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WEDNESDAY, APR. 4, 1934
TWINKLES
How wa gonna keep ’em down on the farm after
they’ve Men CWA?
And now, please, that the strike’s so happily set
tled, can’t we play some baseball?
Boiled down, what pedagogue Wirt charged was
that the Blue Eagle was a Red bird and had two Left
wings.
What a rare fellow this Admiral Byrd. He engi
neers one of the greatest publicity stunts of the year by
hiding for seven months in Antarctica!
The world is about to commit suicide, says Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler, Known to his Columbia students
as “Nicholas Miraculous.” But that’s hardly news.
Fipd us a collage president who’ll believe anything is
sage outside his own classrooms.
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THOMASSON CLIMBS UP
Ed Thomasson’a rise from telegraph operator at
Earl to president of the Piedmont and Northern Rail
road is another story of success which comes to a youth
who sticks to his guns and works. Ed Thomasson fol
lowed railroading and didn’t shift about looking for
something better. He learned that and as he learned
he, was stepped up in position and authority.
• Cleveland county is proud of Ed Thomasson. He is
another one of our products like the Dixon*. Durham®,
Webbs, who bring glory to Cleveland for having pro
duced topnotchers. Some day the Piedmont and North
ern will build a connecting link between Gastonia and
Spartanburg and we hope Ld Thomasson is well enough
acgiminted with what Cleveland ha® to offer in the way
of ^revenue to its lines, that this link will traverse Cleve
land county.
THE STATE S FINANCES
Revenue collections in North Caroline were seven
million dollars ahead of last year during the first quar
ter says A. J. Maxwel, head of the Revenue Depart
ment. This is positive proof of the effects of recovery
and is cause for rejoicing among the citizens of North
Carolina.
There was a slight decrease in the revenue from
income tax, but this is to be expected. Incomes, both
personal and corporate, reached their lowest last year
and the March income tax revenue covered the “bottom”
of the depression period.
Receipts from auto license tags and gasoline tax
arf the best barometers of conditions. Peope are forc
ed^ to buy the absolute necessities of life, but they are
nof forced to buy auto tags and gasoline, yet $1,081,000
myre was received from the sale of auto license tags
than for the first three months last year while the
gasoline tax receipts were $1,141,381 ahead of the cal
endar year 1933.
We are confident the state is nor collecting all that
is due to be collected from the sales tax. There is too
miich evasion on the part of the consumer and too much
laiity on the part of the deputy collectors. Merchants
have been left to retain sale tax money until a deputy
calls around. Their visits are too infrequent and often
no check is made of sales records, which leads many to
get careless about collections. The next General As
sembly should strengthen the collecting force in many
ways.
NEW DAY FOR FARMERS
No legislative measure that we can recall had been
so thoroughly explained and so universally approved be
fore enactment as the Bankhead Cotton Control Bill.
Through the county agents, farmers in all-cotton pro
ducing states knew all about it months before it was
submitted to the House. They followed its progress
through committee, through the House and through the
Senate. They approved it.
And yet, when the measure reached the upper
House, this and that Senator dubbed it “regimentation
of American agriculture,” inferring that it deprived the
farmers of liberties. The bill was laden with amend
ments, so much so that its eventual enforcement may be
difficult. All this in spite of the obvious, undeniable
fact that not a single farmer had ever risen to protest
this bill!
As that dynamo of energy and politics, Rex Tug
well of the Department of Agriculture has revealed,
American agriculture does need some regimentation,
and no one knows it better than the farmer. Much
land is under cultivation that should be abandoned.
Many areas are idle that should be used. Somehow, we
myu, §hift things around, managing a distribution <<t
lands and people that will yield better livings for farm
ers.
To that suggestion, the die-hards cry “But you
can’t move people 1 It isn’t right to uproot families.”
Of course you can move people—if they are Am
ericans. They are the movingest people in the world,
with a heritage of new frontiers. Give us new lands,
new agricultural worlds to conquer, and don’t fret about
the trip. Our ancestors went all over this land in ox
carts, and today’s generation invented hitch-hiking.
PRICE FIXING ALLOWED
An important decision was handed down by Federal
Judge John C. Knox in New York the other day when
> he wrote an opinion upholding the right of the Federal
government, under the National Recovery Act, to set a
minimum price under codes.
This decision is important to every manufacturer,
merchant and consumer in America for if the opinion of
Judge Knox is upheld by the Supreme Court it means
that code regulated lines will have the power and author
ity to set a minimum price at which anything can be
sold, whether it be automobiles or axes.
It may be right and proper to allow dry cleaners
whose plants run into the hundreds of thousands and
are scattered throughout the nation to fix a minimum
price, but if it is allowed in this case, it stands to reason
that it might also be permitted in lines controlled by
two or three companies. Take for instance, the auto
mobile industry in which three great companies dominate,
the telephone and telegraph companies, they could es
tablish a minimum price that might be in strict viola
tion of the Sherman anti-trust law. The same thing is
true in steel, motion pictures or typewriters. It would
be unwise to permit price fixing of a product or service
that is already controlled by a few who could get to
gether and wring unreasonable profits out of consum
ers.
It will be interesting to await the Knox opinion on
appeal to the Supreme Court.
Nobody’s Business
By GEE McGEE
V
Browsing Aronnd With The
Upper Ten
I was invited out the other even
inf. Nothing but swell-company was
eligible. I am still trying to figger
out how me and my wife got on the
preferred list, but we were there
OK, and on time. She is very fond
at high society.
The folks who gave the dinner—
that's what they call it, and the
dock had already struck S p. m.,
when we sat down—were and still
are the Mg shots of the city In
which this occasion happened to
occasioned. They are not connect
ed with no bank or nothing like
that.
I never saw ao much dog put on
in all my life as was "on stage"
that night. Dresses were ripped far
below the watst-llne in the back
and almost as dangerous in the
front. Jim swingers and high hats
were plentiful. X felt out of place
as I didn’t have on anything but
regular clothes.
The frisky little intellectual who
sat next to me was as prissy and
as klttiahy as a Jennie wren. She
evidently wanted to impress me
with her grey matter—which was
supposed to contain knowledge of
the distant past, ancient history,
noted musicians, marvelous writers,
and play-right, and so forth. She
was at least 46 and married, but
was playing 34 and single.
She said many things, but X re
call only a few of them, as follows:
'Oh. Mr. Gee—aren’t you Just wild
about Shaks Speer?" J told her
that I had never met, ' Shake," but
knew Tom and BUI Speer very well
Indeed. She talked so much about
Hamlet, I decided that X'd like to
meet him, but found out later from
her that he was dead.
She asked me how I liked Vol
taire and Beet-hoven. I explained
to her that I had never met Vol or
Beet either, and couldn’t say that
I liked them at all. She kept on rav
ing about Vess Pucluus and Cleo
Patra while I was drinking my to
mato Juice and rubbing the grape
fruit back-fire out of my eyes. She
didn’t have on over 14 ounces of
clothing, counting everything she
might of had on that she might not
have had on. She knew everything
about everybody that I had never
heard of, and didn’t know anything
about anthing at all, so far as I
could ascertain.
I never want to hear so much
'high" conversation again. The 3
songs the young girl and the young
man sung sounded like cross be
twixt a calf bellowing and a pig
equalling. The lady who pecked on
the piano for 46 minutes never did
get in a mUe of a tune. X had a
very good time the last 3 hours of
the evening. X got the old man cor
nered off in the breakfast room,
and he and I discussed bird dogs,
the gold standard, inch cotton, pro
cessing tax on wheat and rotten
politics. He sat where he could spit
his tobacco Juice out of the win
dow. But it was a great party, so
j the newspaper said in 1 collums
Uhc next d».'
Mike Wants To Become A Jailer
flat rock, s. C„ spull 4, 1934.
seeker terry of war,
Washington, d. C.
deer sir:
i seat myself to rite you a fee
lines about crime ansoforth what
the u. s. govvernment needs is i
national jail for crimminals anc
me, mr. mike Clark, rfd, as jailer
and 1 hereby make my applerct
tion for the Job of handling th<
rough ones.
1 guarrantee that noboddy cam
poke a corn cob or a wooden gur
In my ribs and walk out of Jail
and onner count of my repperta
tion, noboddy can’t poke no monnej
in my pockets and put me to sleei
while he passes by the gards wh<
mought of benn bribed by a pri
soner or some other friend of lav
enforcement, and get a-loose fronr
the law.
If you have no Jail on hands that
I will hold bad mens, plese rite oi
foam me at once, and 1 will flggei
with the flat rock cltty counsel ant
get permlsh to keep all kidnapen
and bank robbers and murderers it
our Jail, and you won't have U
hire noboddy but me to kep then
till coart meets and sets them free
1 have had a right smart of ex
periments with crime, i ketched s
feller In my chicken rooet one night
and 1 said to him was as followers:
"get out of here, drap them <
roosters and 3 hens, and go to Jail.’
he drop his pray, went and wok<
up the Jailer at the county-sea)
at mid-night and made him let him
in for safe-keeping, him and a fell
er that stole 80,0001 was convicted
the following week, and both ol
them went to the chaingang for 3(
days apeace.
when 1 hunt squirrels, 1 newer
1 am a crack-shot with a pistol
shoots nothing out of same but
their eyes. 1 have killed as many ai
45 pattrldges In one day with my
pistol, and they did not have a
bullet scratch on them anywhere:
1 Just shot their heads off right at
the front end of their nake. a gun
man or robber has no more chance
to shoot befoer 1 do than a repub
lican has of being eleckted president
3 yr. hence.
if you want yore prisoners hell in
Jail, hire me. 1 wont let them out
for love or monney. 1 alnt skeered
of no livving man, but admit 1 lis
ten to my wife, rite or foam when
to report at yore offia. 1 will work
for 384 per month and my bored
kindly send me 1 month's pay In
advance to get reddy to work for
you with.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd.
u. s. officer.
admimst« atoss notick
Having quaUfied st the adalnletrator
of the Mtttt of i. T. Hatties, fitturt,
thle it ts hereby nottfy all ptrtont to
dtbttd to tald satato to make tmmtdiatt
payment of tucb tndebtedneu to tot un
derelcned; and this it to fnrtotr notify
all ptrtont holding clalmt afatoat tald
tttato to tut tama Itemleed and verified
with tot underelgned on or btfort tht
Nth day of March. Ills, or thlt notlot
will b« plttdtd In bar of any recovery
thereon.
Th.» the 30th da* of March. 1>3«
W A OOTKAT Administrator
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TENTH DISTRICT
FAILS TO LAND STATION
To Editor of The Star:
I wonder if the average citizen
of the 10th congrezalonal district
has noticed what happened to the
governmental experiment cotton
station which was coming to either
Mecklenburg or Cleveland counties?
The first heard of it, Clarence
Kuester, energetic chamber of com
merce secretary, was seeking the
farm for Mecklenburg. A few days
later it w’as announced that Con
gressman Bulwlnkle was having the
cotton experiment farm located in
Cleveland county, the state's cham
pion producer of cotton and politi
cians.
Cleveland would likely have been
ideal location for the cotton farm
in that it is the state's leading cot
ton producer, making around 00,
000 bales each year. Moreover, it
would have meant votes for Bul
wlnkle because it is the third larg
est county in the district.
But what county landed the gov
ernment farm? Neither Cleveland
nor Mecklenburg. The farm went to
Iredell county, in Congressman
‘“Farmer Bob” Doughton's district
—a county which grows only 10,000
bales or less cotton per year.
That means. of course, that
“Farmer Bob's” influence in Wash
ington is considerably more potent
than that of some of his colleagues,
but would it not have been better
not to say anything about placing
the farm in Mecklenburg or Cleve
land until it could be determined
definitely that there would be no
disappointment.
The Incident is not deserving of
mention perhaps, but it occurred at
a rather unfortunate time in that
it reminds how often the 10th dis
trict fails to land anything.
Yours,
COY McSWAIN.
Shelby. Mar. 31, 1934.
Card of Thanks
We wish to thank our good
friends and neighbors for the many
acts of kindness shown us during
the illness and death of our dear
wife and mother. Also, we wish u>
extend our sincere appreciation to
our family physician. Dr. Walter
Lackey, and to Linoolnton hospital.
May Ood bless them.
Zemri Williams and Family.
Casar News Of j
| Late Happenings,
W. M. U. Meets With Mrs. Falls; •
Miss Yount III With Influenza; j
Personal Mention.
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(Special to The Star)
Toluca, April 3—The Woman 's j
Missionary society of Carpenters 1
Grove met with Mrs. Cicero C. I
Falls on last Saturday p. m. After j
the program delicious refreshments
were served.
Miss Nellie Yancy spent some
time recently with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Yancy of Catawba
county. Miss Yancy has been quite
sick with Influenza.
Mrs. J. E. Hoyle and children,
Hugh and Mary Ellen of Burke
county spent last Sunday at the
| home of her sister, Mr. and Mrs. j
|S. A. Sain.
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lutz at- j
tended preaching services at Kadesh *
on last Sunday and were dinner j
guests of his father, Mr. Ambrose j
i Lutz and Mrs. Lutz of Belwood. !
( Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Louis of |
| Falls ton visited at the home of Mr.
i and Mrs. L. E. Boyles Sunday p. m.
Mrs. Audry Dellinger and son,
Mr. Guy Dellinger of Lincoln coun
ty visited at the home of her daugh
ter, Mr. and Mrs. John Sain Mon
day p. m.
The Women's society of St. Peters;
church met .one day recently and !
quilted several quilts for the par
sonage at Fallston.
Ellenboro Farmer*
Try A New Apple!
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As a result of an evening of i
meeting of Ellenboro farmers with !
the local agricultural teacher when
an attempt was made to interest
more people in better home or
chards, 300 peach trees of new va
rieties were introduced into the j
community and have been planted
by the farmers on their farms.
The Golden Jubilee, a new va
riety having the same size, color
and quality of the Elberta but al
most a month earlier, is being tried
in the community for the first
time. This variety is recommended
by the N. C. Horticultural depart-1
ment as a good variety to grow in |
Piedmont North Carolina. Other
varieties in the order are Slappy.
South Haven, Salway, Carman and
J. H. Hale.
Polkville Seniors
To Present Comedy
The senior class of the Polkville
ilgh school will present as its in
itial play a three act comedy
Lookln Lovely” in the high echo,
auditorium Saturday evening ^
7. at • o’clock. The ck« ^ l
this play from a large numberV
cause of its outstanding humor ,
small admission charge win ’ .
made. 0?
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