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Entered ac second daes matter January 1, 1908, at the poet
Office at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act ot Congress, March
l I«n.
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TWtNKLES
"Ask--Farmers to Meet for Lower Gin Price", head
lines that noted Shelhy newspaper. Moonshiners jronna
meet this competition?
Now, as for that feller who keeps sinking "I Saw
Stars*’ on the radio, we devoutly wish that he would see
’em—«t the end of a stick.
Shelby merchants very properly referred strikers to
tha FEFA offices for relief. FERA makes no distinc
tion between striker srrl worker, recognizing only want
and distress, vhen it is real.
Name of the major in command of state troopers
here is Dolly—and he's a commander of determination,
go don’t go getting it confused with Diily or Dally.
Liberty Leagues. Americas, Inc., and a host of other
, organizations are springing up daily "to protect the
constitution.” H°rbert Hoover writes drearily and ang
rily in the Satevepost. Indusrialnts slap at the New
Deal. And Franklin D. Roosevelt goes right on sawing
wood, with his NR A and New Deal providing food and
work for millions who suffered under the Old Deal.
HOME TAX EXEMPTION
Limitation of the indebtedness of counties, cities
and towns as provided in the proposed new constitution
seemi to us an admirable plan, and one that taxpayers
will iplish—but there is another tax matter, that, in
these parlous times, the homeowner will probably relish
more.
Under the present constitution, which it is rhe plan
. to renovate, no matter how desperate may become con
dition^ of unemployment in towns or how disastrously
low crop prices may be on the farm, no tax exemption
can be provided for the relief of the home owner—an
exemption that, under normal conditions would encour
age thrift, home owning and good citizenship, and, in
times of depression, would be a Godsend to thousands
who now must submit to excessive penalties and even
foreclosure.
The present constitution does offer an exemption
of 5300 on personal property (which everybody always
claims anyway); of f1.000 to $2,000 on income taxes,
and an age exemption on poll taxes.
But, under the old rule, there is no exemption, no
relief whatever on real estate, on the essential earth, on
a man’s own home. There, the "uttermost farthing" is
required of the poor.
The r.ew- constitution rectifies that. It provides for
a $1,000 tax exemption on homes in times of distress.
' T*w.~ one factor, it seems to us should be nearly enough
to swing the votes of the people of North Carolina to
ward the new measure. It is sane, liberal, business-like
and Humanitarian.
PRECIOUS FREIGHT
Only the most experienced and ablest drivers should
be allowed to pilot vehicles carrying that most precious
freight of all, our children. We have already aim! our
views on that, and still demand that sufficient salaries
to hire competent drivers he paid to chauffeurs of school
buses.
Now comes “The Sample Case.” official publication
of the United Commercial Travelers with the excellent
idea of painting school buses in distinctive colors.
Inability of drivers readily to recognize the school
bus is. we believe, the cause of many accidents. When
these buses stop and careless children pour our. it is ne
cessary to come to a full halt—both common sense and
law requires this.
Sample Case would paint the buses in national col
ors. and lists the following reasons:
First; it is distinctive.
Second: ir is bright.
Third; it lends federal authority.
Fourth; it commands attention.
Fifth; it would promote patriotism in the hearts of
all school children.
Sixth; it would motivate obedience and order in
buses.
Seventh; it is economical to apply over paint of an
other color, as red and blue cover so well.
Eighth; red and blue are both durable colors.
Ninth; white is used on that portion of the body
which receives the least amount of wear.
Tenth ; the white stripe around the body, being bord
ered by red on the bottom and blue on the top. stands out
sharply under unfavorable light conditions, thereby cre
ating a safety factor in fog, rain or darkness.
Eleventh; dark blue on top of the hood and around
the windows, kills sun glare.
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STRIKING A NT) THE PUBLIC
Oen. Hugh Johnson charged in his speech the other
day that McMahon and Gorman, leaders of the textile
strike in this country, had broken faith. Immediately
there came a demand from union officials lor his reaig
i nation. Johnson is close to the Presideni and no doubt
expressed the sentiment of the President who is justly
j proclaimed as the friend of the laborer and one who has
' done much for his good.
As we see it, this is not so much a fight between
capital and labor. Here in Shelby, the employees have
the utmost confidence and respect for their employ
i crs and are in the main satisfied with conditions. It is
a fight between organized and unorganized labor. The
strike leaders, charged by Johnson with having broken
iheir June agreement, are attempting to build member,
ship by force through the “flying squadrons.’’ This
method antagonized the unorganied who wished to stick
to their jobs, made the strike unpopular with the public
and caused employers to look with less favor upon or
ganized labor practices.
If the strike fails, it will fail largely because of
“flying squadron” methods, both in the South and North,
j Squadron methods discredited the union among its own
, members for there are thousands of men who are against
violence and intimidation and on the other hand are
true to the principles of government which has made
the United States the greatest and most prosperous of
all nations.
Organized labor should culivate public favor. This
it has not been doing in the textile strike. Leaders
have condemned Governors for calling out troops to pre
serve order and protect citizens in their constitutional
I '’ighf to work. Even these precautionary steps on the
j Par* Governors have been criticised. Isn’t, it much
better to have trained troops on guard who know how
to take jeers than deputized private citizens who would
be trigger-quick to resent personal jibes Our Gover
! ,,ors hav« done rh‘* wise thing to call out the guards to
j handle an ugly situation. Had they not been called,
j violence and bloodshed would have spread throughout
the textile sections. The President himself thought of
resorting to troops.
If matters not how vigorously Messrs. Gorman and
Lawrence may protest the calling out of troops, or
w hat ob jections the Socialists and Communists mav
; raise to the presence of trained armed guards, they are
needed to preserve order, guarantee the right, to work
and uphold the law of this favored land.
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Nobody’s Business
By GEE McGEE
Wrtt-Dry Prohibition
I am * dry, and my state ts dry,
but booae ts cheap as wet) as plen
tiful. Bootleggers are prosperous,
thanks to the high tax on legal
venom, but competition Is too hot
amongst them for comfort. Some
body’s going to get hurt In this
business.
Our state permits us to send 4
dollars to a wet state, rs often «s
once a month, for a quart of legal
stuff. Now, this legal "happy-day"
fluid is O. K. considering that its
cost ts marie up of the following
items. 30 percent federal tax. 13
percent dealer's license tax. 20 per
cent boW and express charges, io
percent packing costs, and 25 per
cent for the whiskey itself.
We have hundreds of high-class,
| honorable, trustworthy bootleggers
{who will sell a fellow a quart of real
.good ltcker. made out of nothing
| but sugar, potash, stable sweepings,
■ lyr. sulphur, flics, bugs, corn meal,
back-strap and gnats for only $1.10
including the fruit jar, cap. ring,
[gasoline, police protection (if any)
and federal stamp.
I ,y
There has riot yet been a plan
devised that will control whiskey,
nor has there even bern a law that
will control a man full of whiskey.
But we have lots to be thankful for
vet: nearly nil of our boys and
girls who drink whiskey now-a
days are over 21 years of age; but
of course, there are some excep
tions. I think the government ought
to raise the drinking age of chil
dren from 12 years to 13 years to
13 years and fi months.
Lots of us thought (hat whis
key was fine for snake-bites, but
some doctor came along the other
day and exploded that h&llu^ina
tion: now we don't know what it's
; good for except to serve at parties
jso's folks can forget their troubles
and their wives and their past due
| notes and accounts. Prohibition
-prohibits the government from com
peting with the bootlegger, but it
; doesn't exactly prohibit whiskey.
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I don't think we ought to call it
i‘‘prohibition : some other name
would suit and sound better, for in
stance: Imagination, or Intuition,
or Assassination, or Inhibition, or
Expedition. Old-tradition, or Quick
i ignition. Prohibition seems to ex
pend special privileges to some, and
i openhanded permission to others,
i Of course, the winking of the law
| has something to do with prohibi
!tion which permits so much whis
key.
Two men held up Fred J. War
igowsky in his stoic at Port Huron.
Mich , bound and gaged him and
then fled with a pair ot size 11 1-2
shoes.
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Praying
Thp hardest, praying I ever di
;in my life was for a shotgun. Thi
I took place when I was about l
years of age. My prayers were an
swered thru a small cotton pate
from which I gathered 243 pound
of seed cotton I sold my entire cro
cotton for 3 dollars.
T went to town "the next pass
ing" on a wagon, the distance be
ing only 24 miles I bought a beau
tiful poke-stock" slngle-barre
jriamascus steel, gun, 2 boxes of eap,
one pound of shot, IS cents wort
of powder, and a powder horn. Th
was a music loader. It was th
finest shooting iron that ever ex
isted. 1 slept with it by my side fr
several months.
Everywhere I went, that gun ws
my companion. Even after I ra
out of "ammer-nation." I tofe
that gun on my shoulder just th
same. During the first month of m
hunting experience, I killed 2 spat
rows, 4 lizards, 1 ground squirre
and 5 snakes. I had shot at sev
eral rabbits and squirrels and pat
ridges, but they * were always to
fast, or I was too excited.
My biggest desire was to shoe
into a dro\e of black-birds and ki
several hundred t perhaps v at on
time, but that pleasure never be
fell me. I remember that I follow
ed a drove all day once; it was col
and raining a little Every time
got within 250 yards, they woul
fly away. But I kept on followin
them. About sunset, it looked hk
I was going to destroy the whol
tlock.
Thus drove of black-birds, eon
slating of at least 45,078.900. as
thought, had lit in a big tree,
rrawleri on my stummick behind
fence a distance of about 100
yards I knew I had only a sing!
cap for my gun; while I was to
far off to shoot, I cocked the ham
mer back and eased forward,
didn't want to strain my poke
slock, so I got as close as possible
I took aim at the center ol th
drove, steadied myself, closed m
eyes, and pulled the trigger, but n
shots sped toward those black-birds
I cocked "old trusty" again, am
got another snap for my pain'
Then I discovered that I had Ins
my eap off the tube of my gun. th
only one I had. and I knew the jf
was up- I cussed and fumed at fat*
shooed the birds away, and waikei
the 17 miles home. Later on th
tube blew out. the barrel cracked
and the gun became dangerous. »
I swapped it for a watch tha
wouldn't run. but I always told in
qutries the time of day when the?
asked me. but refused to let en
hear it tick.
Through
Capital Keyholes
Bv BESS SILVER
WET THEIR WHISTLES—Anti -
| Prohibition loaders in North Cato
j Una took it on the chin last Nov
rmber and haven’t been saying
much since. But the South Caro
lina referendum in favor of legal
|liquor and the Maine vote in:;t week
to repeal that states fifty-year-old
jprohibition law have revived the
j wets. They think they see a silver
’lining on their cloud of defeat, and
[are making plans to marshal forces
I for a drive for modification when
the 1935 legislature convenes.
EARLY BIRO LOSES WORM—
Senator Thomas he Roy Kirkpat
rick. of the old State of Mecklen
burg. became an announced candi
date for governor last, year and
thereby lost, a lot, of publicity
through speculation by political
prognosticators Had Senator Kirk
pa frtek kept the boys In suspense
hr might be seeing his name in
print as much as Clyde R. Horv
Congressman R i„ Dougltloti, Ltru
irnaril Governor A. H. Graham and
other potentials.
! SELLING TIME—North 'Carolina
;tobacco growers shouldn't lose sight
1 of what happened down in Oem
jgia, Markets opened there with
'prices averaging considerably bet
ter titan parity level of 22 cents pet
I pound, A great cheer went 'tip for
; better times But aficr the market,
'hart been open a few weeks price
took a slide and the average now i
- lightly above IS rents and getting
little public, attention. History
could repeat itself on the North
Carolina markets where Opening
prices have been a joy to one and
all.
ETHICS AND COLLECTIONS—
|Thp State Revenue department has
ju powerful instrument for collect to t
jof professional licenses in a statute
I passed by the 1933 general assetn
j'hly under which disbarment pro
ceedings may be started for non
, payment of state fees. The depart
ment struck its first blow in Ra
Irtsh wit it court action against
-} several widely-known attorneys who
I had failed to decorate the mahog
I any. According to present plans- of
| the revenue department, the public
is soon to know the names of non
vpaying professional men all over
the state and some of them may
[lose their right to practice. It's bad
j advertising for the defendants but
j tile public probably will enjoy it.
ON THE SPOT—Violence- in the
textile strike as in all others, puts
^ local law enforcement officers in a
bind. Thejr jobs are political and
s I It's hard to hang on against the
31 opposition of cither the manage
- tnent or the workers. The officer
j who could do his plain duty with
s out incurring the enmity of one
p side or the other would be a mar
vel. On the other hand one man.
the governor, usually gets it in the
' T --’
neck for whatever troops do.
INSURANCE—Efforts are almo.-'
sure to l^e made in the next general
assembly to put the state in the in
uranrp business A commission
,headed by Senator VV. O. Burg win.
of Davidson, is now studying plan,
for unemploy merit, insurance and a
bill is lively to be introduced em
bracing a plan in which employers
and workers would participate in
establishing an unemployment fund
: administered by. but without ex
pense to the state. The unsatisfac
tory situation prevailing in work
men’s compensation fields Is going
to bring a bill from Senator S. P
Dunagan, of Rutherford who will
be in the house next session, for
the state to write this type of in
surance.
RIGHT ABOUT FACE—If Con
gressman R. L. Doughton runs for
governor in 1936 land close friends
av he willf many of supporters
wonder how he will handle the sale;
tax question. Mr. Doughton led the
national house in a stampede against
.the sales tax in the latter days of
President Hoover. Now the state
; has a sales tax that is bringing in
close to $7,000,000 annually and one
of Mr. Houghton's strongest ?up
■ i v/.ur. Is worried about it. He
.doesn't see how it can be repealed
by 1936 and can't, figure how a can
didate can gel away with denounc
ing it without offering something
lo take its place. Mr. Dougthon
can't countenance the sales tax
without reversing his former posi
tion.
HUMAN TINDEK BOX—YOU
1 don't hear, much about it but work
et fireproofing the ancient Stale
Prison in Raleigh is moving along.
When completed prisoners will no
longer be exposed to great danger
of being roasted alive in their ceils.
Warden H. Honeycutt is anxious to
(finish the job belote real winter
brings necessity for heating. Agi
tation for making the state's Bas
tilr a safe place for incarceration
was started by former superintend
ent of the prison and his board of
directors. North Carolina is lucky
that a “horror" story hasn’t, come
out of smoke and flames at stale's
‘ prison.
Cabarrus To Onen
Fair In 3 Weeks
CONCORD. S.-.P' 1-7.—Three
' weeks from today the 12th annua..
; Cabarrus district fair will open-and
i w ill continue through entire ween
I of October 9 In advance of the op
i fitting date. Secretary T. N. Spencer
j slates that the fair this year will
' be the greatest in the history of tlw
| local, air association.
Exhibits of every kind, free acts.
■ horse races and automobile races
| will be some of the chief features.
All exhibition halls will be open
' daily and five acts will be present
| rd In the afternoon* at 2:15 o’clock,
I Horse races will be a ciailv feature
j over the half mile track and or.
I Saturday evening regular AAA sane
j Honed automobile races will be run
; in regulation racing cars.
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SCHOOL SHOES
ALL the important points and qualities of good
school shoes can't' possibly be put into one short
message. We suggest that you come in and dis
cuss this subject with us.
BOYS’ SCHOOL AND DRESS SHOES
M o d e r n , conservative
stylings in black and
brown calfskin and elk
Built to look well unde;
hard wearing.
2.49 up
LIVELY MODELS for l IVELY MISSES
c nildren's shoes fitted
only by expert attend
ants.
This group includes a!
the snappy designs that
the younger girls gr
for, A wide selection oi
elk and calf in new
r i cky combina’
vith pigskin.
A. V. WRAY & 6 SONS
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