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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 Published Every Thursday "herald PUBLISHING HOUSE, Haywood E. Lynch Editor-Manager Entered as second class matter at the Postofflce at Kings Mountain, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION HATES One Year . $1.50 Six Months .75 A weekly newspaper devoted to tne promotion of the general wel fare and published for the enlight ment, entertainment, and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain and Its vicinity. “A GLORIOUS COURT” ‘‘The place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I con verse With Die old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, 1 confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly KOt, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.” —Beaumont and Fletcher THREE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS IN JANUARY The birthdays of throe great men are observed in January. We would all do well to pause and think of the outstanding accomplishments of these three men, and let their lives be an inspiration to us to try a lit tle harder to do the right thing at the right time in the right way The men and their birthdays; Benjamin Franklin, January 17, 1706. Daniel Webster, January 18, 1783. Robert E. Lee, January 19, 1807. LET'S STOP IT Kings Mountain has become a reg nlar battleground for out-of-town mer chants to flood with their selling campaigns. Almost daily tile business and residential section is littered up ■with circulars and handbills of mer chants front nearby towns. They are not only clottering up our town with these handbills but they are trying to induce local people to leave their town and spend tlmir money out ot town. This is unjust to our local mer chants who pay taxes, hire local peo pie. and spend their money here. We have been told that there is an ordinance against such practice. I^ets see that this ordinance is en forced to the very limit. STREETS Since the big snow several streets in Kings Mountain are in very bad condition. “A stitch in time saves nine" should apply to the repairing of these streets. The sooner this work is started the less work and expense it will take to repair them. THE AMERICAN HERITAGE "We have become a great nation because we are a nation of fearless individualists We hawe no caste, no privileged few; and the little child born in the tenements is a potential president of the United States. This is our heritage. No depression can take away from the true American his desire to climb and his desire to achieve. The history of America is filled with the stories of men who battled their way through barren wil derness, who blasted their way throu gb mountains of rock, and laid the foundations of cities and businesses that stand as testimonials to this country and its opportuities . For the track walker becomes the railroad president, and the farm boy becomes the president of a great bank." From an address by Roy H. Faulkner, President, Auburn Auto mobile Company. THE ONLY THREE A most ironic “editorial' on the subject of speed appears quite inad vertently in an engagement book is sued by the New York Telephone Co. It preseuts the name of speed record holders in three fields, as follows: Air—Lieutenant Francesco Agello of Italy, 440.29 mph. Water—Oarfield A. Wood of the United States, 124 86 mph. Land—Sir Malcolm Campbell of England, 301.337 mph. What a blow this must be to the thousands of amateur speeders throu ghout the country! The only places their names may appear is on the police blotter or the obituary page. Statistics show that 6,850 persons were killed and 134,300 injured in automobile accidents during 1934 as the direct result of excessive speed. But the statistics cannot show how important a factor speed was in nearly every other cause on the mo tor accident calendar. Driving cars too fast for conditions played a prom inent part in thousands of accidents' charged to violating the right of way, cutting in, passing a standing street car. passing on a curve or hill, driv ing off the road way, and reckless driving. The smart, twentieth-century atti tude on speed is that it is no longer a question of how fast you can go, but or how fast you can stop. Remember that excessive speed is relatively so insignificant that out of the whole world only three names are given any mention for ft HERE and THERE By Haywo«4 E. Lynch t-Tire is a good one that I read in j Henry Balk's column in the Goldsbo- j ro News-Argus. That's the paper I ! used to werfc on. A lady had twins, and she named one Hoover and the other Roosevelt, j They were exactly alike, and she had a hard time telling them apart. The1 doctor called back to see the twin6 and he wanted to know which was which. The lady went over to the crib and picked up one and smelled him and put him back. Then she pick ed up the other one and smelled him, and said: ‘’Here is Roosevelt.” The doctor wanted to know how she told them apart. She replied, “Roosevelt's done something." Some weeks I have plenty of items for this column, and some weeks I don’t have any. This is one of thy ; weeks that I don’t have any. Mike Milan, Manager of the Home Stores, promised to write this col umn for me one week, bu-t up to now he hasn't delivered the goods. ‘ I believe more people go from Kings Mountain to Florida than any other town in the world of the same size. There is a regular Kings Moun tain Colony at Palm Harbor. Get A. P. Warlick or E. W. Griffin to tell you who Dirtyfoot is. They told me. Pretty Sight: My new car. There is going to be a mighty good program at the Men’s Club tonight. I know because I am in it. But you don’t have to believe me ■ just ask Arnold Kiser, Johnny .Mc Gill or Kenneth Crook. WPA, PWA—NIL As far as Kings Mountain is con cerned it seems that WPA and PWA mean Nil, It has been a mystery to us why some project has not been started here. It has come to our at tention this week that workers from Kings Mountain are at work on pro jects in Shelby. We need streets. We need sewer lines, and other worth One Dollar Income: Two Dollar Outgo! By RAYMOND PITCAIRN ISntiomil Cltnirmtin _Sentinels of the Republic With Congress well launched into its present session, the public is watching eagerly lor evidence that pledges to re duce extravagance in government are to be fulfilled. Thus l'ar the evidence is scant. There have been the usual number ot "private bills" to increase individual pensions and the like. There has been talk of huge appropriations for various proj ects obscure both in scope and in pur pose. It begins to look as if enough plans to spend the taxpayers money will be offered this session to run the total high into the billions—as lias been the fashion at Washington during re cent years. Naturally an uiese euurus on uic par* of legislators to spend the people's dol lars cannot hope to be enacted into law. But the persistence with which such attempts recur indicates some thing worthy oi consideration by all of us who pay taxes, whether direct or “hidden.' It is, that while office-holders like to picture themselves as the people's business agents in government, actually many oi them seem to play quite the opposite role Probably that explains why the Federal public debt has reached an all-time high; why the gov ernment is spending almost two dollars today for every dollar it takes in. What the office-holder should re member is that the ability of any busi ness agent is measured not by the num ber and the magnitude of the bills he runs up for his employers to pay, but by the efficiency and economy with which he administers the affairs of those he represents. Helping to run up a public debt that would take thou sands of years to pay at the rate of $5,000 a day, doesn't quite fit the pic ture. Yet that, statisticians say, is what reckless spending in government has done to the United States and its people. Big appropriation bills may help put a legislator’s name on the front page— but they don’t remedy conditions if they also help put a lot of other men’s names among the bankruptcy notices. Why, Oh, Why Can’t Kings Moun tain get their finger in the pie? while projects. LET S LOOK BACK From The Kings Mountain Herald 20 YEARS AGO JAN. 27, 1916 Mrs. B. M. Orniand went to Char lotte Tuesday. There has been lots of work on our streets for the past week remov ing the surplus soil occasioned by the sewer ditcher, and restoring shape to Ihe surface. C. Q. Ilbyne is representing the High Point Furniture Co. in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennes see. The Cleveland County Farmers Nn ion meets in the Court House at Shelby, Thursday, February 3, at 10 o'clock. All locals are expected to be present. Mr Bun Patterson's little daughter was sick during last week. They live j in the Patterson Grove section. !>?*. s. Wright Harmon of the Patter son Grove section visited relatives in Kings Mountain last week. OPEN FCRUM An open torum for our read ers, but no letter can be pub ) lished if it exceeds 500 words. No anonymous communications will be accepted. The name of the writer -will not be published however, if the author so re quests. To The Editor: I would like to join with our alert editor in the worthy endeavor to give the people of Kings Mountain a library. In so doing, I am certain that there are many others who want to do the same thing. The value of selected reading is too apparent to even argue. There is one objection that bobs up immediately which must be removed: I have more reading already than I can possibly or prop erly digest. Of a great many of us this is true. And little do we realize the good fortune that is ours in keep •XV « LOMBARD hi MacMURRAY Adapted by Wallace West from the Paramount Picture of the same title, based on Vina Delmar’s storyi SYNOPSIS Begi Allen, a manicurist em ployed in llte barber shop of a swanky New York hotel, has ambi tions to marry a millionaire. Al though she attracts the attention of Allen Macklyn, young millionaire poralysd from the waist down in a plane crash, Begi has eyes only for Theodore Drew III, a society play boy Drew disappoints her when he tells her that he ta leaving tor Ber muda for n short vacation, after which he plans to marry a wealthy society girl, lie misses the boat, however when he gets drunlc at dinner and Hegi has to put him up in her apartment. The next day he tells Begi that his father lost all his money in the crash and that he isn't worth a cent To cover up the fact that he missed the boat, Ted calts his sweetheart from Bcgi's apartment and tries to make her believe that he is calling from Her mnila. lint the girl on the other end of the wire isn't fooled. CHATTER V OINCE he did not dare let his ^ fiancee know that he was not In Bermuda—Mr. Snowden objected to people who missed boats—Ted spent another night on the couch in the living room. The next day be In sisted that be would cook dinner (or Regi when she returned from work. It was pouring down rain when she came out of the subway. Sbe turned up her coat collar and was preparing to get wet when sbe saw Ted Sagging ber wildly from a taxi cab near by. Sbe ran for it, head down. ‘‘Don't ever say I don’t think of you every moment,” he laugbed tri umphantly. “I’ve been sitting right here for two hours reserving this cab. Aren’t you going to say It was nice of me?” “Have you?” asked Regi weakly. Then catching sight of the meter which read $4.25, she added dryly: "Yes. I see you have, it was lovely of you! But taking taxis . . . when you haven’t any money ... isn’t it a little foolish?” "Foolish! Why, I had to take a taxi. 1 couldn’t come out In this pouring rain . . . and take the new crease out of my pants.” “Where’s your overcoat?” "Oh, it’s spending a little while In a ... to put it frankly . . . pawn shop.” “Why did you pawn it” sbe ex claimed in dismay. “Why, to pay for the taxi, of course!” His tone was hurt. ••James," he called to the driver. “The nearest delicatessen.” After loading up with delicacies, wiilch used up all the money he had after paying the taxi fare, Ted es corted Regi home In style ... to a meal "worthy of an Allen and a Drew.” They were washing the dishes when a ring came at the door, and a messenger boy delivered a huge bunch of daffodils. “Ah. Spring has come to a hun dred and twentieth street." beamed Ted. "They’re from Mr. Macklyn," ex claimed Regi, examining the card “Who’s he?” Ted's voice was Sharp. "He’s my best friend. He says daffodils remind him of me.” "I thought your big idea was a man you’d remind of orchids.” He couldn’t keep a twinge of Jealousy out of his voice. "At least I don’t remind people of: pineapples.” "Ough!” Ted clutched his chin as though he had been socked. Then after a little pause: “Your ‘best friend,’ Is he rich?” “Sure.” "That’s nice. Fits right in with your plans, doesn't it?” "I haven't any plans.” "But your ideas about marrying for money haven’t changed, have they?" "Certainly not.” She picked up the flowers. “Have yours?” "Nope,” he answered blithely as be brought a vase. "Once a heel, al ways a heel. That's our slogan." Then he added staring at the flow “I'm scared to think what Nona would make that add up to. Well, here goes.” “Hello? ... Hello? ... Hello. Miss Snowden." said Regi In a typical op erator’s voice after the connection had been made. “Bermuda calling. Are you ready” “Yes, I’m ready,” answered a silken contralto. “Go ahead with Bermuda,” said Regi. "Hello. Vivian,” began Ted. "Can you hear me?” “Hello, Teddy. I can hear you per fectly. How are you? When are you coming back?” An imp of mischief suddenly took control of Regi She leaned ovsr and called into the phone: “Hello, Westchester 2839G? . . . Bermuda calling Miss Vivian Snowdea, please. .. Ted was dismayed but helpless. Vivian was furious. By this time, Ted was flat on the floor and Regl had collapsed against the wall. They were hysterical with laughter. era: "You know they are kind of like you, at that.” Suddenly he gasped as though cold water had been thrown on him. “Oh, great grief,” he cried, “I’m In Bermuda!” "Good. And I’m la Greenland.” "Don’t be superflclai.” His tone was frantic. "I'm supposed to be in Bermuda right this minute and Vivian might telephone. What’ll I do?” "Telephone her first" "What? From New York?” Then, as the Idea sank in: "1 shall make you the general of ail my armies for that suggestion. Only you’ve got to tell her I’m calling from Bermuda. You’ll be the operator.” "What’s her number?” Regi’s eyes were sparkling with mischief. "Westchester eight • two • seven nine-three.” ''Operator!” atae exclaimed. “Ire got Bermuda! Please get off the win. Hello, Ted.. •. Can you hear meT” "Yea. I can hear you.” He waa try ing to (end Regi off with one ira but laughing at the same time. “Hey! Lay off!” “What did you say, Ted . ; .1* came his fiancee’s furious roica. “Yea, Operator! I're got Bennudat Please get off the Una Hello! Hello! Ted? ... Oh, Operator! Go away.’” By thla time Ted was let oa the floor and Regi had collapsed against the wall under the telephone. They were hyaterleal with laughter. They could not know that Vivian, after jiggling the hook some more, had finally gotten a real operator and been Informed that there had been no call from Bermuda, but that it had come from New York! __ IS |S continued ing company with good books. But there are many hungry minds in our vicinity of whom this is tar from true There are other minds who lack, but they do not know how far a book will go in the filling of it. One can not even imagine the possibilities if cur hungering minds could sit down iers. Long years ago, Thomas Moore fers. long years ago, Thomas Moore wrote, "My only books Were woman's looks— And folly's all they've taught me.’ He was not decrying reading. It was the substitution of something else for this essential tool in the de velopment of the human personality, that caused his cry. In this day of hurry and greater leisure, we need to know what Longfellow accounted so dear: "The love of learning, the sequester ed nooks And all the sweet serenity ol books.’ 1 think our only problem is the method of procedure. If each Civic and Study Club will endorse the Idea and appoint a representative to meet with Mr. Lynch, I feel sure that some practical plan can be launched im mediately. In fact there is nothing wrong with the editor’s idea after we get a representative group back of it. The Minister’s Association will make this appointment. Let each club do it at their February meeting. Did you know that a friend loaned Andrew Carnegie a few books that changed his life and drenched his soul with the dream that every young person should have the opportunity to read? Carnegie Libraries were born from those few hooks. I'd like to have a part in feeding ambitious minds with good substantial food. Wouldn’t you? Interestedly yours, W. M. Boyce Dixie Gem Coal The National Favorite For more than a quarter of a century, DIXIE GEM COAL has been used in thousands of homes in Kings Mountain and haB radiated ‘ Heat, Health, Happiness and Hospitality.” Kings Mountain Ice & Coal Co. 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