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Mx Moatha .7?
A wicMy aw?a>ir derated to
tf,' yateaUaa a< tha saaaral welters
mU pakUahed tar tha eaUghtaaaot,
aatartalaacat ?al benefit of
MjMtys
^URPChENNIAL OAS DSN
LH'i bow the seeds of friendship
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liM'i nprlnkle them wtth kindness
And pull the roots of hate.
Let the sun shine down upon them,
The sun of cheerfulness;
With gentle bands let's care for them
Our motto, Willingness.
Roots below of confidence,
A stem of faith above,
And when the green buds open
left's call the flowers our love.
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WOULDN'T IT BE FINE?
(StatesvUle Daily)
Spring is gone but evidently the
wigUulneso for an Utopia lingers on
in the spirit of these questions propounded
by The Oastonia ' Gasette:
"Wouldn't It be a fine thing If every
voter in the country could cast
his ballot as he pleased with out being
Influenced by surd heelers and
professional politicians, who are paid
by candidates to get out the vote?
What sort. of an election would ws
Rave if everybody voted as he pleased
without suggestions, directions
or compulsion from some one of the
candidates? Will It ever be possible
to have clean elections in tbis country?
There Is little doubt thct the
elections nowadays go to toe candidates
who can hire the most jitneys
to carry the voters to the polle, or
hire the most workers who hang around
the polls to 'help' voters with
their ballots- Is there such a- thing
as a man running on the strength of
his character and record?
'We leave those questions with
our realers. but that last one we
want to undertake to answer our own
elf. There is such a thing as a man
"running" on the strength of his char
aeter and record, but under the pres
ant order; if he depends on tnat ?
Icne, he will win) up only on the land
?f make believe,
- ''As for those other queries, they
provide something worthwhile for
he voters to be thUuldtig about?"tint
if they <;rave decent government,
decently arrived at. Whenever the
vcter refuses to be a party to these
miiuvti/wioKlo " ? *
.mvwmuiuuua, lUCil UHi
lot beflore will our public office*
sense to go only to those who can
afford to buy and pay for them."
MO ROOM FOR
TERRORISM HERE
The federal government owes It to
hhe people 01 the United States to
make a sweeping, non-political lnves
?igat icm of conditions In Jersey Oity,
According to reports printed In
one of the country's most reputable
newspapers and magazines, & virtual
fascist dictatorship has been eatabIshed
there. Labor leaders have
been refused permits to speak. Norsssn
Thomas, the socialist leader,
has been forcibly expelled across the
Kw York Hne. 1>o dwcreisnea
who planned to speak there In pretest
against violations of civil liberies
were advised that if they appear
*d, bloodshed seemed certain. Laatty,
it Is reported that an ominous ah
ti-Semklc movement, almost Hitlerfen
in its brutal, terrorlsftc methods
fas started.
In eapective of your political or
social .principles, there is no room
tor that sort of thing in a free country.
Freedom of speech must be
maintained ? and It muat be maintained
.for those with wnom you
wrree m well as itbufrne
WARNING ? THE FIRE
SEASON IS COMING
Fire Is always dangerous. It's
doubly dangerous la suauner.
We are close -to that menacing
tflre season" now. Vacant lots and
fields, If left uocut, are ready. to
Bant Into flame at the touch at a
Hbetpa holocausts can be prevented
?fl easily prevented ? if only we
?1H as help. Keep fire In mind, and
Ml adeordtngly. U yon own property,
see to It that tt Is kept dean and an
Petered, annd free from dry grasa.
When traveling shout, never throw
smtaMs outdoors, sever build fires
ear frees or other' Inflammables ?
and edver leave a Are until It has
. been thoroughly extinguished, preferably
with both enter and dirt. O?ey
the Are lawe?g??y were made
ffcr your proteeUon. not to annoy you
t As a matter ef fact, the greatest
Waged y of fire l? ft la ahnost
rwnya unnecessary. Every year wa
Pons up resonroas and Property vmlu
PC st bsndrads of million# ft dollars {
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Facts, Fun and Fancies
' " JJa lid Julia ""
Sltvoerely hoping that last week'i
words have blown away, we're hen
(at leant, I am) to Mow a tew mors
right after them.
A great number of us carried hea
' vy hearta Friday because of Thurs
' day's calamity. A lcok Into our dfip
ping auditorium (eo beautiful at ttu
(list of the week, with he new finery)
waa truly heart-wringing. AJ
1 though it's bard to think so. per
haps H was for the beat. \
What pair wee that we saw drlvlni
around In a certain Bulck Monday
night? None other than Dick and
Dolly!. And speaking of Monday
nhrM?P. ft na aim n vlik hi.
girl friend. V
It being Sunday night. Fay* had tfl
<| I AWi II iiif 111 ! ! I aliasd
went "redhead ins"
Flash! From a pair of very reliable
llpa?'Bpple" hae changed again. To
whom. h? saya, la bis own aecret foi
the present. Perhaps it won't be bp
the time yon read this.
Aside to Cora Heradon: Don't b<
downcast, Cora, Jackie and Hazel art
i not Jealoua ? Carl. Preston iant mad
at you.
The greeu Pontine from Shelby
was over again Monday ? will. be
again today, I hear ? Cal seems tc
have a touch of Publloomanla? This
week brought a "Hello" from J. D.
Jones ? Also from R. S?Crash! ?
Bang!?(from certain hearts ? Ed
gar's back! We know who Eollne's
flame Is ? now what about Jo's ?
a certain house between K. M. and
Gaston la Is almost compteee?wonder
of the "oocupauts to be" will ba
ready??
And now for a bit of philosophy
from Bobby ? "Henry Ford feared
, no competition ? now he's the richest
man in America!' ? You see?he
evidently saw Gogle Friday mte.
It seetns that Dan refused to do
anv /fu.1 inm a f Wnn^omau' Ut?
"hoine-town love" prevented. Nice
goln' Jackie!
The people In a theatre in Char
i lotite enjofed watching Bill D. anc
Helen more than, they did the picture!
And by the way?why did P. K.
and Clemongee get locked in the lake
that same night?
Betty Lee made a big hit with the
Lenoir-Rbyne bunch, we hear!
The Land
of Opportunity
By RAYMOND PITCAIRN
National Chairman
Sentinels of the Republic ??
A great thinker once aid that every
time he itood In the preeenee of a boy
he wanted to take off his hat to the
possibilities there represented.
Much the same Idea must occur to
countless Commencement Day orators
as they address - this month the eager
army of Arrferican youth being graduated
from high schools and colleges
throughout our Nation.
For despite set-backs and discouragements,
that thought applies to the
young men and women of America
today, as to the youth of no other
nation on earth.
It was for them?as for their predecessors?that
America was established
as the land of opportunity; a land
where no aspiration could be too high,
no achievement too great for the individual
to attain by virtue of his own
enterprise, his own courage, his own
ability.
That's why the men who made America
wrote Into Its fundamental law a
Bill of Rights which guarantees to.
every man freedom of conscience, of
speech and of opportunity.
these newer governments ef Europe,
where an lights are eaksrfllaatod to ths
will at the man or the party la power,
and white Intlvliwl eppeiloilHj wllh
the press sad riMgten wh chstaw
To ths youth of America has been
bequeathed a priceless heritage of opi
portunity. which unfavorable oonrtlttons
I can delay, but must never destroy. It
was won for them, often at heroic sacrifice,
by the generations that out of a
wilderness hewed our groat nation. It
is theirs to use to the limit of their
ability.
Bat tt Is theirs she to pnosrvo for
the generations that follow. Tbo future
of AmeHca h not tn the hands ef an
abstract fate. As always It h In the
hands ef youth. It to tho responsibility
of youth, now and through tho yean
ahead, te keep oar nation as height In
opportunity, no gloriously free, as did
their forboan tat the pest.
And as we consider the need to proiL-i.
l-li ? a- ? ?
mat to uim aptnt m ireeaom. wnich
America above all nations represents,
well may an older generation bow In
respect to the responsibilities?and the
opportunities?which await our young
graduate* today.
We destroy thousand* of lira*.
A liui? care awd thought oa your
part may save your heme or some*
one else's from fcdfaeHoa. U may
save a life. Don't forget that.
RED CROM RELIEF
FOR CHINA , I
The local chapter of tbO American
Rei Cross toted toald the suffering
Chines# at a recent metlsg of the
Board of Direatura This anttoa was
taken In roipoage to a request from
the National Office. The local Chapter
has been asked to rdtte a aataK
mom of ISA00. All olUaeaa who
would Ilk* to ooatrlbute are asked to
make their donatioas to Mr, B. B.
NgRl, at the First National Bank befo>e
June 16th when the report has
le he mads.
<M KMfl MOVMTAIM B*AL?T
AUHNIIY MILL It
SOLD TO CLINK (
Peterborough, N.' h., June 7.?i
' purebrel Ouernaey bull, Arohdal
? Foremost Prince IIMU. wu sold n
? ceutly by P. m. Nelsler ot King
> Mountain, N. C? to D. A. Cflne. Iii
cotnton, N C. aooordlng to the Ante
' loan Guernsey Cattle Club, Peter bo
' ougta, New Hamgshlro.
[ a, It p. sislk class to mkct
[ with mcthooist
The Men's Bible Class ot the A. H
[ P. Church, with W. K. Blnkely, Team
' er. will meat Sunday morning wltl
I the Central Methodist Men's Class
' Mr. Blakely will teach. The foUowtai
i Sunday morning the Methodist wil
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I WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:
In the Mile town of Ht. Petersburg,
Mo., Tom Bawyer load* Km
happy boyhood lift, marred only
by the Infrequent scolding from
hie Aunt Polly. Hie younger
' brother, Bid, trope Tom when he
dsniea that he played hookey to
lj go swimming. Fleeing from a
licking, he encounters Joe Harper,
a newcomer to the village.
They fight. When Aunt Polly
sees Tom's torn and disarrayed
clothing she promisee to find
work to keep him out of mischief
on the following day.
Chapter Two
Saturday morn In*, the summer
sun vu bright, hearts Mng. and
1 locust bloom tracranoo Oiled tbo
air.
But whan Tom Sawyer surveyed
tba thirty Tarda of board fanoa, nina
feet high, that ha was ander orders
to whitewash, Ufa aaamad hollow,
and his spirit was crushed with
melancholy.
Aunt Polly, followed by Bid.
ushered him to tba soano of his
labors, and departed with the air
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-What do yoi? oai
of on* who** mission had been w*n
don*.
As Tom rtlwd the brush for th*
Orat stroke, Little Jim. with a tin
pail, cam* skipping through th*
gat* on hi* way to th* pump. Tom
oft ered to fetch th* water If Jim
would whitewash. Jim demurred,
saying Aunt Polly would "snatch
v ,de hald offen'" him.
** Slowly, painfully, Tom went on
with his task. Soon the fro* boys
would oom* tripping along on an
sorts of ttpttlt'r''
they would dertd* him for having
to work. Tom's Borrows multiplied
with each stroke of th* brush. At
this dark and bopelea* moment, a
great Inspiration hurst upon him.
He resumed his work wKh an
air of In tens* concentration. In
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Tom paid no attention.
*Tm goia* a-swlmmlng, I ?m,?
aald Jon, "but aooourse you'd
druther work."
"What do you call worlcf" said
Tom looking at Jon with feigned
surprise.
Jon WAS surprised. -Why, ain't
that workT"
"Wnn," aald Tom, wielding the
whltewiah brush with a few arJ?ourtshes
"all I know is, it
suits Tom Bawytr."
aniEf>*eaWhPP*d nlbl>,,n' ^ ??> .
"Say, let me whitewash a little."
Tom pondered the proposition,
???Uy said reluctantly) ^
,.n?. tt it was the inside I
wouldn t and Aunt Wtlto
wouldn't but ihe'fl awful partlokUr
about the outside."
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Frew The Kings Mountain llwiM
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NINBTBBN VBAM AOO
J JUNB 1?, 1t1#
i Mr*. J. V. Phillip* *nd thrally are
r vigKIng relatives her*.
Mr. D. F. Horl I* rem ode I lug and
overhauling bta residence on Klhg
street.
Mies Lucy Klaer returned front
Llleavllle Saturday where she has
been teaching.
J Mia* Addle Weir of Charlotte is
spending a few days with her par^
eats, Mr. anl Mrs. 8. 8. Weir.
I meet with the A. H P. Claea with
I Teacher J. R. Darin on the Job.
had traded the next chanoe to Billy
Fisher for a kite; Johnny Miller
succeeded him for a dead rat and -
a string to swing It on.
Other opportunities developed,
and by mid-afternoon, Tom was literally
rolling in wealth. While he
sat idle, basking in plentiful company,
half the boys in town emptied
their pockets for the privilege or
whitewashing. The fence received I
not one, but three coats before the <
whitewash ran out.
tieaaea Dome for iupp*r, Tom
passed the house where Jeff i
Thatcher lived and saw a new girt ,
in the garden?a lovely little bfiieeved
creature with yellow hair
plaited Into two long tails. A certata^Arng
Lawrence vanished Atom
The angel was near the fence,
busy picking flowers and happily *
and loudly humming a tuna. She t
redoubled the energy of her must*
cal and horticultural efforts, aa
Tom nearcd. hut gave no other sign '
that she waa conedoue he existed.
Tom began to show off, apparently
for his own amusement. He did
leaps and cartwheels, while she
serenely hummed and minded her
own business.
Finally she left the garden, hot 1
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as sha departed, toned a pansy
over the fence, ae If It were a
bloom rejected. To Tom, the sadeyed
little flower took on an Immense
significance. He edged over
to It, picked It up with his toe, and
nonchalantly transferred It on his
head. Then he went home, entranced.
T^LttiXE'?52S.rje?SSZ
him rehearse Us Bible verses, and
saw Qft his hands and taoa were
washed and his hair plastered oonagfas*.
.kssaI
lust as she ??* her sarents entered
the Sunday schooSTrhen she
turned her head ellghtly and cava ;
him the ghost of an alluring smile.
Tom's lovsslSk expression changed .
as he got an Idea, collaring his
various boy friends, ha swiftly
traded the foot he had amassed on
his whitewashing deal, for Bible
tickets.
When the Sunday school superintendent
called for the pupil who
had loaned 3000 verses end had
tickets to show tor such diligence,
Tom amesed the gathering by stepping
forward to claim e Bible.
"And now my little men," said
Thatcher, who as guest of honor I
wu awarding the prizes, "no doubt "I
you know the names of the twelve
apostles. Who were the first two?"
There was a dreadful watt. Mrs.
Thatcher said kindly:
"Poor boy, he's frightened . .
hut he'll ten me. Now, Thomas, the
names of the first two apostles
and We," said Tom dee- 'j
^ meant Parld and Pollath?no,
tnttcntfl tot oiDit rrom on ninoi.
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The ROUND-UP
By "George"
'By George" has graduaeted! Don't
J la me me. however ?" It was Mr.
Liynch'e idea in entirety ? and he
akea all the blame. (We hate to au-.
nU It, but Julia Pollock put ua so
nuch In the shade at writing roman:es
that this new angle Is really a
lfe?or?face saver.) Mr. Lynch
lays "Georgte boy, you should, write
ibout what happens in the main
lrag."-But if anything happened on
he main drag lately, yours truly
nuat have been asleep. So this will
lave to be a sort of duke's mixture.
Softball seems to be the major top
c of the day, and what we know a>out
that game couN be written on
he hack of a postage stamp and
eave a wide margin. Everyone elth
it plays softball or talks softbaD ?
ind those who play the game talk It
..hnn VIJ- It*
nuou IUCJ IC UUl |lia) lug, IVIUB will
iooti be cutting their teeth on those
arge rfdges which adorn the ball,
t puts tennis so much in the shade
hat we're almost ashaaed to menion
It, white the recent pblUica) candidates
fount that If they couldn't
alk a good game os sootball they
tad lust as well withdraw as far as
C. M. was concerned. However, when
he Stags beat the P. O. by a score
f 22 to 2, sum'p'n tells us tbat Unite
Sam's mailmen bad better get a
nove on. (Note: I know it's a sissy's
jame now ? ''Judge' Hays and Jlmnle
Harris play it.)
A.nd rumor has that If Mode referees
any more-bowling matches, hed
otter get a pair of specs. Several
>erson8 are dissatisfiel with some
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of his decisions handed down the oth
er Monday night. Bat then, what ,
the opinion of a fey persona against
a hundred of Modes?
Thornton Harrill is back in town,
so carry some cotton arouund in
your pocket?Just in case you happen
to come across htm and L. M.
Logan together'?? "But, Hotner, it
wasn't Red's fault. He stopped to
look before he turned the corner and
Col Just happened to be sitting on
her front poroh. You know how it is
?besides Col's cute little oouain and i
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