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; . , • •;_MONDAY, SEPT. 18, 1933
|y- ’ TWINKLES
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< Cuban presidents last almost as long as Holly
weed-marriages.
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l ft.must be admitted that these “he strange times”
wtoen newspapers cannot get statements from Henry
Ford or, Huey Long.
Next thing you know Cuba will start a revolution
to end the counter revolutionary movement, against the
revolutionary government.
*. Seemingly an election campaign is still a matter of
efeiming. The. dry* claim they will carry Cleveland
wiunty by 15.000 votes, while the repealists say the coun
ty will turn thumbs down on the 18th Amendment just
a| will the rest of the State and States.
FINE EDITION
Th Star extends congratulations to The Morgan
taji Newa-Herald for that paper’s recent special edition
©/ 40 pages plus a very interesting 16-page rotogravure
•action. Always an interesting newspaper, the special
edition was an exceptionally fine and comprehensive
presentation of Morganton and Burke county’s indus
trial, commercial, and social life. Deserving of especial
p$aise Is the fact, that despite the immense size of the
edition it maintained the paper’s customary high type of
m*ke-up and presentation.
THE NEXT GET-TOGETHER
* The county’s first Get-Together day, held last week,
ifcto be an annual affair hereafter, as The St'ar under
stands it. Since it is to he, would it not he a good idea to
move the date up two or three weeks next year? The at
tendance this year was good, but if would have been far
larger had it not been staged in the heat of the cotton
it was just too busy a time to leave home for the day.
WELCOME MONEY
Out over Cleveland county this week-end there was
a new spirit of optimism, resulting from the fact that
government checks in payment for cotton plowed up in
the reduction campaign have started coming in.
In two days time checks totalling $10,000 arrived in
Shelby. Other checks are expected to come in steadily
until the full $177,000 due this county has arrived.
One hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars is
a tidy sum of money, especially at this season of the
yaar and it will come in handy over the county. Fall is
the buying season for the farmer. It is the time when
winter clothes and shoes are purchased, when rhe young
stars are outfitted for school. Naturally, then, the com
ing into the county of tat much money will mean much
to general trade and business. There is an additional
factor about it which is important to the farmers. Many
of them desire to hold their cotton as long as possible
with the hope of getting a better price. The $177,000
paid them by the government for cotton plowed up will
male it easier to hold that not plowed up which is be
ing picked and ginned now.
HE MUST CATCH UP
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It has been said time and time again that no certain
and sound degree of general prosperity can be attained
until the farmer is to a measure prosperous, History
bears out that statement. Check back to the most pros
perous iimes on record and it will he found that the
farmeress getting a decent price for his farm products,
a price It least returning to him production costs plus a
little jirofit.
Despite that accepted and proven economic philos
ophy no major attempt as been inaugurated wirh any
degree of success to found prosperity upon that solid
basis. It was Edward A. O’Neal, president of the Am
erican Farm Bureau Federation, who said:
"The restoration of farm buying power, keystone
of national recovery, is menaced by the rising prices of
articles farmers must buy. The farmer never will catch
up with the cost of living if this continues.”
As The Raleigh News and Observer added, “Until
tho farmer does catch up recovery will remain a na
tional desire and not a national fact.’’ In view of that
admitted truth, it is surprising to hear men high in of
ficial life say that there seems to be no reason for a cot
ton holiday, or something of that type, to boost the price
of cotton in North Carolina, because “the cotton farmers
of the State have been reducing their acreage grad
ually and arc in pretty good shape." Find a cotton farm
er w’ho can be in good shape w-ith cight-ccnt cotton to
combat rising prices of things he must buy and you'll
find a rarity.
picking and fodder-pulling season. By moving the oc
cagjogjtip toitrjd-August or late August next year, scores
of farm families will attend who figured this year that
CT.EANING IP A BAD STREET
Nearly every large city has its tough street where
dives of every type flourish. With that knowledge it is
not surprising to hear that the neighboring city of Spar
tanburg, South Carolina, has such a street in Magnolia.
What interest about this street is that The Spartanburg
Herald wonders in a recent editorial why something isn’t
done about it. The police know what, goes on there, The
Herald says, and so do citizens. Yet the underworld ac
tivity continues unchecked. Somehow w’e are wonder
ing. and waiting to see, if the following comment by The
Herald will get results:
“Wednesday night a man was shot to death on
Magnolia Street. The tragedy serves to direct attention
to that thoroughfare. Magnolia Street is a disgrace to
the city of Spartanburg. Between Morgan Square and
the railway station it is a festering municipal sore.
I ravelers by rail come to the business district
over Magnolia. Many motorists from the northern part
of the county use it in entering the city. Tourists tra
verse it. On the street the county court house and the
Federal building which houses the postoffice and gov
ernment officials are located. Around these institutions
a resort for bootleggers, thieves, lewd women has devel
oped.
"Whose business is it? Apparently nobody’s busi
j ness except those who ply their miserable trade on the
street. It should be the business of the decent people
of Spartanburg to dean up this disgrace to their city.
It should be the business of the city aut horities to do it.
The city authorities can clean it and do it quickly but
they will not, do it until public opinion, surfeited and
sickened with the filth of the street demands action.
"This newspaper is not an agent of reform. If it
were it would send its reporters down Magnolia way and
reveal'conditions that are revolting. What good could be
done by Riich action? It could publish nothing that is not
known by the police and, we assume, by the mayor and
his associates on the city commission. If our assump
tion is ^rroneous then it must be said there are none so
blind as those who will not see.
"It is up to the people of Spartanburg to say wheth
er they want this running sore to continue, to pollute the
heart of the city. 'I he people have done nothing to cure
this cancer. Nothing will be done so long as the people
sit in their easy chairs and leave George to do it. The
police of the city would clean up Magnolia if they were
ordered to do it and were given the support to which they
a»e entitled When will such orders be issued and such
support given ?’’
IS IT AN EQUAL TAX?
Writing in The State, the Hon Walter (Pete) Mur
phy, veteran legislator, wonder what the next North
Carolina general assembly will do about the much-dis
cussed safes Tax.
If they repeal the sales tax, he asks, what will take
its place?
His comment apepars to center about the possibil
ity that if the sales tax is abolished more taxes will be
placed upon industry. In this connection he says:
“It is the boast of our people that North
Larolina is the greatest manufacturing and indus
trial state in the Southland and all of us hope our
state will continue to develop along this line and
maintain the position it now occupies. In order
that it may continue to expand and continue its
growth it is necessary fqr future legislatures to en
act tax laws which will invite industrial enterprises
to come into our midst rather than laws which will
prevent them from so doing.
“Is it not possible that such tax legislation may
be enacted as will cause capital to seek investment
elsewhere, rather than attract such to our midst?
These questions must be answered by the next
Assembly. North Carolina’s continued growth as
a manufacturing state will depend upon the enact
ment of fair and non-discrimlnatory tax laws.”
The Star would not advocate, directly or indirect
ly, any unfair tax which would handicap the industry of
North Carolina, or tend to keep away new industry. In
dissecting Mr. Murphy’s views upon the sales tax and
what might possibly take its place we are not advocat
ing any particular tax. Rut we cannot bring ourselves
around to the point of agreeing that the sales tax is
the most equal and .just of all taxes.
In referring to the general sales tax. Mr. Murphy
writes: “The sales tax has this to recommend it—its
equality. It bears upon all alike in proportion to their
ability to buy.”
Is a tax based upon “the ability to buy” necessarily
a just tax? It has been said that the income tax, when
properly administered and in no manner avoided and
dodged, is the fairest of all taxes. With that we agree,
there is no fairer tax than one based upon man's abil
ity to earn. The man who makes more, and as a result
has more, is able to pay in proportion. But the "ability
to buy” and “buying" are two different things.
The sales tax on articles purchased by the poor,
man, the man just barely managing to make ends meet,
is just as much as the sals tax the wealthier man with
a better income pays upon the same article. It is ar
gued. on the other hand, that the sales tax is the only
means of getting at a certain class of people who other
wise pay no tax at all. True enough, but is it aitogeth
l er fair to shift a part of the burden of those who have
I something upon those who have nothing?
A stiller income tax, based upon earning ability-_
the ability to pay—could be the answer to what will re
place the sales tax if it is abolished, but wait and see
what happens when attempt is made to levy such a tax?
i Roosevelt Is
‘Man Of Hour’
Julian Miller In Charlotte Observe*
Mr. R.vusevelt says this, that
and the other thing, and the whole
nation either cringes with awe or
peps itself up in elation—so deli
cately does it hang on its word
and his action.
i A man like this is not a mere
I casual contribution of political ac
| cidents to the leadership of a na
tion.
The explanation goes deeper.
American history is a strangelv
brilliant and impressive recital ol
j the right man emerging for the
special crisis for which his pecu
j liar talents are needed.
Washington, Jefferson,. Lincoln
Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Wil
son—each of them were born into
the kingdom of power for an ex
troardinary emergency.
So was Franklin D. Roosevelt,
The old Hebrews faintly foresaw
this invisible hand working in the
destinies of peoples when they, said
When the tale of bricks is doubted.
Moses comes."
Jewelry Salesman
Is Robbed Of Gems
Worcester, Mass., Sept 15.—Ar- j
thur Bower, jewerl.v salesman was
robbed of a valise containing $100,-j
900 in gems and Jewelry at union
station tonight by two armed men.j
The pair grabbed the valise and!
tied in an automobile. One of the;
robbers fired one shot at Bower but!
did not hit him.
'_• I
Filling Station Man
New Mayor Of York1
York, 8ept. 14.—J. Q Wray, a! r
filllng station proprietor and farm-!
sr, was elected mayor of York this!
week over two opponents to sue-!
reed W. E. Morton who resigned.;
He won by one vote.
The vote was: Wray, 118; Joseph;
R, Moss, 117;. J. C. Wilborn. R.
City Of Shelby
Summary Of Cash Receipt* And Disburse
ments For General And Special Funds For
Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1933.
Cash Receipts.
j Current taxes _-__-$ 71,740.7fi
| Prior year taxes ___ ___________ 5,617.75
! Penalties _____ ______-_ 939.34
Auto and privilege license _ ___ 2,056.60
Court cost- _____----- 1,365!90
Abattoir _._ -_ __ 2.406.83
Cemetery lots sold _ _____ 518.00
street assessments installments and interests. 18,729.51
[Miscellaneous receipts_____ 165.54
Light department _____ ______ 100,439.42
Water department _____!__ 35,985.92
TOTAL CASH RECEIPTS__ 239,965.57 j
Plus, Cash balance 7-1-32__ 26,144.78
Ralancing Total _____ ____$266,110.
Cash Paid Out
Awards and damages ___ _if; 125
Debt service___ _____ 115,431
Aldermen’s salaries
432
Mayor’s salary and car_____ 2,347
City elections _____ _
City Hall ______
Public Library __
-.- 297
--_______ 9
—--—_ 369,
Insurance___ ____ 2,232
City attorney salary_____ 100
City attorney—extra_ __ 50
Treasurer’s salaries and office supplies ________ 6,886
Police department __ 6,824.
Fire department___ 4,879,
Street maintenance __ 8,987
Cemeteries _____ ____ 1,020.
Public welfare ________ __ L331
Abattoir____ 2 969
"asoline --_____ -----" 2,648.
---—_ 1,650.
---- 26,820,
- 1,533.
19.
r . , 47.
Light, department_ 56,099.
Wafer department _ 12,799.
1 Contingent ____
[City schools . __ __.
'Equipment, note paid __
Afreet assessment refund ___
I Miscellaneous .disbursements
35
45
49
00
75
.89
.83
00
70
,00
.00
,67
94
71
14
78
10
30
56
65
57
34
77
26
13
34
TOTAL CASH PAID OUT ___ 255,104.37
Plus: Cash balance 6-30-33 _______ 11,005.98
RALANCING TOTAL _____ _____ ___$266,110.35
Respectfully submitted
GEO. G. SCOTT & CO.
Certified Public Accountants.
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN
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Banking Facilities
are Essential—
No community can exist without banking
facilities, A hank is a public institution
through which flows the trade and com
merce of the community. Checks are
cleared, drafts are paid, savings are de
posited, loans are made and the life-blood
of the community passes.
The customers know little of the work and
painstaking care that are required to keep
about 5,000 active accounts.
The inconvenience and trouble of having
no banking facilities are experienced in
thousands of communities ' where banks
are still closed and thousands of them are
being liquidated.
Our customers and friends seem to realize
just how essential banks’are. They gave
their cooperation toward reopening and
we are proud that our banks, our schools,
our churches, our hospital, etc., are ful
filling the community needs.
First National Bank
OF SHELBY, N. C.
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*N INT,*VIIW WITH JOSEPH PKEHiR, DIV. CIRCULATION MGR., lOUISVIltl (ICY.) HERAtP-PO8’
“No more of the old kind for me
. . , after owning a Plymouth”
Ninety* five news-stands wait eagerly
for Joe Preher to come rushing around
every time a new edition hits the street. He’s
got to make time...keep a split-second
schedule...slam on brakes 600 times a day.
Working his brakes so hard on his former
car cost him plenty for adjustments and re
lining. But with Plymouth's hydraulic
brakes, it's a far different story. They’re al
ways equalized.And brake linings last longer!
Brakes are not the only thing that must
stand up on Joe Preher s cars. For he puts
50,000 miles a year on the speedometer.
His car is still “tight as a drum’’ at 12,000
miles. Floating Power engine mountings
helped do that. It stands to reason, too,
you’ll avoid rattles with a welded safety
steel body that has no joints to loosen.
I.ook at the things that make a car ttand
Up when you look at “all three” low-priced
cars-and we think you’ll pick a Plymouth.
STANDAKl) Monti s prltrd from $445 to$510;
MisJt-U, $4*5 to $5*5. Pi U r» »ir •tifoj«vf lut tiguge wlib*
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