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The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mali, per year ..........._.......... t- '>0 By Carrier, per year __...■. *3 00 rune r WEATHERS .. President and Editor R ERNEST HOEY . Secretary and rorem.in RENN DRUM .. News Editor L. E. DAIL .... Adtertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 190S. at the post office at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act ot Congrc. s. March 3. 1*79. W# wish to call your attention to the tact that 1*. is and has been our custom to charge five rents per lira tor resolutions ot respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, alter onp death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. MONO.Y. AUGUST 8. 19M2 TWINKLES 41 -- "Pope Ts Leading In Tenne-see." informs a Head line, but closer perusal reveal.-Ihat'il isn't the pope, who played such an important role in the lf>28 politi cal campaign.. Hut iust a pu be ma t nr ia 1 candid a t e by the name of Lewis S. Pope. PI T I P AM) STEP I P Tomorrow North Carolina Democrats name .their * new party chairman, and it’s our guess that any sugar j daddy who is willing'open up the purse this fall will he acceptable to Messrs. Ehringhaus and Reynolds and all the others. With .lohn Raskob and Cam Morrison brushed aside, some Democrats are realizing that it rakes the same thing to make the donkey go as is re quired for the mare. A GOOD YEAR FOR YOU If you pay taxes in Cleveland county, the, business year just ended Was a good year for you, because it was a good year for the county government. A news story in today’s Star gives more details about the county fi nance and budget. Last year Cleveland county made up a budget and cut the tax levy to 50 cents,, the second lowest levy in North Carolina and the lowest in the county in many years. At the end of the year, on-July 1, the county had lived within that reduced budget and emerged with a surplus of $120,000 in addition to re ducing the indebtedness by more than $57,000, The re sult was that the new budget was made up for a smaller amount and the tax levy whacked down to 43 cents. Very few individuals and fewer business enterprises had a good ,vear last year, and for that reason the accomplish ment in the Cleveland county court house is more than ever worthy of attention and commendation, DREAMING OF 10-CENT COTTON With the stock market taking an upward leap last week there is considerable talk of better business and generally improved conditions. We are not attempting to be overly optimistic or overly pessimistic, hut we're just wondering what, and how much of it, is needed to improve general conditions in this immediate area. Eight or ten-cent cotton would do it, a majority of the observers say. and chances ave that it would. Rising stocks will help some, but only a small percentage. Just a few years ago the average farmer would have sneered at eight or ten-cent cotton, but today that price would be received with open arms. And 10-ce'nt cotton would help much. The farmer who has been anticipating only five cents could see the light over the horizon with 10 cents, or double what he looks for. And when t he farm er gets his 10 cents that means the textile plants need cotton at that price because they in turn are selling their products on an equal basis. All of which, of course, is not to be taken as a prediction that cotton will bring 10 cents this fall. The odds are that it will not, but the odds have lessened somewhat recently. THE REYNOLDS CASE The Reynolds ease., due to the indictment of the voting widow and the life-long, pal of the tobacco heir, is back in the limelight. Until the matter is finally dispos ed of, and perhaps thereafter, it will he widely' discussed because of the numerous human interest angles connect ed thereto. All elements are there a young million aire, a chorus girl bride, a hoc friend, wild life, drink ing, etc. Rut one of the major reasons for the wide interest and controversy centering about the case is that the evidence is such as to cause a difference in opinion. In one group-most any group anywhere— you’ll hear someone express the opinion that the beau tiful young blues singer and her husband’s young pal. Walker, really know more about Smith Reynolds death than they have told. A few of them will go even far then than that. In the same group will he several who are convinced and will argue it out with you that it is an out-and-out case of suicide, such a plain cast* that even a nitwit should he ahie to see it. Others just don’t know ;today they think one way and tomorrow the other. Arouse public interest by injection of the human interest elements and enough conflicting evidence to form a hasis for argument and it is always thus. No matter what juries and judges may say, the average commentator along the street retains the right to bring in his or her own verdict, and they refuse to be denied their right to theories until an unquestioned verdict is returned. Which is ro say that there will be much in the newspapers about the case until it is finished, be cause newspapermen have sensed the scope of the con troversy; and say what you will about too much crime news and high life in the newspapers, but the newspa pers generally give the readers what the readers dfsire. DIRTY DIG. . V :. <From The Columbia State) A woman mav be able to <to her own .housework but, she alwa has to get some other woman to help her keep a ■ Hoover's new member of the cabinet is an automo bile man. and with times as, they are Roosevelt might catch a tew more votes by promising to put in a buggy manufacturer when he gets into office. At (H ST: \ MONTH OF WARS When tivs is read the countries of Bolivia and Para guay may have settled their difference, but just now there is every possibility that ihe two nations may spring ar each others throats any minute. The war clouds on the horizon remind that August is a month of wars. Many declarations of war have been made in August, but the most: eventful August was that of 101 t That month. 18 years years ago, 13 nations declared war upon each other. Two others squared off in August. 10ir». and another in August, 1016. That was the great war. the war we know as the World war. On the first, day of August. 1011. (iprmany declar ed war on Russia, and on the second day declared war i on France. The third da%, France declared war on Ger many, and the fourth Germany declared war on Belgium and Great Britain on Germany, tin the sixth Austria declared war on Russia, arid on the ninth Serhia declar ed war on Germany. On the thirteenth Great Britain j and France declared war on Austria; on the 23rd Japan jumped in against Germany, and on the 27th Austria turned on Japan, and Russia upon Austria. The last declaration of the month was that of Austria against Belgium. In August 1915, Italy declared war on Tur key; and declared war on Germany a year later. Ir isn’t likely that August will ever again be such an event in conflicts between nations and men. but that: month wjthin itself, not to include other August out breaks, was enough to label August as the month of wars. GLORY SHORT LIVED The biggest lesson in the breaking up of the bonus army encampment is-that it has been a long time since 1918, says Gerald Johnson, writing in the Baltimore Evening Sun. The veterans, he adds, may not realize it. but the earlier they do the better off they will be. He is right. The hero of yesteryear may be the hum of today, j Not because of any fault or failing of his own, he may be just as good today as he was then, but it is the passing of time which brings the change—.-the fickleness of hu • man nature. They were all heroes in 1918; nothing was too good for them. Rut another generation has come on since; other heroes have had their day and havp given away to still others. The veteran who still fools himself by believing he has. the standing he had 14 years ago is worse off, surely, than the veteran who has long since realized that the path of glory is a brief one, and that, despite promises and praise of more than a decade ago. he must face the bare facts because the world forget, mighty quick. It is an old story, applicable to all who tread the paths of glory. Hero worship is short lived. Idols are toppled over in a fortnight and replaced with others. It is shown best, rhis tendency of humans to worship to- \ day and .jeer tomorrow, in the sport world. When Babe Ruth is lambasting baseballs high into the stadium seats for home runs, the spectators roar their approval. The next day when he strikes out. they jeer and hiss. It is ever thus, has always been, and always will he. I hose who bask in glory should make the best of if while they may, because tomorrow they may no longer be regarded as heroes or idolized as gallant cavaliers. It is harsh, cruel, and unjust that it is so, but- it is, and dreaming and reminiscing do not help. The beauty of today, the toa t of the town, is tomorrow an aging woman, and an • other more youthful belle takes her place. The belle brushed aside may still dream of her brief period of glory, hut she gains nothing, fools no one hut herself, in not facing the facts. The veterans—no matter how ! you may feel about the bonus—are disillusioned and dis appointed. They cannot help but be, for they’ve learn ed, or should have learned, that bitter lesson others have learned in the past, that a warrior's brief day is | that of his triumph. LONG DISTANCE. Fiom The Chicago Daily News i Albert p Laskey's pet . tory of the week «is about the colored maid m the home of a friend who answered an imperative ring of the tele phone. Yes'm." her niist-fess heard her sav. And a second time ' Yas'm Then she added: It shtv is." and hung up. The telephone rahs again immediately and the girl made identically the same replies, then disconnected. What kind of a conversation was that. Lucy?" she asked. "Wha* did they want?" Weil, they asked if this was the Blank, house, and t said yas'm and then they asked it Mrs. Blank was home, and I told em yas," the girl artsweve’d: 'Then they said, 'Long distance from Washington,' and 1 satd' 'it shot was':" GOOD AMERICAN BOM'S SEEKERS? ■Frofn The Greensboro News) Possibly the bonus marchers presage a revolution, but not an American ditto, ns wo understand it. Lister, to the roll call of those arrested: Kapanades. Hirseh. Laschuk. Moskawich. Tsotos. Strubli, Bene ditti ManuSco, Kmch. Talaher, Levin. Ooldwasser. Baranavitr. Gilwocki Davidoff Crvowicz Ehrlich, Mackloodian. SHELBY TEXTILE MILLS From The Charlotte Observer) One Shelby cotton mill, rather hard pressed, rails for receivers*) i| v n protection, bu* - still running, to better surety Two Shelby cottoi -rmlls that have been closed down for sometime, have',resumedopera tions. and so it may he sard, the textile industry in that parttcula locality is once more humming. MORE FISH IN ALL PONDS (From The Greensboro News) Spartanburg Herald is advocating more fishpond? That..' all-right >11oo; but what «e favor •*. more fish that will bite in the ponds nor i dammed up Aw, Shucks! Car. Cotton Hold Price? From The Charlotte News) Fxpeeiaiion of the Farm Board that, it whI dispose of 850,000 bales of cotton during the year without depressing the market, price brings up a hypothetical situation that possibly ® not susceptible to argu ment.one way or the other. If the board succeeds in- market ing. half of its huge stores and at the conclusion of the venture is able to point to prices still in the neigh borhood, of six cents or even a lit tle higher, it will say land who can blame it?'. We have done what we set, out to do. On the other hand, those who f.nd themselves constitutionally op posed to the activities of price-con tr'ol"bodies will, find little with which lo content themselves in claiming ;hat had the board not been rush ing the market the price would hav» a d v a need proport ionat ely. It was in October, 1929. the board said: The Farm Board believes that the present prevailing prices for cotton are too low - . • The Board believes that this unsatisfactory price level is chiefly due to the open fall weather . • • "The Board believes the rrm cdv lies in more orderlv market ing • . To enable the farmers to with.: hold their cotton , from, the market the: board agreed to loan money to the cooperatives on the basts of 16 cents a pound, at that time slightly less than market, price Bolstered by such financial aid. the hoard expressed confidence that the price would rise, and added these words "The Board places no limit on the amount of Government money to be so loaned. Nearly SI00.000.000 is available for the purpose, and if necessary the Board will also ask Congress to appropriate more." It. was in Januarv. 1931. that Mr Alexander Legge. then chairman of the, farm board, gave indication that tie would seriously consider" pro posals. advanced by Tennessee's Mc Keilar. to withhold board cotton from the market until the price had returned to 16 cents, at which a good part of it was bought. Legge has been replaced by Carl Williams; 16-cent cotton, too low as it was. has been followed by 5 and 6 rent cotton Wheat at 59 cents a bushel brings recollection of the good old days when government entered the commodity markets not to,sell the farmers' products through orderly marketing but. to buy out right in an effort to maintain prices. Mr Williams may, as he hopes, succeed in- disposing of half the hoard's cotton without depressing the market With cotton at, its present level no one will be inclined to let, loose a cheer at that belated accomplishment. Kins: Cobra Goes Blind; To Operate Washington. Aug. 8—A surgical! operation which carries the dans', of sudden death—for the surgeon—j may soon be performed at the national zoological park. The big arid venomous king cobra has gone blind. The task of cutting the scales] from its eves Is being delayed a. long as possible, says Dr. William M. Mann, director, because of the danger to those assisting at the op eration and the possibility that the I snake might break its neck in Its [struggles. But should the blindness affect [the snake's appetite and thus en danger its valuable life the peril ous operation performed once be fore by Dr. Raymond Dltmars or. a ' cobra at the Bronx zoo In New York, will be ordered. COMMISSIONERS SALE Bv virtue of an order of the Superior Court in iho suit entitled. "Atlantic Joint Stock l and Rank is f B Falls and wife the undersigned commissioner of tha court will sail to tna highest bidder at tha Court House Poor in Shelby. N. C. for cash on: SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19. 1913 at 11 o clock M or within legal houra the following described real estate: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being In No 4 Township Cleveland County and State of North Carolina, adjoining lands of C T. Orman. C. P Ware. J K. Goforth P D Herndon, ar.d A P Falls, and more particularly bounded and described a' follows: Beginning at an Iron stake In the nub ile road P D Herndon s corner, and runs thenre w ith Herndon s line S <7 degrees W 14 chains and 95 links to a hlrkory. thence S 35 degrees 15 minutes W. 14 chains and 77 links to a stone: thence N at degrees and 15 minutes w. 18 chains to a stone; thence N. 3 degrees and .10 minutes F 23 chains to a stone; thence N 63 degrees 39 minutes E 21 ehatns gnd 67 links to a stone; thence N 3 de grees and 30 minutes E 4 chains and 10 links to a stake in the public road ’hence with said road as it meanders, as follows s 33 degrees and 39 mtnutea E 3 chains to a stake thence 8 41 degree, and 39 minutes E 3 chains and 14 lthks ■ 0 a stake: thenre S ' 53 degrees E 7 chains and 34 links to a stake, thence 8 75 degrees F. 3 chains and 94 links to a stake; thence -S 32 degrees 45 minutes E s chains and 84 links to the beginning containing »i 1 acres more or less, mort gage deed for which Is recorded In Book 131. page 182-A of the office of the register of deed* for Cleveland Counts N C Terms of sale: Cash This the 6th dav of August. 1932 B T. Falla. Commissioner 4t - Aug He iTry Star Want Ads. As Slain Bonus Vet Went to Soldier’s Grave Full military honors were accorded William Hushka, slain Chicago bonus veteran, with burial in Arlington Cemetery, Washington. The above shows the flag draped casket being carried to the grave by members of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Walter W. Waters, commander of the Bonus Army, and Mrs. Waters are shown (inset) as they i appeared at the funeral. "Midnight Express” Ahead ot lime Again ir *r*<r I A telephoned picture of the stirring finish of the 200 metre dash at the Olympic Games showing Eddie Tolan, of Detroit, winning and setting a iievv Olympic record. George Simpron, Ralph Metcalfe, Arthur Jonath of Germany, and Carlo Lutti of Argentina, can be seen finishing in that order. Tolan. dubbed the “Midnight Express,” is the first American athlete since 1912 to win both the. 100 and 200 metre dashes at the Olympics. His time in the 200 was 21.4, better ing the old mark by two-tenths of a second. L*: II. OUR ROOTS Are In The Land! THERE is a dignity and importance in the work of a farmer.. He fol lows the oldest and most basic of all industries. He stands as a symbol of security, for though investments may fail, the regular rotation of seedtime and harvest continues. His is the most tangible of all returns—food—and the most powerful. It is our function to aid him in directing this power so that it may be diverted into the most fruitful channels, not only to himself, but to the country. As an aftermath of the turmoil in the business world the past years it will be proven that good well located land, bought at reasonable prices, will stand a better test over other investments, for if properly cared for it can’t run away. For the young man, willing to work, an investment in a farm, will always give him and his family a living and in many instances a good return on his investment. Our great desire is to see Cleveland county maintain her agricultural prestige and continue to be a county of independent, small land-owners. FIRST NATIONAL BANK SHELBY, N. C,
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