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@ljp 8>ljrlby Saily &tar (POUNDED 18941 Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Entered as Second Class Matter at the 0 8 Post Office Shelby N C. By STAB PUBLISHING COMP ANT 217-219 East Warren Street, Shelby, N. C. LEE R WEATHERS. President and Publisher HOLT McPHEBSON. Mng. Editor - H. L. WEATHERS. Secy.-Trea SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable Od Order) ■ V CARRIER ar MAIL One Year .*10.40 *7.00 Six Monlhs -... b.20 3.7b Three Months ..... 2.60 2.00 Pour Weeks ....... .80 -7b One Week - -20 -20 ALL TELEPHONES - 1100 WARD-GRIFFITH CO INC.—National Advertising Rcprcsentotl^** Iwt MHKR OF TUL ASSOCIATED PRESS TH, associated press is exclusively entitled to the purpose por publication op au. the new. dispatches credited to it published hereipl all righti, op publication op special or not otherwise in this paper and also the local new. di.patche. herein al.o are re.erved_ YAMS BY THE BUSHEL We are beholden to the OPA for anything it can do for the price of sweet potatoes and are downright grateful for the approximately 17 cents per bushel increase granted in the ceiling price. We hope that the effect of this OPA amendment will be just what the district director, Theodore S. Johnson, thinks it will; that is an incentive for more production, if more production is what we need. But there is one thing about the amendment which does not strike our fancy. It does away with bushel pricing and places all potatoes on a per-pound basis. Theoretically, oi course the farmer will come out at the same place with potatoes priced by the pound as by the bushel; that is if he is familiar w7ith how many pounds there are in a bushel. To our notion, however, this per-pound business smacks too much of the retail instead of the production end of the game. If the merchant wants to divide a bushel into pounds for the benefit of his small volume trade that is O.K. by us. There is no need to carry this long division back to the man ■who digs the yams and more than likely puts them in bushel baskets or bags. What he wants to know7 most of all is how much money he w7ill receive for a bushel just as he knows how many bushels he can raise on an acre. He ought to be able to learn this without too long calculation or an overworking of the multiplication tables. V THE BRIGAND ASSOCIATES WITH ROYALTY If Spain, by accepting a return of the Monarchy com plete with the essentials of the Falangist movement, as Gen eralissimo Francisco Franco says she is preparing to do, is not jumping from the frying pan into the fire at least she isn’t improving conditions in the pan to any great extent. The Spanish dictator has already decreed that the royal regime is his only possible successor. “The best law7 will be of no avail if the Falangist spirit weakens,” declared the man wrho has had Spain under his thumb. From this distance, we would say there is too much fraternizing between the plunderers and the royalists. Everyone knows that the Franco dictatorship was raised to pow’er on the bayonets of the nazis and the fascists. The forces of naziism have already been totally defeated and fascism is retreating everywhere. But we don’t fancy allowing Spain's rapist, Franco, to be allowed to name his own successor. Not only should the country be rid of this brigand but neither should she take any truck with an incompetent royal family. Let the people establish the kind of government they desire. That was one of the guarantees of the Atlantic charter, was it not. -v A GENEROUS PEOPLE North Carolinians are a generous people to worthwhile causes. This is evidenced on many evasions when drives and campaigns are waged in behalf 01 jur service men, the sick and crippled, community enterprises and other causes. A final report has been issued on the Mother's Day contribution to the Baptist Hospital at Winston-Salem and it amounts to $103,000 which is by far the greatest amount ever contributed U- this institution. The Mother's Day pledges have been a custom in the Baptist churches since 1925 and each year the amount has exceeded the previous year. Every hospital is called upon to do charity work. The expense must come from some source. Fortunately in the Carolinas the Duke Hospital Fund contributes $1 a day for each charity patient taken care of in a publicly owned in stitution, but this does not cover the whole cost. Operating hospitals, like everything else, is more expensive, even to charity patients. When the Cleveland county hospital system is available, we should have many men. women and institutions willing to make contributions to help support the broader services offered. Our people gladly share with others more needy than they and get joy out of their giving when it relieves suffer ing humanity and aids in developing a stronger civilization, morally and physically. -V NOTE ON POULTRY PRICES Complicating the current high cost of poultry is the report from London of the increasing demand for good quality parrots. These talking birds are bringing almost fantastic prices due in part to the demand among the ser vices and also due to the fact their import has been banned for several years owing to the risk of psittacosis. A couple of “pftts” from us. There is enough con versation in this world, it seems to us, without having to go to a bird cage for any more. As a matter of fact we are not deeply interested in any feathered animal whose drumstick is not fit for human consumption. i SUPPORT IT! \ URGENTLY NEEDED/ 6S,000 EXTRA RAILWAY EMPLOYEES wesrsKH rr R4ILR0/\DS //'** THCJ4P ,JA RAILROAD 'Job Now?* I A Daily Prayer In War Time FOR THE HUMBLE VIRTUES I In this great hour Thou hast called most of us, O Master, to carry on in humdrum daily duties. Touch our eyes that we may per j ceive the use and glory of these.1 | We pray for the humble, everyday j : virtues of faithfulness, cheerfulness. | I comradeship and helpfulness. May i our home and our place of work be glorified by the knowledge that they are the sphere appointed to us, as truly as the soldier is assigned to his place by orders. In our little lot may we grow great lives. Exalt us in our spirits bv the knowledge that we are where Thou wouldst have us be. Grant that our hearts may be so heroic that we may meet with smiling patience all the annoyances of life's routine; and that we may shed the glow of consecration upon the lowliest task. This we ask in the name of Him who lived the great est life amidst the lowliest cir cumstances. Amen. Rationing Guide Processed Foods— Blue Stamps—T2, U2. V2. W2, X2 now valid, expire July 31 Y2. Z2, Al, Bl, Cl now valid, expire August 31. Dl, El. FI, Gl, HI now valid, expire September 30. Jl, Kl, ' LI, Ml, N1 now valid, expire Oc ! tober 31. Meats and Fats— Red Stamps—K2. L2. M2. N2, P2 now valid, expire July 31. Q2, R2, S2, T2, U2 now valid, expire Au gust 31. V2, W2 X2. Y2, Z2 now valid, expire September 30. Al, Bl, Cl, Dl, El' now valid, expire ( October 31. Sugar Sugar Stamp No. 36—Good for 5 lbs., expires August 31. Shoes—Airplane Stamps No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, now good. Fuel Oil—Period 1, 2, 3. 4. 5, valid for 10 gallons each. Period 1 coupon (new seasoni unit value, 10 gallons. Gasoline—A-16 coupons valid ■ through September 21. Each car I owner must write his license num ber and state on each gas coupon as soon as it is issued to him Mileage rationing record must be presented when applying for all passenger car gasoline rations. Two Big Real Estate Deals In Gaffney GAFFNEY — Two recent large deals in Cherokee county real es- j tate have been recorded in the of fice of Clerk of Court J. Conrad Jones and a third is reported to be in process of completion but the papers for this one have not yet reached the clerk’s office. One deal in the clerk’s office shows the sale of 578,65 acres, known as the ‘‘Red Land Farms,” eight miles southeast of Gaffney on the Wjlkinsville road, and an additional tract of 127.85 acres by the Warlick Furniture company, of Bluefield, W. Va., to John New ton Collins, of Bostic, N. C. The price was given as $17,625. Another deed discloses the sale by W. H. Potter, prominent farm er and landowner of the Cherokee church community, of the timber rights on 777 acres of the Walker farm, 20 miles south of Gaffney in the forks of Pacolet and Broad rivers, to the Whitener Lumber company, of Newberry, for $25, 500. | I Literary Guideposc By W. G, ROGERS The Fates Are Laughing, by W. P. : Crozier (Harcourt, Brace; $3i The Rome of the Emperors Ti berius, Caligula and Claudius, of Pontius Pilate and the doughty Peter, is the scene of this love story of Lucius and Metella. We think of our world as being pretty messy, but ancient Rome was a match for it. Overrun by mobs, ravaged by fire, subjected to the rule of such despots as the trio of little Caesars who had a shilly-shallying Senate to do their bidding, the Eternal City in the First Century B. C. seemed ny thing but eternal. Tiberius has fled from its ir moil to Capri and friends nd relatives of Sejanus expect him to succeed the aged ruler. As those who know their history will re call . . . and few know it better than Crozier . . . Sejanus missed the royal purple. The fate of the lovely Metella. for whose hand Aulus is a per sistent suitor, is bound up with the royal succession. Her father consults his learned slave, Peri cles; consults soothsayers; consults wife, daughter, friends. The suitors argue; slaves talk; the learned dispute; Jews tell of the new Christ; letters are written; verses are quoted interminably. It is, in short, or rather in any thing but short, a garrulous novel, more descriptive than fictional, 1 more erudite than imaginative. I admire it, I must say, more than I enjoy it. The characters who quote so intelligently from Horace and Virgil are praiseworthy, but uninteresting. Crozier, who before his death last year was editor of the Man chester Guardian, has done a scholarly job. But that is a sorry recommendation for fiction. Iwo Jima. text by Capt. Raymond Henri, USMC (U. S. Camera; $.50 and $1.75). In nearly 100 dramatic photos and a terse and gripping narra tive, this is the fearful story of the capture of Iwo Jima, from the day the landing craft touched shore to the time when American planes took off for Tokyo. The book includes Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's fa mous shot of the flag raising on Suribachi. Alcoholics Anonymous Formed In Morganton MORGANTON — A preliminary meeting was held Tuesday evening in the Sunday School building of the First Presbyterian church to make further plans for the or ganization of a local chapter of “Alcoholics Anonymous.” a national organization of “cured” alcoholics. Ten representatives from Asheville and Shelby chapters met with six local men who had signified their intention of becoming charter mem bers of the Morganton chapter. The visitors explained the organi zation and gave personal testi monies. Three cotton-growing states—Ari zona, Florida and New Mexico— have no cotton-spinning mills. One 80-mile pipeline construct ed by the army in Italy handled 4.500 barrels of gasoline daily. J ) I ) By DR. HERBERT SPAUGH Habit forges a chain which en slaves millions for good or for evil. Most tyrannies have begun from benefits bestowed. Then comes the habit of expect ing the benefits to continue. All of which often leads to depotism fol lowed by oppres sion. It was so that the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt, and it was so that the German peo ple succumbed to Naziism. Here lies REV. SFAUGH the terrible dan ger which faces | this country as we increasingly look ' to the government to provide for ! the people those things which we j should achieve by our own efforts, initiative and sense of decency and righteousness.What about the thou sands now on the government pay rolls in war-time agencies, and not in the armed service, who will ex pect to remain there after the war, ' or in some other government job? What about the increasing amount of regulation of our per sonal lives by the government, be cause we have to be compelled to cooperate for the common good? We complain about government regu lation. We ask for it by our own a ». The good man does not have to be compelled to consider his neighbor's welfare. St. Paul writes, "For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.” Keep the churches filled on Sun day, and the Jails will have many less occupants. The farther we get away from God, the more laws and regulations will be required to hold us together as a nation. The habit of looking to the government for regulation of those things which should spring naturally from a citizen of industry and righteous ness is exceedingly dangerous. We are slowly forging the chains for enslavement. In personal living, the slavery of habit is more apparent, for good and for evil. There are those un fortunate habits which children ac quire, which if not broken, carry in to maturity, as finger sucking fin ger-nail biting uncontrolled tem per sulking; politeness which if ac quired in childhood prove invalua ble in maturity. Marriage is in many cases unhappy tyranny. A demanding and tyran nical husband or wife drives hap piness out of the lives of all mem bers of the family. Instead of sub mitting themselves one to the other, as the Christian marriage ceremony urges, granting the rule of their home to God, one or the other part ner commences to demand more than he gives. As the other yields to those demands, they become more exa- ’ntil they finally develop in v. Back of a large per c alcoholic cases which hav. under my observation I have ___i domestic tyranny. When a man, woman or youth forsakes that early natural instinct to follow God’s leading, slip his hand out of His hand, and starts on his own independent way, he breaks the best habit he ever had, one with which he came into this world emotionally and spiritually prepared. nabits may be a blessing or a tyranny. Which are yours? COUNSELOR * Merry-Go-Round Peace Feelers From Japan By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen Now On Active Service with the Army) WASHINGTON—It’s being kept very hush-hush, but something important is brewing behind the scenes regarding peace with Ja pan. Highest officials won't say a word about it, not even to some of their cabinet colleagues. However, peace feelers which have come from the Japs have been much more than feelers — despite Secretary Grew's denials. One of them was debated by the combined chiefs of staff for more than a week. It proposed that the Japs withdraw from Korea and Manchuria and all China if (1) They could keep the emperor, and j t2> They would not be invaded. Meanwhile, Joe Grew and the army and navy have prepared a directive outlining the minimum terms we would accept from the Japs. This is one of the most highly guarded documents in the government. However, it can be stated on high authority that the Grew peace plan would permit the Japs to retain Emperor Hirohito. It can also be stated that-there is considerable difference of opin ion inside the administration re garding the Grew memorandum, and some of his colleagues inside the State department, including Assistant Secretary Will Clayton and Assistant Secretary Dean Asheson, are vigorously opposed. The whole situation is in a state of flux, and anything can happen overnight. WHAT GERMANY PAYS Completely ohscured by the Big Three conference are the repara tions talks now taking place in Moscow. Upon their outcome will partially depend whether Ger many will be permitted to rise to power again. Already the cards have been laid down as to what we want Germany to pay. Here is the in side story of the proposed terms: The Soviet delegation proposed (II That Germany pay $20,000,000, 000: (2) That this be paid off in a five-year period; (3) That it be paid in the form of labor, goods and factories—the factories to be exported from Germany to other countries, not left in Germany. Tne Russians aiso proposed inai this $20,000,000,000 be divided as follows: $10,000,000,000 to the So viet: $4,000,000,000 to the U. S. A.; $4,000,000,000 to Britain; and $2, 000,000,000 to be divided among the other European war victims. The American delegation headed by handsome Ed Pauley, the big | oil and rye operator, proposed l somewhat similar terms, except ! that the U. S. A. would receive a larger share of Nazi reparations. Note—The British delegation. I when called upon to give its proposals, replied that it would 1 Jike to have permission to fly back and forth to London each 1 week to consult, since it did | not trust its communication lines in Moscow. Apparently Washington isn't the only place where wires are tapped. BUSY MR. FORRESTAL Insiders have been joshing Sec retary of the Navy Forrestal and White House Naval Aid Capt. James K. Vardaman ever since President Truman’s fishing trip j to Washington state. I Truman was relaxing with Gov ; ernor Mon Wallgren and Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington one day when Magnuson picked up the phone and called the Navy de partment in Washington, D. C. He wanted to get Forrestal to come out to Seattle to speak at a Fourth ! of July celebration. But when he asked the Navy de partment for Forrestal, Magnuson was told. j “The secretary cant be inter rupted now. He’s conferring with j the Presidential Naval Aid.” Whereupon another voice cut in (on the conversation saying: I "Then let us talk to the Presi dential Naval Aid.” It was Harry Truman himself on a phone extension. However Forrestal’s aids were not inclined to interrupt the conference with Captain Vardaman, and since nei ther Truman nor Magnuson were in a hurry, they didn't press the matter. Thirty minutes later For restal called back. "Hello, Mr. Secretary,” greeted Truman jokingly, "this is the Pres ident. How come that when a United States senator and the President of the United States telephone you, you can’t speak tc them because you’re conferring with my Naval Aid?” Forretsal laughed, and accepted the invitation to come out and speak in Seattle on July 4. INSIDE JAPAN Jap prisoners taken in Burma Indo-China and the Dutch Easl Indies haven’t the ghost of ar idea as to what is happening in Japan. They can’t believe that U S. forces are steaming close to the I Jap mainland, still believe the Jar navy will reopen supply lines tc the South Pacific . . . Japan's domestic situation Ls increasingly desperate. Last week Tokyo or dered a further 10 percent cut in all basic rations, including staple items like fish and rice . . . The Japanese railroads are being torn to pieces by B-29s. Rail junctions are clogged for days before the i traffic can clear through them .. j The entire Jap administrative sys | tern has broken down. The Jap.« 1 have now decentralized their gov ernment so every area has its own war production board, its own lo cal defense system, even its own .lpcal tax collections. Jap workers are now being drilled for home’ defense at noon hours, some even using pointed ! sticks as spears ... There is con siderable debate inside the U. S high command regarding the ne cessity for landing in China Some think a Chine.** invasion U neces Behind The FRONT PAGE By HOLT McFHEBSON Managing Editor THOSE INDEFATIGABLE TRADERS, THE BEAMS, AREN’T above taking a profit off anybody—indeed, one of them sold his house to another brother the other day, but, when the seller’s wife demurred, he | succeeded in buying it back by paying $500 profit to the brother Who had snapped it up. I suppose I’m no exception, for I’ve just bought one of their lots. All this talking I’ve been doing about how folks ought to buy their lots and get to planning that post-war house caused me suddenly to real ize that I had done nothing of the kind myself. So, with the help of a good real estate agent I located a lot I felt answered requirements, found it belonged to the Beams and told the agent to go make the best deal he could to buy it. Both the buyer and vendor were fairly treated, which makes a really good deal. It has been, from beginning to end, a satisfactory transaction, but one of my friends has chided me for not dealing directly and thus saving the commission. I think that commission was the best investment in the deal; the services of a good, conscientious real estate agent, when you are buying or selling real estate, or of a lawyer, when legal services are need ed, come cheap, if you buy well. I have seen too many individuals euffer and pay excessive prices when they thought they were saving a com mission or a lawyer’s fee they later wished they had paid a hundred ^ fold and more. HEARTENING REPORTS COME FROM THE HOSPITAL THAT under the new county structure, both patient and doctor are doing well and working together harmoniously. That is well. The doctors are already giving thought to the need of extending their staff to Include to active status those outside Number Six township who have enjoyed here tofore only honorary status, and they expect to have a meeting to consider that problem shortly. PEACHES ARE POURING IN FROM NEARBY ORCHARDS as well as from the more distant ones, reflecting the hamper crop. Golden Elbertas, Georgia Belles, Hales, and some Slappeys are present in abundance, the last named being more popular over in Gaston: it is a deep: yellow peach, much sweeter and more delicious than the showy Elbertas which sacrifices taate a bit for color. Many folks consider the Georgia Belles the best all around peach of this section, good for eating, canning and pre serving. The peach crop in this section is the best In five or six years, according to D. R. Washburn who expects to harvest 200 bushels of peaches from a single acre of young orchard. Last year peaches commanded a price of $8 to $10 a bushel here when they were scarce; this year they're selling for $1.50—Just as pretty and as good. That, in a simple, understandable way, tells the pricing story generally—it's supply and demand! A SOLDIER IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC WANTS A CAMERA AND his wife directs an appeal here—the three we had have been disposed of, so another will be appreciated. .... A lady wishes a share expense rid to Columbia or Myrtle Beach the first of next week. Dear Judy: Have you gotten any snaxty back-to-school clothes? Was over : to Jeanie's yesterday and she was j making with the needle and thread, fixing up some last year’s stuff. You should see the snappv job she did on her old black wool. She ! yanked the sleeves out and made i a jumper out of it and It looks like ! new. Here’s a solid tip for a formal, i Take a pair of long pastel gloves and cover them with sequins. If you make your own gloves you can make a little evening hat or bow to match. Yep, Ann is just aboirt recover ing from her poison ivy but the poor kid is muring all the fun. We had a platter party and played some new records All Ann could do was sit on the wall and watch. Have you heard the new Duke Ellington record, "The Miner Goes Muggin’ ’’? And then there's a new dance Kathy tried to teach us call ed the rhumba-lindy or sumpin' which she said she learned at her dancing school. As near as we could learn it’s just jitterbugging with a Latin bounce. Remember, I told you about the single-binge we had last week. sary to protect our invasion flank when we land in the main Jap islands. Others believe a Chinese invasion would only use tight ship ping and result in unnecessary casualties. Tire easiest way to aid China, they argue, is to defeat Ja pan quickly, not get bogged down ' with a long fight on the Chinese j mainland . . . The Japs are having j trouble moving troops and supplies from Manchuria. B-29s have mashed up harbors in Korea and Manchuria so it is difficult to dock . . . We have also mined Jap har bors so Jap merchant vessels can hardly get through . . . Despite the claims of cleaning up northern Luzon, stiff fighting continues. The Japs are beaten but they don't , know it. They are still making 1 things tough for MacArthur’s men I —despite official communiques. Well, we had another only this time we couldn't get any wiener*. But we roasted potatoe* and corn, and everything was super-fluous. Bye the bye, Jackie left for camp and was with the first group I of air-borne campers. They flew them to Maine and he says It Is I the first time any kids have been flown on a vacation. Ann's his sugar ration right , now and will certainly miss him \ 'cause he's lots of fun. Why don’t you tune up your bike and hit the road? A lot of the kids are taking vacation biev ; cle trips. You become a member of the American Youth Hostel and leave with a group on a trip that can last as long as you like. You can stay in the hostels for 35 cents, Jo Anne says Jo just came back from a trip to New England and she says she had a swellegant time. Its not too strenuous because the bikers go to bed at ten and awaken bright and early and don’t speed it up until they have been on the road a few days. Had a letter from Dorothy Mulholland of Kewanee, Illinois. She’s looking for some new an gles for her jive crowd and will be glad to exchange with any of the kids that have any to offer. . Maybe shell send us some new ! ideas. j Jltterbuggers are even helping the Seventh War Loan. The Joe’s have been acting out skits for high school audiences here. It really is a sketch. The kids swing out on the stage and the audience howls and once I turned around | and saw old russbldglt the prin ! cipal looking like she was getting ready to dance in the alslea. Cbye gooby, VIVIAN. VOCABULARY FOR SQUARES On the Wall . Wallflower Singe-Binge Wiener Roast Super-Fluous.-More Than Enough j Swellegant _ Tops Joe’s ..... The Crowd (You can write Vivian Brown in | care of this paper if there are new angles in your own gang.) | -. Mrs. Hattia R. Whisonant Dies In Blacksburg BLACKSBURG, July 31. — Mrs. Hattie Ratterree Whisonant, M, widow of Albert Whisonant, who was a prominent Blacksburg mer chant for many years, died about 1:30 o’clock Thursday morning at her home on Pine street. She had been in declining health several years. Mrs. Whisonant. who was a mem ber of the Associate Reformed Pres byterian church, was born in Ches ter county. She had lived in Blacks burg more than 50 years. Funeral services were conducted at the home at 11 o'clock Friday morning by the Rev. F. W. Sherrill, pastor of the A. R. P. church, and the Rev. H. B. Hardy, pastor of the Methodist church. Interment was in Mountain View cemetery. Mrs. Whisonant is survived by two daughters. Miss Mary Whiso nant, Blacksburg school teacher, and Mrs. Clarence Newberry, of Fayetteville, N. C.; a son, J. T. Whisonant, of Washington: and a sister and brother, Mrs. Essie Weir and S. C. Ratterree, both of Kings Mountain, N. C. Shirts and dresses are now being made from a Florida weed, known as ramie, originally imported from 1 China.
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