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FOREST CITY COURIER Published Every Thursday in the interest of Forest City and Ruther ford County. Entered Aug. 22, 1918, at the post office at Forest City, X. C., as second class matter under act of Congress cf March 3, 1879. — ——" """" " . C. E. ALCOCK Editor and Owner CLARENCE GRIFFIN- News Editor MRS. C. E. ALCOCK Society Editor ARYAL ALCOCK . - Asst. Manager * SUBSCRIPTION RATES y Payable in Advance One year - J 1.00 Six months 51.50 per year outside of Rutherford County. ADVERTISING RATES DiEplay, per column inch 30c Reading Notices, per line 10c Classified Column lc per word THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930. i PUBLICITY. "Will you give me a fine tender loin steak, in the best of condition and deliver it at my home in time for dinner? Of course I understand that this is free." Any person who made such a re quest seriously would immediately be subjected to an intelligence ex amination. But hundreds of reason able, intelligent, and considerate people make such a request of every editor in the course of a single month. Our community is filled with people who want us to give front page position to an article that has no more real reader interest than the advertisements for which we re ceive good money. Eut our local friends are not the worst offenders. Frequently w e can accommodate them although we real ize we are giving away something for which we should receive cold cash. The great offenders are the na tional manufacturers who have high ly paid publicity experts to open our columns to so-called news that should I appear only upon the payment of ourj regular advertising rates. For these space grafters we keep a sharp look out. We have a large waste basket ! that receives this matter as quickly as we open the envelopes and detect the purpose behind it all. Our only objection is against the' t waste. Most of this is harmless in I effect It need not be regarded as | propaganda. But it is advertising and will always be so regarded by us. It represents just as much waste unless it is also regarded in the saiv.e! way by the advertiser. I FACTIONALISM AND PROSPERITY. I in every community likj Forest i ( ity. there is bound to be a certain j amount of factionalism. Sometimes! \hen agitated it reaches a degree of 1:t tern ess that is entirely beyond reason. Most of the time it is well submerged but can be aroused when conditions make it possible. We condemn it at every possible opportunity. Only the other day an acquaintance explained what faction alism may do to a town. He told of a community far from here where fac tional feeling recently reached such a pitch that business life of the city began to suffer. He presented a pic ture of the situation existing there sbout as follows: "There, factional controversies reached such a peak of bitterness a few years ago that they received state wide recognition. One of the town's industries, to my own know ledge. has been considering the ad visability of moving out because of I the ill feeling throughout the city. | Other business men have been look - j ing : -r opportunities to leave. There are no buyers for the property there. The city is in the dumps, and yet it has all the natural opportunities needed to make it a first class com munity, located in one of the finest summer resort regions of the nation." In other words factional strife does for a community what war does to nations. Every intelligent man should seek in every way to avert such a community calamity. Forest City fortunately, is still far :rom getting into such a state. ™ e feel that there are too many good, intelligent people here to per mit this to happen. But it is, never theless, wise to observe a situation and see what can happen if any con siderable proportion of the town's citizenry gives way to prejudice and Pactional bitterness. In the end we will all lose. NOT BREAKING DOWN. Our country prosper? in spite of democracy. With the breakdown of popular government in our great cities, and the crafty politician rewarded every where while the true statesman is appreciated only by small groups of intellectual beings, how can we main tain a successful democracy? Such remarks as these are com mon these days. People ar e becom ing just a bit cynical over our var ious governments, local, state ard national and are wondering whether Democracy is the final goal of all political evolution. While such observations may be based upon existing conditions, it is always well to look back into history and see if ours is the only age rid den with self-seeking politicians. Is our government of today in a bad way? Reports of excessive cam paign expenditures, of graft, and of politician paltroonery would so in dicate, but most works of history* do not fail record similar conditions of days past. Some of the national he roes who are now regarded as a - mong the greatest of our statesmen were not above ordinary cheap poli tics in their own day. Log rolling, political bargaining, appeals to class prejudice and the whims of the mass es were common phenomena in the political life of our country before the time of Abraham Lincoln. Many a leading statesman of that time gained his position by demagogy. Economic and social problems were not subjected to cool calculating reason but to mass and class pre jvdice. Democracy as it functions in our land today seems crude and imper fect, but our American system is not endangered thereby. Such thing have always existed, but throughout the past fundamental principles of popu lar government and liberty for the individual have prevailed, and there is no reason to feel that these prin ciples are to be abandoned in our own time. Men whom w e denounce in the heat of partisanship today as dema gogues and mountebanks may ac complish much that is good which | will endure and enable posterity to ;iook back to them as statesmen whose achievements may well be emulated. i LOAFING THE STREETS AFTER NIGHT. The following from the Moores ville Enterprise is passed on to Cour ier readers as being som e mighty good advice: "We recently overheard a man, of good standing and a credit to the j community, say that what real mean ness h e learned as a kid he picked up running around the neighborhood after school hours and loafing down t'wn at night. That this man didn't turn out a failure, according to his own statement, is due to the fact that his father saw which way he was headed, and turned his steps in the right direction. '"There isft't much to be learned by a boy on the street after dark, and especially if he is doing his loaf ing along with other boys. There are daylight hours for games and ex ercise—things that every healthy boy must have. But the kind of things he is apt to talk about, or listen to, while loitering around at night are not the kind that are going to be worth very much to him in after years. "Your boy may feel that you are j a littie too severe if you discourage ' such a practice; he may even feel that as a parent you are not as pro gressive as those who do let their toys hav e their own way at all times. But experience has shown that he will live to thank you for any kind of severity that will keep him off the street at night and in the home w here there is always some means whereby he can employ his mind to good advantage and enjoy himself at the same time. It's all a matter of how you start off. But we've got to remember that boys are boys, the world over; the boys of this commu nity are no different from those of other neghborhooda, But in no com munity can they gain anything help ful or bene cial by running the streets at night."—Gastonia Gazette. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends for the many deeds of kindness shown us and for their assistance and sympathy during the illness and death of our father and brother, Mr. John B. Harrill; also for the beauti ful floral offering. May God's blessing Ibe on each of you. THE FAMILY. THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930. THE DEFEAT OF THE NESTOR OF N. C. POLITICS. | The amazing defeat of Senator Simmons by J. W Bailey will a!- ay= read like an epic in the his tory of the politics of North Caro . lina. a cataslysm, the .thunders of which are reverberant i throughout a Nation. Tr.e most pov.- Urful personality in Southern poli tics in a half century has been de ; throned by militant Democrats of the with a candidate who hard ly at any moment during the contest have been popularly given better than an outside chance to lend worry it 0 the Simmons hosts. The Little Giant" as the veteran Senator has long been known in Washington where he has come to be \enerated for his uncanny sagacity and his shrewdness in the variegated art of politics, long the beloved of the Democrats of his home State and revered for his prestige in the coun cils of the party Nationally, has been put down by one who had hardly been more than a provincial factor hitherto. The first remark to be made of the revolution which was wrought in this State Saturday has to do with the simple truth that the self respect and integrity of tne Democratic Par ty of North Carolina has been para mounted anew. Mr. Bailey has no claim upon this up:urn as a person al victory. At the very outset, he pre cluded such a possibility by having | laid down the law that the situation within the party de manded a candi - date against the Senator and that if none other would enter such a con test, he would. Failing to prevail up on others, men like Justice Stacy. Justice Brogdon and A. W. McLean, to captain the hosts of insurgency, he became htedle:-s of the advice showered upon him by prominent 'factors in his party and harnessed himself for the struggle. He sallied forth to battle with the single call to arms that the party's good name be vindicated after what had happened to it in November under the chaperonage of Senator Sim - mons. Thus the victory is not the victory of a personality, in no manner a personal triumph. Mr .Bailey was the incarnation of a protest, the symbol of a rebellion, the instrument on'v through which the voters of the State were to wreak their vengen rrce upon one they formerly wor shipped as a political divinity. An electorate swept out t 0 the polls with a quiet, but grim resolution to strike at th e f jld altars and to bring to ruins the towering structure of what was once the most majestic political machine in the Sta~e, —the Simmons organization. Today that machine lies broken to bits and its master mind swept into dust by the momentum of a subtle anger which was merely awaiting its moment to break forth into devasting fire. The plurality giv en the Senator in hardly more than a dozen counties, and in some of which formerly his name has been magical for its mastery, tells of the ultimate extent to which this great and once unchallengeable organiza tion has been shattered and its frag ments strewn along as weird mem entoes of the vanished power of the Old Master. The strongest of the old strongholds have been occupied by the revolutionists. All over th e State, with an amazing uniformity, the reo. udiation of the Senator has been final and overpowerrig. The smash . ing has prevailed from apex to eel lar, from center to circumference. The face of Simmons goes off the walls of the altar rooms. The Bailey star is full-orbed. As to the implications, opinions will so vary as to permit of no dog matic comment. On the face of the revolt, one would say at once that Senator Simmons has merely receiv ed punishment for apostasy. With clear \ision and, ltt us agree, in good conscience, he led his party a v.ay from the Xaticnal organization last Fall and the State went to the Republicans under a leadership which | lie has not denied. Not only Nation ally, but in many sections, locally, sub-divisions of government became ! manned for the first time in a gen eration by Republicans, and strong minded, red-blooded partisans allow.. jed their first blush of their peevings Ito turn into hot anger against the I man who guided the multitudes into these strange pastures. It was at the raising of this signal that th e voters turned in to put him to rout and there is- hardly any rea son for going beyond this in expla nation. His reputation of his own party's leadership was the mere fore runner of his party's reputation of his own leadership. Politically, and with what turns out to have been an utter case of terribly unsound pre.. [MR. FAY GREEN KILLED SUNDAY IN AUTO CRASH Early Sunday Morning Colli sion Results in Death of One and Injuries to Eight Others. i J Fay Green. Spindale youth, was almost instantly killed and eight others injured in an automobile col lision Sunday morning early in front of the Cool Springs high school build ing. on West Main street of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Hambright and three children, Mary Frances, Edna and Robert, and Mrs. C. F. Harry, all of Grover, N- C., were injured, necessitating their removal to the Rutherford hospital, where all were discharged during the day, except Mrs. Harry. Earl Burgess and Wil- I liam Taylor, two Spindale youths, were also injured. The wreck occurred Sunday morn ing at 4:15 o'clock, when the two cars ran headon into each other. A coach, driven by Green and carry ing Taylor and Burgess as passen gers was going east. The car in which the Grover party was riding was en route from Go-over to Marshall, I where Mr. and Mrs. Hambright ex i pec-ted to spend the day with Mrs. iHambright's sister. According to Mr. Hambright he observed the coach com ing down the street slightly over the center line of the road, and he came to a stop, anticipating a smash. The | coach, driven by Green, careened £.nd hit the Hambright car. Green was thrown from the car, crushing his head on the pavement, breaking an arm and receiving several other body injuries. Burgess was cut on the head and hip. while Taylor's tongue was cut and he received lacerations upon the head and face. Hambright's trm was broken and he received o.her body injuries. Mrs. Hambrigut suffered a fractured jawbone and ,other bruises, while each of the three I children were injured. Mrs. Harry suffered a painful scalp injury, a | vision, he sowed to the winds and the whirlwinds have come to him in ' harvest time. Either that or history,; cealing with this case in exceeding, grace and charity, will merely re..! cord again the instance of another who has joined the hosts of these going the thc-rnv wa\ Into bloody martyrdom for conscience's sake.— Charlotte News. National FORD TRUCK WEEK June 9th to June 14th Examine the Ford Truck in Detail IN BOTH chassis and bodies, you will see important new fea tures that increase tHe strength, reliability, economy and value of all Ford truck types. Features of the Ford Truck New 4-speed Transmission nition, Cooling, Lubricatio New Spiral Bevel Gear Rear and Fuel Systems. —. ,' e „ , Triplex Shatter-proof Glas New Larger Brakes Windshield New Heavier Front Axle and Rugged Strength Spring Reliability New Power Take-off Mounting Long Life on Transmission Safety More than twenty Ball and Economy Roller Bearings Dual Rear Wheels Available Cantilever Rear Springs Two Gear-ratios Optional Simplicity of the Electrical, Ig- Two Wheel-bases Available See This Truck. Inspect It s Features. Doggett Motor Co. iFUNERAL FOR MR. J. B. HARRILL HELD TUESDAY i .'Death Claims One of Forest City's Oldest and Best i Known Citizens. i The entire town was shocked Mon • mon'.ng to learn o* the death of Mr. John B. Harrill, who died at ; 8:30 o'clock. He had been in ill j health for several months, and his : condition gradually grew worse un til death claimed him Monday. While i; his death was not unexpected it was !a distinct shock to his hundreds of friends throughout the county. He | had been making his home with his 1 son, Mr. Hope Harrill, on Carolina Avenue, where his death occurred. Funeral services were held from the First Baptist church, of this city | severe cut on her arm and probably j i nternal injuries. B. A. Stalnaker, of the local po lice force, and Garrett Edwards, j county traffic office, hearing of the crash, rushed to the scene, and se cured two ambulances which carried . { all of the injured to the hospital, , j except Taylor, who was placed in the city jail. Green died while en route to the hospital. After receiving attention at the hospital Burgess was placed in the Rutherfordton jail. Both were released Sunday morning !under bond. j Both cars were demolished in the wreck. Mr. Hambright is a prominent mer chant of Grover. Mrs. Harry is the .wife of C. F. Harry, president and j proprietor of the Minnette Mills, of i , Grover, X. C. Taylor, Burgess and j I Green are all textile employees of l i Spindale. Funeral Service. Funeral services for Mr. Green | jWere held Monday morning at eleven! I o'clock at Walls Baptist church. i i Mr. Green was 26 years of age. ! He is survived by his father, Edne* J j Green, of Ellenboro; two brothers.] -vustin Green, of Ellenboro and Festus Green, of Spindale, and one | I sister. Mrs. B. B. Bridges, of Ruth-j erfordton. He was unmarried. I Rev. Z. D. Harrill. of Ellenboro. j and Rev. Mr. Bridges were in charge I of the funeral service Monday. Sev-' itral hundred people attend th e fun-j 'oral, attesting the high esteem in; which the deceased was held. A pro .• fusion of beautiful flowers were' banked around the chancel rail and on the casket during the service, j ! 'nd completely covered the grave. > {Tuesday afternoon at 3 oV • r* ; pastor, Dr. W. A. Ayers was in . , , fof the service, assisted r> j jF. Moores. pastor of the i jdist church; Rev. Zeno V, ;of the First Baptist chu: i by. and Rev. Z. D. Han:!.. v j bcro. The large church accomodate the hundre d • 'to pay their last tribute to one of Forest City*- I lest known citizens. F I: . funeral obsequies the body i en to Cool Springs ceraete: t terred beside that of hi- v I preceded him to the grav, 5 years ago. -| Mr. Harrill was borr. D : . ?: 25, 1848 and was 81 years and f ?j months of age. He was a c .r. , '•member of the First Baptist 51 of Forest City, where he had be-- member for a number of v-.- i H e was one of the city's old—- a- Lest known citizens. i Mr. Harrill is survived by s. - * len, as follows: Mrs. W. E. M;- r; i Messrs Hope, Fred and Clay K r I rill, of Forest City; Mrs. Vs*. c ! Young, of Albemarle; Mrs. R j ,| Flack, of Rutherfordton: f.v~ sis*- J Mrs. J. B. Long. Mrs. S. A. Brid?~. »jcf Forest City; Mrs. J. p. Thorn. • . |Bostic; Mrs. Katie Flack, of Fir.?e- I! ville, S. C.; and Mrs. Asa B - t | of Converse. S. C. A number and grea: grander.' : . rer survive. ; Active pall bearers were Me ; j June Harrill. G. C. King. R. V. Kir jTilman Bridges, Palmer Hanii! a: ■ J Burwell Bridges. Honorary pa'ibea. •ers were: Messrs W. G. Magr.e?-. ] . |K. Hollifield. W. S. Moss. J. P 'Meares, H. B. Doggett. .J. C. X R. L. Reinhardt and F. T. Davi-. The coffin was entirely c .e. j with wreaths of beautiful flower .while a profusion of floral design jwere banked along the chance: ra: iThe fiower bearers were Mis---- Pea: |. irvin. Sudie Ycjung. Ottilee L r.. j Fannie King. Alice Kir.?. Bur.r.. iFarrill, Lilah Padgett. Miriam Pa - Jgett. Winnie Davis. Myrtle W i - lson, Kate Padgett, Ruth D rsev. L - 'tie Hardin. Gwendolyn Pr | Mesdames Ernest Watkins. J .. V. • Tir.sley. M. H. Hewitt. C, E. Ale !P. D. Harrill, Jr., Grady Carpenter. ,Clayton Stalnaker. Henry .'-hi! i Worth Morgan and P. L. y. i i .— — | INFANT OF MR. AND MRS B. H. ALLEN DEAD j l — ————— The infant son of Mr. an ; M:.- jB. H. Allen was buried at Sh i ; church Thursday afternoon : . o'clock. Rev. T. M. Hester and R-' i jH. C. Culbreth were in charge : :r_ funeral sendee. Interment v.-a - ! Shilo"h. The child was born W j day, and never breathed. I
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