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attic* it Sbelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress.
March 8. 1807.
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reapect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death
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FRIDAY, FEB. 24, 3933
TWINKLES
The 1934 auto license plates in North Carolina will
be smaller than the present tags, a news dispatch in
form*, but what the majority of us will want to know is
how much cheaper.
And so far Ye Twinkler has heard no weeping from
local hopefuls for the p. m. job over the unearthing of
a court record showing that a new president can change
postmasters regardless of length of appointments.
One thing may be said about these candidates an
nouncing for offices in Shelby’s approaching municipal
election: they’ll make very few people mad by advocat
ing lower utility rates, or lower anything, for that mat
ter.
THEY MUST KNOW IT
The North Carolina legislators, so they say, do not
want a sales tax but they consider such a tax, in some
form, the only way out. If they are tight about that',
then a sales tax of some kind is inevitable.
But before the assembly puts on such a new tax
the members thereof had better be pretty well positive
that there is no other way out. The people back home,
before they resign themselves to a tax upon their meat,
flour, sox, shoes, etc., will want more than a mere legis
lative assumption. It would be going too far to say
that the people will openly rebel against such a tax. The
tax will be accepted with no great reluctance if the peo
ple are convinced that expenses have been pared to the
bone and that every possible economy has been effected.
If the people think, however, that there hasn’t been
enough cutting and that thc new tax is being put on
just to keep from doing some lopping that could be done,
then it may be another story.
POP IT TO THEM
The sending of the crude bomb to President-elect
Roosevelt, which was halted before delivery by Wash
ington postal workers, was apparently the work of a
warped brain and not the scheming of a shrewd assas
sin. Rut coming, as it did, upon the heels of the at
tempted assassination of Roosevelt at Miami the inci
dent has served to get the American populace hot under
the collar. Due to the existing laws Zangara could be
given only 80 years for his attempted slaying of the
President-elect, but the second attempt, crude and un
successful as it was, may serve to bring along more se
vere punishment for would-be slayers of presidents. The
New Jersey legislature is already considering a bill which
would make such an offense punishable by death, and the
Ohio lawmakers are being urged to strengthen their
laws by making attempted assassination a death charge.
If every State in the union would do likewise, it
would tend to shy the cranks and fanatics away from
such attempts and by doing so make it possible for the
American people to breathe easier.
A BIG WEEK AHEAD
The coming week promises to be an important one
in American history, particularly that of recent years.
It it the week which will usher in the New Deal, and
certainly an overwhelming percentage of the citizen
ship is ready for and anxiously awaiting anything re
sembling a new deal.
Assuredly it will be a week of big news, although
only the passing of time will tell what benefits the
changes of the week will bring. A week from yester
day, according to an advance announcement, we will
know the full personnel of the Roosevelt cabinet. That
within itself is something.to look forward to, for if the
men the new president selects as his principal advisors :
and aides are men in w’hom the nation have confidence
that announcement will brighten the anticipation of the
, full Roosevelt program. And just a week from tomor
row the new- president will take office. The psychology
of the change will mean much and will certainly enliven
the spirits of the people as they await the shakeup and
rejuvenation necessary for the fulfillment of the Roose
velt policies.
THE COUNTY SPORT CLASSIC
A majority of those who read this comment may
mean just another gaihe, something they do not have
time to see and are not interested in. AVe believe, how
ever, that if the average reader who is not a sport fan
will take off one evening and attend a doubleheader
basketball game in the county-wide tournament at the
Shelby High gymnasium, he or she will go back for an
other.
Basketball is a clean, manly port and todaj it ij
the prevailing athletic diversion for the boys and girls
of Cleveland county. Practically every school in the
county has a team, and the majority of them are good
teams, capable of holding their own with the best high
school teams in the State. It is a fast and colorful
game, one in which quick-thinking and sportsmanship
qualities are as necessary as athleti - ability and physi
cal skill. Those who havy not interested themselves so
far in the sport will be surprised at the increasing in
terest among adults over the county. The tournament
will last the entire week and fans—parents, brothers,
sisters—will be here from all sections of the county.
Since Shelby, as county seat, is playing host to the
county's leading sport classic local people should take in
""ifs many nights as possible, and we believe all who go
will enjoy the sport and also the opportunity of meet
ing with citizens from all parts of the county.
SUCH IS LAWMAKING
The marriage license bill in the present general as
sembly will in all probability land where it started with
nothing done about the restrictions which drive scores
of North Carolina couples to other States to be mar
ried.
The pass-the-buck, if-it-don't-suit-me-Tll-fix-it-so
it-will-not-suit you attitude taken by the house and sen
ate is typical of lawmaking methods which have lowered
the general respect of the public for lawmaking bodies.
First the house wrorte a bill to abolish the requir
ed medical examination. But some of the theorists got
busy and had a provision injected requiring contract
ing parties to make affidavit that they had not had tu
berculosis or a social disease, within two years. (Can
you picture anyone admitting on an affidavit that he or
she had been so afflicted?)
JLhen the amended bill went to the senate where
additional strings and red tape were attached, and now
it is sent back to the house, where in all probability, the
re-amended measure will not be accepted.
As a result North Carolina couples will continue to
be married as they have in the past—the majority of
them in South Carolina and Virginia where few ques
tions are asked about social diseases, mentality, heredi
tary ailments or anything else. And that being the
case, what will the supporters of the fine theoretical
ideals have gained? Where does the North Carolina
ideal help? Are parents to be assured when a runaway
couple returns home from a marriage in another State
that one or the other of the contracting parties has not
had, or does not have, tuberculosis or a social disease?
If so, how? Could they not be better assured by having
the marriage performed at home where someone in the
know might, speak up if something were wrong? And
in the meantime, if you care to consider the revenue
angle—and that angle counts these days—think of the
hundreds of dollars driven into other States.
FARMER MUST BE HELPED FOR NATION
TO REGAIN PROSPERITY
One of the major things bark of the depression is
the fact the purchasing power of the overlooked, for
gotten and sidetracked farmer of America has shrunk
$11,000,000,000 in the last decade.
For years preceding the existing depression the
farmer asked for aid and relief and received nothing ex
cept election promises in campaign years. Think how
trade, general business and industrial activity would
pick up if 11 billion dollars could be sent to market each
year. That is what would happen if the farmer could
be put back on his feet.
Until that time, as Guy A. Cardwell points out in a
recent Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Agricultural News
article, there is little hope to end the depression. In
elucidating upon his statement Mr. Cardwell writes:
"The 1930 census shows that 450,000 American
farmers who were full owners of their farms in 1920
had lost title to those farms by 1930, and the number of
tenant farmers had increased 200,000. In the same ten
years the total value of all farm property in the United
States decreased $20,000,000,000. Since 1930 these
changes have gone on at even more rapid rate. Between
1920 and 1932 the total annual farm income of America
dropped from $15,400,000,000 to $6,700,000,000. The
total purchasing power of American farmers, which
once stood at $16,000,000,000, has shrunk to less than
$5,000,000,000. This means that a market for $11,000,
000,000 in goods has disappeared. This loss is more
than twice the total exports of America at their peak
and is equal to one-fourth of the total retail sales of the
Nation.
“If the demand of the farmers for relief in the last
decade were regarded as matters important only to the
the farmers themselves, it has become very clear today
that relief to the farmers is essential if there is to be
any relief for the nations,” says The News and Observ
er. How many men now walking city streets could be
put back to work if this lost £11,000,000,000 in buying
power were restored? How many of those now walking
city streets lost their jobs because of the long, progres
sive impoverishment of the farmer while the cities rode
the whirlwind of a fictitious wealth?
“The depression must end where it began—with the
farm. No solid industrial prosperity can be restored in
America until the men who till the soil are able to secure
a fair return for their labor and to become purchasers—
to the extent of billions now lost—of the products of
the town and its factories."
WELL-TO-DO BEGGAR
(From New Orleans Times)
Police detectives of Fort Worth. Texas, trailed a
“panhandler,’’ begging dimes on the street, and discov
ered that after his day’s work he took off his disguise,
including dark glasses, and went to a hotel where he hail
rented a room and in which $50 in dimes were found.
He also owned a large car and Kept a chauffeur.
NEVER KNOW WHAT MAY HAPPEN
(R. R. Clark in Greensboro News)
Well, you never know what may happen. But a
little spell to the rear of us submission of the repeal of
amendment No. IS seemed among the improbables if
not the impossibles. The last election seems to have
been one of the mandates of which we hear on occas
ion. Truth is that with the 18th amendment Volstead
and all lh»' folks never did decide to quit drinking.
Nobody’s
l Business
By GEE McGEE
Flat Rock Happening*
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nits, dinah moore ketched a bad
cold in her throte a few weeks ago
and it settled in her larnix, so the
doctor said, and she could not talk,
her husband hoped it would be per
manent, but she can whisper now,
and she will soon be all right and
talking as much as ever, it looks
like.
mr. bill megooking has asked me
to say whoever will buy him a 11
cents plate for his car for 1933 he
will let him ride ever other Sunday
from now on and him furnish the
gas ansoforth. this seems like a
good opening for some bright young
man who has 15$ and a desire to
run around some cheap, rite or
foam him at 2-j.
verry little is being said about the
susposed approaching wedding of
miss gerraldecn brown and mr. al
bert smokehouse to come off in
June, this wedding was set for last
august, but he backed out after it
had done got in the papers. the
hope-to-be-bride has asked me not
to say nothing about it in my col
lum except i can announce it gfter
it has actually happened.
a bisyckle belonging to little sara
smith was stole from Its parking
place in the back pi-izza last, week
about sun-down and its where
abouts is unknown, the child is hart
stricken over her loss and has ask
ed her friends to help locate same,
it has 2 wheels and 1 handle bar
and 1 saddle and it is painted and
it was give to her last chrlsmus by
her gramma and a horn and rub
ber tires, plese look out for this in
strument and report it to her.
preaching which was to have
benn held at rehober last Sunday
night instead of the previous sun
day morning has benn postponed
till Wednesday night at prayer
meeting. this change was made
necessary by the preecher being sick
and the Sunday school superintend
ent being off in florldy on a hunt
ing trip with his wife for birds
plese bd govverned accordingly and
stay a^&y till it hapens on wednes*
day night.
miss Jennie reeve smith, and her
twin sister, miss saliie veeve, are
planning a trip after the scholl
term is out, up north.' they will vis
stt north earllna and may go as
far as vtrglnny. they have newer
benn that far north befoar and
miss saliie veeve is afraid of the
Yankees and mout back out. miss
Jennie veeve says she would like to
see richmond, if possible, where the
civvil war was fougt, but that is
mighty far off for young girls to go
alone.
yores trulie.
mike Clark, rfd.
oorry spondent.
F-L-U
1 got homo 6:30 Saturday night.
I took the sneezes at 7:10. I sneez
ed every minute for 2 hours. Tears
as large as golf halls trickled down
my emaciated face and landed in
my lap.
At 7:40 my eyeballs began to
prove they were incased in sand
paper. Every time I looked askance,
I thought they would bust out. My
nose was doing a marathon and
handkerchiefs were being used at
the rate of 5 per minute.
Coughing set in at 2 minutes aft
er 8. My throat was as sore as a
gumboil. My back began to twitch
at 8:45 and my vertabrea (or what
ever that thing is that your neck
sits on one end and you sit on the
other) began to pain me like the
toothache.
My head began to hurt in the
centre thereof at 9:10 and it ex
tended in every direction within 5
minutes. It felt like somebody had
been using it to test the strength
of 1000 maple rolling pins. My toes
twitched and pained me. My knees
got weak and rattled. My stummick
got busy growling and my heart ac
tion speeded up about 45 percent.
My arms felt like they were go
ing to fall off by 10 p. m. My ears
roared and throbbed and rumbled.
My lamyv and thranyx and ton
sils got so dry I spat nothing but
dust. My tongue took on the shape
and size of a banana while my
cheeks flushed and wrinkled.
The doctor got there at 11:20
The nurse arrived at 11:40 with
beautiful brown eyes, auburn hair
tender hands, and a soft heart, a
bottle of rubbing alcohol, 3 towels,
a lovely neck, » box of salve, a wash
rag, sweet ruby lips, and a thermo
meter. It was worth being sick just
to look at that cute girl,
The doctor made regular (3-doh
lar) visits twice a day. The nurse
rubbed me frequently but wouldn't
let me rub her. Plenty food was
served that tasted like something
else. Everybody was good to me,
even my creditors came to see me
t was in bed a week. Gradually my
taster returned to normal and beef- i
steak I'egan to taste like ham I
Rushing Of Bills!
Through Assembly
Unconstitutional
U# Provide# Against Enactment
Of Private Measures Without
Due Notice.
(Star New* Bureau.)
Raleigh, Feb. 24.—Some members
of the 1933 general assembly, as
well as in previous sessions, are
having local bills enacted in direct
opposition to the provision of sec
tion 12, article 2, of the constitu
tion, and, if actions should be taken
to the courts on local measures,
they would undoubtedly be declared
unconstitutional.
| Section 12 of article 2 of the con
stitution provides: "The general as
sembly shall not pass any private
laws, unless it shall be made to ap
pear that thirty days’ notice of ap
plication to pass such a law shall
have been given, under such direc
tion and in such manner as shall
be provided by law.’*
me manner provided by law for
such notice is that the notice be
published either in a newspaper
which circulates in the county
where the applicant resides, or by
advertisement at the door of the
! court house and three other public
places. A copy of this advertise
ment with due proof that it was
published must be given at the sec
ond reading of the bill.
Since the constitution specifies
private laws, it is not thought that
those laws classed as public-local
laws would be included. However,
often a representative gets a bill
from some constituent who wants
it enacted before folks at home
learn about it. The usual method is
to have the rules suspended and
the bill put on its immediate pas
sage through the house in which it
was introduced, and have someone
in the other house see that it gets
by the same way when . it crosses
the hall for the other house to con
sider.
Often, however, private legisla
tion is enacted in another way, mak
ing it a public bill, but for the spe
cific purpose of getting done what
would not be enacted as a private
law. For example, if a legislator has
a friend qualified in some degree
to practice pharmacy, or medicine,
or dentistry, or veterinary surgery,
or other profession, he introduces,
and sometimes gets through a bill
permitting persons Of,such qualifi
cations to practice without license.
If a lawyer has a tilt with a local
newspaper on legal advertising, then
he sometimes, as a legislator, intro
duces a measure limiting or speci
fying the rates newspaper through
out the state may charge for such
legal advertising.
Palm Tree Section
News OfThe Week
Rev. R. M. Courtney Preaches. Mis*
Peeler Enters School
At Boone.
'Special to The Star.)
Lawndale. Feb. 23 —A large crowd
attended Sunday school and preach
ing Sunday morning. We were very
fortunate to have \yth us our presl
ding elder. Rev. R. M. Courtney
who preached for us. He delivered
a fine message. Our past W.
L. Scott was also present.
Miss Mary Elisabeth Lee teacher
of Belwood school spent the week
end with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Lee.
Miss Annie Lee wno is a student
at Weaver college spent the week
end with her parents Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Lee. She was accompanied by
her roommate Miss Martha Powell
of Mount Pleasant.
Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Relchard and
little daughter. Christine of Kings
Mountain spent Wednesday and
Thursday of last week with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs M. H. Reich
ard.
Miss Mary Ellen Lee accompanied
Rev and Mrs. W. L. Scott to Char
lotte last Monday. She visited at
the home of our former pastor. Rev
and Mrs. E. E. Snow while there.
Miss Beulah Lee who has been
very sick with flu and tonsolitis is
got so's I could sleep without a
thermometer in my mouth and I
finally began to breathe thru my
nose. Our 3 undertakers were awful
ly disappointed when I appeared on
the street yesterday. I’m feeling all
right now, thank you, except phy
sically and financially. If you aint
done had the flu, plese take my ad
vice—and dodge it.
Stops Your Cough
Or Money Back
One swallow of Bi onchuline Emul
sion and you get relief—INSTANT
LY. Unmistakable relief
Another dose an hour later may
stop your cough entirely Certainly
you won't need move than half a
bottle of this grand old cough-kill
er to knock that cough for good. If
you do, you can have your money
back. Cleveland Drug Co., and all
other first-class druggists guaran
tee it.
No dope. Nothing to upset your
stomach. So why cough, cough,
cough yourself to pieces? Get Bron
ehuline Emulsion mil RELIEF ad. I
better at this writing.
Mr. Clem Lee and daughter, Mary
Ellen were among thoee who at
tended the charge quarterly confer
ence held at Davids Chapel church
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. R. E. Shuford has been very
sick for some time •
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Reichard vis
ited at the home of her sister, Mrs.
M. C. Powell Sunday afternoon.
Miss Ammie Lee Peeler, daughter
of Mrs. A. D. Peeler left Monday to
enter school at Boone. We are very
glad she is able to return to college
work. She had to leave school last
fall due to sickness.
The Chatham county farm agent
reports 12 colts being grown by
farmers of the county this year and
says there is considerable interest
now in raising more work stock at
home.
Stop Gas Pains!
German Remedy
Gives Relief!
Acting on BOTH upper and lower j
bowels Adlerika washes out all
poisons that cause gas. nervousness
and bad .sleep. One dose gives re
lief at once. Paul Webb and Son.
Druggists. adv.
Hens And Cows Add
To Farm’s Income
Hampton, Ark. (U.P.t- «{r
W. Wardleigh of th Ebcnrz
Home Demonstration elite m c
houn county, has found that ^
leghorn hens and four co-vs •„
added substantially t0 the
income during the last year
She raised part of her teed
bought the rest of it, and from he
hens she made a profit of *1 1c
Prom her cows she made h,
from the sale of milk at id butV
besides giving her familv all ,L
could use.
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RELIEF _
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for discomforts of "stuffy'1
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FOR A CLEAR HEAD
APPLY the PRINCIPLES
of WASHINGTON
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tered by the sterling principles and sound
counsel of its first mentor—so dp business
establishments depend for their success,
upon a wise, a practical foundation.
It is the privilege of this bank to offer its
unbiased guidance in business affairs. To
aid in carrying out the tradition of sound
policy of houses long established, or in
formulating methods of procedure for in
stitutions newly incepted.
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