North Carolina Newspapers

King* Mountain Herald || Established 1SM ' Published Every Thursday HERALD PUBLISHING HOUSE, Haywood E. Lynch Editor-Manager Entered aa second class matter at the Postofllce at Kings MountainN. C., under tre Act of March 3, 1873. SUBSCRIPTION HATES One Year |1.5u Six Months 76 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general weltare and published tor the enllghtmeat, entertainment aud benefit of the citizens ot Kings Mountain and tta vicinity. HUMILITY There was a time when faith began to slip, When I had last all that I had to .. . lose _ ? Or so It seemed to me?1 lost home, My Jotr? | had not house, no food, no shoes. I ' ' I i . Sif Then, suddenly, I felt myself ashamed For I, who talked of shoes, Then chanced to meat i L'lWIl IUb KHyTBSflway cW my Ule, A man ! Who bad no feel! 1 ?Marcella Hooe. ' < I WPA TRUCK HAS I CANVASS TOP, We noticed In laat Monday's Shelby Star that the WPA worker* from 1 Shelby who are working in Kings < Mountain are hauled back and forth 1 on a truck. The Star warns the res- 1 ident* along the Highway that IX ( they see some odd looking cent rapt- I Ion coming their way not to be 1 frightened. The welnd looking, spec- 1 trehke object, the article says, Is merely the truck which hauls Che , men, and Che weird effeot is produc- , ed by ai canvass spread over the back , of the truck to protect them from the cold. It sounded a little humorous, as you know If you regd the story. But those men who are under the canvass are thankful that they hare It It Isnft funny to them. And H would be much leas funny ttf they didn't have the canvas. If you don't believe H, try riding to town on the running board of your car one of these cold, froaty mornings. And we might mention the fact that when Shelby was using our WPA men, they had to ride on a truck WITHOUT a canvas to cover them. So let the farmers get soared It they are nervous, and let their horses run oft when they see (he <. truck coming down the road, but let (boss men keep their canvas! GOOD BUSINESS Kings Mountain merchants enjoy* , ed a good Christmas business, and during the last week In the year, gales were rather brisk. In fact, many sales were missed because the 1 Stocks of certain types of mercban- j dlae were exhausted. However, the t hew goods have been arriving, and I the stores are filled with seasonable 1 merchandise again. All merchants saw looking forward to good bust- 1 neea In 1939, and they are going af- J W xx ni a wivnuiiKTU mauuvr, DRIVE 8APELY bout 32,00 persons were killed In highway accidents during; 1938, Which hr about 7,600 less than were filled in 1937. ThtB big reduction In 4|Wlhg comes as a result of educational efforts on the part of various organisations that have stressed Ute driving. The number who were billed last year 1? entirely too large but at least we should be gratified by the improved record made during 1938. If we can continue the downward trend, there is no reason why we should not. eventually reach a low minimum. The amazing thing to xntost of us in the* fact that aw do not have more accidents, in view of the tremendous number of cars on the high ways and the manner in which many of them are driven. 8 E HURRYING " 1 If we could follow all these people ** n the street who aae hurrying so, '4 end see what they do when they get F where they are going,' we would often be surprised. They twiddle their " thumbs and listen to the radio. They ^ moke their etganeta end reed detective etorlea. Often risking their n necta to get tomewhere, they have to "cool their heels' for ait hour wait ? lng for what they went for. Much of h the hurry ooukt be avoided by start tag * little sooner dnsteed of fooling ground until tfae hurt mtanrte, f and a then having to hurry like a hurri- v cane ?Fisher Plant I>lfe . , c NORTH CAROLINA, 8 CL.TVBLAND COUNTY * Notice of Re-gale of Valuable Buel- 0 , neee Realty in the City of Kings ( ^isS" Mountain 1 Under and by virtue of the power ~ of sale given in an order of Supertor Court to this oauae titled: "Ray- . notde vs. Reyuokto', and, further, bo oguoe of the interposing of a proper sad sufficient up-set bid, dhe underaigned convm tmloner will re-eel 1 at .She ooorthouse doer to Shelby, N. C. on Saturday SI, 1939. at 11:00 M., or vMlh legal hours the following described real estate. V*s Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4; 5, and 6 , f - ' - Here ad f i r s . Bjr Haywood B. Lynch Bon Goforth, popular Ford Salesm?n, hu not atways boon a oollor ?t cart. Ho carrlod a R. F. D. route ?ut of Kings Mountain from 1902 until 1933. Ho started back in the torse and buggy days. His route was ibout 29 miles long, but he could leave about 10 A- M. and finish a* ?cut 4:30 P. M. He had two horses, trove one, one day, and the other the lext. He traded horses 19 times in 19 years, sometifes he would trade teveral times In one week, then .alain he kept one horse 12 years. He Mid it took a mighty good horae to itand the strain of the bad noads ind weather. Later he bought a car, >ut from the way he talked I beieve he still llkss the horse and bug jy days. Otis Mull, during his speech at the Lion's Club meeting^ last .Thursday _ vas-miking about~how high Interest 'ates got during ths war. Hs looked ' >ver towards Mr. D. M. Baker and 1 laid, "Why, Uncle Dave, Interest got is high as ten or twelve percent," And believe me, the crowd roared. In my old office I used to have Vie ts from the vnurn ert kernel-1 Be' 7 "LVe Neisler, Betty Patrick, Gloria Corn well and Jacqueline Rawiee. tut aince I have moved into my new >ttlce I haven't had nary a lookln. I ion't know whether it la the new office or that the new male teaohere have aide tracked their attention. The Roee .Bowl game could have t>een woree. It oould have been play ?d between U. 8. C. and aome other learn bealdee Duke. And while oh the game, I wleh aomeone hod told the Governor of California how to pronounce North Carolina. He had the typloal out of the etate pronounElation: North Kaarllna. One of the ecenee from the picture, "Brother Rat" which to ahowlng at the' Dixie Theatre today and tomorrow la taken In the room at V. M. I. in urtileh Eddie Smith lived while attending eohool there. ? Promising The Impossible By RAYMOND PITCAIRN In reoeat yean the march of progreaa has frequently been blocked by a recurrent spectacle new to the American tradition of courage and selfreliance. It k the parade of panacea* arousing time after time false and tmpractteal hopes la the hearts of so many That this parad* will continue through the promt ?Inn of Congress#moi Indicated. For, as all voters will AmemS, many mm who sought ejection ed their oampalgns on glittering promises of the impossible. Today tiie American public la looking with a fresh hope to the new Congress for help out of Its difficulties. And Congress must realise, with the public, that such help should be practical. It must realise that panaceas, designed only to attract the votes of a group, hurt rather than help not only the proposed beneficiaries, but the entire nation. For gifts and grants of money can nsm from only one souroe?taxes levied either now or in the fa tare, on all the people. And as one Congressman has recently pointed ont: "Every dollar la ken In taxes is a dollar deducted from the porehasing power of the people and hence a step toward a lower itandard of living." That Is why those Congressmen who pave promised the Impossible cannot >elp their constituents by blocking progress In the attempt to put their panaceas Into effect That explains how ind why they injure the voters and ilow down the mcrch toward recovery. The people as a whole have shown hat they realise this. They have shown hey realize that the more money a vorker loses In taxes the less money le has to meet the needs of his family ind to Increase the consumption on rhlch depend both employment and ??overy. If Congress, by Its actions, will demonstrate that It, too, anderstanda that Wndaasental truth, Ameriea can look oi wiuu w * year or bw purim s shown on a plat or map made by !. L. Campbell, surveyor, of tihe <evy Reyonlda' estate, which map rill appear on record in' the Reglasr of Deeds office ' for Cleveland !ounty, N. C., the said *ota -Leing ounded on the north by 3. O. Plonk nd M. U Harmon; on the east by . S. Allen and on the south, by J. !. He radon and on the west by Rail oad street. The above described lota are loafed on the east side of Railroad ivemie and are of choice location, eta* splendid lots for business puroses and investment. The lots will be sold first singly md Immediately thereafter as a ,-hole. The terms of sals; One half ash and the remsintag half wKhta be months from date of tale with he privilege of paying all cash up n the confirmation of sale. This Is be 2nd day of January, 1919. C. B. McBrayer, Commissioner, -adv? Jam -fpH Jen 19-? 11 M 'i i 'V Hltfi spinning value has naturally been Ions desired In cotton. To determine the Influent** upon spinning quality of auch physical properties ot the cotton fiber as length, strength, fineness, "drag," or cling lug power and wall thitcimeaa the Nfcrtih Carolina Agricultural 'Experiment SMtkn at State College has conducted experiments. Jerry H. Moore, cotton technologist of the Station, has announced results to date from the tests in (Technical Bulletn No. 68, entitled | "IJhe Relation of Certain Physical Properties In Improved Cotton Varl eftes to Spinning Quality." He sums up t/he progress report by saying "In selecting cotton plants for the purpose of breeding strains hawing fiber properties associate! wdth high spinning value, the cotton breeder should select for longer sfapie Icftuctfr Apiaiiar dyur^tor, rein-! lively high fiber weight In strains having similar small diameters, and a reasonable amount of strength." | Five relationships to spinning quality were deducted from) the experiments, as aa follows: (1) a smal ler fiber diameter is associated with higher yam strength; (2, higher unit per yBrnn, and an increasing number of fibers is associated with weak er yarns; (3) lu a email way. an increase in length of staple seerus to be consistently aasoctated with aa' ChapHr tin* ? SMHBM That night if you had looked ant orar the lights of San Tranatooo the name that flashed at you most confidently would ha we been Bruhm. The Bruhm Building, the ' nvhm Library, the palatial Bruhm Hotel?there waa everything but a Bruhm monument At a oertaln smart party on the Mil the name Bruhm was also on the tongues of the female guesta, who had retired like a losing football team for a huddle In the powder room. The trouble as usual?wsn Kay Kerrigan's monopoly of the men. ("Chopin!", one woman sniffed, listening to the piano. If she played chopsticks they'd SOU love itT) Zt waa stale satisfaction to sneer at the way Kay had bean supporting her yaasg MW WKA her piano playing HUM their hthtr'i suicide m the Craih, hut the ladle? found at least some comfort la the gossip about that later and the notorious Thoinas Bruhm, Second ? "So called, my dear,^ because he always seta past The seventeen - year - old mouse and that thlrty-elgbt-yesr-old rati That was a little revenge, anyway! Am the Chopin nreluae came to ?n end they filed back Into the drawl ng-rrom, applauding indifferently ar.J asking for cigarettes. Again it was ,to cdol, blonde Kay Kerrigan loat the men rushed? ' It taos to moot, Monde Key JX< "Wherf she wants a light it practically starts a prairie Are!" a woman snapped?But Kay produced her own bread. "An old friend of - Dad's who uvea In Cairo sends them to me," she explained. "Luck- i lly. X couldn't afford to buy them myself." The men had just begun to ex -J. A1 ? J amine nwao unuiuai cigareuea I with their strange name?MARICH I ?'when the butler came to say that < Mies Kerrigan was wanted on the i telephone. Kay went to answer, 1 and ae she stood wtth the re- < oelver at her ear she turned pale. < Til come at onee^" she gasped. ] The morgue was oold and desolate, and when they drtw back i the sheet from the peehetio little I body they had taken from the i river Kay could only murmur: i Tea, It's my slater,'' and turn i away. But outside, a* sudden deter- i mi nation mingled with her grief. I Climbing Into her oar she drove i straight to Thomas Bruhm's apart- i meet see Xf Bruhm ?had been a trifle less I arrogant M might not have hap- i peaed. But standing there so i suavely In a dinner Jacket which . he had donned with obvious haste, I while a woman's gloves lay on the i desk between them, he made Kay i see red. He was a little shaken by : her pews, of oourae, but not mueh. I "We can skip the melodrama, \ sr ; "The only thing X could use new would he a gun?on you!" she < , wept i 1 Mockingly, he took a pistol from the desk drawer. "It might help," < he drawled, offering It to her. "At 1 least It would make you reallxn I Si1:1 spopeibillty. Tour sister new LETS LOOK BACK Pram TIM King# Mountain HaraH NINETEEN YEAR* AGO JANUARY 8, 1920 Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Wilson and two children of Littleton spent New Year's L>uy wljit Mr. aud Mrs. 1) F. llord. Miss Attic W'olr of Charlotte spout the holidays here witji relatives. Mrs. Edgar Deeee of Atlanta spent Christinas here with her mother, Mrs. T. C. Hardin. Mr. George Barber spent Friday In Gas tenia. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Olive of Earl visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. . A. Fulton last week. insreuso in yarn strength; (4) the average breaking load per fiber does . not show any definite relationship to yarn strength; and (5) an lucVeas tag percentage of -tl.in-walled fibers may be associated with a . higher yarn strength in one season's growth, and be a negligible factor in an other season. '4 ' ? Tenants grow about two-thirds of grass region of Kentucky. The church pennant Is the only flag that can be flown from the same hoist above the Stars and } Stripes. TEJt'WANGBTl v what aha was doing." " Her hod spun. Bnaichlng the cub she fired blindly, sad Thomu 8 Bruhm, wMh a look of wonder, i col I peed behind (he desk. Tor * moment she stood there, too horrified to more. Then, ttrtetUnc in i her terror either to drop the gun s or to piok up her handbag, she ? fled. As the door closed behind ' her Bruhm arose, scared but un- < hurt. "Whew!", he laughed weakly. . "That's the first one that erer pulled the trigger! Oome on out. darling," he called, opening the . t bedroom door. "It was just a blank e cartridge. It wasn't your husband." see 5 1 But an hour later, as she drove 1 desperately through the fog, won- t daring what to do with the pistol. . thinking of her handbag and that policemen outaida Bruhm'a apartment, Kay beard the radloa in automobiles begin to blare out her n description. "...Kay Kerrigan.., Q Pive feet two.. .platinum blonde . ..Pick up Kay Karrigan!"...Back 11 in hla apartment Thomas Bruhm k again lay on tha floor, and thla D time he did not rlae and laugh. ; "Death from a bullet wound In li th? hfiNA nf Mlfi aVhII Ms*Ka gnrar*An Betectlve Homer , o* but moral t the pack of t ECerrlgaaW bandfound herself Oakland Kerry. 1 t S e I u a n r n c vl tl I 81 b b< a li rrigon that tha man rushed. ? la Her car was the first aboard, the w learest to the water. Getting out, . ECay managed, unobserved, to drop 111 he piatol Into the bay. But as she turned back she heard a siren, a shattering radio, and was caught KI rull In the headlights of another N automobile boarding the ferry. It in ras a police car! Wildly, sha eaped Into her own car and shot t forward against the chain. Tha shaln snapped and Kay Kerrigan's sar plunged headlong Into the bay. In the turmoil that followed no I *?-- -*-* * ?- * 1. uvxvuu ui? unyping gin woo etlmM presently to * deserted pier farther down the waterfront. Several weeks after that two ' things happened simultaneously in two distant places. In a beauty hop In Honolulu smiling Hawaiian ittendants removed equipment From what had been Kay Kerrlnn platinum blonde head, and to the dark-haired stranger In the mirror she bowed politely and aid: "How do you do?" In San Francisco the Chief of Detectives looked at Information tie had received from Honolulu about the sale of a ring, and cotnEi it with the report of a Her who had formerly served Kerrigans. "You mugs!" he . groaned to his men. "Letting her ret away like that! And once she lams out of Hawaii she's off American soli! With Faulkner on that |Sb In Cairo, there's no one I eould trust to bring her back!" Blodgett, the detective with morals, coughed modestly. 'Tour the chief roared. "You couldn't find a dams In s Y.M.C.A. pool! None of you could!" Hs thought a moment and radlenly he struck his desk. "Watt! lis cried. "I got It! Sam Wye! If t"e a dame, Sam Wye will get Per!" ' ' if ' (ft be eouMnved) <4 ** '?* v * ffpWM a, lJ..? | ..... > -' "Wotcha Hangtn' Arout "Waitta* T'scc a Turk < Washington Sn (Cont'd from front page) | r with speech making. And there I ve<re n lot of people In Washington | . ho did not participate in either e ent. They bunted midnight oil a ound the inner circle trying to iron ut a knotty problem. They1 are the itrategy boys. Their problem concerns spending. Phey ar? trying to figure out the test way to continue the spending nd yet make it popular with the my who pays the b John Q. Pubto. TJhey decided several weeks ago hat an armament program, being >opular with John Q. at the moment rould be the spending outlet most Ikely to be acceptable. The first ttep, -then, was to divert the unpopilar WPA spending toward national Sefense. Puubllc reaction was lmnediately favorable, although favortble opinion 1s generally believed to ia.ve cooled some as It became evllent that defense wag being linked IP with new pump-priming, Howevr, that only padt tally solved he problem for It popularized only t portion of the spending the popuarlzers are seeking to "Justify.* ["here are other unpopular spending programs the strategists want to con laue. So as the strategy boys sit up late ights they will be trying to figure iut a way of making John Q. be leve that plowing under crops, killng pigs and operating a score of alphabetical agencies to. in reality, vial to a rearmament program. As one "Wadhngton observer Wise racked: "At least that would con use the enemy." The New Year outlook for one of hose agencies, tocddentally, is beomlng an uncomfortable uncertain y for some In Washington. The aency is the AAA, which has suffer : 1- a crushing defeat of the plowing ruder policy at the (hands of tobacco ndi rioe growers. These growers, by rferendum, have decided they want ? more government control of their "ops. ' , The AAA claims solace to its one ctory ? acceptance of control by le cotton growers. Underneath tha irface, however, there is wonder Ihether the defeats are a sign of a rowing revolt against the theory ot :arclty. And some say that, after II, restrictions are needed far more i cotton than in tobacco and rice. (This doesn't jibe with a pre-refer idum statement by Secretary Wal *?, however, who said several eeks ago that, the problems werfe terrelated. . To add to the AAA's worries, the attional Grange, oldest and perhaps ost potent of all the farm organlza WHAT WILL NEXT YE. It's a safe bet that main good year and a bad year t? 1 tt cv. *jlii vuier worus. * f have a year from now? Start saving Now?sys larly ? and this will be Money isn't everything:, bumps and fiDs most ne Hh FIRST NAT! Member Federal Dep< 1 1 r ^ uam,. u. ? if* wru'ff *-. j< id Here Fer, Foolish?" 3ome Out I" lapshots nous, nas serveu stern notice tnat It will not stand by and let liberty be driven from tile farms. The Grange notified the AAA that It will "permit 110 legislation to be adopted which will result to either Immediate or eventual regimentation ot the farmer." , Washington residents were a bit concerned1 last week when the National Geographic Society In Washington happily announced the birth of 6,000 mosquitoes. Iney had been hatched from .400 dozen mosguKo eggs shipped to Washington from Orlando, Fl?. Just about the time Washingtonians started looking for the flyswat ter, there was a reassuring P. S. to the announcement. The new born insects were said to be ot the "harm less" variety and they are to be kept In confinement while scientists study their development from .cradle to final swat. . A Washington correspondent has figured out some new, and elmplifled,. definitions for the "isms." He writes that Socialism mleans that 1' > 011 have two cows, you give one * your neighbor. Under Commualyou give both cows to the gov nient, which gives you book win he milk. UnAer runtu-.. ^fuu' Tu.,. the cow? but gWqrTfhe inilk to the government-. Xnd under our own "ism" you shoot one cow, milk the otber and then pour the milk down the sink. The United States rice crop was esttmatedr at 68,890,000 bushels, the , largest ever harvested. Ecuador produces most of the "Panama" hats. Forty thousans coup lee a year arc married In London. NEW MONEY FOR YOUR OLD THINGS Your Discarded Furniture, Piano, Radio, Bicycle, Took, Ice Box, can bo sold with A WANT AD IN THIS NEWSPAPER 0 <VR BRING YOU? ? ' ., < " - * j,' difference between a will be a matter of mon IT atrall rw iiiuvu niviicjr Will )UU : ' ' ' '* 1 V - *. . itematically and regu! a good year for you. but it smooths a lot of seds. ^ NOAL BANK wit Insurance 6m.