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The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. am a WEATHERS .............President end Editor a ERNEST BOEV___—_Secretary end Foremen CAMERON SHIPP __ New* Editor U E DAOj _... ....Ad verusing Mensger KBa RENN DRUM ___ Soclei Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Moll, per year-....--—----Uto By Carrier, per yeer ......-..._»..._................. MOO Entered es second class matter January 1, IMS, at the poet* office at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act o! Congress, March a. l»t. We wish to cell your attention to the fact that it is and has been our custom to charge five cents per line for reaoiulons of fMpect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death nouce baa been published. This will be strlcUy adhered t& MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934 — • TWINKLES We woke up in the middle of the night recently screaming “Loyal party worker announces his candi dacy subject to the action of the Democratic party in the June primary.” From all these recent political announcements, you’d thing half the county had decided that now is the time for every man to come to the aid of the party. Almost one thousand persons were killed by auto mobiles in this^ state last year—and we used to think horses were dumb beasts for shying. The only appvopriate thing we ever heard of Huey Long doing was getting the head of an insane asylum into one of his arguments. The Star would give every encouragement to or ganisation of a Shelby baseball team or teams. There are a number of ex-semi-pro players here and scores of fast men are employed by lcoal mills who would be happy to play. How about it, now that the good westher is here and everybody’s feeling better? LET’S PAY OUR TEACHERS Because certain revenues failed to come up to ex pectations, the state has asked its departments to cut expenses this quarter, the paramount objective being to to save enough money to pay the teachers their full eigth months salary as contracted. If this can be achieved now, we see scant reason why it can’t be ach ieved all the time. Why not ask the state departments to curtail their expenses every quarter—and give our miserably underpapid teachers the raise they deserve? PRICE ON HIS HEART There's something indecent, it seems to us, in a man’ji suing his father-in-law, or anybody else for that matter, for alienation of his wife’s affections. “Heart balm” for women whose lovers have jilted them is ab surd enough, though there might have been some justi fication in it way back yonder when marriage was the only career open to the ladies. But a man who demands to be paid for his wife's love, and is able to set a cold figure on its value—well, it’s hard to stomach, and we’re ashamed that such an instance should have happened in North Carolina. TWO MILLION JOBS How would you like to help provide the nation with two million jobs—and all the spending power that goes with them ? You’d like it, of course. And the way you can do it is by repairing and building—no matter how small the amount spent or how large. In normal times construction employs well over a million men in the ac tual >ork of buliding. The industries providing supplies and hiaterials supply a million more. And home-build ing, which has almost disappeared, accounts for 50 per certt of the entire construction industry. If you build or repair now it means that you are doing your bit to ward recovery—and obtaining something valuable for much less than it will cost in the future. WISECRACKS AND WISDOM H. L. Mencken, returning from a fifty-days cruise in the Mediterannean, exhibited his talents for publicity when the reporters came to interview him at the dock. He said enough absurd things to insure good headlines, and then made some remarks packed with solid good sens^. Why, he asked, let men like Insull and Dillinger mak4 monkeys of the United States government ? Why sentence gangsters to a few years in the pen when they ought to be hung? Why have women sheriffs? He bets that Insull will return to the U. S., will engineer a fight in the court that will last five year, and will end up in a prison room with a blonde stenographer, a radio and a horde of servants. Mr. Mencken is probably right. He points to Great Britain, which would have sent a battle ship to Greece for a fugitive like Insull months ago. PROSTITUTING A GOOD LAW Workmen’s compensation laws are designed to do exactly what the name implies—compensate workers for injuries received in the course of their employment. So far as administration of the law is concerned, there has-been a definite tendency to extend its scope to include health, life, accident, old age and unemploy ment insurance for workers Without an increase in prem ium rate to cover the added risk. The result is that the entire system is threatened with a breakdown. This was pointed out in a recent address by F. Rob ertson Jones, General Manager of the Association of Casualty and Surety Executives. As Mr Jonta says, emotional raformers, using as their plea, “social justice,” have had the coverage of the compensation law3 extend ed. Heavy judgments are given in cases which were never intended to fall within the scope of workmen’s compensation. As an example, he cites the increasing appearance of “death bed widows.” An unmarried man is fatally injured and, while dying, is married to some gold-digger. It’s a racket pure and simple. Yet in New York she is entitled to compensation until death or re marriage, and in Pennsylvania to compensation for 300 weeks or until remarriage. Such violations of the spirit of the system are defi nitely harmful to those whose rights workmen’s com pensation should protect. They put an unbearable bur den on industry and insurance carriers. The penalize honest workers, injured on their jobs, who deserve lib eral benefits and make compensation risks almost unin surable. They constitute a vital social problem, which should be cured without delay. NEXT—THE PATIENT FARMER According to news stories last week, American workmen are more numerous and higher paid than any time since 1931, an^ amazing to believe, wages have risen higher and faster than prices. This means that the Roosevelt Recovery Plan is working perfectly in in dustry. It means that vast benefits have been derived from the regimentations of industry by government. And yet there are critics who object to the regimentation of agriculture, calling it un-American. Agriculture needs regimentation more than industry ever needed it, and every farmer knows it and yearns for it. Mark the en thusiasm with which our cotton growers signed the re duction contracts. Mark their delight with the Bank head Cotton Bill, which holds the 1934 crop down to 10,000,000 bales and sets a heavy tax on all who over produce. The farmer's income went up just five per cent in the recent income rise, and we know that prices exceed ed that. The farmer, hard-worked, unorganized, unable to express himself with the vigor of industry, has not yet got his share from the Recovery Program. He must get it before we turn that mythical and long-desired comer. Nobody’s Business By GEE McGEE Horn* Kconomiei My wife (bless her heart) is the moat economical woman I ever saw, heard of, or read about. She can make a dollar go further (to Chi cago, If necessary to make her think she saves a penny) than any other person extant. Ho sir-ree: she wont pay too much for nothing. The other day, one of our 10-cent stores tried to sell her 3 marshall-nesl rose bushes for 18 cents each, or 3 for 30 cents. 1 She thought over the matter 3 days and nights, and a thought struck her, as follows: “My sister has 3 pretty roae bushes just like those at the con tent store, and I’ll just go get them and transplant them." The next day she took her car and 13 gaions of gas ($3.30) and hired an extra chauffeur who could dig up rose bushes ($3.60 NRA rate), and went down (64 miles there and 64 miles iback) and got those plants. She needed a coat (so she said in February: she worked her home town thoroughly, and found one ($39.98) that she liked very well, and was nice enough to tell me that night of her discovery. She wasn't satisfied about the price thpugh. The next day she and her chauffeur got in her car and used 7 gallons of gas in driving to a neighboring town (30 miles distant) to look over their stock. She reported on her return that night . . . after I had gone so long without supper that I wasn't hun gry . . . that she had found a coat “over there" Just like the one she found “over here" for only $29.49, or 50 cents less. She was exactly right in talking to me before trad ing: I told her.to go ahead and use her judgment and my money, so she drove over the next day end got the coat, and put the saving (50 cents) in her foreign mission budget. You can’t pull nothing over my wife when it comes to looking a*' er pennies, nlckles, and dimes . . . but she aint so careful when it comes to dollars. She saved ’9 cents on a hat last year by erde - ing it from New York, end the postage and insurance <-n it > only $4 cents. 8h: also rave cn many items, such as spinach, 35-cent eggs, and salad drrssir" . . I by buying turnip greetv fish-roe. fat back meat and sorshu-'. "My everybody ain't like her; ’here wouldn’t have been any depression I if folks had saved their money lik> [she saves money. i . __ Haga First v I A visiting nurse was examining some children In a Forsyth county school. One youngster, aged six. was sadly underweight. The nurse made Inquiries as to his diet and the tel lowing dialogue took place. “You don't drink milk?” “Nope.” "tiire on a farm ^nd lor't drir’r milk at all?’’ “Nope, we ain’t get hardlv enough milk for the hogs. ’ Social News From Fist Rock. s verry serious axcident took place on the outskirts of flat rock Sunday betwixt mr. hoi sum moore and a honey bee which stung him while turning around, he let loose of the steerage wheel and grabbed for the bee. but it had finished its work and disappeared from thence fUur stitches was took on his head and he had to get a new fender, allso a radium rod. bees is bad at pres sent. a big bridge party was hell at the pallatial reasidence of Vnrs. archie ball brown on monday evening in honnor of mrs. percy Joe black from cedar lane, the collor scheem was jhoriny quills and pot ferns, she is the leading social light in flat rock and winned nearly every prise offered, including the booby, cake and tomato juice was served by the brown twins, but they split a right smart of same. a pocketbook was found on main street by our poleesman last week with 3$ in same, allso a few other utlnsels, but nothing to identify the owner thereof, he posted a notis of same on the cltty hall and S dif ferent men and wimmen have claimed the monney, but can’t de scribe same. he wont tell them whether it is a green pocketbook or a red one. and if It is a 2| bill, or two 1$ bills, the whole town is tore up over this matter. it wont be long now till a new mayer and 4 town counsels will have to be elected for flat rock. mr. hol sum moore has pitched his hat in to the ring on a wet flatform, and he stands a good chance of being chose if the wimmen don't vote too strong, a dry ticket will also run, and possibly a watter-works ticket if the c.w.a., don't pass out befoar running time comes, the pressent encumbrance will run for re-elec tion on his record, but if he do not ‘ret a better plank than that, he tought as well not run a-tall. | miss Jennie veeve smith, our af ; flcier scholl princip>, i; wearing ‘enotbrr dlanvmi rlny, this being the j fourth one she has wore since she :? ac conducted into he- pressent of jfis r • heed t f our scholl. she has ;com* nearer getting married 3 times enduring the past 4 years than any hoddv else we ever heard o*. but she '-es escaped onner count of the men ; turned out bad or was ketched up ;be:n~ married alreddy befoar her day • .r.s se\ better lack this time, (sister. the fine cow which wc role about last week in our society news dide and the truck who run into her has benn sued and attached, she was a peddigrec. annimal and was im ported from ohio and had fine four fathers, she hell ? blue ribbons from {state and county fairs. her dead (price is 4001, including costs, anso forth, the truck driver was sober, ho he says, but the right was dark 'and she was in the road when 'struct;, yores trulie, mike dark, rfd I «orry spondent A CHALLENGE TO LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES To Editor of The Star: I note that several of the candi dates who have announced for the house of representatives, have prom ised to lower the cost of the auto mobile license to $5.00, to ralst the pay of our public school teachers, and to see that the schools are bet ter cared for. As I have stated be fore. I do not wish to be "ear marked ’ as being opposed to our public schools. I have children and I hope to see them all get a rea sonable education. If the automobile tag price can be cut to $5.00, why don’t the candi dates show the voters where the motor vehicle which receives this revenue, can cut down expenses? If our school teachers should have more pay and our school should be better cared for, why don’t they show the voters where the extra revenue will come from without In creasing the present sales tax rate? To raise more revenue for th«* state budgets, a higher sales tax (will be necessary. If not, then some additional source must be found. The land owner, the manufacturer, the railroads, and the business firms do not want any more ad valorem tax. The consumer Is dissatisfied with the sales tax. Bo come on, Mr. Office Seeker, and let the public know where you stand. Give us some kind of assurance^ whether It be a luxuary tax, a gross sales tax, a flour tax, or more ad valorem tax. It is easy enough to decry present unpopular levies, but what do you have to offer in their places? C H. REINHARDT. ; Shelby, N. C. ) South Shelby Items Of News Mbw Patterson W«di Mr. Greene; Intermediate G. A.’a Hold Meeting. (Special to The Star.') South Shelby, April 6.—A mar riage of much interest which took place at Gaffney, S. C., during the Easter holidays was that of Miss Mattie Patterson to Sebial Greene. Mr. Greene holds a position with the Boat Bakery. The intermediate G. A.’e of the Second Baptist church held their regular meeting Monday night at the home of Miss Huggins. A large number of the members were present. A good program was ren | dered by the program chairman, | Miss Eva Jones. The Rev. and Mrs. L. L. Jessup of Virginia are now visiting in this community. Janice Lee Welmon is very ill at this time. Mrs. Etta Cordell and Nellie Wil kie were the week-end guests oi Miss Pearl Harrill of Lattimore. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hamrick ar.d Everett Hamrick of near Patterson Springs visited Mr. and Mrs. Eslcy Barnett Monday. Jess Roberson visited relatives in Caroleen Sunday. Mrs. M. E. Glasco is ill at this ; time. Misses Virginia and Jewell Jones , of New House visited their cousin, | Ailene Wright the latter part of last | week. Mrs. C. H. Reinhardt entertained on Wednesday evening at a dinner. ; Mr. Brue of Rock Hill, S. C... the . Rev. Mr. Price and Rev. Martin. Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Pruett and daughter, Frances, visited Mr. and Mrs. Franklin of Clifton, $. C., dur ing the Easter holidays. Miss Vashtl McCarver was the week-end guest of Bertie Lee Threat of Lattimore. Mrs. F. N. Wood has returned to her home in Gastonia after a months stay with her mother, Mrs. E. P. Roberts. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hughes and family and Mrs. E P Roberts visit ed Mr. and Mre. J. C. Baber of Gas tonia Sunday. Miss Virginia Jessup of Bolilng Springs spent Easter holidays with Eva Jones. Friends of Mrs. Robert Brymer , ■ . ill be sorry to know that she is ill jin the Shelby hospital. I Mr. and Mrs. Danlerd Wesson oi jtne Sharon community visited Mrs. Stta Glasco during the week-end. Mr. and Mr*. A. W. Duncan and family visited relatives in Hickoiy Grove, S. C., Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Smith visit ed Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stacy o! El lenboro during the week-end i _ ! Issue New Stamp For Mother’s Dayj Postmaster General Parley hast announced a Mother’s Day postage •tamp to be issued about May 1. The motif of this stamp will be James Abbott M. Whistler’s famous painting “Portrait of My Mother." The portrait is of the artist’s own mother, a beautiful Southern wom an. It was completed by her fam ous son in London in 1871 and is hailed as one of the noblest can vasser ever nainted by a modern artist. After her death in 1881 the portrait had a prominent place in Whistler’s studio. Huge Sum Lacking For Teachers’ Pay! State Hopes To Get Federal Aid. Need $400,000 For Last Month. Raleigh, Apr, 5.—Facing a sho-t- j age of $300,000 to $400,000 in th* amount necessary to meet school teachers' salaries due for the last month of the eight-month school term, State officials worked over the week-end on plans to obtam aid from the federal government. Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus i and Dr. A. T. Allen, State superin- | tendent of education, conferred with Federal relief officials in their efforts to prevent having to make another cut in the already heavily curtailed salaries of teachers. The monthly payroll for teachers approximates $1,600,000, with $12, 000,000 set aside for salaries. Leroy Martin, executive secretary of the state school commission, said the state would lack between $300,000 and $400,000 of being able to pry the teachers. Transfer of other funds may be necessary if no grant is forthcom ing from the federal government. Dr. Allen’s plans for the grant nr loan will be rushed to Washington by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, state re lief director, and Alan Johnstone, federal relief director for the south eastern area. Announcements FOR CI.ERK OF COURT I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-eleeflon to the office of clerk of the Superior Court of Cleveland county, subject to the action of the Democratic primary to be held June 2nd. Your sup port and Influence will be appreciated, to June lp A. M. HAMRICK. FOR CLERK OF COURT f wish to announce my candidacy fot clerk of Superior Court of Cleveland coun IV, aubject to tha action of the Demo cratic primary on June 2nd. lf>3«. I will greatly appreciate the support of the people of Cleveland ounty. If nominated «nd elected. I pledge my b£»t effort* to fill the office In the usual efficient way of Cleveland county officers. « M5c LANDER F. McBRAYER. FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE I hereby announce myaelf a candidate for the House of Representatives from Cleveland county, subject to the action of the Democratic primary on June 2nd. Mv platform ia well known and I will appre ciate th* support of all voters. 2t Apr 2p CULLEN MULL. FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hereby announce myself a candidate for the Houae of Representatlvea from Cleveland county, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary on June 2nd. Your support and Influence will be great ly appreciated. lit to May 38p GEORGE W. ALLEN. FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I hereby announce myself a candidate for the Houae of Representatlvea to suc ceed myself, subject to the action of the Democratic primary on June 2nd. I fav or a reduction In the price of auto li cense tags and a more liberal appropria tion for public schools. Your support will be appreciated. «t Mar Me ERNEST GARDNER. FOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE I hereby Announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives from Cleveland eounty, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary on ,lune Jnd, 1934. My views on public questions and my experience and qualifications are well known. Your support and Influence will be appreciated. This March 19th. 1«34. to June 1 p J. B. SMITH. FOR STATE SENATE t hereby announce myself a candidate for the State Senate from this district, subject to the action of the Democratic primary to be held on Saturday, June 2nd If elected. I shall endeavor to serve the people to the very best of my Judgment and ability. i tf Apr »c CARL 8. THOMPSON. FOR JUDGE RECORDER S COURT T am * candidate for Judge of Record er’s Court of Cleveland county, subject to the action of the Democratic primary, June Jnd. 19J4. The support and influence of the voters will be deeply appreciated. If elected, I pledge myself to conduct the Recorder's court on the sen - ' •"> -'lane as established by the Superir ; co s; . tf Mar 30c BYNUM E. WEATHERS. FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS I hereby announce myself a candidate for Register of Deds of Cleveland coun ty. subject to the action of the Democra tic Primary on June Jnd. 1834. I am ask ing the support of al my friends in Cleie land eounty, and promise to render m very best service to the people of. the county if nominated in filling the office, to June latp W. A. RIDENHOUR. FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS T am a candidate for re-election of Reg ister of Deeds, subject to the action ofJ the primary election, June Jnd. Your support and influence will be appreciated tf M-Mar J6c. A. P. NEWTON. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself a candidate for membership on the board of countv commissioners, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary on June Jnd. If elected, I will endeavor to give the coun tv my very best service, tf Apr Jc R. c. GOLD. Kings Mtn. FOR CLERK OF COURT I am e candidate for election to the of fice of Clerk of the Superior Court, sub ject to the action of the Democratic pri mary June Jnd. Your influence and sup port will be appreciated. M Apr Jc Wm. A. BEAM. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself as a candi date to succeed myself as County Com missioner for Cleveland county subject to tbs action of the Democratic Primary. June Jnd. Your influence and support Fill be greatly appreciated, tf Apr 2e JOE E. BLANTON. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself aa a candi date to succeed myself as County Com missioner for Cleveland county subject to the action of the Democratic Primary, June 2nd. Your influence and support will be greatly appreciated, tf Apr Jc J. d. MORRIS FOE COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself as a candi date to succeed myself as County. Com missioner for Cleveland county subject to the aetion of the Democratic Primary. June Jnd. Your influence and support will be greatly appreciated, tf Apr 2c J, L. HERNDON. EXECUTOR’S NOTICE (First Pub. In Cleveland Star. April Jth 1934.1 Notice Is hereby given that I have this day qualified as executor of the estate of Mary Ella Peeler Williams, late of Cleveland eounty. N. C., and all persons Indebted to said estate will make imme diate payment to the undersigned. All persons having claims against said estate will present them to the undersigned properly proven for payment on or be fore the tOth day of April, 193S. or this notice will be pleaded in bat of their re covery Tii!.. th» »th dac e' Ap-u u>i TEMRI WILLIAMS. Executor of th» will of Mary Elia Peeler William* deceased P. Cleveland Gardner, Atty. for 'x»cntor *1 . Apt 8e ANOTHER INITIAL That Meant Some thing To You. I his bank is a member of the FDIC, (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.) De posits up to $2,500 are fully protected by insurance. Your business is solicited. 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