Biography Of King Cotton | First Of Family Hearing The Name May Have Flourish ed In Garden Of Eden—Dates Back To Early Days Of India. China And Egypt. _BY MRS. STEVE BARNWELL— It is not known just when cotton was first heard of, The first of the family bearing that name probably dwelled in the Garden of Eden, and history first mentions cotton as be ing found in either India or China, but does not definitely establish Jts first residence. Cotton: was well known and much sought alter in Egypt, in the earliest days of the glories of King Tut. Some cotton was probably associated with Helen and Paris during the seige and fall of Troy, and latter with the C;pkhts during the pomp and glory of Home. Cleopatra herself loved cotton, aivd he was a frequent: visitor to her palace. Cotton was uext exploited in the European cities and countries and was most popular during the reign Of Louis of Prance, As a result of this favoritism in the French courts we, have at the present time, Toile de Jouy. and Cordurol. In 1621 cototn came to Virginia as a stowaway, having been hidden “in the head of a doll. In the rich and virgin soil of Virginia it soon became acclimated and there it flourished. Its cultivation was lim ited to the clear acreage, and the slave hands available, and after the snowy fleece was picked from the bolls which covered the luxuriant stalks of the plant itself, the sepa rating of thfe seeds from the cotton was a long and painful process, all done by hand. In 1793 cotton became tntimately associated In business with the gin, the brain-child of Eli Whitney. Aft er this cotton rapidly made good, and soon became a figure of note in both the agricultural and business1 world. Then ubk he literally king of all the broad acres of the South- j land, and his kingdom spread from I the comparatively small acreage in| Virginia, the Carolinas and Geor gia, throughout the entire south and embraced what now Is repres ented by many states. Then did the cotton planter build tlte homes which still represent the true epic of the old South. Then did the darkles sing down on the Se vuinee river, and Old Black Joe was the most beloved of tlia blacks. Then did the girls wear crinolines, and then did the Southland really and truly come into its own. The years passed, and those, who had been made wealthy and happy by their associations with King Cotton became disloyal, and would have none of him. King Cottons lady-friends turn ed from him to the sly and yet at tractive gigolo, that guy known us Rayon, who inveigled himself Into their graces by false flattery. Cot ton, who claimed lineage as noble as any, who had been the associate of kings from time immemorial, who was truly the aristocrat of fabrics, who had himself been called king for generations, was turned down' cold by those ladles to whom lie i had given all. Now the day of the gigolo is past. The woman who once allowed their heads to be turned by flattery have realized that after all the old true lovers are best. Again they are hap py In the steadfast affection of cot ton, that boy from the country who has recently made good In a big way. Farm Agent Tells Live-at-Home Plan (CONTINUED PROM PAOB ONB.I atart out with a program of making a living on his farm this year. Ami to do this, If he has tenants on his farm, he must provide some m suns of feeding tenant and Ids family and live-stock. Now if yon nave the money, and planned on buying your food and feed for the tenant and his live-stock, this is different, but we should grow every thing we pos sibly cun and buy as little as pos sible. We hear a great deal of the landlords say that their tenant* will not grow what they suggest. Now I believe if you will go to tliese ten ants, sit down and figure out the amount of filings they need for this 5-ear and tell them how to grow it. if they do not know, I don't. htnk there should be very muoh trouble in solving this problem. If we do have a great many teumts in the county that do not know ho t to grow these crops and. therefore, it is no use to fool with a man too is contrary to tills great need. I wmld suggest every farmer who has ten ants on his farm should set aside! so much lard near his house for the necessary food and feed t rope Near the house makes it easy to give the crop the right attention. Probably we do not know the things we should suggest to our ten ants to grow this spring tor their families and live-stock. Now in aen eral. we know these tilings, how much to plant, how much is needed per person and per animal. From the North Carolina extension de partment, I have secured informs tlon as to the requirements for the different amounts of each -op. I ■would suggest that you sit down ane take your pencil and copy this ar tide, or get it from some other source. Now the exact information needed Is given as nearly as possible, so take this and give a copy to your tenant and help him outline this program The food requirements for one per son for a year is approximately as follows: Wheat ... One and one-naif bu. Com-One and one-half bu. Potatoes (Irish and sw.)_145-lbs Fresh meat .....52-lbs. Fresh poultry__ ..... ....31-lbs, Pork and lard __.. .. ..21-lbs. Eggs —-—...31-dor. Milk ..... ..... ..... .__„.73-£al.: Butter ..... ................ 21-lbf.; Garden ..— ..... .... ... 1 -5-acre 1 Laying hens ... ...... ....... _„io! Figure out from this table the needs for the number in families1 you have on your farm. The requirements for fifty hens for one year: Wheat .... 35-bu Com ..--- --,.44-b’i Oats__ ..... ......... .. 23-bu, Fish or meat meal __..._570 Bone meal_—l’.fl-ibs Only two of these ingredients we should buy. The requirements f-u one dairy cow for one year: Com — .. .. ia-bu. Oats —--... --12-bu. Cotton seed meal ..... __ 500-bu. Wheat bran ..... ..... .... 200 bn. Hay. 6,000-bu Oats —'■_■: 'Jt!-bu. Hay___.... 4,300-ltn. From the above table requirements there Is no need lor any one not to make preparations lor teed nod food crops lor the coming year Some of the farm crops that we should sow this month: Oats, grasses, wheat clover, lea pedeza, pastures, meadows, kudze Some of the garden crops wo should plant this month: Beets, cab bage, carrots, kale, lettuce, mustard, turnip, onions. English peas, Irish potatoes, radish, rape, spinach. The above table Is not only for your tenants, but for your own fm *n If you do not Imre any tenants, this will fill your requirements hist as good, and there is no complete farm that I have ever seen without ) dick ens. hogs and the dairy cow, This table does not include vari ous other things that we might pro duce on our farms, such as cane to make our syrup which every farm er should have and fruit of various kinds for summer use and canned for winter. Town Talk Frank Hamrick, of the T. W. Hamrick Jewelry company, gays ad vertising has proved its real worth He made hi* point by saying that "this depression has been the result of one of the most extensive m in tensive advertising campaigns this country has ever experienced News papers featured hard times radtcvs broadcast hard times, people thought spoke and acted In terms of hard times. Everybody Indulged in hard times and business everywhere was paralyzed with hard times. I never before saw concentrated advertising get such vigorous results." ■ • • • A. M. Hamrick, clerk of Superior court; "We’re going to have plenty of court here now. Federal court all week and recorder's court almost every day with Superior court com ing next week." • • « Ben Cooper, deputy sheriff "Spring fever must be getting them. We had very few arrests and hard ly any activity at ail over the week end.'’ » • • Billy Burns, who doubles in the movies for Harold Lloyd, now visit ing in Shelby. "This weather you folks have here is wonderful. Doesn’t seem right to do anything but go fishing.” Ory Law Is Here To Stay, Says Webb •CONTINCED FROM PAUE ONE > City, is foreman of the grand Jury which will take up matters for the Statesville and Charlotte districts as well as for this district. 11 Prisoners. This morning's session uw the main court room packed with rpec tutors, witnesses, and defendants coming from the several counties of the district. The crowd in town re sembles very much the court week crowds of the old days. Eleven prisoners whose cases will be disposed of were placed in the county fail over the week-end \ Mother of 26 Babes Leads Stork for Prise *«# • .• • Satirical Bequest of Toronto Millionaire Donating Half a Million to Mother Giving Birth to Greatest Number of Children During Ten Years After Ilis Death, Gives Added Incentive to Dominion Birth Rate. i ^ In' 1936 THE, $500,000 MiuW Prize wivt/ cc Ajvaisded P ITT*" Ethet/ CroHWEU/ fe Catherine ^ CViAKVES*^* if«V ■■ nii-in H imtmmm Mfetf I/ETS71? CPjOSY. flew York. Statisticians, whose Job It Ls to keep track of s.icb things, tell us that the birth rate of the United States Is rapidly deUtn ii.g, and that something should be done about it. Well, if it is any ney s to the j alarmist, something is being done Modern Baton Rouge. La . ooaets it I Baby-of tlie-inonth club. The first I child born in that progressive ccm lnunity every month receives gifts from the merchants ransty.fi- from thermometers for the baby's h.. hi to flowers for the mother. But a some of bur patriotic m.l lionaires would iollow the example of Charles Vanca Millar, Kings ectm sel, of Toronto, panada, there never would be cause for a wall about de clining birth rate. Mr. Millar, who diet! October 1927 had the reputation of being an in corrigible practical joker. People who kne w him arc very fond of re lating his many and various esca pades, but the greatest Joke r.e ever played was the will he left when lie died, and which, despite it» eccen tric provisions, is declared us sound as a dollar. As we are only concern'd v ’fth birth rate we will confine ou solves o the cause of this will dealing with I that subject. In short, it state.; hut j 1500,000 shall be set aside dtu< ?n ten years after the death o. w-.-Ma-! lot awarded to the woman nr> has j jlv.en birth to the greatest num-1 her of chiidreu m Toronto durli'j.: that time. Of eouvst this was regarded as Just another of Mr. Miller's jokes, but such a Mi mof money is worth competing for. joke or no join iu,d the nice, is on in Xoronm T'. ■« -.lead er in the novel competition so. t ax is Mrs. Florence Brown, a lender blonde housewife of 42, who has been marred '22 years and given birth to "t! children, six at which were bora within the period stipu lated by the Millar will. Mrs. Brown takes pride in the fact that ail -her babies were single births. Mrs. Brown proposes to buy a farm if the prise should come her way, as she is of the opinion that the country i“ ihe only place in which to rear a iam ilv. Tli# lady who occupies second place in this strange competition is Mrs. Grace Baganto, a Toronto born Cunadian-Italian. She vas mar tied at thirteen and has borne 20 babies, eleven of Whom are . till r.tive. She Is 37 and a grindmbther. To return to our own U. S. Were j such a, prize offered here >ho stoik world be compelled to take u more help. Mr*. Catherine Pi.tzl, of East Cambridge, Mass,, Without the in centive of a half a million Ivdars, brought twenty children into the world. She believes that the wife who sees nothing but poverty in large families is missing the real Joy of motherhood and says wi«t it is her intention to have as many as she can. Another proud mother of 20 children is Mrs. Lewis Cross of Fitchburg, Mass., who Is only 38 and points with pride to the fact that all her children were bom singly. In sharp contract to the foregoing eases is that of Mrs. Ethel Cromwell of Bridgeport, Conn., who had her husband arreded because he wanted more babies. .Mrs. Cromwell pave birth to 13 children In ten years, but only four lived. A recent judgment- by the 3upreme court is of interest here, inasmuch ,as it sustained the right of Mrs. Marion Kahn, of Brooklyn, N Y, whose refusal to bear children was made the grounds for an annuli ment suit by her husband. Japan Again Disappointed in Arrival of Male Heir • . • * * • Birth of Fourth Daughter Leaves Chichibu Heir, but Etiquette Decrees That He Must Remain Childless. ^.VR?tNC£si' Chichtbil Princess TEKUL! I Princess Taka bMPE&Ok#stdbPiPRESf? cfivjAPAZS the arrival of a fourth daughter to the reigning house of Japan, still leave* Prince Chichibu heir presumptive to the throne. There i» a law centuries old, which forbids a woman ruler in Japan, and also imperial etiquette decree* that a male child must be born to the head of th* dynasty before any other member of the family may produce an heir, so that Prince Chichibu and bis bride, daughter of fwe Japanese Ambassador to Washington, although enjoying the right of succession to throne, must remain childless. In Shelby and suburbs you can get THE STAR EACH AFTERNOON of PUBLIC A riON DAY by paying the Carrier Boy who passes vour door. 25c per month. Cleveland Marshal After Bootleggers F B. (Card) Hamrick, of Boiling Springs, who is attending federal court here this week as deputy U. S. marshal, assured plenty of court ac tion at the next federal term in Charlotte by rounding upr 35 alleged whit key dealers there on Friday the 13th. A Charlotte dispatch tells as follows of the raids: “Thirty five persons, most of them white people were arrested here Fri day on liquor charges when F. B. Hamrick, deputy U. S. marshal, joined with city and county officer s In a drive to “dry up” Charlotte. ‘ After hearings before a U. S. commissioner, IS of those arrested were ordered held under bom!” ranging from $200"to $1,500 eacli Thirteen arranged bond. The other 17 will be given hearings later. “Acting on under cover informa tion with surprising suddenness, the officers spread their dragnet from he uptown business section to out lying suburbs and negro settlements af the city. “The “dry up” campaign was the most extensive one conducted here in many months. Last May, a simi lar drive, made by federal agent:, netted 14 arrests. “Mrs. Bertie Scott, former opera tor of “Scottie’s Place," a night club »n the York, S. C„ road, and Don Anderson, one of her associates, were among those arrestee’. Mrs. Scott is now under Indictment in federal court for violating the prohibition laws. “She Was tried and acquitted in county recorder'^ court several months ago on a charge of murder la connection with the death of a girl who leaped or was thrown from Mrs. Scott's automobile and was fa tally injured.” Hosier Winner Of Rutherford Honor Rutherford-on, March 16.—Using us his subject, "Tire Voyage of Life,” Dan Holler, senior of Central high school of this place won the silver loving cup for the best dt claimer In the high schools of Ruth erford county swarded by R. E. Pile: This makes two years In suc cession that the local high school has won this cup. which makes It their property to keep permanently This is tire first school to win a cup >rman nth in 15 years history of the contest. • )owtin Given Place Offered To Blanton Athlete Becomes Alumni Secretary Instead of Cleveland County Man. Wake Forest, March 16.—Allred A j Dowttn, newly elected alumni seers- i tary at Wake Forest college, enter- j pj upon his duties here today fill- , lug a position left vacant over a j year ago by the resignation of Rev j J. A. McMillan. The work of the alumni secretary j has been for the past year in the hands of the alumni council, with Dr. A. C. Reid, as chairman. Mr. Dowtin completed work on his LLB. last fall. His return to Wake Forest has brought many expressions of approval from students and alumni. The executive committee of the Wake Forest board of trustees re cently elected Mr. Dowtin to this office when It was learned that Rev S. L. Blanton, Cleveland county na tive, to whom the position was prev iously offered, had declined. During his college days at Wake Forest he established an enviable record. He possessed to u rate de gree the happy combination of stu dent and athlete. He was a member of the much coveted Golden Bough, tin organization whose members em ;wdy to the highest degree qualities i of scholarship, leadership and Chr' • [ :iau character. He was a member of the varsity ! basketball and baseball teams here | for three years, and was captain of I both his senior pear. South Watching Shelby Golfer ■ CONTTNt'ED FKOM PAGE ONE • up under Webb’s fast pace and lost five and four. "The semi-final match between Spicer and Webb was a thriller. “Spicer took the first four holes j as Webb was encountering trouble; on every hole. "For many golfer®, this quick set- j back at the start from an old tend : who was the favorite to win the J title would have been enough to I make many good golfers fold up. j "But not Webb. He gained little j by little and was only two down as j they made the turn. Stage Comeback. ! "The tenth was halved and Webb took the eleventh. "Spicer won the twelfth and four teenth, after halving the thirteenth, to become three up. "Undaunted, the youngster shot 1 par golf to win the next two holes. ! "The seventh was halved and ithey drove for the final hole with j Spicer one up. 1 "Webb’s second shot landed on | the edge of a trap and his pitch I was just inside the green, leaving | him a long putt which he missed as i Spicer sank a six-footer for a birdie four and the match. "Those who follow the Southern tournaments closely predict a fine future for the Carolina left hander. He'll probably be in the field this year, and who knows, this may be his year.” Want An Election On Advertising For City Fayetteville, Mar. 11.—W. C Ew ing. legislative V representative of ! Cumberland county, has been re 1 quested, by the Fayetteville bo'trd [of aldermen to introduce in ihe gen eral assembly a bill authorising live | people of this city to vote on the question of allowing the aldermen to appropriate money to advertise Fay etteville. It is estimated that th" ad vertising fund will add about four ! cents to the municipal tax .ate Celebrate Kings Mountain Park (CONTTNUED PROM PAGE ONE. I Richards of South Carolina, Col. L.1 H, Landers, historian of the war de partment; Judge E. Yates Webb of Shelby, who started the fight* for the park when he was in congress, and many others who have parttci I pated in activities promoting the i battlefield for development as a park. Many Sought Affair. Invitations to hold the dinner in Charlotte, York and Rock Hill were received and Kings Mountain was I also mentioned. It w as decided that 'as the movement for staging the big celebration was inaugurated at j York thft it would be the most ap | propriate place and the Invitation of the D. A. R. chapter there ws3 accepted. About 100 or 125 are ex pected to attend the banquet. Penny Column | _____ _ FOR SALE: ONE 44 CALIBER 16 Repeater Winchester rifle. One 25-35 16 repeater Winchester rifle. Telephone 163. It 16c ^WANTED TO BORROW $500.00 Will pay 8 percent interest and give good security. Address "B”, Box 340, Shelby. " It 16p j JUST RECEIVED another car of Seed Oats. D. A. Beam Company. 3t-16c Racing Bill Talked; Assembly Review! (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 'ONE* | reduction on land. The finance com- [ mittees, which have been through, torment in their efforts to find the| $19,500,000 to operate the schools for ] six months without an ad valorem tax, heard them. as it has heard merchants and manufacturers who ar opposed to sales or production tuxes. While probably close, doubt hj expressed that a sales tax can b enacted, although one will be nec-: essary to carry out the six months j school plan. The committee is prob ably approaching, but has by no means arrived, at a solution of the problem. It may yet be necessary to continue the present plan with an increased equalizing fund. While the 70th day is about here.! the general assembly members are by no means near their return home. Most of the important bills are yet to be th: v bed out on the floors of one or both homes. The local government bill is passed and out of the way, and Ls to be print ed and distributed at once. But amendments are being added to it The highway measure has passed both houses, but conference com mittees are still trying to iron out minor differences. Bills Pending. All of the bills relating to reor ganization of the government have matte some progress during • the ■ week, including those to establish a personel -department, a purchasing agent, reorganization of the depart ment of agriculture, establishing a separate banking department, ap pointment by the governor of the members of the corporation com mission, but time will be required to get them through. A bill to create a new department of labor, making the commissioner appoin tive, and specifying divisions, is un der way. The finance and the ap propriations bills are by no means complete and will require fully a week after they are reported out. Amend Compensation. The bill to provide for a state in surance fund for insuring employes under the workmen’s compensation act was killed in the senate, but other bills to amend the compensa tion act, interpreting and modifying it, will probably pass. The omnibus bill, naming members of the county boards of education, has been introduced. It usually brings out many local fights and ef forts to turn out boards by other factions. The omnibus bill naming magistrates has not yet made its appearance. May Adjourn April 1st. Prognosticators are moving up their dates for adjournment, most of them now believing it will be Ap ril 1 before the general assembly can finish its work. A summary of the activities so far shows that almost exactly 1,500 bills have been introduced, 1,050 in the house and 450 in the senate. Up to last Saturday only 460 had been ratified, 357 house and 103 senate bills. Last week 180 bilk were in troduced and 105 ratified and of this FOR QUICK SALE Store Fixtures CONSISTING OF: WALL CASES, FLOOR CASES, LIGHTING f FIXTURES AND OF FICE FURNITURE. All In Good Condition. SEE J. L. YOUNG, Abernethy’s Old Stand --- WEEK - END EXCURSION FARES FROM: SHELBY TO Charlotte____$2.30 j Wilmington _ $10.45 I Raleigh_$9.80 R’chmond __$14.55 Washington__ $18.70 j Columbia__*__ $7.15 Savannah__ $12.05 Jacksonville ____$18.80 | And all points in South east east of Mississippi ; River. Tickets on sale each Fri I day and Saturday and for Sunday Forenoon trains during reriod March 27 Oct. 25. Tickets limited to reach original sfart:ng point prior to midnight of Tuesday immediately following date of sale. Stop overs will be nermitted at all points and tickets will be good in sleeping cars up on payment of pullman ! fare. For fares to other points see Agent or H. E. PLEASANTS. DP A, RALEIGH. N. C. SEABOARD numbei 81 were local ana z* were public or general, many of them res olutions. Hills Passed. Among the public laws ratified the past week were two relating tt county government, one creating a commission for improvement of tiie laws; providing for spending the $400,000 appropriated in 1921 for a new central prison; proving for an amendment to allow elections or amendments to the constitution tt be held at times other than genera elections; authorizing declarator} judgments; requiring tobacco ware house checks to be made payable it order; allowing county commission ers to establish county court witt criminal jurisdiction; preventing employment of females under li years of age In all kinds of indus trial work at night; providing foi an alternate juror in certain cases recording instruments by photo graphy; requiring reserve tuna an< regarding mutuality of B. and L associations; regulating sale of mix ed feed oats and allowing two pre emptory challenges to the defendan arid one to the state in criming trials. Revaluation, an important mat ter, postponed until March 15, ha; again been postponed until April 1 while bills have been introducer postponing it until 1933. Tills is t< preciptate another hard fight b( fore the session ends. Although in effort was made ft stop introductions of bills after March 10, a resolution to that enc having passed the senate, except In consent on two-thirds vote, it failec in the house and they continue U be thrown into the hopper, but no; as many as formerly. The high pea! was/eached March 10. when 51 bill were introduced in the house and .2 in the senate. FOR JOB PRINTING OF ALL tvINDS—CALL THE STAR FOl QUALITY PRINTING. $© A Day Will Operate, A • Majestic Electric Refrigerator Make us Prove It! PENDLETON’S MUSIC STORE Around The Carolina Theatre (With Apologies To RENN DRUM.) Gary Cooper has purchased a new transportation buggy It is long and yellow and goes , sixty blocks to the gallon, he | | will be with Us today and to | morrow in his “FIGHTING | | CARAVANS.-’ Well, vie sure enjoyed oui 1 l golf game, even though ovu 1 I opponent could not do so well H As the old saying goes, it pays 3 sometimes to talk a good a round, and that’s what X did a ! 1 am offering to take on this tj | same guy again this week, and 9 what a line of chatter I have arranged for him—with a re- 5j turn engagement of “THE jj MAN WHO CAME BACK.’ R and that famous old love story H "EAST LYNNE." and that 1 most fascinating DIETRICH I coming in ’DISHONORED," J 1 feel sure that I will complete- ■ ly rout him. He ain’t heard 1 nothing yet. Will see you U about Thursday, W. J. L I Don’t miss me. JIM I Tickets were mailed out Sat- S urday for the early birds, a? we did not have sufficient time to publish the winners today and for them to get the tickets in time for use today | We thank you early birds one and ail Did you ever hear the one about the Scotchman who carried his wife’s false teeth around with him to prevent her from eating between meals? lj Submitted by R. A. J. P. S. We forgot to tell you our Family Tickets will be on sale all day Monday and Tuesday, they will sell for $1.00 each. WE THANK YOU! 1