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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. 0. MONDAY WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By IUU, per year -....__ . By Carrier, per year --- aanu THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LKB a WEATHERS___....___President and ttditoi & ERNES! HOEY-—-Secretary and Foreman RJCNN DRUM ..................... ....__... News Editoi L. B. DAIL-.....-................... Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1. 11)05, at the postoitice at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March a. 187V. We wish to call your attention to the tact that it is and has oeen our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, eards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice nas been published. This will be strictly adhered to. FRIDAY, AUG. 28. 1031 TWINKLES Too many people consider honesty the best policy only when there's danger of being caught. In a few more weeks we'll quit worrying about when prosperity is coming back and turn our attention to the col lege football half backs. Be sure about this winter. Can all the fruits and vege tables possible, store away all the peas, and preserve every hing of food value. Now is the time to assure yourself that you will not be in want before another summer. Governor and Senator-elect Huey Long's cotton theory may be worth less than cotton itself but it got Huey back in the headlines following a pleasant vacation since he start ed that pot likker controversy. Ramsay MacDonald may not come out on top of the heap in England's preaent crisis, but he has shown more courag eous manhood and unselfishness than is ordinarily found in present-day leaders. An eastern North Carolina newspaper termed snow-fall in Connecticut this week as the "first of the year.” Still ig noring us up here in western Tarheelia. Didn’t it snow- up about Mt. Mitchell a week or two back? "Our Bob” (and as much your’n as our'n for that mat ter) Reynolds was picked up in High Point this w-eek oi a traffic charge as he began his campaign on a wet platform for the United States senate. All of w-hich may mean noth ing more than that Bob has started out in high gear. But as we recall it he rode in a second-hand flivver in his last cam paign with the idea of meeting ordinary folks more on their level. TWO TYPES OF FLOGGING QUITE A CONTROVERSY has developed over North Caro lina about the flogging of prisoners in the convict camps operated by the State highway forces. The Star dose not believe in any such method of punish ment and neither do we believe it will be sanctioned or per mitted. although there will be incidents w-hen the brutal prac tice may crop out. But, in that connection, it is our belief, old-fashioned as it may sound, that there wouldn’t be as many men and young men working at the road camps if a little more flogging had been done at home when they were boys. Which statement may cause some of the reformers to flock in upon us for making such an ignorant statement, but it is our idea there wouldn't be as many cynical reformers if more “sassy faces” had been slapped at the same time the embry onic criminals should have been carried to the woodshed. WHAT OTHERS SAY FREQUENTLY AFTER a communication to the editor is Published in The Star someone takes occasion to say "I noticed that you said so and so in The Star,” or “you had this and that wrong.” These references are to statements or dec-j larations made in the to-the-editor letters. A little obser vation should show that The Star is not expressing whatever opinion it may be. although the paper may hold the same viewpoint or may differ. If John Jones writes a letter to the editor and says that in his humble, or exalted, opinion, the earth is flat, why hold The Star to blame? Spin you globe in John Jones’ face and tell him the earth is round. There is a tendency, however, to fling taunts and insin uations in some communications to the paper. This should be restrained. The Star at all times welcomes letters from readers expressing their views. But keep them within the bounds of decency and dignity, say you say, disagree with what the other fellow- does, thinks or says if you will, but do it in a gentlemanly manner without thumbing the nose, hurl ing bad names and you’re-another charges. THE LUKE LEA TRAGEDY THE SENTENCING to prison by a North Carolina court of Luke Lea, colorful Tennessee publisher, financier and politician, for conspiracy to defraud in connection with the dosing of an Asheville bank, is a tragic anti-climax to one of the moat unusual careers in the history of the present day South. The depression it seems caught Luke Lea "in the red” and trying to get back on the other side of the ledger. As a result he faces yawning prison doors. His fate just as it may be must bring a tinge of regret to those acquainted with the dynamic Tennessean. His was a life of activity, of fighting up and onward toward higher goals, but the collapse of a big financial instiution, Caldwell and Company, started him downhill. What the end may be we cannot say, but behind the tall lawyer and publisher, at one time Tennessee's most powerful figure, is a record that is unusual. At 31 he was in the United States Senate. For more than a score of years it is $aid that there was only one governor of Tennessee that Lea did not pick. At that itrae Lea was overseas as a colonel of a Tennessee regiment. At St. Mihiel he won the distin guished service medal. When the war ended he became more powerful than ever, a figure #iat was outstanding in the South. What a tragedy it is! At the bar of justice, a remark able political career, a successful venture as a publisher, and one of his country’s highest war-time honors availed him not. He was only Luke Lea convicted of fraud no matter how many emotions his turbulent past might stir in the on looker’s breast. GARDNER STEPS IN GOVERNOR GARDNER’S statement about the cotton crisis comes nearer hitting the nail on the head from the view point of the cotton farmer than does any of the theories and plans advanced by senators, would-be Solomons and some of the other Southern governors. Perhaps it is because Gover nor Gardner himself is a cotton farmer: he can understand how the farmer feels about it. Seemingly he is right when he says that the plan of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, which is supported by Governor Blackwood, of South Carolina, is “unsound.” To prove his point he brought in an angle that the others in the hurried eagerness seem to have overlooked. Suppose State legislatures in the South do force cotton farmers not to plant any cotton next year, what of the result? Last year more than 45 percent of the world’s cotton production game from 12 foreign countries. The legislatures of the Southern States could not force the foreign countries to keep their planters in the shed, and with the South having no cotton to sell the for eign growers would have the opportunity of supplying the complete demand and likely at a good pric.e In such a situ ation the Southern farmer would be nothing more than the goat. Governor Gardner is right again when he says it is a national problem. Each cotton-growing state might pass some law about cotton. Likely there would be a different form of legislation in each state and utter confusion. One state—and it’s human nature—would think “Well, the others are cutting their crop down so we’ll shoot the works and make the money.” If there is any legislation, and The Star doubts if the situation can be handled in such manner, it should certainly be a uniform national policy that would hold all cottongrow ing states to the same regulation and at the same time as sure cooperation of the foreign countries. The more we think over the proposal of state legislatur es to force farmers to abandon cotton next year the less we think of it. Imagine telling a Cleveland county farmer who owns his own land, who has purchased his own seed and who has paid the taxes on the land not to put out a single cotton seed! Wrho believes a jury of 12 men would sit in the Cleve land county court house and convict a farmer for that act? A suggested method of taxation would be far better. But, after all. we are inclined to think it is one of those things the farmer may have to work out for himself as best he may. The only prospective hope we see is for the farmer, who real izes that he cannot make money on cotton next year, to shift his own acres to something else and let the others do what they please. The farmer who plants no cotton, but gets in sufficient food and feed crops for his own consumption, truck and other things to sell will always get by. But as long as he thinks he should plant cotton because his neighbor does and may make some money just that long will he be a help less bit of driftwood in the uncertain stream of circumstanc es arid conditions beyond his control. VWW.V.1 We See By The ssvwvyw.ww.v.*AW.-.v. The Greensboro News comment ing upon the slaying of children by New York gangsters and the bitter denunciation of auch murderous methods by North Carolina editors, opens a new avenue of thought. Down this way we have a spasm when an innocent bystander chances to step "on the spot” in New York, but we seem to be hardened to the fact that on an average Sunday in North Carolina we kill more people on our highways than the Tacket teers bump off in a week. Some time ago Miss Beatrice Cobb publisher of the Morganton News Herald, took a crack at prohibition enforcement. Some of her contem poraries interpreted her comment as favoring repeal. In a later edi torial she upsets the interpretation. She isn’t, she says, in favor of aban doning "the noble experiment.” • • » But she add. the thoughtful ob servation that temperance should be emphasised more than prohibition. The teaching of temperance, she be lieves. will come nearer accomplish ing the aim of prohibition than the present loose-handed metnod of enforcement. "The tilings we don t know," opines The Gaffney Ledger, are the things that worry us most.” But most of us don't seem to know It The Rutherford County News started a flow of comment recently when It deplored the fact that some of the visiting sheriffs at Rutherfordton for the state conven tion of sheriffs aaw fit to take on a few "nips”. The comment was wide and varied, some noting that sheriffs are much like other humans and are wont to celebrate a little freeiy when In convention assembled, but all condemned the drinking by men whose duty it Is to return home and arrest other men who do likewise. The Rutherford Sun, however, took another viewpoint from that of its home-town contemporary, saying that although some of the officers did take a few drinks It was not good manners lor Rutherford folks to mention It as the officers were guests of the county. Perhaps the host should overlook eccentricities (?) of visitors, but we wonder If a one-gallus visitor in Rutherford with several drinks aboard wouldn't get a little more at tention than mild newspaper criti cism? A columnist of the Yorkville En quirer has learned that along a cer tain highway route in Georgia the motorist may stop at filling stations and call for coffee—the liquid when served, in a coffee cup, being sever al fingers of white corn That columnist should be careful; he may start a Java motorcade through Gewga. Eight purebred Guernsey bulls 1 have been bought by farmers in Edgecombe county during the past eight months. Plenty of feed is be ing grown and farmers are increas ing dairy herds, says County Aggnt H. W. Taylor, KILLS RATS , and Mice, that’s RAT DIE the old 'reliable rodent destroyer, comes in powder form. No mixing with other foods. Your money back if it falls. 50 cent size, 3 ot. is enough for Pantry. Kitchen and Cellar. 75 cent size, 6 oz. for Chicken House, Coops and small buildings. Sold and guaranteed by all drug stores. adv. SALE or PERSONAL PROPERTY. Pursuant to an order made by M R Weathers, recorder of Cleveland county, in the case State ve. Jake Patterson: said Jake Patterson having been convicted ot transporting intoxicating liquors by means of One Pord Coupe. Under said order the undersigned will sell at public auction sale at the court house door In Shelby. N. C , on the 3Sth day of September. 1931. st 13 o'clock noon or within legal hours, the following described property one Pord Coupe motor No. 14J03SS2. Terms of sale. Cash. This the 2Sth day ot August, 11)1. I. M. ALLEN, Sheriff It AugSSc SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. Pursuant to an order made by M R Weathers, recorder of Cleveland county, in the cate Stole vs. Yates Harts, said Yates Hayes having been eonvleted of transporting Intoxicating liquors pv means of .One Ford coupe the under signed will sell st public auction tele »• the court house door In She’b" N. C or the 36th d*y of September. 193! at t* oelock none or within legal hours, the following described property One Pord coupe motor No. 1133M33. Terms ot sals Cash. This the Seth day of August. 1»31. I M ALLRN Sheriff 21 A’lgHgr Cotton Plan Of Surratt,. Cleveland Farmer, Being Given Commendation j Answers Queries Made As To Possi ble Defeets In His Reduction Idea. Charlotte, Aug. 28.—Encourage- j ment and commendation for his plan to solve the present cotton | problem has been received by W. C. Sarratt, Cleveland county farmer. Mr. Sarratt's plan would place a .tate tax on poduction, the rate of the tax to be on a sliding scale, de pendent upon the amount of cot ton planted and grown. Legislation to prohibit 1932 plant ing would have the effect of en couraging increased production in foreign fields, while the tax plan would keep these productions In un certainty, he argues His communi cation follows: ‘•Having found no direct adverse reaction in the press to my article about cotton and what should be done about it in jour issue of Aug ust 18, I have put It up to land lords In person and most of them, when it is explained in detail, will say it is a correct and practical solution of our cotton business and financial puzzle. Asks Counter-Question. ' Some, however, came back, ask ing what will we do with our ten ants in 1932, not raising any or very little cotton under any turn that might come about under Sar ratt plan. I counter by asking what in the devil will we do as it is That answer should come first. ‘ This almost invariably puis them | in a semi-conscious condition. Ij give them a close of my plan and 93 per cent will recover. About one per cent are in a storm pit and not much interested. Four per cent will die anyway and prefer that the world die with them. -Prices as they are and will be with no action taken will not near ly pay cost of production, and in most cases will leave unpaid 1931 debts to landlords, time merchants, banks, taxes, etc., with nothing to carry the farmers through the winter of make another crop Sees Little Cost. ‘ With my plan in operation anci bound to work fairly, accurately, and without cast except calling each law' making body of the cotton pro ducing states together for a few days, which would be negligible in comparison to the many million^ that would be salvaged in each cotton producing state and the hun dreds of millions in the combined cotton producing area that is now pounding on the rocks. “Any financier, banker, business man or intelligent farmer will tell you that it would be sure to raise the price of cotton at least to cover the cost of production. Debts con tracted in 1931 to the landlords time merchants, bankers, taxes, etc., would be paid, and in most cases leave enough to go through the winter. Many could finance them selves, or partly so, to make the 1932 crop. Other Oops Cheaper "It would take less cash for the tenant to make other crops than cotton in 1932. The same with the landlord. However, it will be slight ly higher for the landlord to try to make 1932 cotton crop, as repairs and replacement will have begun to be needed. "We should make no law to pro hibit production. That would make rather bad precedent, clearly take our liberty, and the constitution ality would be at least questioned. If it should be legally provided, we would have been at the expense of extra sessions with no result ex cept delay, which would cause fur ther confusion, and, instead of be ing on the rocks, we should have gone to the bottom. “It would be better to tax fo* privilege like other business. It would sound better here and abroad. The Sarratt plan would have practically the same effect on pro duction here, but not on foreign production. It would be a fog screen for foreign planters for 1932 and would keep them guessing as to what we intend to do about it until it was all over, the excess used up, and we had gone back to the same old game in 1932, better fixed, wiser and with the live-at-home idea well rooted. Then we would not be com pelled or care to raise such surplus cotton crops again soon, and we would get cost and a legitimate profit for what we did raise. "It is essential that there should be a fixed minimum tax, increasing as production rises. The govern ment Indicated yield is the proper place to get the base for the slid ing scale. The sliding scale is what does the work. It is the regular raw head and bloody bones to the plant er that tries to figure to beat the game as well as the speculator. The speculate on the short side and it farmer's side. Figure to plant or speculate on the sohrt side and It will come to you like raw head and blcpdy bones when you and I were young without any Maggie.” ANNUAL CONFERENCE Or missionary Methodists The annual conference of the Missionary Methodist church in West Shelby began Thursday, Aug ust 28 with a large crowd of minis ters and delegates present. Preach ing at 7:30 o'clock. Everybody in vited to attend. Rev. H C. Sisk P. A Seese, efficient poultry ex tension specialist of State college died in Rex Hospital, Raleigh, ©it August 16, following blood-poison ing arising from an Infected foot Mr. Seese was at work one week before he died. Up to March 1, 1931, the Duka university libraries had received and accessioned 233,665 bound vol umes and 24,399 pamphlets. Manj thousands of volumes and pamph lets have not yet been accessioned and other purchases of books, per iodicals, and brochures are in Eu rope awaiting shipment. 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