01 lip g>ljplhy Satly §>tar (FOVNI)ED 1894) Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Entered as Second Class Matter at the 0 8 Post Office. Shelby, N C., By STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY 217-219 East Warren Street, Shelby. N. C. LEE B. WEATHERS. President and Publisher BOLT McPHERSON, Mng. Editor — H. L. WEATHERS. Secy.-Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Payable On Order) BV CARRIER BY MAIL One Year .810.40 $7.00 Six Months_ 5.20 3.75 Three Months ....... 2.60 2.00 Four Weeks_....—- -80 .75 One Week _... .20 20 ALL TELEPHONES — 1100 WARD-GRIFFITH CO., INC. — National Advertising Representatives MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THS ASSOCIATED PRESS IS EXCLUSIVELY ENTITLED TO THE PURPOSE FOR PUBLICATION OF ALL THE NEWS DISPATCHES CREDITED TO IT PUBLISHED HEREIN. ALL BISNTS OP PUBLICATION OF SPECIAL OR NOT OTHERWISE IN THIS PAPER f AND ALSO THE LOCAL NEWS DISPATCHES HEREIN ALSO ARE RESERVED. * " TUESDAY, NOV. 13,1945 SEALS VS. TUBERCULOSIS On next Monday the people of Cleveland county along with all the other citizens of North Carolina move against an enemy which knows no armistice and which must be de feated wholly before it stops its ravages. On that day, November 19, everybody will be given the opportunity to fight tuberculosis by the purchase of Christmas seals. Nor is tuberculosis to be laughed at as a killer and waster of human life. Enemy guns took the lives of 253,000 Americans in World War II while during the same period approximately 206,000 Americans succumbed to this age old enemy of mankind—tuberculosis. We thought we had won a great victory when we ob tained the surrender of our foes in the Avar. Guns and bombs are silent now. The killing from causes of war has virtually stopped. But every nine minutes a death results from this disease. You may well ask what good will the funds derived from the sale of Christmas seals do? Can we stem the tide of death ? The only answer to that, of course, lies in what has already been accomplished. Proper medical and health care has already forced the tuberculosis death rate from first to seventh place. We wouldn’t presume to say that this achievement in bringing down the death rate from tuberculosis is all due to Christmas seals. Patriotic doctors, health officers, scien tific research have all had a share. But the little Christmas seal has placed its mark on the campaign too. Too, this sign of the seal on your Christmas mail is such a happy thought—mostly because it is of oth"—. TEMPTATION This is the fifth successive year in which the cotton crop is worth more than a billion dollars. As calculated by the Greenville News, the present crop is' worth around $1,-! 200,000,000 which is more than twice the value of about the game size crop which was grown in 1934. The 1942 crop, about a fourth larger than the 1945 crop brought in about the same return as will be received this year. In a sense during the past few years when a relatively high income was realized from cotton land, the size of the crop was controlled by reason of the fact that the farmers were held in check by the lack of labor and equipment due to war scarcities. As has often nappened in former years, good prices led to increased production which in turn led to lower prices which spelled disaster for agriculture. This turn of events has been prevented during the war by a control -which the farmer has had little if anything to do with. The farmer has put in less work and less capital and realized more for them, distinctly to his advantage. j With cash in his pocket from this year’s crop—and more profit than he is accustomed to—what will he do in the planting season ahead ? He will have more labor avail-1 able with his own sons coming back from service and other help easier to hire. There will be more equipment avail able—maybe even a new mechanical cotton picker. With these factors taken into consideration, can he withstand the temptation of producing a surplus? Will he i have to learn his lesson all over again. INSTALLMENT RESTRICTIONS The Retail Credit Institute of America is pleading for an immediate end of existing restrictions on installment credits. The main points seem to be whether continuation of these strictly wartime restrictions, working a hardship on a great number of persons who lack the adequate cash to equip their homes under existing requirements, is overbalanced by the fact that these restrictions discourage excessive buy ing on a scarce market. There is probably a happy medium somewhere. Regu lations should be re-examined in the light of the fact that veterans are returning in large numbers to civilian life and need to finance their purchases. Whether the market is scarce or plentiful, it should be the desire of no one to cut off a segment of buyers, who mean so much to the country. Unreasonable restriction of installment buying would certainly keep many of our vet erans and civilians, too, out. of the market. They have a right to compete for whatever goods thehe are, even if they do not have such a large stake in cash. NOW PAY FOR THE VICTORY BUY B0ND5/ S BUY BONDS H BUY BONDS/// | The Everyday [COUNSELOR By DR. HERBERT SPAl’GH Man's extremity is God's oppor tunity. Yesterday's story of th "Cheerful Cripple'* of Rockinghai brought to my mind the story < another man wh turned adversil into opportunit who used t e dollars to build million d o 11 a Christmas busi ness. An advei tlsement of h business is on m desk now wit his story. Henry Cobb in 1932, was jui REV SPACGII another membe of the unemploj ed. Stranded in Florida, a depree sion-ridden state, he was a skille chemist without work. He had Ioj an orchard through mortgage fore closure. As he could not afford to pui chase another grove, he decided t buy fruit and use his knowledg of chemistrv to manufacture nre serves and jellies. With his wife an two children he set up business i the kitchen of his home. When h tried to market his new preserve and jellies, he was told that al though they were better than thos produced by the commercial can neries, people would not pay th difference in price necessary t produce any profit. So he decide to peddle them from door to doo in Miami’s wealthy neighborhood! His goods sold. His customers re ferred him to their friends. He then decided to ‘crack” th tourist trade. He found a sma vacant store in a good locatior and so impressed the landlord b his enthusiasm that he agreed t trust him for the rent and let hir try out his idea. The business wen well. He then made arrangement with one of his old orange grov friends to buy the kind of orange and grapefruit customers woul want to send away as gifts. Th grower trusted him with severs big boxes of fruit and some empt cases to make a display. Durin that winter, Cobbs paid off th rent, paid for the fruit, and mad a profit. Cobbs then approached the man agers of two of Florida's larges hotels and sold them on the idea c allowing him to open a small frul display room in their hotels on percentage basis. If th guests com plained, the displays were to be re moved. However the guesst soon be came enthusiastic over letters the received from friends thankin them for the gift parcels ordere from Cobbs. Today Cobbs has ten retail sales rooms throughout Florida, and hi goods are handled by departmen stores in other states. Recently, h bought one of the most importan comers in Miami Beach for $1,450, 000. The business now grosses ove $1,000,000 annually, and is still ex panding. Magazine Digest, which told th story, concludes, ‘‘And, so toda Henry Cobbs finds himself th kingpin of the tropical fruit mail order business—the man who start ed with $10 and squeezed orange until gold oozed out.” We are surrounded with imple inents and instruments we us bv UnU®/* vm*-**' inquire about the American position. I will tell you what I want you to know when I want you to know it.” TIRE RATIONING If you are an automobile owner in search of tires, here is one thing to keep your eye on. The tire industry is pulling all sorts of wires backstage to lift export restrictions. At present they are permitted to export 400,000 truck tires and 100,- j 000 passenger tires during the last quarter of this year. They j would like to export a lot more In the first place, they don’t have to worry about OPA ceiling prices when selling abroad. Secondly,! they can build up their post-war i markets by getting in on the ground 1 floor. So they would rather sell more tires abroad. But if they do, they sell less tires at home. And today a tire certificate issued to a per son desiring to buy a tire is noth ing more than a hunting license. He can go out and hunt for a tire. If he's lucky enough to find one, his certificate entitles him to buy i it. DEPARTMENT OF PEACE When the house foreign affairs committee heard testimony on the Randolph bill to create a depart ment of peace, the star witness was a 64-year-old former mule driver from Morgantown, W. Va. Chairman Sol Bloom and mem bers of his committee listened with rapt attention as Raymond M. Davis read a 16-page statement on why the United States should take the lead in establishing a new cabinet post to spread the gospel of peace throughout the world. After he finished, white-thatch-1 ed GOP Representative Charles j Eaton of New Jersey declared: ”Mr. Davis, you may be un schooled, as you tell the commit tee, but you certainly are not un educated. That is one of the fin est documents I have ever listen ed to.” World peace is not just a hobby with the West Virginia coal man, I though he describes It as such. It is a burning Ideal. A self-made business man who now operates two coal mines employing more | than 500 workers Davis has made j many speeches at his own expense throughout the country urging a' government department of peace. He also has written a proposed constitution for the United Na Behind The FRONT PAGE By HOLT McPHERSON f \ Managing Editor HOLD YOUR HATS POLKS, IT DEVELOPS WE’RE SITTING RIGHT on top of an atomic boom! Thirty to forty years ago, the late C. W. Hamilton, an old time prospector who had a lot of faith in Cleveland’s mlneralogical po tentialities, in the course of his rambling discovered in his search for beryl, chrysoberyl and phenacite something he definitely classified as uranium because in radioactive disintegration it gave off alpha, beta and gamma rays. The matter was more or less put out of mind, the old fellow drifted into gold mining and died several years ago down in South Carolina. But when a geologist came here the other day and tested Cleveland’s rocks for uranium, stuff from which the atomic bomb draws source of its terri fic power, he pronounced Cleveland not only has uranium in quantity but also that it definitely is one of the richest potential production spots anywhere. Now let the chamber of commerce try that on its uranium! BOYCE DELLINGER AND BUCK HARDIN RECALLED, UPON hearing it, that Mr. Hamilton had found, proved it to his own satisfaction and declined the presence of uranium in quantity but had lamented the fact there was no commercial usefulness for the stuff. Pat McBrayer, who handled some legal matters for the old mineralogist, recalls his mentioning uranium among other metals he found here, but the thing more vivid in Pat's mind is the fact the old gentleman came up with a gold nugget one day to pay the last $10 on his account—he represented the nugget as worth "about $10, probably a little more”, but Pat never tested its marketability and still has it among his keepsakes. Pat recalls, too, that Mr. Hamilton found in his prospecting up in Rutherfordton a pair of what he termed pigeon-blood rubles; but the late W. N. Dorsey, who had staked him in his operations, insisted they were only garnets 4 and of little, if any value: the state geologist backed up the Dorsey^ opinion, but Pat bundled them up and sent them to Tiffany’s in New York and promptly got back payment Of $39 for one, $69 for the other, con firmed the old prospec* 's contention they were pigeon-blood rubies and expressed a willingness . «uy more like them. Now come the geologists and mineralogists sustaining his conten tion that uranium abounds hereabouts—it seems the old gentleman was about 30 years ahead of his time, of the atomic rather than Victorian age. Boyce, Pat, and Buck definitely think so, anyhow. BOB GIDNEY ADDS THIS TO EXPRT SSIVE LANGUAGE: He overheard a colored boy at the conrtho seeking to get his discharge recorded who asked "Where does 1 get dismortlfied?” NOT ALL THE HEROES OF THIS WAR WERE AT THE BATTLE fronts. Wade Bridges, the Mooresboro postmaster, tells me that Mrg. Oris Martin, in his opinion, deserves a medal for bravery. She watched her only son, still overseas, march off to war, leaving with hejfl3U wlf* and baby and no male help on the place, not even anyone who could drive an automobile. Occasionally she would get a neighbor or hire someone to drive her on necessary trips into town, but often rather than keep any one from more important work she would walk or catch a ride to town, do her shopping, stop by the postoffice to see if there was mail from Johnny and then trudge to her home. She never lost her cheerfulness through it all, but patiently awaits Johnny’s return. Even when there were weeks upon weeks that no word came from Johnny she kept her faith and smile, setting an example that endeared her to all who felt their own load lighter just by seeing the brave way she carried hers. FROM OKINAWA CHA1. S W. Ml RRAY, F 1/C, WRITES hi* grandmother, Mrs. C. G. Richards, at Lawndale, of the typhoon which swept that part of the world last month, blowint away the post office and with it an earlier letter he had mailed—be had U wait to get off this letter until the postal outfit had been rehabili tated. He was caught short of his quarters, clad only in a pair of trunks, but bunked in the mess hall which successfully resisted fury of the blow. From his account it must have been terrific; he reports Japs still hiding in hills who take occasional potshots at Americans to add to the discomfort of the place. He much prefers home. THREE MOST RAPID MEANS OF COMMUNICATION. THEY USED to say, were telephone, telegraph and tell a woman—but that was before the nylon stocking shortage. T. R. Beaver, at Efird's, got In a shipment of nylons and nary a word was said about it, but Saturday morning 84 soon as they went on the counters women appeared from everywhere and promptly absorbed the stock; Monday afternoon it was the same story as the word flashed like wildfire and women flocked to the coun ters to buy the limit of one pair to a customer. Incidentally, Mr. Beaver thinks nylons will flow rather freely in a very short while and that by Christmas their presence won t be nearly so exciting an affair as it obviously is now. SOMEWHERE IN THIS COUNTY THERE MUST BE A four- or five-room house that can be used by a ministerial student who Is faced with the necessity of giving up his education unless he can find quarters within driving distance of Gardner-Webb college. This fellow, called to preach and imbued with the purpose of equipping himself to do the job creditably, sold his flourishing little business at Winston-Salem, rented a house In Shelby and brought his wife and their three children of high school age her*. He was getting along fine when suddenly the rented house was sold from under him and he had to give that up; he has searched all about without success and has about concluded he’ll have to quit is studies unless somebody makes available a place he can rent. He’s not wanting anything luxurious, just livable. There certainly ought to be a place within driving distance of Gardner Webb college—he has his own car and is willing to drive as much * as 15 to 20 miles if necessary daily so much does he want to stick with hLs studies. The appeal has been made to this family of readers to help this fellow stay with his studies and become a better equipped minister—I'll be glad to have suggestions as to a place he can rent. lions mat nas auraara wiue at tention. Tlie State department thought well enough of his ideas to invite him to the San Francisco confer ence as an observer. Representative Jennings Ran dolph of West Virginia freely ad mits that Davis was the chief spark-plug behind his peace reso lution. “When I was looking at the rear end of a mule all day in West Vir ginia coal mines,” says Davis, "I never thought that one day I'd be instrumental In having such an important piece of legislation introduced in Congress.” Note—The second initial of Davis’s name stands for muses. x-eumps wuhl we need are more plain, garden variety Moseses of the Davis type, instead of striped-pants diplomats, to lead us out of the international wilderness. There is one atom of heavy hy drogen In every 5,000 units of ths ordinary kind. “666 COLD PREPARATIONS Liquid, Tablets. Salve, Nose Drops Use Only As Directed FRED VAN WAGENINGEN Announces The Opening Of An Office In THE TIMES BUILDING — E. WARREN ST. SHELBY, N. C. FOR THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE