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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE LXE B. WEATHERS .. President and Editoi S. ERNEST HOEY .. Secretary and foreman RENN DRUM ...News Editor 1* E. DA1L ............................... Advertising Manager By Mall, per year .. By Carrier, per year.* $-joo | Entered as second class matter January 1, 1»05, at the post offlc# at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Art or Congiets, March 3, 1897. Wa wish to call your attention to the tact that it Is and has been our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions ot respect, cards of thinks "and obituary nottres, after one death ■otlce has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. _ MONDAY. JAN; 2, 1935 TWINKLES How many <>»' the old-timer can mall a 'longer we! sp«ll ? The nation failed to gel beer i,y Christmas hut it was a pretty wet holiday season anyhow. Mr. Hoover, as several of the punsters have al ready noted, does nor seem to he having any more Juck on his holiday fishing trip in the South than he had on November 8. Judging by the number of holiday deaths; we say again that a good many people do not know when they start out just where they tv-ill spend Christmas, And thereafter some of their relatives are left in doubt. “World Cotton Production Smallest In Five Years/' informs a flaring® at reamer headline in The Charlotte News. And any farmer can tell you that the low pro duction is quite a bit hebind the price in setting a rec ord. SCHOOLS, FLli AND ROADS • , I "The members of the Cleveland county board of edu cation and^J. H. Grigg, the county superintendent, acted wisely we think in leaving the date of the reopening of rural schools to the principals and school committees of the various schools. In some sections of the county the roads are in such condition that travel by bus for the children would not be safe. In some sections, too, the influenza epidemic, mild as it may be, is such that a spread might result by bringing the children hack to the school room. In other sections, however, the roads are in better condition and there is less flu. Therefore the board and superintendent decided to leave the reopening date up to the school officials of the various districts. That means that some of the schools will be back at work today. others will open during the week as condi tions premit, and still others may not open until next Monday. By that plan patrons and all concerned should be satisfied. Of course the schools closed earlier than planned because of the snow but the average parent will place the safety and health of his or her children above one or two delayed school days. HOW’S THIS, NOW? The amorous qualities of the ice-man in” bis delivery trips about a city meeting housewives have become well known through the work of punsters and wise-crackers. Now it seems—since electric refrigeration has somewhat hampered the ice-man's sphere—that somebody is in clined to build up another myth in his place in the per son of the electric meter reader. Anyway 10 in Cleveland, Ohio, when applicants went be fore the civil service commission, to stand their exami nations, this was one of the questions asked: “Does a red-headed woman with a bump on one side of her head have a quicker temper than a black-haired woman with a bump on the other side of her head?” Realizing that the risque pun creators must have material for their products, we regret nevertheless to see those of another profession being modelled, as were the ice-man, into rakes merely for the sake of shady so called comedy for the magazine caricatures and fun columns. It isn t fair either to housewives to insinuate, even jokingly, that any percentage of them are not ad verse to becoming friendly with those whose profession > necessitates that they visit homes MAY BE GOOD OMEN America has had five presidents of the so called log-cabin origin since having one who came from a well to-do family, notes I he Gastonia Gazette in commenting upon a minor by-product of the last election. President elect Roosevelt as one of the rarities in presidential his tory is one of the few men who did not rise from the en vironment's of a poor boy to the White House. In fact, says The Gazette, “the log'-cabin-to-the White-House tradition doesn’t often fail. Back of him (Mr. Roosevelt) it held sway for a good many years. Hoover, Coolidge, Harding, Wilson—all were poor, or comparatively poor, as boys. “Indeed, the last president before Mr. Roosevelt who came from a *«ll-to-do family was the other Roose velt and none other-Is that, possibly, a good omen?" All of us, of course, hope so, and without putting any great amount of faith in omens we really think so, because there seems to be that something in the Roose velt blood which gets them places, no matter how low or how high they started. In many ways the life of Frank lin D, parallels that of the incomparable T. R.. and the more the next president continues to remind of his dis tant relative and predecessor in the White House the more it, will please a vast percentage of the people. Old i eddy stepped in and took the reins in his hands when matters were somewhat topsy-turvy, and just now a grip "t that type would not be in the least out of place. GOING TAIL FRONT AGAIN? With no idea of criticizing the North Carolina law makers before they get settled down to work, we are in elined to wonder if they are not formulating a horse beforc-the-cart program of the type that gave the last legislature so much trouble, not to mention the worry, worry, worry that, has hobbl'd up since. It seems to us, as we read and hear the comment of Hie members of the next general assembly, that the ma jority of the just-before-opolling thought and consider ation arc being given to the question: will or will we mil put a sales tax upon the citizens of North Carolina? Without attempting to debate the wisdom or need of a sales tax, something we admit most of ns would prefer fo get along without if possible, we cannot help but think I hat other possibilities might and should bo considered lirst. I'he last legislature appropriated, shifted and planned for expenditures to be made and then aw'Oke (some haven’t) to the fact that, an outlet for money had been provided before its income had been assured. Some of (he legislators contend that the budget can not lie balanced and Tarhcelia cannot make ends meet without a sales tax. They may be right in that content ion. Rut would not, those upon whom the tax is to be imposed feel a little more cheerful, or a litLle less vlia. pleased, about; it if the lawmakers would first of all try or at least make some pretense of. cutting down ex penditures. Perhaps there is only one avenue left for a new lax and that the sales tax* but why not lie sure about it.’ II the members of the 1933 general assembly will lend an ear to the grumbling about sales taxes now in forte, such as t'he gas tax. we believe4they will shy away from a tail-front movement and pare expenses as much as possible and then consider other possibilities before turning to the sales tax as a last resort. Unsuc cessful as that, program may be it will at least give the people a stronger belief that the legislators are working in tho interest of those they are supposed to represent. CHIVALRY OR SENSATION? The publicity and protest centering about the pros pective electrocution of Beatrice Snipes, the South Caro lina woman who killed a policeman, have us wondering what percentage of the hulabaloo is born of chivalry and what, of sensation. I here is ample talking room on both sides of the question to make the electrocution*of this woman, or any othei ayoman, a debatable topic where two or more peo ple get together. One felture that works in the addi tional favor, of the woman is that she is said to be an expectant mother—that her child, and she already has one. will be born at some date prior to the date of her execution. It is The Charleston News and Courier, old and chivalrous South Carolina paper, which we find Argu ing that chivalry should 110J, interfere in the punishment inflicted upon a convicted’ woman prisoner. Saj's The Courier; “The infliction of the. death penalty upon a woman tor a capital crime should cause no more com ment than its infliction upon, a man. To say that women should not suffer equal penalties with men for murder would he to extend a degree of indulgence to women to do murder.” The Greensboro Record, which cannot be lieve that the State of South Carolina will put a white woman to death in the chair, admits that this logic on the part of the Charleston paper cannot be refuted. The Record somewhat diverts, however, in presenting its case by questioning the fact that capital punishment deters crime, or murder. The Record further reminds that the policeman, who was slain, stopped the ear in which the Snipes woman was riding to search for liquor and found none. That angle, as we sec it. bears not at all upon railing off or putting through the execution. That was a matter tor the jury which convicted the woman to de cide. Then there is another phase the would-be chivalrous newspapers and commentators seem to overlook. It. may be cruel and inhuman to snuff-out the life of a woman, whether about to become a mother or not. But what about the other, woman in the case—the widow of the 1tic me ui ner nusoanci and the bread-winner for her children was snuffed out. Have the newspapers which play to crime, particularly when there is “a woman in the case," poured out the widow's pathetic plight in their colorful news stories and photos (some of which have been published in this paper?) What of sentimentality and chivalry for her sorrowful phase of the tragedy? We are not saying that *'er Pl'Sht should be used to create bitterness against her husband s slayer and thus arouse sentiment to push on the execution, but we do say both sides should be considered. So far we have failed to. note any suggest ed way out of the matter that would alleviate” the prob lem of all concerned, just as we cannot see why the Greensboro paper needed to insert the word "white” in stating that it did not believe the State of South Caro lina “will put a white woman to death in the chair." Howbeit we are moved to offer a suggestion, know ing that it will be overlooked and submerged in all rhe publicity and sentimentalism which will surround the case until Beatrice is electrocuted or not "electrocuted. This is the suggestion: Let every person who urge? formally or informally, that the woman not be'electro cuted give to go to the widow of the man the woman killed; let every newspaper and public organization urg ing the same course give $100 each, and then let the sentence be «hanged from death to a life term That would eliminate the horror of seeing a "white” woman strapped in the d. Uh chair and at tjhe same time would tnoudo tor and show sonjc sympathy for the other while woman and mother in the tragic series of events. But Only One Can Win The three statesmen shown here beaming: smiles of confidence are the outstanding candidates for the post of Speaker of the House when Vice-President-elec^ John Garner, the present incumbent, relinquishes th® gavel. Theyjfftaa, left to right, Representatives John McDuffie of Alabama, chairman of the Economy Committee; Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, Democratic floorJeader, and Joseph W. Byms of Tennessee, chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Need we say ail art Democrats? New Daughter In Humphries Home. . Two Holiday Weddings Announeed. Trinity, Jan. 2,-Mr and Mrs. Paul Humphries announce the ar rival of a' dainty daughter on Sat urday night, Dec. 24th. Both moth-' er and baby are doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Crawford of i Spindale spent the Christmas holi days^here with the latter's parents, j Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Beason. The Monday dinner guests of] Mrs. K. D. N. Jolley included Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Joltey and little son, I Lansford, and Mrs. A. B. Buchanan | all of Boiling Springs. Miss Mary Bridges has been j ■pending the Christmas holidays! with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Bridges of Bostic. The announcement on •Friday,! December 23rd, of the wedding of Mr, Byron Bailey of this, commun ity to Miss Ruby Frazier, of Earl, Which took place- two weeks ago, came as a surprise to their 'many friends here and elsewhere. Mr. Bailey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bailey arid a student of Moores ooro nign senool while Mrs. Bailey's home is in Earl. Their many friends j wish them much happiness. They1 will,make their home with the groom’s parents for the present. Among those on the sick list at this writing are Mr. and Mrs. K. D. N. Jolley, little Miss Katie Lou Bridges and little Kermit Harris and Mrs, Clifford Jolley. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Robbs and little daughter, Loyse, of near Gaffney, S. C. spent Thursday at ■the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Bridges here Mr. and Mrs. Tyson Spangler and chllren spent the past week-end with relatives in Mooresboro. Mr. and Mrs. H. Harris and family spent Tuesday night with their parents and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. K, Harris of Moores boro. A wedding which came as a Sur prise here Saturday was that of; Miss Agnes Shqford to Mr. Broadus Reynolds, both of this community. The couple accompanied by the bride’s sister. Mrs. N. w. Pope and Mr. A. M. Davis motored over to Gaffney, S. C. where they wercj quietly married by the probate! judge. They will make their home! at Boiling Springs. Mr. J, D. Wiggins ol Henderson- j ville, visited his sister, Mrs. Will j Bostic here last week Smallest Cotton Crop In 5 Years World's Crop Lower Than Occ. 8th f Estimate And .1,500.000 Under Last Year. Washington, Jan, 2 —World cotton j production for the 1932-33 season was .estimated today by the de partment of agriculture at 24,000,000 bales, the smallest in five years. This is 200.000 below the Decem ber 8 estimate and 3 .'500,000 under last year's crop. Foreign production was estimated at 11,300,000 bales. Which is 900.000 above last season and 800,000 below 1930-31. Cotton .textile mill activity in the United States and most of the im, portant foreign countries was said to have been apparently maintained during November at the improved levels reached a few nuraths ear lier. • Hard To Fill Orders Many companies, however, have had some difficulty in disposing of their output or in maintaining their unfilled orders. Cotton textile mills, in the United States, the department said, con tinued to operate at high levels during November with total entt/m consumption the largest for any month since April, 1931, although sales of the manufactured products were less than output. The high rate of activity was said to have been maintained onj the basis of large orders received: early in the fall. The consumption of domestic mills during November was 504,000 bales compared with 502,000 in Oc tober and 425,000 a year ago. Total consumption for the four months ending November 30 was 1.900,000 bales, an increase of 124, 000 over the same period last sea son. Chickens Paying Good Dividends Rutherfordton, Jan. 2.—B. E.1 Green, of Ellenboro, Rutherford) county, made a net profit of *176 on his flock of 100 chickens this year, County Agent F. E. Patton sajd today. The total income from eggs, hens, and broilers was *316, with a feed cost of only *160. Ouring the year, Green sold 649 dozen eggs, 458 pounds of hens and 310 pounds of broilers. The eggs brought an average of 27.8 cents a dozen. RAW MILK CARRIES Influenza, Septic Sore Throat, Dyptheria, Tuberculosis mid many other milk- borne infections. PASTEURIZED MILK <terili«\d ,ll0t and is free from these and many XL ’ * °NLY mUk that 15 afe0lutelv SAFE to Confirmation of these facts will be given you by your Physician upon request. sir SasaSSSKKfrwi Only 10c Quart ^STpSirJed mi/k0 vU1U,eCCSSary ,nf*cUons disease, by 2 " ®Uk* You are cordiuliy invited to visit our plant and see how we make mils SAFE. Shelby Milk Plant Phone 125 Get Down To Business * The old year is dosing and while it has not been generally prosperous, the majority of people could say on looking back over the year, that it could have been much worse. So let us be thankful that it has not been as bad in our section of the country and gird ourselves for greater work and activities in the New Year. Work hard, practice sensible economy, quit grumbling and complaining, help the other fel low whenever possible and the New Year will bring better results. The general tone and trend of business is gradually improving and we approach the New Year with hope and optimism. First National Bank SHELBY, N. (. He Certainly Is A CUTE BABY On that everybody will agree . . . but don’t let hi» baby charms overshadow his future. It’s a long way from babyhood to successful manhood. You must look ahead for l|im. He’ll need college train ing of course, and wo have a College Fund Plan that makes it easier for you. THE SHELBY BUILDINGl and LOAN ASSOCIATION | Chas. C. Blanton, Pres. J. F. Roberts, Sec.-Treas. FREE IT’S YOUR LAST CHANCE To Subscribers Whose Subscriptions HAVE EXPIRED 10 lb. BAG OF SUGAR AND 1933 BLUM’S ALMANAC IF YOlJ PAY a year’s subscription to The Star. Look at t he label on your paper. If your subscription is out, renew for one year from the date it expir ed at the regular subscription price of $2.50 BY MAIL or $3.00 BY CARRIER and you get the SUGAR and ALMANAC Free. This is also open to new subscribers. No conditions attached, except this offer applies only to subscribers in Cleveland and adjoining counties. NO PREMIUMS MAILED. You must hurry to take advantage of this unusual offer which is good until January 7th. The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. — LESS THAN 2c A COPY DELIVERED _
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