H. Y. Belk ? AND HIS NEWS OF NEBO VALLEY Just now reached in the mail box and pulled out a nice letter from R. A. Dover near Medina, Tenn. Mr. ?Dover went ouver from near Kings Mountain to Tennessee to farm. He tells me that the grass has got his cotton. So much rain." The river or the water from the river hacks up over the grass and cotton too every other day. He has an acre of cucum bers ready to sell for 10 cents a bushel if the damn crows don't get them first. I will tell more about Dover and the baby next week. Once when* Iwaa young 1 moved around looking for the pretty bird I didn't find. 1 never could tell why so many pretty girls jump the broom in (June, in October we find so many of 'em in the courtroom getting shut of what they got in June. Cpi. Lloyd Self and Betty, his wife, stopped over in the Valley Sunday to cheer up the news reported. Charles Cooke and three other small birds ran down here the morn ing school was, Out1. Well, I don't care. I don't go to school now. Now, the Fourth of July coming soon. Let's all fly straight. Let's not celebrate and wind up with a broke meek, or maybe dead. Soon we will istart out on our July summer fro- ! lie. It will be wellj to remember six or seven hundred who go out to have fun and recreation vili not come back' like they went a. way, but will be brought home in a box. It always happens. Lets be more carrful if we go. Itls much bet ter for you and me to stay at home and live than to go a way and oomt back dead in a box but many will go, but not all will live and get back. I hope all will bp more care: ful. ^.ast year's July death toll was about 700. That's too many neW made graves. The people who work 'in mills and shops should have a rest in mid-summer but they should stop, think, and look. Life at best is very short. Who wants to be killed sff on the roads. Old Pharoah must of been a tough nut. He had a plan to hold the Chil dren of Israel in bondage but when tie got plagued with flies, .lice, frogs in his bed and dead cattle every way he looked, then hail stones fell thunder storms, and locusts ate up what was left. He changed his plan liquid CAPUD1NE HEADACHE jVSstirt^ I Wm ?>!> M 4 . . PRESCRIPTION SERVICE We Fill any Doctors' Pre* set ipt ions promptlf and accurately at reasonable prices with the confidence of your physician. Kings Mountain Drag Company THE REXALL STORE We Call For and Deliver Phones 41? <81 and let the Children go We have the flies with us to stay. You know Russia is chiefly bluff but they know that our New Deal j gang will make them swallow lots | ! of our stuff. J Boys, Benjamin Franklin was for' all the *>?>ople. When he cameout of ? the hall where ttyey were holding the Constitutional convention the, peo- < pie crowded around him and asked. | "Franklin, what de wo have?" His j answer was "You have a Republic,! if you can keep it." The burning question in the minds of we Ameri cans will greed let Us keep what our fore fathers won the hard way? Then cometh what they call the '!New Deal." Where W"1 it land our boat? The paddles are badly worn j with all this spenwing. What will i be the final end? j | You remember in 1888 Grover Cleveland lost the Presidency de spite the fact he received more pop; ular votes than did Harrison. That's been a long time ago. But the point I wish to draw out is that men are still using lies to foo! other men. It ; is an easy way to get by for a while , only. . I* Doing nothing but sleeping Is the1 most tiresome job in the world said a man to me. because you can't quit _ and take a rest and go fishing. / j Now the post-war boom is fading so fast It has scarcely no color left J in it. Now some of our governors ; are beginning to crop for federal help. Unemployment is on the boom 40 percent in some states thpy clatm. j The economic law, like all other 1 laws of life are catching up with ' our postwar wastefulness. We have had the good things too long for our own good. We as a nation reap what j we sow. Not only as a nation but you and 1 too. I look to see 50 per- 1 cent of the working people out of work by 1950. Those that still keep j a job will be only getting half what, they are receiving now. And all the Rocking Chair money gone. You > hope I'm wrong. I do too, but how could I be bad wrong, Hiram? Now, promising more than one can S deliver is the history of the human J race. It's a trick In the gamble game. I Not all the good jobs have been ! taken up. Sometimes it looks , like I they are all gone. So many lawyers, J doctors, watchmakers, and dry clean ers. It would be hard to tell which a way to shoot to miss all of 'em. It mu3t be a money-maklftg job ? dont have to get oui Ml the weather or be rained on, but not always easy .tqj collect the bills they(say, r i Well, bud, we've been sprayed | with 9o much of this junk they call New Deal stuff. Hen Wallace may be nearly right. He says he's going to fly straight. Says he's for pe^oe and prosperity. \ wonder if he got a chance if he would shove off ano ther bunch of little pigs into the creek, or have our cotton mowed down to make shirts more plentiful, shorts, too. Let's read about a gal called Roosevelt. Don't she teach social e quality for whites and blacks? She" got Truman in on that and ljked to have won a fight with the South ern Democrats. Now she says she can't understand why any one would want to get in politics. Oh, my, for shouting out loud. Don't this politi cal stuff .run in the Roosevelt blood? Yes, mam, Mrs. Roosevelt sured id help Truman skin the cat and go to the bat. Left Dewey at the dairy milk ing a cow. But the Roosevelts have run their race and made a good chase. . - it takes power. Old King Saul be came drunk for power. Most men love their power when drunk. Hitler was the drunkest man for power that ever lived and he went // /?? r?/?? far lift . . . . v \ ^ V* "sr' . . ; . don't carfj largm sums of monay in hay ward. Long ago out West, I started forth to roam And journeyed east. In search of love and t>?iaty ; I strolled all around. And at last happily found, Darling sweetie fcutie Cute. A shy half breed Indian squaw. Dark skin and slltn as a reed, But graceful as a swan. Her eyes were dark and keen. From each a love spark, Of wanton mischief darted. Short wa^ her hair. And very kinky too. One day when 1 could say no morv, ; I aaid larewell. My darling Susie Bell I ~ Output of cigarette from July, 19-18 through June 1949 Is expected to total between 380 and 385 billion compared with 379 1-2 million in 1947-48. 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