The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE LEE B. WEATHERS _...._...... President and Editoi 8. ERNEST HOEY .................... Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM... News Editor L. E. DAIL_..............__ Advertising Manager By Mall, per year .....................- 12.5C By Carrier, per year ...... (3 00 Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the post office at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March S. 1882. We wish to call your attention to the tact that It ts and has been our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notloe has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 7, 1933 $ TWINKLES A kidnapper has about as much chance these days as a new bond issue. » ....0 Who was it laughed when that cult out at Zion de clared the world was flat? The stock market may be on the up-and-up, hut the mercury in the thermometer is still pacing the climb. Another thing for which F. I). R. may he thanked: the relegation to obscurity of that Washington social feud between Dolly Gann and Princess Alice Longworth. A couple of things the average man is not worrying about: being found among the ground-floor friends of the Morgan firm or upon the list of gold hoarders. If all the post office appointments had been made before the forest army was enlisted, wonder if there wouldn’t have been twice as many applications for en listment ? A larger navy advocate says that an enemy nation could cripple the United States without a declaration of war. Certainly, by borrowing money from os for a war with someone else. Since the North Carolina legislature came very near making the tom-tit Tarheelia’s official bird the South Carolina papers have been referring to this State as "Tomtitia." A pun from Iodinia! One prediction we hope will pan out: that one fore % casting that cotton will be 15 cents this fall. That’s who time it should be 15 cents, if it is going to be 15 cents at all, for that’s the time when the farmer has to take it to market. He nearly always gets the short end of the ’ deal with cotton low at his selling time and climbing after it has been sold to the other fellow. BISHOP NOT A QUITTER Say what you will about Bishop Cannon—and there are quite a number willing and even anxious to say thins-—he cannot be called a quitter. With a tide of sentiment sweeping the nation for repeal of prohibition, Bishop Cannon is sticking to his guns. He has just sent letters to 8,500 pastors of Methodist churches in the South urging them to do their bit to keep prohibition, reminding in his letter that the South is the last bul wark of the dry forces. There will be those who will ray, and perhaps rightly, that the dry forces would make better herdway under other leadership, but neverthe less his efforts and those to whom he appeals should not be minimized. The repealists may make light of the Cannon stand, but they are too sensible to think that his appeal to 8,500 ministers will not have some effect. CITY FINANCES A financial report of the city of Shelby, as outlin ed in a civic club talk by Mayor McMurry, shows that during the past year the city managed to meet its obli gations and make ends meet. That is an excellent rec ord when it is recalled that it was an extremely tough year upon municipalities as well as upon individuals, many towns and cities defaulting their debt payments and. interest. I11 connection with the report, many citizens have already noted that the two city departments, water and light, made a profit during the year of $66,215. The profit of the tight department alone was $44,398. Those figures will cause any number of those who opposed the proposed light plant sale a year or two ago to ask, “Would we have made ends meet and been able to meet our obligations without the plant?” Proponents of sell ing the plant would likely reply that the purchase price of the plant could have been used to clean off those ob ligations, but, judging from sentiment hea»rd, it will be quite a time before a major portion of the city’s resi dents will be convinced that the plan should lie sold in stead of municipally operated. JESSON IN A TRAGEDY This entire community sympathizes with the par ents and relatives of little Valera Thurmond who was killed in an auto accident Monday, and the community likewise extends its sympathy to Register of Deeds Newton, who, according to reports, could not avoid hit ting the child with his car. Mr. Newton, kind-hearted and of a sympathetic disposition is “broken up” over the tragedy as are the parents, and it is enough to shake them all. It is a matter, however, about which nothing can be done now, except* to pprmit, time to gradually wear away the grief and shock. But perhaps the tragic death may serve a purpose. In tact, it will serve a worthwhile end if parents will ex ercise more precaution in seeing that their children do not pla,^ where there is risk and danger. There arc streets in Shelby where many children are allowed to romp and play. Several times in recent weeks motorists have had to stop or swerve out of the street in order to avoid an accident. Parents and police officials should cooperate in putting an end to play along the streets, par ticularly in sections where traffic is heavy. Bo so do ing other young lives may be saved and other motor ists will not have to go through such a nerve-shattering ordeal as has Register Newton. PUTS PRESSURE ON This Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” may in the years to come be described as his method-of taking his problems direct to the people by radio. F. D. R. has learned that when he gets the people behind him congress will rapid ly drop in step. They had the President licked this week on the cut for war veterans. His own leaders in congress told them that when the show-down came his measure would be defeated two to one. "All right, then,” the President was quoted as say ing. “I’ll go on the air Sunday night and lay my case before the people.” Word that he intended to do so crept around Capi tol Hill. The senators and congressmen did not know what the people might do, and when the threatened vote came it was a compromise. The President’s measure was not carried out in full, but it was not licked two to one. The big stick was his threat to “tell it to the folks back home.” That is one of the big reasons for the success so far of the Roosevelt measures. He has the solons in mortal dread of the folks back home. Senator Bailey, of North Carolina, was not the only senator opposed to the inflation program—not by far, but Senator Bailey was one of the few with the nerve to stick by his convic tions. Around Washington it is definite knowledge that quite a number of senators and congressmen were more bitterly opposed to the inflation measure than Bailey, but they feared what the folks back home might do and voted against their convictions—a system they call play ing politics. THE FARMER MUST GET MORE The rising price of cotton is a very worthwhile happening for those farmers who have managed to hold on to some of their 1932 crop, but it is much like rub bing it in for those who had to sell when the staple was bringing five cents or less per pound—and the latter group covers a big percentage of the cotton growers. Of course there is one cheering thing about the rise even to those who have no cotton to sell, and that is that it may mean a better price this fall when they have another crop ready for the market. Yet the fact that the average farmer had to sell at the low level in order to meet what part of his obliga tions he could only serves to indicate that the farmer's plight is much as it ever was. The Mecklenburg Times summarizes the thought as follows: “The present rise in the price of cotton is not help ing very much the farmer who needs the help. The farmer who has been able to hold his cotton is not need ing the money so much as the man who was compelled to sell last winter when the price of cotton was around five cents a pound. The upward swing in cotton prices has increased the prices on cotton goods, and since the farmer must buy rather than sell now, the price has not been very beneficial to him. “For the farmer to make any money the higher price of cotton must continue until the fall when he has some cotton to sell. Money has little to do with the pres ent chaotic condition of the world. As the National City Bank Bulletin says, ‘Money is not the basis for busi ness activity but the true basis for business progress is an exchange of products and services, money being only a convenient means by which actual value are exchang ed.’ With the same thought in mind the~editor of the Albemarle and Press has the following to say: “If we analyze the situation we find that the farm er who took his five-cent cotton, his 40-cent corn, and his 60-cent wheat to town to exchange for the things which he needed for his family and for his farm soon discovered that he was getting the short end of the deal, for nothing else had declined in value nearly as much as had the things which he had to offer in exchange for them. Farm machinery, roofing, huilding materials, hardware, food which he had to buy, clothing, fertilizer, and in fact everything which he needed and ought to have, still cost just about as much &s ever, and even if some of the necessities had declined, the decline had not been in proportion to the drop in his commodities. It is true that cotton goods have declined in price a great deal, but not quite down to the level $ here the exchange will be advantageous to the farmer as well as the pos sessor of the commodity. "Deflation has not come as drastically in other lines as it has in the farming line, and until everything is on a basis where exchange is profitable to both parties, we cannot hope to make much business progress. Roose velt’s steps to raise prices of farm commodities will be the salvation of the country provided that prices on things the farmers need do not. start-upward also. If they go on up. the situation will not be helped to any great degree. When wet get things adjusted to the point where | the farmer can take a bale of cotton, 100 bushels of corn or 100 bushels of wheat to town, and come back with a | wagon or truck load of merchandise which he and his 1 family need, things will be ‘right’ once more.” ASKS SOME VERY INTERESTING QUESTIONS. To Editor of The Star: Just by way of inquiry; I have three questions to ask you, the pub lic, or anybody else who chooses to answer. 1. How often is the water in the kiddles bathing pool changed? Per haps I noticed it at ihe wrong time but the water this afternoon didn’t appear to be very conducive to good health and cleanliness. 2. How often, if at all, is the play ground equipment in the park in spected? Those swings you know, can throw a kid on his left ear quicker than a guinea pig can shake his tail, if a link happens to snap in two. Some wise guy will probab ly say that it will not hurt the kids to get jolted a little bit. I agree, But what of crushed-in heads, broken limbs and similar ‘ jolts?” 3. And last but not least, why doee not Shelby get a Legion junior team going? It’s a cinch that public opin ion and the public would support it. If an opportunity was only given to these boys who are eligible for the team, they would make a corking good baseball team, provided they were c6mpetently coached. Come on Shelby, give the boys a break! Gonna let Gastonia and the other towns rub it over you? D. CALEB McSWAIN. R-6, Shelby, N, C. THE LOGIC OF THE WETS IS ATTACKED. To the Editor: The wets, or repeailsts, have ac cused us drys of being a bunch of narrow, feeble-minded bigots, inca pable of having any say in the af fairs of our government. Well if they are correct in their estima tion of us, then we nave the assur ance and consolation of being the chosen of the Lord. For the Scrip ture says. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. So we are just going to con tinue right on troubling and con founding the wise and mighty wets. As they have been so clever and generous with us, let us return the favor by examining their complex and reviewing some of their claims. First, they say that prohibition is a failure, that it has increased drink ing and drunkenness. According to that theory a vicious and dangerous bulldog would bite more people if it were chained and confined than it would if running at large. And by the same process of reasoning we might say that all laws are a nuis ance, that they increase crime and therefore should all be repealed. Second, they say that they want it repealed in the interest of temper ance. My, My, can you imagine a distiller operating a distillery in the interest of temperance, or a brewer operating a brewery to promote temperance and sobriety? What would you think of a fool breaking the levees of the Mississippi river and turning loose it's devastating current in order to keep the low lands dry? That is the logic of the wets. “They would advise jumping in the river to keep dry.’” The fact that the wets are fighting prohibition with all the power at their command is positive proof that it is not a failure. If it were a failure the wets would be fighting for its retention. The truth of the matter is: That prohibition inter fere with their business and de sires, and they are not honest enough to say so. There are two, possibly three, groups of tftose who favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and they have just three reasons for wanting it re pealed, namely: One group wants to make and sell intoxicating liquors, the second group wants to drthk it, and the third group wants their taxes paid with the revenue deriv ed from the sale of it; and they do not give a snap how much trouble and destruction it brings to human ity. They have never offered a sound and logical reason for repeal and they cannot offer one, for there is absolutely none lo offer. They have only offered flimsy excuses, without any foundation. That is all they have to offer. If prohibition were a failure as -they say it is, the drys and not the wets are the ones to complain. The wets have done all in their power to make it a failure, then why com plain of their own job if they have succeeded? I contend that all who favor repeal are prompted by a spir it of self-gratification and not the betterment for mankind. I am not saying that all who favor repeal are questionable characters, but I do say that all questionable characters both men and women, favor repeal. I challenge any one to refute this assertion. They take us to be a bunch of hair-brained fools and per haps they have fooled some with their nefarious dope that they have spewed out. but they will have to come with something more sound and logical before they fool all of us and they just haven't got it, Selah The Though wayfaring fools we be we can distinguish between farts and fudges, between right and wrong and we stand for the right as we see it and not for boodle S. q. CRAWLEY. Lattimore, N. C. Union county farmers have turn soils. savs T J. W. fcroorn farm i.agCUU y i Boiling Springs News Of Interest Women Enjoy Wiener Roast. Miss Goode Returns From Teaching Personal Mention. (Special to The Star.) Boiling Springs, June 6.—The members of the Tongues and Needles club enjoyed a most de lightful wiener roast at the spring Friday afternoon. Mrs. Bufa Hamrick entertained the young women’s Sunday school class Friday evening at her home. A short business session was held and the lesson for the following Sunday was discussed The Bible reading for the month were read by Mrs. Unie Hamrick. The hostess served delicious ice cream and cake. Mrs. Farmer of Johnson City, Tenn., spent the past week here at the bedside of her mother Mrs. Pan gle who is improving after a sud den illness. Mr. Butler Pruete who Is attend ing summer school at Lenoir-Rhyne college spent Saturday night here with homefolks. Miss Aileen Biggerstaff spent last week in Shelby with Mr. and Mrs. Yates Biggerstaff. Mrs. J. D. Huggins and Mr, Dwyde Huggins visited Mrs. Huggins' moth er, Mrs. Atkinson of York, S.' C., over the week end. Miss Mildred Goode returned home Friday after having been teaching at Chollybeate the past winter. Before returning home she accompanied Dr. and Mrs. Clement Goode on a motor trip to Wash ington, D. C., coming back through the Shenandoah valley. The Rev. and Mrs. J. S. JPnkins and family went to their home in Wagram Sunday afternoon. Mr. Jenkins will attend a meeting in Raleigh Monday and Tuesday. Mrs Jenkins and children will remain in Wagram for a six weeks stay. Joe Nixon Heads The Lincoln Schools Lincoln County News. The county board of education today re-elected Joe R. Nixon as superintendent of public schools at a salary of $1400 annually. Mr. Nix on, under the previous laws re ceived $2500 annually for his serv ices as superintendent but this was reduced $1100 under present laws. He was also re-elected wfelfare of ficer by a joint meeting of county commissioners and county board of education. The salary for this posi tion has not been set. 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