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■ ■ ■ r ■ it ** ** • *»M* *%♦*'» «*««• Around Our TOWN OR Shelby SIDELIGHTS By RENN DRUM. t**" ■ *?' > ■■■>■>■■■■ ■ ■ ■ T'i i T' a MRERWOOD‘S DADDY COT LAST CHUCKLE Shelby school children no doubt remember the visit litr. some months ago of Sherwood Brockwell, state fire marshal, who made a talk at. the school on fire prevention. Sherwood, as the youngsters likely found out, is somewhat of a punster himself, but years ago jjis father got the last laugh out of a very amusing Incident. Sherwood's dad was a locksmith, and a good one. He lived at Rockingham and one day the time lock on the bank vault there refused to work. The elder Brockwell was called in and in a few minutes he had the vault door open. His charge was *25 and the bank officials kicked at paying that amount for Just a few minutes work. "All right, then, Brockwell declared, “suits me.” And he slammed the vault door back shut. The bank had to pay *250 to get an expert from the factory to open it HE’S HELPED MANY A YOUNG FELLOW OUT "Unsigned s letter to this department, expressing admiration lor tne pluck of T. W. Hamrick, put in w-ords a sentiment that is within the breasts of scores of people who know the veteran business man and his courageous spirit. The writer's recollection of the day when T. W. let him have an •ngagement ring without a cent down will bring back a similar memory, we suspect, to scores and scores of men. Once this department asked the jeweler how many men had purchased their engagement and wed ding rings on credit. "You’d be surprised,” he answered. “I have no Idea myself.” 'T suppose a good many of them never paid?” we queried, “No, most of them have,” he said. “In some cases years and years passed by but finally I got my money. I have no regrets over what Ut ile I lc*t that way. I got too much pleasure out of giving the boys a helping hand at those very important periods in their lives. They never forgot me and they always came back to trade with me.” That’s T. W. for you, through and through. * legena aDout, sneiDy tnat nis nrst jewelry business was con ducted In a discarded piano box, but he fought on uphill without a whimper. No one ever heard him whine when the going was hard, and no one ever failed to be cheered up by a visit to him when the atmos phere was blue He believed, despite handicaps that would have made ■nost men fold up, that life was worth living, and he had an unbounded faith in his fellowman. Many a woman about Shelby would not have had a sparkler slipped cn her finger at the time it was if T. W. had not believed almost as much in her man as she did herself. A regular fellow in every respect, and the qualities that made him -o remain with him in his last battle—one that he knows he cannot win, out the legendary old guard had nothing on him in not knowing how to surrender. “Unsigned" tapped the sentiment of an extra section. GET OUT THE MISTLETOE It is told about town that a young swain and his girl friend were setting along rapidly on a recent date. Perhaps Christmas, and all that goes with It, was In the air. Anyway, says he to her: “Every time I kiss you it makes me a better boy "Yep," says she in reply, “but what are you trying to do-—make heaven in one night?” SHELBY SHORTS: The Christmas card barrage 1* on . . , . And the collegians and <o-eds are giving uptown Shelby more pep than all the red lights and Yule trees .... It was Just a year ago that Shelby was disappointed when one of her esteemed citizens refused to become a senator and go up to Washington and join in on this pow-wow they’re having now about the moratorium, etc.The fellows about town who saw the Green Wave sweep over dear ol’ Gawga still refuse to believe that California wilt have a track meet at Tulane’s expense New Year’s day .... Shelby could put out a mighty flashy independent basketball quint if the old stars would so decide .... L, A. Gettys, who died last week, had more friends scattered over the world than any other Shelby citizen. He was acquainted With mining experts and mineralogists in several coun tries. His death removed one of the main links that connected present day Cleveland with the mining days Of yesteryear . *. . The story of his life is as colorful as that of any native son of this section. Every boy, we believe, is endowed at birth with the idea that he'll find gold m his play along creek banks or elsewhere. Many years ago Mr. Gettys, then a mere farm land, discovered something he thought to be gold in a creek bank near his home in Rutherford county. He gent it off to to have it examined. The find proved to be monazite and the farm boy, who had never seen a big city, was given a free trip to Philadelphia. Imagine what a thrill that was? The discovery and the trip brought millions of dollars to Western North Carolina as monazite mining began to thrive and the industry in its heyday put a somewhp.t backward section on its feet .... Out in the rural sections they’re still chuckling, and occasionally guffawing .over Gee McGee’s memories of lassie-making time.” GETTING HARDER OR LOSING INTEREST? The pied names, or tangletype teasers, as you prefer, are either get ting more difficult to solve or interest in the craze is ebbing. Anyway, very few readers managed to unjumble the tangled names given Friday. Perhaps they were a little hard, although a majority untangled the name of the professional man. Here they are jumbled and unjumbled: ROY-AVERT-WAR-BLIT-C: Albert Victor Wray. SAM-SLID-JARS-LAND: James Sands Willard. NO-JOK-AND-HELL-DIGS-HER: John Holland Eskridge. HURRIE-BAR-CLUS: Charlie Burrus Now try these: NOT-NAL-BETT-EYAF-Al ESO-REG-DUC-LA MUD-NRN-RE The trio of jumbles was submitted by a reader. All are young men, or, at least, think they are; and all are in business of some type or had :t job at last account. NOW let’s go do that Christmas shopping we've been putting off. 5,000 HOMES RECEIVE THE STAR Every Other Day. That Means 20,000 in tense Readers. If you have something to sell, tell these 20,000 people about it in these columns. 5,000 HOMES RECEIVE THE STAR Every Other Day. That Means 20,000 intense Readers. If you have something to sell, tell *h**e 20 000 Pennle nhniit it ir» these columns. ;Beck Affair Is Under Discussion . Statesville Daily. As was to be expected, the state i highway commission reinstated Beck, former lieutenant of the high way patrol. who was suspended after he violated laws he was em ployed to protect and broke the peace he was employed to preserve, at Rutherfordton about a month ago. Beck parked his car in the viticinlty of a fire hydrant in Ruth erfordlon. All towns have ordin ances prohibiting parking too near it fire hydrant, foi obvious reasons Being a high official himself. Beck 'should have recognized that in the first place. But when a local police man called hts attention to the parking the patrol lieutenant, in stead of recognizing the officer' authority and the town regulations, as is becoming in a private citizen, not to mention an officer, engaged in a war of words liberally inter-, spersed with profanity, according to the published report. Apparently he felt too big to take orders. After that, probably next day, Beck r< -' turn to the scene of the disturb- \ ance, accompanied by two members j of the. patrol of which he was com- : manding officer, and engaged in a fight with a Rutherfordton officer, j For this Beck was suspended from , his patrol position pending action j of the state commission. He was i fined in the local court at Ruther- j fordton for his offending. Seeing | that he was in bad, Beck apologiz- j ed for his conduct. Then the ma chinery was set in motion to get support for his retention In hts job. Beck had the backing of W. W. Neal ,of Marlon, in whose town he has headquarters. Neal is a politi cian all the year-round and works industriously at that job. Accord ing to the rule in such cases let ters were written, telegrams sent ana pewuons signea m Beck's De half. You know how that Is. A friend of somebody’s friend asks you to do something for a friend. Letters and telegrams are prepared and petitions circulated. Numerous persons signed to oblige who know nothing about Beck, his fitness for his Job. or the seriousness of the offending. The purpose was to im press the commission and securing letters, telegrams and signatures to petitions to make an impression Is about the easiest thing there is when it is worked industriously. Commissioner Neal's suggestion would get many letters and, tele grams because of his position and his political and personal influ ence. Beck admitted his error, let It be said, explaining that he lost his temper about the hydrant park ing. He went back to explain and lost his temper again. The fact that he lost his temper twice over the same incident is evidence that he has a good deal of temper—pos sibly enough to unfit him for po lice service, which is the most try ing on temper of all occupations. The two highway patrolmen who accompanied Beck when he en gaged in his battle at Rutherford ton were not listed as actually par ticipating with him. But Farmer, called captain because he Is at the head of the patrol, thought it nec essary to reprimand the two pa trolmen after he went to Ruth'-r fordton and looked into the dis turbance. Farmer excused them on the ground that the men didn’t know any better than to obey the orders of their commanding officer, which wasn't a compliment to them. But the fact that Farmer thought it necessary to reprimand them is evidence that they had failed in a crisis to see their job. Mr. Neal insisted that Beck Is fine and capable and had rendered such fine service that it would be un fair to discharge him for one error. Whether one should be discharged for one error depends on the size and character of the error. Beck s attitude toward the local officer about the fire hydrant parking was inexcusable and evidence that he has little conception «f the prpper attitude of an officer. To that he added the aggravated offense, later, after he had cooling time, of en gaging in a fight, something a po lice officer never should do except in a clear case of self-defense or in the use of force to make an a ires*. If Beck is so short on temper as he manifested at Rutherfordton he is liable to break the peace at any time instead of preserve it. We very much hope that the ac tion of the highway commission will not tend to discredit the pa trol, but the feeling is that it will The patrol is on trial. It has ren dered splendid service in some re spects but it has not yet accom plished that wlicreunto it was sent —reduced highway casualties. The casualties increase. The establish ment of the patrol was violently opposed on the ground that it would but supply Jobs for politic?! workers. The action'in the Beck case, with the conspicuous appear ance of Neal, will, in some minds, tend to confirm the fear that the patrol might be more of a political than a highway patrol. But while we are of the opinion, for reasons mentioned, that the commission has added error to Becks errors, realizing the good work done by the patrol and its possibilities, it is hoped the public judgmrnt will give due credit for What ie done, give all the weight* that is coming to the good points in considering what the late Judge »»r>Neil would call “ttw> xrVinto Vaco ' Kncl of Dope Trail A warning oi what inevitably waits at the end of the “dope road" is contained in the confession of 17 year-old Cleveland Roberts, who is held in Los Augelei, charged with the slaying of A, K. Schartier, a Christmas card artist Roberts, according to police, confessed he shot Schartr.er after the latter had given him dope and made him an addict, afterwards cutting off bis supplj Don’t forget to.tell them about It in The Star. Star Advertising t»ays big dividends. Minnesota Farm Plan May Be Way Out For Farmers Of This Area; Gets Away From One-Crop System ill«* Movement Mlrs I p In terrst Of Karmen.. I’lau BomM The mors we read and Study the Mlmie.sota plan which was explain ed to a large group of Western North Carolina farmers in Ashe ville the other night, the more w< are Impressed with its unlimited possibilities The South is cursed with one crop lumitng So was the Northwest, when this man Murphy, publisher of The Minneapolis Tribune got to thinking about the troubles of the farmer. He says that 90 per cent of the farm troubles can be corrected by sensible farming, leaving 10 per cent to be handled by congress and the legislatures. "For three years on a Red River valley wheat farm. I studied agri cultural problems at first hand," said Mr. Murphy. T1 50 Western North Carolina business men could and would study farming in this section in the sameway, the results would be of great value. There Is too great a tendency for all of ns to forget agriculture, the activity upon which all other industry H based. T iearned wheat-raising was poor business, because the over-worked ^oll did not yield enough grain i^r acre. The trouble with the wheat belt was not with the government but with the larm itself. I went1 back to Minneapolis ami got a corns of successful farmer.- and econo-! mists from agricultural colleges t make a survey to find what would make farming pay. "We reached the conclusion BO’ per cent of farm ills may be cor rceted bv sensible farming, leaving: only to per cent to be handled b;> legislation involving tnrlfts suffi ciently high to keep Danish butter and Philippine cocoa nut oil from too active competition with Amer ican farm products. Democrats m Republicans. I do not believe this country's farmers should run an asylum in the Orient. "Yield per acre can't be increased by laws. But prices of dairy pro ducts, beef cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry have for years been above the commodity market. Our survey allowed variations necessary to meet varying local needs.” "When we aid the farmer to mar ket his low-priced feeds and grains In the form of finished products like butter or eggs, chicken or beef, wool or pork-on-the-hoof, wc sta blll!’r Ills bu.slur.vs prices ol these UiIiik-s never Ro up and down a \ fur or as fast as grulns or cotton "For several years those finisher!* product prices were higher that, those of Mu' merchandise that farmers buy. In 1930 they came down to about a parity with the goods on the merchant's shelves Today they are much higher than grains or cotton; the raw-malerffe! products of onc-crop tanning "The cow. the so wand the little red hen arc still good markets f r over-produced grains and feed crops. They are sustaining the whole structure of business and agricul ture toddy "There are mounting bank d* posits, less unemployment, and sound business in the Northwest while other parts of the country complain of depression Depart ment store sales hold up well h\ comparison with other regions, "Just a glimpse of (he magnltud - of the nation's dairy and poultry industry Three billion dollars a year arc squeezed out of the friend ly udder of the ‘foster mother of the human race,' by America's mllklps farmers, "That's more than one-fourth om entire farm income ($12,851,000 1929'. It is more than two and one half times our cotton, two and one half times our beef and veal, twice our pork, nearly three and one half times nil our wheat ($840,921. 000-1929). •'America's nulk crop Is worth more than all our motor cars et wholesale prices. ‘‘Even our barnyard flappers make wheat look like chicken feed They lav $717,000,000 worth of eggs raise $458,000,000 worth of chickens a total of $1,175,000 000 worth of IfouUry. They don't ask for any farm relief!' They go out and 1»« their own relief, over one bllllor dollars worth. They make when look like chicken feed. "Remember too- all this butte and egg money has high buylrb power—way above that of grain: today." If the business men of this cour> try. the bankers, merchants, cottoi mill executives, lawyers, doctors and other professional men, wish t( see this county come back, If t,h< local chamber of commerce want to render a real service to *h community and bring prosperity back by restoring agriculture to t». former place of prominence in th< country we believe they could d nothing better than bring this mar to the county and let us hear n' message. Jealousy Of Mule Got Owner Injured New Orleans, l,a.—The Jealous' of his mules is blamed by Georg* Hebbler, 52-year-old city wagor driver, foi his presence In a hos pital here with a punctured lung and broken ribs. Hebbler said wher he fed apples to one mule. Its team mate burled Its teeth In his back lifted him from ■ the ground ami then dropped him. Hospital at taches said the driver's condition wrs critical. You needn’t tell me — I know Camel is the fresh cigarette! they’re W It CM I! 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