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The Kings Mountain Henald Established 1889 Published Every Thursday "herald publishTng HOUSE, Haywood E. Lynch Editor-Manager Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice at Kings Mountain, S. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION HATES One Year . $1.50 Six Months .<5 A weekly newspaper devoleu to me promotion of the general wel .are and published for the enlight meat, entertainment and benefit of the citizens jf Kings Mountain and its vicinity. HAVE NO MERCY ON DRUNKEN DRIVERS Here is an excellent thought trom the Port Umpqua, Oregon, Courier: "If the Courier man were a judge in courts dispensing sentence upon drunken auto drivers, there would only be first offenders. Regardless of race, color, creed or alleviating cir cumstances, the person who has so little consideration for the lives of innocent people as to drink intoxi cants before or after placing him self behind the steering wheel of an automobile should never be allowed to repeat the performance. Revoca tion of licenses would be fatal and final. Driving a car is a privilege — not a right.” . It is impossiDie to prove exacts what percentage of automobile acci dents are caused by drunken driving for the reason that in many cases where liquor plays a part, arresting officers and prosecutors are unable afterwards to produce sufficient evi dence for a conviction. But all the best estimates say that alcohol is the definite factor in a much higher proportion of mishaps than is gener ally realized. Furthermore, an acci dent in which a drunk is involved is more likely to be serious than one iinvolving sober drivers. Drunken drivers are often released after paying relatively small fines. Some juries are notoriously derelict in bringing in convictions. The drunken driver should never be allowed to pay a fine and he should be denied the right to use the public streets and highway. If such a program were carried out through cut the country, one of the gravest menaces to life would be greatly minimized. ARE PLATFORM PLANKS MEANINGLESS' According to present official es timates, it will be at least two years before it will be possible to systematically start to reduce the gigantic national debt. Without criticising these estimates which are necessarily predicated on personal judgments as to future de ^nands on the Treasury — especially in the matter of relief spending —it is certainly reasonable to suggest that Congress do its utmost to hold down appropriations so that the pro gram of debt reduction may start much sooner. The debt is now approaching the $36,000,000,000 point, and it will be at its all time high in less than six months, when tbe fiscal year ends. One of the largest Federal expenses is tlie servicing and amortizing of that almost unimaginable sum. Ev ery dollar outstanding bears inter est. And while it is true that the government has found it possible to reduce the interest rate paid, to un precedentedly low levels, hundreds of millions annually are required to pay the interest bill. Over a long pe riod ot' time, the interest cost of a bond issue may rival in amount the size of the issue itself. The cost of Federal activities — regular as well as emergency —can be pared without reducing the quali ty of governmental service. Many departments have fattened far be yond their proper size. Others could be dispensed with entirely, the need that created them having passed Others overlap in their functions at the expense of the taxpayer. Such programs as that proposed to the President, whereby departments and bureaus would be consolidated to increase efficiency and reduce costs, should be encouraged. It is the plain duty of Congress to make reduction in the cost of government a reality, not just a meaninglss plank in political platforms. Explorers Led On Merry Chases By Polar Mirages Syracuse. N. Y„ Jan 13.—Prof. Wil liam H. Hobbs, of the University of Michigan, explained how "polar mir ages" led early explorers on a merry chase to locate land hey had “discov ered,” confused their map making and caused colleagues to cast sus picious eyes on their reports. In a speech before the annual meet ing of the Association of American Georgraphers, Prof. Hobbs declared these “polar mirages’ accounted for wide differences fo opinion among early explorers and sent them off on map making expeditions that brought conflicting results. And it took nearly a half century to locate the trouble, Hobbs said. Polar mirages, he explained, were HERE and THERE By Haywood E. Lynch When I was a boy in school it seemed like the weeks would nev er roll around to Saturday and Sunday so I would not have to go to School. Now that I am older it seems like the weeks fly by, and I have to write this weekly (also weakly) column almost every other day. You remember when you was a child it seemed like ages from one Christmas until the next, now they come around almost monthly. Preacher Hamm, made the sug gestion to the Men’s Club the oth er night, that they buy a page ad in the Herald and see if my lost moustache could be located. I told him after the meeting I would do nate one half the page in trying to find him some hair for his head. One ihing about it I can grow an other moustache, but I have a very serious doubt as to whether the jolly preacher can grow some more hair on the place his hair is miss ing. How about it Preacher?. You ,know, laying all jokin aside, .-tev. Hamm is one of the fin est citizens in The Best Town In the State. A certain young lady is certainly seeing a lot of a certain young man about town. Mrs. P. D Herndon almost em barrased me yesterday. She had oharge of her Study Club, and de cided to ask a series of questions on Kings Mountain. She stumped me right off the bat with a ques tion about the number of different denominations in our fair city. By the way she is going to let me publish her questions and answers next week. Pretty Sight: The new Town Hall now under construction. And talking about that new Town Hall, way back yonder when it looked like Kings Mountain was going to be completely slighted as to some Government money, I bet Charlie Dilling a crate of drinks we would not get that Town Hall. So, I lose, but this is one bet I have made in my life that I am glad I lost. It is a case of winning even though you lose. Charlie, I will send you your drinks in a few days. Maybe I can float some kind of a bond issue to pay for them. The Merit System Versus Spoils By RAYMOND PITCAIRN National Chairman ... -■ Sentinels of the Republic - ■ Increased efficiency in all govern mental activities. Economy for the taxpayer. Purposeful careers for public em ployes. Elimination of the Spoils System. These are a few ot the goals sought by increasing numbers of taxpaying cit izens who demand that the Civil Serv ice or Merit System, now in partial effect, replace the Spoils System in ali but the topmost federal jobs. America can achieve these benefits —if Congress does its part. The way is open. A White House message has urged expansion of Civil Service to include all employes except Secretaries, Under secretaries and those in similar policy making offices Several members of Congress have introduced measures to hasten extension of the Merit System idea. But will they be put into effect? That's a different question. Heavy political barricades must first be overcome. For a complete applica tion of the Merit System would strip politicians of their greatest asset—the control and doling out of jobs. Natur ally many politicians will oppose it. Naturally they will fight any step which extends the policy of selecting public servants on the basis of how well they can do their work instead of the basis of how many votes they can deliver for the politicians on Election Day. There stands the basic issue—whether the Federal payroll, which costs the tax payers more than a billion dollars an nually, shall be for the benefit of poli ticians who control appointments, or of the public who foot the bill. It’s up to Congress to decide. The choice should not be a difficult one. caused by the reflection of an object off a “mirror made by the contact of huge air masses of different densi ties high above the earth's surface. They differ from desert mirages he said, in that polar mirages reflect objects 100 to200 miles away and pre sent an image at an altitude of about three quarters of a mile. The desert mirages, be said reflect objects only about a mile away and make an image only five or six feet off the sand. The same thing that makes a stick put in the water look broken, makes the polar mirages. “The light rays bend on a concave line from the point of reflection, are high and very, very distant,’ Hobbs said. “On our Greenland expedition, at Mt. Evans, with a tested horizon vis ibility of only 12 miles,” Hobbs said, ‘We saw wholly new panoramas with lands and landscapes visible in the sky over the horizon. Hobbs said explorers in late years using airplanes, reported visibility of 200 miles a “fairly common” occur renoe with the image as clear as earth plane observance ot 2o miles Hobbs ,=aid that the extremely high visibility of the polar regions, where the air is relatively free from dust and moisture, accounted for the great distances that the mirages were visible. “There goes the band leader that com,,osv,u music while in bed.' “Goodness, what kind of music can that be?" ‘Sheet music,” J “I never clash with my boss.” ‘No?’ “No, he goes his way and I go his.' Judge—‘Do you challenge any ot the jury?” Defendant—“Well, I think I can lick that little guy on the end.” Warranty Deeds At Herald Office LET’S LOOK BACK From The Kings Mountain Herald NINETEEN YEARS AGO FEB. ?, 1918 The R. E. T^ee Literary Society of the Kings Mountain Graded school met Friday and elected the following officers: James Swaringen, president. Helen Smith, treasurer. Susie Reach, first critic . Lawrence Lovell, second critic. Garrison Ware, monitor. Miriam Goforth, news reporter. Capt. F. Dilling returned last week from his hunting preserve at Hilton Head. —THE HERALD $1.50 A YEAR— l — Vic”ALD OFFICE I CROP LIENS AMUEL GOLDWYN prmttnt$ EDNA FERBER’S AN0 BET IT! EDWARD ARNOLD JOEL McCREA- FRANCES FARMER MA0V CHtISfUNS • WAlTft HENMAN "AMT SHKIOS AN©UA ICEOS ’ tl/NM hr MOWAtO HAWKS md WtUlAM WYUt ■ M*lt—d *r» UN*Tt© URJfl Barney Glasgow had risen from shanty boy of Silas Hewitt's lumber camp to the richest and most powerful man in Wisconsin. His loveless marriage to Emmy Louise Hewitt had been the step ping stone to his timber kingdom and now, at fifty, Barney had tico grown children, Evvie and Richard. On a trip north to see his old friend Swan Bostrom, Barney became infatuated with Sioan’s nineteen-year-old daugh ter, Lotta. In order to have Lotta near him he brought Swan and the two women to Butte des Marts. People were beginning to talk. Chapter Five “Ah—ah—I’m Richard Glasgow, Miss Bostrom.” Richard stood on the doorstep of Swan’s cottage, nervously fingering his hat. “Pa's gone for a walk with Aunt Karie,” Lotta informed him. “Then I’ll tell you what I came to say," said Richard, and his words came quickly, heatedly. “The Glas gow family won't stand for you or any other yellow-haired vampire making a fool of my father! I stand ready to pay you any reason able sum to leave town—I’m as suming, of course, that it's money you want.” He delivered the speech with all didn’t have anything to do with my uh — bringing Lotta down here?" he questioned her anxiously. “Yes,” Ewie confessed. “It had everything to do with it. “If I hadn't seen her I’d have married Orvie. I’m not blaming you, darl ing—but Lotta looks just like her mother, doesn't she? I'm not going to make the same mistake you did. I'm going to marry Tony.” rony : Barney ecnoeu uncom prehendingly. “Tony who?" “Tony Schwerke—he's third hand at the big machine in the mill— been working for you since he was fourteen. I’m crazy about him.” Barney was flabbergasted. “But Ewie," he protested. “Why’d you fool around with a boy like that! You'll break your mother’s heart!” “No—I won’t There won’t be any thing left to break when you get through!” Her meaning was unmistakable Horrible to bargain with one’s own child. Horrible and humiliating. But Barney struck a bargain with Ewie: if she promised never to see Tony again, he would keep away from Lotta. Suddenly Ewie was in her father’s arms, crying her heart out. At his office the next day Barney had a talk with Richard about Tony Schwerke. Tony lived with his father and mother and four broth ers down in the Flats, the poorest section of Butte des Morts. Old man Schwerke was a fine paper man till he got hurt. Wouldn’t take From, her father, her confidant, she could no longer conceal the truth. the pompous dignity he could sum mon. Lotta’s face was white with fury. Before Richard could say another word her hand shot out against his cheek with resounding Impact. As he staggered back in cain and surprise, she rushed after fatal, striking and kicking like a cnad woman. Richard lo.<Tt his foot ing and collapsed awkwardly on the grass. “Why you . . . you . . . I’ll kill you! ril kill you if you don’t take that back!" Lotta almost sobbed. “Pa! fa! Aunt Karie! Come quick—” Richard picked himself up and brushed off his clothes, staring at Ixitta curiously as he did so. Her outburst was so obviously spontane ous that he was beginning to won der if he had perhaps misjudged her. Why, she didn’t look capable of—why, she was just a kid, in nocent and kind of sweet. And beautiful! His anger quenched now, Richard looked at her speechlessly, as stunned by her extraordinary beauty as he had been by her at tack a moment before. Humbly he offered her his abject apologies. In an hour he had completely In gratiated himself, and together they pulled Lotta's hot molasses candy. Richard delivered an oration on the ancient art of paper-making. Be neath her rapt attention he grew expansive and fell deeper and deeper under the spell of her beauty. Lotta was impressed by his knowledge and his charming man ners. Soon they were calling each other by their first names and Lotta had forgiven him. Meanwhile Swan and Karle were taking serious counsel. As they walked home along a country road Swan made his decision. “Don't sav nothing to Lotta. I Just tell Barney next time he comes ’m kind of lonesome to get back to Iron Ridge.” Karle and Swan were not the only ones in Buttes des Morts who were troubled about Barney and Lotta. Emmy Louise had been watching Barney the past few months, grow ing more and mote suspicious. Especially was she convinced that something was amiss when Ehrvle ran breathlessly into the house one afternoon and announced that she had broken her engagement to Or ville. She would give her mother no explanation. But from Barney, her confidant she could conceal the truth no longer. . - “BreakDig your engagement a penny of pension or damages. Richard expanded enthusiastically on the subject. "Pretty proud for a lot of Bo hunks,” Barney observed dryly. "They’re no more Bohunks than we are—old man came from Ger many, where Schwerkes have been making paper for a couple hundred years—" Barney was amazed at the extent of Richard’s information on the Schwerke family. His attitude, too. had changed. Always thought that son of his was something of » prig, like his mother. But Richard actually seemed glad to have thit Schwerke fellow for a brother-in law. Something had to be done, and done quickly, to keep Ewie out of the I iacs. Tony was as proud as sin, wouldn’t accept any help, Richard told his father. But there was a way to get around that. Tony had invented a paper drinking cup for use in theatres, trains and of fices. Richard showed it to Barney. Skeptical at first, Barney was fin ally won over. They would patent and market it, and Tony would be rich. Evvie could marry him with out disgrace. That night Barney called on the Bostroms. It was then Swan spoke of going back to Iron Ridge. Lotta flew into a race. "You put Pa up to thla, didn’t you?” she cried, turning on Karie. “Just because you think sor sonc likes me and I might be happy! Well, I'm not going back to Iron Ridge. I’m going to stay here and take what I’ve a right to. I don't care what anybody says—I’m not afraid I can take care of myself!" She ran sobbing from the room. Barney stared after her. He was fllled with exultation. Her words, “You think someone likes me and I might be happy" rang in his ears; his heart swelled with Joy. Now his doubts were gone. Lotta meant him —she must mean him! There was a new light in his eyes as he said hurried goodbys to Swan and Karte. He must catch up with Lotta. But outside a thought struck him and suddenly he stopped short in his tracks. Squaring his shoulders, he twrned and leaped with youthful agility Into his carriage. He wheeled the horses about in the direction of home and they started off at a smart trot (To he ««slfwwAi JUST HUMANS By GENE CARF? “Can’t Caddy for Yeh Today. 1 Sold Yeh to This Kidl” Engineer Sails 1,500,996 Miles With One Line New York, Jan. 18.—When the lin er Santa Clara docked at New York January 12 from Valparaiso, Chili, Chief Engineer Charles H. Elliott completed exactly $1,500,996 miles in 23 years with the Grace Lines. Dur ing that period, which includes two years transporting troops through the submarine infested Mediterran ean, he has never met with a disas ter at sea. The worst that ever be fell him was the loss of a couple of propeller blades when they tangled with submerged wreckage. Born in Philadelphia, Elliott start ed his career at sea at the age of 24. He is 53 now. His roster of tra vel reads like a page from a geogra phy hook. One of the first men to go through the Panama Canal he since has traversed the ‘big ditch” more than 200 times. He has been a round “the bottom of the earth" — through the Straits of Magellan — the Atlantic a dozen times to take troops and supplies to France and J then to bring them home after the war. Asked recently what he thought of youths making a career for them selves at sea, Elliott said: "My advice is that if a boy has a yearning to go to set, by all means go. There is more chance today than ever before for a youth to make a real career for himself. The pay is good and the work isn’t what it was when I first started. I wouldu’t trade my job for the best of those on land." Subscribe To The Herald Don’t waste ■ moment if you we your child scratching. Prompt action brings prompt relief. Scott: ' you see^^ * Treatment Soothes instantly. Kill* tho tiny mites that burrow under the sUa and cans* Chan, quisles sum, All dtu^ ./, - WHEN Yen BUY THE twAnet**. • Why risk your good money on unknown razor blades? 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