The
Kings Mountain Herald
Established IMS
Published Every Thursday
HERALD PUBLISHING HOUSE.
Haywood C. Lynch
Editor-Manager . .
alered as second class matter a.
the Postofllcs at Kings Mountain
N. C., under tre Act of March *.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATK8
One Year $160
Six Months .... .78
A weekly newspaper devoted " to
the promotion of the general welfare
and published for the enlight*
ment, entertainment and benefit of
the citizens of K'ngs Mountain and
Its vicinity.
ON THE SQUARE
"It matters not whate'er your lot.
Or what your tusk* may be;
One duty still remains for you.
One duty stands for me.
Be you a doctor, skilled, and wise,
Or a man who works for wage,
A laborer working on the street.
Or an artist "cn the stage;
One glory still awaits you.
? , One honor that is rare.
To have meu say. as you pass by ?
"That fellow's on the square."
?Selected.
EkKvTION DAY
Next Tuesday voters will go to
the polls tc elect the men tto run
winwrihsiuo?stA1iYjhixiHaiVtf i -SrVisilrrt
the next two years. The casting of
your ballot should be very Important
to you because you are selecting
your choice to run yrur business.
Every voter In Kings Montaln is a
partner In the business of the town.
Vote for who you want, but vote.
OPEN FORUM
The Herald hss always maintained
an Open Forum column so that
readers ntuy express themselves 011
any subject they desire. We are always
glad to publish letters to the
paper. The letters do not necessarily
express the opinions of the Here'd.
In fact they may state Just the
opposite, but believing as w e? ?. In
a free press, letters are always wet
- . come.
A GOOD EDITOR
A good editor ts one .who has never
made a mistake; who never has
effended anyone: who is alwayi
right; who can-ride two horses at
the sanie time he is straddling a
fence with both ears to the ground;
who always says the right thing at
the right time; who always picks
the right hbrse as well as the right
politician to win; who never has to
apologize; who has no enemies. an<!
who has worlds or prestige with ail
classes, creeds, and races. There
has never been a good editor.?Min
nesota Press.
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NOT FOR 8ALE
The editor and owner of this news
paper Invested originally seme twen
ty odd thousand dollars in the business
and pays annually some fit
teen thousand dollars for the privilege
or directing the policy or this
newspaper. Still we occasionally rati
upon an indlvildua who buys thret
or four dollars woiih of advertising
apace and decides that this Invest
ir<ent should give him the privilege
of directing the policy of the Star
A newspaper with a fourlldoUar pol
icy would not be worth anything either
to its owner or fo the community
which It serves. A newspapet
must adhere to a policy broad e
nough to render service that is fair,
just and impartial to all,'and thai
fras due respect to the legal and ethical
limitations wfclch are imposed
Imposed upon an editor . and pub
Usher. We sell advertising space In
order to enable our patrons to reach
their customers through the county's
best advertising medium. But at
no time nor unlder any circumstances
does the purchase of advertising
space give the purchaser any right
to direct the policy of this newspaper.
That is a privilege reserved $xf
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Duggor. editor and towner of the
Andalusia (Ala.) Star.
COTTON AT THE GROCERY
Sugar is sweet in the South both
for the customer and the merchant
when <k> packed in cotton sacks, a?
cording to the National Cotton Coun
cil cf America and the Cotton Text>le
Institute, the organizations Joint
ly sponsoring National Cotton Week.
The statisticians of theee organizations
have proved that every time
a carload of sugar is packed Ddl cotton
bags, no lean than 16.800 cotton
containers are used. And what does
ttrfo mean?
H means a day'a work for 48
?otton farmers 82 cotton mill employe*
and eight cotton bag abploye*
?e total of a day's "work for 83
persona!
Last year, American retail merchants
sold to yon and other consumers
more than four sad one half
mil Hon Sons of sugar, amounting to
180 thousand carload*. If erery Mt
of that sugar had hasp packed in
cotton bags, ft would ham meant a
day's mock for 8.HO.OOO people, or a'
third sf a year's work for 100 thousand
people.
This 1s for snag alone. Flour, salt,
tend and other staples pecked In cot
' ten begs would add tremendously to
Here and! There .
(By Haywood C. Loracb). |
Charlie Thominon is developing
a good radio voica. Ha has talksd hv
ral times thru a public address eyatorn
lately, and I am expecting moat {
any time to tune my radio and hear
Charlie's voice from Hollywood or ,
Radio City.
Charlie certainly did not want any | <
one to get hit by tra4n number M 1
last Friday. 1
Two men won a prize at The Herald
Cooking School last week, name- 1
ly- D. F. Hord and F. F. Heavner.
Maybe they are going to show their
wives how to cook.
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Aubrey Mauney who is in charge .1
of the NYA Band Stand project at !
tl e corner of Cleveland Avenue and I
King Street, was asked the other day I
if he had a blue print or picture of t
the project as it is to be when com!>lr.ted.
Mr. Mauney said he did not.
The person replied that he was ver/ >
sorry because he wanted to see how I
it was going to b when finished, and '
| hr was afraid he would not live long
enough to see It in reality. '
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I am looking forward to the "Stunt
| Night" program of the Central j
School P. T. A. tomorrow evening 1 .
| at S:00 P. M. j I
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i Open Forum (,
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| Jan the publication of the "Reform
r." Thin paper wis bought from Mr.
Allliou by Chu. K. Could and ProfRation.
who was principal of tha
High Sihcol. and thoy began the pub
llcat'don of the Oracle" In the back
tid of the up-etairs of the building
where Dr. Anthony has his office.
I This wan In the summer of 1899.
This paper onlv run until the summer
of 1900 and again Kings 'Mountain
was without a paper. It waa
then that a Mr. Booker, a one-legged
.printer, who wao running a fob
piluting business In Kings Mountain,
wdth the support of Mr. R. S. Plonk,
t.ought a newspaper outfit and bein
the publication of the "Demo<
rait.".In the summer of 1902 John
Fcrgueon and myself began the pub,
llcation of a paper, revlrlng the
"Kings Mountain News." this paper
betng merged, in a short while with
' the "Democrat" but retaining the |
?rmo of the "Kings Mountain NevaR
1 vlth Ferguson and myself aa publish
era . In a very short while I took
over Ferguson's Interest end Mr. H.
1 P. A1K?on did the editorial work, hi
he year 1903 you took brer all of
' *he pr*nrlng business end started
f the publication of "The Kings Moun
1 tain Herald', this being the first
1 time a paper named "The Herald"
, ever published la Kings Mountain.
My recollection la that you pubi
lirhed this paper for some time and
i turned It orer to me 46 ran until K
. could be sold it being purchased by
. n i?*t. t. a. sixes. woo only run u
. a short 41m*. and again I (took M
i over until the fall of 1906 -whan It
t van purchased by R?r. J. M. For Ms,
i nantor of the Kings Mountain Pree;
bvteu*iin Church, and with the a?
. instance >of Mr. H. P. Allison as !oi
I cal and news editor amd myself hi
. I charge of the publishing and print.
<ng Mr. Foihfo rua this paper, "The
. | Herald." until the fall of 1907. when
. | It was purchased by Claude Burey,
he later selling It to another party
, f who tn turn shld It to Q. O. Page.
Sow. Ed.. ! feel that the datee I
| Wive given yon are approxhna|e4y
, (correct, hut you can check on them
I hv flndtncr hut the year of tho laet
. i court house election In Gaston coun[
iy for roii were publishing "The
' Herald" at that time.
, j I was Indeed glad to hear from
vou and hope It will not take another
controversy aa to dates, etc., for
? you to again write.
The family Join In me wishing for
yu rind yours prosperity and health
and hope that we will sec all of you
In Richmond1 as our gneets some
time In the near future, and I am.
Your friend.
Ijeslte MoQInnJs.
Ed'trr Kings Mountain Herald:?
On March 30th you Issued under
no date what was purported to be
the "Fiftieth Anniversary" of the
' King* Mountain Herald."
1 After receiving a copy of tills edition
and noting there was no history
of the peper, 1 was at a lees Do understand
why you could claim that
the paper had been published for BO
r, >n serve tve years, as I started "The
Herald" In the early spring of 1003.
I purcbeeed a complete newspaper
outfit from Mr. J. H. Wooley of Cher
ryvtlle, N. C., through. Mr. David P.
Bellinger who now resides at Cher
ry villa and m erred the outfit to
Kings fountain supplementing the
outfit With some new type. etc. Dr.
L?. A, Blkle, who was pastor of the
the total. These staples, too, regardless
of their flavor, would be as
sweet as sugar ? ha an economic!
way. ? to cotton farmers.
In the battle for Increased marietta.
King Cotton has the right to nrii
that the southern seder and purchaa
er demand cotton sinniit^ estton
bagging sod cotton tingnisHs wWr
ever the une of snch arHdW It Urnsohle
and practicable.
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Vice he fitted until the paper pee*-1
?d fro? my k?4?. "The HermM"
m mm eeUietjr new paper. It Inpn
out tue (ruiuul up. eud DU> NOT
tke aver any of the lights end prtv j
egea of any other paper. I am colt-sing
a leuer from my friend, Mr.
.telle McGinn la. which glvea a conI?e
ana complete history of the
newspaper huslneaa up to 1908 in
tinge Mountain, who spent a large ,
art of hta life here In the newapa- :
>er work, and knows more about the
eal history of the newspaper busl.esw
here than any other person.
?on will note that it was varied?
upe and downs."
Prom 1892 to 1895 there was no
lewspaper published here at all, as
explained by Mr. McGlnnfe. At ano
her period as given by him Kings
Mountain had no paper. 80 you can
eudlly see up to the time 1 began
he publioatlon of "The Herald"
here was a period of nearly five
ears that *? had no paper here.
Mr. R. L. Plonk purchased an outIt
for a Mr. Boaker to start another
wper about 1900. I do not know what I
.teams of the old outfit before that.,
rhe late H. P. Allison, deserves aa
iiitcb credit oe any other man who I
tved here at the time to keep a pa?r
going, although handRcnpped by
infirmity, because of hi* untiring ef-!
its to keep at It due credit should
bf given him. 8ometlmee It waa go |
11 g ond at other tfraee It would quit. I
I owned "The Herald" until Nov mber
1906. when It was sold. Thto
er burineee here. It wan then the
"am* waa changed to "The Kings j
Mountain He nld." Some yean later
i( me one' Inserted at Its head
'FVstabPahed 1889." I do not knnw
Vbo' did this or 'why.' 1 presume
you based your editorial "Talk A
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE:
C'ronlmo. moat savaae and
most feared Indian chief oh the
Hati three* t frontier in the Sigh:ret.-Eighties,
is on the warpath
^ ?/?w ciwywv^i* /rwrtt i WHO,
Arte., begins its otemipkt Irtp
to Dordsburg, K. M. The passengers
include eld Deo Boone,
a drunken physician; Mr*. Mailory,
an army officert wife; Dallas,
a dance hell girl; 1lingo,
attractive young fugitive frotn
the lavo who has fallen in love
viith Dallas; Peacock, a whiskey
d .simmer ; Qatt wood, an
absconding hanker; Bat field, a
gambler, and V. B. Marshal
Curly WUcom. Arriving at Apache
Welle, a way station, amid < .
constant signs of an it*pejKlr
inp Indian attack, Mrs. Matlory,
who is about to become a
Mother, falls ill. Doc Boone
sobers up %oith draughts of
black coffee and goes to her aid.
Chapter Four
The hours wore on . . . nine
o'clock, ten o'clock, eleven, midnight.
one o'clock. The welting
men oat at the table In the cheerless
Inn, abeenUy playing cards,
chewing at sandwiches, fidgeting;
or walked up and down aimlessly
and sat . down again. From the
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\jSUrt
Bhs turned to Mm impetuous
on V. it g desert strange animal
(<' >, into: rnlttculy disturbed thu
r and now and n.ain cama
n.v sounds, une.".;-'" :?d whisper
i and rustlings t- in the corral
out. he the hous'e.
Yak.ma, Chris' Apache wife, slid
noiselessly out. A moment later
th?y were stnrlled by the thud
of hooves ' galloping outside, and
the sight of dim figures flashing
pa it the window In the darkness.
Uuck rushed to the door and lopk
e?i out.
"It's them Mexican vanueros!"
he cried. "Them friends of Chris*
v/lfe. They're runnln' away with
all the spare horses!"
'there was nothing to be done
about It, and the group settled
down Into moody silence again,
each pondorlng on whatever ominous
significance this new development
suggested to him.
A lone coyote howled his high,
plaintive note In the distance. But
the note continued longer than
us'ial. and seemed to merge Into
a higher, thinner wall that sounded
much nearer. They all pricked
up their ears.
"Tbnm coyotee gimme the
orc^pa" complained Buck throattly.
"They sound Just like?just
like a baby."
The high, thin wall was repeated,
and this time there was ao
mistaking It As one man the
waiting travelers jumped to their
feet and looked toward lite. Mailn<m>e
fc flam ri Ait* *V. A
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LETS LOOK BACK
Pram Tha Klnt> MovMaln Htrtlo
? ???a?*w?www^.?
NINCTBKN viar8 AGO
april at. itat
Mr. J. M. Pajtteraon who underwent
an operation for bead trouble
in Charlotte last week, la tmpr*>vtn?
find MDPrla tn (VWho hnmo fhU UA?U
tMr. H. L Summit t ha* sold hU
grocery business In the Levi Reynolds
budldlng t|o Mr. C. L. Reynolds.
Mr. Summitt goes to Oestonla
to take work with a wholesale concern.
The cotton platform at the Old
Mill was burned Saturday and 22
1. ties of cott)on badly damaged.
bout 50 Years" on this Insertion of
1889. It Is not my purpose to crltic.se
or condemn your efforts in getting
out this Edition. It was a credible
effort, but 1 'cannot' understand
'why* you would omdt the most Important
and vital part of such an effort?namely,
a complete history ot
the newspapers published here, how
long they existed, how often they
changed hands, and If out of existence
at any time. In order to complete
the chain, if you baaed your
Issue on the beats of a paper being
rnh here for fifty yesra. ("The Hertld"
was eathbVshed onlv Jl year
sea) ? and the history of the paper 1
tnaineas. prior to tha first Issue of *
"The Herald" so that you could
abilsh to the public and your ptv 1
iflm is'lr
nieemary." I
T woud not detract a thing from '
?he pleasure and profit ron accrued
from this raptor*, but 1 felt that as 4
I wa* reapourdhl* for th* bee Inn In* >
>f "The Herald" I nfcould make thi" 1
information public, "I^est are Forget*
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with wonder and tenderaaaa aa
he amiled down at the tiny figure,
then looked up and faced the
questioning little group of maiee.
"It's little girl." ahe whispered,
proud ae if the child were
her ov.-n. I
"Well, I'll be doggoned," eroaked
Buck. "A baby? How?arhy?"
"I'll explain It to you sometime.
Buck," said Curly. Then, as Boone i
emerged from Mrs. Mai lory ? room
and headed methodically ferthe?-r 1
bar. Curly Waved hie arms in the
air and yelled, "three cheers for
old Doc Boone!"
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The moon eras well on the wane
when Dallas stepped quietly out at ,
i the station inn and wandered to
ward a nearby bill for a breath of
nJ*.. It ?m good to. bo alone, to
nave timo to think about {hinga,
etter the atrange rush of eventa
since the day bad begun. <
w"Y?u ougbt'nt to go too far,
Misa Dallas," said a soft voice behind
her. "Apaches like to aneek 1
up and pick off at ray a." It was i
Ringo; and she waited silently as 1
be came up and Joined her.
"I watched you with that baby? '
that other woman's baby," be went
on. -Ton looked?well, you sure
looked nleei"
| Thev sat down on a rock, neither
speaking for several momenta.
Then Dallas, with a rush of fset-. .
in* turned to -hint Impetuously."
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ty. "Why don't you ttcapef
"Why don't you escape, Kid? Why
don't you escape?"
"I aim to, Miss Dallas ? In
Lordsburg."
"Why Dordsburg? Why ,don't
you get over the border?"
"My father and brother was
shot down by the Plummers. I
guess you don't know how it feels
to lose your own folks that way."
Dallas looked off down the
moon-drenched valley, and spoke
quietly. "Maybe I do. My people
were Killed by the Indians when I
was just a kid."
He fidgeted for awhile, then
turned to her?bis voice shy and
halting.
"Look, Miss Dallas?maybe I'm
crazy to ask you?but?well?I still
got a ranch across the border.
It's a nice place?trees?grass?a
house half built You see, I'm
ask in'?well, what I mean is?a
man could live there ? and a
woman..."
She looked at hhn in astonishment.
"But .you don't know me!
Yeu don't know who I am!"
"1 know an I want to know,"
said Bingo quietly. "You're the
kind of a girl a mas wants to
marry." A
.She tried to quiet the wetting
emotion within her. Bingo gently
took her hand la hls-dnit they
were Interrupted by the crunch of
heav^Mboote eosniag &SS '
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"I Ain't a Goin* T'ftve Y up
ma avoid fauviuie another error at U
ouie future thine. { b<
1 assure you 1 have no feeling in | v,
ut matter. We set no more out of B
jhrw ttur wi M
ut In U. Likewise, a nenrsfMiper Is b<
^lunble to community, only, wkat in
t reflect* on to* page* as to *lncer- U
i>, honesty of purpose and a desire ! R
o be fair to ltaei and to the town i.bi
i>d community to which it look* )>
uid seeks support. 1 think you have v
ii opportunity here to achieve a sue ci
ess in your venture as a newspaper
nan. 1 hope you will succeed to that h
i< grec that at some, future day, you w
nay occupy ? seat high In the conn:il
of the "Fourth Estate."
J. E. McLaughen.
vings Mountain,
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Htey also argue that the law should
:e changed to protect workers from h
coercion from any aouroe {which, ^
wuld includte protection from persons
who prevent them from working
unless .they Join a union. ' P1
Against theee groups the friends 'e
jf the law as it now stands are R
battling hard. It la a struggle of ma- n
|or proportions, it looks like a long, "
a?awn-out fight. , ^
As an example of the intensity of "
the battle, one member of Congress
was prevailed upon to delay a
peech for .two days. He favors re- 9
vision of the law. Those in the oppo b
site camp pleaded with Mm rot tci
[T.ake the speech. Forty eight hour* n
later he did speak, but he had toned e
iown his origin a] remarks.
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A prominent business men stopped
off in Washington recently.
He called at the office of an adEi;n1stratlon
.Sep4tor. - The conversation
in substance follows:
"About the time I left for the
Berth." said the buokitas man, "I
read in the newspapers shout the
administration's plan to appease bud
Iress. How Is that move getting along?"
"You know as much as I do." replied
the 8enator. "All tthat 1 know
about it is what 1 read in the papers.
The Brain Busters in the Capital
were the ones who nipped the appeasement
talk. Thev didn't like the
idea. They were fearful that to bring
actual appeasement . (which means
business recovery) some of .tholr pet
laws might have to be changed. And
Brain Busters would shudder at the
thought of having ever been wrong.
-The "real" cause of war has' at
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Wid Out a Fiffai. Pair
lot leaked out. Leu of people kire
ten blamed unjustly for U. And It
outd l>e a tough Job to guem who.
ot now It In known. H'n the old
wii iwtf "S i i iiiviii Into ?tft i i in
? complete wftboat one. No city
trade would be worth watching antra
bended by one. But a prominent
enator ban Implied that the brass
and Is the "reel" root of the iron!e.
Smilingly, he recently swtd be
ould. legislate all brass bands out
f existence and added:
"Every time I see a parade andI
ear a band pay I'm not sure that t
ant neutrality legislation after all."
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Six hundred thousand dollars more
to be spent In the monopoly Inversion
ion. Books Of testimony already
five been qcmplled. The record la
>'lng developed by young govern*
lent employes -wdth either no, or at
net the most, limited business exerlence.
They are the ones trying
> find out what la wrong wltb a bos
lesstndustrial system of fraen en*
prise which has provided the
Igheat living standards In the Me>ry
of the world.
To date not a dollar of the $?00,
Oil already spent has been used to
xamfne the effect some Brain Trust
ponstored Iswa are having on business.
Neither has there been any anouneement
that any part of the adit
lonal $600,000 is to be ased tor
bat purpose.
But It dtoee appear that little else
i being overlooked. In a format ^ A
tatement the Federal Trade Commie
ion has assured the pubic that the
sngtta of spaghetti and macanonl to
ot n tru* criterion ? Ha quaHtr or
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