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s < ?* ? '. * 0" _ ^ 1 31M i Kings Mountain Herald Established MM Published Every Thursday MBRALD PUBLISHING HOUSE, Haywood E. Lynch Editor-Manager stored as ssoond class matter a Ska Postofflco at Kings Mountain K. C? under tre Act ot March 3 l>7>. . SUBSCRIPTION RAT1C8 Om Year SI 5. Six Mont be .71 weekly newspaper devoted U IU promotion of the general wel and published for the enllght meat, entertainment and besefit oi the citizens of K'ngs Mountain aaf Its vicinity. Attitude That Machines Destroy More Jobs Than They Make Called Defeatism New York,.?(IPS).?H. W. Pren tie, Jr., President of the National Association of Manufacturers and President of Armstrong -Cork Co of Lancaster. Pr, characterized at '"defeatism" the attitude that tna chines and inventions destroy jobs Speaking at the National Modern Pioneers Banquet held here to cele torate the 150th Anniversary of th? United States Patent System and t< honor the contribution of America'! Inventors to national progress, Jdr Prentls cited a recent statement bj President Roosevelt that we in thii country "face the task of findlnt jobg faster than invention can tak< them away." "Surely it is defeatism for th< President of the greatest industria nation in the world to suggest, a: he did in the same message, tha . "the efficiency of our Industrial pit cesses has created a surplus of la bor," Mr. Prentls declared. "The ultimate purpose of thi whole Industrial . and business or ganizatlon Is to supply the needi and wants of the population. Then Is no limit to the amount Of busi aness that may be dona. because there Is no visible limit to humai needs. . . /, "Did the President count our ei couragement of invention and bus ness enterprise during the period o our greatest technological advance 1870 to 1930, among the 'ways tha have failed' that he mentions?" Mr Prentls asked. "It was during tha period, while the' population of ou country nearly trebled, that tin number of gainfully employed per sons nearly quadrupled and the vol ume of production increased abou eleven-fold. Did invention take aa way Jobs faster then other Jobi could be found in those years- Ob viously not. "Moreover, employment toddy ii more nearly normal in those Indus tries that are most highly mecha Bized ? in which there has beet the greatest technological advance Manufacturing employment has rl nun <n urviia /rf mnnv /vKatonloo * WU| lit Vfl IV V* II1UIIJ VI/UVUVI^D| n virtually tbe 1929 level. In the builc ing Industry where handicraft hai largely persisted and per capita p'n ductton has not increased employ ment Is at least one-third btlow th< 192# level. * , : "In the modern world the tevelo] ineut of political and religions libei ty, and the amazing growth^ of set 4(nce and invention have followet parallel lines," Mr. Plrbntls* said "Indeed, this has been mofe " than i parallel process. Those factors o rfeedom and progress afe itiaepar'a tie and stand or fall together. Thi treeing of the hutftan spirit froin th< slough of lmmemrorial custom ant the shackles of arbitrary authority has been the one line .along whlcl civilization has moved to highe: planes during the past l&p years The patent system. ite one factor and a very significant factor, is thli whole movement. . "in the long run, throughout th< hlstpry of the American patent sys tern, invention h^s created infinite ly more Jobs than technological im provements have destroyed. 84 per cent of all machines Invented arc "labor-saving" rather than 'labor-dif placing' ? designed to crente en tirely new products, render new se.i vices, or improve old products oi services. One out of every four per eons employed in America toda> . holds a Job in an industry unknowr in 1870. Over 100.000 hew article! have appeared on the Americiin mat ket since 1900. There has been temporary dtslactoion of employment. Witb Individual hardship, it Is true The rushing of employment attains! such hardship Is today one of the major objectives of manufacturing industry as evidenced by the consid eratlon given this matter in the re cent 'Declaration of Principles' ol this Association. The record U clear, however, that the satisfaction of more human wants at lower costs is the essential pre-requisite to a rising standard of Jiving Twenty-eight children under tour years of age were run over and kill ,sd in this state last year. , ' t . . . ... .1 ' . n . ... ' - ? ? 1 " 1 . 1 [ Here end There . . Haywood B. Loracb) I paid my Poet Office box rant the other day, and according to headstamp man Blakely that was the t last time I will have to pay In the old Post Office. Just think about It, the next time citizens of the The Town In The State have to ' box rent. It will be for space In their handsome new Federal Building. And another thing, the Post1 msster told me was that the new boxes will have keys instead of the ' old-timy combinations. Time, marches on, and Kings Mountain keeps ' pace with progress. P. 8. I hope I don't lose the key to my box, but anywsy, what's the difference, I forget my combination half the time. Palm Harbor, Florida, The 'A/inter iiad another distinction added to its j aurels recently reports Lawyer Ed > Campbell who has just returned. Two North Carolina Mayors resided .n the fair city at the same time. MSyor J. B. Thomasson of the Best Town In the State, and Mayor William P. Saunders of Hemp, .N. . C. ' jre tre two notables who honored I the orange city with their presence. Mayor Saunders married the former < Elizabeth Plonk of Kings Mountain, i the daughter of Mrs. R. S. Plonk, Sr. , Spring Is In the air and "By . George" must be feeling it, he has , started writing poetry. ? : ; By GEORGE? ! lithesome shadow, borne on a breeze, Wild nymph, from?who knows where? Coining to fill my heart with song i.y carry me flighting and winging along J Away from man-made rare. Uut, does It matter what you are, : Or should It, from whence you be; s So long as you keep me singing, gay ? Make me forget my cares of the day -1 /\na m?Ke me wantonly xreeT ? ' 1 can't for the life of me, explain how the above happened. Just be, .ore going to bed Monday night It k oanie along, and before 1 actually I .(new wnat had happened it was on a piece of paper. Hope you'll excuse lie insertion, but there's been a .1 earth of Whlttlngton poetry since , .ny sophomore year in High School, r and since there'B a shortage of oth p er stuff, 1 thought I'd slap it in. I Rambling around; People are still 1 afraid to come out and say that ' spring is actually here, because of s the perverseness of the weather man, but we believe it has tome, at long lase ..;. Carl Goerch's itarbln g ?r of spring on the cover of "STATE" the other week was a good one .... The most reassuring j one; however, is the flock of old, timers sitting on the window ledge ! at the Bank, chinning .... Mr. D. j F. Hord Is, thank goodness, coming } out along with the other spring s blossoms .... It's good to see the } Genial Gentleman back on the othi. er side of the tracks .... we hope s he can discard the cane soon .... H. Tom declares that the Missus is a bettor business man than he is. ' and since we've had a little buslr ness with her lately, we think so L too .... Sudden Recurrent Thought from Somewhere: Watch your pen' nies, and your dollars will take care lf of themselves ...... Consequence: Why?; How? .,.. . . ^ APOIXXJY: To Ploy Oates,. ana | all the JWC's, for not getting to the . party Monday night .... just could not make it. f ' , Eight Centenarians Die . In February ?< i- ? s - RALKIGH. ? Death certificates for eight persons 100 years old and v pver were received among the Feb ruary Teports made to th State Board of Health's Division of Vital I Statistics, of which Dr. R. T. Stimp son is the ^Director. t This was the largest number of > su^ii certificates received duijtag ? any single month within the memo ry of veteran employees in the Dl" vision, they declared. , Of the eight centenarians whose ' deaths were reposed, six were coli ored and two white. The oldest was i Marycolored, of Wilkes - county, listed as haVing been 112 - whose death was recently reported in the press. She froze to death, her . certificate said. ? The otfters. together with race, ) age, location and cause of death, r were: Margaret Williams, colored, I 108, Salisbury, lobar pneumonia, fractured hip; Chaney Spell, colort ed, 106, Black Creek, old age, heart ('trouble; Flora Blanchard, colored i 103, Hereford, definite cause un known ? probably chronic glomer ? iilar anhnrhlU AnHIn* 4n nrnmla. Squire James Odetl. white. 102, Mt Airy, lnflqenxa; Edmund Short, eol1 ored, 102; Wilmington, old age, ; heart trouble; William MeCrar? rhUe, 101, Brevard, old age; Hen' / ?7 PWOji MOUNTAIN ?yj.TB 17 Wllaen Ctbtmii, colored. lot Washington cosnty,, old ago. The informant hi aach cut waa the attending phyticlan, except in the cane of the last named. Caber rue, who had no doctor. It will be many years, however until there will be Indisputable proof of the age of a centenarian, as North Carolina began registering births (n October, 1913. Howover, death certificates of persons born prior to that time are based on the boat available information, this Information In numerous cases coming from the record In the family Htble, which is taken as authentic. ' Prompt registration if blrfHV*"H tib WHAT WAS scam ot mal BkM % ^^SSSfy'ALKSD mm M i ProJuetd if DAVID I Bfltii^Mi ohe mear'OONI W 'UUAS Synopsis: I srne in France, a* 'a traveling cotapanlon, when I met Max da Winter. Bis fierce brooding over the accidental death of hie beautiful wife, Rebecca was in contrast to my youthful shyness. We spent many hours together, and I fell in love toiib him. When my employer decided to leave, he suddenly ashed me to marry him; I did, happily, and u>e went to his famous estate. Manderley. Everything about the place, and particularly the cold resentment of Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, brought Rebecca to mind?and emphasised my own shortcomings as mistress of Manderley. Rebecca's cousin, Jack RaveU, visited Mrs. Danvers when Max. was away. She was furious when I discovered them, and in Rebecca's unused room spoke openly, in sinister tonea, of the dead returning. Chapter Four?? The Manderley Maaquerade Ball had been famous over the entire County, and In London aa well, aa one of the greater aoclal events of the season. Beatrice had spoken . of It to Maxim, X knew,, urging him to hold it once again; he eald nothing to me of it. Xt was aa though Rebecca alone oould play the noeteaa of Manderley... Now I resolved to take my place at Manderley. Rebecca could no longer play the role; ahe waa not tven alive. Xt was incredible that ahe ahould remain so strong, even in death. I decided to fight back. ana bdom to Maxim wnen ne returned from London. He seemed not too eager. but finally agreed. X turned busily to the many preparations needed, and In particular to devising a costume for myself, which I thought X would sketch. It was to be a complete secret, ' 'H ^ "Oo and inks tt of van to Maxim; when X told him, he laughed sally with me. X was sketching a medieval costume la my room one day. when Mrs Dan vers appealed with some crumpled sketches In her hand; Robert had found them in the library, she said. Did X Intend throwing them away? X told hei what they were for. "Would you consider It impart tlnent of me If - X offered a suggestion?" she asked. X was surprised at her friendly tone, and replied that X would be only too glad to hear ona "X merely thought KJMUM.Y, APRIL 4. Xf44. i bscefl? Huronsngly tepmUat.t it ?u pointed oat by Dr. Carl V i Reynolds, State Health Office! i "While the law requires reglstraXtQi the individual la the real beneCclar he went on, "an proof of the dati , of one's birth Is necessary for et i trance.to school, for a child's firs , per to work, for a driver's license l the right to vote, in Insurance, thi i tight to marry, the right to ente the civil service, the right to ente: the military service, for setttemeb of pensions, for social security bei eflts to the blind, * retirement fo the aged and benefits for dependen children. There are numerous othe i tousons. > me WCRUY in IONAL ft* U*U / w ul HTTCHCOCK BH 0. SELZNIC*! fTH TH8 WMD? I ,ca thru m i ARTUTt J and her eyea widened. "It'a ? it'a the picture ? the one In the gallery." 1 managed to ay. "What Is it? What have X done?" Maxim took a step forward. "Qo and take it off!" he thundered. "It doesn't matter what else you put on...anything will do!" I stood rooted, unable to understand. His voice was harsher now, and louder. "What are you standing there for ? didn't you hear what I said?" Then X ran, ran blindly and sobbing .up the stairs, and down the half At the door to the West wing stood Mrs. Denver*, with a smile of supreme triumph on her face. She turned, towards Rebecca's room, and 1 followed. My head pounded. She was standing in the oenter of the darkened room as I entered. I watched you go down ? just as I watched her a year ago," she was saying. "Even in the same dress you couldn't compare." You knew that?" X moaned. "You knew that she wore it and yet you deliberately suggested that / wear it?" She said nothing, and X went on, overflowing with the misery of it all. "Why do you hate me? What have -1 ever done to you that you should hate me so?" "You let him marry you. You tried to take her place. Re could never he happy with you." "It's not true ? It's not true. X tell you he eras happy, when we were alone together ? before we came back here." "That was the honeymoon. He's a man. the same as others, isn't he?" She laughed contemptuously. "But when he came back here, to hl? >iaiim fi? tiAit (a fur* the truth! He's lived In hell since she died!" "1 don't want to hear any more...!" -You thought you could he Mrs. de Winter ? live in her house ? tr Maeeim tknadsred. , take the things that were hers, i But she's too strong tor you. i You can't fight her you. a . young. Ignorant girl. No one ever i got the better of her ? never. never! She was beaten in the end. i But it wasn't a man ? or a l woman. It was the sea!" ' I broke Into fobs, begging her to stop, but her Voice went on, un- . cannily calm, deep within my whlr ling brain. "You're overwrought, Madam. PU open a window for 1 you." The roSm reeled. Z choked i lor eir. "If* no wee, it ut You'll ; Never fake her place. She's atill i mistress here. She's the real Mr*. do Winter ? not you." The wlni dow came closer, and the . air.' i blowing the curtains. "Why don't', vou oof Why don't you leave Monderleyt" Z could see the fog, i swirling, smelling of Mandprley. "Be doesn't love you ? he want* i to be alone again with her." 1 i could hot see the ground. "You've I nothing to stay for. You've nothing i to live for, reaRy, have youf Look , down there . . . If* easy, isn't it f" Now, the shape of Manderley's 1 house, the stones beneath, his angry voice. "Why don't.youf . . . Why don't youf Oo on ... go on. r . . . Don't be afraid . . . The t ground swelled upwards, i An explosion Shattered the whir ling silence, and the mist. A siren - suddenly walled. Z heard voice? > and running feet. > "Rockets! There they go!" > "It's from a bay! A ships must > have gone aground in the fog!" t Then, Maxim's voice. "Come on, r everybody ? down to the bay ? ah 4 n a ahnoa I ** "Maxim! Maxim!" I cried. Ha hasttatad for a moment, aa though k ha had heard, and ran on. ? . Z ran down to the dhore, and i found Prank. "X shouldn't hang r about hare if I ware you ? you'll yet cold," ha aald. "Why don't you go back and wait for Maxim at k the house t" k "Prank, what's the matter?" I r asked. "Is anything wron*? Tou look terribly worried.* I could see > It In his face. "There la something . wrong." I pursued. r "Well ? whan the direr want > down to Inspect the dhlp's bottom - he found the hull of another boat ? little sailing boat;.." i "Prank ? was It. ..V Tea tt was Rsbeccs's." (To *0 isnWwasd) ' ' ' ' ^ that 70a would find t costume among the family portraits thai would suit you..." she said. We walked to the gallery, past the bugs paintings of Maxim's encss tors. She stopped before one. "This one. for Instance," she aid. "Tve. heard Mr. de Wlntei say It's his favorite of all the paintings. Ifs Lady Caroline de Winter/' X looked up to the tall figure, lovely In a billowy white gown and picture hat. "It's a splendid Idea, Mrs. Dan vers," I said. "I'm very gratefu to you." e e e The night of the Ball finallj came, ana I could hear the flrsl gay sounds of the arriving gueeti rn Clarice helped me with my 000 tume. I knew X looked quite bean tlful in it, and could not bear te wait until I should' be able to g< downstairs, and to Maxim. Beatrice knocked on my door, asking t< brush her hair, eager to eee wbal I looked like; but I laugblngl] refused to let her In. X could at most see her disappointed fhoe through the door! At last, X was ready, and rmr down the hall to the top of thi ' grand staircase. As we nad pre arranged, I caught the eye of tin orchestra leader, who signalled fo1 a roll of the drums as I descended i could 1mm* Maxim's lausfetei above the rest. How pleased hi would be with me! X came to thi last step, and oalled to him: "Bam do you do, Mr. da Winter?" He turned, hie smile turn in* t< one of anticipation. Then it ended suddenly. Inexplicably. He eyed mi slowly, from top to toe. and hii face took on a look of the deep a *r the devil do you tktnl you're doing?" he said, fiercely Frank and Otlee stood staring Beatrice's hand flew to her mouth ^ ? r . . ' i^TH'JMA;NS f ^ jSg e ^ bjmi\ ?-? "There Yt Are. That's th' Washington Sm (Cont'd from front page) i manual labor more. Senator O'Mahoney Is generally ] credited with being a fairly (tardbeaded, .sound citizen. Now Wash i ington wonders. It can't figure out i why be should be supporting such a i measure. i The explanation couldn't be tho i facts that: 1. The Senator is up tor re-election this Fall; 2. the machine tax bill is endorsed by unions of the strongest railroad workers' urflon? | Is in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the Senator'^ home town. < It is explained that the Senator i simply introduced his bill to open the subject up for discussion. He certainly has done so. For example, j inquiries are being made at his office now whether the typewriters have been thrown out so all his cor respondence may be answered in , long-hand and more people employed. ; He is being asked whether house wives are supposed to throw away ' their washing and other machines < so they may return to the- days of back-breahing labor. It is wondered I whether he wants farmers to dis- < card their tractors and reapers and ' mowers and go back to the days ' when they had to walk behind a I one-horse plow and cut their crops ' with a scythe. i It- in hufnir u?nn/lnrn/l o ? VMMVI w? IVV, Tf UUIU- I er he wants to let factory workers stop pushing the buttons on ma- j chines <>nd return to the days of | forging metal, and doing a thousand | and one other laborious things by , hand instead of UBing machines to help them. . , (The Senator for some reason is j being very quiet about all this. The reaction hasn't been to his liking. Senator O'Mahoney made much, , tor Instance, of the fact that factory production, has riseti above its December, 1929, level, while factory 4 employment is not keeping step. What he fails to remember, however, la that unemployment in factories is proportionately much smaller than in other fields. For example, the latest figures show manufacturing . in January, 1940, the same as in January, 1929. But the comparable figures for other groups suffer by comparison: construction -Is 1,266,000 lower, transportation 416,000 lower; * 'mining 302000 lower, public utilities 166,000, trade and distribution 474,- ' 000. Perhaps too, the Senator forgers that In these fields with greater kinemployment than . manufactlyrtng the government through new .laws is doing a lot of regulating that It didn't do in 1929. Farmers' - crops are being controlled; public utflltl SAVE AK Your deposits need not the important thing. Wil "Many strokes, though i down and felli the hardec COtMA OAttCIA it lO t?*HA tl?n Off AUV O^IBVV It 13 tl UC UIO small, will grow into a sv people could acquire in n Beside* being the most cumulate money, a ban* advantage of constantcome in and start an acc turn out to be the most ii ever taken. We Pay 2 Percent Inter annually. First Nati< Member Federal .Deposit . I. ' < ' r. . ' I i f " . - ' .vQ? - > J . V t- / . ' . . ; ' . ' - ,,v: -$ai ' 1 " \ . ' By-QgNt CAK* Charleston Step, Sammy r I apshots v I _______________ ; es are under strict federal and state regulation; railroads still doa't know what will be done to tham; the government has tried all sorts. Df artificial means to stimulate construction and the effect baa been I the reverse. And now the mining 1n- a tlustry is being confronted with new ClO-sponsored legislation which would put Federal inspectors in the mines. No wonder unemployment is off In these industries. The interesting thing is that factories are only 51,000 bi/jw 19^9 despite such things as the Wage-Hour law, the WaishHealey Act, and so on and on. It would seem that the manufacturing Industry is entitled to credit rather than condemnation. ** > An interesting sidelight on fhe subject of machines is that Congres ?both Senate and House ? has vo- 4 ted unanimously to hold a special celebration of patents on April 10. which the President will designate is "Inventors and Patents Day." Patented devices, most of them go far toward decreasing the sweat of the brow of the man or woman who works. And Congress aa a whole seems to think they are pret ty good things, or it wouldn't be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the first patents law signed by Cleorfe Washington. A lot of Washingtonlans woa-ler If the current agitation might not be political. The political future will be a lot brighter for many candidates this Fall if they ca-n shift the blame for the millions unemployed upon machines Instead of having it oglcally placed on rcgulqtoiy stops. Drinking drivers killed 117 people In North Carolina last year. 4 Our Business Is making old shoes liks new. Try our service now. FOSTERS SHOE SERVICE Phone 154. We Deliver ID HAVE I lu D. 1 is.. 4_ wv Migv. nvKUwriiv , 1* *1 lliam Shakespeare wro<? -JB 1th a little axe, hw it timbered oak." In the Jj % T t many deposits, though B ibstantial sum that most M o other way. H convenient way to acw^B w ; account has the added Tp* . f I availability. - Why not l ount here now? It may mportant step you have r est Compounded semi mal Bank Iimmuice Corporation -V : i-I: V - v.-V v A;'.' .. v.. Wm
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