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:iiS: The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly-newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published lor the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of King* Mountain and Its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. ' Bntered as second class matter at the postoffire at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 BDITOBIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports, Circulation, News Miss Elizabeth Stewart . ^ Society Mrs. Thomas Meacham ^ . Bookkeeping, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Bugene Matthews Horacc Walker David Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson (?Member of Armed Forces) ~ TELEPHONE NUMBERS? *67 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? $2.50 SIX MONTHS ? $1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c >' BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE A man shall be commcnded according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shaTl be de spised. Proverbs lt:8. Tax Bill Big Enough Though he couched it in the general alternative of the possibility of more income or less services, Governor Um stead's suggestion that more taxes are going to be required to operate the state government must have made unpleas ant reading for many North Carolinians who feel that state taxes are quite suf ficient in a period when emphasis is on paring tax bills, not increasing them. Governor Umstead made his remarks in connection with- a comment on the short 1953 take of income taxes, which fell $3.5 million below estimates. The report on income taxes x-eminds, of course, that North Carolina's tax structure is geared to return high in come in boom times and small income when the economic Situation is poOr. The inherent nature of the system, therefore, means that sometimes the state eats pretty high on the hog* a sife uation that has existed more or less, since the introduction of the three per cent general sales tax in the early thir ties. Many will interpret the governor's statement as a prelude to a stepped-up campaign to get the General Assembly to raise rates in existing taxes arid, per haps, to levy new ones. In 1953, some pressure developed to expand the sales tax to certain products not now taxed, but the General Assembly contented it self with making optimistic estimates of revenue gains from existing tax sched ules. Even so, the legislature issued some bonds for permanent buildings and en dorsed the two other big Issues, which were subsequently voted by the people. Another trial* balloon is being advan ced which suggests another road bond issue, this time for primary arteries, and that, too, would be accompanied by ano ther tax increase on gasoline. It is natural that Governor Umstead and the people who run the state govern ment desire to continue and to improve and to broaden state services. The men in the saddle want to have the necessary means to say "yes" to requests for ser vices. However, at a time when, at best, the nation is in a period of leveling off from its long-term boom, it does not seem apropos to be talking about new and ad ditional tax levies. Perhaps by the time the General As sembly convenes in January, the level ing will be over, state revenues will be coming in at higher rates, and the sit uation will be different. It is a generally accepted thesis thai more good for the tax dollar is obtained the closer to home its paid, which means folk would rather send tax checks to Raleigh than to Washington. But new tax and n.ure tax talk won't be too pleasant to anyone among the vast rank and file ot the state's taxpayers. Thus far, reports on the Red Cross fund campaign have been few and far between, and the total of funds collected is considerably insufficient for the pro per operation and continuation of this worthy agency. Totals from many of the larger contributors have not yet been reported, but those who have not yet made their contribution should attend to this important matter at once. Our best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Speidel, who are leaving the Kings Mountain Country Club to assume the management of a club at Rocky Mount. Since the Rocky Mount club is much larger than Kings Mountain's, the ap pointment is a promotion and one that is deserved. At the same time, the club regrets the loss, for it has enjoyed good management during the 30-month ten ure of Mr. and Mrs. Speidel. Good Advice Frank Jeter, the farm editor from Raleigh, icave some good and expert ad vice here last week when he spoke to the annual Farmer's Night banquet of the Kings Mountain Lions club. And many of the farmers, in their after-dinner comments, indicated they thought it good, too. Much of it ? planning of operations, use of "water-farming," more intensive use of available land ? can be encour aged and taught by the several farm agencies, and can be practiced by the individual farmers as they expand their investments in labor-saving machinery. In Mississippi, many cotton farmers are fertilizing with agricultural ammonia, kin to the household variety, and are re porting fabulous increases in yields. Farm agents can supply the answer as to whether this type of fertilizing ? de scribed as cheaper to apply ? is practi cable in Cleveland County. Another recommendation of Mr. Je ter's could be supplied by city groups. This is the development of roadside markets for the so-called Cash groups. Many communities have developed thri ving cooperative curb markets that are beneficial to farmer and city-dweller alike. The problem of storage of farm crops is also a point one, to be worked out by the farmer and his in-city neighbor. As Mr. Jeter pointed out, it's pretty silly for a farmer to sell corn at harvest time, then buy it back for feed a few months later. In farming, as in industry and com merce, the opportunities are available to those willing to set goals and to work toward them. No Peddling, Please The late P. T. Barnum, part of the original team which formed the great Ringling Brothers, Barnum arid Bailey circus, is credited in folklore with origi nating the statement ~ sucker is born every minute." Thus, numerous people make a rath er spurious living by preying on honest, unsuspecting people who think every one else as honest as they. The evidence is legend. Widows get flim-flammed out of their life savings by scheming salesmen of spurious securities; people nearly get burned to death when bargain sweaters poof into flame at the first spark of fire; housewives buy magazines that never arrive; people make down-payments on photograph bargains, then find the studio never existed. Mr. Muntz, the man who was bringing bargain television to homes direct from the manufacturer, is in bankruptcy and his guarantees are good for fire-building. Thus the atttntion of local merchants to an increasing local problem of house to-hotJfce peddling is quite in order, both from the standpoint of protecting the citizenry, and from the standpoint of sharing the tax load too. Of course, there are legitimate house to-house salesmen. The Fuller Brush man is well-known for distributing a worthwhile product, and some maga zine salesmen, actually, are working" their way through college. But these are in the minority. Effort of the Merchants Association to get the city to set up legal restrictions on house-to-house selling will, if pro ductive, benefit the great majority of citizens. If you haven't bought a broom from the Lions club salesman yet, see him this weekend. Better still, call the "warehouse" at C. E. Warllck Insurance Agency for immediate delivery. Profits from the sale of the brooms will aid the Kings Mountain club in its continuing work of sight conservation, 8nd, in ad dition, will help many blind people to earn a living. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1944 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Hon. J. Roy Jones, Commission- 1 er of Agriculture of the State of South Carolina, has been secured for the annual Lions club Farm er's Night program to be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 in thte Woman's club building. Pvts. Miles and Ernest Mau ney, duo pianists, appeared aa special guests of the Kings Moun tain high school National Honor jSociefy Monday. i The Senior Choir of Central Methodist church will render a sacred cantata, "Olivet to Cal vary" on Palm Sunday night at r 8 o'clock. Social and Pergonal Miss Virginia Dare Logan and Charles Patterson Sams, Serge ant, United States Army, were united In marriage In the First Baptist church at Boise, Idaho, on Friday, ^March 24. Cpl. Billy Throneburg of Arse nal, Maryland, visited his parents here over thte weekend. Lt. W. G. Anthony, who Is sta tioned at Sioux City, Iowa, is at home on leave with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. 3. E. Anthony. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Inffredientt: bit* of news, toUdotn, humor, and comment. Directional Take weekly, if POMiftle, but avoid over dotage . Smart folk will be afraid of their shadow today m-m It's April 1, or April Fool's Day, meaning thr r prank day is here again, and that young minds -r~ and pterhaps some old er ones too ? will be dream ing up mayhem for all and sun dry. m-m The medicinal reference li brary fails to shed much light on the origin 6f the holiday ob servance, but note is made of an "April Fool", as one who is made 6port of. I have known the definition to take a diffe rent twist, to wit: onte who makes sport of. m-m At any ratte, April Fool has been an institution for many a day. As I recall, my first April Fool bite wag on the old saw, "Your shoe's untied." But there were many bites ? and pranks ? after that simple and undam aging beginning. m-m Many a fall I've taken as a team of youngsters "operated", with one as fence and the other as pusher. m-m But my main memory of April Fool was a disinclination to attend school one April 1st many moons ago. This short lived fun I paid for dearly. Two hours "Stay-in" after school for three weeks was the punish ment meted out, which was bad enough, but the parents impos ed a similar curfew at the homestead. No gamboling at the drug store, which, to a high school boy, must be something like solitary confinement to a jailbird. I, and the several other pranksters, drtew a parole at the end of five days (due, I sus pect, to the growing suspicion among the faculty that the "stay-In" was hard on them, too), and I learned a lesson: it's all right to play April Fool pranks, but don't be an "April Fool". m-m Somewhere in April Fool's Day history there must be found a conntection between the prankstering and spring, for certainly the lazy days of spring must have something to do with the revolt against rea son, rule, and convention. Just as spring makes a fisherman's mind start demanding that he hold a line, thus spring and April seem to demand activity and freedom. m-m I haven't played an April Fool prank In years, but the Herald might have had a good one, had Pete Barkley been a week ' later opening officially his new food store on York Road. m-m Readers who noted a faint, or not-sofalnt, heady aroma emanating about the house last week need look no further, for the odor was embedded in the Barkley advertisement. Somfe nasty looking stuff Cecil Ball, the Cashmere Bouquet soap salesman, furnished was mixed into the ink, the Idea being to make Pete's advertisement stand out more and to remind the lady reader to pick up the free orchid Pete was offering feminine visitors. ??a Whether the desired effect was achieved I have not heard as this Is being written, but there were some other effects, nevertheless. m-m Pressman Paul Jackson's ex perience was a sample. Paul went home Tuesday night, af ter working late, and by that time personally was Immune, reasonably, to the heavy per fumfe which filled the print shop. In addition, he benefited by the cool, night air. But he had hardly parked his hat until his wife wanted to know, "Where you been?" "Nowhere," Paul replied in nocently. "Just at work." "No you haven't eithter!" was the stern rebuttal. It took considerable persuad ing, Paul said, to establish the facts of the case. m-m From reports reaching the Herald, similar difficulties oc curred iri other spots. Should thert be a next time, proper warning definitely will be giv en. However, since the staff ai most succumbed from asyphia tion, it is not likely that sug gestions for perfuming ads will be accepted with favor In the future. April notes: I have a nfephew who hat a birthday co April 1, much to his mama's chagrin. movie attendance la pick lng up and running better than in the past four years, the trade Journals report, with Hollywood' remembering again that good product* always packed 'em in. a stranger bought copies of March Heralds last week, said he was free lance, asked If Kings Mountain was to becoma a "boom town" due to the Lithium mining ex panslon | CROSSWORD ??? Nickname far 1 20 ? Tka Mceod boy of the Bible (pom.) 1 2? G?m? 14? rumtah with i ? Utr .bur Si? Fa 4 4? Kitchen cort?kvm 45 ? Uoram cf araa 4 7 ? Affirmative rota 49 ? Unit of weUbt 81? Abbreviated notary pabflc >2 ? Behold! Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle Viewpoints of Other Editors MARTIN LUTHER-A MAN i WHO CHANGED THE WORLD The film "Martin Luther" Is by all oddA the most exciting movie we have evfer seen, because it por trays with rare technical and dra matic skill the story of the man whose unflinching courage in pur suit of truth freed the conscience of each of us. "I wil' tell you what I think. I have the right to believte freely, to be a slave to no man's autho rity," Martin Luther declared. On that conviction he stood, at the risk of his reputation and of his very life. "No man can command my conscience," Luther cried and he was outlawed, "frfee to be hunt ed, seized ? ?then to be done to death!" He has rightly been called "the man who changed the world ? forever!" And not one of us does not shade the heritage of this supremely honest and courage ous man; freedom to think, free dom to believe, freedom to wor ship as our conscience tell us. For the real heroes of adven ture, give us any day a man arm ed only with a burning convio tion of the right ? without bad ges, swords and sidearms ? who has the incomparable bravery to face empires alone but with in domitable faith. These are indeed the men who change the world forever! ? The Cleveland Times BILLY GRAHAM MAY RE PAY A DEBT THROUGH SPIRITUAL REVIVAL Billy Graham, the North Caro lina revival preacher who has come to be recognized as one of the great religious leaders ol this country, has taken England by storm. When it was announced that he would conduct a revival in Eng land, the reaction of many read ers as well as the newspapers in that country was very unfavor able. It appeared shortly before he arrived in London that his campaign might fall flat. But he approached his task lh such a manner as to win the sup port of the newspapers quickly, and at the end of three weeks, at tendance and decision records were broken. All the newspapers, with the exception of a Commu nist organ, arte supporting him. One characterized him as an "ho nest, likeable and happy man with a strong powejf for good." spiritual life in England has been at a low ebb. Bait** jd terri bly in the last war before she had fully recovered from World War I, this once- proud nation has been faced with tremendous problems. While Churchill is a powerful lea. der, the nation needs younger men in positions of responsibility. The bitter hopelessness of the outlook has naturally had an ad verse effect on the spiritual and moral life of the country, and on ly about 15 per cent of the popu lation make any pretense of sup porting the church. As a result of the Graham campaign, a spiritual awakening may result In England, and may Me the means of strengthening the British empire around the world. Twio# the people of that country bore the brunt of battle while we prepared to defend the world, and we shall always be ta debt to th*m. If Billy Graham can pro vide the Inspiration and guidance for a revival of the spiritual life of that nation, we will have at least made a partial payment en our debt to' them. Iff? ifr JWWtos IN RESOLUTION A GAINST SECRECY. STATE'S TEACHERS HAVE RENDERED PEO PLE A SERVICE Members of the North Carolina Education Association meeting in Ralteigh last week adopted a re solution opposing secret discus sions of public school business. It read: "The Association also believes that the public schools belong to the people, that public education is everybody's business and that we should continue to teach thte. American concept of Democracy ? namely, that all discussions per taining to the business of the schools, both on the local and state level, should be open to the public. "The association, therefore, will encourage and promote meetings and discussions so that the people may know not only the ?what' but also the 'how* and 'why' of all de cisions affecting our public schools." This is further evidence that, at long last, there is a growing re vulsion against secrecy at ail lev els of government but more par ticularly of that sort which was legalized by intemperate action of the 1953 session of the General Assembly. North Carolina's teachers have a dual role. As citizens of North Carolina they are "the people who have a right to know" what is going on when the public's busi ness is under discussion. They are also charged with the responsibility of teaching nearly a million children in North Caro lina; citing to them the basic te net* of our democracy. In it's February issue, the edi tor of, "North , Carolina Educa tion" quotes passages from two basal texts now used in North Carolina high schools. The quota tions support the contention that teachers ARE teaching "in good faith to their children fhe bless ings of a democracy in which pub lic officials elected by the people conduct public business in full view of those who elected them." "Calling All Citizens," one of the texts says: "When the right of citizens to xtead and hear is denied, there Is no way of find ing out what the majority Wants. Then there Is no democracy." Another text, "Challenges To American Youth" says: "The tru th shall make you free! But how are wfe to know what Is truth? Only by hearing all sides of a question before passing Judg ment . . . This is one of the price less heritages of our form of gov ernment, to.be guarded zealously against any infringement from within or without" Thte editorial then goes. on '?tar ask how long, in good conscience, teachers can continne to accept these tenets at full yalue when a Mcrecy law continues to tarnish m of TTiiitinSmnii'ii 1 jtt aife speaking more forcefully now than they did ?lightly more than a year ago. They are begjnnfegEfcft^lto. in Rreater numbers than ever, that the fight against secrecy is thfclr fight and not that of a small group of newspaper people ae some secrecy adherent* 'would htve them belfcve ? Chatham Count A man may let his wife go to church "for both of us," bttt W ually he prefers to do his own golfing and fishing. ? Omega, t. ...AND SEND YOUR WASH To THE LAUNDRY Wholesome. Flavorful Milk Products: ? featuring ? 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