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The Cleveland Star —Wednesday - Friday 1 HE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. ----—..President and Editor VTAK wash*™';;;-;;;-8€creUry “! Fo:rr -----Advertising Manager . Social Editor P«r year Carrier, par year subscription Price $250 $3 00 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ******exc]usiveiy *> *>r n. ^ditTd 1 D*W* 'ftopatchM credi^ to R or not otherwise In thlrpa^r and also the local news published herein. Sntered as second class matter January 1, i--in's sms z r rB '■ “ h“ ruuu i mm.A. • ... * Ve C€nt* per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices. after one death nnt, »«. W published. This will be strictly adhered to WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21, 1986~ aJMt * ^"in‘r «» W.y. Th, Shelby SUr- “ ""I- hop, K will b, easy to ENHANCING LAND VALUES There is something to compensate for the short cotton crop in the soil improvement program carried out this year in Cleveland county. It is conservative to esti mate that a quarter of a million dollars was added to the value of farm lands in fertility by the soil building crops grown on acres taken out of eotton. Cleveland has always gone in heavily for commerc ial fertilizers. That, together with hard work and scientific farming methods accounts for the county’s high rank in cotton production. But in the years to come, it will not be necessary to invest so heavily in com mercial fertilizers. Farmers, in taking advantage of the benefit payments, have grown their fertilizer in the les pedeza, peaa and other crops they have planted on their acres taken out of cotton production. GETTING OUR GRANTS Congratulations to Mayor Woodson and the city council on securing from the Federal Government $254, 000 in grants for public work projects within the past 16 months. All of this money has gone for needed im provements and whether we agree with the government’s policy or not, we should realize that our citizens will have their share of the future tax burden to bear, grant or no grant. The mayor and ftie board have been keenly alive and awake to the building of streets, sidewalks and sewer mains, without any considerable increase m our local public debt. The next most important project awaiting final ap proval in Washington is our application for a grant on a new high school building. Before funds are exhausted and Federal grants are suspended, we hope every effort will be put forth to provide the needed school building to take the place of the one now in use, built 80 years ago and totally inadequate fdr present day needs. TO A NEIGHBOR The-Town of Kings Mountain is to be eoi^gr atululed on its drive to secure funds for establishing a public library. Kot only are congratulations in order on the step being undertaken but on the success with whieh the movement has met to date. Up to this time Kings Mountain has had no public library, no distributing point for boohs, to which it’s citizens could turn for reading matter, either recreation al or informative. As the town has grown, its leaders have realized that a good town deserves the good things of life and, rating a public library as one of the most de sirable attributes for their town, they have put their shoulders to the wheel to get one. Already the Town Board has appropriated per month for its mainten ance after it is opened. Hence we predict that a date not too distant wifi see the Kings Mountain Public Library ensconced, as a pleas ant reality, In its permanent quarters in the new town hall. HMD FOR BONING LAW In the conception of Shelby baek in the forties, the survey or displayed wonderful judgment and foresight in providing wide streets, divided into blocks ef proper proportion for the erection of homes and pub lic buildings. But somehow, we who same on in later years fail ed to prescribe districts or aones, specifically designat ed to business, manufacturing and private homes. As a consequence, complaints have gone up before the coun cil against the erection of business places in resident ial sections and objectionable stands in business sections. Hard feelings between friends and neighbors have re sulted and law suits threatened. Shelby should have had a zoning law years ago. It is not too- late to pass one now. The city council says it it powerless to prevent the erection of any kind of busi ness in any section of the city because there is no zon ing law. We are told that a zone law must be enacted by the General Assembly. Just why the city council which has law making power under our charter, does not have authority to establish boundaries, we do not know. It would appear that if the council can establish fire limits, outlaw hogs and cows, regulate business and individuals, it should be able to determine whether a cer tain type of business erected m a residential section is injurious to the other property. Certainly there should be a law to prohibit the es tablishment of a fertilizer factory, a packing plant or any other factory that has objectionable odors, in a resi | dential section which has long been established as such. RELINQUISHING A NAME WITH REGRET New personalities and new conditions sometimes de mand new names and so, those who control the destinies of The Cleveland Star have decided that when she comes forth in a new role on October 26, making her debut on the daily stage, she will wear at her masthead a new name, "The Shelby Daily Star.” The old name was looked at and pondered over many femes before the decision was reached to give it up. It was a good name and had served the paper well for forty years since its establishment and both the makers and the readers of the paper felt a sentimental attachment for it. However, as the paper has grown through the years it has reached out into new circulation territory and into the field of foreign advertising, for support, where the name of the city of Shelby is better-known than that of Cleveland county. Those outside this im mediate section are familiar with the location of the city when they are not familiar with the location of the coun ty and often mail intended for The Cleveland Star was directed erroneously to the town of Cleveland, In Rowan cotmty, and thus went astray. We would remind those who feel a twinge of regret at the change of name that other dailies in the state carry, without exception, the name of the cities in which they are published. If, for instance, the Elizabeth City Advance were labeled the Pasquotank Advance or the Reidsville Review were the Rockingham Review—using the name of the county instead of the city as a part of the paper’s name—it would be confusing to those in other sections of the state, as there would be no way of knowing in what city the paper was published or how to address its mail. Just so is the name The Cleveland Star confusing to residents of central or eastern Carolina. We repeat, the old name is being given up with re luctance, but we merely follow the trail blazed by other established dailies in identifying the paper with its home city. It will be no less a Cleveland county paper; it’s mission will still be primarily to serve the section im mediately surrounding Shelby, and for general, every day use the name is really unchanged for R remains, wether tri-weekly or daily, The Star. Nobody’s Business Br GEE McGEE FIAT ROCK WELCOMES A NEW COMER ..flat roek welcomes a new cttiaon into her fold, his name Is shorty long, he halls from the county seat and is a distant nephew of dr. hubbert green, he will work in dr. green’s drug stoar as sody Jerker, subscription filler, clerk and book keeper. he took the place of wlllle ter abb who lost out onner count of getting the drug stoar’s monney comingled with hls'n. .. shorty long seems to be a varry bright and sporty ehap. he shaves nearly ever day. but leaves a set of muahtash whiskers under his noee whoch looks lik? a red wasp, It be ing red in sympathy with his hair, he dresses verry smart and sendss his suit to the cleaner ever satturday. he is a tippical youngster of the day. he goes bare-headed, keeps his collar unbotoned, and his socks only reaoh up to his ankle anso forth. ..shorty Is drawing a lot of female trade ever afternoon, they come over and set down all of the even ing sipping a c5 glass of sody wat ter and talk back and fourth with shorty enduring the lips, he is verry expert at the fountlng. he fills 3 glasses of soft drinks at the same time by sheeting It Into a spoon which squirts it both ways, he will get 14- per week and board. . miss Jennie veeve smith, our ef ficient scholl principle, seems to of got mashed on shorty the secont day after he arrived, she goes by the drug stoar on her way to and i from scholl and calls for a glass of water and leans over the counter and whispers to shorty seweral minnets while disposing of same in small gulps, she Is losing favvor with the trustees onner count of this flirting with him. . shorty has a 3-door with a rum ple seat and can be seen late at night and nearly all day on Sun days skinning the highways with a girl by his side, the publlck do not understand how he can do so much on 11$ per week, but he do. it is thought that he owes only 6 more payments on his ford, but he can fill anny subscription sent to him pervided it can be read. . all of the boys of flat rock seem to be verry Jellous of shorty long | and they have quit drinking dopes at the drug stoar founting. that ' has thro wed the bizness in bottles to yore corry spondent, nr. mike Clark, rfd. who keeps soft and some hard drinks in his ice-box with his beefansoforth. if shorty will keep his mind on his bizness instead of our girls, he wiii enjoy his location in flat rock a heap more. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. I cierk of the bored LET HER COME: PICKING COT TON BY HAND 18 THE HARDEST JOB IN THE WORLD . That "Rust” cotton-picker will possibly prove satisfactory in west ern sections where there are no stumps and ditches and terraces and long rows mixed with short rows, but It need not bother the eastern belt yet. --They say the picker mires up in wet ground, so they’ll have to fix the weather to suit it. It picks leaves and burrs and bolls and trash and cotton all at the same time. I ain't doubting it being a most remarkable invention, but it won’t be as useful as the baby car riage and the automobile. .. Somehow or other, mother nature < intended for us to pick blackber ries, gooseberries, apples, peaches, oranges, and huckleberries with out hands. Cotton is nearly in the same boat. Another thing, the far mer will htjve to wait till all of his cotton opens before he uses that machine, or he’ll have to have a first, second, and third picking. That cotton-picker will tear up the whole crop on its first trip through the field. ..Understand, folks: we hope it will work here, there and ever where, but I know something about cotton in our up-hill, down-hill country. It's pretty hard for a man or a woman to pick cotton clean and leave no cowlicks. The worst beating I ever got was for leaving so many cowlicks behind me. That picker ain’t got no eyes. —I have seen western farmers gath their cotton with the sledge. It is a contraption that looks some thing like a small bateau. It is dragged a-straddle of a row, and when you get the sledges full, you really don’t know whether you’ve been picking cotton or pulling bolls or gathering leaves and limbs. But they say they have gins that can separate the debris from the fibre. ..There’s always something to wor ry about. This will be another stretch-out matter. The old far mer will stretch-out in bed while his wife runs the picker and cooks the iheals and does the wash. I expect it will take an arm of cot ton pickers to tote 1 the picker out of the ground, and keep the nuts tight on it. Anyway, there's going to be plenty jobs for everybody even if some of us have to fish for a living. Personally, it won’t hurt me: I never make over 3 bales to the plow, and I usually move off before it opens sos my landlord and creditors can do the picking, yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd 1 . clerk of the bored. Washington Daybook By PBESTON GROVER (Associate* Preee Staff Writer! WASHINGTON.—Whatever mon uments Secretary of State Hull may hava erected for himself, he quite evident looks up the reciprocal trade program as his finest. Long before the campaign began the treaties were taken under fire b y critics and Hull began de fending them. Senator Vanden berg of Michigan was among the most severe i n citing instances in which imports increased under HUSTON L CtOVff the treaties. Mr. Hull conceded there were in creases in 1935 and again this year. Much of the increase, he said, was in commodities not covered in the reciprocal treaties, but which came in over the Sammot-Sawley tariff wall to supply the drought short age. • • • • No Quarrel With Purpose Hull undoubtedly feels he has holes in his armor. In answering Governor Landon he seemed to skip lightly over mention of sugar, on the grounds it was only partly concerned in reciprocal treaties, but largely controlled by quota agree ments with the nearby island and Philippine producers. However hardshly Hull’s critics may deal with his methods, they rarely fire at his larger purpose of stirring up international trade. To him, international trade spells peace. Lack of it spells war. So often has he said that in and about Washington that in the capital it no longer ranks as news. He stress ed it in replying to Governor Lan don. He calls the pacts “treaties of commercial peace." Those close to him suspect he believes them more powerful than battleships and reg iments in “boring from within" to upset troublesome dictatorships. • • • • Morgnthau Take* Lead But If the world wide "economic log-jam” is giving away, as Hull says, it seems to many observers that another man is captaining the big log drive in recent weeks. By two quick steps toward what he describes as ultimate currency stabilization, Secretary Morgenthau of the treasury has seized from Hull the headline place in interna tional negotiation. Tariff duties were trimmed whole sale in certain countries following the British-French-United States agreement to steady currencies dur ing the French readjustment. Mor genthau negotiated that. Hull may recover part of the glory a few weeks hence when he leads the American delegation to the Buenos Aires conference. There he will try to blanket the Americas with a neutrality policy he helped shape for the United States as a sort of "back stop” in event the “treaties of commercial peace” failed. Seek Greener Grass For Yellower Milk ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Oct. 21. —The greener the grass the yel lower the milk, and the yellower the milk the greater the class. Rutgers University is experi menting with greener and greener grass, Prof. H. H. Tucker and Dr. John W. Bartlett disclosed yester day at the International Dairy men’s convention. Special nitrogen fertilizers are being used to produce greener grass, and some of it is so green as to be almost black. The greener the grass is the more yellow. The yellow is carrotin—the stuff that makes carrots yellow. Here’s what it is all about: some customers insist on yellow milk and no amount of argument will change their minds. Yellow milk may not be any better than white milk, said Dr. Bartlett, but the customer is always right, and if she insists on yellow she shall have It In due course. He told of a dairyman near Cam den who feeds his cattle the scraps j of carrots left over from the * manufacture of soup. The milk is j so yellow, he said, that often the ; dairyman is accused of using arti ficial color. Prison Population Down i " WELLINGTON, New Zealand.— ' fJP)—Prison population in New Zea-; i land Is decreasing,! according to the: 1 Dominion's prisons department an- ; nual report. The number decreased by „70 during the year 1935-36, and since ! 1931 the yearly decrease has been 34 per cent. Tire daily average of 1.212 in custody is the lowest figure for years. The Ice Plant is a native of Af j rica and gets its name front a wat ! cry substance covering having the appearance of ice. HOW'St/aut HEALTH Ukmlb Or. I«f* # tiu n*w v«* Ataimi tl M«dan> The Appendicitis Toll The appendix ts a blind gut. It is shaped like a glove linger and is attached to the lower right end of the colon at the place where the small intestines open into it. The “purpose” or function of the appendix is still a matter of con jecture. It is thought that the ap pendix is a stunted remnant of an organ that in time past served some useful end. Certainly the removal of the appendix causes no perceptible or deleterious change in the functioning of the digestive system. The appendix is peculiarly sub ject to infection and inflammation. When the infection goes on to pus formation, and the condition is not spontaneously resolved (the pus is not absorbed), it threatens serious consequences. Unless the appendix is surgically removed, it may break or rupture and pour its Infectious materials into the abdominal cav ity. Then there may develop an in flammation of the lining membrane of the abdominal cavity, the peri toneum, giving rise to the life-en dangering complication, peritonitis. Despite the marked improvement in surgical practice, vital statistics record a rise in the nations death rate from appendicitis during the last decade. Whether this rise is to be accounted for by an Increase in the prevalence of the disease, or by the fact that more cases of appen dicitis are nowadays correctly diag nosed and reported, is hard to de termine. Probably both factors con tribute. Three elements contribute to the reduction of appendicitis deaths. The first of these is, so to say, en tirely in the hands of the public. It revolves about the use of cathar tics and pifrgatives. Cathartics should not be used in the presence of abdominal pain. No drug likely to stimulate intestinal activity should be given to the ail person suffering from any derangement of the gastro-intestinal tract. The second factor concerns de lay in calling a physician, because it is thought the condition is noth ing more than an upset stomach. In an acute attack of appendicitis, the first 4a hours offer the best chances for safe operation. The third factor is also one of time, and concerns the delay in “consent to operate.” Many per sons fearing operation hesitate to submit to surgery. The longer the delay the more haardous, usually, the condition becomes and the less delay the more hazardous, usually, complications. Also, it should be borne in mind that young children, and even in fants, may suffer acute appendici tis. Children’s Play: I K Is tempting to compare the play activities of young animals with those of children. The kitten toy ing with the spool of thread or chasing the wind-blown leaf, the puppy growling like a grown dog and mauling Its litter mates, ap pear to us to be preparing for their adult activities. In a similar sense we have been taught to look upon the child’s play activities as of a preparatory nature. Play has been defined as the se rious business of the child’s life. Some have even gone so far as to forecast the aptitudes and occu pational predilections of the child on the basis of its play preferenc es. To a degree, the analogies drawn between the play activities of ani mals and children are sound. But the parallel must not be extended too far, for the life of animals Is governed by instinctive drives the expression of which remains large ly unhampered by those very ci vilizing restraints that distinguish human behavior. The younger the child the closer its behavior is to that of the ani mal. As soon as the child is able to manipulate objects it begins to accumulate sense experiences. The young child is avid for "contracts." It reaches for everything within and without range. It also indis criminately seeks to taste things. At this stage it gathers In the ele ments of sense knowledge, of hardness and softness, of lightness and heaviness, of sharpness, dull ness and so on. It is desirable to make available to the child at this stage of de velopment a variety of odds and ends with which it can toy. And every household offers a wealth of i such play materials. Pieces of cloth.' small wooden boxes, smooth-edged tin cans, wooden spoons, large! corks, round rubber balls, heavy rope and a score of similar objects i will provide the young child with; endless amusement and tnstruc-1 tlon. In gathering such a collection of ' toys, one must be cautious against! the hazards which unsuitable ob jects present. Sharp-pointed things should not be given the child, nor should its toys include any small beads or other things which it might place in Its mouth. If any of its toys are paint covered, make certain that the paint does not “Novelist Approach” Used In Massachusetts Campaign By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON.—(A*) — Corres pondence between Owen Johnson, the writer, and Democratic head quarters here indicates a very so cial-minded campaign (although by no means dour) is being waged in the first Massachusetts district, where Rep. Allen T. Treadway, Re publican, seeks reelection. Treadway began serving in 1913 and now is seeking his thirteenth term. His has long been a rock ribbed Republican stronghold and several prominent Democrats from the Berkshires have fallen in years past before the way of Treadway support. The “Novelist Approach" This year Johnson (The Varmint, Tennessee Shad, Virtuous Wives) decided to run. Instead of asking Democratic headquarters to supply him data on Treadway’s record, he asked information on a Swedish social security act of about 1883. Well, Democratic headquarters didn't have it, but did something about it, although the staff re maining here was not quite certain what. Johnson followed up with a re quest for data on how the British government dealt with a general strike in England a decade back. "These novelists go at things a little different,” was the only com ment headquarters could muster. Money In Yap If you are not quite clear on the domestic currency system this may help. In a remote corner of the na tional museum here is a stone disk two feet in diameter with a two inch hole roughly drilled through it. It is described as currency from Yap, an island west of the Philip pines, and is called a “fei.” A show-case placard tells the rest: “It (the currency) consists of lens-shaped wheels of limestone ranging in diameter from a foot to 12 feet. These ‘coins’ yrere quarried in the Pelaos islands, 400 miles to the southward, and brought to Yap by means of canoes and rafts. “The value depends upon the size, shape and quality of the stone. The largest stones are not moved when ownership is changed, but it is simply known that the transfer has been made. “Like the gold in the treasury, the knowledge of its being there suffices. “The wealthiest family on the is land is so by virtue of possessing a fei, the largest ever made, which contain lead. If uncertain, remove the paint. The nearest carpenter shop can supply wood remnants and blocks. These smoothened, to avoid the danger of splinters, will afford the youngster much tactile experience. Telescoped wooden boxes, ranging n size from the largest the child can manage, to small ones, will en able it to build. was shaped in Pelaos and losTaS the raft was wrecked Th. T™ ; that it is on the bottom of 1 does not detract from iu purci 1 mg power. 1 cl | "For ‘small change’ the p**,. jYap use nat pearl shells also tained from the Peiaos." " ' That may help when you as your mind an explanation for h,, ing three billion dollars’ ,nrth? gold in a vault in the hills of ^ Knox, Ky. 01 Funds Are Diverted In Large Amount WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 : diverted from the taxes pald | road users and motor carrier n*. iers generally in North Carolina? | other than highway ZLj* ! amounted to $1,757,462 ta | Authorities in South Carolina : port that $140,880 had been u out of the highway-revenue f i for different purposes. i Under acts of the State Legist tures, money from the high™ fund can be applied to ^n(n State, county, and municipal pur, poses. This may be used f0r edu cation, relief, and such miseellant j ous purposes as airports, n&vlg, I tion, service of non-highway debts 'irrigation and parks. During tb last year such diversions I made in all but four States, name ly: Iowa, Kansas. Kentucky. w Idaho. New York led the list witi the largest diversion aggregate $58,526,852 during 1935, Mr*. Ellis Honors Her Four Year Soi SHELBY. Route *. Oct J1 -Mn Tom Ellis was hostess at a lovel party on Saturday afternoon tom plimenting her son. Tom, Jr., a his fourth birthday. Those invite were: Billy and Am Ellis, Peggy Hicks. Shirley am Thomas Edwynn Philbeck, Bobb Blanton, Irene and O’Neil Browi Billy Riche, Marca and Billy Bell Jimmie and Maynard Philbeck I Gerald Price, Kenneth Grayson. J B. and Sue Weaver. Gilman Hut chin and Hazel Whitener, Many interesting games wer played. Mrs. Hub Ellis leading th games. Ice cream, cakes and mints tret served by the hostess, assisted b her sisters, Mrs. Maud Blanto 1 and Mrs. Patsy Gold. The date of Paul Revere* rid was April 18-19, 1775. 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