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Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the postofllce
at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
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our custom to charge live cents per line lor resolutions ol respect,
cards ol thanks and obituary notices, alter one death notice has
been published. This will be strictly adherred to.
FRIDAY, JAN. 10, 1930,
TWINKLES
Still sticking to your New Year’s resolutions?
There is some talk of making the buyer of whiskey a
violator of the law, but when the law is written the condi
tion “if still living” should be added.
A hunting accident has claimed another life in this coun
ty, and the sympathy of The Star along with that of all the
county, the major portion of which knew the youth, goes out
to the parents and relatives of Cleve Cline whose life was
snuffed out Tuesday.
WHY NOT PAY TAXES ON INSTALLMENT
PLAN IN STATE?
rpHE MAJOR criticism of modern county government when
sifted to the bottom always has its source, in one man
ned or another, around taxation. Nearly every citizen at any
other time but tax-paying time will readily admit that his
taxes, unless unusually high, are just and fair. But not so at
tax-paying time when he must dig down in his savings ac
count or bori'ow to pay all of his taxes in a lump sum. It is
generally admitted, and has been for years, that if tax pay
ing could be made more pleasant—that is, paying out money
can ever be termed pleasant—all government would func
tion better and receive more loyal support. In this connec
tion there has been much discussion of recent years of pay
ing taxes on the installment plan. Until someone demon
strates to us the weakness thereof, we are inclined to believe
that the suggestion should be attempted. Divide a man’s
taxes up over a period of 12 months and they will not seem
so heavy, and, as a result, will draw far less criticism. Try
paying a year’s grocery bills in a lump sum and you will get
our point. Of course it would mean a little extra bookkeep
v ing upon the part7of tax collectors, but we believe it would
be worth this extra work. Speaking along the same vein
The Gastonia Gazette says:
“The point is made that many people who might be un
able to pay the whole of their county or city tax in one lump
sum might easily pay the amount if divided into quarterly or
monthly payments. The entire amounts of some tax bills con
stitute a good sized sum of money, and one not so easily met.
“The argument is made that the federal taxes are pay
able in installments and that if the federal government can
fool with dribbles coming in like that, the city and county
governments could also provide a similar convenience for tax
payers.
“Anything to give relief from some of the oppressive
burdens of taxes would be welcomed by the great mass of
taxpayers. Taxes are necessary to the upkeep of the govern
ment, but it does seem, at times, that they are getting to be
entirely too heavy, and that they might be reduced in places,
without materially impairing the ^machinery of our govern
ment.” * I
IS IT PROBABLE THAT TARHEELIA WILL
HAVE A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR?
TiARDLY had Josiah W. Bailey announced his intention of
1 contesting Senator Simmons for the latter’s seat in the
senate until Gilliam Grissom, federal revenue collector for
this state with headquarters in Raleigh, let it be krfown that
'he might, if given the endorsement of his party, be the Re
publican candidate for governor in 1932.
The Charlotte News taking note of the Grissom attitude
promptly sizes the revenue collector up as one endowed with
good political foresight. Grissom, as The News interprets it,
sees the Democratic party in the state split wider than
ever before by the approaching contest, and in that increas
ing enmity between two factions of the ruling party he sees,
also, a good chance for North Carolina to move entirely into
the G. O. P. columns in 1932. It isn’t such rabid speculation,
as speculation goes, and it might be added that a big pri
mary fight in 1932 between a half dozen or so candidates
will not tend to close any of the breach which may be opened
in 1930 as Simmons and Bailey fight each other.
"""Yet, as The Star sees it, the Democratic party is com
ing to a poor pass when it permits its own primary system,
wherein the people have their say, to create wounds serious
enough to endanger the party.
If all leaders of the party, and members thereof, would
—and they should—take the attitude of Clyde R. Hoey, for
three decades high in the councils of his party, then the
primary would have no ill effects. In 1928 Mr. Hoey, for
most of his political career a staunch supporter of Mr. Sim
mons, differed with his leader and supported the Democratic
nominee for president. In the primary of 1930 Mr. Hoey is
not adverse to saying that he is a Bailey supporter, but he
makes it plain in saying so that after the primary he is for
the nominee because he is first of all a Democrat, and a
Dejppcrat in his interpretation should be willing at all times
to sUpport^fhe choice of the majority. Regardless of how
Simmons and'Hoey, two of the State’s veteran leaders, dif
fered in 1928, Hpey declares that he and all other Democrats
should give their loyal support to Mr. Simmons in the elec
tion should the majority of the party voters decide that he
should have the nomination.
If the Democrats of North Carolina split up over their
primaries, they will have brought about their own downfall
because of the system which has made their party the party
of the average voter, who in the primary has the privilege
of saying who he wants as his nominee rather than having
his nominee selected and pushed on him by a few leaders as
is the policy of the Republican party.
CITY SHOULD WATCH LICENSE GIVEN
TO TAXI DRIVERS
QFFICERS of the law about Shelby for some time, accord
w ing to the news reports, have been trying to break up a
traffic of liquor and prostitutes being carried on by certain
taxi drivers of the city. Several of the worst ones, the officers
say, have been driven out of the business, and if those in
clined to violate the law are cleaned out, as said, then it
should be an easy matter for the municipal government to
keep the situation in hand, thereby lending encouragement
to the honest taxi men, and there are such in Shelby, who
earn their livelihood and remain within the metes and bounds
of the law.
This can easily be done by city officials. Every man
drives a taxi in Shelby must have a city license to do so. The
city should investigate the record of every applicant before
issuing license, and should forfeit that license the minute
the driver it is issued to violates the law. A clean town is far
more important than a small revenue to be derived from
many taxi licenses.
Elevating the plane of the taxi business here, we re
iterate, would, also, work for the best interests of the hon
est men in the business. They, the respectable fellows in
the business, find it hard to compete with those who can
operate bigger and better cars from a side income from
hauling whiskey and hauling women about the town to bring
about the weakening of the moral fibres of the city’s youth.
Those who carry on such a nefarious business use the taxi
business as a blind only. The citizens of Shelby, we know,
will whole-heartedly support the city government if it will
be particular enough to see that the taxi license issued is for
that business and not for the purpose of rum running and
the hauling of prostitutes. The blame for the situation of
ficers say has been existing cannot, and is not, placed at the
door of municipal officials, but Shelby is growing into a city
and the best way to prevent- such is at the origin.
Nobody’s
Business
GEE McGEE—
Speaklnf Of Merger*.
1—The Widow Brown's family
was merged last week with Widow
er Jones’ family. Mrs. Jones be
comes the head of the new organisa
tion and owns controlling interest
therein. Her holdings prior to the
merger were as follows: Sam, are,
Joe, Dick, Jule, Bill and the twit's
Mark and Remark, giving her 3
shares, while Mr. Jones contributed
only 7 shares, vizzly: Ed, Ned. K:d,
Med, Zed and Jed. They will pro
duce family fusses, and will prob
ably issue some new stock.
2—0. M. Aull merged his fa’m
with a Ford during December, thus
making 1 mortgage do the work of
2. His affairs will be handled in
the future by the Commercial Credr*
corporation of New York. He had
no way to get about but now he has
a way to get about .. half enough
for his household to live decently
on. The Ford will enable Mr. Aull
to be relieved of the arduous duties
of the farm in time and then he can
move to town and get a job selling
others on the Installment plan.
3—Old man Klutz merged his 4
hound dogs with old man Smith’s
4 beagle pups Saturday afternoon
and a special dividend of 32 rabbits,
5 squirrels, 2 possums and 1 polecat
was declared about sun-down. The
preferred shares were rabbit hash
and polecat mash, the same being
prorated on a 1-dog basis, that *s—
the dogs that caught the most game
were given credit according to their
Interest in the case, and that’s why
old man Klutz went home hungry
and threatened to sell A ils hedge col
laterals short.
4— A merger of much concern is
•-brewing. The curb Interests are
satisfied that Miss Sudella Hop
scotch will soon be able to take over
Mr. I ben Soaked, and move both
plants Into the Soaked building. Mr.
Soaked lost his wife by Chevrolet
common about 0 weeks ago and as
he has already begun to dye his
mustache and send his collars to
the laundry, the ticker-tape (gossip)
has it that “It won't be long.” By
this merger, the stockholders will
be able to reduce the cost of run
ning 1 family by 1 cook and 1 wash
er-woman and 1 nurse.
5— Another merger that Is tabu
lated to reduce overhead is the
going together of the Goober parish
er and Hot Dog stand of Jack and
15 cents a day to manage his parch
er and Jill Is paying a like sum to
operate his sweating poodle corpor
ation. After the merger. Jack will
run both the parcher and the other
institution while Jill loafs, and the
next week they will be functioning
vice versa. Jack's common stock
will become preferred and Jill’s
preferred stock will become com
mon, but neither will be listed on
the exchange until the present panic
la cured by Mr. Hoover. (There be
ing no further mergers in prospect,
the meeting was adjourned sine
die).
/ __
A Cooking Reseat.
flat rock, s. C., janny the 9, 1929
deer mr. editor:—
1 hope my wife to cook supper the
other night and we fixed up a macky
rony pie which was so fine 1 thought
t would rite yop a reseat for same
so’s you could print It and help some
other hungry sole to enjoy a good
meal, and here it is:
_
1— Take a big fat hen—if you can
wetch her, that is—if you all raise
hens, and tie her hind legs together
and poke her under your left arm
and take her to the grocery stoar
and swap her for a box of macky
rony and some cheese and a small
can of milk ansoforth.
2— Ask yore grocery man to send
this stuff out to yore house at once,
and that will give you a chance to<
ride home with his boy on the truck,
as he keeps a truck to deliver stuff
in which chain stores don't do and
they don’t buy hena nuther, und
send the boy on back to the stoar
after you all get home.
3—Then send yore wife out to the
wood pile to cut some wood tuid
when It has been fetched in, tell
her to get a pan if possible out of
the pantry and clean the potatoes
out of same which was left from
dinner and grease it good with some
lard if she happens to have any, and
if not, try butter if your nabor has
any.
♦—Brake up the macy ronf in
small sticks about as long as my
finger which was cut off in the gin
enduring the spanish-american war
and put them in a bowl and muss
up yore lb. of cheese by Crumbling
same betwtxe her hands and then
pore the can of milk on the ingredi
ments and stir with a spoon if you
have no fork till the mack rony
looks like cheese and the chceso
looks like macy rony.
8—See if the fire has went out In
the stove, and if it has, make her
blld a nother one. and then set the
pan on the stove where it aint too
hot so's it wont burn and then drop
Id a small hunk of butter, if there is
any left after you grezz the pan,
and sprinkle on some salt and pep
per and then let the atuff blubber
for about 2 hr. and when It looks
like the macy rony Is going to split
in two, set It on the table and ring
the bell.
6—While yore wife is coming cut
of the kitchen after washing her
hands to get ready to eat, you go
ahead and hepp yore self and take
all of the macy rony pie and ^'lve
her the cold collars that was left
over yestlddy, as vegetables is bet
ter for wlmmen onner count of the
nardenlng of the arteries ansororth.
rite or foam If you want to print
this and go ahead and do so.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
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YORK JUDGE IS GIVEN PIN
THROUGH 12-YEAR REQUEST
York, 8. C.—The request of a
man in Thi#masville, dead for 12
years and never heard of by G. P.
Smith, Judge of probate here, caus
ed Judge Smith to come Into pos
session today of a handsome scarf
pin that bears a combination of
Masonic and Odd Fellow emblems.
The pin was presented to Judge
Smith by John S. Thompson of
Thomasville, after Judge Smnn
had performed the ceremony that
united Mr. Thompson in marriage
with Miss Janie L. McBride of Lex
ington. In making the gift Mr.
Thompson gave an interesting ex
planation for the donation. "The
pin," he said, "was given me by my
father, who died 12 years ago. He
4pld me to keep it until I married
and then to present it to the man
who performed the wedding cere
mony, if he were qualified to wear
it—that is, if he were a Mason and
an Odd Fellow.”
Since Judge Smith is a member
of both fraternal ordcre, there was
no barrier to his accepting the
present.
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