The
Kings Mountain Herald
Established 1880 I
Published Every Thureday
HERALD PUBLISHING HOU8E,
Haywood E. Lynch ,
Editor-Manager ,
ntcred as second class matter a
the PostolUce at Kiug^ Moumaii
N. C., under tre Act of March '
1878.
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One Year 11.o ,
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A weekly newspaper devoted tJt?
promotion of the general we
iarw and published for tlie enMgb* ,
neat, cntertsiOJnent and benefit u
the citizens of K'ngs .Mountain &h<
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
May every soul lhnt touches mine?
Be It the slightest contact ?
(let therefrom some good,
Sonvj' little grace, one kindly
thought, .
One inspiration yet unfelt, *
fine hit .of courage for the darkening
sky.
One gleam of faith
To brave the thickening ills of life.
One glimpse of brighter skies beyond
the gathering intst.
To make this life worth while.
And heaven ? sured heritage.
A WHOPPTR IS CORRECTED ,
I nu may nave nouceu <\s?o- ,
dated Press dispatch from' Wilson.
N. vj describing the experience of
three tenant farmers who went out ,
to cut an old pine' tree for firewood.
In successive "hollows they found a
jiest of squirrels, a den of r.iceoons, ]
pounds of pure honey, and iinally,
a nice fat 'possum. Well. we.
have a very persistent North Carolinian
on ouv stuff. Mini- naturally lvpoliced
it tocr.
"They dbfu'j -get it strait/it:;" it
complained. "The wuv it It.-opt
eeil was this: First, they chopped
( pen tlte hollow tit the top and found
the si|utrrels. Then they found a
, hollow containing 150 pounds of the
finest paper shell pecans. They chop ,
ped some ",o>'e and found a passel
of 'coons, including a rare albino ?
snow white and wdrth a lot-of man- (
ey. Thi y chopped -some more, and
found the 200 pounrtB~of pure honey;
but remember this was an old tree,
sc why overlook the 500' pounds of |
beeswax? They chopped some more,
and out popped a fat "possum. They
chopped some more and out poped I
a bag full of gold the Confederates 1
had hid from the Yankees. They
chopped some .more, and out popped
the Wilson correspondent of the
Ilaleigh News and Observer. That's
-the way I have alwuvs heardt it"?- j
Baltimore Evening Sun.
CHARITY, '
Every good act is charity. Your '
smiling on vonr brother's face is
charity: an oxortation of your .fel- 1
low-man to virtuous deeds; is equal
to alms-giving; your putting a wanderer
in the right road, is charity;
your assisting the blind, is charity;
your removing stones, and thorns, '
and other obstructions from the
road,'is charity; your giving water
to the thirsty, is charity. A man's
true wealth hereafter, is the good
he does in this world it? his fellowman.
When he dies,-people will say,
"What property has he left behind
him?'" But the angels will ask.
What good deeds has he sent before
him??Mahomet.
Washington
Snapshots
(Cont'd from front page)
that his statistician is Isadora Lubin.
who probably is as fair as any
other figure-fiddier in government
service but who has worked closely
with labor for years and now draws
his pay from the Department of Labor.
The day Htllman testified that labor
had a "remarkable record" 20
defense industries afvere tied up by
strikes. The day before there were
only 18. the week before. 10s, and a
month before only 6. Something
caused the increase tn nuwbers.
Hillman did not say what.
However, strong his intention to
tic honest. tllllman did a peculiar
thing with his figures, through omis
sion or oversight. He showed that
. the man-days of work lost In defense
industries in 1940 were only a
small percentage of man-days work
ed.
But he didn't tell the committee
how those percentages for 1940 com
pared with percentages for 1939,
Nor did he say how many days of
lost work the percentages actually
represented.
The committee was never able to
establish very clearly, either, what
effect the actual strikes had on related
Industries. For example, the
day after Hlllman testified, several
automobile companies who have defense
contracts prepared to shttt
down because a strike kept another
company from turning out necessary
automobile wheels.
New Washington Wisecrack: People
used to talk about the government's
blank checks; now they
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Here and There . .1
Haywood E. Lynch), 1
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The sweetest place in town .Is the Variick
Trucking Co. I was in there
this week and they had about 23,COJ
pounds of sugar, and that's enough
sweetening to make the Bfst Town
in the State also the Sweetest Town
in the State.
Kings .Mountain i* getting tn the
itzy class, as we now have a marole
shoe shine stand at Foster's
She Service^ The- shine boys give
/ou a better shoe shine, now ..that
.ney have that swanky marble stand
Ned and Ted. two of Kings Mounaln
heavy weights were in Prock
fhempson's Service Station at the
weighs more than twice as much as
I do, and Ned weighs ' almost that
much. Who are these two gentlemen?
Answer next week.
Melvin Purvis and Edgar Hoover
are two famous law enforcement officers.
and Kings Mountain now has
VtELVIIH HOOVER. If the new officer
lives ud to his two names, crlm
inals better beware.
I've' never attended an Ice Man's
Convention but I know what it's, like
iow after an initiation like the one
Claude Hambright recently- back
.rom Durham where the convention
/vas this time, gave me. Sorrte chair
?but I'll lit you learn the trie*,
.all on Claude at his plant.
.now they are blank notes, on which
noney is paid out now and will be
collected (in taxes) later. How
mtcli later? Much later.
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The first special investigation of
defense is about to begin. It is un??
\r the. chairmanship of " Senator Truman
of-Missouri, who complains that
;iis state itds not had its share of
lefcnsp business.
Doubtless government olieers who
"aCHtl the contracts will explain to
ujiiu!!*> But tlteir private explana- j
:i up to now is. that there just
TVv't ,,lany plants in Missouri
vith equipment needed to turn, out
inks or airplanes or bombs or rifcs.
Si use it would take too long to
mild them the government nas placed
its contracts where tlie facili,
tes already exist.
If Truman expects to find (ho
jesn't say that he does) evidence
of "profiteering" on defense contracts.
he is in for a surprise too.
Assistant Secretary Patterson of the
War "Department told a Hocje Military
committee that profits on hisdepartment's
munitions purchases
were far below permissible maxima.
Now Hep. Vinson of Ueorgia tells
the House that the Navy has' a remarkable
record in its Bureau of
Yards and Docks. In 1939. that But>eau
could grant fees amounting to
lo percent; in three contracts total>
i $54,900,000. the average fee was
vj percent. lit 15140. the law allow'1,6
percent, but $350,800,000 worth
>1' contracts carried fees of only 4.57
percent. ' * :
The Navy Bureau deserves commendation
? and the men who took
the contracts could hardly be described
as "profiteers."
New Speed Record: The House
took only 16 minutes to pass 17
bills.
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KFFffSTATION
Affectation proceeds either from
ranlty or hypocrisy; for as vanity ,
[iut? us on affecting false characters
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Chapter One '
She shullted the earns and laid
out another hand of solitaire..Was
it her tenth, her twentieth, her
thirtieth' gutno of the day? Mary
Smith ("It's my real name, too."
elie always added defensively) had
long since lost count.
Palm Beach In the season was
f^r from a thrilling experience to
.this energetically-minded young
woman. Palm E>oach out of tho
season, with not a soul she .knew
for miles around, was insufferable.
But there in gloomy exile she
must stay, for her father, the eminent
Judge Smith, seemed on the
verge of realising his lifelong ambition?that
of winning his party's
nomination for the highest office
in the land. And Mary, whose life
had always been severely circumscribed
by the political limelight
in which the family lived, had'been
packed off to the Florida estate
when the night club in which she
wqs innocently dancing on her one
night out in a month turned out
to be running a little gambling
racket on the side when the police
--and the reporters?entered. So
now,' away from inquisitive journalists
and political foes. , she
breakfasted arid played solitaire,
lunched and played solitaire, dined
ar.d played' solitaire, until she
could hear the game no longer.
Her maid came in. bringing
~ Tee.
"Klly," asked Mary hopefully, "do
Mary teas determim
you play any card games?"
"Only casino, Miss."
Her mistress' face brightened.
"WoUld you mind playing with me
tonight, Elly?" .
'"I ? I'd love to, Miss, but ?"
"Oh, Elly, you've probably got
a date."
"Yes, Miss. With one of the
fellers from the rodeo at West
Palm Beach."
Mary pondered this for a moment,
then had another idea.
- "Has he got a friend. Elly?"
"Why. yes. Miss," returned the
girl, gaping slightly. "B-but Cook's
got him."
At that point Katie, the cook,
came In and Mary frankly admitted
her jealousy of the girl who
was going out on the blind date
with a cowboy. Then. Mary's two
employees were simultaneously
visited by the same inspiration.
Their mistress could come along?
pose as a lady's maid?and they
would surely be able to dig up a
third cowboy? '
Mary < demurred. She was unversed
In the technique of winning
the attentions of a cowhand. The
two girls admitted that she was
starting off with a severe handicap,
but they undertook to teach
her the fundamentals. They had,
It appeared, reduced everything to
a system that was simplicity Itself.
There were three methods of
winning a man, which they carefully
explained to her. Maneuvre
number one was to flatter him. If
that didn't work you used maneuvre
number two?getting him to
kiss you. This was almost sure to
work; but if he still remained
chgi and aloof, you used maneuvre
number three. This was used only,
In okses of emergency, and had
never been known to fall. Maneuvre
number three consisted of
he sympathy game. Tell him all
your troubles, perhaps let a tear
or xwo escape?ana ne wm yours:
Mary Smith, fascinated, drank
it all in. Then she hurried to herJ
room to remove her simple four
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to gain applause, so hypocrisy sots
us on the endeavor to avoid censure
by- concealing our vices under the
appearance of their opposite virtues
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[hundred dpWar evening gown and
[get dressed appropriately for 'h->r
blind date.
Three girls in simple but pretty
frocks; two of them looking
about confidently, appraising the
grizzled, gnarled, acarrod and bowlegged
cowboys who filed by; and
the third, who stood tremulously
rehearsing her lesson: "One- Hatter;
two kiss: three?hard luck
story."
Elly gave a sudden squeal of excitement.
darted Into' the crowd,
and emerged leading a cowboy by
the wrist. After him tagged sheepishly
two of ,f#8r mates, billy's
friend, voune. very red-headed and
irrcpresaibly cheerful, was introduced
to her companions as
"Buzz,"' and he in turn introduced
"Sugar," a scrawny, bow-legged,
slightly disheveled cowhand: and
"Stretch" Willoughhy, who was exceedingly
tall,, slow-moving, and
surprisingly handsome.
- Katie drew Stretch, and Mary,
more than a little disappointed,
found herself escorted to one of
the long tables in the rodeo cook
house, where the cowboys repaired
for "chow," .by Sugar. Gazing at
the gawky singularly unromantielooking
fellow, she saw adventure
fly out the window and boredom '
stalk in with heavy tread.
"Katie!"-'she whispered frantically.
as the men went off to hang
up their hats and pistol belts.
'Katie! Twenty-five dollars raise
^v. ? y&cL*
iJBlfi ittii W'i m
fd to win him over.
if you give me yours!"
"Sold, Miss!"* breathed Katie,
almost incredulous of her good'
fortune.
And when they were all together
| again, Sugar was by no means
disappointed to find himself Alone
side the pleasant, buxom Irish
girl; while Stretch, finding himself
with the lovely, pefite miss who
seemed somehow different from
what she pretended to be, regarded
her with an instinctive hostility.
But Mary, determined to win h'.m
oyer, started In bravely.
"I hope you're not disappointed
at having drawn me. I know I'm
not. I think I'm going to like you."
"Yeh?"
"I'ye stflin" rats of good riding ?
steeplechase riders and high' Jumpera?but
you're about the best I've
seen yet."
"Yeah?"
"I was scared. I screamed. Didn't
you hear me?"
"Nope."
Piqued by his laconic indifference,
she blurted: "Why dont you
say something for a change? I
suppose you're so much with cows
you don't get to talk much."
"Cows," he shot back, "ain't
mudh on small talk."
She burst Into a laugh. "Say,
cowboy, you're not bad at all.
You've got some humor."
And Stretch, more keenly alive
to her patronising air than might
have been supposed, quietly pushed
back his chair and arose.
"Well, glad to have met you,"
ha said qulatly. "Have a good
time." '
He started to walk away. Mary,
sitting there, flushed painfully. She
had so wanted to please this
strange, cryptic young man; and
now she realised, without knowing
why, that she had taken exactly
the wrong tack.
Impulsively she leaptd to her
feet and ran after him.
(To be' continued)
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ADMINISTRATRICES' NOTICE
Cleveland County. ' i
North Carolina,
Having this day qualified ns ad
minlstratrices. C. T. A., D. B. N., of
the estate of iDr. J. O, Hord, deceased.
late of Cleveland County, North
Carolina. This is to notify all persons
having claims agajnst the estate
of the said deceased, to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Kings
Mountain. North Carolina. 011 or before
the ,10th day of January. 1942.
or this notice will be pleaded in bar.
of their recovery. All persons Indebted
to said estate will please
make immediate payment of said
'obligations .
This 'the 10th day of January," 1941
Margaret Hord Anthony, i
Ruth Hord Craft,
Administratrices, C. T. A.. D. B. N.,
of the estate of Br. J. G. Hord,
deceased. '
Joseph C>. Whisnaut. Atty mar. 6
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