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The. Cleveland Star v ' SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. — .. ..v> amt mu WAN WASHBURN u a DAXL_ News Editor Advertlsine Manager MM RENN DRUM-Social NS teas. p« SUBSCRIPTION PRICE NS Canter, par pear ... attend aa second clasa matter January 1, 190S, at the paat Mfloa f| Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Concrete, March N MSI , Wit, wjtf to call your attention to the feet that It la and haa tefa our custom to charge fire cents per line for resolutions of wapealJjWldi'df thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice WN bean; published This will be strictly adhered to. .Member associated nisi . Tb^Tteacdtated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor re* publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise sndtted in this paper and also the local aewa published bento. —...I I* a'i..lri -rw^_ . . _ ^ XlTRIDAY, APRIL 24,_1936 Americans use a billion lead pencils a year. Each lead pencil has a rubber that is worn out before the pen cil is gobe. .—. At least one cost has come down in North Carolina. Greensboro, has reduced the fee for over-parking cars f^om $1.50 to $1. It was predicted that 15,000 tobacco farmers would march into ft&lelgh Tuesday to demand a special session of the General Assembly. Only 6,000 came. It was too ijood a d%y..tQ p)ow for the others. TRADE AND THE BONUS Distribution of the soldiers’ bonus will begin in less than two months and about $1,700,000,000 will be available in cash if the ex-service men and women de sire . » This- is some dollars. They make quite a splash in the business world and many experts expect trade to im prove J_n response to the stimulus. Already hopeful sale men are .planning determined assaults upon the re cipient and manufacturers of motor cars, and like ne cessities, are buoyant. Cleveland will receive its share of the flood of cash and participate in the business that results. In the f^ght'for trade many of those who get their bonus mon «£y wilfcjbe o^pr^ersuaded to buy, with the result that some of them will acquire a headache. Every individ ual should be on guard and make good use of the money that is received. It may be a long time before there is «fnothe| ^uch windfall. A NEW FABRIC 5 “Science has developed a new fabric, a synthetic fiber, tine third thinner than the finest natural silk. It is said that a ball of this gossamer textile weighing only one pound, would, if unrolled, stretch across the United States. A similar ball of older type rayon would stretch only 1,000 miles. Now will this new fabric enter into competition with cotton and rayon and add to the great list of un employed? Certainly it will compete with other fabrics fnd cotton might lose some of its market as it did when rayon and similar synthetic fabrics were. invented. Women demand that certain garments they wear be thin 4nd dainty. Scanty clothing that appeals to the eye and touch always has a demand. But the manufacture of this new fabric will furnish employment to workers. The scientific laboratory has produced materials that required workers. A notable instance is that the manufacture of raypn gives em ployment to 60,000 people, who in one year, received $60,000,000 in wages. Who knows but what some of the textile mills in Cleveland copity will equip themselves to‘manufacture (jhis new fibpr? IS PROHIBITION PROHIBITING? This-nation repealed prohibition laws on the ground that it did not prohibit. Now that we have legalized liquor in many places, what is the result ? Are we more temperate? Is there less drinking? Less disorderly conduct? ;Fewer arrests for driving autos under the influence of strong drink? Gr§<ehville, S. C. has records to show what her ex perience has been. According to The Piedmont, arrests tor drunkenness have increased 75 per cent, arrests for disorderly conduct have increased 60 per cent, arrests for driving autos while under the influence of strong drinkf' have increased 44 per cent. In North Carolina, since we have a law which makes it mandatory that driving license be revoked upon con viction for drunk driving, several thousand drivers are forbidden to drive. Drivers living in dry territory have been found guilty, of course, but liquor has been made more respectable and easy to get in near-by wet terri tory, that driving while drunk on the highway, has un doubtedly increased. Some of the Eastern North Carolina counties are boasting of the liquor revenue received from control stores, yet think of the economic drain this is on a com munity which sends out hundreds of thousands of dol lars to distillers in other states. * jTHE SALES TAX AS AN ISSUE Contrary "to expectations, liquor control is not be ing discussed'as the paramount issue in the present campaign for Governor in North Carolina. The issue that is foremost in the speeches of the four candidates, concerns the sales tax; whether it shall be abolished in toto immediately or whether foods shall be exempted at the next session of the General Assembly and all purchases gradually eliminated thereafter. The sales tax was resorted to during the depression as a fair and necessary revenue. States, like indi viduals, had plunged into debt head over heels. North Carolina has the second largest debt of any state in the union, yet resorted to the sales tax less than four years ‘ago to get revenue with which to pay employees, main tain institutions and meet debt service. No one want ed the sales tax and certainly Candidate Clyde R. Hoey had nothing whatever to do with the levy. North Carolina is not alone in levying a sales tax. This method of raising revenue started in West Vir ginia in 1929 and spread like wjjd-fire to 23 states out of the 48. Today salts taxes account for about one-fifth the revenues in states applying them. According to a survey made public by the National Retail Drygoods Association, the cost of the sales tax per family was found to vary widely, ranging from a low of $2.58 in Arkansas to $40.75 in California. In North Carolina it adds $9.88 yearly to the family burden. Certainly it is not a popular tax. Many merchants opposite it because it is a “botheration” for them to serve as the collection agency. It is also a nuisance to the consumer, but it is an emergency taxation and if removed entirely at this time, a levy to make up the deficit would have to be put back on land for state pur poses or the schools and institutions would be severely cut in their appropriations. Farms and homes are already bearing a heavy bur den for county and city governments and to shift the entire sales tax on property at this time would force its sacrifice for taxes under the auctioneer’s hammer. Neither of the four candidates favors retention of this emergency tax. Why it should play such an im portant part in this campaign, we cannot understand, except that Dr. McDonald, in the desperate hope of win ning, contends that he can work financial miracles. He finds fault with nearly everything the party from which he seeks honor, has done. !$s idea of cutting out the sale tax, increasing state expenditures and at the same time not levy a tax on homes and farms, is preposter ous in the extreme. What h A Depneslon Anyway? I have been doing some figuring about our recent depression. We read about millions upon millions of folks out of, track, some hungry here and these; hut I hare not been able to find a single person, much less a married one, that has missed a single chaw, if they chawed, or puffed one puff leu If they pulled, or dipped one dip leu if they dip ped . . . since the depression started 4 years ago. All of those under-nourished women and children hare been from 30 to M minutes ahead of me at the picture show; lots of times I’ve had to go back on account of S. R. O. The soft drink manufac turers haven’t noticed that anybody has cut out his one or two or three dopes a day. Very few reeerve seats have vr shown up empty at foot ball and baseball games . . . since that horrible depression landed right ker-dab upon our necks. it has ben years sines I saw a pair of cotton stockings; nobody ever got too poor during the bard time to forego the pleasure and contentment of getting a couple oi facials a wgek, and a permanent every now and then. In fact, the only place I have ben able to lo cate very many old cars has been In the junk yards. New filling sta tions are rising at the rate of 925 per day in our good, old, rundown busted United Statu of America. I haven't seen anybody’s young uns running around on the struts without an all-day sucker in his ot her mouth, and a couple of other suckers in each band. X haven’t missed any quids of chewing gum under the tables and chairs and benches at restaurants, churches, and hotels. Nobody has dona any grumbling about the high-price of whiskey, beer, wines and gin; yet— we have all been flat broke ever since Mr. Hoover moved back aut west. Everybody has kept his hair eui and his neck shaved and hta britches pressed and his show shin ed all along. I can’t recall having heard a politician say: “Gentle men ot the general assembly: Tlmei are tight, money la scarce, the peo ple can’t stand any mere tana Let’s cut expenses, let’s lira within our means, let’s economise.” Nope their motto la: Spend al you ear get and get all you can spend. Maybe all of this depression is in the head. OM Imagination is a hard worker; he will give a fellow rhe umatism when it ain't a thing but muscle soreness; he will make you think you’ve got heart disease when it’s only too much dinner. Why people—we’ve spent mote money foi things that we could have dons without during these 4 pinch yean than we spent M years ago for ac tual necessities. plus our wnnted luxuries. Your friend. Gee McGee. Flat Rook Hu Sought The Garden Chib Fever the readers of the county seat newspaper has found out that much intrusts is being took in gardins clubs, and such a dub is now being oggemised by mis. hoisum moore and everboddy who has a gardlng seems to of benn suddenly wrapped up in a desire to Jine. mrs. art square says the citty where she come from has sevveral gardlng clubs and they are all verry prosperous, dr. hubbert green, the drugstoar-ist has ketched the way the wind is blowing and he has or dered a nice change of gardlng seeds to be used in the various and Sunday gardings of the town. rare, tom head,' the bootlegger’s wife, says she sees no reason why she should jine anny club to be teeched about how to run a gardlng; she has had one all of her life and they newer spent as much as a dollar for green veggertaMes. in 1 the winter time when no green stuff grows, they do without same I I r \ i i this carry spondent, mr. mike Clark, rfd, to not trying to dicktate to annyboddy, but he suggests that this gardlng club fever be kept up especially during the opperating time of the gowerment relief, and it will prove a big help to aU con cerned. he thinks cabbages and pole beans and Irish taters should be pllhted st once. some of them, meaning the men > are alreddy complaining about hav ' vin* to buy chicken wire and fence ’ posts and post hole diggers to pro i tect their wives’ gardings, and they > claim that the cost of fixing up foi l s gardlng will be more than they . get out of same, early lettus anc ’ engltoh peas should all be put ir t the ground at an early date we are glad to see new life took t on in this direction in flat rock this will give the wimmen some thing to do after they get the house i cleaned up and the younguns off to i scholl and the washing done, here ■ tofoar. they have loafed from about f 4 p. m. to 5 p. m. everday, but the • gardlng clubs will fill that va i canter. * ■ yores trulie. ■ mike Clark, rfd. 1 corry spondent. I CHILD IS FOUND DEAD OF EXPOSURE MILE FROM HOME » SAWAMANCA. N. Y., April 24. I Two-year-old Thomas Woodworth • was found dead of exposure late i Wednesday less than a mile from i her home. » He was lying fate down on the , ground in an open space at the foot r of an embankment i Coroner Philip Bourne said indi i cations pointed to death from ex ■ posure after the child fell asleep I The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lerav Woodworth, of Elkdale. first missed the ehSd Monday afternoon when !his dog returned home alone. I Washington 1H Daybook By HERBERT PLUMMER (Associated Press Staff Writer! WASHINGTON.—Word is said to have been passed around privately to administration leaders in con gress that once the tax bill and re lief appropriations are out of the way the White House will not be disappoint e d i f 10 „!?/ . other pending leg- !«%»'*■ islation is ditch- Blpipjil ed for the session- ISBpjC,. There are sev- M eral bills on sen- BJHr' ate and house cal endars which have p~j| the blessing of OK the adnUnistra- I ,, tion, but President I "" Roosevelt is rep- 1 resented as being unwilling to class hcmut c. pujumw them as "must” legislation, particu larly if there is any indication they would prolong the session. The truth of the matter is that the proposed tax bill is proving to be a much more difficult proposi tion than was first expected. The slow progress made In the house where rigid rules make it possible for the majority to do almost as it pleases has been somewhat dis couraging to the leaders. For days the ways and means committee held public hearings on the bill and apparently was as much at sea when it retired behind clos ed doors to write the bill as at the start. • * • • Some Senators Critical If that can happen in the house, I how much more difficult will it be to secure speedy action in the sen ate where no such strict rules pre vail and senators can discuss the measure to their hearts’ content. The problem of providing relief funds until March, 1937, as request ed by the president, from present indications will cause more delay than at first anticipated. Members of both houses, dissatisfied with the way WPA is being administered,, are pared to air their criticisms at' length. The money requested by the I president will be forthcoming, but! not until these critics have had their say. Insiders are of the opinion that not even such an important meas ure as the administration’s housing bill will be insisted on by the White House if it promses to delay ad journment very much. Many be lieve, however, that some sort of compromise measure can be sand wiched in. The chances of obtaining the amount of money for housing as provided in the bill introduced by Senator Wagner of New York, how ever, seem slim at the present. • • • Recall Election Nearness President Roosevelts’s speech in Baltimore before the Young Dem ocrats, the first in his campaign for re-election, served to bring the Oak Grove Elects B.Y.P.U. Officers Girl Cuts Leg While Playing at School. Party Given For Young Folks Saturday. (Special to The Star.i OAK GROVE. April 24—A larg er number than has been presenl for some time was present Sunda> evening for the regular Sundaj services. Dr. C. J. Black was abl< to be present for the first time ir several months, but was only abl< to held his service sitting In hii chair in the pulpit. At the regular meeting of th< senior B.Y.P.U. of Oak Grove Sun day night new officers were elect' ed. The new officers are: Floyc Ford, director Miss Annie Randall president; Miss Veala Blanton vice president; Culp Ford, secre tary; Horace McSwaln. correspond lng secretary; Mrs. Edna Bell treasurer; Orin White. chorister Mrs. Essie Wright, pianist; Mlsi Agnes Hamrick. Bible quiz leader group captains: Miss Virginii Champion, Miss Bertha Ledbetter Miss Dorothy Patterson and Clydi Randall. While playing soft ball at schoo on Thursday of last week Mis Pinkie Lee Bell fell and badly cu her leg She has been unable t< attend school this week. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Bell delight fully entertained a number of thi young people of the community with a party at their home Satur day night. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Lovelace Mr. and Mrs. William Wattersor and Culp Ford were those of thii community .who attended the fu neral of William Gillespie Sunday Oscar White spent the week en< with Robert White of Blacksburg S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Dock Phillips an( son, Buster of Kings Mountaii were the visitors of Mr. and Mrs Everette Ford Sunday. Miss Ocie Patterson of neai Grover is spending several week; visiting here. fact that this is an election yeai closer home to members of congresi i than anything else that has ye happened. The pressure tor adjournmen will increase from now on. Th< 435 members of the house and one' third of the senate up for reelec tion this year already are showini signs of impatience at being hel< in Washington. With taxes and relief out of thi way,, the administration really hai no reason for wanting the sessioi prolonged. President Roosevelt ha; said that aside from the regula: appropriations, some substitute fo AAA and relief, he wanted nothinf else. He already has or shortly wil get all he asked for. LIGHT - USED CARS - FINANCED BY - Rogers Motors - smvm gONT shelf SPa Mofie 'El C)ME IN and let us show you today how Sav-A Step puts that hard-to-reach back shelf space at your finger tips, saves steps, saves current. You'll be amazed! STEWART WARNER >See It Today At THOMPSON'S Inc. Located In Eskridge Grocery Store On N. L&F&yette Street. Phone 174. Shelby, N. C. Mooresville, N. C. 4 ! GREAT-AUNT SAYS QUINTS HAVE NOT BEEN SPANKED NIAGARA PALLS, N. Y„ April 24. —The Dionne quintuplets never have been spanked their great aunt Miss Grace Demers, told relatives here. Miss Demers said “no physical force Is used; we accomplish results by other means,” and she lllus trated the methods used by saying one of the famous babies who de veloped a habit of crawling out oi bed had to be put back 71 times br. fore the habit was broken. She did not say which one was the "climb er." ______ : Robert Yant, Burlington, la high school senior, has suffered a brok en collar bone five times. THUMPS ONE WAY TO GROW MONEY VOU can’t just wish roses into blooming in jour garden. You have to plant seeds, and nurture them before you get results. Equally true is the fact that the only way to hare money in later years is by start ing to save now. It’s easy—and profit able for you—to cultivate the habit of making weekly deposits in our savings department. The First National Bank SHELBY, N. C. i THE OSTRICH buries his head when faced by difficulty UE doesn’t know how to face it. You can keep your head up in the world if you know that regular deposits of a portion of your income are accumulating interest—and that in time you will have enough money to meet any business or other emergency. Start a savings account with us today. Union Trust Company OF SHELBY, N. C. i
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