The Cleveland Star
SHELBY. N. C.
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Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905. at the post
offie* at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congre.'S,
March 3. HIB.
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8 ERNEST HOEY
RENN DRUM _
L. E. DAIL _
.. President and Editor
Secretary and Foreman
......__ News Editor
.. Advertising Manager
TWINKLES
Rises a good Democrat, and mayhaps a supporter of
Frank, to say: "Relieve you me, how can one help hut
figure- that North Carolina's Frank Crist must be that
‘forgotten man' Roosevelt is talking about ?"
Republicans who whisper abopt that Roosevelt and
Garner are not getting along so well appear to ha ve over
looked the fact that Mr. Hoover differs just a wee hit
from Rrother Charlie Curtis on the prohibition question.
It's a good thing that Bobby .bines, the par-shat
tering emperor of golf, retired just when he did. Think
how the greatest of all helovvvpar shooters would he em
barrassed by the below-par records of the stock market ?
During the Hoover regime we have witnessed strikes
staged by textile workers, miners, World War veterans
and farmers, and before the end of the term we may
witness a real strike on the part of tax-payers and vot
ers-—or, rather, tax-paying voters.
LOOKING BRIGHTER AND REITER
There may have been a switch when this is writ
ten—it doesn't pay to smile too soon or to count the bid
dies before they hatch—but for several days the gen
eral trend has been such as to bring long delayed elation
to the farmer. As yet. of course, the outlook for the
farmer is not rosy enough to bring on any exuberant
celebration, but it is far better than it has been. When
cotton climbs to eight cents despite the dumping of sue
plus cotton by the farm board, and when cotton seed
jump from $8 to. $12 per ton almost overnight, there is
ample reason for optimism on the pact of the farmer
and the hundreds who depend to a certain extent in
many eases to a major extent upon the prosperity and
welfare of the man who tills the soil.
GOLD PROSPECTS IN ( LEVELAND
We would not in the least intimate anything that
would cause anyone to imagine and anticipate the likeli
hood of even a minor gold rush, hut Cleveland county
may hear more of this gold mining business which is be
ing talked in neighboring counties. In Charlotte there
is talk of the construction there of a smelting plant, or
smelter, and an assay office to handle the gold mined
in counties just to the east of Mecklenburg. Little hqs
been said about it publicly*, because those interested de
sire to be sure before they attract too much attention,
but activities in Cleveland for months hint that the
Charlotte smelter and assay office when, and if, it ma
terializes may handle some ore from Cleveland. In fact,
the possibility of the Duke interests getting behind smel
ter plans may speed up prospecting hereabouts as the
smelting angle may have been one to retard prospecting
in this area.
A GOOD SELECTION
The appointment, by Governor Gardner, of Julian
Miller, for years editor of the Charlotte News, as head
of the unemployment relief organization in North Caro
lina appears to have been an excellent move. Few men
in the State are better acquaintd with general conditions
and the existing situation than Dr. Miller, because in his
editorial chair he has been a close observer and student
of State affairs, the activities and needs of the people.
Seemingly ir is just another instance in which the Gov
ernor has exhibited excellent judgment in putting his
finger upon the one best equipped for the job. Dr.
Miller is succeeded by young Edward Dowd, son of the
man who published the News for many years, as editor,
and indications of the ability of the new editor as shown
during the two years he. has been on the editorial staff
are such as to assure the continuance of one of the sec
tion’s most thought provoking editorial pages.
BROWN DERBY Al. AS AN EDITOR
So Al Smith, who could not be president., is to be
an editor! The once popular Outlook mafia?,mo has
been revived as the New Outlook and the former New
York governor is to be editor-in-chief. There will be
those, speaking without second or serious thought, who
will offer the opinion that the Smith connection with the
rejuvenated magazine is nothing more than grandstand
play for publicity. To a certain extent thar may be
true, for the association of the name of a widely known
individual with a periodical does help, but Smith, unless
we err in our opinion, will mean more than that to the
Outlook. He has shown beyond question in his syndi
cated articles on governmental and general public mat
ters that he can write and with punch. To that qualifi
cation he has the added advantage of being better ac
quainted with public affairs today than a majority of
those we call leaders, and with that knowledge he com
bines the courage to speak out. The New Outlook at
least seems to be off to a promising start.
1MM f.HTON AS C OMMUTE HEAD
0\c;- in tin* eighth < ongressional district—:or is it
the ninth now?—they're discussing the possibility of
“Farmer Hob" Dough ton being the new chairman of
the powerful Ways and Mean scomtnittee, There are, it
seems, three others ahead of “Farmer Boh” from the
angle of seniority and other phases. One is Crisp, of
Georgia, a candidate for the senate and may thus be
eliminated; another is Collier, of Mississippi, who stands
a ehann of being defeated; and the third is Rainey, the
Illinois floor leader, who may step into Jack Garner's
hoes as speaker of the house. Figured from ihaf basis
just a c'oUiple of “its" as The Renoir News-Topic looks
at it - Doughton may he considered as a prospective
head of the congressional committee of committees.
And in that role there is every reason to believe that t’l >
North Carolina mountain fruit farmer would he as col
orful. in tlie bac k home, 'priing-from-t lie-soil type, as is
Carner as speaker. But. in that figuring it seems as if
we are skipping over The Star's own prediction, perhaps
just a hope, that Lindsay Warren, the young congress
man from Eastern Carolina, might be Garner's successor
instead of Rainier. Yet what are a few skips among
follows predicting on political developments? Sticking
to’certainties and giving full right-of-way to all the
other predictions would leave very little to predict.
HYKNAS, WAiVIIM SKS AND SANTERS
I he wild varmint which lias boon terrifying rural
residents ot the section about Marion, in McDowell coun
ty, is now a topic of convorsat ion in this county. Motor
ist- w ho must pass that wa.v are talking of making good
speed and no stops :y*.thoy drive in that territory after
nightfall. Just'what there is to 1 he Mi Dowell varmint
we cannot say. An interpretation or guess either way
would in all likelihood meet with ridicule from the op
posing school of opinion. One report is that the varmint,
about the size ot a halt grown calf and vicious like no
body's business, is a hyena which escaped from a circus
or carnival. Anyway, those who have comp in contact
with it, or think they have, proclaim it to he a very dan
gerous thing indeed. It even attacks automobiles, is
almost, sure death to clogs, and minds not the least tak
ing after men and attempting to do them damage.
Chances are that McDowell has a strange animal
prowling about at night, hut it is only a guessing mat
ter how much the stories of its prowess and viciousness
have grown with the telling and re-telling. The affair,
of course, reminds of the wampus which had rural Ca
tawba on the go just a few years ago, and of the fa
< minis Iredell count v ‘‘santer" of a decade or two hack,
which swelled into more than a State-wide episode.
There were those who said the santer was a creature of
imagination to keep thieving colored people out of roast
ing ear and watermelon patches after dusk. Perhaps the
wampus was a descendant of that santer type, and the
hyena still another. And perhaps not—we refrain from
opening an argument: worrying about the hyena is
! enough, if one desire-- to worry.
A S1KAM.K SPECTACLE
I
i >110 of-the moi’t unusual developments of the depres
sion is the farm strike being eondueted in Iowa. There
a big percentage of the farmers have decided they will
not sell their products until they receive what they con
sider a decent price, and they have resorted to the cus
tomary strike method of picketing to prevent other
farmers from selling.
From Dunlap, Iowa, comes the story of the strang
est spectacle of recent years in American agriculture.
There around 2.000 farmers and their families assem
bled to plan a picketing program. The meeting resulted
in the volunteering of 200 men to [ticket highways lead
ing into Council Bluffs.. Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, to
prevent other farmers from breaking the strike bv selb
ing their products. The men are to work on 12-hour
shifts and their aim is to prevent the taking to town of
aiiy farm produce for the purpose of sale. The first
picketing move was to head off the usual large run of
livestock into Omaha during the first days of the week
With that as the situation, it differs very little in
manner and mode from the textile mill strikes and pick
eting this section is better acquainted with. There will
be those, as in other strikies, who will argue that the
farmer who docs not desire to and will not sell at exist
ing prices has not the right to prevent the other farmer
from selling if the latter desires to. But the Iowa farm
ers seem to realize that their movement cannot succeed
without full cooperation and they appear bent to force
that by moral suasion. The degree of success of the
first farm strike of any size will be watched with inter
est the nation over. Due to the lack of organization
among farmers and their divergent ranges of viewpoint
and activity, it is hardly probable that the strike will
attain its hoped for goal. Yet the arising of such a
movement gives an indication of the potential serious
ness and gravity of existing conditions. The farmers
are hard up, cannot secure what they should for their
products, and although this uprising may not attain its
full purpose, it does offer sufficient warning of what,
may follow unless the farmers of America get a little
more that; mere political promises of relief.
GETTING RID OK THEM
'From The Gastonia Gazette'
The difficulty of getting nd of a useless federal hoard or bureau is
shefcn by the following from The Chicago Tribune. Republican
• One of the wheat farmers of Kansas, giving the Shannon com
mittee in Kansas Citj. Mo , his opinion of the farm board, said: ‘Let us
consider just one of these highly paid government relievers, George S.
Milner, of the Farmers' National Grain Corporation, the farm board
subsidiary. Although we find that he was a small miller of small in
come before hr started relieving us farmers, his salary for the govern
ment group was quickly ballooned to the startling sum of jab.OOfi a year.'
And there, brethicn, ts one of the number of reasons why the farm
board is not abolished Board are not abolished. When once they have
taken their place in the government structure they are vested interests.
The primitive instinct of politics is to protect the job and the payroll
The way to get rid of a board is not to create it.”
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i Doldrums
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HI M BALL-PLAVERS,
GOOD POLITICIANS
HEROES NO LONGER
Tush And Tut!
Boh And Max
From what we trad of t hr Amer
j ican legion junior baseball series
| formalities at Gastonia, we are in-!
I rimed lo the opinion that as ba.se-j
' trail players Max Gardner and Bob
Reynold;, are a couple of darned
| snrtd politicians.
Governor Max had to cut loose,
[a few high ones and several low;
I ruics before he eould find the plate,
m tossing up the first ball, and
Senator-to-be Bob bruised a knee
and mussed up his flannels trying
to ( tr.h them, j
Politicians should stick to fishing j
as their favorite sport. There is lit - i
lie chance of getting embarrassed
while feeding the fish bait And,!
lor that matter, what class is bet-I
tei qualified to feed fish bait, and!
more experienred in the art neces-.
sarv to relate whopper fish stones?j
Hr tops Just ,
Ordinary Folks.
Heroes, one of the North Caro
lina variety developer! during th^ !
World war points out. are after allj
just .humans That's why, per-i
Chance, we soon, sidetrack the old!
: idols and pick up new ones, doing it j
just, as soon as we discover that, a
hero eats, drinks and enjoys doing,
things Just as do those of us no. j
fortunate, or unfortunate, enough!
to ever find the way out of the j
average ruts along life’s pathway.
Liberty has for several weeks
been publishing, in serial form, a
story "Shoot and Be Damned '' T
; is the story of Sergeant Ed Hally-i
j burton, native of the North Caro-|
! iina foothill country, who was the
j first American soldier captured by
I the Germans and who became lead
|er of all American prisoners in the
I < rerman ramps, ft was a colorful
story touched up no doubt herp
and there with imagination and
the Injection of color necessary to
make stories go over with readers
Nevertheless, the basic portions of
the story must be true, for we hap
pen to know the writer and that he
is of the dare-devil type depicted.
vnri. too. we heard much of the
same story related by him When he
returned to America.
in his final installment this
week, Sergt. Hallvburton told of
being released from prison, con
gratulated and offered a commis
sion by General Pershing, and of
the presentation to him of his
country's most coveted medals.
! The Glamor Gone
But he told something else He
told, without saying it in words, of
the disillusion that must have come
to all the boys a tew weeks or
months after they returned home
Between the lines in that last
chapter "Hardboiled ’ Hallyburton
gives you a peep into a veteran's
heart, a peep that gives you an
idea of some of the heartaches suf
fered by the bonus army hoboes of
'32 who weie heroes in '18
He tells how after arriving' at
home he was welcomed by crowds
and invited to speak here and
there. For several weeks he was in
the center of the limelight. the
outstanding of the veterans re
turning to North Carolina. In the
passing of time, being a regular
army soldier and a fellow accus
tomed to taking life as he found it,
Hallyburton had a craving for a few
"snorts" of Carolina cawn. He got
it. and perhaps he got in a crap
game, too, for he was the crap
shooting champ of the Mexican
Border Expedition and one of the
big gamblers in the A. E F., what
little time he was with the boys be-.
foie being captured. But his spree |
brought him in contact with thej
law and he was hailed into court
and fined $10 or so. Immediately
the attitude of his home people
changed. He was no longer a hero
—the man whose face and figure
I were used as the model for the
"Captured But Not Conquered"
statues scattered over the nation
during the Liberty Loan drives. He
was just a human; a somewhat
wild soldier boy who drank and
! rolled the dice.
That. In brief, Is the cause foi
the disillusions which came to a
majority of the veterans through no
fault ofuheir own, While away in
uniform they were not just ordi
nary boys. In the tumult and ex
citement of war, the folks back
home could easily picture them as
Sir Galiahads. But once they were
back and their khaki uniforms dis
carded, it did not take long for
those who kept the home fires
burning to realize that after ail
they were just John Jones' or Sam
Smith's boys—boys who would at
intervals take a drink and cut
up just as other boys will do. be
fore, during and after going into
the smoke of battle,
I Meaning that the veteran now
plodding through life in nonde
script working clothes is no longer
' pictured as he looked when he
marched away in his uniform with
his rifle over his shoulder and his
pack on his back. The bugles, you
see arc not blowing now; there is
no martial music from the bands—
and there are those who are not
' making from five to 25 bucks per
days on easy jobs while others are
fighting.
Sergt Hallvburton is just anoth
[er barber, or whatever, he is, now;
and there are thousands of him
scattered throughout the land, har
boring. plowing, sweating, and, in
some instances, starving
— R. D.
There is nothing new. Say any
w ise thing and you will be accused j
of plagiarism, for all wise things j
have been said many times.
Fat Man Reduces
53 Pounds—Oh Boy!
Don't, be stubborn, you big fat j
men—throw off your fat- before1
your fat throws you into the dis- j
card. Do as Mr. S. A. Lanier of!
Sawtelle, Calif., did—read his letter '
"I have used two reducing belts to i
ifn benefit hut since using Kruschen j
Salts each morning in my roffee 1
have taken off 7 lbs. in a week and;
eat most anything I like. I weighed i
243 lbs. fi months ago and now I
weigh 190 lbs."
Take one half teaspoonful of
Kruschen Salts in a glass of hot
water every morning—cut down on
fatty meats, potatoes and sw-eets—
now you know the safe way to lose
unsightly fat.
For a trifling sum you can get a
jar of Kruschen Salts that lasts 4
Weeks at the Cleveland Drug Co,, or j
!any drugstore in the world—but be!
sure and get Kruschen—your health!
comes first. adv j
Use This Laxative
made from plants
Thedford’s Bi,*rit-DBAOOHT Is
mads from plants that grow In the
ground, like the garden vegetables
you eat at every meal. NATURE
has put tnto these plants an active
medicine that stimulates the bowels
to act—Just as Nature put the ma
terials that sustain your body into
the vegetable foods you eat.
In Black-Draught you have a natu
ral laxative, free from synthetic
drugs. Its use does not make you
have to depend on cathartic chemical
drugs to get the bowels to act dally
Atom you ran art Rlack-Drauoht *ti
the form of a SYRUP, for Children.
For lazy liver, stomach and
kidneys, biliousness, indi
gestion, constipation, head
ache, colds and fever.
10/ and 35/at dealers.
COMING MONDAY
Hundreds of girls
choied him 11
Do 7 1 n i of fh 9 m
caught up with hinr1
Bvf only a beavti
ful prme«tf cop*
furtd_h»mf
IJEANETTE
Mm DON AID
He Was Naughty, She Was
Haughty-But They Fell In Love!
You’ll adore the greator-thon
ever.-CHevaller,as the French
tailor who set the style In love I
A'Paramount Picture
with
CHARLIE RUGGLIS, CHARLES
BUTTERWORTH and MYRNA LOY
A ROUBEN MAM0UL1RN t
PRODUCTION .
i Starting MONDAY
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.
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