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The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE ST Ail PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year ................ ja.'iu By Carrier, per year ................ $3.00 LEE B. WEATHERS ..................... President and Editor 8. ERNEST HOEY .................... Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM ........................ News Editor L. E. DAIL_........___ Advertising Manager Entered as second'class matter January 1. 1905, at the post Aflice 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 Inis lor resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice Ijas been published. This will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, OCT. 10. 1002 TWINKLES * Just a month from now and a year of elect ion sur prises may Offer a few new ones. Political forecasting is risky this year. If the electoral college had a Rood foot hall eleven, perhaps there would he even more interest in tlie elec tion than prevails as it is,. Unde Sam may have lost his shirt' in the depres sion, says a writer in A] Smith’s New Outlook, hut he looks better in overalls anyway. Attaboy! November is "just around the corner.” and the Democrats are of the opinion it will be the same corner where Hoover said prosperity was hiding. “Of all diseases," says Roger Rabson, “our moods are most contagious.” And the most contagious of all seems to he that one originated by Roger of predicting that prosperity is just around the corner. _ . * Many may agree with Admiral Dick Byrd’s views in opposition to the soldier bonus, but some of those agreeing may be of the opinion that he was not the one to oppose a handout for the buck private in that he as an honorary admiral is drawing a fat salary from the Federal government. TAKING IT STRAIGHT If straiv voting really depicts how the electorate will vote in actuality just a little more than a month from now, then it appears as if Democrats in the Shelby area intend to take their ticket Itraight. Several hun dred votes cast here in a newspaper poll show all Demo cratic candidates receiving practically the. same number of votes. Candidates listed in* The Charlotte News and associated papers poll are Roosevelt, Reynolds and Bul winkle and there is very little difference,'it is noted, in the vote given the three men. This would indicate that November balloting will see very little of the “ticket scratching" so widely discussed in 1928. WHY POOR GOVERNMENT The Yorkville Enquirer, always keeping its readers posted, reminds South Carolinians that they will have several constitutional amendments to vote upon in Nov ember in addition to partisan candidacies. The same thing is true in North Carolina, but how many voters are aware of it and how often are the amendments dis cussed? That’s how we do not have good government. We become aroused over personalities and partisan is sues and overlook the major items which regulate how the candidates must run things once we elect them. In Tarheelia the voters are being .told all about Roosevelt and Hoover. Reynolds and Newell, but how much are they heing told about the value or lack of value in the amendments? REAP FOOTBALL MATERIAL? The skies look rosier for rabid football fans of Norrh Carolina. A few years ago when Wallace Wade came up to Duke University the fans of this State im mediately preened themselves in anticipation of a championship football team, one of those Rose Bowl elevens. So far the dream has not materialized. But this year the Wade-coached Duke team appears to l>e going places. It will not win a Southern title and any exceptional renown, but wait until next year. Just wait. You see Wade has a rather neatly drilled squad this year to use as a nucleus for next year, and then look what is coming up from this years freshman team. Just read these names: Gaugham, Knopke, Friedman, Migdal, Miszel, McGrail. Carber. Jaminson. Durner, Pemperlon, Remnice. Scumore, Trakes, Wentz, Weesel hoft, Eisenhauer and’Kraushaar. It out of that list of names an eleven cannot be moulded which will lick Notre Dame. Tulane and the whole works, then, as the boys say, we Tar Heels may as well call off the dogs. NO BICKERING HERE When the new Democratic State Chairman. Mr. Winborne, was chosen the reports had it that he waa not entirely satisfactory to the State’s two major candidat es, Reynokis and Ehringhaus. One, it was said, desired his man for chairman and the other felt the same way about it. Perhaps the result was a compromise chair man satisfactory to both. We do not know about that, but we venture to say that the recently appointed pub licity manager for the Democratic campaign in the State is highly satisfactory to both Reynolds and Ehringhaus. He is Johnston Avery, able young editor of The Lenoir News-Topic and he entered upon his duties late last week. Those duties fo^ the most part will be to keep tab on the activity of the senatorial and guebrnatorial can didates and see that they are accorded full publicity. We say that Avery will he arable because our memor ies of the primary campaign have it that he was a loyal supporter of both men. His paper backed Khringhaus with enthusiasm and stuck to Reynolds with the same loyalty. Therefore .both should be plc....ed in the selec tion, and what is even better is that an excellent pub licity man, ope respected in the Fourth F,state bocausi of his ability, is on the job. A (HI RCH PAPER ON ORA HAM The more recent outburst, the Tatum jteiilion, against the University of North Carolina was directed more at the alleged teaching of Freudism and Socialistic ideas than at anything else. Hut in the past there have been attacks, not so widely publicized however, upon the univei. tty method of permitting students to seek, with out, hampering or hindrance, what light they may on the religious subject. In that: some have contended that these attacks are more or less directed at Dr. Frank Graham, the able president" of the university, it is in deed interesting to note what the North Carolina Chris tian Advocate has to say about his promotion to the presidency of the Greater University. The Advocate, one of the most intelligently edited and yet one of the plainest talking ehureh papers of the present day, says: “illvery thoughtful man knows that Frank Graham has not been selected for a place of leisured ease and of lofty eminence in the world of learning. This is a hard ,ioh with the many perplexities to be faced in securing the unity and effectiveness of a great institution that is to function in the life of the state. President Gra ham will doubtless have the fullest co-operation in the big work given him to do. He is so genuinely religious, so sincerely interested in all classes and conditions, and so anxious to render a service to his day and generation , that the people look to him as an educator who is able to lead in a great way at. the State University. The start he has made augurs well for the years to come.” OH YEAH! Since the outset of the Hoover administration, and perchance prior to that time, the country at large has been impressed, in several ways, by the number of com missions and research groups set to work in the na tion’s capital. Several books, plays, etc., have given the general public an insight into the vast and perplexing maze of the Washington merry-go-round, but from our seat the neatest bit of satire depicting one incident in the tangle is the following from The Charlotte News: "Many pieces of quaint information have come out of Washington, where, apparently, there is nothing under the sun too trivial to deserve a commission or two and a series of investigations. But for sheer and mas terful waste of public funds there, is perhaps no more ridiculous an example than that addition to the world’s knowledge made, possible by collaboration between the Bureau ol' Biological Survey, the Division of Food Habits Research, the Bureau of Plant Industry, and the Of fice of Horticultural Crops and Diseases, “Together they investigated the possibilities of us ing gourds for bird houses. Their research was extens ive and thorough. It was productive, too, of a brand of argument anyone would have much trouble in refuting. "The gourd was found to be suitable for use as a bird house, alright, but the collaborators are very care ful to point out that “ The size of the gourd also should he in pro port ion to the size of the bird, for it is useless to invite a large bird to nest in a small gourd*.’’ "Any of you who had contemplated setting up a gourd with a two-inch square entrance had best put up a notice warning eagles not to trespass.” “PORK BARREL”—GARNER OR HOOVER? Mr. Hoover in his Iowh address took several cracks at the Democratic Congress and at its leader, Speaker Jack Garner, now his party’s vice-presidential candidate. The President labelled the Garner-Wagner public build ing bill for unemployed as "a pork barrel” for party pur poses. Now let’s see what there is to the charge. First of all, let us accept the Hoover view and say that the building program bill is ‘‘a pork barrel.” Being such the idea is. of course, to manipulate the fund provided in such a manner as to make votes or help one of the two parties in the November election. So much for that background. Now the Garner-Wagner bill, as we recall it, was to become effective on July 1. That was more than three months ago, yet. as A1 Smith says fn his New Outlook, not one cent of the money provided in the bill for unemployment has as yet been spent. When is it to be spent, after the unemployed have starved or learned to live without eating? No, not exactly. In re cent days we have been hearing about it. One thing heard is that Shelby is to get a new post office. Other towns and cities, so it is said, are to he honored in the same manner. These announcements, you'll notice, come just a month before the election, and the announce ments are made from the secretary of the treasury, Ogden Mills, who became Hoover’s puppet to succeed Mellon, often called Hoover’s boss. Supposedly the idea is for Shelby and other towns for whom building pro jects have been approved to express proper apprecia tion by voting for Hoover and proclaiming what the Republican administration has done for us. Here we might digress long enough to predict that there will be no real building work on which unemployed men may be given jobs until the hard winter ahead is over. Yet it is an excellent time in which to send the word down,that we are to get our post office enlarged. Isn’t if, if you’ll, pardon the old countryside ex pression. as plain as the nose on your face rhat Mr. Hoover and his cohorts are attempting to get credit for the pork passed out from the “pork barrel bill” of Mr. Garner which Mr. Hoover would paint as an example of how the Democrats will “ruin’’ the nation? HOOVER ECONOMY IS SHOWN HERE To The 8tar Speaking ; of Hoover economy, what better example than the fed eral court which was in session here Just a week or so ago? The Republicans yell about Dem ocratic expenses in North Carolina, but what about theirs? We run a superior court with a judge, one olicltor. one deputy serving as court officer, and one clerk—four people. But as I count it about 25, may be more, were required to keep the federal court going. In addition to ihe Judge, there were in Shelby for the Short term, all drawing pay from the federal government, a dis trict attorney and two assistants plus a secretary. That’s four peo ple. There were two clerks and two helpers or secretaries. That's four more, a total of 8. Then there] was a probation officer, four to aix deputy marshals and the chief marshal, that makes about 14. not to mention close to 10 prohibition and narcotic agents, automobile agents, informers, and special agents. Suppose the state or county gov ernment, operated by a Democratic administration, required 25 people, paid by the tax-payers to run one j court—wouldn’t we have an uproar? That's an example we know first hand of Hoover economy when the tax-payer needs economy if he ever did. J. BOYCE DELLINGER, Shelby, Ort. 8. WHY HAVE ROAD ENGINEERS ANYWAY* To The Editor of The Smr Some weeks ago The Star express ed the hopeful opinion that “maybe we it get the Shciby-Polkvllle high way for a Christmas present.' Maybe we will, but there will hav to be more speed than has been shown in the last two months—or has it been four months. The debate and delay over that road perplexes the average citizen. Now it seems as if the highway commission and its engineers, after a good many weeks of surveying, has submitted three routes to the people of the section with the question: "Which do you want?" | Ever since North, Carolina started I building good roads it has been a debatable question as to whether the roads should go where, the en gineers say they should go or where the majority of the people effected think the road should go. (remem ber highway 18 south as you remem ber the Alamao and the sinking of the Maine—not the ship, but the iG. O. P. state). As Cleveland coun I ty recalls it the roads usually went where the engineers said. But now, after all that surveying, we are be ing asked to pick the route. If that’s the new plan, why not save a lot of money and do away with the. engineers? If we re going to pick the route, we don't need them; we'll just pick,it and call in a contractor. And a final question: How much of an engineering bill do1 you think we would have saved by that plan on this Polkville road, which is as much of a dream—almost—as the Hoover prosperity of 1928? Yours. JACK JONES. Shelby, Oct. 8 I 1 .■ Nobody’s Business By GEE McGEE Move Over Pleasr These old United States of ours are going to be in mighty tine shape just as soon as we get our highway debts paid. We owe only about $17,600,000,000.00 on them. We ipald a little sum down when we built them. Our Liberty Bond obligations aint enough to worry about. They i amount to something like $16,750, ,000,000.00. If we tax-payers will 'stop eating, go naked, and stay out of picture shows tor 75 or 80 years, why, we can retire every one of these evidences of debt. The bonus demands and the 'compensation accounts, unpaid to date, are only a drop or so in the bucket. By walking everywhere we have to go. and staying at horns all the time, we can wipe out that tiny $4,000,000,000.00 in considerably less than 95 years. The unpaid balances on our pub lic schools really ought not to be mentioned they are so insignificant. Why, bonds for these necessities aggregate less than $9,000,000,000.00. ibut not much less. We ought to get [every cent of these collaterals Into (our own hands 2 or 3 weeks before judgment day. The puny sum of $3,000,000,000 now being wasted by our govern ment in scraping mud from useless river* and harbors and constructing 75 to too un-needed public buildings will be easy to pay hack," If we will quit smoking, and chewing, drinking and cussing for only 20 years, the money we will save will turn the trick The combined bonded debt, ex cluding the deficit*, of our several states, cities, towns and school dis tricts could not possibly, be in ex cess of $25,000,000,000.00, including New York and Chicago. We wont know we owe a penny of this money in another 100 years. But Europe owes us about $20, 000,000.000.00, I will sell my inter est In that ‘•furrln’’ debt to the first man who offers me 15 cents in leg al tender, and it wont have to be so tender at that. When we get that money, jaybirds will be laying ele phant eggs, mice will be riding bi cycles. Our private debts—what we owe each other—amount to possibly $78,000,000,000.00, but as nobody alnt going to pay nobody, why bother about them? Flat Hock Asks For A Government Building flat rock, s. C., ock. 10, 1932. mr. hubbert hoover, Washington, d. C. deer sir: 1 have been asked by our cham ber of commerce to rite or foam at once to plese have about 100,000$ appropriated to flat rock to blld a new post offis and fedderal bilding in our midst, and we hope you will do so befoar it is all gone, that is the 3,000,000.000$ yore last congress promised us. our post offis is too small for the amount of letters we receive and the post master complains because it has no back door to same, it all- i so leaks when it rains, and is made; of wood, arid that makes us run a risk about our male getting burnt up if the poet offis waster get burnt down. we have newer hell fedderal coart, at this place, but wc could hold it if we had the bilding. as we have seweral feddral judges that alnt bizzy more than one-third of the time, as they don't try noth ing but cases where the br e. f. vet terans are suing the government, and a few little haff-pint whiskey cases, we could get up a lot of such cases on short not is. this monney woul dhelp flat rock citizons a right smart and put thousands of them at work, and they need work; red cross flour has give out and so has our local crop of corn ansoforth. 1 will give you below a list of first class contrac tors who will be glad to put up this fedderal bilding for you in flat rock, as followers, mike Clark, rfd . bilder. Clark & sons, contractors. Clark bros., bilders and contract ors. Clark As Clark, architecks. Clark construction co„ lumber. mike Clark, rfd, cement and lime. Clarfc, Clark As Clark, brick and plaster. so, mr. hoover, kindly send the monney at once and speceflcations for the government bllding. don t send a govverment inspector: i will handle that for you at. St per da we need a bilding lot worker than some of the c uties which will tar. down a nice post offis Just because you will let them bild a new cne rite or foam when we ran net th monney. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. corry apondent. COTTON W. C. THOMAS 523 South LaFayette St., SHELBY, N. C. Phone 497 -REPRESENTING J. A. BAKER & CO. Charlotte, N. C. ON THE FUTURE IT’S easy to assume (hat “everything will he all right,” and though that is a com fortable philosophy it is apt to lead to dis astrous consequences where the disposal of your estate is concerned. Don’t leave this important matter to chance and the kindly, though possibly misdirected offices of some friend. Provide for the Comfort of Your Family with a Sound Trust Fund. We are Competent to Advise You. UNION TRUST CO. w ~ mgr ~ - The FOUNDATIONS Of BUSINESS STABLE AND INDEPENDENT WHATEVER THE CHANGING ASPECTS Of The POLITICAL SCENE THAT the coming year may or may not Bring a shift of political power Has small influence on the principles of business. Certain rules, fixed and established, continue to control tKc world of business affairs. On the proper analysis of these depends much of financial success. A bank, more than any other institution has the special ability to ac complish this. Uninfluenced by party power it remains detached end impersonal In its judgments. Rely on this sound advice—it is at your command—here in this bank. FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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