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Entered a# -second class matter .Janu-.i • i, 15 »• at the postottwe
at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act, of Cons-' > . March 3. IB7»
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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.
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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
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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 ”
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—said: “In its essence, thrift is self
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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.
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J. T. BOWMAN
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