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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mail, per rear .....____....___.... ga.flo By Carrier per rear _....____■._ isou THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LEE B WEATHERS__President and- ttcntoi 8 ERNEST HOEV ______....... Secretary und Foreman RENN DRUM ... News fcoitoi L E DAIL .*»*.:_.... Advertising Manage! Entered as second class matter January 1. 1005 at ttie posted!ire at Shelby. North Carolina under the Act o! Congress. March 3. IH7V We wish to call your attention to the tact that tt is and has neen OUr custom to ehnrce five cents per line for resolutions of resport, cards of thanks and obituary notices, alter one death notice nas been published This will be strictly adhered to. FRIDAY. FEB. 6, 1931 TWINKLES The groundhog and the Wickersham commission made similar reports. Some places the woodchuck saw his shadow, and nt other places he did not. Dawes is the right man to lead the Republican party How, Robert Quillen says, because the party has never need ed a ‘Vussin’ ” leader any worse. K our chattering congress and stubborn senate had the Interests of the drought sufferers as much at heart as Will Rogers, the conditions existing in the stricken nreas would Lave been cleared up weeks ago. Josephus Daniels’ Raleigh News and Observer says that It was the little ambulance chasing lawyers who for ten years prevented this State from .passing a Workmen's Com pensation law, "and even now there are those who wish it repealed." It was further pointed out that "the high-class lawyers accepted the law, though it denied them the big fees that came out of the pockets of people injured in accidents." A frank, yet straightforward, presentation of the true situ ation. THE BREAD LINE-CURE THE ADVICE BEING PASSED out by the county welfare officer and leading farmers on the proper method of preventing the recurrence next winter of charity problems BUch as we have faced this winter seems to be sound, and certainly should be followed. When a man becomes ill he not only seeks temporary relief but he, also, strives to eradicate the cause of the illl ness so that he will not become ill again. The same, logic should apply to financial ills in a community. This year a public fund had to be sot aside to feed scores of hungry people in Cleveland county. Similar conditions existed elsewhere, of course, but what we are getting at Is that there is a way to prevent repetition of the bread line here. If very Cleveland county fanner, landowner and ten ant, puts enough acreage in food and feed crops for home use, there will be very litle suffering or hunger in this coun ty next year. Frankly, no farmer is making very much of a success when he does not produce enough food for his own use and enough feed for his own stock. Even if cotton should sell as low as five cents per pound next year, the sensible farmer who learned his lesson last fall and this winter will not suffer, because this Spring he will be sure to have enough to eat next fall regardless of how the cash crops turn out. Cleveland county farmers, boosted as the greatest cot ton growers in North Carolina and as fanners who have at tracted wide attention, have failed to feed themselves. Each year thousands of dollars go out of this county for hay and other feed which could be produced here. The total amount that goes out of this county each year for food and feed will run abpvc two million dollars. A big percentage of the feed xor our livestock is produced elsewhere, and a big amount of the food we cat comes in cans from other sections. That, once you think it over, is a pretty severe indictment against our system of farming. North Carolina farmers will remain poor, says Prof. S. H. Hobbs, jr., an authority on rural economics, until they learn to feed themselves and the city-dwellers of the State. “To feed themselves first,” Professor Hobbs asserted, “and then to organize agriculture so as to capture the State’s urban market is the great agricultural opportunity which is Open to the farmers of North Carolina today. North Caro lina sends to other states more than £200,000,000 annually for food and feed, about 90 percent of our urban food comes into the state, mostly in cans/ and our own farmers supply virtually none of the finished food products. That North Carolina farmers will be forced by the low cotton and to bacco prices to grow more food crops and less cash crops is the one good thing that I believe may develop from the pres ent depression.” > MAY WORK OUT RIGHT FROM SEVERAL SOURCES, and from supporters of both sides of the controversy, The Star understands that the McSwain bill to consolidate three county offices may work out, on a compromise basis, to the agreement of all concern ed, particularly the average citizen who is primarily interest ed in good government and economical government. The original bill as introduced in the Senate would con solidate the offices of county accountant, lax auditor and tax supervisor. Upon the passage of the bill Senator Ale Swain included a paragraph that would appoint A. E. Cline, present accountant, to the consolidated office provided Mr. Cline would resign as county commissioner. Another clause provided that after the present term the office ba elective. The separation of the two offices of county commission er and county accountant, or auditor, is basically a good step. The Star, and many thoughtful citizens, in opposing the' original bill did so with the belief that a governmental sys tem operating as smoothly and as economically as the county! government here should not be tinkered with too much. Two features of the bill which did not appeal to many were the making of it an elective office and the provision that Mr. Cline should resign immediately as commissioner to accept (he appointment to the new office. Taking the latter angle up first, it would be unfair to the people to have a man resign from the commission board to which tlley elected him. Mr. Cline was elected as com missioner for a term of two years. If the majority of the citizens had not desired his election, he would not have been elected. Therefore, it seems only fair that if he does ac cept the consolidated office, he should remain as commis sioner until the end of the term as he was elected to do. Thereafter the regulation prohibiting one man from holding both offices should go in force. The elective angle of the proposed consolidation office is the feature to which there is more opposition. Such an office should be appointive and kept out of politics. It is only sound reasoning that a capable man holding such an office as the consolidated office of county auditor, or county manager, cannot remain popular with everyone. No man who handles the purse strings and handles them economical ly can be popular with all. Too many people sell things to the county or try to sell them for all to be peased. By the present county manager form of government here, and the change made by the consolidation would not alter the plan a great deal, those who sell things to tho county must show that their qualify and price are the best to be had before the sale is made. By the antiquated method*still used by some counties, various individuals employed by the county pur chase articles needed here and there and not in volume lots. At the end of the month the bills were filed with the board and paid. No modern business man would dare operate his business in that manner. It is a method this county has grown away from and should remain away from. When the majority of the citizens of Cleveland county elected three county commissioners they should certainly be able to elect three men honest and capable enough to ap point a good man to the consolidated office of county audi tor. If the office were elective, the winner might be a popu lar man and a vote-getter but without enough ability to take charge of a half million dollar business such ns this county conducts. On the elective plan we would be having a new auditor every term or two. One does not learn how to effi ciently direct such a big business overnight and by the time one man got settled and knew what he was doing he would be making somebody mad because he refused to spend coun ty money to please some selling agent, some section, or some faction. Immediately opposition would develop and ere long another man would be in office. IT WOULD NOT TAKE MANY YEARS UNDER THAT SYSTEM TO INCREASE TIIE TAX RATE THAT IS NOW THE SECOND LOWEST IN NORTH CAROLINA. After all, that is what citizens and taxpayers put foremost. As we understand the proposed compromise the bill will consolidate the three offices, making the office appointive, and regulating that after the present term no member of the board of commissioners may hold the consolidated office of auditor. ' That, The Star believes, may be the best solution of the controversy. The only major alteration from the original bill as introduced would be the making of the office appoint ive instead of elective. Senator McSwain, who introduced the bill, personally favored the apopintive plan, we under stand, but made it an elective office because certain con stituents asked it. He will, he has said, not fight the alter ation which would put through hip bill practically as is ex cept making the office appointive instead of elective, Repre sentative Edwards may, reports have it, support the consoli dation in the house provided the office is made appointive and provided that Mr. Cline be permitted to remain as com missioner until the end of the present term. His view is that no two men or small group of men have the right to go to Raleigh and legislate out of office a man the citizens of the county elected to office with a handsome majority. The compromise bill, we say, will meet with approval. Everyone, of course, will not be satisfied. Such is impossible. No. 1 Township News Of Week Misses Jolly Gives Party to Young People. Farmers Are Busy Plowing. (Special to The Star.) No. 1 Township, Feb. 6.—Misses Elsie and Flossie Jolly gave the ; oung people qf this community a party Saturday night. A large crowd was present and a good lime was re por ted by all. The farmers of this community are taking advantage of the pretty weather by getting their fields and gardens ready for early planting. There has been several corn shucklngs this past week wh ch were well attended. Mrs. W. P. Byars and Mr. L:c Byars were visitors at the home of J. D. Byars Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. George Humphries, Mrs. Grigg Humphries and children spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Bulo Earls. Miss :Guinetn Bailey was he week end guest of M.ss Inez Da v Miss Minnie Hoppci visited >er sister, Mrs. Roy We'oh in Shcloy Saturday night. Miss Eloise Hamn k spent Sat urday night with relatives in Gi!f ney. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Jolley v!si«.«d Mr. and Mrs. Mack **lly Sunday Mis* Louise Rupps was th# guert Sunday of Miss Lily Bailey. Miss Ollle Turner visited Miss Eloise Hamriak Sunday Mr .and Mrs. R, R. Oreen visit'd a* the home of Joe E1V? Mr and M-*. Bl"n» navis of ing Springs "islted Mr. and Mi - Rome Davis Sunday. Mr. and Mrs, M. B. Hawkins of Gaffney, S. C. called at the home of J. D. Byars Sunday afternoon. Mr. Thomas Hopper was the Sat urday night guest of Raymond Hamrick. Arland Hawkins spent Sunday with Herman Humphries. Many from this community at tended the preaching services at Grassy Pond Sunday night. A fellow has a wide range of pos sibilities now to select from: He car. be land poor, stock-market poor, factory poor, or wheat poor,—Detroit News. Tragic Toll Life Taken By Syphilis Raleigh,—For the year 1930 ! physicians signed death certifi cates certifying that 184 people died of syphilis in North Caro lina, Dr. Cooper of the State board of health announced. | Naturally that number repre sents but a small fraction of those whose deaths were caused Indirectly by the disease. Quite j a large per rentage of deaths oceurlng in the three hospitals for the insane were directly or indirectly attributable to syph ilis. The ravages and ramficatiohs of a virculent, untreated cace of syphi lis are sometimes too serious to he believed, were the facts not so well known to the medical profession. To prevent a further spread and to effectly curb the dissemination of the disease is a major medical, pub lic health, and moral problem. Some suggestions as to how this may be done are made by Dr. Cooper as follows: “Take the treatment of patients in the active stages of syphilis out of the hands of quacks and prescrib ing soda fountain clerks. “Make available all general prac tioners of medicine the newer meth ods of modem treatment at prices which will enable them to treat through to conclusion the poorest of patients, “As far more innocent peepte contract this disease than a com placent public is willing to admit, remove the false taboo and turn on the white light of publicity in com mon sense discussions of means to eepe with the problem. ‘ Strengthen the marriage law re quiring a health certificate by rigid enforcement, and broaden Its scope by making it apply to both parties to the contract alike. “Teach the present generation and the one coming on by every means available the plain fact, that of all the laws of earth and the uni verse made by God or man, a viol ation of sexual laws exemplified in promiscuity always results in mere nenalties for the offending person than are exacted in any other way.” Talking-picture containing only women characters is tc be filmed in Hollywood. Some may say that scarcely anything could be more ap propriate than that.—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Raleigh Woman Tells Of Powers “I was going down hill fast; most .everything I ate disagreed with ine. 1 and I’d have indigestion so bad I uld hardly sleep at night. This 1 L -i MRS. EASTER SMITH kept me feeling weak and nervous. 1 was also troubled with headaches and constipation. Saigon and Sar r.on Pills not only relieved me of indigestion and that weak nervous feeling, but my bowels move regu larly now and I'm not troubled with biliousness or headaches. I eat and sleep better and feel stronger than I have in years.”—Mrs Easter Smith 5 Morine St., Raleigh. Sold In Shelby by Cleveland Drug Co., and in Kings Mountain by Summers Drug Co. adv. Baking LPowder, ounces Roberts Tabernacle M. E. Church Notice i Sunday is expected to be a high ' Jay at the above named church. At 110 a. m. Sunday school, Ellison Cromer, Supt. At 11 a. m. the pas i tor Dr. E. L. Johnson will preach j from a subject "Arise, Let Us Go Hence,” At 3 p. m. a joint program will be rendered by all of the local boards. This program will consist of papers and solo. At 5:30 Epworth league will meet. A splendid pro gram is expected. Dr. E. L. Johnson, Pastor. A. K. Roberts, Secretary. INFLUENZA SPREADING Checks Colds at once with 660 Take it as a preventive. Use 666 Salve for Babies. EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE. Having qualified as executrix of the es -ate of W. A, Webb, deceased, late of .ieveland county. North Carolina, this Is ¥o notify all persons having claims against he .estate of the said deceased to ex libit them to the undersigned at Bolling springs, N. C\. on or before the 28th day of January. 1932, or this notice will be Headed In bar of their recovery. AH per ons indebted to said estate will please •lake Immediate payment. This the 28th day of Januarv, 1931. C AND AS VELLE TASER WEBB, Ex ecutrtx of W. A. Webb, Deceased, ^utnn, Hamrick & Harris, Atfcys. fit Jan30o I TRUSTEE S SALE. 'First Published In Cleveland Star, Jan uary 18, 1931.) By virtue ot the power ol sale contain ed in a certain deed of trust executed by Mrs. Claudia Sleuman Abernathy and Husband, R. M. Abernathy to me as trus tee, securing an Indebtedness to Clarence D- Spangler, said deed of trust being re .orded In book 163, page 286 of te regls .er's office of Cleveland county, North Carolina, and default having been made In ■he payment of said Indebtedness, and laving been called upon to execute the trust. V aa trustee will sell at 12 o'clock M., on Monday, February 16th, 1831 it the court house door In Shelby, N. C . or cash to the highest bidder, subject to wo prior deeds of trust held by the Shel ly Building and Loan Association, Shel ly, N. C., and recorded In book 153, page 105, and book U5. page 258. of the reg ister's office of Cleveland county. N. C, also, subject to any and .all taxes ana irior liens and encumbrances, the ici owing described real estate: Located In No. 8 township, Cleveland county, N. C., In the town of Slielby: Be ginning at a stake at the Intersection of Jastslde road and Buttle-street, and runs dience with Eastatde road N. 2'V-W. 100 eet to a stake, corner of lot No. 11, thence with line of lot No. 11 west 110 feet to a ,take, corner of lot sold to J. H. Whit worth and wife, Eva Mary Whitworth -hence with Whitworth's line 8 2'a e .00 feet to the north edge of Buttle street hence with North edge of Suttle street :ast 110 feet to the beginning, being the property conveyed to Clyde Short and wife Alda Short by Y. M. Gladden and wife -th«l J Gladden by deed dated January 18, 1925, and recorded In the office ol eglster of deeds for Cleveland county, N In book 3-Q at page 234, to which eference is hereby made The purchaser, in order to secure r ;ood title, will have to pay. In addition to bia bid, all taxes and prior liens and en cumbrances. This January 18th. 1931. P. CLEVELAND GARDNER, Trustee. 4t Jan 16c CALVIN COOLIDGE —said: “In it* 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 mean# 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. i UNION TRUST CO. DIRECTORS CHAS. C. BLANTON J. T. BOWMAN E. B. HAMRICK J. H. QUINN J. R. DOVER <J. F. SCHENCK, Sr. DR. L. V„ LEE C. C. HAMRICK L. S. HAMRICK C. H. SHULL J. F. ROBERTS GEO. BLANTON FORREST ESKRIDGE Wm. LINEBERGER R. E. CAMPBELL Z. J. THOMPSON II. F. YOUNG J. L. SETTLE J. A. SETTLE C. RESH HAMRICK Save Sufficiently Save Surely Save Safely STEER YOUR FINANCES by the tried and true Savings Chart SEAS may be rough, winds may be fierce and head-on, but you’ll soon reach the harbor of financial independ ence, if you guide yourself by the Bank Book, by syste matic, week-in and week-out Savings. What is more, you will discover that each day of your journey is sweeter because you have the feeling of security that a Savings Account alone can give you. OPEN A SAFE SAVINGS ACCOUNT TODAY First National Bank SHELBY, N. C.
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