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The Cleveland Star SHELB*. N. <J. MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - KK1DAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE r~ Bj Uau, per year._.... r r,_ »xoo By Oerter, per r«r.... w.ut THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LBB B. WEATHERS ................_President end wntoi *• BRNES1 HOST--- --Secretary end foreman RKNN DRUM ...„______ Newt Boitoi U S. OAUi ------ Advertising Menagei Entered as second class matter January i, 1905, at tne postomce at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act ot Congress, March s, 187U. We wish to call your attention to the fact that it is end has oeen our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice nas been published. This will be strictly adhered to. WEDNESD’Y SEPT. 23, 1931 TWINKLES Five more days, counting Sunday, and the fair gates! will be open. The weather man, drat him, doesn't seem to eompre-j hend that summer is at an end. Say what you will about Governor-Would-Be Maxwell’s reply to the Winston school official, but this much is certain, tnd, to many, refreshing: he doesn’t beat around the stump in an attempt to avoid an issue. HUGH LOGAN HUGH LOGAN, big-bodied, big-hearted, and a stickler for justice and fair play, was without argument, one of Cleveland county's most popular citizens. In fact, he was more than merely popular, he was loved because he embodied in several ways virtues and qualities men and women ad mire and respect. His death, then, it readily follows, was a blow to the people of Cleveland county whom he served as high sheriff for ten years and could have so served again had he desired. The record he left behind him is sufficient proof of both his ability and his popularity. In early manhood, mov ed by his gigantic physique and not by fiery temperament, he became a soldier. He was a sergeant in the Spanish American war and his office of more recent years was the gatheri»*s place of “the boys of ’98" when they came to town. Then he served as captain in the Mexican Expedi tion and offered his services again as captain in the World War. No man was more loyal to his country, to his county and to his friends and his family. Highly honored by his fellowmen, there was always two outstanding characteris tics about him: he was unafraid to speak his mind against wrong when he thought it was wrong and he was never too proud or too haughty to take up the cause of an underdog When he considered him in the right: secondly, he was un usually modest and unassuming for one so honored and so successful in life. He always desired to remain out of the limelight and never attempted ot advance himself unduly upon his accomplishments. This is evinced by the fact that at the time of his death The Star had no photograph of him for publication because in his public career he cared noth ing for publicity for himself. No county has enough Hugh Logans to give one up without suffering irreparable loss. HELP PUT IT OVER "WHAT DO YOU THINK about the prospect, for attend ance at the big Cleveland County Fair next week?” The Star asked a representative farmer of the county. “Will the attendance be up to par, or will it be cut down by the de pression?" “Well, from what I can hear in my section,” came the reply, “there will be as many people there this year as ever before, if not more. It may sound like a funny prediction to come, but there are several reasons for it. One is that there is not as much money this year for other amusements which cost more. People are not going places and seeing things as much as they have been. Yet everyone must have some amusement, some fun, and at the fair they know they will not get amusement alone but will get plenty of educa tional entertainment. What’s more they can go take in an entire day's program, and see everything worth seeing for % quarter. And they’ll be there. Another thing is that the fair is a part of them; the exhibits and displays will be things they have grown or made or that their relatives, neighbors and friends grew or made. For a little more than the price of a gallon of gasoline they can mingle along the midway with hundreds of friends, they can see the fire works and the free acts, either of which in an amusement place would cost them several times the price of fair ad mission; and they can wander through the exhibit halls, the livestock and poultry shows, and inspect the many displays and other things. Maybe I will miss my guess, but the fair crowds will be large.” • That farmer takes the same view as do many others. Next week is fair week. Begin boosting it, talking it. The race horses are already warming up. The big show will be pleasure and a day’s relaxation will be well worth the price, on in full blast a week from today. Get ready! A day’s not to mention the multitudinous amusement thrills and the educational advantages. COTTON AND LEGISLATURE IS IT WISE to urge a special session of the North Carolina legislature to consider the curtailment of the 1932 cot ton crop? ^ A mass meeting of Cleveland county farmers has been jailed to meet in Shelby Thursday to debate that question. What will be the outcome of the meeting? Will it call upon the Governor requesting a special session, or will it hold the matter under consideration until a uniform policy can be outlined for all cotton-growing States in the South? Admittedly, it is a matter in which opinion is divided. Governor Gardner has stated that he does not consider it logical to call a session in this State until there is ample and convincing assurance that one program will be followed by all cotton-producing sections. Likewise, he reminds that all the world’s cotton supply is not grown in the South or in America; more than 40 percent of the annual crop is grown in foreign countries. These countries, surely, would profit if the South would not grow cotton in 1932. The JJbint of Governor Gardner is this: why not let all the Southern States agree upon the percentage of reduction or curtail ment so that the farmers of all the States would fare alike, and, at the same time, get the cotton-growing foreign coun tries to agree to a similar reduction? With that preliminary precaution to assure that one cotton-growing section would not profit at another’s expense, and to assure, also, that there would be a general curtailment with subsequent high er prices, then the separate States could legislate accord ingly. As it is, the Governor argues, the States are not co operating and no great amount of worthwhile success can Kp antpH The cotton farmer has the sympathy of all. That is granted for there is no doubt but what the prosperity of the cotton producer in the South is a basis of general economic welfare. The farmer desires that something be done. He cannot be blamed for that'attitude. As it is, he faces a blank wall, not knowing where to turn or what to do. If a special session of legislature will help him, there will be few, if any, who would oppose such a session. But the question is, will it? Louisiana adopted Governor Huey Long’s no-cotton plan for 1032. South Carolina followed suit. Texas refused to do so but enacted legislation to curtail the crop 50 percent. Governor “Alfalfa Bill” Murray of Oklahoma will not, he says, call a special session in his State. The governor of Arkansas is also unfriendly to a special session. Evidence enough, it appears, that there is no cooperation. The States have attempted to tackle the problem individually and with out the needed cooperation. When officials of the various States first began to seek some method of alleviating the situation Governor Gardner wired Governor Sterling of Texas asking that the governors and officials of the various cotton States get together in conference and decide upon Some measure to be followed by all and while in session ask the national government to secure the cooperation of foreign cotton countries. Governor Sterling ignored the suggestion. E\ on at this late date it seems that the various States should get together on the matter if any good is to be accomplished. Nothing can be gained with one State doing this and the other doing that. In Cleveland county, from general reports, Hue major ity of the farmers are ready and willing to cut down the size of next year’s crop, 50 percent if necessary. Very few are friendly to the idea of planting no cotton at all. They have too much at stake; they have the seed, the land and the necessary machinery. Just what turn the meeting here Thursday may take The Star cannot say. It will be well for those more directly effected by the cellar price of cotton to talk it over and express their minds. They should, however, consider the matter from every angle. If they desire gen eral reduction throughout the State, 25 percent or 50 per cent, and think such a program should be ordered by a spe cial gathering of the general assembly, they should debate the likely success thereof. Could a special session in this State be of much value unless the plan adopted is generally accepted? Louisiana and South Carolina may grow no cot ton in 1932 (but that remains to be seen), Texas may cur tail 50 percent, and Oklahoma, Georgia and Arkansas may grow what they please. Just a split-up, divided group. It is somewhat similar to the cotton-bagging movement; some will, others will not and spasmodic used of cotton-bagging can bring no big increase in cotton consumption and, sub sequently, in price unless the use is general. There is still another angle, an important one, to the special legislature idea; If it is the will of the majority that a special session be called, then that session should certainly be restricted to cotton. The people as they feel now are not going to put up with the burdensome expense of another legislature which might get together and wrangle for days and weeks about matters other than the cotton problem. The average citizen got pretty well fed up on the long drawn-out regular session. It costs money every day the legislature is in Raleigh. No one will relish paying that ex pense for another setto of controversy over general mat ters. Each and every one of the mass meetings in North Carolina today should, if they favor a special session, include the urge that the session be absolutely restricted to the cot ton question. But, before that, each meeting should give sane, serious thought before urging a special session just to adopt a cotton measure, unless it is clearly evident that po tential legislation will bring relief. No farmer or any other citizen should encourage and support a movement for a spe cial session now unless he is willing to abide by what that session may do. Which is to say, that he shouldn’t pursue that hoped-for course for aid unless he is certain that next spring he will not resent a legislative order not to plant his own cotton-seed on his own land. It is a time for serious thinking. Good Times Cost Money The greatest trouble today with most people Is that they do not know the value "of a dollar, and that is one of the big reasons why the depression is still with us. Peo ple throw money around as if it were rocks. Carl Ooerch in The News and Observer gives the real cause of hard times in an interview with an elderly citizen of his^home town in Washington. He says it is because people, want a good time and spend all their money for good times with out a thought for the rainy day. “A nickel to the half baked idiots coming along now." he says, "is [something to take up space in their ! pockets. Everybody has been throw jing away money on a good time. “When I was a boy, we had to work for what we got. I don’t care how wealthy a man was, he always tried to make his son learn that a dollar had some value attached to It. There's1 our greatest trouble to day; we don’t know the value of a dollar. Our children # throw away their money because it’s easy to get. The older folks haven't got over the prosperity era as yet and they’re continuing to pitch away money regardlesi of how much they are earning. It most cases, incomes have been cut. Naturally, that means that the outgo ought to be cut too. but in the majority of cases, folks haven't done that. There you have the real reason for this depression. “Everybody has been throwing away money on having a good time. We’ve lost all sense of discretion so far as spending Is concerned If ws want to go to the picture show, we go; if we want to take a ride Sun day afternoon and burn up three or four gallons of gasoline, we do it; if our children ask us for fifty cents Or a dollar, we shell it out; if we want to purchase any luxuries for ourselves or our families,' the thing is never given a second thought. "Certainly we’ve got a depression; what else could we possibly have? When we’re raising our children with the Idea that there Is only one side to money—the spending side— and when fall to teach them that money has an earning side, too. naturally there’s hell to pay. How could there help but be? "All these things that the gov ernment and other agencies are trying to do ain’t worth nothing so long as folks keep up their waste and extravagance. What the devil is the sense of bailing out a boat if you don’t stop up the hole in the bottom? We re trying to bail, all right, but the water is coming in faster than we’re throwing it out, and the old boat is just about ready to sink. "So far as I can see. the whole damned world has gone topsy turvy. We’ve got away from the solid and worth-while thing* in life and we re devoting all our at tention on the things which, when you stop to think about It, ain’t worth considering at all. Most folks have been Interested during the last few years in only ope thing, and that Is a good time. That’s all right, so far as it goes, but let me tell you something, my boy; good times cost money. There’s an old saying that them that dance has to pay the fiddle. It's a true saying We’ve been doing altogether too much dancing when we ought to have settled down to w’ork and making a living for ourselves ana families. We’ve been dancihg and we’ve ben paying. My idea is that we ought to kick the orchestra out of the hall, lock the doors, and think of something else for a while “Look at me! I ain’t braggin’ none, and I ain't holding myself up as a shining example for folks to follow, but you don't hear me hol lerin' none about this here depres sion. The reason is that my wife and I were old enough to have sense when prosperous times was here. We had been through hard times before and we had learned to save our money. These half-baked idiots that are coming along now. don't know what it means to save a nickel. Why, a nickel to them is just something to take up space in their pockets. 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But I reckon It's another case of the man trying to teach a dog tricks; he's got to know more than the dog in the first place. “Take the case of my nephew's children, in Rocky Mount. He's got a boy who has Just started his sec ond year in college. The youngster has had a car of his own for the last four years and has been allow ed to drive it anywhere he pleases. Nobody knows where he goes and nobody knows what he does. So far as I know, he never has earned a penny in his life. If he wants to go off on a trip somewhere, he asks his daddy for the money, and it s shelled out to him. The same way with everything else.” Rowan County Fair To Begin October 19 Salisbury.—The catalogue and premium list of the Rowan county fair, 1931 edition, has been distri buted— It is a handsome, book of nearly a hundred pages and carries much information about the fair which la to be held in the commo dious and modern grounds of Wai ter P. McCanless Just south of Sal isbury on highway No. 15. The date of the fair this year is the week of October 19 to 24. There will be horse racing daily, pacing and trotting for purses of $1,200 daily and auto mobile races for "$1,000 purses. Always uniform and dependable 666 U«JtlO OK IABLEXS Krlleves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first da;, and checks Malaria In three days. 666 Salve for Baby’s Cold. TRUSTEE’S RE-SALE By virtue of the power vested In me as trustee in that certain deed of trust, exe cuted by WUi H Blanton and wife. Cl a axle Blanton, and recorded in book 163, page 231. of the office of the regis ter of deeds for Cleveland county, N. C. and default having been made in the payment of the Indebtedness thereby se cured. and demand having been made on me to execute the trust. I will re-sell to the highest bidder at the court house door in Shelby, N. C., on Thursday, October 1, 1981, at 12 o'clock M. or within legal hours, all of the fol lowing real estate, to wit: Being a part of the tract of land on the Fallston road lying Just, east of the Shelby hos pital. subdivided and sold by the Cyclone Auction company, of Forest City, N. C.. and being the northern end of lots Nos 19. 20. 21, and 22. as shown on plat re corded in the office of the register of deeds of Cleveland county, N. C. in book of plats No. 1, page 62. and bound ed as follows: Beginning on a stake on the west edge of First street, the northeast corner of T. L. McSwaln's lot, and runs thence with First street 63 1-3 feet to an iron stake; thence west a new line 100 feet to an iron stake In old line; thence S. 53 1-3 feet to an iron stake. T. L. McSwaln’s northwest corner in old line; thence east with McSwain s line 100 feet to the be-1 ginning. Bidding to begin at 160.00. Terms of sale: Cash. This September 14, 1931 GEO. A. HOYLE, Trustee. • 2t Sept 16c tXECt'TORS- NOTICE. Having this day qualified as execulort of the estate of Franklin Harrlll. de ceased. late of Cleveland county, Nortl Carolina, this ts to notify all persons In debted to the said estate to present then to us properly proven on or before the 15th day of September. 1932, or thtr notice will be pleaded in bar of any re- . covery thereof. All persons Indebted te the said estate will make Immediate settlement to the undersigned. This Sep tember 15th, 1931. YATES and MICHAUX HARRELL Executors of Estate of Franklin Harrlll. et Sept 16o Our Exchange Is 32 POUNDS Of Isaac Shelby Flour and 16 POUNDS FEED for each BUSHEL of WHEAT A total of 48 pounds in products. EAGLE ROLLER MILL SHELBY SUTTLE’S * Broad* phone no — PAY YOUR 1930 TAXES — And save the embarrassment of having your property advertised for sale. Under the law, all property on which 1930 taxes have not been paid, will be advertised for sale, the first week in October. 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