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UNIFORM SCHOOL An equalizing fund of approximate ly $5,000,000 will be necessary to pro vide the state’s end of n uniform eight months school term in office, experts in the department of education esti mate writes R. E. Powell, Raleigh cor respondent of the Charlotte News. But t he drive is on, the teachers are square ly behind the proposition and—some how or other—the money must come. North Carolina, educators say, is 1 aft piny way behind in her schools when they are compared with the roads and textile mills, things which give the state high rank in the roster of states. It is quite probable that the prop erty of the state will be revalued { gain before the constitutional amend mcnt, which the school folks will usk the next legislature to submit, is adopted. This may be done at the re quest of the severnl counties without regard to the eight months mandate. If it is no done before, it will have to he done in the event the amendment is ratified by the people in the elections of 1928. The law could then go into effect January 1, 1929 or as soon .s the legislature meets, canvasses the returns and fixes the state’s portion of the cost. Abandon Counties. Efforts now to win the state to an eight months term in every county, whether Republican or Democratic, means that the department here will quite probnbly abandon any further effort to secure a county wide term and a countywide tax. All attempts, with one exception, have proven fail ures but the department has secured, as a result of the campaign, much as surance that the people of the stale want a state system of schools. They are willing, as a general proposition, to pay more for it. It is more desir able, investigators have found, for the campaign to be removed from the various fields of local or county poli ties. In practically every ease where the county wide tax scheme has been defeated, following surveys author ized by the state superintendent, is sues and personalities not concerned with school betterment have becloud ed the fights. More argument over the size of the fequalization fund will come before 1929, however, it was indicated by Superintendent A. T. Allen today. For the six months term guaranteed new by the constitution, the state contri butes a little less than a million and a half. Mr. Allen frankly says that this is not half enough. He will quite probablv ask the next legislature to make this $3,000,000 and there will lie much sentiment behind his re quest. See Difficulty. Although the 1926 legislature thought it had n difficult time raising Revenue, the signs are plentiful that the 1927 legislature will have even greater difficulty. The last body rais ed some taxes, license taxes for chi ropractors and for marriage permits, as much as forty per cent. It didn’t put much extra burden on! the payers of big incomes. A ioker recently dis covered shows that one big railroad company actually gained a reduction in its tax. This will more than likely he corrected during the first days of the next session. There is recurring talk of the sales tax. It is hinted that Governor McLean and Allen J. Maxwell have modified their views with respect to this. Both were opposed to it last. year. Mr. Maxwell issued a lengthy statement which constituted a powerful argu ment against the sales tax. Sonm of the more influential men who have been in Governor McLean’s unofficial cabinet favor of five cent tax. There isn’t much chance for the matter to come up before 1927. f Romantic Career (Charlotte News) One of the outstanding factors, Re cording to Wall Street reports, in the recent sensational rise of motor stocks was the effort of William C. Durant to regain control of General Motors, and therein, is latent a story of a romantic, remarkable career of a man who, although away up in his years, is making a sensational stab to get back into a throne he has twice lost. On two occasions Durant was in control of the great and valuable General Motors. On two occasions, he was deposed, lost out in the wild scramble of the financiers. Worth $100,000,000 on one January morn ing a few years ago it was said that Durant could not buy a dinner in the middle of the following Summer, but here he is again figuring with such dazzling power in Wall Street that the entire fabric of motor stocks feels the impulse of his spectacular maneuvers. Durant was the man who started General Motors, then a $10,000,000 concern, but now rated in the billion dollttf class, and after having lost control- of it twice, his titanic at tempt to gain the mastery again over the great corporation, even though he is now of such an age as to have one foot in the grave, will be watched with more than merely sentimental interest. Americans love a plucky, game fighter and Durant is a financial gladiator. THY STAR WANT ADS Rum Fleet Blockade Prevents Land ing Much Imported Liouor; Aerial Bootlegging Reported l Again the South scores a point on her brothers of the North and Mid dle West. Practically the only pure whiskey obtainable in the country now is in the Southern States and most of this is made by natives in copper stills in the swamps and in the mountains of the south. Just recently a citizen of this county was sick and members of his family thought drinking “moon shine” whiskey was the cause ot it. They sent samples of some of h:s stock to a chemist foT analysis and asked for a report. Pretty soon the scientific man wired “best .stuff 1 have seen since prohibition, get me five gallons.” Anyhow, those who know say most of the whiskey in the Southern states is better than the artificial stuff in sections of bigger cities and say this is so because moonshiners in the South have never really stopped making whiskey and know how to dis I ill nnro r»rirn . ftlnfT. Then imported whiskey is landed more freely on Southern coasts than further up the line and this is said to be especially true on the lower Georgia and Florida coasts. Rum fleets are" now supposed to be anchor ed off Florida with supplies for the winter use. Canadian Border Dammed. The flood of Canadian whiskey which spilled over the border during the first years of prohibtion, has largely been dammed up and the thirsty get only “moonshine” and “cut” whiskey with Canadian labels, reports from St. Paul, Detroit, Cleve land and Chicago indicate. Prohibition authorities in the St. Paul area say that 55 per cent of the liquor sold there is redistilled al cohol. Rum running over the Minne sota line, they say, has; been “well in hand for two and a half years.” Even the anti-prohibitionists admit little Canadian liquor is available. YVhut there is comes in by automo bile generally run at night on non stop trips from the border to the Twin Cities. The alcohol used in con cocting fake liquor Comes in from the East under false consignment and many large seizures have been made. May Blind l'igs. ” There are 16,000 “blind pigs’’ in Detroit, estimates Frank M. Croul commissioner of police, which would indicate a large and steadily flowing supply of alcohol c drinks. Before prohibition there were 1,300 licensed saloons. Some genuine liquor escapes'1 the blockade on the Detroit river and on Lakes St. Clair, Huron and Erie, but Federal agents assert that most of the Canadian labelled whiskey is spurious, some of it green and unfit for consumption. Rum runners in the Detroit area got a comparatively small return for the chances they take, the rate of pay bt^ng 50 cents a case for beer and $1 a case for whiskey. Most wholesalers, however, pay the run ners a flat salary, generally $550.00 a week. Here’s Another Way. “Cutting" has become more and more profitable. It is a process of making green moonshine or water and alcohol taste like genuine whis key by the addition of a small amount of a recognized brand. So great has become the demand for good whiskey | for “cutting" purposes that this li quor itself is watered and Is often merely a skillfully “cut" whiskey. An effort to stifle running at De troit is now being mude by Carey D. Ferguson, collector of customs, who has become “admiral’’ of a fleet of nine fast boats, with 200 agents concentrating on the liquor traffic. The liquor business in and around Cleveland consists almost entirely in cornwhiskey with a side line on the importation of Canadian beer, declar ed Thomas Stone, former prohibi tion chief. Much home made wine, is sold as in synthetic gin made from alcohol. Whiskey running and importation of bonded liquor into Cleveland is a rarity. Boer is brought in carload! lots from Canada, billed as cast iron | concentrated lye and other merchan dise. Beer formerly was brought a cross Lake Erie in small boats but since the government rum chasers became active, this mode of trans portation has decreased. Hauled in Air Official confirmation is lacking of reported aerial bootlegging in the Chicago district, but it is agreed that automobiles, rail and water transpor tation are about equally popular among rum runners in this territory. New processes have been develop ed in the manbfacture of intoxicants in this area which are known as “cleaning” denatured alcohol. Just what processes are used, besides re distillation, is a mystery which Fed eral sleuths and chemists are trying to solve. They suspect the moon shine magnates have in their pay chemists as' clever an any in govern ment employ. In striking at this particular source, prohibition^-field agents raid ed a Chicago drug store where the principal stock was body-rub alcohol. Much dt it still was in cartoons but ’some had been poured into two gal lon jugs. In these floated a liverlike substance which resemble the “mother” of vinegar. The druggist ' explained that this substance was I Russian mineral oil, which had been i put into the alcohol to consume its | “denatures.” As to whether he dis closed his real secret, prohibition agents are uncertain. Thus far the department has un earthed fewer “cleaning plants” handling industrial alcohol in Chicago than on farm; in out-of-the-way ru ral places, and in small towns. Towns and Cities (Statesville Daily) This paper recently mentioned that a motor party from* Asheville (out on that abomination they call motor cade), was touring the State for to see what they could see. The touring prospectus announced that they would | visit a certain number of cities and a | certain number of towns. Attention was called to the failure to classify, I evidently for diplomatic reasons. They didn’t say which places were cities and which towns. The Shelby Star of fers to classify Shelby in the town list. Speaking between ourselves, that is probably Stateville’s real classifica tion, but it was chartered as a city away back in the dim and distant past, and strictly speaking it may lay claim to the entitlement. But being called city isn’t a distinction, seeging that some villages call themselves thdt. Statesville is the “best town,’’ with many of tilings to which the cities lay claim. The conclusion and the truth of the whole matter is, there is no real line of demarcation where town ends and city begins. Any chartered place governed by a mayor and board of aldermen may lay claim to the word city, no matter Kow small the population. But it would be interesting to know Mow the distinction was drawn by that Ashe ville- touring party. Familiarity breeds contempt; also, alas, matrimony. *' r l,.7alji«am?gi RUSHSTROUP Attorney at Law Royster Building Phone 514. Horace Kennedy Atlcrncy-At-Law Shelby, N. C. Office In Star Building. NEW SOUTHERN SCHEDULE CHARLESTON DIVISION No. 113 Marion to Rock Hill No. 36 Rock Hill to Marion No. 35 Marion to Rock Hill No. 114 Rock Hill to Marion 7:2C> a. 9:37 a. 6:41 p. 8:08 p. No. 35 makes connection at Blacksburg with No. 40 for north. A. H. MORGAN, Agent SHELBY, N. C. 3 3 3 2 SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY COMPANY Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains at Shelby, N. C Lv. No. Between No. Ar. 4:50 16 Monroe Ruthcrfordton 16 4:30 12:27 15 Rutherfordton_Monroe 15 12:27 Schedules published as information and are not guaranteed. E. W. LONG, D. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. or H. A. HARRIS, Local Ticket Agent -SCHEDULES INTER-CAROLINAS MOTOR BIS COMPANY Leaves Shelby for Charlotte 7 a. m., 9 u. m., 11 a. m., 1 p. m. 3 p. m., 5 p. m., 7 p. m.-leaves Charlotte for Shelby 8 a. m., 10 a. in., 12 Noon, 2 p. m., 4 p. m., 0 p m. SCHEDULE LINCOLNTON-SHIXBY BUS Leaves Shelby 7:30 a. m., 10 a. m., 1 p. m., 3:30 p m., 5:45 p. m.—Leaves Lincolnton 8:30 a. m., 11 a. m., 1 p. m., 3:00 p. m. 7 p. m. AUTEN BROTHERS, Owners. SCHEDULE SHELBY-RUTIIERI ORDTON BUS Leaves Shelby 8 a. m., 1 p. m., Leaves Rutherfordton 9 '5 a. m., 2:15 p. m. Z. V. COSTNER, Manager.' SCHEDULE SHELBY-ASHEVILLE BUS Leaves Shelby 8 a. m., 10 a. m., 2 p. m., 4 p. m., 6 p. m. 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