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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year------i-$3 80 By Carrier, per year _$3.00 THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LEE B. WEATHERS_President and Editor s. ERNEST HOEY--Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM----—--—. News Editor A. D. JAMES_-_Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905. at the postoffice At Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress. March 3, 1879. We wish to call your attention to the fact that It l*. and has been our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, card3 of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adherred to. MONDAY. JUNE 3, 1929. TWINKLES Futher proof that America at heart is an honest nation: listen to the average citizen estimating the value of the fam ily auto at taxlisting time. “The price of wheat.” says the Dallas Journal, “is going decidely against the grain.’’ And we add “against the grain of the wheat farmers who anticipated Hoover farm relief.” This should he a hig month for Probate Judge Stroup at Gaffney. It’s June, you know, and quite a number of Cleveland county couples will he after being hitched. From what Ye Twinkler can pick up in conversation with Cleveland county citizens, if the route of Highway 18 from Shelby to South Carolina goes as the crow flies, then there will he any number of people having crow-s to pick w ith somebody. This follow Lindbergh does so many unexpected things that it would not surprise us a bit if he, while out honeymon ing. takes his bride aboard his plane and flies across the Pacific. If anything is ever officially added to the seven wonders of the world, we fail to see how they can overlook that boy. The taking over of the Shelby-Polkville-Casar-Belwood highway by the State Highway commission will be a tre mendous boost for the progressive section north of Shelby, and let us hope that some day the route, which now whips back into Highway 18, may be extended straight on through the fertile Golden Valley section. • This is the big week for the Confederate veterans of the South and this section—and for the majority of them it will be their last big week. Do your bit to see that every one of the admirable old fellows gets to the Charlotte reunion and enjoys himself there. Too, it should he seen to that those unable to go are given the opportunity to hear the convention program over the radio. WE CALL AND RAISE '-rHE LINCOLN TIMES in commenting upon t lie new feeling * that has arisen between the South and the North since the Civil War says, in referring to the coming Confederate reunion at Charlot'te, that “we would hate to be forced tc bet which will bring out the loudest ‘rebel yell* when played —Dixie or Yankee Doodle.” Maybe so, but in all frankness we ll lay our coin on Dixie and make the odds ten-to-one, if you care to go. A SMALL GROUP? pHAlUTY and Children‘in commenting upon the probabili ty that Senator Simmons will have opposition for the Democratic nomination in 1930 attributes the antagonism to the small group of Democrats who supported Gov. Smith and are still at outs with the senator for not standing by the party nominee. With no intention of reviving ill feeling among Democrats and with no idea of calling the hand of Charity and Children we somehow are curious about that “Small group of Democrats who supported Smith”—Just how small a group, please? Anyone who cares to do so may subtract the normal Republican vote in North Carolina from the total vote given Hoover last fall and the remaining number will be exactly the number of Democrats who voted for Hoover in prefer ence to Smith. And it will not take but one glance to sec that Smith received considerably more votes than Hoover front North Carolina Democrats. Therefore, unless we err and cor rect us if we do, the Democrats who supported Smith and are not so enthusiastic any more about Senator Simmons may be a “small group.’’ but not quite so small, when you go to the actual figures, as the Democratic group which voted for Hoover. Even though there be strife in the party it pays in troublous times as well as in times of peace and tranquility to stick to the actual figures. ANOTHER CLEVELAND BOOST TTHE ADVANCE of Cleveland county agriculture and the successful career of Cleveland's farm governor seem to go in hand. Every boost given the county’s agricultural progress includes the highlights of the Gardner career and every boost given the governor sooner or later works around to his agicultural background—the cotton farms of Cleve land county. The latest two-fold boost was an article by Dr. T. K. Wolfe in The Southern Planter and it is summarized as fol lows by The Charlotte Observer, the big press-agent of Pied mont agriculture and industry: “Not long ago The County Gentleman gave Governor Gardner exploitation as an executive who was determined on doing something good in benefit of the condition of North Carolina farmers and now follows The Southern Planter, ex hibiting the governor as “North Carolina’s agricultural lead er,”1 one who “has a vision and a practical working program for the advancement of the state’s agriculture.” The story was obtained by Dr. T. K. Wolfe, who reached the office, tc find him nt the time engaged in conference, discussing his favorite topic, and loaded with informative material for the arrived interviewer. The history of what Gardner has done for Cleveland county is illustrated with pictures show- j injsr the development in various lines headed by his activities before he was elected governor, and of how Gardner “has ! made farming pay.” The creed of the farmer governor, as j laid down to the interviewer, is the essence of common sense. In the first place, the governor let it be known that he “has no panacea for farm relief.” What he aims at is bettermei I of agriculture. His idea is that “the betterment of agricul ture is a process of construction, rather than one of relief.” His ultimate aim is to build up great resources in agriculture ‘“by learning something new in a new way.” An outline of Gardner’s program for farm betterment is given; with the Gardner thought that “we should diversify our agriculture and reduce the necessity of impoting enormous quantities of food and feed which must now be bought with the money received from the cash crops—cotton and tobacco.” “These instances are submitted by The Southern Planter “to show that Governor Gardner has a well-developed pro gram for the betterment of North Carolina's agriculture. He is getting advice from the best minds of the state.” This, together with his own wealth of agricultural information and rare business ability, that paper thinks, should make it possible for North Carolina to be more than ever an out standing agricultural state. “More than once in recent years the progress of North Carolina has caused the eyes of the nation to be focused upon her, and the conclusion is that “under the leadership of the present distinguished governor, the country will again turn to her to marvel at her agricultural advancement.” Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— (Exclusive In The Star in thii section.) Congress passed the Debenture appendix to the McNary-Hauge.i bill about 3 weeks ago, and ‘tlv* markets responded Immediately to the promised relief. Cotton broke that day 36 points, and wheat went down 3 cents a bushel, and sugar declined 25 points, and corn went off 4 cents a bushel, and n, dozen eggs could be had at the Joppa gate for 20 farthings. Hur rah for the lemon-aid that is about to be handed us. Speaking of Paul Revere, 1 be lieve I own the choking-down-est | automobile that has ever yet been turned loose on a highway. Why. | when that car gets within 15 feet of a red traffic light, it chokes 'down, and it usually chokes down from 15 to 23 times before I got jout of my own yard every morn ing on my w ay to earn some bread j by the sweat of my brow. The rerned thing will stop right in I the middle of the road when I'm making around 60 miles per hour jest for the pleasure of choking down. If it fools with me anoth er minute. I II turn it over to the instalment collector, and let it cr.oke him down a few times, the sneaking scoundrel. Cotton Letter. New York. June 1.— Since the management of a great many co* ton mills has been turned over to the state militia. spots have shown some morbidity in its com mon effervescense-ness along the line of unsteadiness, therefore, if .it rains another drop in Texas before North Carolina gets through planting, it is our sincere opinion that a 5-eent spool of thread can be had for a nickle at most de partment stores, but exports today were 45.816 against 45,877 bale?, the same day last year, and that accounts for July selling at a new low for the season. We advise spinach, turnip salad and corn bread till blackberries come in. and then use sulphur on your chiggers. for sail: one fine hound do* fully pettygrerd on his maws side ai d she krtchrd more rabbits and j possums before the train run ;r,\er her than any othc’- do£,s in her section allso 1 milk cow about 5 yr. old called pet, and he has the reppertation of smelling tracks longer and furrer than anny other pup. and will be fresh in by august and i expect her to give 5 gallons of milk which will equal 7 gallons when bottled and reddy to be sold, or will exchange him for 2 beagle dogs that ancers tc the name of sudie and rollo. rite or foan what you think best to do ansoforth. • yores trulie, mike Clark. It has always been a mystery to me how an income of 23 dollars e veek can meet the payments on the car, feed a family, pay rent, and still be strong enough to combat the many checks that ar; written against it before it reaches the general ledger of the bank. Such incomes must be composed cf that elastic, currency that we lister hear the republicans talk to much about. My Batching Fxperienee A few weeks ago, it fell my lot to keep batch for several days. I am an independent cuss to say the least of me. and the first thing I did was to let everybody know that I could take care of myself, so my neighbors and kinfolks were deprived of the pleasure <?> ot aiding and abetting me through •'the lonesome journey <at i « ■< about to sojourn into, as the poei. would say. The first meal I undertook to prepare was breakfast. I formed the following menu in my mind s eye. and sat out to serve it unto myself: Soft scrambled eggs, toast, coffee and breakfast bacon. I hunted around in the kitchen for 30 or 40 minutes before I found a frying pan. (X had always no ticed before that we had at least 4' frying pans in the kitchen but darned if I could find one*. T looked for a match 10 minutes with which to light the gas, tlici. T spent 5 minutes looking for some lard to grease the pan with, and when the frying pan began to siz ble Its Inviting sizzlement to the iggs, I discovered that there were ro eggs to be had. or at least— 1 didn't find any before the grease lr the pan caught fire and burnt up. I decided then to have buttered toast, coffee, and breakfast ba ton. I hunted all over the pantry end kitchen and backyard for that bacon, and never found a trace of !lt (X am possessed of a non-find ing complex. I never could find c. rabbit in the bed. and many a time have I hunted 55 to 60 min utes for my hat when it would be lying right in the floor at my feet. (My wife never sends me tor any thing; she knows I can't find it). T surrendered to plan toast and coffee, and began to hunt the cof fee pot. We had 3 perfectly good coffee pots before my wife went away, but somebody must have stolen them. I made up my mind right then and there that coffee was conjurious to my institution, so began a hunt for some mills which I never found. And I have never known who hid that 3 loaves of bread on the dialing room table I didn't find them till 4 days later. T decided that I'd cook some biscuit as I had to have some thing to eat. I got the four emptied into the trav, and finally found the salt and :oda about 9:23 a. m. As we had no milk <1 found that we had 5 quarts in the ice box the next day). I used water About the time I got dough all over me from my finer tips to the back of my neck, the telephone rang. I was called to the office. I fasted till lunch time, and after a good meal at a regular eating Joint, I figgered that it was cheap er not to do my own cooking than it was to waste half the day hunt ing for some stuff to cook. I'm cured. Real Public Service. Not every one has so clear a con ception of duties of a public service commission as the Baltimore wom an who rang up the Maryland de partment of public service one ciav and inquired for the service engi neer. ‘'May T leave my baby in your office for a while I want to „'0 down town and do some shopping! ’ "Why. ycu must have the wrong number!" the man gasped "This is the public service commission" -"Well, I know that." was the quick answ er, and if-you don't consider it a public service to take care of a baby once in a v.hilr I think you'd better change your name until you can begin giving teal public service!" and she rang off. You can't destroy a class system in a land where everybody hopes to belong to the , upper class next 'far.—Flic Times. BIBLE SOCIETY MAKES REPORT Ovrr Eleven Million Copies Were Distributed During Past Year. New York —In the circulation of the scriptures during 1928 the American Bible society by going beyond the 11,000,000 mark in its issues of scriptures surpassed all previous records Of distribution. The distribution was made in 182 lan guages. This achievement, announc ed in the society’s 113th annual re-, port just made public, marks the fourth year in succession in which l he Bible circulation of each pre ceding year has been exceeded. In China, just emerging from the throes of a significant revolution, the American Bible society distri buted over 4.500,000 volumes, the largest circulation in the history of the society's work in China. The new Bible house in Peking. the gift to the American Bible society from the Maryland Bible( society, was formally dedicated “to the cir culation of the Holy Scriptures among the people of China.' This finely equipped, modern building will facilitate a more efficient Bible distribution in the area which Pe king serves. The society also reports multiply ing opportunities for larger scrip ture distribution in the republics of Latin America. In the West Indies agency demands for scriptures were largely from those who were not rifiliated with the churches, a defi nite campaign resulting in the greatest circulation in 10 years. Bible coacnes are being used in creasingly by the society's agency in the Argentine to reach remote places in Uruguay and Paraguay, that the Bible may be made avail able to those not yet reached by the Bible workers. J,n Mexico the de mand for Bibles is greater than the supply. Many requests received by the society’s agency in Mexico City were from the rural districts, in part the result of the government's establishment of an unprecedented number of schools attended day and night by children and grown peo ple. “Penny Portions." Tn the work of publication the % '•rican Bible society continues to publish Bibles, testaments and por tions. It reports the completion of its so-called “Penny Portion ’ series o’ the books of the New Testament, i The entire New Testament may now | be secured in 11 small volumes, each having an artistic colored cov in and selling at one cent apiece. <The society also issues scriptures in more than 30 languages in the so called “diglot'1 form in which the loretgn language and the English appear in parrallel columns, hap | pily bridging for the foreign-born the gap betwen the language of his | latherland and the language of his j adopted country, as well as serving English-speaking persons who seek j tc master other languages. In the Arabic Levant agency, with headquarters at Cairo, publi cation was increased 350 per cent over that of the previous \ ear. So great was the demand for the scrip tures that not a single copy of the gospel could be procured in Cairo for four or five months. The plates of the Turkish Bible owned by the American Bible society have reernt ily been rendered obsolete by the |Turkish ruling on the alphabet. ; whereby the Arabic script must be ; replaced by Latin characters. Not a I vestige of the Arabic script is al lowed in tne grade scnoois. Drum mers have gone through the streets and villages all over the republic of Turkey railing upon every one b" tveen the ages of 1G and 40 to at tend the special classes opened for them. Thus, millions of people will tocn be able to read the scriptures who could not have done so 12 months ago The American Bible society plans to replace as prompt ly as possible the Turkish scriptures in a new and approved text in the new script. Many Without Copies. According to reports received from the society's 10 agencies work ing in the United States, there are still many homes with no knowl edge of the Bible. Throughout the northwest Bible workers found grown children who had never seen a Bible and had never been inside of a church. In the middle west, men visited ovet 22,000 families and lound 3,000 Bibleless homes. These were supplied with the scriptures. In the southern states many young people were reached in sections of the country largely destitute as re gards religious and educational op portunities. Reading classes have been formed with the chief text book a large print testament sup plied by the society. The pupils range in age from 20 to 8G years. During the year systematic effort, was made by the society's agency working in the southwest to plac» a Bible in every home and church where copies had been lose or de stroyed by the water and mud of the Mississippi flood. Publication, for the first time, of the following translations will be made soon by the society: the four gospels in, Kuskokwtm, a dialect spoken by an Eskimo tribe in southwestern Alaska; the four gos pels in Hopl, for use among the Indians of that name in Arizona; end the Psalm in Bolivian Queehua. the tongue of one of the native peoples of Bolivia. Other transla Violence Threatened Miss Edith Rebman, secretary of Dr. T. T. Shields, Baptist Fundamentalist of Des Moinas University, Iowa, who was threatened along with her em ployer with bodily harm by the students because of Shields’ recent edict closing the school and dismissing the faculty. The students, however, got an in junction to reopen their classes. (laUraattoaa) Nawar«el> Reporter Telephones Story From A Plane Literary Digest. The reporter had a good story. I'm all up in the air about it." he told the city editor over the telephone. And that statement was literally true. He was 2,000 feet up in an airplane over Plainfield, New Jer sey. But he was telephoning the office just the same, we learn from the New York Evening Port With reporters from other New York papers, including The World. The Herald Tribune, The Times. The Telegram, and The Even mg World, he was participating in the first two-way communication between ; the air and the ground. Reporters ! telephoned their offices from their flying telephone bpoth. They heard and were hea 'd as if they had been in every-day booths Cn the ground, i Tlie tests were conducted on May I 1 by engineers of the Bell Tele j phene Laboratories and tli* West ern Electric company, we read in .The Herald Tribune. A -;adio-equip jped Fairchild monoplane was used, j taking off from Hadley fif Id, New ■ Jersey. The reporters’ stories on | this occasion described their sur roundings and the condition® under [which they worked. Typical was this telephoned message by Richard Montague in The Evening World: I am sending you this stroy from a FAirchild plane in flight. It is now 12:55 o'clock and we are climbing into the clouds. The plane is as steady as a railroad coach. Outside the window’ of the plane I can see the small generator which,is trans mitting this message. The clouds are becoming quite thick below’ us, and they s’t drift ing by. Through the rifts we can sec small houses, and fielci.-. and | roads running past them. The sun fhas started through an upper bank of clouds, and is shining on the I clouds which lie below ano about | We are row passing over another large town, which we can see through the rifts in the clouds. The latter seem to extend to the horizon. • Our speed is 120 miles an hour. On our right is a large body of wa ter which looks like a river. Direct ly below us is a country club and golf course on which the sand-traps , show up sharply against ti e green. I It is 1:15 o'clock and we are 3, 000 feet above the clouds. We are I Hying over a small town ir. which {the houses look like a lot of blocks. ;such as children play with There is a green hill Just ahead of us. and ! below, new. is a railroad track wind ; ing through the green countryside. [ A wisp of somke from a locomotive is trailing along the track. The sun. which disappeared for i a while, has come out again and is making the clouds brilliam white. In | the distance we can see woods and fields in all directions. The cultivat ■ cd fields arc brown in contrast with | the green of the untilled fields sur 1 rounding them. Jugoslavia has a minister for [social affairs in its cabinet. That? ' hat we need if any more dinner trb'c precedence is to be settled. [Ft Louis Globe-Democrat. tions and revisions of the scriptures : arc in process. The Amerirrn Bible society be :gan its ministry of providing em i bossed scriptures for the blind in [1853 During the subsequent rears [approximately 7.VCHW volumes of the j scriptures in Braille and other sys tems have been issued to persons ; deprived of sight. During 1528 the , society was able to reduce the sell j ing price of embossed scriptures by exactly one-lialf. TRY STAR WIT ISOS Many People Do Not Know When' They Are In Good Health, Says Raleigh.—'The majority of the people do not know when they are in good physical condition or not, and nothing but a most rigorous physical examination, or •’health examination” by an expert exam iner, will determine this, according to Dr. C. O H. Laughinghouse, of the state board of health. The most recent example that this is the case is the incident this week in connection with the physi cal examinations given the appli cants for places on the new state highway patrol, when 21 out of 58 applicants were turned down as physically unfit, although the en tire 58 had previously passed a preliminary physical examination. But when these men came up be fore the rigorous physical examin ations such ns are given by army examiners, trained in the latest technique in physical or health ex aminations, numerous defects svere discovered which had been over looked by the family doctors who had made the preliminary examin ations. The results of these examina tions are in line with the findings of the army examiners during the war, however, when 35 per cent of all the men called in the draft were rejected for military service because of physical defects. The 58 men who reported to Camp Glenn had been carefully picked from approximately 1,000 applicants, and were considered tn be in top notch physical condition. Yet 21 of this number were sent back home because of physical im perfections that escaped the doc tors that examined them the first time. Tins shows the need for doctors to devote more attention to per fecting their technique in making health examinations and to learn ing the newest methods, and for people generally to realize that on ly the most thorough examinations can uncover hidden health defects. Dr. Laughinghouse pointed out. It is because of these reasons that the board of health is now carrying on its health extension work through the life extension unit. The life extension unit is com posed of a physician who is an ex pert in making physical examina tions. and a trained nurse, with all the latest and most approved equipment . This physician and nurse travel over the state calling on physicians, offering to demonstrate the latest technique in health ex- . animations. ' “It was our belief that thera were thousands of doctors in North Carolina who were and are too busy to leave their practice and leave home for a period of weeks or months to attend clinics.’’ said Dr. Laughinghouse. “so we decid ed to organize this clinic on wheels and send it to the doctors of the state who wanted to bring themselves and their metnods up to date, tspecially on health ex aminations. . “And for the most part, the doctors have responded whole heartedly and have been making the best- possible use of these facilities. Now and then we have encountered physicians who believ ed that they already knew' enough about how to make physical or health examinations. But most of the doctors have taken advantage of the opportunity offered them and are giving enthusiastic sup port to this new work.” If You Fret Over Farm Aid, You've Millions Acres Yet • Washington.—'Those with a genius lor worrying need not include what were going to cat in the future among their fears. X Not only, is farm production in creasing. despite the drift of coun try people to the cities, but the United States wit! still have avail able 500.000.000 acres of potentially cultivable land by 1M0—an area greater than the total of cultivated land at present. The tractor and other intensified methods of farming have caused the increased production, according to Dr. O. E. Baker, economist in the United States department of agri I culture, who says this production i has increased 50 * per cent more : rapidly than our population since ■ihe World war and is going on with i greater strides than any time prob | ably since 1890. Not for another decade does Dr. Baker believe it will be necessary to expand the net farm area of the r.aticn. 100,000.000 Acres Ploughable. ‘■Nearly all the requisite increase .in our crop acreage." he sayc, "could !be obtained by cultivating the crop land that is new idle in farms. In addition to this idle crop land our farms contain more than 100,000. 000 acres of ploughable pasture as large areas that could be cultivated if cleared or drained." He looks for a "notable increase'’ of crop acreage in the great plains legion where the tractor an:l "com bine" are making "supermarginal millions of acres of semi-arid land that w as formerly sub-marginal." : He looks for a continued decrease of crop acreage in the hilly and less lertile lands in the East and South. Overexpanslon Causes Depression. Giving overexpanslon of the coun try's crop area as one of the fun damental reasons for the present agricultural depression. Dr. Baker remarks that no cne couio have iorsccn the coming of the automo /tr hile and tractor, releasing land which formerly went to the sus tenance of farm animals, nor the shift from less productive to pro ductive crops per acre. He points out further that before the war there was no adequate evidence of the :apid approach to a stationary pop ulation. Dr. Baker remarks, however, that the birth rate has declined since 1P15 by nearly five births per 1,000 * persons, or about 20 per cent. A iurthcr decline of four per 1,000." he says, "would bring the birth rate down to that necessary merely to maintain a population whose average span of life is sixty-one yeUFs. which is four years longer than the average at present.’’ He adds that the declining birth rate seems to be associated with the country’s increasing prosperity anti per capita wealth. Mr*. Wilson Dies After An Illness Mrs. Lenoir Roberts Wilson passed Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock, aft er an illness of many years, being confined to her home since Octo ber. Furneral services, conducted by Ret. J. E. Jenkins, were held Ihursday afternoon 3 o'clock at Pleasant Hill Baptist churcii. Mrs. Wilson was born May 12. 1667. be:nc 62 years, two weeks an 1 lour days old. She joined Pleasant Hill church early in life, later mov ing her membership to New Hope ' here she remained a loyal mem ber until death. She was married to _ William L. Wilson, who proceeded her to the grave several years ago. Surviving are three sons. W. Lan aers. Cossie J. and Adkin of Earl, also two sisters, five half sisters and two half-brothers. She was a devoted and loving mother. '!■ I ■ 1 1 —■ ■■ - Attention To Tax Payers I wish to call your attention to the making of your tax return for the year 1929. The law requires every tax payer to make return during the month of May. All who have not yet made their return for this year, are requested do so at once without farther delav The law makes you suoject to a pen alty of $50.00 for failure to list. W. R. NEWTON, County Tax Supervisor.
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