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I*he Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. T.CT TL WITHERS_____President and Editor 8. ERNEST HOEY _____Secretary and Foreman CAMERON SHIPP mm*mm*-——-*************** News Editor L. a ___ Mantpr MRS. RENN DRUM_-___NOcW Wltor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mail, per year-—.——-—-»--MJ0 By Carrier, per year..-— SM® Entered as second class matter January 1, lt05. at the pcet offtce at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, Match 9.1W7. We with to call your attention to the feet that It ia and haa been our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notyee haa bten This will be strictly adhered to. ' FRIDAY. Tune 7, 1985 Yes, there is some happiness in the world, to the patient who leaves the dental office with pain eased and the bill paid. One.old sick Dominicker rooster decided the fate of thousands, said Will Rogers. Yeah, but wasn’t it one old l&k Eagle, Will? With the U. S. Supreme Court as referee, the old rooster knocked out the Blue Eegle. It ia the first time h barnyard fowl gained supremacy over the king bird of the air. We are improving in our English- Not long ago we had two state institutions at Morgaston, one a deaf and dumb school, the other an insane asylum- Yes, and a number of female colleges in North Carolina. We have since learned that the school ia not deaf and dumb, the asylum is not insane and the college* are not female, hence the names were changed to the School for the Deaf, State Hospital and colleges for women. That’s making headway. • A SPRING MONEY CROP Raspberry plants put out in Cleveland and adjoining counties two years ago, are coming into bearing for the first time and are being shipped to Northern markets at fancy prices. John Wilkins, Cleveland county farm agent who recently came here from Catawba is respons ible for the emphasis given this new money crop which brings in a revenue at an off-season of the year. Raspberries are a delicacy is a dessert and we hope the crop will be large enough to afford a supply on the Shelby market. We were in Hendersonville last sum "■' ""ftj**1 "lieu the raspberry season wa« on and farmers stocked the grocery stores every morning with a fresh supply. The local demand was so greet that by noon the supply was completely sold out, the baskets bringing prices well above strawberries and cherries. We believe the farmers have hit upon a new money crop end the consumers a delicious table delicacy. CARING FOR THE UNFORTUNATE The County Commissioners have set up a budget of $22,280 under what is termed the “poor fund.” While it is a fund for the poor and unfortunate, it is a sort of “social welfare” fund Which provides for the inmates at the county home, outside poor and emergency relief, county physician, tuberculosis aid, Shelby hospital, mothers’ aid, etc. Last year this so-called “poor fund” was raised to $20,000 and the amount this year repre sents a $1,500 increase for the care of tubercular pa tients. We were in sympathy with the idea advanced by local civic clubs that the county provide at a moderate cost, a tubercular hospital in this county, but since this idea was advanced the N. C. General Assembly has ap propriated $100,000 for a State tubercular hospital in Western Carolina and this institution will serve the pa tients who cannot gain entrance because of the crowded condition at the present State Sanatorium. It is very likely that this new institution will be conveniently located with reference to Cleveland county and our patients can be amply cared for out of this spe cial fund set up by our county commissioners as a sup plement to the State fund. Cleveland county is doing more than ever before for its unfortunates—its aged, sick, widows, etc. This spirit is in line with the Federal government’s policy to require local governments to co-operate with Uncle Sam in his New Deal and New Day policies. THE SALES TAX PROBLEM The North Carolina Merchants’ Association, we be lieve, will find a good deal of sympathy in attacking at least one aspect of the state sales tax. That is the levy on food. There, in being forced to render our penny un to Caesar on every morsel we lift to our mouths, most of us are already complaining bitterly. A tax on turnip greens, corn pone and fatback seems a bit too thick. But the attack on the general sales tax will hardly get the kind of widespread support that would, for in stance, vault a merchants’ association candidate into the governor’s mansion. In the first place, even w’hen the grumble about paying their three per cent, there are too many land owners, too many farmers in the state, who were reliev ed of heavy property taxes. The levy against one Clove land fanner we have in mind was reduced, he says, by one-third when the property tax was removed. He will not be eager, we can assume, to take up that burden |gain. - Moreover, it is hardly likely that, with such men as we already have in the field, t^e state would be willing to elect a man governor merely because of his eloquent opposition to one tax problem. We require, as the Char lotte Observer wisely remarks, men who will present a leadership for all the minorities rather than disruptive candidates. The sales tax is an emergency measure, and should be regarded for what it is. Problems of statecraft are too heavy in all the divisions of the republic for us to ac cept this one item as the test for the highest office in the gift of the state. YOU ARE ASKED TO SERVE _ For the first time since the Reconstruction, there was a chance here this week that the names of negroes might appear on a Cleveland jury list. It was a technical point, of course, raised through a Supreme Court decis ion. It meant that the names of colored folk would be placed on the list. The commissioners did not include the names of negroes and we believe there will be no objection on the part of either the white or colored race. Certainly, no Cleveland lawyers will call for mistrials because of the omission. Inclusion of these negroes’ nemes, however, is by far the least important features of selection‘now before the commissioners. Without making any bones about the metier, it might as well be said here and now that, of course, none of these negroes will actually serve on juries. TJiey will be excused or challenged. Nor, dis carding all prejudice, do we see that the ends of justice would be enhanced in any way at all by having them serve. We do not, for instance, believe that juries would be better or more just if women were compelled to serve on them—though we intend no comparison in this in stance. What we do need on juries is a carefully selected venire of able, honest, educated, reasonable citizens. The list should contain the names of the men best qualified for moral *nd mental reasons. The unfit, the unwary, the unthoughtful should be weeded out, until that jury liet ehone like an honor roll of intelligence and accom plishment. THsn. the other side of the picture—the men so se lected should be willing to serve. There, there is the rqb. The successful business or professional man has no time for one of the highest duties he can perform for his state. Patriotic in many other respects, he escapes jury duty with no more twinge of conscience than a small boy plays hookey from the fifth grade. If the able, the honest and the intelligent would eonsent to serve on juries, then able, honest and intelli gent judges and prosecutors would have a chance to en force the law, to stamp out crime.* And shyster lawyers would have to seek some other means of livelihood. Nobody’s Business By GEE McGEE fa.. .. .. mu WWTW TUB GOVERN Cl ON AN IMPORTANT MATTER gov. own d. jetmaop. oeJumby, a. C. dear terrnnoT — 1 now* by tha newspapers whan on* of your faithful constlturants •ant ypu a jaw bona of a jack a« for you to uh in connection witf lotting yore unruly highway depart spilt straightened out, and i an rttlnf to say that 1 hope it wii terra lUs purpose ok. you wUl not have as manny phjl Its-teens to combat as sampson had so you ought to be able to take cars et tha 16 genterments in question but pleas be eareful if you. havi newer wielded a jack kaae Jav bene, you must get onto how li should be hall in yore hands whet being ueed. if you wjii ketch the jaw bone at the other end and wrop yore thumt and big finger around the left mo. iar Just bslow the eye-tooth, it won't •Up out of yore hand when iandinj an upper cut to the chin. If the jav bene i* sound, you don't run anj risk in hitting straight down. it nought be a good idea for yot to rite the names of ail the mem bers of the highway dapartment that you contact on the side of thi bone in red ink so* this instru ment of relief «an be placed in thi *oo or museum for inspection by fu lure pubiiek officers that try to rur everything. If you find the Jaw bone in ques tion unsatisfactory, piece rite oi foam me at once and . will sene you a better on. is there anny way for you to tell whether or not the former owner ajie>’ arrow rr ot m jaw bene now in yore possession ever run for oongress or the legis lature. or annythlng? if you happen to need a good mar to take the plaoe of S or « of the present members of the highway de partment. kindly let me know; i nought be willing to take over the entire works if their jobs is open i have had a right smart expertent* In handling politick* and i feel cor fldent that 1 can take care of thii opening, it anny. yoree trulur. mike Clark, rfd. corry spondent. The potato, one of our best knowr and most used vegetables, has beer used about 300 years. / - - I ' TLAT ROCK IS CLEANING UP our town counsell named next week u "swat week" and is asking everboddy t6 come to the rescue of health and happiness by swatting ever fly in their midst, a reward 1 will be offered for the most dam 1 made gone to flies by anny means 1 at hand. holsum moore, one of the leading candy-dates for mayer, has hand ed out over 75 flyawattcrs to the voters of our town with his name and address and what he is seeking after printed on both aides of the part of the swatter which hits the fly that is being swatted, he will HP doubt carry ever vote where a swatter is placed, as they cost him cS each dr. green says that the common house fly is a great toter of disease and carries his feet and wings and mouth full of germs of all kinds 1 and wherever he lands with typhoid back-terla on him. it will be left : and whoever inhails it or eata It will suck-cumb ot the malla*dy, re, even tho he is a doctor and enjoys seeing sickness, he is in favor of this campane. dr. green allso runs the drug stoar and he has sold a great man ny swatters out-right, as he Is not In polliticks and do not give them away, he allso sells fly pisen and etiek-foot paper, he stands for a eaniterry town, and ever since hla undertaking parlors went broke, he is sticking to his medison satchel and his drug stoar for a living. the town counsell Is considering hailing the saniterry waggln haul off trash ansoforth ever 10 days instead of ever 2 weeks enduring the summer, as in the past, a clean town means good health to ever citiaon and this corry spondent. mr. mike Clark, rfd. begs all of the folks to plese quit throwing their trash and bannana peelings and quids of to backer on the sidewalks. the barbershop has put out a no tis on the side of his place that all towels will be steam-heated after being used only 10 times in the fu ture. and he will allso boil out, his shewing mug and brush ever other Saturday, this ought to help his bu ness a right smart; but he will have to buy another towel, as the one he has benn using ever since Christmas is badly wore and ripped. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd, rorry spondent. CLAIMS RAFE KING INNOCENT; DESERVES PARDON To Editor of The Star: A few years ago Rafe King, for merly of Shelby, N. C., was tried for the murder of his beautiful wife, iPay King. The l8w of South Caro jlina demanded his life by way of !the electric chair. Such was final ly softened to life imprisonment. The evidence in this case was later reviewed by one of our lead ing magazines—and classed as one of the worlds unsolved mysteries. Clyde He'S-, Christian, statesman, orator of the true south, now on coming governor of North Carolina, was a defense attorney for Rafe King. During his address to the jury, Mr. Hoey while speaking of Pay King said. "She was his Rose of Sharon. She was his lily of the valley." During this trial I followed the evidence very cloaely, therefore, personally, I have never believed Rafe King murdered his wife. If I am right, we cannot realize the hurt that has been and Is being done this lone man, now serving the rest of his natural life behind the walls of our South Carolina penitentiary. If Innocent as I be lieve, then his soul has already beer unduly scarred beyond reclaima tlon, by the sentence Imposed. A sentence convicting him of "The murder of 'his rose of Sharon—hie lily of the valley’." Now, at the helm of "The Shij of State," stands a real sensible man. One who believes in seeing justice done; Olin D. Johnson, oi South Carolina. Knowing him as do, I believe that if the case o, Rafe King vs. South Carolina, wae to be brought to his attention, he would give it sincere and respeetfui consideration. H. J. BRADFORD, j Gaffney. S. c.,-Box las. I Everyday Living BY Dr. Joseph Fort Newton THE LISTENER Not long ago a man told me a story which puzzled me, told It In detail. It was perplexing, and while t was wondering. what I ought tol *ay, or could say,I he suddenly got| up and said: "Well, thank your more than I can say; you have helped me enor nously.” Yet I had lone exactly noth ing except listen. How often listen-Dr. J. F. Newton ing, If it is patient and under standing, Is the one thing needed. How often, too, such listening is the one thing which we do not know how to do. Advice we can give bushels—bushels of it; but when men and women are in trou ble it Is not advice they want. At least not at first, though it may be welcome later; they want some one to listen—not a tongue, but an ear with a heart behind it. If we are to do our part in this world of sorrow and heart-break, we must be able and willing to listen, and learn how to do it. Some of us have less faith in talk—our talk—than we used to have. Suppose we try what silence can do instead, not mere silence, of course, but silence which encour ages men to unpack their hearts. There must be nothing grudging about it. If our attitude seems to say, "Well, what is it? I am very busy, but I can give you ten min utes.” glancing at our wrist watch, it is fatal. Such listening works no wonders wins no confidence, opens no doors, heals no hurts. So many lives are locked up, pent I For OverTenYears the emblem ofc (ample le J am/y lea tel ; ' used c up, shut in. When troubles come fwirl thetr reserve Is broken, It Is like a spring flood when the ice is broken. They empty their hearts and the release brings relief. In time of great sorrow often the only comfort we can give our friends is to let them know, by our silence, that we feel that their sorrow is too great for any words of ours—it helps them greatly. Words can be so empty, because they try to say what cannot be said. In our own hearts, too, if we learn how to be silent and listen, when the clatter of our thoughts is hushed, we may hear a still small voice telling us the things for which human words were never made. I Atlantic Refining to Comply With Codf Thc Atlantic Refinm* comD8r. intends to abide by the pr#tr* code untU its expiration, in the supreme court NRa ^ and the consequent suspend 0( aU code enforcement, w. m i president of the company, h« . nourfted. ,r' _ln order to avoid any r0nt^ in the mmds of our people - „ Mr. Irish, -we wish to «.» * this company voluntarily ed to the petroleum code of*?' 10. 1083, which agreement S* mx!toltatl°n °f Ume °n ,un«^’ MONEY MAGIC... U VEN the most skilled magidan is limited in the number of caios he can produce from • hat or a handkerchief. But anyone who own. * Savin«s Account has a possession which add* to itself indefinitely by compound interest. It is this factor, plus regular deposits, that makes the growth of your savings jc*m like marie after a few years. First National Bank Shelby, N. C. casa* i "Off* tag has ban a symbol of sound, dependable used cars sodofouUlinrttnt used car values. Great numbers of people in this community have learned that the way to get a better used car is to visit this organisation and buy a car with the "OK” that counts. We are very discriminating about the cars we take in trade, accepting only popular makes and models. We are even more careful in preparing these cars for public sale. Every car must pass a rigid, systematic in spection before it is awarded our Guaran teed "OK” tag. All features are carefully checked by factory-trained mechanics— brakes are adjusted, upholstery cleaned, the car made to look like new, and all mechanical parts reconditioned to provide the finest and most dependable performance. * Yet you pay no more far our Guaranteed "OK** used care because we do a large volume of business and can afford tp give you more for your money. See our fine stock of used cars— today l Not only will you get a better used car value but you will also get s i&itk <m tha&cpuntk D. UHUSS EAST WARREN STREET M L CLINE SHELBY, N. C.
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