(Continued from page one.) attendant bribery. These various scandals of the pres ent administration—for Coolidgc’s is merely a completion of the Ilnrding administration—have not been devel oped as the result of an elaborate scheme to dig up criminal acts to use for political effect, as was the case when the Graham Smelling Commit tee was created by the Republicans at the close of the war, hut have just cropped out from time to time, and sometimes two or three at a time. And the public washing of the soiled garments hns caused men to break down ,to die in disgrace and to end their own lives. It is even believed in many quarters that the death of Prosi dent Harding was partly due to his' jvorry over these conditions ns he saw iheni developing in his administration. It so happened that his one effort to clean up was misdirected—through the false and unj.istified reports of Brewer, the assistant detailed by Daugherty to the job of investigating the Wilson nppo'ntecs in the Bureau j of Engraving and Printing Harding j discharged 28 of tile heads of the Bu reau, two of whom died from t ho un- ■ merited disgrace, while the others have all been publicly exonerated and a number of them returned to their places. Others refused to return. But when it came to cleaning up his o,vn household—that is. among hi appointees—nothing was done. Neith er lias anything been do u by ( ooi idge, nor by his attorney general. Il has become necessary in some eases lor the JJemocrats to force, by the most drastic threats and actions, the creation of the Senate Committees to infostig&te the facts connected with certain cases. In the matter of Sena tor Spencer's alleged connection with the big Fouke Fur Company of St. Louis, it took weeks to indue? the Republicans in the senate to consent to look into th<> ease, and when it rin ally came up on the floor of the Sen ate, the galleries were astonish'd see Senator Spencer himself presid ing over the session! It. is believed t.tv committee will get down to work on the case this week. As the investiga tions develop and the committees are created it will become r question as to how to conduct the business in the committee rooms and yet maintain a quorum on the floor of the Senate. Here is a partial list t»i scandals one sensations to date, with other waiting in the wings and soon to be on the eta go: The Newbory election scandal. The flaughcrty scandal, The dismissals at the Bureau of Engraving and Print trig, The Goldstein scandal at St. Louis, The Ship Subsidy and Ship Sales scandal, The Veterans’ Bureau scandal, The Sugar Profiteering scan dal—30 cent sugar. The Siriclair-Toa pot Dome scandal, The Reclamation Service scandal, The Income Tax Bu reau scandal, The Packers and Stock yards scandal, The Tolbert scandal, The Slemp postoffice scandal; and several others coming, including some very remarkable doing under the Treasury, the Navy, The Department of Commerce, the Government Print ing Office and the Tariff Commission. In other words, the list of entries is by no means closed. Another near-scandal is developing from the work of the Re-classification Bureau, created to re-classlfy the em ployees under the Civil Service. It is alleged that the heads of this Bureau gave-the chief employees of each | oranch of the Government the nam ing of their own pay increases, thus 1 -aving insufficient of the appropria tions for the various Bureaus to allow increase.! for the thousands of cleri cal employees who have been struggl ing for years against the high cost of living. fine of the most promising suggcs I <>ns for neaee in Europe is that each nation at end to its own business and stop trying to run its neighbors.— Birmingham Age-Herald. OLD’S HISTORY OF COUNTY OF RUTHERFORD 'Ihe history of the founding and the progressing of Rutherford county as ecorded by the State Historical com mission brings out some interesting arts. The men ofthe county too have hovn and have taken great interest ;n things progressive of the state’s af fairs. A circling to the files of the His torical commission, the act of Janu ary, 1 779 which erected the county mit of part of Tryon, reads thus as to the f oundry between Rutherford and :ts sister county Lincoln born of the nme: “The county of Tryon shall be livided by a line near Broad river on ‘be dividing ridge between Buffalo reek and Little Broad river thence dong said ridge to the line of Burke countv, thence along said line to the dd Cherokee Indian nation line "hence due west tothe top of a divid ng ridge between the eastern and western waters, the headwaters of be streams which flow into the Mis sissippi River and thence said ridge onto the old line claimed by South Carolina. Sampson Larnpkin, Benjamin Har den and Jonathan Jullett were nam 'd as a commission to run the divid ng line. It was provided that the “irst county court of Rutherford hould be held in April at the place f 'Colonel John Walker, Benjamin Harden, John Welsh, Abraham Kuy kendal, John Earl and John Potts were directed to choose the location of the court house and to cause surh to be erected. A tax of ten shillings ——■-•jr was levied on property and poll tor a | period of two years. The county was j assigned to the Salisbury district on | May 12, 177!), William Graham was appointed colonel of the militia. The commissioners, the legislature said, had failed in their duty, and so in an act of 1781 named John Karl, Robert Porter, William Harrison ir their stead. 7 he next year the legis lature set out in an act that the last named commissioner had selected the land of James Holland, in the fork of the Shephard's Creek, as the site for the county buildings. The county and the county seat were named in honor of General Grif fith Ruthford, one of the Revolution ary leaders in the state, who also led the expedition in 1770 against the hos tile Cherokee Indians who had taken up arms with the British against the ’oral inhabitants. He won a complete and crushing victory. It furnished 26 men of the little army of 1500 which marched to the aid of South Carolina n April of 1779. Later the name of the county seat became Rutherfordton and in 1786 oart Burke v.as added to Rutherford. The assembly in 1785 levied a tax of 1 pence for two years on property and a shilling on poll for funds with which to finish the court house and iail. In the meantime courts were held in private dwellings at first one place and then another. The year that the first court house was completed it was Shepard’s Creek (now called Holland’s Creek.) It wa$ of logs as was the jail house. These lasted until 1834 when brick ones were built at Rutherfordton. The court house was destroyed by fire on Christmas day of 1907. British troops entered Rutherford :n September of 1780. They were com oletely routed, two being killed and 24 taken prisoners. From Rutherford County camp tear Gilbert town, October 4, 1780, to Major General Gates of the Revolu tionary Army, Benjamin Cleveland.' Isaac Shelby, John Sevier, Andrew Hampton, William Campbell and Jo seph Winston wrote: “We have now eollected at this place 1,500 good men drawn from the Counties of Surry. Wilkes, Burke, Washington and Suli van and expect to be joined in a few days by Colonel Clark of Georgia and Colonel Williams of South Carolina, with about one thousand more men As we have called out our militia wifcb out any order from the Governor of the different states and with the dew of expelling the enemy, the British, from out our territory, wo think such a body of men worthy of vour attention and request you to send a general officer to this pliace mmediately to take command of such "Toons as may embody in this quar ter.” - The county furnished as councillor . of the State Johnf^ McDonald and 'Judges of the Superior Court Blake Baker, Michael H. Justice. Five Generations Living All Under One Roof Five generations living under one roof in Cleveland county is remark 1 able testimony to the longevity of life in this section. Mrs. Susie Grigg, mother of J. Monroe Grigg of Suttle street, Shelby, is the oldest of the five generations, being 101 on her last birthday. She is living at Toluca and is perhaps the oldest woman in Cleveland county, Enoch Parker the oldest male citizen of the county hav ing died about ten days ago at 102. In the house with Mrs. Grigg is her daughter, ■ Mrs. Rachael Poston. The third generation is Mrs. Poston’s son, John Grigg, while the fourth is John Grigg’s son Franklin Grigg. In the fifth generation there are the three children of Franklin Grigg. Mrs. Su sie Grigg who has passed her 100th milepost is quite sick in body, al though her mind is very clear and active. She is confined to her bed part of the time and while she suf fers no organic trouble, her body is bent with the weight of years. Our decision to help maintain stable governments in Mexico would be less disquieting if we could always tell the difference between the stable and the stalls.—Norfolk Virginia-Pilot. TRY STAR WANT ADS. 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C. iaMK^aBBiagaaasmigaiaBiBBaEfigfigfigffiig-ataBBSjfrffrnrgfBrMrBriiriTfr How Doctor Filled Up His Demi-John They arc telling a st< ry on a cer tain well known lo: :d physician that savors of the. truth to those who know the physician. The story relates that his physician had been treating a cer tain patient for angina pectoris, and had absolutely prohibited his patient from doing many things he had been accustomed to doing, to the injury of his heart. The man' got along somehow with out a lot of things, but after a time he asked the doctor wouldn’t he please let him drink a little whiskey? “I’ve just got to do some-thing,” said the patient. “But, my God!” said the doctor, “Where cati you get the whiskey?” "I make it,’ said the man. “If it is good whiskey I will let you drink a little,” said the doctor; “but I cannot say you should drink it until I have tested it.,Can you bring me a test specimen?” now much will you want for a test?” said the patient. “Not less than a gallon,” replied the doctor; “I positively could not pass on a sample any smaller than that.” And they say the doctor got a gal lon of the best corn distilled in Cam den county.—Elizabeth City Indepen dent. TAR HEEL CAUGHT AFTER LONG HUNT Sought for 10 years in connection with the slaying of his wife and four children in his cabin near Fayette ville, Octavus Smith, arrested at Beech Bottom, W. Va.f late Thurs day was on his way south Friday in custody of a deputy sheriff. The ar rest was made by Deputy Sheriff West, of Cumberland county, NoFth Carolina, who said he learned of Smith’s presence in Beach Bottom through letters the man wrote to friends at Fayetteville. The prisoner ad worked in Beach Bottom for six months. He claimed his name was John Brown and said he never lived a the south. According to Deputy Vest, Smith killed his wife and chil ’ren with a razor. Send in your renewal now,— I this we*k. The postoffice de ! partmcnt doesn’t allow newspa pers the second class mail rate | on papers long in arrears, so we will be forced to revise our list Friday. Don’t miss a single copy of The Star. If your time has e> - ■ pired, renew this week. . Mr. Foy Putnam, of Spartanburg, was the K^est recently of his aunt, Miss Judy {iostic. 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