Th« Cleveland Star
SHELBY, N. C.
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V." MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1935
The world grows better in some ways. There aren’t
so many “for men-only” sermons.
Ford ought to get up another peace ship and brinf
our law makers back home.
The appropriation for teachers is o. k. It wouldn’t
do for people to get all they ask for, even in their prayert.
Nothing do we know about the guilt of alleged bern
burners on trial here this week, but we offer as our can
didate for the Meanest Man of all—the fellow who will
set fire to his neighbor’s barn, destroy hi* food and sac
rifice his cAttle.
THIS 18 CLEAN-UP WEEK
This is clean-up week in Shelby and a campaign ii
under way by the city, the Women's Club, Boy Scouts
and civic dubs. The campaign, however, cannot be the
sucees* it deserve* without the co-operation of the citi
zens generally. These organizations do not intend to
trespass upon private property and clean up the trash
and rubbish that is unsightly and unwholesome, but they
will lend every assistance to the citizens in other ways.
A dean town is a community affair. It means a
healthier place and a more sightly city. Flies and moe
quitoes breed in filth. One neighbor might have clean
premises, but the rubbish and garbage of a single neigh
bor might be a menace to the entire city.
Summer is approaching and if we would remove
breeding places for flies and mosquitoes, much suffering
and perhaps several lives might be saved. Let’s make
the clean-up campaign a city-wide affair.
CARING FOR THE CHILDREN
America’s greatest asset is her children. What is
true of America is true right here in Shelby and Hyden
Ramsey, one-time known as the “boy orator of tha Blue
Ridge” broyght us to the point of giving serioua thought
to providing public parks and playgrounds for tha youth
of our land, when he spoke here Thursday avaning bo
fore representatives of eight eivic and patriotic organ
isations.
President Roosevelt believes more than anyone else
that the safety and security of our nation Has in tha
children. In his recovery program, tha Fsdaral gov
ernment gives support to recreational programs and fa
cilities for supervised, directed play in the great out
doors.
In rhe list of applications for Federal aid for public
parks and playgrounds, wa have not hoard of a deaf aar
being turned to any community that movss in this direc
t* t.. Recreational centers aud public parka and play
grounds base been provided in thousands of centers as a
:r*sult of the administration t, liberal attitude and high
appraisal of their value.,
Shelby Is now a city of aome 12,000 people and haa
no public park. At each school there are open spaces
where the children romp and play at racaaa, but these
grounds are without equipment. It does seem chat now
is the time to provide a piece or place* for wholesome
r*tr**t*<ni *nd play. The sale of concession* should
bring in enough revenue for maintenance. We are in
formed that the Municipal Park at Asheville and Rain
bow Lake at Spartanburg are self-supporting.
The Lions Club is to be commended for undertak
ing as its major objective for this year, a public park
and playground for Shelby and here’s our support in
their efforts.
HANDLING INCORRIGIBLE**
The State tu shocked recently over the two State
prisoners in a Mecklenburg camp who had to undergo
operations for the removal of their feet because of in
fection that set up while they were in solitary confine
ment for infraction of prison rules.
The guards who were responsible for their unfortu
nate fate have been dismissed and now all kinds of sug
gestions are being made ae to tha best methods of
handling incorrigible prisoners. Solitary confinement
with cracker and water diet, the lash and other forma of
punishment are eufficient to cure some unruly criminals,
but how add than these “cures” have an unfortunate out
come, followed by charges of inhumane treatment by the
guards.
No one wants to see even criminals treated inhum
anely or tortured to the point that their lives are en
dangered. Neither can they be allowed to curse snd
abuse guards and defy every order issued to them.
Should the criminal class once realize that they can defv
the guards and get by with a refusal to do what they are
commanded to do, it would be impossible to secure guards
who would risk their live* with them. Guards are in
great personal danger when they are in charge of the
lawless element. If they are too severe with prisoners
they are in danger of the iaw themselves. If they are
too easy, they are in danger of mutiny by the prisoners
and their escape, which is a reflection on the guards.
A problem is presented that is difficult to solve and
in its solution we should not be too humane for fear the
guards might have their heads shot off and society im
periled by roving outlaws.
I
SOIL EROSION IN CLEVELAND
Cleveland county has lost the value of 58,630 acres,
or 19.58 per cent of its total area because of aggravated
soil erosion, according to the soil erosion service of the
U. S. Department of the Interior.
Of the 299,520 acres which comprise the county
there are 82,580 acres abandoned, due primariy to severe
erosion, the report shows. In addition, there are 136,800
acres with 25 to 75 per cent of the top soil gone.
The government has found that the county contains
95,824 acres of forest and that there are 144,329 acres
under cultivation, 15,037 acres of idle tillable land, 11,.
850 acres of open pasture land and 32,980 acres of waste
land.
Back in the days when Dr. R. M. Gidney was county
agent, the county became noted as the best terraced
county in North Carolina. He personally helped farmers
lay off terraces to stop land from wasting away. Since
that time, it has been discovered that terracing is not
sufficient within itself. “The really sound and eco
nomical policy of presenting erosion,” says W. E. Bow
ers, specialist of the Soil Erosion Service “lies primarily
in establishing the use of thick-growing crops. Its very
importance demands that any erosion-control program be
carefully planned for permanency. Temporary and cost
ly methods are best ignored.
Practical solution of the problem of erosion con
trol,” pointed out Mr. Bowers, “lies in the fitting of
close-growing crops such as clovers, grasses, small
grains, lespedeza, vetch, cowpeas and soybeans into the
needs of the indidivual farm, and grown and utilized in a
well-balanced operation of the farm, along with contour
cultivation practices. Consider lespedeza. There’s a
crop which Mother Nature has provided us for a three
fold purpose: (1) to tie down the soil, (2) to improve the
soil, and (3) to increase the farm income in returns in
pasture, hay or seed. Experiments in erosion prevent
ion that a stand of lespedeza on the average slope per
mit! the annual loss of about one-half a ton of soil an
acre and only five to six percent of the rainfall. Ter
races, In comparison, allow the loss of five to seven tons
of soil and twenty per cent of the rainfall.”
Nobody's Bus
mess
By GEE MeGEE
Vktom An Iiaput la Flat Rock
OVT little town la going tru a
•eege el bad lock, the potaaaaan
•eya that if it ain’t one thing K is
•••thing else. someboddy stole hu
MUe and overcoat while on hie
beat 3 weeks ago one night. It was
kinder warn and ha had took them
off and «• leaning up against the
drug steer and doatd off and that
la whaa they disappeared.
the town well eared in Sunday
aight and it leeks like that mean*
a new wall at a large expense, ln
etudtag the digging and the brick
ing up of seme, allso the pump
rgir* which Is klrrered up at the
botton. the haary rains must of
allowed watter to seep into the
ground and then it seeped behind
the wall and there's ths mystery;
she simply eared In. the town must
raise about Mg from some source.
holsum moor# left a ditch open
la front of his garrage a few days
ega and parry winkle, who was
coming heme Terry late and could
not aoa his fact la front of his
bands. f*U into same and laid then
aU night be l* figgerlng on suing
ths town for actual and punny
tlrb and rail dammage. holsum aaya
the town will prove an aUey-U, as
a fruit Jar partly empty was found
In ths hols the next morning when
he was laying.
some bad boy* dumb up on top
;of our cally-booae and tore off be
tw(n M and 40 shingle* which was
ttaad far cowering oame. and made
a hole big enough to crawl thru,
and than went cm down to the
cages and tore both of them all to
peaces with a baseball bat. they
escaped out of the front door which
was not locked and got away be
fear being recker-nlaed. that dam
mate will amount to about so.
tha dtty ban safe was blowed
opm on thueday night and the
contents of same was scattered all
orar the floor, but no money was
loot, as the town do not happen to
own anny monney at preaaent. It
•Ofms that the msyer's gloves and
hlg wife's diamont ring was scat
tered cn the floor, but tire burglars i
410 not want same, as it looks hka!
tlMf
1 w» ned a detecker-tive and a few
isteel traps powerful bad. the po
loesman thinks he could ketch the
’vagrants by setting them at dif
ferent places where they frequently
popper-late, and when they step on
(same or poke their hands inside of
■ annything. It would grab them and
jhold them fast till he wakes up and
i cornea on duty, plesr lookout for
suspicion* carrackters and rite or)
foam the under-signed
Tore* trilie.
mik« Clark, rfd
lown clerk.
-i
It Look* Uko MUko Clark Of Flat
ftoek Haa Inherited a Fortune
4wr nr. sddltor:—
» wlah to infarm the pubUck of
f00^ luck tod good fortune
which befell my lot today, i am now
a rich nan and me and ny fami
ley will be able to lire the Hoii«nef
u.Urm wiUMUt another
Mci w wort.
yore eorry spondent't uncle. J.
mikcl Clark, mowed to texaas en
during the tO'i, and not much waa
erer heard from him until today, he
Wt this elate on epul i. 1CN. end
the good news from him reached
ue by telUgram, exactly 4$ yr. to
the day after he went away.
uncle mlkel was a farmer by
trade and he bought a big farm in
the pan-handle of texaee. and It
eeema oil waa struck on hie place a
few yean ago and befour he know
ed it, they eey he wae a mlUi-naire,
and wae worth billions of dollars,
but he nerrer did git married.
well, he dlde last week and yore
eorry spondent, mr. mike Clark, rfd,
is his sole hair, as hie win left him
in fee simple, this was a gnat sur
prise, and It made all of the Clarke
happy from dan to beer sheba.
Tore corry spondent, nr. mike
Clerk, rfd, do not intend to take
the big head, but -will remain in flat
rock and make a few airplane trips
out to texaas erer now and then to
look after hi* oil well*, banks, ho
tells, boarding house, power plants,
and coal mine*.
it Is hard to think that the Clarks
are now in the millionaire class
with the morgans and the hooey
longs, and the Vanderbilt* and the
al capones, but such ia the case, our
lawyer says unde mikel’s inharri
tance tax will amount to about
90000009. thto wUl be paid in oil
well, if there are anny poor
1 Clarks anywhere in the country
that can claim kin with yore cor
ry apondent. mr. mike Clark, rfd,
he is wining to five each of ««nyt
100009 apeace. rite or foam. <p. ».
aprfl fool 1 newer did have no un
cle mikel, and if t had of had one,
no doubt, he would have of dide in
the poorhouse).
mike Clark, rfd.
anSdNiaTKATOB’S NOTICE
■avia* outlined as the eastern ratal
•r the nttli of Franklin Praraoa Lettl
more, (coil deceased. late of Cleveland
county. Mart* Carolina, this la to aotlfi
all Boraoas asvlBg claims ualaat the e*
Ut< of said deceased, to rshtMt thaw ta
tBo undersigned at 1,awa*a)e w C
| *? I***. •» tble aatica will fee
pleaded te bar of their racejitt ail wer
!*•** Wddbtdd to ool* eatata will please
"*«#<; ,nv*’**,‘t* aay*s»t to the uader
Vhi* the tat ear or March, iija
® WTTOIoaf. ie«)> ASauais
rrathr or Wrenkhn Seereon Httl
fere dee eased
A A Powell Att •
*1 Mtr 4t
Valuable Research
Projects Worked
Out By Students
i State College Textile School l»
Falfllltng Ambitions Of
Frank Graham.
. COLLEOF STATION, Raleigh,
I March 28.—A number of valuable
research projects have been work
ed out in the Textile School of
North Carolina State College by
graduates and. under-graduate
students, faculty members, and rep
resentatives of the Bureau of Agri
cultural Economics, United States
Department of Agriculture, accord
ing to a survey Just completed of
the research work done at the col
lege since 1920.
This survey was conducted by a
committee appointed by Dr. Frank
p. Graham, president of the con
solidated University of North Caro
lina.
It has long been the aim of Dean
Thomas Nelson, head of the tex
tile school, and hto associates to
cause it to occupy the same rela
tive position to the textile industry
of the state that consulting experts
occupy in other professions. Just
how well they have succeeded may
be seen from the number and va
riety of investigations carried on
during the past 18 years.
During this period graduate stu
dents havs submitted more than a
score of theses on such subjects as
tire fabrics and their application
to industry, fabric testing, investi
gation of the strength of cotton
yarn as influenced by twist, jac
quard design, spinning tests, crea
tive textile design, effect of spin
dle speed in the spinning, vslue of
ysm, and many others.
The research projects conducted
by under-graduate students and
members of the textile school fac
ulty cover additional phases of tex
tile manufacturing. Prof. T. R. Hart
of the textile faculty has had pub
lished a number of articles of his
investigations in the Textile World,
outstanding textile Journal.
Bui winkle Doubts
Bonus Payments
He Vote* With Left*! Pereea, Bat
Bomb’S Soo LegMotlen To Pom
| Washington, March M.—While
I Representative A. L. Bulwinkle el
the Tenth district went down the
line and to defeat with the Ameri
can Legion in‘in effort » paw Uie
in-fated vmson MB. and then
threw hi* rote forthe'Patmert bill,
he does not Vie# possibilities for
bonne legislation at this aeeeion of
eongrtM With Which enthusiasm. ‘
The Tenth district congressmen,
with aU the Kortir Carolina boose
members, except <■ - Representative
Dougton and Lambeth) voted for
the Patman MU when it waa finally
pa seed by SI# to M. Like many oth
ers in the house who Toted for the
Patman MU, Major Bulwinkle Mid
today that he thought payment of
the bonus should bo authorised and
while he felt that the President
would veto the Patman MU even if
It should pass the senate, he wants
the bonus raid.
Now that the Patman bill has
gone to the senate, long drawn-out
bearings are In sight, with a discus
sion that may loot for weeks. The
Patman MU is lem popular in the
senate than the Vinson MU, and in
some quarters it Is predicted it wlU
never pees that body. The concen
sus prevails that out of It all there
la a possibility of the Tydings MU
may be substituted for the Patman
Mil, but no such move wUl be made
unless assurances an given that It
will be signed by the President.
The Tydings MU pays the World
war veterans off In negotiable
bonds worth about 7M per cent
face value at the time of Issuance,
bat cashable at fan value when due
m INI with I per cent interest.
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OmhMh county, y. a. Bryant. Substi
Mloa MMO Will, 01 twelve O'clock BOM
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tho <«mt hooM Ooor of Cleveland
tm «Mlby, north Carolina, cell at
«ofh to the hlfbeet
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divietoo M of record to book of plate Ho.
' Jteaa « «■ the office of the rejteter
of dooda of Cleveland eount*. North Car
olina, reference to which plet is hereby
I? farthfr *te»rip(lon end Men
tlficattea, acid UU No mo and 1« be
fo!5owe*W,**d' ** *'”a *nd bou»<* •*
BefUaina at a stake on the weet edse
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to a (take la the east ltae of Ut No. ICC
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finning
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*■ ‘a* Udobtedneaa secured
by sold deed of trust. and M subject te
ell taxes and asaoewncnn aaalast said
•rj*er»y wbftber now due or to become
A fi*e screen I ill each deposit will l»
r,5“IT,f rt the bidhext bidder at rh« rale
Thu the tain day of March u.tt
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Everyday
Living
BY
Or. Jsseph Fort Newtea
MAKING LirK COUNT
“How can one make hi* life count
today?” aaka a young man, ex
preas what must be In many minds.
“To maka our Uvea felt In a day of
mass thinking and
m movement
not an easy
tag to do.
"A few men oi
gifts, or In
unusual places
can maka a real
contribution tc
the human enter
prise. But for
moat of us, such
Or. 1. T. Newton distinguished aerv
Ice is outside the field in which our
life is cast.
“For us heroic living must be
achieved, if at all, In the midst of
obscurity and against currents
which tend to <fraw us all into a
blur of hum-drum and anonymity,
and we are unable to rise above it.”
There are really only three at
titudes one may take toward life.
One may run away from it, he may
run with it, or he may try to run
it. It needs no courage to run away,
or to follow the crowd.
But if we mean to run our lives
and make them count. we must
have the courage to face inertia
and the strength to swim up-stream.
Just because lives like our own
make the current flowing the other
way I
to make our lives count we must
ally ourselves with issues that are
vital, think them through, stand
by them, and lit* them forward by
helping to create the kind of mind
that can make them win.
If war is to be abolished, it is
we, and others like us, who must
do it. If fear and hate red are to be
mastered, it is such as we who must
do it. He who makes his life count
for such ends, counts for much.
After all, he counts who has lived
well, laughed much, who has gained
the faith of a good woman and the
trust of a little child, who sees the
best in others and gives the best In
himself.
No man, however obscure, is a
failure who fills his niche in life
and does his job with joy, who
leaves the world a bit better than
he found it, whether by a lovely
poem, a loyal friend, or a little
kindness.
It is such lives, in high or hum
ble lot, which make the warp and
woof of society, the basis of law
and the rich soil for religion—men
whose lives are an inspiration and
whose memory is a blessing.
Of Asia’s area of 17,000,00 square
miles, 10,000,000 square miles arc
under the control of Russia, Great
Britain, Holland, France and the
United State*.
Xn warfare, a mortar is a short
piece, of ordnance for throwing
shells at high angles.
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WELLS as old as recorded history
Wills are not as recent as the Mauve Decade. Wills
■were executed in Egypt as long ago as thirty centuries
oefore the birth of Christ. Early Roman history records
:he Will as a means of conveying property upon the
ieath of the owner. And in Eighth Century England,
we find instruments executed in anticipation of death,
and disposing of property.
What happens today if a man fails to make his
Will?
The State in which he lives dictates the disposition
of his estate, many times to the sorrow of his heirs. For
no two families are exactly alike, as the State must pre
sume in handling his affairs.
All he needs to do to assure that his desires con
cerning the disposition of his property will be carried
into effect, is to make a Will.
Today is “Make-A-Will” day—a good day to indi
cate to your attorney your wishes concerning the dis
position of your estate.
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