GOVERNMENT LOSES
INJUNCTION SUIT IN
13. C. COURT OF
APPEALS
Washington, June 22.—The govern
Stent lost in the District of Columbia
court of appeals today in its effort
to delay trial of the injunction suit
brought by seven utility companies
against the Wheeler-Ray burn hold
ing company law.
The court reversed the stay ordei
entered in the easts several months j
ago by Justice Jennings Bailey ot ;
the District supreme court.
Justice Bailey granted the stay
*fter Attorney General Cummings
had argued that litigation brought >
by the government in New York a
gainst the Klectric Bond and Share '
Co. would thoroughly test constitu- ‘
tionality of the holding company !
law. Cummins's plea that a multipli
city of suits brought by the utility
Interests threatened to bring down j
the machinery of the department ot j
justice failed to win over t!i ■ appe
late court.
Speaking for it, Associate Justice
Josiah A. Van Ordei said issues
ranged in the cases here were not all
Identical with those in the bond and
share case.
“T.h» government of the United
States as a litigant has no greater
right than the humblest citizen, said
his opinion.
ICE CREAM SUPPER AT
PATTERSON GROVE
An Ice cream supper will be given
at Patterson Growo school Saturday
evening, the proceeds to bo used for
the school.
CULTIVATE COTTON
IN USUAL WAY THIS
YEAR
Whore farmers replanted cotton
just before the drouth was broken,
anil now find that both the first and
second plantings have come up.
they should cultivate it in the usual
way .though mor° rapidly, and leave
wo or three stalks to each hill.
To get the greatest yield, said E.
Blair, extension agronomist at
State College, top dress the cotton j
early with 100 to 150 pounds of ni- !
trate of soda to the acre.
If the weather is favorable during
the rest of the growing season, he '
added, growers still have a 50-50
chance to make a good crop in the
Piedmont area, and an even hotter
chance in the coastal plain counties.
.A number of farmers, he continu
ed, planted corn on their cotton land
after deciding that dry weatheer had
damaged the cotton seed to mucin
for it to germinate and produce u
good stand.
In many fields both corn and cot
ton are now coming up. In this! 1 (
vent Blair advises growers to reduce j
their cotton acreage as much as they j
ctn under the new farm program, so j
as to be in a position to get the full j
amount of the payments offered.
Corn will probably make a good
yield this year, he continued, if a
farmer feels that he needs more
corn to insure an adequate supply
of feed next winter and spring, It
may pay him to reduce his cotton
even further.
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"no niians land.” And the Court, t
develops, was just interpreting the
Constitution.
**•* *
That discovery surprised some
who went to the trouble to find out
why the Constitution established
that "no man's land.” Here is whate
they found by a brief study of our
nation's i.Utory;
The United States was founded by
a group of pioneers who had lived
under the oppression of a regime
which controlled their every activi
ty. 'I': at regime even tried to tell
them what they should think, as
well as what they should and should
not do.
With that in mind, the students
found) the men who established our
government and wrote our Conatitu
tion sought to establish safe-guatUsi
against an all-powerful regime, Thi y
thuught they had put these s afe
guards into the original Constitution
which became effective on March 4,
1789.
But In September of the same1
year, the records sliowed, these men
decided the safeguards were nor
strong enough. Congress proiwsed
ten constitutional amendments
which were ratified and declared in
effect on March 4, 1791. These pro
tected the rights of freedom of
speech, religion, and the press; ot
trial by jury, of private property; of
security from unwarrantable search,
and seizure. And the last two amend
ments said:
“The enumeration in the Constitu
tion, of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage c>v
ers RETAINED BY THE PEOPLE.
The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constituion,
nor prohibited by it to the state®,
are reserved to the states respective
ly, OR TO THE PEOPLE.”
Thus the Supreme Court simply
was protecting a deliberately created
“every man’s land,” in which every
man’s freedom was guaranteed.
The realization of these facts had
several reactions. Representative
Peittengill of Indiana, and a number
of others, for instance, advocated
that the Constitution be amended to
let the staes control wages and
hours. Some others wanted to give,
that control to the federal govern
ment.
'Organized labor representatives
had been among those who cried
Woe is men! and who urged a Con
stitutional amendment. But upon fur
ther thought, they too, were not so
sure. In fact they went out oi their
way to emphasize that they wanted
to "make haste slowly.” They re
membered. among other things, that
once such a thing was on the stat
ute books, it would be there to stay;
and that while one administration
might use such a law to establish a
;;i)-hour week, another might use the
same authority to fix a 54 hour week
****
A fourth group included Senators
Borah of Idaho and Steiwer ot Ore
gon. They remarked that although
For The 54th Time
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THERE IS NO SAFER, SURER PLACE TO INVEST YOUR BONUS
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Home B. & L. Association
A. H. PATTERSON, Secy Treas.
the New York stale law was Invali
dated, a Constitutional amendment
should not be advocated until at
tempts were made to present tbe
law in another form. In other words,
they said, there must be some vs ay
of legislating- on the subject ot
wages and hours without impinging
upon the prerogatives preserved to
the people in the Constitution.
THE FIGHT
They climbed over the ropes and in
to the ring;
Two determined, courageous men.
They sit there, waiting impatiently.
For the bell, which means to begin.
lier Maxis is ex-champ and a “has
been,”
And the Brown Bomber a "seme-day
will-be.
T say he's the best in a decade—
i ...it illy Dempsey is better than he
hoi:' • v pec ed to pick Iris own good
time,
And i , n to knock Maxie out.
But Sc '.aiding, with one chance in
twenty,
Also expected to win the bout.
They told Louis it could'rot happen,
That he could not be floored,
But along came ScDmeliing, the “has
been,”
And with his good right fist he
scored.
Louis was surprised, to say the least
But he did not cover in fright,
Instead he was up instantly
On his feet and ready to fight.
Schaneling admired Louis’ courage,
But knew that Louis was done;
For when he floored the Bomber,
The fight was really won.
The twelfth round was the finish,
From the ropes he was knocked to
the floor;
What they believed impossible hap
pened,
And Louis could take no more,
illy Howard "George” Whittington.
West Geld street., Kings' Mountain,
N. C.)
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One Man's Opinion
Congress has adjourned and the
President has signed a bill carrying
$1,425,000,000 more to be spent chief
ly by tire Work Progress Adminis
tration.
In this sum a little over ninety
thousand dollars is earmarked for
municipal improvements in Kings
Mountain.
T is far yve have been behind in
receiving our part of the huge sums
of i'."deral money which have been
spent and in which we must eventu
ally and inevitably share in repaying
The amount (that we secure will
have no effect upon the amount thitt
we ropuv. However. " " larger th<
.are we spend will make the repay
ment that much ec. -ier for us.
We may not be in sympathy with
all of this Federal sp- tiding but that
can be no reason for our negligence
in going after and receiving our
part.
There are strings attached to this
money but there is no reason we
should fail to get out house in order.
We must be on the job in the inter
est of our community.
It is estimated that based on popu
lation we should have had already
over a quarter of a million dollars to
spend of the money already gone.
The last fund offered us was the
fourteen thousand dollars for a com
munity park. To secure thlis we had
to agree to add about four thousand
dollars. This eighteen thousand dol
lars so spent here would have been
real money in circulation among the
mercfclants and taxpayers. To let the
opportunity slip was penny wise and
pound foolish.
Kings Mountain needs the recrea
tion park. If the details had been
thought out it might have been pos
sible from this sum to have construe
ted a bathing beach for the commun
tty. Such a project could have been
'.eased yearly to easily pay the cost
of our four thousand dollars of bor
rowed capital And in the satisfac
tion and happiness of our people it
would have paid enormous profit to
the city, II may not be too late to
secure a fund for this yet.
Regardless of how sure we may
now feel that we are in line for the
present funds made available we
should lose no time in putting forth'
the right effort in the right direction
that cur part be secured and imme
diately be put to work in municipal
improvement.
Let us stake our claim and fight
for our rights.
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