C1'"- -LAND:-,AY THAT LEADS a PR OGRESSIVE STATE IN DIVERSIFIED AGRICUL TURE, AND WHERE HOSPITALITY REIGNS"
PAID-UP CIRCULATION
Of This Paper Is Greater
Than The Population Given
Shelby In The 1920 Census
VOL. XXXIII, No. 24
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THE CLEVELAND STAR, SHELBY, N. C. TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925.
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RELIABLE HOME PAPER
Of Shelby And The State’s
Fertile Fanning Section.
Modern Job Department,
$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
Mrs. Lucretia Lattimore-Schenck,
One of the County’s Noblest and
Best Beloved Women Buried.
Mrs. Lucretia Lattimore-Schenck,
widow of the late Major II. F. Schenck
died Saturday morning at 3 o’clock
at .her home at Lawndale following a
protracted illness which had been se
rious since last Tuesday. Mrs. Schenck
was 89 yearp, one month and 19 days
old and was born in Upper Cleveland.
She married Frank Schenck in 1857
and to this union five children were
horn, one daughter and one son dying
in childhood from scarlet fever. Mrs,
Schenck is survived by three children,
Mrs Tom Ramseur of Lincoln county,
Mrs. J. C. Osborne of Umatilla, Fla.,
and John F. Schenck of Lawndale, one
brother Capt. John Lattimore who is
conductor on the Lawndale railroad,
17 grand-children and 23 great-grand
children.
Mrs. Bcnenck joined New Bethel
chur-ja in .girlhood and was baptized
by the late Rev. Thomas Dixon. Twen
ty-five years ago she moved her mem
bership to Lawndale. Her devoted hus
band, Major Schenek, a pioneer cotton
manufacturer, beloved officer in the
Confederate army and one of the
county’s most esteemed citizens, died
.September 1915 and was buried in a
vault in the Schenck yard at Lawn
dale. His faithful companion was in
terred by his side Sunday afternoon at
" o’clock, the funeral being conducted
by Rev. John W. Suttle, assisted by
Revs. J. V. Devenny and Rev. Mr, Mor
gan, people from all walks of life in
such numbers that the house and yard
were overflowed to pay a tribute of re
spect to her sweet life.
Mr.-. Schenck was one of the coun
ty's most beloved women. She posses
sed a most sympathetic and unselfish
nature and her thoughts were always
of other. Although success had crown
ed life struggles of her distinguished
family, her sympathies went out to the
■less fortunate and her thoughts were
always of those who had not been so
blessed with this world’s goods. She
was most democratic in her habits
and the humblest woman found com
fort in her companionship. It was her
wish that the 121st Psalm be read at
Her funeral, the first words of which
read VI will lift up mine eyes” which
truly expressed her vision of life. She
wn- affectionately known in later
years as “granny” Schenck and her
eye- were always uplifted to the fu
ture. She loved the play and laughter
of children and all felt free to run into
her home at their own will. Many of
the employees at the Schenck mill
had been there since the mill was or
mod and the most intimate sort of re
lationship and fondest friendship ex
isted between them and Mrs. Schenck.
All her life she was industrious and
generous-hearted, a fitting compan
ion and helpmate to the Major. Her
life was not self-centered, but radiat
ed with love, cheer and encourage
ment to others and her passing takes
one who will be missed, not only by
Her immediate family hut by the thou
sands who knew and loved her for her
beautiful character and her life ot
service. Even “Shelton,” the negro
man-servant who has been faithful in
the Schenck home for a quarter of a
century realizes that his best friend,
is gone. When the Major died “Shel
ton'' was broken-hearted and now that
“Granny” has passed over the liver
to a happier land, the old servant is
completely lost. Her grandsons served
a- pallbearers.
Auction Sale Of
Historic Property
The J. B. Nolan Company will sell
auction oil Saturday ■ afternoon
March 28th some of Shelby’s most
historic property—the Fortune place
"'i S, La Fayette street where Jimmie
hove once lived. Mr. Love was the
lather of Capt. W. P. Love and gave
the s-ite for the town of Shelby, the
sites for the court house and churches
and gave lots which were sold to se
tiue funds to build the public build
ings. This property which belongs to
Mr. Sidney Hamrick has been sub-di
' ided into eleven beautiful home
sites. In addition to the Fortune prop
erty the Nolan Company will also sell
for Mr. Hamrick a valuable tract of
land on the Cleveland Springs road,
known as the Parker place and sub
divided into 60 pretty residential lots.
A new street has been cut through
'his property connecting highway No.
dd with the Eastside property. Both
properties are well located with pav
ed street fronts, and water connec
tions.
Prof. J. A. Park, a famous aero
naut will make a balloon ascension on
'he day of the sale, dropping 3,000
:ee*- *n a parachute. The Nolan Co.,
'as secured the Carolina Land Com
pany of Hickory and the famous Pitts
' °fhers, twin auctioneers to conduct
the sale.
Miss Leake is in Wudesboro at the
Pedside of her mother, who is quite ill.
thoS^oft&r te cTty'ki,T
year. eay8 b G n.hn^ every
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County Will Store
More Than 30,000
Bushels Potatoes
The sweet potato industry is now
; the hiyrh light in the program of farm
(iiversification in Cleveland county.
W itH the pi-■sent program carried out
\ Cleveland will ere many years be
I known for her sweet potatoes as well
; as for large col on, dairy'and poultry
■crops.
Storage warehouses organized re
| cently and others being planned will
give the county this year something
over MO,000 'bushels storage space, or
an increase- of around 10,000 bushels
there being about 22,000-bushel stor
age in the county at present, with the
big warehouse at Kings Mountain
| topping the. list.
Last week warehouses and com
panies were organized at Grover and
Latti.tiore and an . organization for a
warehouse in Shelby is now being
worked out. The warehouse to be
erected at Grover .will . house 5,000
bushels of potatoes, while the one at
Lattimore wi}l accommodate 2.500
bushels, and the one being planned
for Shelby wiil also store 2,590 bush
el •, according to county Agent R. E,
Lawrence.
At the organization meeting at
Grover Friday night the following of
ficers for the new potato association
j were elected: J, I.. Herndon, presi
dent; ,J. P. Ilambright. vice-president;
i B. F. Bird, secretary-treasurer. The
1 association will be a bi-state affair,
'anners from Cherokee county, South
: Caroinia, and this county being mem
1 hers of the association. At Lattimore
j Wednesday night W. T. Calton was
i civet - d .president of the Lattimore
branch r ad Lawton Blanton secretary
treasurer.
Earl, Boiling Springs and other
communities (o' the county already
have cooperative potato groups and
with Kings Mountain have evidenced
the uece s the potato indusrty means
j to "Cleveland- farmers.
Rutherford Man
Invents A Pump
UutJt: rfordtcn, March 20.—George
W. Df r, • ’ th • place, has a patent
! p, in \V ,hington that may
j mean .much .'or this community and
the world.. It is a duplex rotary pump
or air e.ompro> or. Mr. Deter has been
work in.v on the pump or something
similar for 20 years and success now
seems assured. It is understood that
he has been offered a small fortune
already for his patent but refused to
sell. It can be converted into eight dif
ferent type of machines—steam or
air engine, air compressor, water
pumps vapor pump, "vacuum pump,
water turbine and gas or water meter.
The compactin'-s and preciseness of
this machine combined with its sim
plicity and high efficiency of opera
tion makes ii far superior to anything
of its kind. The rotary in size for au
tomobiles can be manufactured for
about $30.
Many Joining Golf
Club at Cleveland
With the sunshine and warm weath
er of recent weeks the course at Cleve
land Springs has been covered with
golfers and one of the best seasons in
the history of the course is expected.
Numbers of local people are taking to
the game and nearly every afternoon
sees a regular summer time group on
the fairway, with Lyle, the club pro
fessional, has his mornings taken up
with instructing the new members, A
number of golfers in nearby towns
and cities are mailing in memberships
to the club secretary, Jean Sehenek,
the Cleveland Springs course being
considered one of the best in this sec
tion of the state.
The tobacco now obtainable is bad
enough, but just think a ha* it would
be if we had to bootleg R.-Omahu
Bee.
Wayfaring Female Pulls Unique, But
“Nervy" Stunt In Stealing Big
Shelby Taxi Auto.
While securing a drink of water for
a thirsty young woman Thursday
night of last week Plato McSwain,
Shelby taxi driver, had his car stolen.
As yet the woman and the big seven
passenger Buick, which belonged to
Mr. Zeh Costner, are at large, and
i the story of the larceny is one of the
j most unusual and “nervy” stunts ever
related here.
How It Worked.
Mr. MeSwain, who drives the car
for Mr. Costner, tells the episode
about as follows: Early in the even
ing Thursday a young woman, ap
parently between 20 and 25 years of
age, hired him for a short taxi drive
here in town. Later in the night when
he came from a show at the Princess
j theatre the woman was in the car—
since she made away with the car her
presence in it at that time can be ac
counted for. At the time she told Mc
Swain that she motored to Shelby in a
coupe and that a man had borrowed
it for a trip to Boiling Springs and
thereupon hired the taxi driver for a
trip to Boiling Springs. On the re
turn trip, MeSwain says, the woman
spoke several times of being thirsty.
Somewhere near the T. J. Holland
! place MeSwain stopped the car and
I got out at a well to get her some wa
| ter, leaving the motor running. While
. he was securing the water, he says the
woman slipped over under the steering
wheel and speeded up the motor, ask
ing if the car was in gear. After he
had given her a drink of water and
was returning the bucket to the well
the woman put the car in gear and
dashed off down the road at a high
rate of speed, leaving the taxi driver
staring at the cloud of dust coming
up behind his stolen car.
The larceny took place about 10:30
or 11 o’clock at night and MeSwain
was forced to walk a mile or more to
I the home of Bud Edwards, who
brought him to town, where the theft
was reported to the officers. It is said
that in coming to town MeSwain no
ticed where the car had turned and
headed towards Rutherfordton. Re
ports reaching officers Friday stated
that a car resembling the Costner car
and driven by a woman passed through
Chcsnee, South Carolina, early in the
morning Friday, headed south.
Officers and the taxi driver are of
the opinion that the woman was Bon
nie Davis. Some sa ythat she is a dope
addict and was in a “doped up” con
dition when she stole the car, other
wise officers cannot account for a
stunt apparently nervy and foolish.
The story about her having a coupe
that had been driven out towards
Boiling Springs is now thought to have
been only a fanciful yarn. Some are
also inclined to think that she was at
tempting to get away with the car
when MeSwain came from the thea
tre and found her in it.
The car, a seven-passenger Buick,
was almost new and had been on the
public service job about two months,
it is said.
Cleveland Youth Was
In Illinois Storm
Ab Harrill, jr., was in the sever#
storm which swept the middle west
last Wednesday and took a death toll
of nearly 1,000 lives. His father, Dr
Ab Harrill of the Patterson Springs
section had not learned yesterday
whether his son is living or dead. The
youth was manager of a chain store,
in Murfreesboro, 111., which town was
almost completely destroyed and whero
several hundred people were kjlled.
Parents and friends have felt no lit.
tie concern over Ab Harrill jr., and are
making every effort to find out wheth
er he escaped. Telephone and telegraph
communication has been interrupted
so it has been impossible to exchange
messages with that city. Dr. Harrill
was making another effort Monday
afternoon to learn something as to his
son’s fate in the storm.
NOTABLE TO LEECTl'RE AT
BAPTIST CHURCH SUN DAT
Dr. Howard L. Grice representing
the Daily Vacation Bible school work
under the Sunday school board of the
Southern Baptist convention, will de
liver a lecture at the First Baptist
church Sunday morning at the 11
o’clock hour. Dr. Grice is making a
tour of North Carolina in the interest
of this newest educational enterprise
of the denomination and Dr. Lemons
assures the congregation that he will
have an interesting message.
The mail-carriers have one coniola
tion. Literature is getting lighter
each year.—Nelson News.
Mr. Coolidge is understood by the
farmers. Most of them use mechanical
horses now.—Toronto Star.
America, says a Senator, made tile
world what it is today. Always trying
to blame America.—Cleveland tress.
Big Cases On
Court Docket
The March term of Superior court
convened Monday with Judge A. M.
Stack, of Monroe presiding and Soli
citor Huffman prosecuting. Capt. J. F.
Roberts is foreman of the grand jury
with Officer Jerry Runyans in charge.
The criminal docket contains a num
ber of important cases, some of which
are of great public interest. The civil
docket is also one of the largest, or
contains some of the biggest cases in
recent year.-?.
May Last Two Meeks.
Members of the local bar in <lis
cussing the docket Monday morning
were of the opinion that court might
continue over two weeks with the
heavy civil docket taking up the ma
jor portion of the time although there
is an important criminal calendar.
Important Cases.
Of more interest to the public per
haps will be the announcement that
the Philbeek-Francis trial is expect
ed to come up Wednesday unless the
docket is shifted by the court in ses
sion. In this case Sloan Philbeck, a
young married man, is charged with
eloping with Jessie Francis, wife ot
Avery Francis, of Earl. The case will
perhaps be one of the largest attend
ed in the history of the county, hun
dreds having attended the prelimin
ary hearing. Second to the Philbeck
trial from a standpoint of public in
terest will no doubt be the charge of
manslaughter against Frank Lindsay’,
Kings Mountain taxi driver, whose
ear several months back struck and
killed Edgar Harmon, a Cleveland
county farmer. This case is also dock
eted for Tuesday or Wednesday. Let
Coleman, well-known Shelby negro,
will face the court on the charge of
killing Ernest Rudasill, also colored,
Coleman alleging that he killed Ruda
sill after finding him in a compro
mising situation with his Coleman’s,
wife. In addition to these and other
important cases Odell Gordon, termed
a “bad negro’’, will be tried for shoot
ing an operator of a Kings Mountain
filling station in what officers say was
an attempted hold-up. There are a
number of seduction cases on the
docnet and with the other cases the
criminal docket will likely run through
Thursday.
Big Civil Suits.
numoer oi Dip civil suits will lea
ture the civil docket, many of them
being of public interest, it is said.
Among them will be a suit against the
Shelby Cotton Mills by Mamie Holli
field, administrator of George Holli
field, deceased. Hollifield, an employe
of the mill, died in the Shelby hospital
in April, 1924, of blood poison. 0. Max
Gardner will appear for the Holli
field interests, while Clyde R. Hoey
will represent the defendant. Anothei
case will be that of Ramsey, admin
istrator for Stewart, against the South
ern railway.. Stewart, it is understood,
was killed on the railroad at Kings
Mountain.
A large crowd was in the city for
the opening of court and with the
many interesting cases coming up
hundreds are expected to attend each
day.
NEW FlU
STITE "DEFICIT'
An accumulated deficit of ten an.l
a quarter millions and a total statae
debt, bonded and funded, or 113 mil
lions, are shown in a report dated Feb
ruary 28 and signed by State Treas
urer B. R. Lacy and State Auditor
Baxtev Durham which was yesterday
made public by Governor A. W. Mc
Lean.
The deficit, or “debit balance" as
it has been called during the McLean
administration, of $10,251,660.57 com
pares with the budget commission’s es
timate of $9,515,878.63 as of June 30,
1925. It is still too early to predict
with certainty the exact accuracy of
the budget commission’s estimate, but
it is certain that on February 28, the.
date of the report the deficit had
reached is high water mark and it is
probable that unanticipated factors
will cause the deficit to be somewhat
less than the budget commission es
timated, but no tremendous vax'unce
is expected.
The state department of revenue
has already collected in March, since
the report was made, approximately
$3,000,000, more than enough to run
the state for three of the four months
left of this fiscal year. On the basis of
figures to date it would appear that
the budget commission’s estimate of a
loss in income taxes of $500,000 was
too pessimistic by something like
$200,000. Moreover, the budget com
mission did not estimate the bus tax,
which has been allocated to the gen
eral fund, are the very heavy increases
in license taxes, most of which become
payable before the end of the fiscal
year.
Morris' Men Defeat Boiling Springs
And Hickory. To I’lay Three
ames This Week.
The Shelby highs, state champion?
in 1!!24, have started off their 1923
season with two victories despite :i
rather doleful outlook. With only twr
I or litre • regulars left from last yeai
I Coach “Casey" .Morris has rebuilt a:
[ aggregation that on Thursday defeat,
i ed Boiling Springs 4 to 1 end on Fri
day drubbed Hickory 22 to 4, in a
contest that was so one-sided it ended
after the fifth frame. Minus Captain
Cline Lee, all-state short stop; Hoyle
Lee and Wall pitchers, Arrowood, firs:
sacker, and others, local fans were
somewhat doubtful about this year'.
club but with the two opening games
showing that Morris has a heavy-hit
ting bunch of youngsters and well
trained fans are now of the opinion
that Shelby will make a good showing
in the championship series.
(lames This Week.
The Highs will play three and prob
ably four games this week.
The first will he with the Gaffney
highs in Gaffr.ey, South Carolina,
Tuesday, while Mount Pleasant Col
legiate institute, played last year, will
be in Shelby for two games Thursday
and Friday. In the games with Mt.
Pleasant Shelby and Cleveland coun
ty folks will have their first oppor
tunity of seeing the champions in real
action since last season.
In the game with Boiling Springs
Thursday the Shelby club with only
j seven hits against the visitors 11 safe
I ties managed to win 4 to 1. The hurt
l ing was done by Peeler and Dednion.
I Hitting features were contributed by
i Peeler with a two-bagger, Fred Beam
with a double and triple and Grice's
triple.
In Hickory Friday the locals ran up
a total of 1? hits and 22 runs, Self and
Magness hitting for two bases while
jJack Hoyle and L. Beam drove out
circuit smashes. Wilson, all-state out.
fielder last year and now playing short
stop in Cline Lee’s berth, led the hit
ting with three safeties and four runs.
Self duplicating on only four trips to
the plate. Jack Hoyle on the mound
for Shelby struck out 12 men in the
five frames in addition to hitting foi
the circuit.
The present line-up of the squad
runs about as follows: Wilson, ss;
Self, 3b; Magness, cf; F. Beam, c;
Sparks, rf; Dixon, 2b; Grice, lb; L.
Beam, If; Hoyle, p. Other twirlers be
ing used include George Dedmon and
Peeler with Harris and Washburn
being used in utility roles.
“Seventh Heaven” at
Princess Theatre
The sale of seats for “Seventh
Heaven,” the outstanding success of
the dramatic stage, which will be the
attraction 'at the IVincess Theatre
Monday, March 30 is already moving
at a fast pace.
The comedy comes here direct from
a run of two solid years, at the Booth
Theatre, New York. The play is full
of good, wholesome humor, yet at
times is injected with the most pa
thetic tragedy, which all at once is
turned to sunshine and smile again.
What apparently at times seem about
to turn into the usual turn of events,
suddenly reverses with the most pleas
ing results.
The story is of Paris just before
the opening of the war; the charac
ters are those of the lowest strata,
and only come forth at night on the
streets to consort with other denizens
of the dark.
It is a most remarkable play, one
that you cannot afford to miss. The
fact that it is a John Golden produc
tion, insures the excellence of the cast
and production.
Leonard Talks On
Team Work to Boys
The regular weekly meeting of the
Shelby Hi-Y Club on Monday night
was featured by a talk by Mr. G. H.
Leonard, secretary of the Hi-Y work
in a number of western counties. Fol
lowing the regular business session the
club entered into a round table dis
cussion of the question of “Team
Work”. This discusion dealt with
the importance of and methods of se
curing cooperation, not only in school
enterprises, but in everyday business
life as well. At the conclusion of this
part of the program, Mr. Leonard
talked to the boys on the subject of
The Work of a Y. M. C. A. Secre
tary. In this talk he told of some of
the essential qualities which a person
entering this profession should pos
sess, and enumerated some of the
pleasures to be derived from this vo
cation. His talk was in keeping with
the plan of the club to have repre
sentatives of the various professions
speak to its members at different tim
es during the spring in order to aid
them in the selection of their profess,
ion.
Mr. Speaker!
This gentleman. Nicholas lj0nir.
worthy la the Republican choice for
gavel w.elder In the lower house of
Consrcs!.. a position that has been
»:raci*-\y such men as Joe Cannon
and Champ Clark.
Kiwanians to Visit
Ford Plant Wed.
Attend Ball Game
Organization To Co In Body To Char
lotte Plant to Have l.unrhoon
Served Them.
The Kiwanis club has accepted an
invitation extended through Chas. L.
Eskridge, local Ford dealer, for the
members to attend a luncheon which
will be served the club at the Char
lotte plant Wednesday of this week
beginning at 12:30 o’clock, after w.iich
the Shelby club members will be tak
en on a tour of inspection through the
Ford factory. The Ford plant in Char
lotte has bnen entertaining all of the
civ;c-clubs of Charlotte and surround
ing towns and showing the member
through the large plant where every
system for speed and economy is prac
tised.
The club members will assemble in
Shelby at 10 a. m. Wednesday and
leave immediately in motor cars, go
ing direct to the plant where the
luncheon will be served. After the
luncheon the plant will be inspected
for an hour or more.
In the afternoon the Detroit and
Toronto professional league teams will
play an exhibition baseball game at
Wearn field and the Kiwanians are ex
pecting to witness it with Ty Cobb in
action. In the evening there is a musi
cal comedy “Follies of 1925“ schedul
ed to show at auditorium and many
of the Shelby fellows expect t o re
main over for this attraction.
Cast Selected For
“Flapper Grandmother’
Local People To Play In Flashy And
Witty Musical Comedy. To Be One
Of Best Ever Presented.
“The Flapper Grandmother,” a mu
sical comedy that has brought thous
ands of laughs over the country in re
cent months will be presented by the
Shelby Woman’s club at the Central
school auditorium Saturday night
March 28. The director for the play is
already in town training the cast,
which has been selected and announc
ed as follows: Harold Griffin, Carrie
Bell Lever, Elizabeth Suttle, May
Washburn, Millieent Blanton. W S.
Buchanan, Henry Davis, C. L. Weatli
ers George Wray, Max Hamrick,
Bobby Rudasill and Herbert Whisnant.
In addition to the prominent role cast
there will be 25 or 30 other local char
acters including debutante flapper
chorus, matron chorus and jelly beans
(tea hounds.)
The parts to be played by the char
acters it is thought best to withhold
so that the audience may learn for it
self. However, as a crowd getter it is
announced that Bobby Rudasill will be
Rastus Jones, a gentleman of cloor,
which assures humor a plenty in ad
dition to the antics of the “Flapper
Grandmother” and her flapper des
cendants, or for that matter the jelly
beans. The story brings in a little
county store and a grandmother that
changed from a lace cap to a rouged
flapper; of a wild granddaughter and
her teahound beaus galore—of hun
dreds of things that will make people
laugh.
Over six hundred people witnessed
the comedy in Gaffney and it has been
termed one of the best ever shown
there. Such is it expected to be here.
MAYOR LACKEY IMPROVES
AT SHELBY HOSPITAL
Mayor W. D. Lackey who has be u
confined to his bed at the Shelby pub
lic hospital since the first week in
January is steadily improving. For
weeks he has been flat of his back un
able to move his body or limbs, except
his hands, but his condition is much
better and he is now allowed to sit up
a short while each day. This week he
will be able to ride on the porch in a
rolling chair. His many friends hope
that he will soon regain his strength
and be able to get out again,
Thinks it Due to Shift in State’s
Source of Taxes. (Jives High
I-iKhts on General Assembly.
Hon. B. T. Falla who has just return
cd from Raleigh where he sat as Clev
eland's representative for sixty days,
made a most illuminating and instruc
tive review of the general assembly
at.thp T,lurRday night meeting of the
K iwnnis club and the members gave
him a round of applause, not only for
the able review of “high lights” of
the assembly’s work but for the splen
did record he made as Cleveland’s re
presentative. Mr Falls passed only two
local bills, the only two that were need
ed, so after he had finished that task,
he devoted his time and Htudy to state
wide affairs in which he took an ac
tive part in bringing about certain
economies for which the legislature
has been highly complimented.
mate weiint Inherited.
Judge Falla explained the so-called
deficit, or rather his version of how
it came about, arriving at this con
clusion after hearing both sides dis
cussed and making personal investi
gations. The deficit, or at least 'a
greater part of it was inherited from
theBickett administration. When the
real estate was excused under the re
valuation act from paying any part
toward running the state government
there was a deficit of a million and a
half dollars. From the time real es
tate was relieved of state tax and the
state derived all of its revenue from
incomes, privileges, licenses, inheri
tances, etc., there was an interval of
seven months from June to February
when the state had no revenue from
either one of these sources. Land had
been exempted for state purposes and
the new revenue sources which had
1 >en * pped did not produce anything
until February, yet the expenses ot
the stae were going on at about a
million dollars a month just the same.
This made a deficit of about Beven or
eight million dollars which has never
been overcome. Judge Falls declared
that A. J. Maxwell of the corporation
commission who discovered the deficit
and made much a-do about it was the
man who created it because he was the
one to work out the shift in the state’s
sources of revenue and failed to pro*
vide for the seven months interval.
The general assembly passed a bill
prohibiting the state officials and em
ployes that use state-owned automo
biles to use such automobiles for any
other than stae purposes and accord
ing to the interpretation of the attor
ney general a state official or em
ploye cannot ride the members of his
family to church in a sta''■’-owned car.
Judge Falls says thi ’ 11 came about
because it was found that thousands
of dollars of the state's money is spent
annually fori gas and oil when tho
cars using them are not on stats
work.
Wage Commission.
It was discovered that some state
officials deal out patronage to poli
tical friends and pay salaries higher
than the work justifies. A new bil
creates a salary and wage commission
which will study the positions in the
various state departments, set a wage
scale and compel these departments
not to exceed these amounts. In the
opinion of Judge Falls, this alone will
save the state thousands of dollars
annually.
All revenue will hereafter be col
lected by the state department of
revenue. The issuance of automobile
licenses has been shifted from the
state department to the revenue de
partment and when an official state
collector travels over the state, he is
empowered to collect any revenue due
any department of the state, thus el
iminating a number of employe^. Then
again this bill provides that all monies
collected for the state of North Car
olina must be deposited in some stats
depository and wired to the stats
treasurer every night. Judge Falls re
ported that often the state is forced
to borrow money on short term when
its various departments might have
sufficient surplus that has never been
placed to the credit of the state treas.
urer on whom the vouchers are issued
This is declared to be another mean:
of saving.
Judge Falls declared that the new
governor ;s a fine business executive
and that he (Falls) voted for every
measure recommended by the gover
nor. The executive budget system
which has been provided for will ef
fect a great saving to the state and
will enable the governor to know ex
■ '■tly liow state finances are running,
\'l i" all the general assembly was
a body of serious minded men who put
through a program of economy iq
state matters.
Operated on at Hospital.
Miss Austine Brackett of Bclwood
wa soperated on for appendicitis at
:he Shelby hospital Wednesday of last
veek and is getting along nicely.
The Stone Mountain Association H
seems to have put the glum in Bor
flum.—Wichita Beacon,