADDY” Motorists all over the country might profit by reading the editor ial which appeared in a recent issue of the Rockville, (Conn.) Journal, and which was circulated over that state by the motor vehicle depart ment as a part of its "Safety Edu cation” program. The editorial follows: "Those whose homes are blessed by little children know that the I children think the world of thei parents and no matter whethe Daddy is a business success or flat failure, in the eyes of those lit tie ones he is the biggest and mos important person on earth, excep mother. Tuesday morning there was fatal accident on the Minterburi Hill and when the medical examin er was going through the pockets o the dead man, to list what valuable there were, or what papers were 01 the body, a telegram was found It was not very long, just the ordi nary ten word length, but it had message that would make any fath er happy. It read: 'WE MISS YOU DADDY ‘ WHEN ARE YOU COMINC HOME?.’ That was all. It was a message sent by one of the children of th man who had been killed. He ha< I received the message and was home ward bound. The clothes wer minus money but in his pocket hi carried that message. Those who have little children and those who were once little chil dren, can think of the great blov to the child when father did returr home—DEAD. "Daddy” will be missed by thosi children in the long years ahead. Nc ; longer will they have his support ; his earnings, and more important ' his companionship. ' If ever there was a reason foi | people driving more carefully or the road, it is that they might gei in an accident and deprive theii ; own child or some other child, oi their "Daddy.’’ ■ More might be written but jusi let us repeat those words: "Wi miss you daddy. When are yoi coming nomt-r BEGGARS ARE CHOOSERS If anybody engaged in industry or any other sort of work in thi populous centers does not like th( way things are going with him, ht can apply to the government, ii he wishes, for a mule and land tc work, and Uncle Sam will see that he is attended to. i There is, in the meantime, nt i-' running over each other for thi: : kind of federal bounty. Even beggars are choosers whei . the choice is between taking foot ; and feed from the Federal trough I and taking a mule from the sam< (paternalistic hand and going out to raise the stuff for oneself. I---- ■ ■ ---— TODAY AND TOMORROW | -BY Frank Parker Stockbridge I LOTTERIES . . . and morals The whole subject of. lotteries has been opened afresh by the ac tion of the New York Municipal Assembly in adopting a plan for a city lottery to raise funds for the relief of the destitute. 1 That is an ancient and still pop ular way to raise money for public or charitable purposes. It seems tc me that there is a decided difference between a commercial lottery op erated for private profit and a pub lic lottery in which the bulk of the money paid for tickets goes to a worthy purpose. The outcry against any form of lottery, which has been embodied in the laws of every state and in the constitutions of some is based upon the supposed debasing effect upon the winners, and the tempta tion to the poor to waste theii scanty resources in the hope of winning a beg prize. I am not prepared to subscribe to the doctrine that it is a function of government to regulate any in dividual’s private morals. » >r si GAMBLING . . . large and small Where one should draw the line between lotteries, gambling, specu lation and the taking or risks in business is a matter that I have never been able to determine to my own satisfaction. In a sense we are all gamblers. We use the term ordinarily to ap ply to games of chance, in which skill may or may not have a domi nant part. The golfer who bets a Kali a hole on his game is as much a gambler as the lady who plays bridge for a prize; no more and no less. It seems to me that most betting is foolish, because the betters have no control over the outcome of the thing they are betting on. But most people are foolish, any L IF YOU will pick out the men in a- :.«• iV . TOWN WHO sing in the church :y iy » CHOIRS, YOU will not have the 1 » * * ’ LEAST BIT of trouble in finding s 1 OUT THE name of the chief ».*■ » » CHARACTER IN our story today. *)■ »h :y ; "GEE. TIMMY, when I went by JF * »* . YOUR HOUSE this morning I JF JF :F ! HEARD SOMEBODY swearin’ SOMETHING AWFUL,” said one * * *F ’ YOUNGSTER TO another Sunday * * . AFTERNOON. "AW, that was * * * MY DAD” replied the second chap. I * * * "HE WAS late for church and >F '-V :F , COULDN’T FIND his hymn book.” * I THANK YOU. way, and so long as that is so there will always be plenty to bet on the outcome of the World’s Series or Ithec hance of throwing seven in a I crap game. >F >F »F SPECULATION .'. . its scope The Federal Government has im posed upon the Stock Exchange and ! -l__.i_LI:_I_c___: 'ties and commodities, regulations | intended to curb speculation. ! About one million persons, consid erably less than one per cent of the ! population of the country, were ■ engaged in speculation when the big crash of 1929 came. Many got out with profits; those who | lost made a lot of noise about it. The ones who lost had nobody to i blame but themselves. They were jthe "easy marks” who think money lean be made by people who don’t jknow how to make it. No sane ' person would go into the grocery or hardware business without know ing something about it, or expect 1 to make money out of it w ithout I giving it all of his attention, day and night. Yet folks who had been successful enough in their own businesses to accumulate a surplus went into stock market operations without knowing the first thing about the market, and raised their capital in an enterprise over which they could exercise no control. That sort of speculation is pure insanity. But that doesn’t mean that all margin trading is foolish | or speculative. j i * * * I jLAND . . . and values I was in Iowa in 1917 when thei , big farm land boom was rising to jits height. Farmers were paying from $300 to $600 an acre for 'ordinarv farm land. Sensible men .knew that there wasn’t an acre in Iowa that could earn interest on jsuch prices, but that wasn’t what | these buyers were thinking of. jThey were thinking of selling the j land next week at a profit. By land by the crop of suckers failed, Jand the last buyers were left hold ing the land. Much of the distress among [farmers has its root in land purch ased at exorbitant prices, on partial j payments with a mortgage on which the land can .never earn in terest. I was in Florida all through thej great land boom there. It was the western farm boom over again in a; different setting. People bought lots, not because they had any use! r _ _ _ _ _ I_ _ _I | xvx i.iivxxi a ujo xiix. j n vxv worth what they contracted to pay, but in the hope of selling them to morrow at a huge profit. For a! while it worked. Then, again, the crop of suckers failed. Iowa land and Florida land and corporation stocks and all the ocher' commodities in which men have | speculated and lost have real value, ■ readily determined. I think that| anything to prevent free trading ; in such things is contrary to the | public interest and runs against the American tradition. J. What is needed is wider educa tion in what constitutes real value. » * * LUCK . . . always a factor i There is no question that the ele- ( ment of luck plays an important i part in all human affairs. Turn to i the right instead of to the left and . you may meet the man or the situa-k tion' which will determine your 11 whole future, which you would not ' have met had you turned to the left. But luck is accidental, and those who stake anything of material value on it are taking unnecessary chances. Nobody can foresee the future. In a minute anything can happen which will change the whole course of human events. I know a man who had just opened a resturant on Market Street when the San rrancisco earthquake occurred and ruined him. A cousin of mine cancelled his passage on the Titanic, only to be killed five days later in an air plane crash at Hendon. The only safe rule of life is to earn your money by the methods of which you are, a master, spend less than you earn, and put your surplus into commodities of endur ing value at prices no higher than their permanent worth. j PICAYUNES j THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT There is nothing worse, as every grown up man knows, than a belly full of green apples. What boy has not felt the shocking effects of a complete tummy full of green ap ples gobbled up in the good old summer time. No pain known to man or beast can compare with those which drill into a small boy s belly as a result of a full helping of unripe fruit. But here is a boy that ate a big load and went in swimming. He lived at Akron, Ohio, but since he ate those green apples and immediately went swim ming one day last week, he doesn t live in Akron any more. It was too much for him. Green apples Yps. and no wonder. —The Mocksville Enterprise. ASK CLYDE HOEY; HE KNOWS D. L. Eays the pinch back suit, or by-swing, is a business getter. He says he has a decided increase in business since he put on that lit tle by-swing. _T. B. Laney, Monroe Journal. DON’T REASON WITH THE. LITTLE DEARS; SWAT ’EM! Don’t preach to your children ah the time, don’t continually nag them. If you can’t bring them to see like you want them to see, quit talking to much and resort to more spanking. -—Davie Record. YOU WOUL ^TBE MEAN ING THEY &Ti*D SOME BODY ELSE’S MM 1NG PARTY, WOUL YOU? Several in this tion enjoyed a moonlight swimming party last Monday night. —Indian Spring item, Goldsboro Mews-Argus. MUST BE SAVING COUPONS FOR ’EM r'__kpt-r^.r known as 'Shorty”, who is now news butch an a Florence to Atlanta train, spent the week-end with friends here. "Shorty” is a special favorite among all the boys, and they are always glad for him to return home. —Lake View item, Lumberton Ro besonian. WHY, MRS. WHALES! WE’D NO IDEA MRS. WHALES WANTS PLACES FOR CATTLE. —Caption, Edenton News. WHAT MADE CH1CCO GROUCHO Vincent Chicco, wine and beer dealer, was back in Charleston Fri day after a trip to Columbia on ivhich he consulted Robert M. Cooper, collector of internal rev :nue, as to whether Section 701 of the Revenue Act of 1924, imposing an excise tax of $.1,000 on liquor dealers in states where the sale of linurvr ic illuo-il 11 n rlr»r ctifp law i ry ivould be enforced in South Caro lina. "I don’t get much satisfac :ion,” Mr. Chicco said Friday. —Chester Reporter. —-- 1 MYSTERY OF THE EMPTY VESSELS A number of young folks in the i immunity went muscadine hunt ng one day this week and reported 1 :hat they got plenty, but their ves ;els were almost empty, and at sup- ' aer time, they (the youngsters) l were not. —Big Lick item, Stanly News & ; h-ess. - 1 F YOU FOLKS DON’T AFAN VA ENCOURAGE NUDISM, ’AY UP! Tkprp ic a cfrtnr frnm -a nPiirc- i )aper out west which told of a very 1 leat housekeeper who kneaded her lough with her gloves on. We need he dough with our gloves on, our i :oat on, our pants on, and if our ■ ubscribers don’t pay up pretty soon : ve’ll need the dough without any i hing on, and this country is no 1 'Garden of Eden” ^in thg winter j 9 Crop Reduction Needed Here-~hy A-B-CKapm time. —Western Carolina Tribune. JUDGING BY ITS PATRONS Tarboro, Sept. 25.—Two Neg roes were observing the N. C. Stati flag flying over the court hous here and one of them inquired o the other: "What does dat N. C stand for?” The reply was: "N. C stands for Negro Court.’’ —AP dispatch THERE’S ANOTHER NAM I FOR ’EM, FRIEND, IF YOl CHOOSE TO UST IT Our country seems to be boodec with a bunch of animals callec dogs, but they seem any thing els( but that, as they are crossed up with every type from the shaggj variety to the old long eared hound, »fd when they are' all bunched to gether are not worth a chaw of that pole cat ’backer which would make a good remedy for most of them, about a quart of it boiled up and poured down their throats. —Wall City item, Lexington Dis patch. THIS WEEK IN WASHINGTON . j (Continued from page one) ; tinies of NRA now the General i out will be Bernard ft. ■jBaruch, Raymond Moley and Don ':ald Richberg. Richberg probabl | will be the active head of the re organized NRA. Once regarde 1 by business men as'an extreme rad r ical, he has grown in favor an* ! would be quite acceptable to mos | of the important business and in Idustrial interests; much more s j than Johnson. Mr. Baruch, wh | has not figured much publicly ii Administration affairs, is not ou of favor, as had been rumored. H< is still relied upon by the President for Counsel on matters affecting business. Professor Moley has been closer to the President’s ear than anyone else, without interruption, for more than two years; and Mol ley has learned a lot of practical things he did not know, and has modified some of his theories in the light of his newly-acquired under standing. MAKERS EVEN TAME ONE WILD "Is your daughter wild?” asked one say-eyed mother of another. "Not very except when a boy friend breaks a date,” replied the other one. j LIQUID DROPS SALVE NOSE DROPS Checks Malaria in 3 days, Colds first day, Headaches or Neuralgia in 30lminutes. Fine Laxative and Tonic Most Speedy Remedies Known. ! The horses, it used to be said, feel their oats, but many present users of the highways must have had something more exhailarat ing than oatmeal. I ; American people are urged to s;put on their thinking caps, but the ■jheads of many are so much enlarg - ^ed they can’t get them on. j, j I Whooping cough may be a hard ^ disease to cure, but whoopee is still more so. 1 Formerly the boys acquired glory L in college by knowing Latin and Greek, but now’ they have to carry 3 the football over the goal line. ) - I-—-1 Why Liquid Laxatives are Back in Favor QOOR CHILD' /and INC SCHOOL By Dr. ALLEN G. IRELAND Director. Phyucal and Hecif'h Id uc at tot Heu let try State Department cl ptrb'.n ln>lracttot The boilow Up Last week I discussed the hea th sxamination. Obviously, no proce dure of this kind will work unle.s something is done about it. It means nothing mere ly to examine chil dren and accumulate a list of defects and diseases. ' That is only the first step. It’s pur pose is to find where in children are handicapped. Having that knowl idee. it is possible to stop the «-----I The public is fast returning to the use of liquid laxatives. People have learned that the right dose of a properly prepared liquid laxative will bring a more natural movement with out any discomfort at the time, or after. The dose of a liquid laxative can be varied to suit the needs of the in dividual. The action can thus be regulated. A child is easily given the right dose. And mild liquid laxatives do not irritate the kidneys. Doctors are generally agreed that senna is a natural laxative. It does not drain the system like the cathar tics that leave you so thirsty. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is a liquid laxative which relies on senna for its laxative action. It gently helps the average person’s constipated bowels until nature restores their regularity. You can always get Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin at any drug store, ready for use. eak... lnus, the follow-up of th( lealth examination becomes one of he most important activities in be entire school health program Perhaps you have had a visit :rom a school nurse or you may lave received a notice or a letter elling of some physical handicap 'ound in your child at the examina ;ion. These are the two most coni nonly used types of follow-up. But' ike the examination, they are use ess unless something is done about t. Here is where you can definite y help the school to do a better educational job, but more to the joint it is your chance to give your :hild a better educational oppor ;unity. Correct those conditions ind maybe you are removing ob stacles to learning. Perhaps you vill turn unhappiness. into happi less, or remove the cause of be lavior difficulties. At any rate, it s an obligation that should never Je disregarded. Who knows what ater expense and loss may be i voided? T-t04(1 4/tM'n/lW/TVlf 4 0 f )l/l COMPARE RETREADS Against Any Other Retreads More and more satisfied customers are singing their praises because we have proven to them that they wear longer and cost less per mile than new tires. We retread both truck and passenger car tires. EVERY TIRE IS GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTION. Retread while you wait. Be sure you get genuine Firestone retreads and save money in the long run. Salisbury Ignition & Battery Co. 122 W. Fisher StreetPhone 299 unch? Dr. Ireland will discuss his question next week. September was observed as Safe y Month in most of the states, md as usual it seems to have been . fairly safe month as respects the ncome of those who make their iving by repairing automobiles in ured in smash-ups.