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TUESDAY, NOV. 17, 1936
A DISAPPOINTING CROP
Indications that Cleveland county, for
many seasons "the tops” in cotton produc
tion, is losing its high standing this year.
The cotton crop may be the lowest in 16
years, due to bad weather conditions.
A drought in the Spring was followed
by a beautiful growing season, when much i
of the cotton did not come up and the little .
that did survive was stunted. Fields that
were planted the second time looked as if
they would come through, but the rainy, cool
fall has been a severe handicap. Mature bolls
had no encouragement to open and now the
grade is lowered. Cleveland county cotton
that was onee sought because of its fine
grade and staple, has no special appeal to
the buyer.
Conservative estimates are that the crop
will range somewhere between 20 and 25
thousand bales. A low yield like that is un
common in these days of intense cultivation.
It is fortunate that our farmers receive
money from other sources than cotton. The
government’s rental benefits will compensate
in a measure for the short crop.
INCREASED PAY—INCREASED
PROFITS
“The Eastman Kodak coniivny at Roch
ester, N. Y., declared a wage dividend of $2,
220,000—
"Cutler Hammer. Inc., announced it
would distribute approximately $225,000
among 2,750 employees—
“The, Yellow Truck and Coach Manufac
turing company of Pontiac, Mich., planned a
five cents an hour pay hike November 15 for
all workers and a $250,000 ‘appreciation
fund —
“A five per cent wage hike for 1,500
hour and piece workers at the Johns-Man
ville plant was scheduled—”
And so we might go on indefinitely!
plucking excerpts of this tone at random
from any current newspaper we scan. And,
considering the fact that the Blue Eagle no
longer beats a wing or screams a warning at
defiant employers, these stories sound like
news—good news. Those in authority in the
country’s biggest businesses are not declar
ing wage increases from a sense of obliga
tion to their employees or a feeling that it’s
up to them to help conquer the depression.
It simply means those firms are making
money again, and making wages increase to
avoid the Federal tax on undistributed sur
pluses.
KEEP WAR “OVER THERE”
Eddie Cantor sings over the radio a
meaningful song of his own composition that
always draws applause from his visible aud
ience and a nod of approval from the millions
who listen in. It has to do with peace at
home and the hope that European countries
which are always in turmoil will keep their
strife “over there.”
Just now the Spanish civil war is the
worst hotbed of bloodshed. Reds and radi
cals seeking- power have been fighting for
seventeen weeks.
The price Spain has paid for this horror
is 150,000 killed without trial, executed after
court-martial or died in prisons. Fifty
thousand more have been killed in combat.
The estimated property loss is $2,600,000,
000 and the end is not yet.
Pictures from the war-front show beau
tiful buildings that are in the w’ake of the
seige on Madrid and are destined for ruin.
Half of Spain’s tillable fields lie idle.
All of this is the price the Madrid gov
ernment has to pay for listening to foreign
gods. It is class-warfare pure and simple.
Such warfare is always brutal and bloody.
Here in America we have our differenc
es in politics, religion and economics but w’e
never allow ourselves to get whipped into a
fighting frenzy. And may no radical leader
ever succeed in arraying class against class.
Our interests are mutual and our disposition 1
is to stand rock-ribbed on fundamental san
ity and love of free and open controversy.
THE WAY OF A MAN WITH HIS SON
How marvelous a thing is the love of
parents for their children, representing as it
does the one human relationship which never
palls. It is a love which is forever making
excuses for faults, forever justifying mistak- i
eglove which permits no boredom and.
wells afresh in the heart at each caress; aj
accepts ungratitude as its daily I
3read, which braves sacrifice without com
plaint. and which even death does not de
stroy.
Nine years ago the mother and father
jf Paul Redfern accepted his death as a cer
ainty after he was lost on a flight across
he jungles of South America. They knew
he bitter taste of grief; the long sleepless
nights of wondering what pain his body
might have suffered before death released
It, and of wandering where it rested. But
ifter months of this they did, finally, ac
cept his death as a fact and found some meas
ire of peace again.
After eight years of this acceptance
:ame reports, months ago, that their son
'till lives, as a cripple with a savage tribe in
British Guiana. The old love ,the old long
ng, the old hope for their son leaped into in
stant life again, and since that first intima
:ion that he might still live they have pro
moted the renewed search for him assidu*
>usly. Last week at Charleston, with hope
iright in their hearts, they saw Art Williams
loar away on a new searching expedition, at
the risk of his own life, sure in their hearts
that this time he will bring back the good
news for Which they wait.
Nine years of the silence and lack of
contact that is death have not lessened their
love and their eagerness to serve and pro
tect their son.
What Other Papers Say
SHOULD RAISE MORE CATTLE
(Concord Tribune)
North Carolina is in position to feed and raise
nore cattle this Fall and Winter, and should do so.
Although the drought last Summer cut down the feed
supply in a number of States, farmers here have an
abundant supply, and moreover, the outlook for beef
prices next spring is exceptionally good.
By converting their feed Into beef and other
forms of meat farmers can increase their cash earn
ings. At the same time, the manure from the ani
mals will enrich their soil.
STRAW VOTES
(Spartanburg Herald)
Senator McKellar, of Tennessee, Is all-fired sore
at the straw vote takers. Wants to have Congress
pass a law curbing their activities. Hardly necessary.
They made such a mess of predicting the result of the
last election that their future efforts will evoke little
interest or confidence.
SPEAKING OF SHORTS
(Greensboro News)
Governor-elect Hoey. we see by the papers, is still
hoping for a short session of the general assembly. Ye
Paragrapher’s own idea is that the only shortage that
the 1937 legislature will encounter is a ditto of funds.
Fascism was not under discussion In the days
when Woodrow Wilson was Princeton’s President. You
may recall his effort to democratise the university.
And he once said, “Unless I have entire power, how'
can I make this a Democratic college?” Unless the
President has entire power how can he make this a
Democratic nation?—New York Herald Tribune,
Nobody's Business
__ By GEE McGEE
MY MOST MISERABLE EXPERIENCE
.I am what you might call a self-made man.
but 1 didn't commence work on myself until about 17
years too late. When I became 30.1 ran across a book
on table etiquette, and among other things. I read
that it was ill-manners to remove food from your
mouth except in and under peculiar circumstances.
.Well, one day I was eating dinner at the home of
my sweetheart. She was sitting on my right, her 2
pretty sisters on my left, and mother and father and
the rest of the family were scattered around the table.
I had learned how to handle a knife and fork pretty
well, and according to the book, I was not eating with
my knife, (I had quit that practice two months be
fore).
... .Branched (whole) peaches were being served Be
fore I realized what had happened, I discovered that
t had a peach kernel in my mouth, I was evidently
making myself “at home,” and had unthoughtedly in
serted the kernel for the purpose of "nursing” the at
tached peach hangers-on. There I was! And that !
wasn’t a little peach stone either . . . it was an H
berta.
.1 thought once of swallowing the thing, but hap- '
pened to feel a sharp, pointed edge on one end of it.
[ couldn’t afford to reach in my mouth with my fing
ers and remove it. I didn’t know what to do, eo I
commenced to sweat, twist and squirm. I pushed K ]
ever between my teeth and jaw I had a terrible time
trying to chew and swallow with that missile in my 1
way. (I had to shuffle the kernel about so's the folks 1
wouldn't think a bee had stung me on the jowl).
-When ‘’she" passed the fried chicken and asked ]
we if I'd have some: all I could say was—“glub-g-l-u
i-b.’’ Every word I spoke was—"glub, glub-g-l-u-b." ‘
[ conceived the idea of dropping a spoon! I intended *
a stoop my head under the table and emit that 1
jeach stone, but “her’’ sister grabbed that spoon be- J
’ore it hit the floor. I had no better luck with my ta- j
>le napkin. (
—X made up my mind once to faint and fall over <
ind play possum, but that was too risky. I turned red
Jer and redder and redder every minute, I tried to,
explain that I was on a diet, but couldn’t talk any 1,
English at all. I didn’t eat anything, but 1 messed up (
ill of the food they put on my plate so's it would look t
like it had been et. The meal ended. I slipped out ‘
first, and on the way to the sitting-room. I reached I
in and got that lump of punishment. They knew i1
something was wrong with me, but never found out J j
what it was.
BABES IN THE WOOD
Washington
Daybook
By PRESTON GROVER
(Associated Press Staff Writer!
WASHINGTON—Anyone lister
ing to arguments in the supren
court these days would be thoi
oughly Justified In suspecting he he
drifted Into the
wrong chamber
rnd actually was
nearing a senate
lebate, minus the
senate lnterrup
;ions, of course.
Traditionally,
sourts are con
cerned with the
iaw. In turn, you
night expect con
tress and the
chief executive to
decide what is
“good" or ‘‘wise" HESTON L CROVI
tor the country and leave the si
preme court simply to determir
whether congress and the presidei
were acting within the constiti
tlon.
» • * •
Sounds Like Senate
But take the case of the New Yoi
unemployment Insurance act, whof
constitutionality was argued befoi
the supreme court.
Henry Epstein, New York stal
solicitor general, wheeled before ti
court a rack of charts. What foi
To prove to the- court that unerr
ployment Insurance was “good'’ ft
the state. He spent precious litti
time debating whether it was cor
ititutional although he submitted
»rief on law questions. A muc
longer brief was submitted, how
ever, on the economic and socis
juestions.
Not only that, but James MeCoi
nick Mitchell of Buffalo, attome
or companies attacking the lav
mswered In kind. He said the la
vas unconstitutional, but more ear
lestly he denied Epstein’s argu
nents that the law was “good" fc
he state.
Epstein used his charts to sho>
hat the ups and downs of busines
cycles were a recurrent factor i
iresent day affairs.
He showed rail transportatio:
agging when factory product ioi
agged. Thus, he argued, railroa
employes were thrown out of joh
hrough no fault of their own o
if the railroads, but because fac
ory work slackened.
He insisted it was good’ an
right" that the state should ta
mployers and employes to set up
eserve fund to tide unemployed ove
he low spots. Moreover, he said i
iras economically sound to have thi
eserve to sustain purchasing pow
t in depression periods.
Does that sound like ‘dry a
lust” law argument?
*•*.*'
Stone Gives Cue
It is not wholly unusual for th
ourt to hear economic and socia
xguments. Such factors bear 01
he court’s interpretation of th
general welfare” clause.
But arguments of opposing attor
leys on the New York unemploy
nent act sounded definitely as i
he court should decide the issue 01
rhethet the law was sound econo
CLOVER HILL
ELECTS OFFICERS
Child Has Diphtheria;
Have Surprise
Party
• Special to The Star.)
BELWOOD, Route 1, Nov. 17.—
Little Rosemary Hull, daughter of
d | Mr. and Mrs. Nalter Hull Is very ill
. with diphtheria.
Mrs. Clyde Carpenter spent Sat
urday afternoon with her sister. Mrs.
:j Spurgeon Hewitt of Shelby. She
also visited another sister. Mrs. Joe
Doster of Shelby.
The Missionary society of Clover
Hill church met with Mrs. Lawrence
Turner on Thursday night, Nov. 5th.
The officers were reelected as fol
| lows: Mrs. W. C. Edwards, presi
I dent; Mrs. Joe Queen, vice presi
r dent; Mrs. Joe Hastings, treasurer;
_ Mrs. Arthur Turner, secretary and
e other officers are Mrs. Enoch Led
,t ford, Mrs. Clarence Ledford, Mrs.
_ Lawrence Turner, Mae Ramsey, Mrs.
Paul Whisnant and Mrs. D. P. Ed
wards. After the business hour,
they were ushered into the dining
k room where dainty refreshments
e were served. The rooms of the hand
e some new home was decorated with
pretty fall flowers. There were 21
e members present.
e A surprise party was given Sat
1 urday night at the home of Miss
. Roseda Turner. A very large crowd
„. was present and everyone seemed
e to enjoy themselves.
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Sain of Vale
a spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
a Lawrence Turner. Also Uncle Rob:
_ Newton was able to spend the day j
j with the Turners.
Mrs. Lawrence Turner spent Mon
_ day with Mrs. Andy Elmore of Ca
y sar. She and Mrs Elmore accom
. pained by Mrs. Vivian Elmore vis
v ited Mrs. E. M. Eaker in the after-;
. noon. Mrs. Eaker has been in the
_ Lincoln hospital and is getting j
,. along very will.
v ! YOUTH IS HELD ON
s CHARGE OF MURDER
1 PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 17.--UPi—
j Magistrate Thomas Usilton held
, James J Stewart, 18. without bail
j today to await action by the cor
s oner, on a charge of manslaughter
ri in the death of Miss Mary Hope
. Hunter. Baltimore debunante, in
an automobile collision,
j A half-inch bolt found at the
, scene of the accident led to the ar
• rest of Stewart Detective Charles
r Branzier said the bolt was from
t the hook of an automobile which
the youth had rented.
• mically and socially.
They may have taken their cue j
' > from Justice Stone, one of the lib-?
eral dissenters. In criticizing the
! majority opinion by which the
New York minimum wage law was
upset. Stone said it was- “hard to
■ imagine’’ grounds for the majority
i decision other than “personal econ
omic predilections" of members of
the court.
It will be Interesting to note just
• to what extent the court in future
■ is regaled with arguin, d not
1 so much on whether lav..* are per-,
■ [missible, but whether they are wise
POWER UTILITIES
CONTROL TOPIC
OF 1937 DEBATE
High School Debate
Union To Use
Subject
CHAPEL HILL, No. 17. — The
question as to whether the govern
ment should own and operate all
electric light and power utilities
will be discussed by hundreds of
North Carolina high school deba
ters in their spring debates of the
present scholastic year.
This was indicated here today in
the announcement that the fol
lowing query had been chosen for
this year’s contest of the High
School Debating Union of North
Carolina: “Resolved, That the gov
ernment should own and operate
all eleqtric light .and power utili
ties.”
The schools which enroll in the
High School Debating union will
participate in a State wide trian
gular series of debates. Those win
ning both sides of the contest will1
send their teams to Chapel Hill to
compete in the finals for the Ay
cock cup. All schools of secondary
nature are invited to enter.
Announcement of the query was
made today by Secretary E. R.
Rankin, who pointed out that the
question of government ownership
and operation of electric utilities
had been chosen as the national
high school debate topic for this
year. Thirty-five state high school
debating leagues will discuss this
question in their annual contests
next spring.
For the assistance of debaters in
their preparation for the contests,
a debate handbook, containing ar
ticle bearing on both sides of the
question and giving references as
to additional sources of material, is
in course of preparation here. This!
handbook, to be entitled “Govern
ment Ownership and Operation of
Electric Utilities?” will be publish- ■
ed in the series of the University of j
North Carolina Extension Bulletin.
A debate on the national high1
school debate topic will be broad
cast from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m . eastern
standard time, on Thursday, No
vember IS, over the Red 'Hwork
end affiliated stations of Na
tional Bi-oadeasting Company.
Sperkers on the affirms ye in
Thursday’s debate wi«‘ be: Norman j
Thomas, candidate fo President on
the Socialist ticket in the recent
election, and Harry W. Laid!?!*,
executive director of the League for
industrial Democracy. The nega
tive team will be composed of: G.
W. Dyer, of the faculty of Vander
bilt University, and W. C. Dyer,
vice-president of the Southern
California Edison Company.
The leaning tower of Pisa was
■'.ever vertical because the founda
tion began to sink before the con
struction was completed.
Hollywood i
Sights And Sounds
By ROBIN COONS
HOLLYWOOD. — Tyrone Power
che has dropped the Junior) Is
probably the only actor who ever
got his ticket to Hollywood by ask
ing for free tickets to a show.
The son of the late Shakespear
ian actor was on his uppers—or
maybe lower than that—in New
York a few years ago when he
dropped around to see a friend at
a theater and asked for pass': to'
see Katharine Cornell. He was of
fered a Job as understudy, and e
couple of seats for the evening
performance besides. He under
studied and In her next two plays i
he had parts. He was in her "St.
Joan" when Twentieth Century
scoutstested and signed him up.
Acting Since Eight
He got a small part in “Girls !
Dormitory” and even the presence
of Simone Simon therein could not
hide him from fan letter writers
His part In "Ladles in Love" was
larger .and in his third picture he
has practically a starring role.
This Is ‘Lloyd’s of London."
Now 22. ■ he became an actor
when he was eight years old. He
played with his father in the San
Gabriel Mission play in Los Ange
les. When he was 16 he returned
to acting seriously, but not too
profitably. During school days in
Cincinnati, his birthplace (May S,
1914), he was an Orpheum theater
usher and a drugstore clerk by
turns.
In his fourth film. “Love Is
News,” he shares leading man hon
ors with Don Ameche, and gets
the girl, Loretta Young. In success
ful film romance this will be his
first experience, as in “Lloyd’s of
London" you may decide for your
self whether he got the girl. By
coincidence Power’s career has
bumped against Ameche’s twice be
fore.
Just before going to New York
and his opportunity with Kathar
ine Cornell, Tyrone worked in Chi
cago. He did a play with Eugenie
Leontovltch, and worked in a trav
eling little theater of youngsters
his age. They ate if they did not
grow rich. He also did radio work
—when he could. Very frequently
he applied for ether roles only to
find they were “alteady ta#cen” by
Don Ameche.
Won Over Ameche
In Hollywood, Tyrone and Don
were each tested a week, every day
for the “Lloyd’s of London” role.
Tyrone eventually won — with
Ameche’s sincere congratulations.
Tyrone is six feet, weighs 155
pounds, and in technicolor he would
be brown-eyed and brown-haired.
His favorite color is blue, fruit is
avocadoes, and flower is carna
tions. When the studio cameramen1
run around the lot looking for “ro
mance pictures" they always snap
him with Sonja Henie, the blonde
skating actress. He lives in a Hol
lywood bungalow apartment with
his mother, Patia Power, who used
to act In Shakespeare with his
father. Tyrone dropped the "Jr.” as
Odd But
TRUE
-By O. Max Gardner, jr —«.
The human body gives off enougn
heat in one hour to heat a half
gallon off water to the boiim.
point,
The bloodhound is not the \mv
animal it is supposed to be m
the bloodhound has the gentled
disposition of all hounds, its name
a£ne ^rom the medieval dayi
when these hounds were used to
trace wild boars, that had bees
-peared, by the trail of the blood.
It would take a human beta,
doing one hundred and eights
i.ousand miles a second aboutV
nd one half years to reach the
star nearest the earth.
South Carolina has a law which
prohibits divorce within its limtu.
More people die of heart dlseasi
than any other cause of death.
Cancer comes second, apoplexy
third, pneumonia fourth. Brights
disease fifth, tuberculosis six. and
influenza seventh.
“The rail splitter" was a pet
nickname for Lincoln in the Presj.
dential campaign of mo. Hand
split rails were carried In parades,
They were said to be from his lath
er’s farm fence, “Honest Abe" in
sisted he had never seen them be
fore and that he had never split
a fence rail.
SMALL OCTOBER LOSS
DUE TO FORE8T FIRES
RALEIGH, Nov. 17.—(£>i—Only H
forest fires occurred in counties or
ganized for lire protection during
October, the smallest number for
any month this year.
The blazes burned over only 1,
874 acres, compared with 5,55*
acres damaged from 45 September
fires, and the small number of fires
and area burned compared with
the record for any month set in
May when 1,087 blazes burned over
84,350 acres.
The October damage was set at
14,154, compared to $144,988 In May
and $11,817 In September.
an affectation, since his father ii
dead. His father played in the film,
“The Big Trail,” and would have
been in the talkie “Miracle Man
but for his death.
Tyrone is an exuberant young
man. He gets fidgety when idle,
expansively happy when working.
He soaks his savings into annuities.
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as executor of the es
tate of J. T, Black, deceased of Clare
land county. North Carolina, this le lo
notify all peraons haring claim* against
the aald estate to present them to me
properly proven on or before the 17th
day of November. 1*37. or this notice will
oe pleaded in bar of any recovery there
of. All persona owing the aald estate will
pleaae make Immediate settlement to the
iinderalgned. This 17th day of Nov. 193*
G. P. LACKEY. Executor of Estate
of J. T. Black. St nov lit
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Looking Forward - - -
That boy of yours probably doesn’t see
much beyond play-days, although his im
agination may carry him away in dreams
of stunt flights, and football tackles.
It’s up to you—his parents—to look for
ward to his future.
Establish a bank account for him today
It will grow with him, and remove the un
certainty from futurity.
First National Bank
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