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Entered aa eeeond class matter January 1. 1909, at the post
atflee at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, Marcn
nun.
We wlah to call your attention to the tact that it is and has
been our custom to charge five cents per line for reaolulons of
respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice
line been published. This will be strictly adhered tn.
MONDAY, DEC. 17. 1934
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TWINKLES
F' Tie a dog to a cat and they fight; so with wedding
ties.
Collection plates still suffer because of the depres
sion.
Just seven more shopping days—six alter today,
’so you had better avoid tho last minute rush. The pick
of gift goods will be sold out by Saturday of this week.
» LOWER TELEPHONE RATES
Patrons of Ihe Southern Hell Telephone and Tele
graph Company in Shelby. Kings Mountaiin, Grover and
Waco have cause to rejoic e over the rate reduction order
ed a few days ago by the state’s public utility commis
sioner. There is an old phrase “talk is cheap.’’ ft cer
tainly is ‘cheaper.”
That the telephone company can stand the reduc
tion is evidenced by the profits it lias been making.
During the depression the stock of the parent company,
A. T. and T. never got far below $100 a share and the .
dividend of $9 per share was never seriously threatened.
Just ho*v much saving the lower rates will mean to
Cleveland county users has not been figured, but there
is a considerable reduction that is welcomed by the pa
trons. The telephone company should accept without
court appeal and strive to extend its system to patrons
who ha\e been denied service because of the high rates.
HONOR FOR THE COUNTRY DOCTOR
It was good to read about the New York triumph of
Dr. Roy Allen Dafoe, the Canadian country doctor who
brought the quintuplets into the world. Dr. Dafoe took
his laurels modestly, told of his achievement simply, and
announced that he would return to his job. Just like
many another Cleveland county doctor—thank God, the
old-fashioned country doctor is still with us here—he
will serve his people late at night, early in the morning,
checked in his rounds of mercy by neither heat nor cold
nor gloom of night.
In honoring the good Dr. Dafoe, we honor the coun
try doctor all over the world; we honor the men who
brought most of us into the world, and who stood first in
his community in service and in honor itself.
YES, THEIR SALARIES ARE LOW
By this time, if there is a person in the state who
has not heard that school teachers are underpaid, that
person must be one who never reads the newspapers.
This editorial department, for instance, has deplored,
reiterated and insisted so often on this subject that we
blush to bring it up again.
But the crisis is at hand, and there is no use trying
to hide our heads in the sand. Sixty North Carolina high
schools will lose their accredited rating unless more
money is spent for salaries and for equipment. But—
some critics point out—school teachers are not below the
general low average from which public officials have not
yet recovered. Is this true ? Let’s glance at the figures
for Shelby:
The average salary for the five county officials is
$2,260, for the county agent $2,150, for the mayor $2,
500, for the chief of police $1,584.
The average annual salary Tor Shelby High school
teachers is $689.
* NO FREE GOODS
The impression has gotten out that families who
are set up on subsistence homesteads will be given live
stock, seed, fertilizer, work tools, etc., and allowed to buy
on liberal long-term payments, their home and small
acreage. George Ross of Raleigh who is in charge of the
Emergency Relief Administration, rehabilitation divis
ion, disabuses the minds of those who think the govern
ment will give away anything.
The “giving season” of the government is gradually
passing. That’s why the rehabilitation farms are
springing up. Instead of giving something to unemploy
ed families, the government will undertake to help them
earn their own livelihood, and have enough left to re-pay
the government for the farm equipment and the home
stead.
It is pointed out that 12,000 families farmed 52,000
acres of land provided them by the rural rehabilitation
division of the NRA. Reports will soon be coming in,
and Mr. Ross is sure that the results will be gratifying.
Over on the edge of Cleveland and Gaston, a homestead j
project is being worked up. We are convinced that it will
ultimately be approved. At the same time, let no fam
!ily that expects to benefit by this project get worked
up to the expectation of having everything given. Per
sonal direction of their efforts will be given by experts,
but the physical and material affairs must be paid back
through the efforts of those who are aided.
GOVERNMENT WILL FORECLOSE
Announcement that the government will foreclose
on property under mortgage to the Home Owners’ Loan
Corporation unless interest due is paid, made by John H.
Fahey, chairman of the corporation, gives notice to all
those who have been under the impression that undue
leniency may be expected.
The government, in making vast sums available to
citizen# as emergency relief measures, had no intention,
so far as we know, of giving away money, but only
sought to relieve distressed debtors who otherwise might
have lost their property. For those succored to try to
take advantage of the government would be poor grati
tude and if there are such in the country then the sooner
the government cracks down the better.
It will be somewhat reassuring to many citizens,
who have wondered whether these loans, and others,
wrould be administered in a business-like way, to know
that the government is ready to proceed vigorously
against those who can pay their obligations but attempt
to evade their responsibilities on the assumption that the
government will take no action against them.
THE NATION BUILDS
After the nation had exhausted the possibilities of
expansion into the "new frontiers" of the west and had
then created a vast surplus of automobiles and radios and
other goods, some of the theoretical economists were
stuck for an answer. Where was the country to turn in
an effort to create a market for its surplus goods, and its
surplus labor?
The answer, it now appears, was too simple and too
close at home. We don’t have to trek into the wilder
ness to find that New Frontier; far from tilling new
ground, we are actually plowing crops under. And to
employ more workers and use more goods, we are turn
ing to the obvious expedient of building more houses.
The most striking thing about the administration
housing program is this: that it is not, after all, an ex
pedient, but a permanent measure, for it is revelaed that
there aren’t nearly enough houses to go around. There
aren’t enough small homes, and not enough apartment
houses to fill the needs of every citizen.
When we start to build those houses, the. durable
goods industry, the carpenters, the builders, the con
tractors. the plumbers, the steel wrorkers, all kinds of
mills, will receive an impetus that should carry through
the nation with greater force even that the great uplift
created when the automobile industry was first created.
The administration knows that.
The plan can hardly be classed as a relief measure,
though that is what it started to be. Certainly, it will
create relief. But it will at the same time create per
manent employment, and impart a sound economic stimu
lant to business and industry all down the line.
The New Frontier was in the front, yard, all the
time.
Nobody’s Business
By GEE McGEE
Mike Clark’s Weekly Market Letter!
ltvverpol firmed up on news from
seeker-terry Wallace that the bank's
head bill will be carried In 193S,
and perhaps longer in sympathy
with sen. borah. enduring the early
part of the week, cotton under
wear eased off and was replaced
by wool, but wash rags were strong
er than rayons, the long pull looks
good for straddlers, but don’t for
get the boll weevil next spring,
therefore, it mought pay to hedge.
stocks
the bears are verry bearish on
gen. motors and annle-conda. allso
power and light. It looks like mr.
lekes thinks the power trusts ought
to be sattlsficd with a rate three
times too high instead of four
times too high, he plans to tva them
back into line, and it mought pay
to swap yore holdings for telly
foam common, as he has yet got
holt to that monopoly, beware of
cheap stocks, which is being ped
dled thru the country.
broom corn
dde to the drowth and the bean
beetle, broom corn newer got over
knee high in the middle west, and
that fetched an advance of nearly
20$ per ton for broom corn. and
this will force floor sweepers to go
lo rice straw and broom sedge for
sweeping their floors, whisk brooms
and fuller brushes remain un
changed at our front dors.
bonds
the itlay-ans are holding their
liras at 6 yens for 7 francs or 9 j
kronins for 24 marks, and that will i
possibly keep egyptan 12s down to
54 below par, however, u. s. bonds I
are firm above pa and ma onner j
count of we have all the gold ex
cept what ts in the teeth of the
colored folks.
grain*
wheat, oats, rye and alcohall were
easy up to the middle of the week
onner count of the high tax on dis
tilled sptrrlts which keeps the
bootlegger In bizness, therefoar—
hold yore pints and quarts while
you sell yore bushels and barrels,
and drink gin if 100 proof is too
high, as it is made out of some
thing besides gram ansoforth.
yores trulie,
mike Clark, rfd,
finaneer.
Frau Marie Glentzen of Dresden,
aged 86. has buried her ninth hus
band.
A Santa Claus Letter
deer sandy claws:
1 am a lltle man of 48 summers
and 49 winters, as 1 was borned en
during december, and 1 seat myself
to rite you a letter to tell you what
to fetch me and my familey, and 1
hope you will do sp.
do not bring us anny meat or
bread or sugar or coffee or clothes,
as uncle sam has benn our sandy
claws for these artlckles for the
past year or so, but don't forget
some tobacker and cigarettes and
soft drinks and candy, as he do
not furnish same as yet.
you need not fet us anny bed
things or mules or cows ansoforth,
as uncle sam will look after these
need-cessltles. but kindly bring us
1 set of outside arlals and 3 Inner
tubes and 1 spare radiator for a
d-8, as he has not yet commenced
to furnish these badly needed
Items.
as to caned goods and fresh pork
and t-bones and llwer, Just leave
them off allso. as uncle sam is do
ing his duty by us for these daily
desires, but you will make us glad
if you will send 10$ to have our
planno tuned and a nice shotgun
and some face powder for the girls
and some shavvlng soap for the
boys: he has not got around to
that yet, but he mought do so next
year.
don't bother yoreself about plow
tools and shoes and medlson and
sirrup molasses, as uncle sam, our
deer old 365-days-a-year sandy
claws, has fixed us up in that line,
but plese load up a drum of gas
soleen and 5 gallons of oil and
some hair tonic and black mus
tash dye: he has not thought of
these little extrys up to now, so you
can take his place to this small
extent.
well, old sandy claws, you wont
be worked so hard this comming
christmus: you have a pardner in
uncle sam that is railly a partner,
and if he keeps on improving like
he has been improving for the past
5 months, you mought as well look
yorself up a new Job, as he will
live us everthing we want which
Is twiste as much as we need, i will
t>e setting up a-looklng for you that
night.
yores with love,
mike Clark, rfd.
govverment-men.
APPEAL FOR CHILDREN
AT CROSSNORE SCHOOL
Dear Friendly Editor:
Oh, how we thank you for help
ing us advertise Crossnore! Will
you help us some more toward a
Christmas to matclf our Thanks
giving?
We thank from the bottom of
our heart all the wonderful friends
who have sent us more clAthes lot
sale, helped us to have the most
perfect Thanksgiving In our history,
and now are sending us things to
make Christmas its equal. One lit
tle mountain mother told her kid
dies Santa was dead because she
had nothing to give them, but If
things keep coming as they are
now, there will be plenty to go
around, and oh, how we thank you!
And now we are campaigning for
sewing machines, ones that will
sew, of course. We have the one
Mrs. Noah used, and the one Mrs.
Columbus brought over, and two
more that really work doing yeo
man's service. But what are two
machines for a class of 30 active
girls who want to make things? We
need 10 more and need them bad
ly. Fifty boys need shirts today; we
have succeeded In making five.
Most of these boys had a shirt or
two when they came here, but weak
material, long service, and maybe
too much washing have worn them
away. We can make some that will
stand washing and then the house
mother can use more of her time
mending pants. So please help us
get the machines.
Avery county Is mighty proud to
have the president’s Christmas trees
come from its soil and Crossnore
had Its share because one of its
former students took them to the
White House. The heartiest of
thanks and best Christmas wishes
from the school on Christmas tree
hill.
Yours In the Yuletide spirit,
MARY M. SLOOP. Bus. Mgr.
Freight and express, Ashford, N. C.
Parcel Post, Crossnore, N. C.
CUTTING HIGHWAY
DEATHS IN VIRGINIA.
Dear Mr. Weathers:
I have been much interested and
concerned In the accounts which
The Star has carried lately regard
ing automobile wrecks in the vici
nity of Shelby. Your editorial com
ment. on this tragic condition
should be wisely considered by
those concerned in the welfare of I
their fellow men of the highways. I
May I be so bold as to suggest
some things which North Carolina
could learn from Virginia regarding
the traffic problem. In the first
place, all of us who drive cars are
required to take a physical and
technical examination. Those who
pass this rather rigid test are given
a driver's license which they must,
carry at all times. In the second
place, we must have our cars in
spected every six months by me
chanics appointed by the state.
They go over the car thoroughly,
testing brakes, lights, horn, wind
shield wiper, tires, etc. Any of these
which are out. of order must be put
in proper condition before the car
will be passed. Naturally, this keeps
$10 “Junks’’ off the road. In the
third place, the officers are hard on
drunken drivers, so much so. that
you see very few on the roads. In
the fourth place, traffic laws are
rigidly enforced, suqli as, double
parking, parking on the pavement
along highways. etc. As a conse
quence of these regulations, serious
accident are few In comparison to]
the cars on the highway. In fact, in!
the time I have been here, there
have not been the accidents in this 1
Borah’s Choice
w W. Kinf*Und Maty
. .*» < __ .
Sere is W. Kingsland Macy, of
New York, who aasertedly is the
choice of Senator ^William E.
Borah to replace Henry P. Fletch-1
er as chairman of the Republican
national committee. Senator
Borah is planning a reorganiza
tion of the committee and claims
to have a sufficient number of
supporters in the committee to
call a meeting and name Macy as
G. O. P. leader. -,
Poplar Springs
Young People
Elect Officers
(Special to The Star)
POPLAR SPRINGS, Dec. 15.—
Officers of the senior B. Y. P. U.
for the first quarter of the new
year are: President, Alvie Jones;
vice president, Mrs. T. J. Martin;
secretary, Mollic Wallace; corres
sponding secretary, James Debrew;
treasurer, Emma Hamrick; chor
ister, Bernes Lemons; pianist, Mrs.
Everaid Kilmeyer; group captains,
Mozelle Wilson, Mrs. Alvie Jones,
Gladys Lemons and Ruth Hopper.
The communiity sympathizes
with Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Bowen in
the death of their baby daughter.
Several from this community
attended the shower given in honor
or Mrs. Grady Hamrick, a recent
bride, at the home of Bryte and
Evelyn Glasco in the Beaver Dam
community.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Anthony and
children of Shelby visited Mrs. An
thony’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Debrew during the week-end.
The senior B. Y. P. U. enjoyed
a pound social at the church Wed
nesday night. Games were played
and at the close of the evening the
“pounds" were served.
Friends of Mrs. Frank Anthony
and David Hamrick will be pleased
to learn they are improving.
city of 35,000 that have been record
ed in The Star in the last two
months. Perhaps this would be solu
tion to your problem. At least, it
would do no harm to try.
I am still very much in :.l in
the goings-on around Shelby, and
shall always have a place in my
heart for the good people there.
Most cordially yours,
L. L. JESSUP.
Newport News, Va.
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Meet In Raleigh
The Rev. Zeno Wall, pastor of
the First Baptist church, and Wyan
W. Washburn, local transportation
organizer for the Baptist Sunday
school conference, which is to be
held In Raleigh January 1-4, are
anxious that this community make
an excellent showing at that meet
ing.
It is believed that this will be
the greatest Sunday school convo
cation held in the world in 1935; if
attendance exceeds that of the four
previous conferences, it will be the
largest Sunday school gathering
ever to have been held in the «or'.d
North Carolina EapUste are for
tunate that such a:i assembly h ic
be held In the Capital etty-br:.tr«*
to their very doors the gaol talent
the denomination csn assemble
An attendance of 5.000 outelde oi
Raleigh is expected. This eaeeenaly
will, doubtless, never meet tr. this
state again for 10 years. Tboa« la
authority are anxious that el. p*»
tors and Sunday school wcrkere at
tend. Those who are so fortunate as
to be present will undoubtedly reap
a great reward.
J. W. Costner, associations eup
erintendent and J. W. Puttie, mod
erator, think nearly 100 -versons
from the Shelby vicinity w‘ll attend
the meeting.
Yule-tide
by
Families and friends become scattered with dhs
yean and we miss their smiling facet and chaaty
voices—more especially at Christmas lima. PoshahSy
you are wishing cow that you could visit them this
Christmas. Why not? Are they too far away? Tan
can’t get away? Or is it that it ooaks too wasM
Then why not surprise them this holiday saaaaa
with a telephone visit instead? You can raeeh thaw
anywhere by telephone. Distance doean’t nsattm.
A voice visit by telephone, you will find kt dH
personal charm of a face-to-face visit, is nwva‘
nient and costs little wherever you call. For MHS
ple, by using Station-to-Starion service you can talc
with folks fifty miles away for about 55c, and 9
hundred miles for around 55c, and greater ot lam
distances at correspondingly low cost.
If you can’t go in person, go by telephone.
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