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FRIDAY, DEC. 7, 1934
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TWINKLES
The only place now to get home cooking is at the
restaurant.
One fallen preacher gets more advertising than
fifty other fallen men.
It takes k thousand nuts to hold a car together, yet
one nut can knock it apart.
Some people are as good as gold on Sunday, but go
off the gold standard on Monday.
Don’t be ashamed of the parents who are wearing
shabby clothes for your sake.
Corn now costs more than wheat. That gives it
dignity and prestige. We have always wondered why
some enterprising baker does not make /Coro bread, put
it up in wax paper and offer it to the trade. The Star
would be a customer.
Now the alumni are agitated about moving, or not
moving, the engineering school from Chapel Hill to Ra
leigh—which, we are afraid, means little more than that
the football season is over. The alumni haven't even got
the coach problem to scrap about now.
BACK TO ABRAHAM
Interesting and worth-while watching is the experi
ment proposed by the Presbyterian church to keep its
treasury solvent.
This church proposes to revert to a system Father
Abraham invented more than 3,000 years ago when he
gave God a tithe of all his income.
Again and again, we turn back to the wisdom of the
ancients for advice in time of need. In our current
economics, we try the expedient invented by Joseph for
the seven lean years. When our church finances need
refurnishing, we turn to Abraham. Truly, history glides
in an amazing circle.
FAVORS THE SMALL GROWER
The two-bale cropper will not be subject to cotton
control next year if President Roosevelt’s wishes are
carried out. This is a fine move on the part of the presi
dent. There are thousands of one and two bale cotton
farmers in the belt who should not be bothered by all the
| details involved in limiting the size of the crop. Cer
tainly the larger growers should not object to this effort
on the part of the President to encourage and help the
"litle fellow” who has to struggle under all sorts of
handicaps to make a meagre family subsistence. It fur
ther extends the policy of the administration in its ef
I fort to help the so-called “little-fellow.”
THE NEW COMMISSIONER
. Capus Waynick of High Point haa been named as
assistant to Chairman Jeffress with full authority to
act. Governor Ehringhaus is wise in naming a head to
the highway department at this time. The meeting of
the General Assembly is only a short time off and many
problems will arise of vital interest to the highways and
to the state’s finances.
Mr. Waynick was ’’discovered” by Max Gardner.
When the strike settled upon High Point and extended
itself into weeks, Gardner selected Waynick to inter
cede and get the warring factors together. He accom
plished this task with fairness and diplomacy. His
service in the Legislature and as chairman of the re-em
ployment bureau give him a scope of vision and a knowl
edge of the state that fit him for the task ahead. Being
a newspaper man, he should be able to give the proper
publicity to the highway department to keep the road
system “sold” to the tax payers.
A COLORFUL CHARACTER
The death of Wm. A. Kizziah of Spencer removed
one of the most picturesque and colorful characters in
railroad circles. He passed at the age of 71, all of his
mature life having been spent in the service of the Sou
thern. At the throttle of his engine, he controlled the
power that hauled mo^p than two million passengers,
more than two million miles, with no passenger ever be
ing killed or injured and no damage claim paid on ac
count of neglect on his part.
All of the older citizens remember “Old 97,” that
fast mail train which swept over the rails daily between
the North and the South and later the famous “Crescent
Limited,” noted for speed and luxury. Kizziah, a nervy,
courageous man, bent on performing satisfactorily all
duties imposed upon him in piloting these trains. In the
early days of railroading,the lives of passengers and
crews were not as safe as they are today and Mr. Kizziah
no doubt had many miraculous escapes.
How many youngsters have you heard imitate a
whipporwill in whistling or blowing like a train. Kizziah
was responsible for that. In his younger days he had a
sweetheart along the line and used the distinctive plaints
of the whipporwill as a signal to his girl that his train
was passing safely. Railroading was fascinating to the
youth of the nineties. To be an engineer or a conduc
tor was the height of ambition for an adventurous
youngster.
WHERE CHARITY DOES BEGIN
President Roosevelt declares that his administration
will stand or fall according to his success in eliminating
the permanent unemployed class in the United States.
It is diffcult to see, that such will be the test of the ad
ministration, or that it is even possible to eliminate un
employment.
The administration will have been successful be
yond the criticism of the most acute fault-finder if it
can re-employ the 6,000,000 workers necessary to speed
the national business wheels up to a normal pace.
To attempt to employ everybody would be to attempt
j the impossible.
It has been in this attempt that the CWA and PWA
made their greatest mistakes. In this attempt, they ac
cepted for work and for relief, hundreds of thousands
of persons who fall into two classes permanent in the
world since it began: 1. Those who won’t work, and 2.
those who can’t work.
In other words, the federal government took on its
shoulders the relief load that had been, and should be,
the burden of the community.
Neither threat of fire nor hope of Heaven can make
class No. 1 strike a lick of labor. And no federal legis
lation can do anything about the unemployables, who,
through illness, or other disability, are unable to work.
They should be the charges of their families, if they have
any capable of supporting them, and failing that, of their
communities.
But the larger truth that emerges from any kind
of reasoning on this subject is that it isn’t good for the
soul of a community to be deprived of its responsibili
ties. It isn’t good for the people, the churches, the
charitable organizations, to forget that charity does be
gin at home and to insist on saddling a national organ
ization with their personal problems.
We have had too much relief as it is. At least a
third of the persons on the relief rolls could now sup
port themselves if the flow of federal funds were check
Nobody’s Business
By GEE McGEE
Flat Rock Newa
flat rock, a. c., decem. 5, 1934
drfer mr, eddltor:—
a few days ago, this corry spon
dent, mr. mike Clark, rfd, carried
a news Items In this collum that the
job of being a poleesman was open
In flat rock and that applercations
would be received by him for same
In their own hand-rlttng ansoforth,
but he has benn took back and the
Job Is now closed.
our old poleesman has benn giv
en another chance under Inspection
he garrantced not to go to sleep no
more on duty, and he allso paid for
the blllle which somebody stole
while he was on his beat leaning up
against a telly-gram post which be
longed to the town counsell, and he
likewise made good the 5$ bond
which he had forflted from a drunk
man.
he do not arrest enough folks to
pay over half of his monthly wed
ges, and he has benn put on notls
that he must lock up more prison
ers, or off goes his head again, and
possibly for the last time, he will
commence at once to collect licenses
from book agents, fruit tree, agents,
furrlners who sell things for cash in
our cltty against the pease and dig
nity of the town ordinance.
he would of benn turned off this j
time, but he done some fawors of.
different kinds to the members of
the town counsell, and he was .re- i
turned back to his post, he Is verry j
good natured and do not drink to
excess, and allso he gave c50 to the
salvation army, and that hope his
standing with the publlck, as he
had newer glvven anything away
befoar.
yore corry spondent, mr. mike
Clark, rfd, received about 50 appler
catlons for this Job. all of the men
who could write, sent theirs In by
male, but about 42 coulddent read
or rite, so they called In their per
sons but was turned down, as only
edgercated persons are allowed to
be connected with the town of flat
rock, tell everboddy to quit both
ering me from now on about this
vacancy, as there Is none now and
he Is working verry well, consider
ing how lasy he is.
yores trulie.
mike Clark, rfd.
acting clerk.
SET DIVORCE RECORD
IN GASTON COUNTY
GASTONIA, Dec. 6.—Superior
court here set a local record yester
day by hearing 18 divorce cases.
Seventeen divorces were granted.
“Too many of the North Carolina
couples who got married In South
Carolina wind up In divorce court,*
Judge Hoyle Sink comment ed.
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• Thank Yon
our little town was made verry
glad last week when a notls come
out In the newspaper that our telly
foam rates had benn slashed, this
will prove a big help to the users
thereof, the big reduction will put
lots of monney in circulation In
other channels.
the new rates will go into effect
in the near future, where you have
been paying 3$ and clO for a foam
in yore dwelling house, you will have
to pay only 3$, thus saving you the
sum of clO every month, or a grand
total of 1$ and c20 per year. If you
have benn doing without a car, now
is yore chance to get one with this
saving.
the french foam has benn cut
from c50 per month to c25 per
month, but as noboddy has a french
foam In his house in flat rock ex
cept yore corry spondent, mr. mike
Clark, rfd. he will be the only per
son who bennefits by this one.
everyboddy else uses just a plain
english foam, as they do not know
how to talk frentch nohow, a frentch
foam Is a foam which you hold both
ends up at yore year and mouth
while talking over same.
! holsum moore is figgertng on buy
ing bonds with the cash he will save
each month, but art square has his
I eyes on some stocks and bonds, and
| is railly and trulle thinking of in
i vesting hls’n in telly-foam stock
[which is now fetching only about
1106$ per share, f. o, b. wall street,
miss Jennie veeve smith is going to
pay off the morgage her ma owes
the fedderal land bank on her farm.
the other 3 families in our little
cltty who has foams have not yet
made anny plans for the future, but
one of them is talking about start
ing up a bank, while the other 2
have their minds on a self-playing
pi-anna, or a supper-hetrodine ra
dio with a short waive circuit so’s
they can tune in on cuby and Jap
pan and cicargo. the 3 bianess
foams were also cut to the tune of
c40 per month, they will put this
monney back into their business and
thereby dubble same.
this big slash in rates has benn
a-brewing ever since the world war
and it come the other day like a
bolt of thunder out of a clear sky.
there was much rejoising over our
suckess which was due to the fact
that the foam companny finally at
last got in first-class financial
shape, and ker-aip, went the rates,
the copper-rations are not sole-less
people after all, and we want them
to know that we foam talkers ap
preciate their kindness from the
bottom of our respectlble harts,
yores trulle,
mike Clark, rfd.
corrr asondent.
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HOLLIS FARMER SAYS
HIS SHARE UNJUST
To Editor of The Star:
This letter Is the way the Bank
head bill done me. I signed the pink
card in the spring. They said this
would give me an average of the
people who signed up. What do you
think I got. Out of an average of
twenty-eight five hundred pound
bales which was my five year aver
age, I got only 4,000 pounds to sell,
while there are people nearby get
ting to sell more than they have
made the years before. This Is the
way I have got into the Bankhead
bill. Why should It not give every
man an equal share.,
There was an article in The Cleve
land Star some time back that said
the non-signers got as much as the
ones that signed up. Look at mine.
That likes a lot of being what the
Bankhead bill called for.
Yours very truly,
W. C. RICHARD.
Hollis, N. C.
DEPRESSIONS HAVE
COME >7 TIMES
To Editor of Hie Star:
Twenty-seven time* within the
past 183 years, American business
has passed through a business crisis.
Depressions, since 1750, are'as fol
low:
1. The depression of 1763.
3. Hie depression of 1773.
3. The depression of 1775.
4. The depression of 1780.
5. The depression of 1790.
6. The depression of 1799.
7. Hie depression of 1813.
8. The depression of 1815.
9. The depression of 1818.
10. The depression of 1835.
11. The depression of 1831.
13. The depression of 1837.
13. The depression of 1847.
14. The depression of 1857.
15. The depression of 1868.
16. The depression of 1869.
17. The depression of 1873.
18. The depression of 1884.
19. The depression of 1887.
20. The depression of 1890.
21. The depression of 1893.
22. The depression of 1903.
23. The depression of 1907.
34. The depression of 1910.
25. The depression of 1913.
26. The depression of 1920-1922.
27. The depression of 1929-1933.
THOMA8 W. HAMRICK, JR.
Shelby, N. C.
MR. BRIDGES S'AS
CONTROL HURT HIM
My Dear Mr. "Square Dealer”:
I read your letter In the Cleveland
Star In which you stated that any
one who felt like they had not re
ceived a square deal under the
Bankhead allotment, would write
you a letter stating the facts, that
Prominent Couple
Married At Zoar
Hunt* oi Gaffney tat Community.
Parris-Street WeUIni Is
Surprise.
(Special to The Star.)
ZOAR, Dec. Mr. and Mrs.
Webb Hunt and son • Webb Jr„ of
Oaffney, S. C., spent the week end
at the home of the latter’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Allen.
The Rev. and Mrs. Lowell Bar
nette and children Ben and Orace
Evelyn, of Lowell spent Friday at
the home of Mr. and* Mrs. O. L.
McSwain.
William Hughes of Belwood spent
the week end at the home of hit
parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Hughes
Mrs. E. J. Crane spent Monday
night at the home of Mr. and Mrs
Ab Blanton of Poplar Springs com
munity.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Curry
and children, Mrs. John Turney and
son Woodrow of Shelby, Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Oreen and children
of Gastonia, spent Thanksgiving
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Allen.
Misses Sue Borders and Helen
Putnam of Earl, were the spend
the night guests of Mle Corene
McSwain during the week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Crawley, Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Brooks and son
spent Saturday night at the home
of the Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Bridges
of Latttmore.
Mrs. C. A. Mauney and son of
Beaver Dam community spent last
Sunday at the home of Mr. and
| Mrs. Raleigh Guffey.
Mrs. Bud Towery of Lattlmore,
spent Sunday night at the home
of her daughter Mrs. Zadle Tes
seneer and Mr. Tesseneer.
Mrs. Baxter Putnam and daugh
ter Rebecca, spent Sunday at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Thom
asson near Earl.
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Fisher ol
Shelby carried his mother and
family to Kings Mountain Thanks
giving and attended a birthday
dinner at the home of Mrs. Fisher’s
father.
W. D. Winchester of Monroe
spent several days of last week at
, you would see that It would be plac
ed before the secretary of agricul
ture. Herewith I am sending you the
figures.
Through the five year base per
iod I made forty-nine bales of cot
ton. My Bankhead allotment was
only 1.308 pounds. This year (1934)
I reduced my acreage more than 40
percent.
The above Is the facts and figures
and I can prove to you that same
is a true statement.
R. H. BRIDGES.
R-3, Shelby.
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FALLSTON, N. C.
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the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. D.
Humphries.
DeWltt Street and Miss Ode
Parris surprised their friends by
motoring to Gaffney, S. C., Satur
day December 1st, where they
were married. Mrs. Street Is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Parris of Chesnec, S. C.
Mr. Street is the oldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. Jake Street of this
community. Mr. and Mrs. Street
will make their home near Mor
gan ton.
At Charleston, a magistrate’s Jury
of six men struck another blow at
South Carolina’s blue laws when it
returned a verdict of not guilty in
the case of 16 competitors In a
walkathon contest.
| Lays Her Eggs
For Sick-A-Bed
KINGSTREE, Dec. «.—A relief
worker in Williamsburg county was
amazed recently when she visited
the home where one of the children
the family was sick In bed to see a
hen peacefully established on the
bed near the child.
"Is that a pet chicken?” she asked
the mother.
“Well. I don’t know Just what to
say about that chicken,” the worn*
an replied. ‘But every time one of
the children gets sick, It hope in the
house and gets up on the bed and
lays an egg for ’em.”
GIVE POTTED PLANTS THIS YEAR j
Potted Plants continue to say “Merry Christmas”
long after the other symbols of Christmas are gone.
Let your greeting stay to prolong your message of
Christmas cheer. We will deliver any order with
out additional charge.
The selection of potted plants includes poinsettias,
cyclamens, cherries, Xmas peppers, Xmas Begonias
and hycianths, priced at
25c and up
Patterson’s Flowers
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