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' -'V j ? A ! Kings Mountain Herald Established IBM Published Evsry Thursday HERALD PUBLISHING HOUSE, Haywood E. Lynch Editor-Manager atered as second class matter at IBs Fostofflce at Kings Mountain M. C, under tre Aot of March 3. 1B7? . SUBSCRIPTION RArK8 One Year fl.b< Biz Montbc .78 weekly newspaper denoted to the promotion of the general welSea* uul nuhllehnri for the enllirht Mat, entertainment and benefit ol tlie citizens of K'ngs Mountain and Ma vicinity. 'L?iww_crr Carolina V^w /mil ^ociAitwp mill*^ *^^****v5ii^5555wh***e*We N>f all the things we need iu life "Wo (need our flriends themost. Though riches, youth and Joy may Ho. Of friends we still may boast. ' "Then to our friends let us be true." And loyal from the heaH; And as the days and years go by, From them we will not part." ?Author Unknown. % ; l? | SAYINGS OF LINCOLN I am nothing, but truth is everything. Killing the dog does not cure the bite. No men living are more worthy to | be trusted than those who toll up from poverty. This country^ with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit Lt God bless my mother! AH'I am or hope to be I owe her. Let us have that faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us. to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. 1 must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with hint while he is right and part 'with him when ho goes wrong. My -experience and observation have been that those who promise most do the least. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in .every way he can. never suspecting that any one is hindering him. God must like common people, or he would not have made so many of them. ?. ? ? THE DUTY OF PARENTS On two recent occasions in Newton speakers who are In a position to speak authoritatively have lain the blame for juvenile delinquency directly at the door of parents. The two persons referred ?o- are Judge Allen H. Gwyn, of the Superior court who addressed the Klwan is club, and Clerk of Court NVade H Letter,, -jeveuile judge, wh.9 spoko at a recent meeting of the TarentTeachers association. In boih instances these men. who havn had many occasions to .nquire into the background and environment of delinquents, have found that most of- those, youths who find their way into the courts are those whose parents have neglected to given any concern to their training. Churches and school are too often given the full burden of character training of children, but in the final analysis, unless parents are concerned enough to see to it that their children attend the school and chur ch services regularly these two institutions have little opportunity to make much impression on the. children. It -was noteworthy, to5, that both speakers emphasized that parents should not only see to it that their -children to certain things but should accompany them, giving an appreciable amount of their time to activities with their boys and girls. As juvenile delinquency is one of the greatest problems of society, the conclusions drawn by these and numerous other authorities would ? Indicate that parent education Is prdbably the first step to be taken in solving the situation. For regardledfe of amount of money and time spent" in establishing institutions for the development of good citizens unless parents fulfill their part ol the obligation to youth, much of th( effort is -wasted.?Catawba-News Er terprise. "The ftence-atraddler Isn't alwayi without convictions. Sometimes hit pants are caught." ? Chattanoogs Times. I The government is setting a bat example for the rest of us by wha! it proposes to do when it reachei the debt limit. "Optimists who pretend to believt the worst never happens will hav< some trouble classifying Stalin." ? Pittsburg Post-CJazette. I > As we understand it, Mr. Hanet was only eager to get back into th? business whirl ? business that sc many would have us believe hai been beaten to its knees. .< vi I , ' J Here end There . ; Haywood E. Lynch) o ; I ofteh wonder how tho Boot Town ' In Tho Stote got ajong before tho new ctty hall woo'built It lo juat about tfie bueieet a pot in town. Re- "> rently tho Morchanta Aoaoclatlon 1< had to poatpono ite moating bocaueo v tho building wae bolng used by tho 'J' American Leflflon. since tjhen tho Morchanta ueed it for their mooting. v Tho Klngo Mountain Building and Loan Aoaoclatlon ueed it for the annual otockholdoro meeting, and now tho Homo Building and Loan lo going to uae It The Rod Croae folko are planning on having their annual ' mooting there tomorrow night. So " the new City Hall io rendering a I ' ....i.; A" ' - ' I - < ? VBM I (1 I have been enjoying aome of Mar- ' vin Goforth'a dellcloua country aau- r age. and believe me it..la fine. Real k iv ?houoh i don't baliava Marvin mldTiTTtSBSr'irTTWTww* be made by a man, I'll bat anything hat Mr*. Goforth had hand in the making becauae it is seasoned just, to a lady's taste. But, on second thought, Marvin might have made it himaelf, because he has been working for Claude Hambright about 15 years, and by th<s time he could have learned from Claude how to make fine sausage, but anyway, I take my first guess, Mrs. Goforth made the sausage. And speaking of sausage, I saw about 50 pounds hanging on the back porch of Mr. and Mfs. Paul Mauney's. And I'll bet anything that Mrs P/auney, was responsible for all that goodness, and not Paul. Who's fault is it? A housewife on opening her groceries hurriedly reached for the dog scraps while feeding the dogs, she noticed bow very kind the grocer had been by even adding a scrap of mutton suet. : This is as good a stew beef ae I ~ver saw thought the housewife. Still, it must be something wrong with it because I ordered scraps. After the doga were fed Mrs. House wife put away the remaining grocer lea and found the scraps. Somebody was minus the stew-beef on their table and ihe grocer was left holding, the bag. Who's fault "Is it? Many, many thanks to hla honor, J. B. Thomasson, who is sunburnlng in Florida while we freeze, for that fine basket of fruit. It's something about receiving fruit direct from the grower that gives you a thrill, when I ate an orange from the basket, I could just see Mr. J. B. under one of hia trees, In his shirt sleeves in that good old sunshine. Hush, stop that talk right now, or you'll be heading south, where Mrs. Noisier, Mr. and Mrs. Thomasson, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, . Dr. and Mrs. Anthony are right now enjoying the runshine state. There Is an old say inn if Florida sand ever goto in your shoes you'll bo back, well, mine are full of eand right now. The only casualty of ' the high wind yeeterday was the lose of one good hat by Banker Gilbert Hord. Gilbert was walking near the Ptoet Office yesterday afternoon when all of a sudden a gust of wind took his h?ad piece and around the corner it went After a careful search Gilbert Is still hatless and ne la hav ing a lot of trouble with his hair getting in his eyes, ao if anyone finds a stray hat please return It to the counter of money, as ft la now 'Gone iWlth The Wind." Human nature is a funny thing, those who pay the least squawk the loudest. By GEORGE~~ If you happen to be a member 01 .he Junior Woman's Club, you've .probably heard her brag about .stoat a tine son she has. Piles in .ne best grades In his cIusbcs at school ?gifted in wfiling, music. Handicraft, and any number of other things ? and is, in every possiole way a better son than the pro. erbial ''Fiftieth Boy." Then the mothers probably go 1 home and tell their sons that they 1 nhould be like young blankety-blank 1 And wonder why their own eons smirk when they say It. Ths boys 1 merely wonder what kind of mother 1 she Is. It so happens that most of tnu other boys of fifteen to seventeen ^ years know the lad as well as 1 do? k and I, along with them, wonder how he keeps his mother fooled. Personally, 1 like the boy a lot?he has I a nice ? personality, doesn't act , like the average kid his age, and "knows the ropes" so to speak. And he'll take a bet on anything from a pair of deuces to a ball game. It Just so happened that 1 began wondering if you, knowing as 1 ' know, don't sometimes get bored when you hear her talking for hours about htm, and always about what a wonderful boys he is. If i yon don't know the lad ? three i guesses; If you da?please don't 11 spill the beans on ns. i . I ' Rivalry flamed with fever beat , BUM MOCTTAW TOU1J, TH a tli* Main jDra? and la ilia by-1 ays Saturday, aa buay mamas and apaa worked from dawn til dark o get votes for Junior or Betty, and ne of the hottest, probably, was aat between Mrs. C. L,. Jolly and larold Hunnloutt. Harold finally nt a hot tip late In the p. m.? and > get Oils rival out of the way, ought her a drink tn the Drug, ift her In the booth to drink It, and ,-ent after his prey. He got a five ear sub, and the lady fumed. Cut Mrs. Jolly took the cake vben she sold a year sub to Conressman Bulwlnkle. . BY WAY OP Certainly 111 glad to be back in this slot a- j a in, and thanks for the many revests I've had to begin again. I nally had to start back when Charie Thoinasson told me Monday light night that a bu 111*1 of achool Ids up Greensboro way asked him 0 ask me to start again. Thanks. 4?fl9 What Has Gone Bator* : George Milton, tMitderin; ranch worker in California, it .guardian and traveling companion to Lennie Small, tcho it huge and powerful but has the mind of a child. They are kept on the move' because I>ennie has a strange compulsion to ''pet soft things" ? such as a mouse, a bird, or a girl's velvet dress. It is an innocent hah' but conducive to trouble because Lennie cannot control his vast strength. They secure a job loading barley bags on a ranch, where they incur the enmity of Cut ley Jackson, the boss's son who constantly has a chip on his shoulder over the flirtatious tendencies of his pretty wife, Mae. But slim, the mwh admired mule skinner, becomes their friend. Chapter Three i.ennle was In the Seventh Heaven of bllse, for Slim had (riven him one of hie pupa to pet? nod a -brown and white one at that! He lay in the straw, petting bis pup ana heedless at George's command to wash up in preparer tton for supper, until George was forced to threaten him with taking away the pup. "?eems klnda funny," Slim remarked, swabbing his naked chest, neck and face side by elde with George before the cold water tap. 'Seems klnda funny, & cuckoo-like htm and a smart guy like you strlngln' along together." "He ain't no cuckoo," protested \ George, sloshing his face. "He's dumb, but he ain't crazy. Him paused at and me wu born In Auburn, and we grew up together. He aln'1 got .sense enough to look aftei himself." "He's a nice fens," conceded SUm. "A guy don't need no sens* to be a nice fella. Seems to m? sometimes It's Just the other waj round." Later, while eating in the chucl house, George heaped a plate hist with "arrflb to hold aside for th? tardy Lennle. Sizing up Slim as t man who could and would keep I confidence, he began to recount to the mule skinner the troubU he and Lennle had had at theii last Job in Weed; how Lennle, see lng a girl la a red velvet dress had given way to his Innocent lm pulse to stroke any smooth sur face and had taken hold of thi dress. The girl had screamed, Lea nie in a panic had held on to hei tighter, and by the time Georgi could pry him loose a posse vai being formed to "get" them. Iba was the price he paid for taklnj care of Lennle. The huge fellow Joined them toe fore George could finish the story and extended his scrubbed hand llks A eflllil fft Ufl mMViae did like you told me, George.' "That . rood. Now eat youi u upper." Lennle filled hie mouth "" beamed happily. "He'e brown anc *hl^',-?eo?"ie ? Just like ! wanted." e After supper, little by little. th< social life of the ranch took shape A number of the hands went ou ? open space near the ban for the nlyhtly horseshoe pttchlni ??P ? the btwkhouae' a youtl eat in one of the windows tha opened out on the warm sumxnei nl?ht, etrumming a suitor ant ainrlnr an old ballad in melodloui western sinrsonr. Other ranch hands tottered around the bunk house porch, or lay In their bunki oyer a rlcketty card table, atttlni umdat, rm. u. w. Says JaOs Aw A Veneral Disease Infection Source The approximately 80.000 persona not excluding duplications, locked up in North Carolina county jails in the course of a year's time were characterized by W. C. Exeli., director of the State welfare department's institutions division, .'this week as a possible source of syphilitic infection than the inmates of the' State prison system. "In 1936 only 16 out of the 100 county jails were following the leF,al requirement of having all incarcerated persons given a medical examination within 48 hours after com mltment," Kzell said. It may be assumed, he stated, that the percentuge of veneral in'ectlon is closely comparable to the 23.3 percent carrying the disease out of 9,&33 sentenced prisoners re cently examined in the State prison MVj,;. - on boxes, atlll talking about Lennle who sprawled on the barn floor with hia Drown and white pup. Candy limned tn, followed by hi* venerable, ailing, nearly bllng old dog. Carlson, one of the ranchers, approached him. "Phew, that dog smells! Get him out o' here, Candy. Z dont know nothln' that smells as bad as old dogs does!" Candy, shrinking from Carlson's look, went to his bunk and lay down on It, pushing the dog underneath to hide him from hla maligner's gase. "Look at him. Candy," pursued Carlson. "He's all stiff with rheumatism. Why don't you shoot him?" . Candy protested, temporised, tried to change the subject. But Carlson relentlessly pursued his point. The aged animal was ailing and useless, "no good to anybody lncludln* htsselx." It would be an act of mercy to do away with him. And while the others kept . an Impartial silence. Candy continued to plead: he had raised the creature from a pup; it had been the best sheep dog he had ever seen; and (though this he left unspoken) It was the only friend he had. Finally, in almost tearful despair, he turned appeal!ngiy to Slim. "Carl's right," said Slips gently. "That dog ain't no good to himself. I wish somebody'd shoot me if I get old and a cripple.. .Better let him go, Candy. Ill give you one of my pups to raise up." 8ilently Candy relinquished the crude rope leash on which he held his dog, and lay looking up at the celling, moving not a muscle. Carlson quietly took his Luger revolver out of his weatherbeaten suitcase, found a shovel In a cor ||ner, and led the dog out. He asto Site*. ' The eld, crippled man continued to lie motionless on hie back, ' scarcely seeming to breathe, wondering. what would happen when ; he was no longer any "good to i himself." And when, after what i seemed an eternity, the shot sound ed from outside, Candy rolled over * and faced the wall, alone with his bitter thoughts.^ , It was nearly bedtime srhen slim i went out to the barn to put tar L on a mule's split hoof. Lennle > was etlll there, fondling his brown i and white pup. Slim was working . with his usual silent cohcentration . when Mae, bored beyond endurance by her husband's neglect and . her father-in-law's harsh antagon. ism, entered the barn. She paused , as she saw Slim. "Hey, Lennle," said Slim, ignor lug her. "Better quit pettln' that , pup for tonight, ft ain't good for i him. Put him back with hla mother t and go on over to the bunkhouse." I , Lennle obeyed with alacrity. CurIfy was In the bunkhouse, looking for hla wife aa uaual, when Lennle arrived. Finding no sign of ' May, and precious tittle Information about her, he Inquired aa to . Slim a whereabouts. r "Ha went out to the barn," said a ranch hand. "Said he waa goln' I to put some tar on a split hoof." i Curley waa off for the barn like an i arrow sped from a bow. "I^guess maybe Td like to see this," said Carlson., throwing down his hand at cards. Scenting eot? citement and entertainment, the { others crowded through the door * after him. X . ?Ji_4 George and Lennle remained i in the bunkhouse. t If there's any flghtln', Lennle." I Jr'fjtoia him for the hundredth l time, "you get out of the way and itty out, " "I don't want no fight, George ; X dout want no fight* * I ft* be conflowed) JUST HUMANS KEAvAt* i j JAV Vfc, w4 Ofc T?, , 4 The Hardboiled Gu Washington Sr (Cont'd from front page) press agencies and "inforovation" bi reaus. Government officials who ap pear before Congressional committees asking for money are having to explain in detail the press and propaganda setup. Some government) "information/* services are, of course, legitimate. Thety supply answers to que3jtiqns asked by the people. But many con centrate upon trying to sell themsel ves to the public. . In the hearing on Just one appro priuton bill ? and there aro 11? inquisitive legislators brought out that there were 176 employees hi tho "Information" sections of only four government agencies. For instance, the TVA this yeai has 40 such employees whose sala ries total $167,000. These employee! among other things, prepared elghl pamrlhlets of which 271.000 copiei were issued. And the $167,000, nat urally, does not include the cost ol printing, rriimeogi^phgng, mailing oostage, rent, heat, light and fie many other overhead expenses. As another sample, the . secret hearings disclose that the Publh Works Administration has 12 ful time Vfnployees In its informatics section drawing about $30,000 i year, and in less Uhan six' month! they distributed 4,024 press release The U. S. Housing Authority 1 another examule. It had 76 "infoi matlon" employees drawing $272,531 a year in salaries. Uhey are evei llvided into sections to handle cc ordination, press service, editorials information, exhibits, motion pic 'ureB, and radio. , One agency the Office' of Goverr ment Reports has been performln a double function. . First it clip newspapers throughout the nation and summarizes news story and e<J torial comment about governmen bureaus. Then it attempts to am Tver unfavorable comments and crl lolsras, and to - build up 'good wil for these bureaus'. In the last year alone, the Otflc dt Government RJepoijts distribute 32 radio programs lasting 15 mini tea, and each program was carrte by an average of 175 stations. I this one agency 48 employees ar paid more than 84,000 a year eacl Naturally there are dozens of othei making less than 84,000. By the time the hearings are o< er on all 11 appropriations bill the picture will be startling. ?? Inventors all over the country ai being honored in February at "Mo< ern Pioneers Celebrations" tp mar the 150th anniversar>"*N>f the found tion of the American Patent systec At the same time, those in high pi ces have been reviving the old o nard that inventions take away Jot In this connection, Ijbis observe finds it impossible to refrain froi bringing to their attention the fc lowing letter from the daughter < an nventor with the vision typid -A a -J ?I ?I "i /uuvnuft b muuoiriai yiuuwrv. "About the year 1866 my fathi vial ted the Patent Office In Waal ington, concerning a patent of hi own. During the conversation th head of the Patent Office snid, am looking for another Job before get too old to find one; this patet office cannot sta; open much loni er. about everything that can be it vented has already been inventet Why a man (Singer) has just invc ted a machine that can do a w man's sawing for her, you can't bei Paint With?? DUTCH BOY WHITE LEAD Kings Mtn. Hfg. Co. Store 1 . T*U ^ By OENC CAHR f J | 1 <km (MW* -> 1 V of the Neighborhood tapshots I that..' i "A Congressman tried to put a 1 i Jill through Congress to prereot neso mucmnes rrom being sola. He , lalmed that it . women had machines to do their sewing it would put ill the dressmakers in the country jut of business "My father got a chuckle out of I (he above every time a new inven Mon amazed the world: when the 1 elephone was first invented he said Maybe someone in Washington will -iropose a bill to forbid the use of telephones fearing the Government t will have ho further sales of stamps. Probably the two types will always, exist: the man who holda the . gloomy opinion that progress has . come to an end and that invention , 'pells, disaster, versus the-man who t sees that tihe only way to continued , irogress is to create the things . *hat mean better living and more f jobs. ? There is alif) a neutrality zone marked by a white line in the mid' t die of the highway, hut neither the : English nor the Germans nor the I natives pay it much mind. t I UP8ET STOMACH ? Try the old faithful remedy. For s over fifty years used for the relief of minor stomach disorders. ' ; " > SPECIALIZED SERVICE J To Meet The J COMMUNITY NEEDS e a in e i. a Wo have for many years endeavored to .fully understand the problems of each custom* er. That principle has been e . adhered to since this bank 1- was founded, k Our service and our staff [1* a. are familiar to Kings Mourn ?. tain and airMn?lla?> I ww.? . ?w.>?>ii|| vwilllllVill" rnr m ts Mies. They need no further Inir vltstion to us them. To thoes 11 not familiar with our bank, wo J ?V' I I it "Come In ? Let's get ao>r quainted." ? Is m - ji [ FIRST : NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Reserve System ? Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. * J|| 1 . r-; - -i \