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Shelby Growth, 1920-1930, Tops All N. C. Citizs, Census Survey By University News Lztter Shows • CONTINUED FROM PAC1E ONE > ly one hundred and forty-two thou sand inhabitants. Exactly half of these places grew more rapidly than the state as a whole. Two were not incorporated ten years ago. Four others more than doubled in size. While a con siderable number experienced large gains, the group as a whole gained leas rapidly than the larger places. Fourteen gained less than ten per cent, while f.ve actually last popu lation. These are mainly trade' towns and their growth is depend- j ent upon the conditions in the sur- j rounding trade terr.tory. As a rule, the strictly trade and banking towns j in tills group did not gain as rap idly as the small towns ot this group with industries in addition to trade and banking. From 500 To 1,000. Finally, there are 102 Incorporated ( places In the elate ranging in size, from five hundred to one thousand | inhabitants. These places we might, designate as the very small towns, as distinguished from the 237 ytl- j lages with fewer than five hundred, inhabitants with which we are riot here concerned. There very small towns appear to have increased at about the same rate as the sub-census size towns above one thousand inhabitants. One-half of them increased more rapidly than the state as a whole, that Is, above twenty-four percent. Six were not incorporated or not reported as towns ten years ago. Penny Column FOR BEST PRICE on Harness, Good Horse Collars, H i p Straps, Check Lines see Washburn’s ~ Cleveland Hardware Co. ltc OLIVER STALK Cutters & Drag Har rows - Sold By Cleve land Hardware Co. It Test quality Coal and Wood sold by Cleveland Hard ware Co. Phone 73. “QUICK DELIVERY on Coal Orders. Best C'mlitv. Phone 35 or 73. Washburn Coal Co. ltc *P HO N E 73 FOR y ur hardware needs. Quid: Service. Best prices. Cleveland Hardwa* e Co. Wash burn's Place. ltc Ended Ird'gestion; Built Up System "I can’t remember when I’ve been In better all-around health than I am now since taking Sargon,” de dared Edlow J. Jones, 246 Glen St., S. W., Atlanta EDI OW J. JONES “I suffered terribly frith indig’s turn Deiore lasing eargon. My ioou soured In my stomach and I'd have an awful bloated feeling. I’ve suf fered with constipation since I Was a child and my shin was yellow and my tongue coated. My whole sys tem was badly rundown and weak “Sargon ts the first medicine that gave me permanent relief. The indigestion and other troubles are over and my whole system feels toned up and strengthened. The Sargon Pills over came my con stipation entirely and my tongue and skin cleared up. Sargon Is a great medicine Sold In S'-'f'by by Clevelrnd firuc. Co., and In Kings Mountain by Sum mers Drug Co. advt. Five others more than doubled their Inhabitants. More than one-fourth grew at retarded rates, while eigh teen actually lost population. The total population of these 102 Incor porated small towns Is 72,008. These very small towns are pre-* vailing trade centers, many of them without banks or any Industry. Their inhabitants live principally oy catering to the demands of the sur rounding trade teritory, and the growth of the towns reflects the sur rounding conditions. Often where these small towns are near larger trade centers, they have grown slow ly or have actually lost population. Improved highways have helped some of the small towns, while others hnve not bcnefltted from good reads and motor cars. However, a safe guess would be that the small towns of North Carolina have held their own better than In most other states during the last decade. Even the small town ; seem to have shar ed in the phenomena) growth of the the state has experienced during .he last decade. There is a marked tendency every where for cities to grow much more rapidly than towns, and for villages to decline In population. There Is that tendency in North Carolina, but it certainly Is not as pronounced as In many other states. Most of our small towns seem to be holding their own. At least this has been trite for the last decade. Whether they can hold their own In the fu ture remains to be seen. wnr towns rrusjrer. The economic foundations of cities and towns are manufacture, trade, banking, transportation, and pro fessional services. Borne places have all these in a balanced ratio. Others are pronouncedly industrial, trade, and bnnlcing or transportation cen ters, and they prosper or suffer as their particular business prospers or suffers. North Carolina has towns and cities representing both multi ple and rlngle foundations. General ly speaking the multiple foundation centers have grown more rapidly than the single foundation centers. I The strictly trade and service cen ! ters have not kept pace with those j places with an Industrial mud-sill. The piedmont towns and cities have j grown far more rapidly than have tho e of less Industrial regions. For instance take the first group, places .above ten thousand. Note the rate of growth of Shelby, Greensboro, j High Point, Durham and Charlotte I compared with Wilmington, New (Bern, Kinston. Elizabeth City, and Wilson. Finally, it might be observed that North Carolina is peculiar In that her industry is not concentrated, but widely scattered over the state, i Throughout the piedmont, and over J much of the we t coastal plains and j mountains, almost every town, large land small, inis one or more indus j tries. Often industries are out in the open country, or in unincorporated towns and cities. There are many unincorporated mill Centers that are much larger than some of the Incor porated places. North Carolina best illustrates a decentralized urban and Industrial development, which Is 'generally advantageous to Industry, to the towns, and to te surround ! Ing trade territory. This is probably the main reason why such a large I ratio of our half-thou and lncor I porated towns and cities have grown o rapidly during (he lost decade. There are advantages to having one | large city in a state, but all In all many thriving towns are preferable j to one city. Table Given. | The following table shows the pop ■ ulat ion and Increase of the cities lover 10.000 In the 10-year period: Percent Rank * Town 1930 pop. Increase 1920-1930 1— Shelby . ........ 10.789 199.0 2— Greensboro - .. 53,569 169.7 3— Htgh Point ..... 36.745 156.8 4— Durham ........ 52,037 1 39.6 5— Charlotte - .... 82,675 78.4 6— Thomasvtlle .... 10.090 77.8 7— Rocky Mount .. 21,412 68.0 8— Winston-Salem . 75,274 55.3 9~ Raleigh . ...._ 37 379 53.1 10- Fayetteville .... 13 049 47.0 11- Statesvllle . 10,490 32.9 12- Gastonia .. 17,093 32.8 13- Goldsboro. 14,985 32.7 14- Asheville ....... 50,193 32.3 15- SallsbUry_... 16,951 22.1 16- Concord ........ 11,820 19.4 17- Wilson —__ 12,613 18.9 18- Klnston ...._ 11 362 16.3 19- EUzabeth City .. 10.037 12 5 Decrease 20- New Bern ...... 11,981 —1.8 21- Wilmington .... 32,270 —3.8 To Study “Perfect Wife." Ames. la.—TheMowa State col lege will give a course In “home relationship" next September, the subject being the “perfect wife ” Re Yourself! first Co-ed--“Is anybod” look ing?” Second Co-ed—“No." First Coed—"Then we don't have to smoke." New Style Judgment Day, Talk about *xi»t*ment To make the peshle look up, Walt ’till Cartel tv’-m-ets. On a nation-wide boook-up. /- ^ Nobody’s Business By On McGee .':t=_ news from flat rock, the holly days passed off verry quitely Here ana oniy a iew iouts i got drunk, and they seemed to be i strangers. Just 2 axcidents took ! iplace, as followers: the Christmas] tree at mrs. smith's ketched on fire and burnt her a right smart betwixt the corridor and the front door where she throwed It out, and mr. wllklns got dog bit by a dog wnen he tried to play old sandy claws and his dog dlddent know him. they are all mutch better now. Including the dog. the bread line Is growing some shorter every day onner count of the town counsell has set up a wood yard and when men come to beg for a few ntshlons, but befoar get ting same, they hafter cut wood till they give out, and noboddy Is com ing mutch except their wives who can't cut wood, and the chjliuns. the folks here think hard times will last for at least 2 yr longer when the dlmmercrats will take charge of the govvernment and straighten j things out. our little town was made sad last Wednesday when word come that a hit and run lord drlvver had hit mr, sam green’s wife's grampaw oe twlxt the post offls and his home at cedar grove where he had gone to mail some letters he had his wife to rite her kinfolks not to come up to visit then* till June or mcbbe aug ust, and his llsents number was b 234356. so he sed and turned It over r,0 uie pouseman Here. out wo an | felt better when we found out that It was not mrs, green's grampaw, but another old man by the name of bulwlnkle who was no kin to the green's a-tall. most of our citizens Is farmers, but like to live In town, and they have comments to ride around to hunt up some monney to try to make another crop on as It dlddent, rain anny to amount to annythtng here In Julie and September, a com mittee has benn picked out to rite or foam mr. oover to put us down for some monney on his drowth program which the republicans al most had a fight about, and as no boddy voted for mr. hoover here except the allins, everyboddy thinks it would be best to let him pull the ropes. If they have anny to pull, (he Is back in the party though now, but he will not tell that.) well, mr. editor, that la nearly all of the news from here at this time, the filling station and the three stoars complain about cash being powerful scarce, but we notls that the 14 Instalments agents la still kept blzzy trying to collect, one of them got 3$ and 2 radios and 4 grafferfoams last week, rite or foam if you ever want anny extry peaces from here. \ yores trulle, mike Clark, rfd. last Between Vs and Oar Kids. Did you ever check up on what old 3anta Claus brought the kids—only two weeks after his visit? We did this very thing last night. The train that he brought our little girl was a pretty train, but now tho engine has no cow-catcher or head-light, and the baggage car Is minus 3 wheels and 4 doors, and the 4 coaches look like they have suffer ed a tail-end collision: they resem ble a pint cup that an elephant stepped on. The sleeping doll is totally blind and the saw dust has become noth ing but saw-dust instead of her in nards. Her hair is In the front yard and her 2 legs are in the garage and X ear is busted. Her tricycle I now has 1 good wheel and 2 bad wheels, but no tires and the axle is bent because little Willie Brown tried to stand up and ride behind her. The doll house and bed are in the waste basket along with the mouth organ (She always enjoyed mouth-organs) Well, hr the first place—old Santa Claus had no business being so lib eral. When we were kids, we were happy when we got an apple and a stick of candy, and perhaps a penny prise box. Toys always lasted most of us several months. We have spoil ed our children and they have never known anything about appreciation. If you were to give your little Jim mie a Ford, he would want to know why in the thunder you diddeot get a Cadillac while you were get .ing. Old Santa Claus was the biggest thing that ever came into our lives between the age of 2 and 10 years. We always found his sleigh tracks in the old fire-place. We even saw where he scratched the side of the house getting up to the top of the chimney, (it seas chimbly then.) We moved the tongs (they were toms then) out of his way, and hung our stockings where he could see them without trouble. We found an orange peeling out near the bam once: he had dropped it while getting Into that sled. <W« divided it up into 9 pieces, 1 for each child, and ate It.) Children are u wise at 4 as we were at 10. They use better lan guage at 6 than we u ed at 16. All of us tivnrrht “aint and ti't and wuatent and fetch and ketched and Little Hope Held for Missing Ocean Fliers Trrmtr v Mrs &E.EVI/ Hart an* I^eut WK/Uam: MacIaren 1 Hope ;Ut Ju- tf.in'a.!.AOt*.c ’‘pay 4 load” aviators, Mrs. Beryl Hart and William S. MacLaren, are still alive, haa been virtually abandoned. No word has been heard from them since they took off from Hamilton, Bermuda, for 4 Horta, Island of Fayal, Azores, •n the aecord lap of their flight I in the monoplane, Tradewind, frorn New York to Paris by way Of Bermuda and the Azores, i Storms prevail over a wide se^ tion of the Atlantic, according to reports from ships at sea. Gardner Explains His Reason For Asking Salary Slash For Public Workers Of This State rake Cut Himself Although Salary Does Not Pay Hi* Expenses. Raleigh. Jan. 15.—Why did Gov ernor O. Max Gardner recommend a general 10 per cent cut In salaries lor all state, county and city em ployes in the state, when up to a lew weeks ago he wa s generally sup posed to be opposed to this course. Governor Gardner * answers this question directly and personally, giving several reasons why he decid ed to make this recommendation and how he happened to reach the con clusion to make it. “I considered the matter for weeks and looked at it from every possible angle before deciding to make the recommendation for a cut In sal aries," Governor Gardner said. “It was only after the most careful and thoughtful consideration that I fin ally decided to make It and only because I thought It was the wisest course to follow, especially for the employes. “In the first place, I became con vinced that the state and its subdi visions could not afford to continue to pay out $100,000,000 a year In taxes for the support of Its various state and local governments, as it has been doing. 1 also became con vinced that the state and its sub division must do one of two things with regard to their personnel If this eoet of government was to be reduc ed, namely that they must either drastically reduce the number of their employes and discharge hun dreds or even thousands of em ployes over the state as a whole, who would indirectly If not directly become dependent upon the state and its citizens and Increase the present unemployment problem, or else reduce the salaries of their present employes. | “After the most careful study and j Investigation I became convinced [that the state, counties, cities and towns are not greatly over-manned jin the number of employes they now have and that in order to re duce the personnel sufficiently to effect any substantial savings, the efficiency of all these governments would be those who received lower i salaries as well as those who prob ably needed employment most. “There was still another consid eration, in that all governmental employes have been assured of steady employment, with no lay offs, and still arc assured of it. while In Industry employment has been and still Is precarious. For while wages have not been extensh e ly reduced in industry thousands of workers have been employed only from one to three days a week, which has brought reduced earnings, though not reduced wages. Em ployes of the state, county and city governments have not had to ex perience this reduction in earnings because they have had steady and regular employment. “So it was that I decided it would ibe much fairer to the employes themselves and to the state as a whole to ask for a general 10 per cent reduction In wages for all gov ernmental employes, school teach ers Included, rather than try to re duce personnel sufficiently to effect a resultant saving and throw thous ands of persons out of employment entirely. Neither did I think it fair and just to recommend discharging hundreds of clerks and stenograph ers who have nothing else to de pend upon for a living other than their present Jobs and for me and | other high state officials to continue toted and teb-emtine and assy fid ity and you-uns and bile on my nake and over-yan and fer-neni and sassy-lrac” was good English—un til we were in the neighborhood of 20 years of age, and some of us have' not outgrown or overeom" that be ief to da". Yc f. we are a long ways from 18 and 94. Most Vivacious Girl on School Campus Mias Helen Wolley, co-ed at the University of Utah, was chosen as the most vivacious girl on the campus of the school in an elec tion by the students recently. De scribed as being n "bundle of sheer pep and activity,” Miss Wolley re ceived her honor without a dissent ing vote, to get our salaries as usual. Bo I recommend that the .cut begin with my own salary, and effect, every of ficial and employe, high and low the same.” Governor Gardner said the pres ent depression had touched him per sonally about as much as it had any one in the state and also that hb salary as governor did not begin tc pay even half of his actual ex penses In Raleigh as governor, it maintaining the governor’s mansion in the manner in which it has beer traditionally maintained. •During 1930, it cost me exactlj 59,600 more to live in Raleigh and meet the expenses incidental to tin maintenance of the governor’s man sion than I received as salary frdir the state as governor, despite the strictest sort of economy,’ said Gov ernor Gardner. ’’And former Cover ! nor A. W. McLean has told me thal | it cost him approximately $25,COO a year while he was governor. But de pite all this. I am willing to have my salary reduced 10 per cent alonf with all the others, because I think j it is the fair and just thing to d< and that it is the only way to make a start toward reducing the ex penses of government in North Car olina.” Much Talk Hm j Of Salary Slash For Public Jobs — I CONTINUED FROM PAOK ONE.' ! —_, ______ • ties and cities or not, is a matter that is to be decided. It might prop erly be left to the governing bodies of these several cities and counties. But, the attitude of some of the state employes is more and more disgusting. We quote from our Ha-, lelgh correspondent: “ "The state employes, including most of the department heads, are of course up in arms against the i salary cut orcposal, while the mar ried women employes are incensed at the bill bv Senator W. H. Pow ell of Columous county to oust them from their Jobs Many of them air , throwing cauticn to the winds and ; telling any one who will listen just what, they think of Governor O. Max Gardner, the budget advisory com mission, which also recommenced ' the salary reduction, and the gener al assembly as a whole. “'Cne state ethplore tcld me ;e: 'erc'rv t -n f t' e r rj t ?•"' 1 cut his salary one dollar below what it was now he would quit,’ said Re presentative C. W. Tatum, of Tyi rell county. ‘1 told him that that was perfectly all right, since there were hundreds who would be giad to get the 10b at any sal a y the state might, yifer. *■ ‘This is characteristic of the at titude of most of the members of the general assembly, who feel that if any of the present state employes don’t like the cut they can quit and that the state can employ hundreds of others who do not have jobs and who are willing to work for anything the state will offer them’." Postponement Of Revaluation Work (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE.) w hat this legislature can do to re-t'l lieve land of its burden, if any could do no harm. The only oppos ing vote cast against the resolution j to report, favorably the Neal bill, in corporating this temporary delay, \ was in an unmistakably certain voice registered in the “no” of Sen ator Ward. The house committee at & subsequent session unanimously voted to report the Neal bill favor ably. ‘‘Larry Moore, president, and Judge F» rtr.er Glenn, secretary of the Tax Relief association, respect ively, appeared before the commit tee and urged that no delay be made in revaluing property, which has al ready started in Buncombe, they said." J. C. Penney Co • Inc. DEPARTMENT•STORE Shelby, N. C. Extra Length Si x 94* Sheets 69c Now yon may hare scrvfceabfc; sheets in a good, large double bed sise at a price that stamps them outstanding values. Sites Before Hemming. Ask for "Wizard” I 81 * 99 | “Nation Wide” | Sheets 87c last year, 81 x 94'A "Nation Wide” Sheets were 98c—this year, you get 81 x 99, 4'/i inches more in length and pay only 94e. 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