The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mail, per year ... $2.50 By Carrier, per year-----$3.00 LEE B. WEATHERS_ President and Editor S. ERNEST HOET______ Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM .. New* Editor L. E. DAIL ..................._...... Advertising Manager Entered as seeond class matter January 1, 1905, at the post office at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress. March 3. 1879. We wish to call your attention to the fact that It Is and has been our custom to charge five cents per Use tor resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice ha* been published. This will be strictly adhered to. WEDNESD’Y, DEC. 16, 1931 TWINKLES In a little over a week there will be plenty of shopping days until Christmas, if you get us. Have you signed your pledge card in the drive for Shel by’s ''$10,000 charity fund? Your bit and yours will help put ft over. If the remainder of the month holds up the record of the first portion, December will likely have more rainfall than all the other months of 1931 combined. This evening the Central Methodist church will have a welcome-to-our-city program for their new pastor, Dr. Me* Larty,' and his wife, and, unless we miss a guess, it will be an enjoyable, worthwhile evening with the newcomers real izing that they are now a part, of a hospitable community. ENEMIES HELl* IT THE YOUTHfUL EDITORS of the magazine Contempo, published at Chapel Hill, should express their apprecia tion to th# South Carolina editor who attracted such wide attention to the somewhat radical and liberal periodical. He put Contempo on the map, to use a street phrase, and gave it more free advertising than could have been purchased with five thousand dollars. No great number of people knew there was a magazine of that type being published in 'North Carolina until the South Carolina editor wrote Gov ernor Gardner that he should do something about it. Im mediately everyone began to ask things about Contempo and along came more statements, denials, etc. Within a week the magazine had broken into the news columns of pa pers all over f&e country. The argument continues and will likely do so for some time; and it is our guess that the young editors, who have attempted to go Mencken on their own, are sitting about laughing at the very excellent favor done them by their enemies. GROWING BETTER COTTON ONE OF THE FEW avenues which hold forth hope for the cottoa farmer te that of producing a better grade of cotton. There is no cheering prospect ahead for the farmer who sticks to the average or common grades of cotton. In South Carolina, so the Columbia State informs, more than 60 per cent of all the cotton produced is 15-16th of an inch or long sr. SaT* The Statf: This evidence furnished by the United State Bu reau of Agricultural Economics shows that a greater percentage of our cotton farmers have produced cotton of greater value. North Carolina is a close second, but South Carolina's percentage of better grades is almost three times higher than Georgia’s and nearly four tim es higher than Alabama’s. And the encouraging fea ture to South Carolina cottonseed breeders, Doctor Long of Clemson College and those who have given financial support to the contests in this state designed to en courage the production of “quality” cotton is that only a few years ago the percentage of longer staple grown in this state was the same as Alabama’s this year. We have steadily advanced from 15 per cent to 60 per cent. This section cannot compete with the Southwest in the production of common grades of cotton, but it can compete with quality cotton—and no other should be planted. It is not news to the thinking larmer of this section of the South that he cannot compete with the more fertile sec tions in producing the average run of cotton. The produc tion cost is so much less in those sections. But in Cleveland »unty in recent years a number of farmers have seen the wisdom of growing a longer staple. In this year of poor prices several Cleveland farmers are profiting by the fore sight used in growing a better grade. There will not be as much cotton planted in North Carolina’s largest cotton growing county next year, but a big percentage of that planted", it is believed and hoped, will be of a better grade— and the farmer with a better grade of cotton is assured of more than the run-of-the-market prices when he goes to sell. A CHEER FOR SPEAKER GARNER IT HAS BEEN many years since the Democratic party lias furnished a Speaker of the House, but chances are that the new Speaker, Jack Garner, of Texas, will be heard from often while he holds that high office. To start out with, the public knew' that the fiery, hard working Texan was a direct contrast to the last Speaker, the late Nicholas Longworth. The latter, an able man despite over-privileged handicaps, was born, as the saying goes, with a ailver spoon in his mouth. He was an immaculate dresser, a society man, polished and suave. Garner is of the opposite type; a "self-made man from the great open spaces of Texas where a man says his say and talks little. Expens ive trappings and costly show are not, because of. life-long ‘raining, a part of his theory of living. Speaker Garner has always opposed needless and un expense by office-holder*. It I* bis idea that the ! Seek Mail Schedule Change To Shelby Rutherfordton Want-. Morning Mail To Main Tine of Southern. Rutherfordton—C. K. Honeycutt, of Greensboro, chief railway mall clerk, has been here looking Into the advisability of changing the star route from here to Shelby, which now leaves at 3 o’clock In the | afternoon, so that It will leave |around 8:30 o'clock In the morning i and go direct to Kings Mountain. At the latter place, It would, under [the proposa lconnect with South fern railway train No. 46, which passes there at 11:17 o'clock in the morning. All offices between here atjd Kings Mountain would be serv ed as they now are. This would give Rutherfordton and Rutherford county an early out going east bound morning mall, which It has needed for some time. Sit would place the mail in Char lotte by noon and would connect at Gastonia with the Cresent limited south and at Charlotte with the Piedmont limited north. Mr. Hunneycutt thinks the new arrangement will go Into effect shortly. Effort To Re-Open Marion Hospital Marion.—Efforts which have been made since last February to reopen the Marlon general hospit al are on the verge of yielding re sults. In fact, C. F. James chair man of the board of trustees, has stated that the board expects to have it open again by January, if not sooner. The hospital closed last February due to financial and other difficul ties. Since that time repeated ef forts have been made to get It open again, with first one obstacle and then another coming up to hinder the work. man who lives on the money of the tax-payer should not live in any more ritzy manner than he would if not holding public office. It is not surprising, then, to note that Speaker Garner has refused to use the costly limousine and liveried chauffeur that the government usually provides for Speak ers of the House. In doing so Gamer merely practices what he has been preaching for years, and his action, it goes with out saying, will meet with the approval of the average citi zen who is just now learning to do without some of the i things he has been accustomed to. Some will say, of course, ' that. Garner in refusing to use the limousine was playing politics, or playing to the grandstand. But the Garner rec ord shows he is not of that type. He has been accustomed, before being elected speaker, to walking a part of the way between his home and the uapitol. He can continue to do so, he says, or when the case' demands he can use public trans portation to and fro. Certainly he is to be commended. The government doesn’t furnish a conveyance for the little fellow who pays the bill; and he, when he needs to go anywhere, must ride a street car or a cab. What reason, therefore, for the office-holder to fare better? Some of Garner’s friends argue that he should use the car to maintain the dignity of his high office. Bosh! A man with the simple ruggedness, honesty and dependability of Garner needs no costly car and uniformed driver to maintain the dignity of his position and hold the respect of the people. What the country needs is a few more public leaders who, like Garner, are not only willing but glad to practice what they preach. A FARM MORATORIUM SHOULD NOT THE FARMER of America be shown the same consideration by his government that is extended foreign countries? The outlook of the average farmer in 1932 is gloomy unless he is given a break—the same break that his country has given other countries. What the farmer needs, and should have, is a morator ium. Mr. Hoover arranged a year’s moratorium for foreign nations which are in debt to this country. It was realized they could not pay now withopt endangering their future, perhaps causing their governmental and financial systems to collapse. The American farmer is in t15e same leaking boat. Un less his government can give him a helping hand, he, too, may sink. Last week 14 Southern Senators met in Washington and urged that the national administration provide some re lief for delinquent borrowers from Federal land banks. This group of Senators is headed by Senator Smith, of South Carolina, and everyone w ho .realizes the grave situation of the farmer hopes that the plea will be heeded. “This is an unprecedented situation,” said Senator Smith, “brought about by failure of the cash crops to meet < he cost o{ production. This condition can’t exist indefinite ly, but dispossession now of the farmers will leave them un able. to help themselves when the depression is over.” senator smun is rignt. were in Cleveland county, and all over North Carolina and America, a big percentage of the farmers are indebted to the land banks. It would be sur prising to know what proportion of the farms are plastered with land bank mortgages. With six-cent cotton prevailing there is no hope for the farmer to meet these obligations. What is worse, he has no money with which to face the future and put out his 1932 crops. Who will benefit, as Senator Smith asks, by dispossessing these honest, hard working men who are willing to pay and will pay when they can? They will not always be down, but just now they need relief. What better relief than that of the land banks ex tending their credit until they can come back? It is a pity that a land bank moratorium of a year or so could not have been declared before November. It was then that the payments fell due and that many could not pay. Another payment comes due in May, just at the sea son when the farmer is raking and scraping to get enough money anfl credit together to put out a new crop. If he is closed down upon then by the Federal land banks, what will 1932 bring? But if the May payment can be postponed and what little money he has be put into a new crop, then lie will have at least a fighting chance to come out. He de serves that chance surely if a similar chance has been given to foreign nations who owe this country. The administra tion can bring about that relief through Federal land banks if in no other department. Hasn’t the man who pays taxes and sends his sons when his country calls at least an equal right and apportrir.ity with those countries who borrowed from him, as a taxpayer of his government, to wage war? It is to be hoped that the group of Senators, including Sen ator Morrison, of North Carolina, working in behalf of the struggling, harassed and perplexed farmer can show the ad ministration just how much such liberal treatment of the farmer i,* needed at this crucial period. State Democrats ! Harmonious: Will' Support Roosevelt Daniels Considered Too Old to Ran For Governor, Host Says. iTom Bost in Greensboro News.) i Raleigh — “Peace and victory j Democratic talisman, has almost hushed the strident anti-adminis tration voices In North Carolina. I Lieutenant Governor Richard T. j Fountain issues dally more dulcet j sounds than have been coming from j him since the adjournment of the I general assembly, and Editor Jose-! phus Daniels has found a Republl- j can mess to his liking. Henceforth, If that distinguished gentleman does not let up on his legislature of 1931 and with the ancient organ of j the Democracy grind out the sweet | old tunes, all the dope of half the j century has been spilled. For, when | the Republicans give Mr Daniels a ! suitable text he can set the Rham katt rooster on them and peck them to pieces. neaucuon neascs. Such a situation lias arrived for! the Democracy. The financial con dition of the state appears to be robust by comparison with any of its neighbors; The tax reduction and the tax imposition makes a party appeal that is ideal whatever it. may lack in political effectiveness. The rich people have been soaked and the poor hav4 been relieved. The $12,000,000 reduction of taxes on property and the increased rates on successful corporations make the perfect ad hominem argument. On top of that comes the ancient and vulnerable attack on the Republi can campaign methods. The demo cracy. bifurcated for three years, has had a harmony shuffle. The Jeffersonians, keen for national patronage, are ready to present the solidarity in state and nation that is needed to win the victory. Roosevelt the Choice. It is now believed that Governor Roosevelt is the popular choice of North Carolina democracy. Although from New York he does not carry anything like the objections that were found with Smith. He seems to understand the South and its problems. He is the type of candi date that appeals to North Carol inians. He comes from a long line of distinguished ancestry, thorough ‘V educated, a man of culture and Aeep sympathy for the masses. He has never been identified with Tammany hall. Hts first, distinction in New York politics came by fight ing the Tammany organization and it is not believed that the Tam many brand of politics win ever rule Franklin Roosevelt His dispo sition not- to paramount the liquor question is also, well received in this state. Man Daniels Can Stand Him. It Is believed that there will' be no difficulty Tor Johcphus Daniels and the leaders to agree in the support of Roosevelt and this fact is having a healing effect in the party organization. It was thought at one time that Mr. Daniels- would run for the Democratic nomination for governor, but this impression is not so general at the present time. It Is known that the family of Mr. Daniels do not want him to run, al though he undoubtedly would have strong support. In the first place Mr Daniels, if he should run and be el ected. would be nearly 71 years of age when inaugurated. He has al ways been a man of vigorous health and well preserved, but his best friends realize that he would prob ably have to make three races in 1932 before he could possibly be successful. There would be two Dcm ocratic primaries and the general election and the wear and tear of the contest would constitute a heavy drain upon a younger man even than Mr. Daniels. Would Keep Young Couples Here For Wedding Ceremony (Stanley News and Press.) The Stanley county register ofi deeds has been losing some of his! business to South Carolina officials I because this state requires a health j examination before marriage licen- ] ses are issued. North Carolina also requires couples to file notice of their Intention to marry a few days before the license is issued. Both requirements should be incorpor ated in the Federal statutes, thus making the same in every slate. We feel that it would eliminate many marriages which are destined in the beginning to be dissolved inj the divorce courts. At the same time it would keep the register's. magistrate’s and I preacher's fees at home. Stunt Night Friday At Waco School The students of the Waco school will give a stunt night in the High School auditorium on Friday night December 18. The patrons and friends of the school are cordially i invited to attend. 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