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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. t MONDAY WEDNESDAY - Eli 1 DAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mail, per star ,.............---—... By Carrier, per year ..--........ THE STAR PUBLISHING (COMPANY. INC. i.tT. b WEATHERS...-. President arid Editor a ERNES'! IIOEY..Secretary and Eorema 1 REN.N DRUM ..... . . .. . News taint u E DAIIj ..... Adv.i.'Uimu ivianaget Entered a# -second class matter .Janu-.i • i, 15 »• at the postottwe at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act, of Cons-' > . March 3. IB7» We wish to cal) your attention to the ract that it is and nns neen our custom to eharco tis o cents per line for n ajtitiom of respect,, cards of thanks and obituary notices, otter one death, notice nris been published. This will- be strictly adhered to WEDNESDAY EEL. -J* ITU r\\ imvi.es Another job, and without remuneration as might be .ex pected, for the unemployed will be that.of keeping eli * k up on the groundhog'# ability as a weather prognosticator. The Einstein theory, say I ho#e who proclaim to knoyvj just a little bit about it, deads with space, and solves some: puzzle thereof. Well, if it dais -with imrking space, it must be admitted that Old Man business Depression cleared upi that problem far .he* ter than the theory of any scientist. The trial this w eek of a series of eases developing out of Rutherford county’s six bank failures will attract almost as much attention in Cleveland county as in the neighboring] county to the west. First of all, a Cleveland county jury will pars on the charges, and, secondly, the interests of the two counties have always been closely allied. Roth sides of the affair seem to have an even break in one respect with a Cleveland county jury and that break is that each side has a Cleveland county attorney employed. CONTEMPLATING POLITICAL SLICIDE THE CARDS, tin inside rumor from Raleigh has it, are Stacked against Covet nor Gardner's plan to reduce sal aries of public workers ni North Carolina, Maybe they are, but our idea is that those who do the stacking, if they are stacked, will realise before the year is over that Governor Gardner isn’t the only one favoring that measure. Back home, in the home counties of every representative and senator in Raleigh, the majority of the people, hard pressed farmers and harassed business men, are for a reduc tion in State expense. It is pretty generally agreed that about the only way to cut is to cut salaries as the Governor proposes. The income of farmers, the income of business men, and the salaries and wages of practically all working men and women back in the home counties of the law-mak ers hav§ been cut. Why blame them, then, these people who are already feeling the effects of the times, if they are in clined to be riled if the Gardner economy program is throttled in a committee loom, lobbied to death in some smoke-filled hotel room in Raleigh, or voted down on the floor. The citi zens of North Carolina—and by that expression \.e mean that great group of average, hard-working people, the salt of the earth—-will be wanting to know and demanding to know, we believe, the names of the men who kill that measure, if it is killed. And once they know the goose of others may be cooked as seems to be that of the lieutenant-governor and would-be governor who is already classed as bucking the Gardner reduction plans, Expenses cannot he cut, without cutting the overhead Cutting hurts, but back home the cuts have already beei made, and back home the people are saying that those wlu work in, out of, and as a result of Raleigh may as well get ready' to take their medicine. It's only fair. v MORRISON 'GETS ATTENTION THE ACTIVITY of Senator Cameron Morrison, since taking his seat in the Senate, in behalf of a dry Democrat for president in 1932 is attracting considerable attention to the first new senator North Carolina has had in Washington in three decades. The North Carolinian, as. world naturally be expected, Is being given strong support and encouragement by dis organizations and workers. On the other hand, he is com ing in for a certain amount of criticism, one Washington po litical writer going so far as to say that repeated statements may make Mr. Morrison as frantic as was Tom Heflin. This writer, Carlisle Bargeron of the Washington Post, had the following comment in his paper about Senator Mor rison, according to II. E. C. (lied Buck) Bryant, Washington correspondent for the Raleigh News and Observer: “Indeed, there is reason to believe that he may, ns the months pass on, become as frantic as the late Tom Ileflin.” Referring to what he termed the "Simmons-Overman Dynasty,” the writer said of the candidates to succeed them. “Of them. Mr. Morrison was most fortunate in being named to succeed the late Senator Overman. But as soon as he took his seat, even before, he got into a stew, lie split with the regular organization which had honored him by supporting the confirmation of Frank II. McNinch for the Federal Pow er Commission.” The writer continued: “Mr. McNinch is anathema to everything that is regularly Democratic in North Carolina. He was the anti-Smith leader in 1928. And as near as i could gather, Morrison’s reason for supporting him was that they belonged to the same church.” Mr. Bargeron concludes: “This wavering back and forth on the part of Mr. Morrison is bound, sooner or later, to make him dizzy and the prospects are that his dizziness will be reflected in the Senate.” THIS NEW SCHOOL BILL. NORTH CAROLINA seems to have a Wicker-sham report ol f| her own in this new legislative bill which provides for State-8upn«*rted six months schools. No one to know fe ■ > ■. ' : <! .;oly just what it means, how many, if any, teeth there are in it, a rl where the money wilt come from to finance the plan. There are, however, many people, particularly in; the inde.- • vial Piedmont, who fear they know whorl the' money will * orao from. Opp onents of the measure, or, rather, those who are’ op pure’-Is of it until they are sure industry coupled with a! rales tax will not have to pay the bill, see, they say, behind; the move rent an attempt to saddle off some of EasternJ C !ina's indr' tedness upon the industrial interests of this' section. One llaleigh correspondent, commenting upon the! bill after it had passed both the house and senate, declared that it w ; too belief of many that the passage of the bill would not mean that the State would support all six months schools, but that, instead, it paved the way for an enlarge ment of the equalization fund whereby the smaller counties would get more money from the fund Yvith which to operate the • schools. That would moan, of course, that the larger and wealthy counties would be placed in the position of ex tenpin;; more aid to other counties. W hen the measure was in the house and senate it was opposed by practically all representatives from counties in the Piedmont area. Some of these men were not set against StaIt -supported schools hut desired to know the method of financing first. Represent alive Edwards, of this county, opposed the measure because he could not be assured, he said, that the industry of this section would not have to foot the bill. Senator McSwain, of Cleveland, and Senator Clark son, of Charlotte, were among the few senators in the Pied mont area who voted for the measure. In doing so Senator McSwain explained, in a communication to The Star, that he would be opposed to a sales tax method of financing State supported schools. In Mecklenburg Senator Clarkson is coming in for some criticism for supporting the measure while all the county’s representatives in the house opposed it. The Clarkson atti tude says The Charlotte News “is not the view of his con stituency. We should imagine that at least 90 percent of the people of this community,’’ The News continued, “are against the measure..It is somewhat surprising that lie should give his favor even to the principle embodied in the bill.” The editor of the Ivey store news takes this slant of .he school measure: “That school tax row over at Raleigh last week ought to make all those who live in the industrial Piedmont feel ■pretty proud. They are the only people who have anything that’s worth taxing and it looks as if they are going to have to practically support all the schools and build all the roads from now on. “We wonder if this is why our own Senator Clarkson left his own camp and voted with the agrarian east. “Well, the next thing we expect to see ’em do to us is stick on a luxury or sales tax and have the whole State label ed ‘pauper.’ As we have said before, no business person can rest easily while that Legislature is in session.” One thing certain about it, this section of North Caro lina will be worried no little bit until the tangle is straight ened out. Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS By KENN DRUM. Punishment should he sure, certain and severe for flfcwlam artists who take advantage of the superstition of -colored people. hast week a gypsy fortune teller robbed a Shelby colored woman of more than $300. That was outright robbery, but it wacn’t the first time the same household had been hit. The money stolen, incidentally, was the savings of the colored woman's daughter, a school teacher. Some years ago, this department hears, a negro man, thought to have reposed in him some of the mysterious powers of a witch doctor, approached the same colored woman who was robbed of $300. He in formed her, the story has it, that some enemy had "cunjered” her, or had cast a spell over her, and that harm would come to her or her fam ily unless she did something to throw off the hex. In telling her about the "cunjcr" her found out that she had $100 savings hid about the house. When the worried colored woman asked him what to do to break the spell over her and her family, sire was told that she should let him have the $100 so that he might place it in a can and bury it under the front doorstep. If it remained there for 10 days, he said, without her even looking about St, the spell would be broken. She turned over her money without suspecting a trick. The next day her fears about ner money got the best of her superstition about the ill consequences of being “cunjered," and she looked tinder the doorstep. The tomato can was buried there, but the $100 was gone , Scores of such tricks, a commercialized, crooked play on supersti tion. are worked among the colored people of Shelby each year. The col ored people could soon break It up by reporting all such things to police headquarters. Shelby Shorts: Prank Hoey, who for many years was never seen In public without a cigar in his mouth, has started smoking a pipe. There is in Shelby a charming married woman who, L. H. tells us, once played leading roles on the New York stage and has appeared in the movies . . .. Dick Dudley, the student aviator home from Texas, would like to organize a flying school in Shelby. But we are going to grow cot j ton. y'know, out where the airport was .... A well-known Shelby man, believe it or not, takes his dip of snuff twice daily . . A. D. J., who thinks less of cold weather than Tom Heflin does of the pope, says that the groundhog made a punk prediction Monday. There'll be no more really bad weather until fall, he says. We’ll be seeing.The show ing here of the Birth of a Nation In a sound film had a certain psy chological effect; It caused one man to say to himself, "I guess I haven't much right to kick about conditions after seeing what the Southerners of those days lived through” . . . . He's right at that, but had you no ticed that after you’ve spent it one of these new undersized dollar bills leaves just as-big a hole in your pocket as did the spending of one of the big ones .... ‘ Maybe,” says a sophisticated young Shelby stenographer, "they started this Austin automobile business so that miniature golf players might ride from one hole to another” .... The death of Junius Auten, former Shelby high grid player, brings back memories of a foot ball team that was a man-sized outfit Write this one down In your record book, unbelievers: In the last 12 months a Shelby man made a long distance telephone Nall to a well known N.-.-t York chef to inquire just how .iamb chops «•**»*■** * * * ’ r •».- •>*** them for his patrons. The topic of beautiful women Is u popular one, more so, perhaps, with men, but with women, too. Recently a reader declared that a certain young lady, M. W., was the most beautiful in Snelby The statement started the curious guessing and quite a number of young men to applauding. Today a man with the same Initials— M. W.—'lows as how a student nurse at the Shelby hos pital is a clase competitor for the other young lady named. He refused to give her initlals-r-perhaps'b's going to tell her privately some of these evenings. And, really, that “must be the mast pleasant way of doing such things. A former Shclbyite, who lives In another state and has lived in other countries, tells us that in six homes of Shelby natives who now live else where he has seen clippings from this column filed away. They all had to do with the "remember whens” about Shelby of other days. "Those of us who once lived here and remember the old burg as she was in other days and the people as they were then could hardly wait for the next series of reminiscences.” We'd like very much, kind sir, to keep them going, but we've begged and begged the old folks and lately they’ve refused to send in a single list of “remember whens.” If some of them do not come across pretty soon, we may start stirring memories ourself by going over to the court house and finding out from the old records whose granddads were hang ed for stealing horses, or fined for making blockade liquor without li cense, or were in trouble for this, that-and the other. Consider that a threat, you folks who once helped us stir up Shelby's musty but very en tertaining past. For that matter, this colyum can blame near remember when only two local people knew how to play golf. One was John Schenck, sr,, who drove to--Charlotte':.each week for his game, and the other was Federal Judge Yates Webb who remained in congress just a year or two longer than he had planned to so that he might pummel that little white, ball about the links up there. Walter Winehell tips 'em off in his column about the new games as well as the new babies in New York, so it's only fair, we suppose, to pass along the word that the latest favorite game, one that is growing, in Shelby Is “Michigan.” It's played with the same cards as bridge, set back—and poker. This Jurist Slaps A Fine On Himself Evanston, III.-—When Police Judge II. Porter called his court to order Judge Ilarfy II, Porter was the only defendant present. The* magistrate picked up the only arrest sheet, given him by his desk, and, addresing the va cant chair, charged Judge Harry H. Porter with parking his au tomobile too long in one place. Porter then stepped hack to the bench, sat down, and pro nounced the verdict, “guilty.” Opening the court records, lie made an entry, took $1 from one pocket and put it into another, wrote “paid" opposite the entry, closed the book, and went home. Must Plant Gardens. Though farmers of 18 North Car lina counties ni*y make applica tions for loans from the drought relief fund, no loan wil' he granted to any person who will not plant a garden and grow the feed for his livestock this year. BAKING POWDER s SAME PRICE forovtr WOrs MILLIONS OF POUNDS USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT from COUGHS Respinol prevent* little coughs from growing big—it stops big coughs from racking your body—it allows roughened throats to heal and get well. Used in hospitals for 20 years. Safe, non-habit-forming, nothing to upset stomach or diet. Prtc£ 50c. All The Same. A man and his wife were having tea in a fashionable restaurant. “Shall we dance?” asked the hus band, rising from his chair. "That wasn't the orchestra play ing,” replied his wife. “The waiter dropped a tray of china ” 666 LIQUID or TABLETS Cure Colds, Headaches, Fever 6«6 SALVE CURES BABY’S COLD HOSIERv HOSPITAL, Inc (Of Charlotte N C.) flr^nrb At Mrs. Harmon'* Hemstitching Shop . iUnder Cbovnlate Shop) Hosiery and Knitted Good* N’eatlj Repaired. All Hove Most He Canxtdered. CALVIN COOLIDGE —said: “In its essence, thrift is self control. Industry and judgment are required to achieve it. Contentment and economic freedom are its fruits.,” “Thrift is the price of freedom.” If you are in debt, you are not free. Neither are you free if you have no means with which to take advantage of opportunities. It pays to saVe, sensibly and syste matically. You will find this bank a good place for your savings. 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