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The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mali, per year _......--- *2 50 By Carrier, per year __......__—..-.. *300 i.inr. b. WEATHERS __ President and Editor 8. ERNEST HOEY ___ Secretary and Foreman RENN DR DM ___—___ News Editor L. E. DAIL __.....___ Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at th* post office at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Art ot Congre s, March 3, 1878. Wa wish to call your attention to the fact that It Is and has neen our custom to charge five cents per 111*9 tor resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice haa been published. This *111 be strictly adhered to. MONDAY. OCT. 21. 19.12 TWINKLES Two Lip Friday nights ahead; Roy Reynolds this Friday and Clyde Hoey the next and last Friday prior to election day. Have you done your part to maintain the Roy Scout organization, one that is doing as much for the youth of the community as any other one thing, if not more? The sidetracking of New York’s acting mayor is pretty good proof that not all those who cry for economy really want it, particularly if the economy hits them or near them. Now that Raskoh has given $25,000 to the Demo cratic campaign a,nd At Smith has shaken hands with Roosevelt, -the propagandists may attempt, to make us believe that the pope would be more aggravating than the depression. There must be a crepe border to every cloud just as there is a silver lining. To the aVcrage citizen it is cheering news that Shelby has the lowest death rate in the State, but; certainly, that is not the type of infor mation to hring in new undertaking establishments, nor is it the type to bring chuckles from those already in that calling. BIG BUSINESS BUCKING Will the last-minute appeal of the Republican party to Rip Business and Privilege result in slowing up the Roosevelt trend? Have the Republican strategists at tained a measure of success in convincing Big Business that. Roosevelt and the Democratic party really mean to give the average,man an even break? There are indi cations that such may be true. The latest Literary Di gest poll shows that New Jersey, New York and Massa chusetts are becoming pro-Hoover. Those States are the States of Rig Business along with Pennsylvania and a few others. If they, coerced and pressed by Big Busi ness in the Henry Ford method, switch to Hoover it will mean that once more Privilege will be dictator in Am erica. and four more years along those lines may bring anything. The Democratic appeal for a new deal in which the forgotten man will not be overlooked means, in fact, an appeal for the average, man everywhere and in many walks of life. The rejection of that appeal means that Rig Business is still all powerful and that Big Business will go down the line to throttle the average man and re tain its grip upon the throat of the country, a grip that has strangled it into its present plight. RATTLING A SKELETON The approval of the highway program in Cleveland county by the highway commission brings forth com ment by The Lexington Dispatch which conjectures about the road program here and the road program de sired in Davidson county, of which Lexington is the coun ty seat. The Star has no intention of entering a contro versy with its good friend The Dispatch. Neither has it the idea of arguing that Cleveland needs roads and Davidson or any other county does not. Davidson may need more and better roads just as much as Cleveland, We cannot say about that. But in order to offset the possible conclusion that Cleveland may be getting some thing not deserved or needed, we-dare fisk an explana tion, which, to an extent, opens the closet door and brings to view a county skeleton. The road program Cleveland has had approved is not a new program. Instead, it is merely the approval of a few road projects which this county was justly entitled to. not just this year but many years ago. When North Carolina first started building improved highways Cleveland received only a meagre share, because it just wouldn't do, you know, to give many roads to a county where the next governor lives. That might cause some critic to say partiality was being shown. Then Gardner became governor and no organized movement was inaugurated here for roads the county really deserved and needed because such a movement might prove embarrassing if termed leg pulling. So the years passed by and Cleveland sufficed with being on one highway and with a link of another road. The odds are that no town of Shelby's size had less modern highway outlets, and, also, that no county of Cleveland’s population and tax-paying class had less modern highway mileage. Then the Federal building fund became available and local citizens, who had waited patiently, decided that if this county were ever to get the roads deserved it was the time. Concerted action was then made and a county highway program, far from being one of major dimensions, was approved. A fair study of highway mileage, showing that Cleveland is on’ only one trans-State highway and has only one other county seat to county seat highway, will convince that this county has not been the recipient of any Santa Claus gift. And the explanation is made simply to dear up a j view that might result in misunderstanding and is not made for I lie purpose of comparison or contrast, or in disparagement of any other section and its roads or lack ; of roads. I I Vlt.MKK IS “FORCOTTKN M \N" Senator J. W. Hailey, in his Shelby speech, did not i lav if\ the farmer jis "the forgo) ten man," the designa tion used by Kranklin Roosevelt for the class he would | aid, but Senator Hailey made it clear that the farmer comes as near being the forgotten, or overlooked, mart as does any other. In his discussion of the stagnation arid near starva tion .of American agriculture, Senator Hailey advanced a i program to which we, along with many others, have been inclined to subscribe. And that is that, one of the first and basic moves- in ending the depression is to aid the farmer, (live the farmer anything resembling what we call an equal break and conditions generally speaking will do much to adjust themselves. 'Phis nation, of ; which a great percentage of the population lives upon the farm, cannot he prosperous unless the farmer is pros perous, or at least in position fo make ends meet. Put ting industn on its feet.'will not put the farmer upon his feet, and when the farmer cannot get on his feet it will not be long until industry will he off its feet. The Hailey discussion of the agricultural situation in his Shelby address and at other points over the State has aroused so much interest and has brought forth so much commendation thafTHE STAR requested him to tender a verbatim copy of his remarks. This he did, and without further comment we present what we think is a discussion which should he of vital interest not only to 1 he farmer hut to every citizen whose interests depend to a considerable degree upon the prosperity or lack of prosperity among farmers. Says Senator Bailey: “The farmers of our land are the victims of inequal ity and of discrimination. This fact has direct relation to the paralysis of business and of industry. Men walk the streets asking for jobs because the buying power of do,000,000 farmers has been extinguished. Wheat rots .in a million barns, while starving men seek jobs in vain. The process whereby in 1021 the prices paid by farm ers were on a parity with prices received by farmers may be arrived at, and mustjic arrived at. The present price level of agricultural products, taken all together, is the lowest in recorded time.. And these low prices, so far from feeding fhe poor in the cities, throw them out of employment and render them helpless to buy at. any price. "No government can tolerate such conditions and l live. "Here is the primary duty of the American people. Here is the essential first step in economic recovery. Whatever may be done to correct this condition must he done. I.do not think an alteration in the constitution i^ necessary, but if it were necessary 1 would not hesitate to advocate it. Tax.reform, tariff reform, readjustment of international relations, currency reform, marketing assistance, and inducements to voluntarily controlled pro duction. each and all must be invoked. No one act will suffice. We must do all things that may be required. "Our platform and our candidate for the Presi dency commits us unreservedly to this relief. The im portant thing is not the announcement of a specific measure. There is no available specific measure. The important thing is the mind and heart, the understand ing, the common sense and the will to put agriculture in our land upon a profitable liasis. Rv many ways we will arrive at this goal, and whenever we shall, all things in our land will he infinitely more secure than they are now. And all problems will be infinitely more simple. “Prosperous agriculture will create a demand for goods that will employ millions of the unemployed and. moreover, induce other millions to turn from the city streets to the farms. We yet have abundance of land.. We have reached a disastrous end of the Republican theory that prosperous business will make prosperous agriculture, and wp must now pursue the true theory THAT PROSPKROUS AGRICTLTDRK WILL MARK PROSPhROl S Rt S1NES8. We have had enough of plans, of specifics and nostrums, of vain promises. We come now under the imperative necessity to the hour of will and action, to the hour of fundamental change of policy, to an absolute reversal of the economic point of j view.” After reading those remarks one cannot help but lie impressed by the North Carolina Senator’s interest in | bettering the agrarian outlook. He knows, as we should all know by now, that a quack remedy, a temporary nar cotic. is not What we need. There must be some funda | mental change whereby the farmer will not be the goat ot every whim of politics and every political manipula tion of the markets. We should know that the nos trums and specifies have failed to relieve, have failed to aid. As Senator Bailey said the boll weevil has done as much, or more, for the farmer as has the farm hoard, om> of the quack remedies, and the boll weevil’s hill was not 12 million dollars for the tax-payer to meet. It is encouraging, a rav of Light amid the dismal clouds of j gloom, to see men of the Bailey type really interesting themselves in the plight of the farmers, and it is to he hoped that he and his colleagues in the next session of Congress will devise some workable plan, or series of plans, whereby the necessary changes may he made; and it is to he hoped, too, that the nation will in November j send into power an administration which will cooperate in such a movement. OMIG«SHt tV'm 1 bp <>h!I!v»v i « ac#r 1 • - A brain worker nowadays & one who i?. trying b« figure out how he w S"lnR enough monry by Christ mas to remember all of his family, his wife's family, his childrens Irienac jjj of hl5 Pwn friends. POLITICS I AND ISSI’KS. I To 'The Star: I The two major pailiecs Repub j lican and Democrat;, met at, Chica i eo near the same time—neither of J tered any practical remedy for the j depression. Both stood for sound nione.y under the gold standard— which caused the depression, neith er promised more or cheaper money, to give relief of bankrupt conditions tan we could see but little diffeernce ; on issues And I thought If the pro hibition party would put in a stl l ver plank 1 would support them. | But; I found the preacher party also | worshiping the "golden calf” But | w hen Roosevelt declared he would | do all he could to restore silver to I its place as money. 1 saw I could I support Roosevelt. And when Hoo | ver in his Des Moines speech made j the issue against the Democrats for ! wanting to increase the money and ! pay off the bonus in treasury notes j on an equality with gold. I saw is j sue enough. J. C. ELLIOTT. I_ Swapping Days Coming Again <Statesville- Record.i In his address on the State Farm field day occasion. Mr. Mull toid hi.' farmer friends that he longed for a return of the old days when he "retch" in a box and brought out a good fat possum which he traded at the country store for a plug of tobacco. Those were the days when money was not a neces sity, because they were the days of the old-fashioned 'swap.’' when everybody traded off something he didn't want to somebody else for something he did. It w'as a typical American institution, the swap, and George Rothwetl Brown, columnist on the Washington Herald pre dicts that it will be revived on a national scale in November. Hear him: Yes, sir. In November we re go ing to do some swapping that is swapping We re going to swap a superman for a practical, • level headed human being; we're going to swap a great engineer for a modest governor; we’re going to swap a gentleman who never cast a vote until he was 45 for one who has been interested in American states manship since boyhood; we’re going to swap a lot of fantastic promises for real accomplishments; were go : ing to swap buck-passing by com i mission for a one-man executive; we re going to swap Grundyism for Jeffersonianism; we're going to I swap the expense of prohibition ; enforcement that, doesn't enforce for a tax on beer that, will raise revenue and cut down the cost of government; were going to swap a tax that crushes industry for sales tax that will enable everybody to island up straight; were going to swap a bunch of threadbare sena tors for a new lot—and. best of all. we’re going to swap hard times ana depression for prosperity. Yes. sir, its going to be some swap!" If everyone were as interested ir. "swapping ’ values with them neigh bors as they are inclined to swap politically, we would be hearing less about hard times than we arc. If Mr. Hoover is not given a new lease on the White House for an other four years, it will be largely because the people are in a chas tising mood. j Brown may not be in error about [the political swap this year, and if the Democrats go in, it should be their objective so to conduct them | selves and their offices that, come ; another four years, the swapping 1 instinct will not be employed again.. Reporter Resents Being Termed Liar la-nnir Newspaperman Sails Into Republican Chairman, Sub mits To Arrest. Lenoir, Oct. 24.--The battle in Caldwell county's political arena last week saw real fisticuffs brought in to play as Charles Pegram, city editor of the Lenoir News-Topic landed a number of blows on Gil f Wiley Klutz, chairman of the coun jty Republican executive .commit | tee. Pegram. who submitted to Mayor | L, H Wall for arrest and trial, said he attacked Klutz after the chairman railed him a liar, Several days ago, it developed j Klutz gave the newspaperman a I story saying the Republican can didate for the the county recorder ship would accept the office at half the salary now being drawn by the Democratic recorder. Pegram carried the story on the front page of the News-Topic, and on the edi torial page called attention to At torney General Brummitt’s opin ion that cut-rate candidacies vio late the corrupt practices act. Klutz met Pegram on the street according to the latter, and charg ed that certain IVntocratic leader in the county had worded the edt tonal Thus was denied, Peg-ram saytng the editorial was written b\ the regular edttoria) writer. Then, it is alleged, the lie w*< passed. Klutz is it brother of Loomis Heroic Police Chief Quits His Washington Job Never Cost Ills Temper Through All The Bonus Army Trouble. Washington. Oct. 24 —Chief of Police Pelham H. Glassford , who' became a national figure when the j bonus army invaded Washington last spring resigned last week. The District of Columbia commis sioners accepted the resignation promptly, and when Glassford was I so informed he grinned and said: "I guess I'll go Out and play some golf." Technically he leaves his post be cause of a difference of opinion over a purely local issue—whether he | shall be allowed to reorganize the I police force and remove inspector i Frank S. W. Burke from command ; of the detective bureau. Actually.! the threads of the controversy that j resulted in his resignation go b;‘.;k ' to the midsummer days when 15.- j 000 veterans camped at the gates o! j congress. Demanding immediate: payment of the soldiers bonus. Bonus Fight Recalled. Those were the days before the Federal government had taken of ficial cognizance of the. fact that an army had moved into Washington— an army that had to be fed and sheltered. Glassford acted promptly. The course of his action was praised by some, criticized by others. It. re sulted in a controversy with the District commissioners and with At torney General William D. Mitch ell, The latter contended there was a high percentage of men with crim inal records in the bonus army Glassford formally denied if. and is sued his version of the entire inci dent, disputing virtually every phase of the Mitchell report. There were reports that Glass ford would be relieved of his posi tion or that he would resign. Noth-; mg happened until today when he j sat in the living room of his home, j clad in a sagging red bathrobe, and : said: "I'm sorry I had to do this. I'd, like to have seen the thing through ' I'd like to have gone on hammering j away at the reorganization and made our police force what it ought to be. But there was no other way out " He said a compromise had been offered to him in the reorganization controversy. But hr rejected it be cause it was "humiliating and un tenable," I'nusual Police Chief. Glassfords action removes the most unusual police chief the cap ital ever has had. Soldier lover of fine music and amateur artist, he is JClutz, former member of the leg islature from Catawba county Johnston Avery, now handling publicity for the state Democratic executive committee, is editor and publisher of the News-Topic. widely, popular in social circles. Years ago lie painted murals in what was then a private home. Re cently when the establishment was raided by prohibition agents, Glass ford laughed at the joke. Last win ter a close personal friend came to him bearing a traffic ticket. "I thought maybe you could fix this up for me. Chief,” said the friend. "I won't fix it up.' Glassford re plied. "but I’ll lend you tbe money to pay your fine if you need it.' The nation first became aware ol Glassford when he attempted, al most single-handed, to care for the bonus army. He oo'ame a familiar figure on Washington's streets, his long legs astride a blue motorcycle. His distinguished service in the World war made him sympathetic toward the bedraggled hosts that swarmed into the Capital in the closing days, of the last session of congress; For a time, he had charge of the army's commissary fund, and when it became low tie poured $700 of his personal funds into it. Those were sleepless days and iiights for Glass ford: there was danger on a hun dred fronts and he insisted on being on the ground personally. Gray and haggard from lack of sleep, he rat. day and night, on a kitchen chair outside the Capitol and watched Roy Robertson and the 'Battalion of Death” parade the concrete, shouting for congress to pass the bonus bill. Kept His Temper. When bullets and pricks flew on the desperate day xvlien rioting broke out in lower Pennsylvania ave nue, Glassford was In the thick of it. Through a hail of stones, he strode up to a group of angry vet j ergns and suggested: ‘'If you are going to throw brick boys, use the big ones, will you? I 'can dodge those easier." That same day he was trampled into the dust and hit badge was j ripped off liis uniform when the ■ veterans stormed a building. But 15 | minutes later he walked into the same group and persuaded them to put down (heir bricks and ' clubs ! Once he halted a surge of veterans ■j agaiosl the very doors of the Cap utol by lifting his ram and saying: "I'm responsible for keeping or i der here and I'm going to keep It Do you fellows want to help or not?’ There were,reports today Glass ford might enter polities, but it, wa ; i generally believed he either would ! enter business or go hark to his ! painting. j “T have no plan:." he said. ] MON-DAT-,- - . Cinsbd shrril it tipu Couldn't Mump Jimmy. . Teacher: ' Jimmy, give, a sentence ■using the word deceit" Jimmy I wear pants with | retches on de seat.'' ' Airplane pilots who tHnk there |are no thrills lei' should take s 'ride in a taxicab. it not line THAT your sudden de cease would throw a huu dred problems of proper ty sale, organization, re investment, etc., upon your wife, or a son, or friend? Our trust depart ment has all facilities for .'administering your es tate to the best and per manent advantage of the beneficiaries, * Opr Officers Will Be Pleased To Consult With You Union Trust Co. When Your , Harvest Kvery man ... at some time or other during the year . . . enjoys his harvest. And when that time ' comes, he should think of the uncertain ty of circumstances, of the rainy days that come to us all . . , and safely put away a part of his harvest to tide him over. Most people are convinced that- speculation has no place in sane finance. They know the fruits of labor should be so protected as to insure safe ty of principal and a regular income return. A Savings Account I* The Answer Whether your harvest brings you much or little, the logical thing to do is save a part of what you earn. A Savings Account at the First National will pay you interest at 1', compounded quarterly. First National Bank THE BANK OF PERSONAL SERVICE" SHELBY, N. C.
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