The Cleveland Star
SHELBY, N. C.
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L. E. DAIL .— ----... Advertising Manager
Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the poist
office at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress,
March 3, 1879.
We wish to call >our attention to the fact that It is and has
been our custom to charge five cents per lilts lor resolutions of
respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death
notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to.
MONDAY, OCT. 19, 1931
TWINKLES
In today s paper is published a list of the honor students
in the Shelby schools. It should prove gratifying to the
youngsters to see their names in print, and, what’s more, it
should stimulate them to see that in future life their names
get in print in a manner that is pleasing instead of in some
other form.
Shelby is host this week to Federal court, its officials
and attendants. In bidding all visitors welcome, we express
the wish that by next year the court may be able to hold its
sessions in the proposed new third-floor court room of the
Federal building, which is of course, better known as the
post office.
SO TH AT’S THK BITE?
IN A RECENT SPEECH Tam C. Bowie, candidate for the
United States Senate, said: “We are witnessing one of
the greatest economical struggles in the history of the coun
try and it will take the best talent and safest and sanest
leadership to carry us through." The editor of The States
ville Record looked over the statement and added—“In other
‘here am 1, send me*.’’
And, at that, does Mr. Bowie’s inuendo differ very much
from that passed out by all office-seekers?
WHO ARE THEY
FARMERS SHOULD GIVE particular attention to their
would-be leaders who urge a special session of legisla
ture to reduce cotton acreage. Are they men who have been
farm leaders'and friends, tested and true, of the farmer in
the past? Or are they, in many instances, office-hunters
and would-be politicians who hope to win the temporary fa
vor of the farmer by telling him that he can be helped and
should be helped by law? It might pay the farmer, in the
midst of his tribulations, to ascertain as best possible, be
fore following anyone, if he is following a demagogue or one
who has the interest of the farmer at heart. What of Clar
ence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer and a great
booster of Southern agriculture? What of Harvic Jordan
and other leaders? What of the agricultural experts, who
have made agriculture their life study and who see nothing
but folly in attempting to have the farmer told by law what
she shall or shall not do? Follow these or follow those who
hold forth tempting promises? .Remember the relief prom
ised the farmer through legislation by politicians in the past,
lelief that never came and relief that cannot come except
by the fainter working out his own salvation, It would be
mighty nice to have a law passed that would put us all on our
fact with a new Sunday suit, but when we know that it isn’t
plausible, why get any deeper in the mire by following an
illustion?
THE BANKER GENERALLY KNOWS
A BANKER USUALLY' KNOWS move about what is going
on in his town or city than any other. He knows many
things the general public does not know. Among other
things, he knows what firm is having hard sledding, what
firm is making money, and, too, he right often knows why
one is succeeding and the other is not.
The man who handles the financial affairs of a com
munity is frequently visited for advice by business men and
others. The following, then, from the American Bankers
Magazine should be ranked as a worthwhile tip for business
men—at least, it is worth the reading:
“No business man in any town should allow a news
paper published in his town to go without his name and
business being mentioned somewhere in its columns.
This does not mean you should have a whole, half or
even a quarter page ad in each issue of the paper, but
your name and business should be mentioned, if you do
not use more than a 2-line space. A stranger picking up
a newspaper should be able to tell what business is rep
resented in a town by looking at the paper. This is the
best possible town advertiser. The man who does not
advertise his business does an injustice to himself and
the town. The man who insists on sharing the business
that comes to town, but refuses to advertise his own is
not a valuable addition to any town. The life of a town
depends on the live, wide-awake and liberal advertising
business men.”
CHICKENS OVER COTTON
AS THE PERTURBED, harrassed farmer turns this way
and that, seeking some avenue of escape from the low
prices brought by overproduction and other ills, he occas
ionally is advised to go in the poultry business and numer
ous other sidelines. Several instances have been cited re
cently to show that chickens will bring in more money than
cotton. Is it possible that 25 good hens will bring in twice
as much money for cotton? Let’s see.
Too many writers who attempt to give advice to farm
ers are accused of not knowing what they are talking about.
The advice we intend to reproduce here comes from a man
who knows how to write, but knows, too, about all there is
*" Wiow about nonltrv Ho is W R Crowson. of Tredell
county. Once he was a newspaper man: now he is a suc
cessful poultryman, and, therefore, should know what he is
talking about. He says:
“Say* it costs the farmer $25.00 to produce his hale of
| cotton and he sells it for $25.00 to $30.00. It’s not a good
; idea for a fanner to figure in anything for the use of his
I land, for the wear and tear on his implements, or for taxes,
; etc. That would make him feel just too bad. You know you
have got to kinda go at this cotton raising proposition on the
basis of doing it just because we have always done it. But
some day these same farmers are going to get fed up on this
kind of business'and go to figuring the cost of producing
cotton. They arc going to charge their land in at so much,
their labor at so much, and the labor of their wives and
children at so much, add in taxes, fertilizer, etc. The trou
ble has always been, and still is, that the farmer counts his j
fertilizer in at what it cost him, but just kinda throws in his]
work and the work of the old woman and kids. They prob-!
ably would not be doing nothing no how*. But, as I said be-:
fore, one of these days he is going to start to figuring and 1
when he does get wise as to just what it is costing him to j
produce this stuff they call “King Cotton” he is going to doi
something that all the talk, all the lawing and everything !
else cannot do, and that is going to stop raising cotton.
“Give a farmer 25 well bred hens to every acre of cot- j
ton he plants,, house these properly, feed and care for them
as they should be and he will clear twice as much money from
his hens that he will from his cotton at present prices, and!
this can be done with less labor. These are facts.”
FOOTBALL AND SCHOLASTIC WORK
THOSE WHO FREQUENTLY complain about the over-em
phasis of football in North Carolina colleges and schools I
should not overlook two incidents of last week. One took
place here in Shelby, the other at Chapel Hill and was of j
more than State-wide importance.
Tn the annual game with Kings Mountain Friday, one of j
the oldest grid feuds in this section, one of the outstanding!
stars on the Shelby eleven was not permitted to play. Hej
failed to pass his scholastic work during the previous month.)
Several other stars were ineligible at first but made up their;
work. That should be heartening news for parents, for
from the school cornea the announcement by the athletic di
rector that the school regulations will, be carried out and no;
%boys can play on the football team, or any other team, un-j
less lie passes his work. The average boy desires to play!
football and, certainly, it is worthwhile that he be shown that
he must keep up with his studies before he. can play any
tmng.
At Chapel Hill, Coach Chuck collins permanently sus-j
pended Johnny Branch, the most scintillating backfield slat
produced in North Carolina in years, and MeDade, a star;
tackle, because they broke training rules. Conch Collins will
be flooded with requests from all sections to reinstate him,
particularly Branch, one of the most colorful performers in
the history of Southern football, but if they deserved their
suspension, Coach Collins will do much for the university
and college football in general if he sticks to his decision.
The other boys on the squad will be done an injustice if the
suspension is not adhered to—not only the boys, but the
school, and clean, above-board athletics in general. The fact
that Branch is a colorful hero should not make him immune
from the rules and regulations others must obey. It is re
grettable to see a youngster whose career has been so spec
tacular shunted to one side in his linal year, but lules axe
rules. Upon them and their obedience depends the future of
scholastic and college athletics. Make them pass their work
and foiW them to follow regulations. Unswerving adher-,
enee to that formula may weaken some football elevens and j
anger some enthused alumni, but the team will be bettei off i
for all of that, and so will the boys as they leave school to j
face the vicissitudes of life.
Is Share Cropping
Doomed In Future?
(Gastonia Gazette,
The old System of share cropping
with its army of negro tenants to
feed and supply through the year Is
fast disappearing. It might have
been profitable for our fathers and
grandfathers, and for us, in the
days of 25 and 30 cent cotton, but
it will bankrupt a farmer now. It
means that cotton or tobacco must
be raised to give these tenant farm
ers some cash money crops.
The new order does way with the
tenant or share croper and puts all
the help on the hlred-by-the-day,
by the month basis. In this way,
the farm owner can control his
crops. He can plant what he wants,
and as much »f it as he wants. If
he wants to put his whole farm into
corn or soy beans, he can do so.
This kind of farming will gradual
ly lead Into one of the two types of
which Dr. Clarence Poe writes and
speaks so often and effectively, viz:
livestock farming. He believes that
the really successful farmer should
raise plenty of feedstuffs and diver
sified crops, but that he should j
market much of these products |
through the medium of hogs, corn.j
poultry, etc. He claims that live-1
stock farming is more profitable!
than the other sort, advancing the
high per capita wealth of farmers;
in states where this sort of farming j
is practiced. !
A Goldsboro practicing physician.
Dr, D, J. Hose, gives practical first
hand information of the benefits
that come from this type of farming
as opposed to the old share crop
plan. He bought a farm out from i
Goldsboro some seven or eight years j
ago and somebody advised him;
that he had better turn right]
around and give it away,
“After farming the place two or;
three years in the okl way. I
almost convinced that rtv frien<i j
was right. But I resolved to try a
new method of farming before glv
have grown no toDacco or. rouw
since then. And there has been no
further loss. Since then the farm
has paid.”
On Dr. Rose's place about 400
acres of land Is cultivated. Practic- |
ally nothing except grain and le
gume crops are grown thereon. He i
feeds these to livestock—hogs, cat
tle and sheep. He has 100 acres of
permanent pasture, grazes his stock
on velvet beans and rape ana feeds
ensilage in winter.
‘‘I havent found beans and corn
very profitable when sold as such,
but quite profitable when fed to
livestock,” he says.
He uses power machinery in pre
paring his land, and to a large ex-;
tent, in cultivating his corn and
beans. He employs only four wage
hands regularly but hires extra
workers at times in summer He
finds that 40 acres planted In corn
and beans can be taken care of by
a single worker with a tractor.
‘‘Prom my experience, I'd say that
the old system of share farming,
with cotton and tobacco as princi
pal crops. Is apt to give way large
ly to this kind around here,” says
Dr. Rose, who is highly emhusias- I
tic for the method of farming he;
is pursuing.
■ —-—1
Blame Divorce For
Increase In Crime
St. Petersburg, Fla.—Divorce was
held up as one of the fundamental
causes of crime, juvenile delin
quency and wrecked homes by Dr.
Carelton Simon, former deputy
police commissioner of New York
in an address here.
Speaking to the International
Association of Chiefs of Police, Dr.
Simon said ‘'nothing assumes great
er proportion nor is of greater sig-|
nificanee than deprivation of suit-!
able parental guidance to a grow
ing child."
He. scored alimony and s«id
breach of promise suits "should not!
be permitted by our Judiciary
STAR ADVS PAYS
Child Must Have Foods !
That Make for Vitality j
—Malnutrition Result* from Deficient Diet j
School Youngsters, Horning Energy in If or A- and Play.
"lust Have Strength-Giving Foods, Says iuthority.
Or Health Quickly Fails.
By KOYAL S. COPELAND, M. D.
I'nlted States 6enator from New York
former Commissioner of Health. Sew York IV,
AFTER all is said and done,
child health depends largely
on what the mother gives.
Every conscientious mother today
is in far better position to sue
ccssfully rear
her children
than were her
forebears. From
the viewpoint of
knowledge as to
what is best for
a child, the mod
ern mother has
great silvan
tapes.
Of course,
poverty plays a
large part in
malnutrition of
the child today,
as it alwrays has.
(un
DP COPLAND
s nere are great problems to oe
solved in the future for better
care of the child, in education,
physical care, and mental and so
cial development.
Malnutrition comes most com
monly from a diet which la incapa
ble of supplying the needs of the
body. To keep a child well and
happy, he must first of all have the
foods that make for energy and
strength. If a child has not nourish
ing food, when he does not take suf
ficient amounts of It, when he has
improper habits of eating, then some
thing unpleasant is bound to hare
peri. He grows listless, tired, pallid
and Irritable.
The school child, also the pre
school child, for that matter, uses
up an enormous amount of energy
In his day of work or play, tlvery
movement he makes means Just so
much energy spent, and this has to
be made up In the right kind and
amount of fond, as weil a.- m tre*t
and sleep. If tie doesil t nave the
food he so much needs. Nature has a
way of taking from the child’s store
of body substances tn order lo make
up the deficiency In food, lie lose*
weight. strength and vitality. Ills
teeth and boms grow soft ever; putt
of Ills little body suffeis.
• >ne of the ceatesi facto.* to be
blamed for a too email food intake
is the school child's breakfast. In
the homes whejv* there is plenty. *
is not uncommon lor children to
liurrj through the meal, taking
scarcely a snatch to eat. and then go
running all the way to achool be
enure they may be late.
Recent Investigations among school
children showed that thousands of
children among the poorer classes
hud for their breakfasts onlv coffee
and bread. What a travesty on
I health this is. Irjvcry child has <v
right to a good start in the day and
In life.
Breakfast should be an unhurried
meal, and for bis proper nourish*
merit he should have orange juice,
or some other form of fruit, ce-eni
arid whole milk, and at least a glass
of milk, This starts the day right.
He l-.a*, something to go on, to meet
the baid work of his morning Ke
wul not be overtired and over
hungry at luncheon time.
His luncheon should be adequate
Many a mother sets before her chil
dren the easiest thing to f,nd. instead
of wholesome, nourishing foods that
go to make up the well-balanced
meal thev should have. Dear
mothers, you cannot afford to take
anv chances with your child's health
when It comes to his food and eat
lng habits.
livery child should have pientv of
rest and sleep. One of the shortest
roads to malnutrition is lack of suf
ficient and restful sleep. You tig chil
dren need a nap or rest at middday
They need pientv of fresh air and
sunshine This Is the path to health
1 Answer* to Health Queries
M. Q. R Q.—How can I tell when
my tonsils are diseased? If they ere
diseased should they be removed?
A.—Consult your doctor for an ex
amination. If your tonsils are d:s
eased they should be removed.
Worried Mother Q—What would
cause the following symptoms, skin
dry and scaly behind the ears—bath
ing- will tend to keep it moist, and
it will not heal—powder seems to
ruse further aggravation—one other
part o? the body t* similarly affected
A.—This is probably erzema.
Watch the diet and elimination, and
avoid the use of water on the irri
tated par*«
C, D, Q.—is ii wise to kiss A
patient who has had tuberculosis in
a mild form? The doctor, who has
been treating the patient, save the
case will be cured in a few months.
A.i-.Not if there a if active jet ms
In the sputum.
8, J. C. Q—-Does hard work after
eating hinder or help the heart?
1—What causes high blood pres
sure?
■t —I' s not wise to *vet exerciie
after eating.
C—Worry. excitement, overeating
snd emotional disturbance* will
,au.'« high blood pressure
toTJTlfht 1931 b* Ne»tpar«?T f>*{ur* £er*.i*.’fe.
UNION TRUST CO.
5HELBY, N. C.
STATEMENT OF CONDITION
SEPTEMBER 29TH, 1931
Including Branch Offices At Lattimore,
Lawndale, Fallston, Mooresboro,
Rutherfordton, Forest City and
Caroleen.
RESOURCES
Loans ami Discounts _ SI,152,104.17
Overdrafts 24.42
North Carolina State Bonds . ... . _ 10,‘1,214.12
United States Bonds _ _ 72.100.00
Other Bonds and Stocks _ 22,504.21
Banking Houses ’ ___ 78,075.70
Other Real Estate Owned __ 84,694.40
Furniture and Fixtures 26,990.08
Advances on Farm Expense . .. .531.65
Cash on hand and due from other Ranks _ _ 292,028.94
TOTAL __ __ SI,777.687.70 !
I
LIABILITIES
Capital_'-... . ___ £>150,000.00
Surplus _ f____ 150.000.00
Undivided Profits ... ...._ 15,457.88
Reserves for Interest ami Depreciation 41,172.72
Bills Payable -___. .180,000.00
Bonds Borrowed__ __ 24,000,00
Deposits __ ..._ 1,217,057.10
TOTAL..... . $1,777,687.70
The trend of business is improved and each week
and month brings a more optimistic outlook. With
economy and conservatism as watch words, the custom
ers of The Union Trust Company should go forward and
strive by team-work, economy, frugality and saving to
□ring about an even greater financial stability through
out our section. Wo invite your banking business,
UNION TRUST CO.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS THREE
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
UPPER CAROLINA'S GREATEST
EDUCATIONAL AND AMUSEMENT EVENT
SPARTANBURG
COUNTY FAIR
October 28 - 29 - 30 - 31
5 BIG DAYS and 5 BIG
— AMUSEMENTS —
Midway attractions by Johnny J. Jor>s Exhibition. Guam,
teed to be clean and high class. All the fun-making de ic
and attractions that go to make up an excellent midway.
— FIRE WORKS —
A Spectacular Fireworks Display will be staged each night
the Fair.
— RACES —
Exciting harr -ss H; ces will be held each day except Saturday
at 1:00 P. M. Thrilling auto races Saturday. Oct. 31 at 2:00
P. M. Motor Cycle races Friday Afternoon.
- VAUDEVILLE —
excellent Vaudeville Acts each day- in front of Grand Stand.
— EXHIBITS - AGRICULTURE —
Individual Farm Exhibits consisting of the products of th.
field, garden, orchard, 'ireyard. dairy, etc.
-CATTLE
Some of the finest cattb* ever sefin in this section will be on
exhibition at this year’s fair.
SWINE — POULTRY — HOME DEMONSTRATION CL LBS
FANCY WOR£ — FLOWERS — EXCELLENT RABBIT
SHOW — BOYS’ 4-H CLUB DISPLAYS — SCHOOL EX
HIBITS — and many other fine exhibits, too numerous t >
mention.
ADMISSION — DAY AND NIGHT —
Adult* 50c. — Children, under 12 25c