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Ku Klux Promises State-Wide “Expose"’ v Of AI Smith—Starts After Christmas ' (Charlotte News* A state-wide effort in North Caro lina "to expose the political rela tionship of A1 Smith’s church affilia tions to National Democratic ooli tics” will be undertaken by the Ku tfJux Klan immediately after the New Year holidays, aaccording to an announcement made here Monday by ,M. S. Belser, acting grand dragon of the Klan in this state. “Just after the holidays, the Klan ip this state will go into the front line trenches, bare its breast to the enemy and undertaakfe to present fully and convincingly the true facts cf A1 Smith’s political ambibttons and of the dangers that his candid acy present to the United States," said Mr. Belser. The plans for this campaign prac tically have been completed, it was stated. Dr. Hiram W. Eyans, of Washington, imperial 'wizard of the Klan, will come to this state and deliver several addresses )n the course of the fight, which Mr. Belser forecast may become one of the most intense ever centering around a Presidential race in North Carolina since reconstruction days. At least one public meeting, when a speaker for the Klan will deliver an address, will be held in each of the 100 counties of the state. Mr. Belser explained. The address at a large number of meetings will be delivered oy Mr. Belser. who gave some time Monday the preparation of notes to serve later as the basis for his speeches. (The first phase of the Klan's ef forts to arouse opposition to the race for the presidency by the gov ernor of New York will be under taken Tuesday by Mr. Belser, it was announced. The acting grand dragon said he has arranged to de liver an address each aftenioon and evening, with the exception of Sun days and a few other days, until December 20. Each of these ad dresses will be delivered behind closed doors at meetings of mem oers of the Klan. "We can reach a 1 large number of North Carolina's , voter.; through direct contact at meetings of Klan’s but the public first oi next year will enable us to carry our message- to many voters who are not members of the order,” said the acting grand dragon. The affairs of the Klan in this state now ore in such condition that Mr. Belser said he is not re quired any longer to give much of his personal attention to strictly in ternal affairs. He thus found it pos sible to turn his attention to the fight which he is arranging to pre vent A1 Smith winning political support in this state. These plans for'political activity on the part of the Klan "were made with the knowledge of my superior officers." j end represent the beginning of'the Klap's first attempt to make Nfirth Carolina battleground for a contest cf several months duration between opposed political elements, the act ing grand dragon pointed out. MR. MARVIN COOK WEDS MISS MARIE MOORE (Special to The Star.) A wedding of much interest was that of Mr. Marvin Cook and Miss Marie Moore which took place Sat- | urday evening at the home of the bride. Rev. H. E. Waldrop perform- [ ed the ceremony. The wedding was a very quite one cn account of the recent death cf the groom's mother. Miss Moore is the young daughter J of Mr. and Mrs. Mcorc, of South I Shelby, while the groom is the son i of Mr E. B. Cook of the Ross Grove section. The young couple will make their home in Shelby. Now is the time to get your piano. A. J. Kirby Co.. N. LaFayettc St. 1 Now is the time to get your piano.! tA. J. Kirby Co- N. EaFayettc St. 1 The opportunity to get a piano at almost your own price will soon be 1 gone. A. J. Kh-by and Co., N. La fayette St. adv ; ■■■ ff — ■ i"- -j- v i; 1 —. '- J.. --#* ■ Affair a - XraceSmU • Your Hens Lay More Eggs! Y ou can do it—just give them Ful-O-Pep Egg Mash! Start right now—this week —and soon you’ll be gathering more eggs every day. Hens must work when they - get this exceptional feed becaus^it gives them exactly the things that go to make eggs—plus Cod Liver Meal to make every other ingredient give more value. Remember the name — Look jor the blun*and white striped sack! . —McKNIGHT AND COMPANY— . Wholesale Distributors Shelby, N. C. j iiansdell,, of Louisana, Announces Two Bills Which Will Be rushed in Congress i ■' Washington, Nov. 22—A compre | hensive cotton legislative program I was announced here today by Sena 1 tor Joseph E. Rnnsdell, ol Louisiana, |oi the agricultural commute of the senate. He made public two blllls i which Will be pushed energetically 5 as soon as congress convenes, and jone of them at least, is likely to receive consideration in connection with a congressional investigation of the "carry over" controversy which is being urged by some mem bers of the house and senate from cotton growing states. That dispute has been raging in the cotton trade ever since Secretary Hester of the New Orleans cotton > exchange challenged the accuracy j of the government figures issued in ' September on the carry over of : American cotton from the last crop, { and one of the outstanding results j of the controversy to date, has been I the order of Secretary of Agricul- I ture Jardine to the bureau of agri- j cultural economics to refrain from j issuing such statements in the fu- 1 ture. That, however, has not set tled the matter. Numerous con gressmen in the cotton growing states maintain that the depannen tal report caused a needless loss of many millions of dollars to the pro- j ducers, and they insist that a rigid investigation be had of all the clr- j cumetances. and the facts publish ed to the world. One of the Umbra* JHKSatig into | the dispute has been Uie possibility of the government statisticians hav ing counted round bales as bales of cotton. Those have generally been Estimated by American commercial statisticians as half-bales, inasmuch . is most “ round bales,” until very ' recently, contained about 250 pounds of lint cotton, whereas a square , Dale is supposed to weigh approxi- , nately 500 pounds. the controversy now raging in the j letter, trade in America and Europe : jy reason cf Secretary Hester’s cnal- : enge of the accuracy of the govern- : merit figures could not have arisen ( aider the terms of one cf the Rans- 1 iell bills, It provides that the stan- j lard bale cf cotton which shall i lereafter be delivered for shipment >1 n interstate or foreign commerce ji hall weigh 500 pounds, exclusive i f bagging and ties with which it ji i covered, and contracts for the sale 'i f the cotton shall be based upon the !i ,rue net weight of the lint cot- t on In the bale. In order to make ;t he change bear as, lightly, as posr-i ible upon existing trade practice,1; icwever, the bill provides that reaso nable variation sliall be permitted i nd tolerance shall be established by jj he rules and regulations of the if ccretary of agriculture, in bring- i ng about this innovation. .ji Senator Ransdell, evidently appre- ' i dating tire difficulty that would be ■xperienced in introducing such a ,] iweeping change in the cotton gin- if luuiaudvij ui me huuui, uao -n »ught to overcome any opposition ji jy declaring all gins where cotton ! is prepared for interstate shipment! to be public utilities, and vests the j secretary cf agriculture with author- j Ity to prepare uniform regulations ; for their operation. To this end the secretary shall identify each public gin with a number which ■ shall be preserved as a public rec ord; and it shall tje the duty of all ginners to securely affix a metal tag bearing the number of the gin j to each bale, which .shall show the \ agriculture to prescribe the mater ials. including bagging and ties, that may be used in covering cotton in- j tended fer interstate shipments and the standard weight and dimensions of the same. It is claimed that this 1 standardization of the cotton bale will not only work for greater occur- j acy in computing the size of the 1 growing erep; the amount of the available supply and the annual' net weight of thi in when the bale such other inforfl tary rsay prescrit so conferred uffc btton there-1 the gin, and Is the secre- j hority is al-j secretary of j !consumption of American cotton; but ih»t it will effectually abolish the "cotton tare" evil, which is the greatest blight that has ever bung over this or any other agricultural industry and has been responsible for the loss of tens of millions of dollars to the xotton growers every year. A square bale of cotton weighs about 500 pounds and is covered by coarse heavy jute imported from India. About 14 pounds of jute is used and it is fastened around the bale by nine steel ties. The total weight of the bagging and ties var ies from about 21 to 26 pounds and the combined weight of the two con stitute what is known to the trade as “tare." When cotton is sold in America, says the senator, no de duction is apparently made for the weight of the bagging and ties. Tlius in every day practice, when a farmer sells a 500 pound bale, on which the tare Is, say 24 pounds, leaving 476 net pounds of cotton, the farmer is paid for 500 pounds— or at least he thinks he is, and in settling with him the computation is made at so much per pound for 500 pounds. But what actually happens? The mills cannot spin bagging and ties, and they keep that fact in mind in all purchases of American ccttcn. Thus, w hen the bale reaches ' Liverpool, the tare, or weight of the 1 container—in other words, the bag ging and ties, estimated at 6 per cent is deducted. If the bale weighs 500 pounds the Englishman pays for 500 pounds less 30, or 470 pounds, —6 per cent of the gross weight be ing deducted for tare. The exporter who ships to England knows that bis bale is going to be deducted 6 \ per cent, so if the bale only has 22 , pounds of bagging and ties when it; leaves the American gin, he adds ; 8 pounds oi jute nagging ueiuic u is placed on board the ship to In sure that it will not have less than 30 pounds o£ tare when it reaches ;he English customer. While the (American mills apparently do not make any reduction for tare, yet, as ■ i matter of fact, just as the Eng- j ish spinner deducts 30 pounds, so ;he American mills which buy the :ottcn ccmpute that it has a certain i mount of tare that is useless and :omputes the price it pays jiccord- j ngly. In every case, whether in the Jnited States or abroad, the ulti- ■ nate consumer pays only tor net j :otton and the producer suffers the oss on bagging and ties. j By prohibiting the sale of baled ;otton in interstate commerce unless t bears a metal tag furnished by he secretary of agriculture, show ng the net weight of the lint cot cn at the gin, Senator Ransdell relieves that the wasteful and cost f tares can be effectually elimina- i ed, especially as the department of j grlculture is empowered to mate ules *hnd regulations for the ring cf the bale. t This opens up a wide field for the j ise of low grade cotton which is low produced at little, if any profit, ; md the accumulation of which to he extent cf millions of bales works K o depress the price of the bottei . -rades. It is just as feasible to > ;over the bales with-bagging made f rom this low grade cotton as with i nmorted lute, and by dipping it in j t chemical which is not expensive, he cotton bagging becomes much ess inflamable than Jute. Futher- . nore, it requires only 5 pounds of ute, thus effecting a saving hi | veight of 9 pounds to the bale. In order, however, to build up an : American industry of low grade cot ,on bagging and burlaps that can ; vithstand competition with the Jute 1 naterials imported from India. 3enr J itor Ransdell says that it is neces- f :ary to impose a duty which will , dualize the increased cost of Ameri ■an production and manufacture, < rnd his second bill is intended to ' io this very thing. •The Jute mill in Bengal.” says j she Senator, “pays for the carder ! )9 cents per week: for the rover, >1.75 per week; for the spinner, j >1.40 per week: for the winder, *1- ; )1 per week; for the beanver, $2.37 • per week; for the weaver, $2,84 per j »-eek. “I imagine there is not a single , :onu«ou laborer m an American mill j a-ho dees not earn more every day l,han the most skillful laborer in India earns in a week; yet that Jute product in the shape of burlaps j comes in competition with the cot ton goods produced in this country by our high paid employees out of cotton grown by American farmers —the bone and sinew of our repub lic. “Suppose we could get that sort of measure enacted into law. , It would mean, from the best infor mation I have been able to obtain, that a market would be furnished for about 2,000.000 bales of low grade American cotton. This esti mate includes 1 ,*1000,000 bales tor all the purposes to which jute in the way. of bags and sacking is put, and 300*000 bales tor bagging to cover cotton for an average crop. Think of the innumerable uses for jute bagging. Ail grain of every kind is shipped in it; the sugar crop of this country and the tropics; all the fertiliser of every kind; cement, to a large extent; furniture is wrap ped with 'the jute when it is pack ed. It is almost impossible to con ceive the uses to which jute ma terials are placed in this country, uses which could better be served by cotton ” ONE HURT, ONE HBLD AFTER CRASH OF CABS Lumberton, Nov. 24—Dove Lock lear, of Pembroke, is in the Thomp son memorial hospital suffering with serious wounds and Claude Ox en dine is An jail as the result of Ox endine's car colliding with an auto mobile occupied by four Lupiberton negroes near bear early tonight. Locklear, who has just completed a four-year penitentiary term, was charged with being drunk. His car ; turned around and over in to a ditch after striking the other, he and the woman being thrown out. SELF-LIGHTED CIGARETTE IS NEWEST IN ENGLAND ! London.—A retired business nan has invented a self-lighting cigar- j ette. A !tiny disc of touch-paper is | fixed to one end of the cigarette. Cenentered on the disc is a fragment cf the igniting material about the size of a pin head. A gentle touch! of this end of the cigarette against 1 the prepared side of the cigarette packet, and the trick is done. The touch paper‘glows for an instant and the cigarette is lit. -r SHE STAYS YOUNG Because she keeps her mind young, the modern j woman is still dancing at j an age when the woman of j yesterday was knitting, j She stays young because | she keeps her mind -young and active with a thousand interests that yesterday’s woman never imagined. But she has to have time for these new interests-r-she cannot afford to let wash day waste a day of her week. That’s why so many modern women are our laundry service. Every-■ thing is carefully , washed and beautifully ironed 'and washday is nothing more than a word on the phone. Snowflake Laundry This Car has been carefully cheeked and recon ditioned whore Decenary v Motor V Radiator v-Rear Axle v-Transmission v Starting v Lighting y Ignition I ^Battery I vTires_ l v Upholstery [ v Top I v Fenders I v Finish Buy Used Chev from Chevrolet Dealers! As Chevrolet- dealers, we are particularly interest ed in Chevrolet perform ance. We do our utmost to make every used Chev rolet deliver the depend able transportation for which Chevrolet i3 famous the world over. That’s one of the big rea sons why it pays to buy used Chevrolets from Chevrolet dealers! An other safety factor is the red “O. K ” tag which we attach to the radiator cap of each reconditioned car. This tag shows you exactly what condition the car is in—unit by unit. Look for it on the caryoubuy—and KNOW that you are getting su perior value. JORDAN-CHEVROLET COMPANY Shelby, N. C. DL'TI'L'L) Dl!j Jl £ JtUlx. VALUES X. Always See The Old Reliable JOHN HI. BEST FURNITURE CO. - Home Furnishings And Furniture -- He* , " A FEW MORE DAYS AND A FEW MORE PIANOS AND THE OPPORTUNITY WILL BE GONE. THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME TO GET A PIANO OR PLAYER PIANO ALMOST AT YOUR OWN PRICE. , A FEW ORGANS AND PHONOGRAPHS TRADED IN THAT WE MUST SELL AT SOME PRICE. , A. J. KIRBY & COMPANY - - • N. LaFayette Street *
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