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fill: The ?n9s Mountain Herald '-SmS Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published <0* the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of th? cjtlzens of Kings Mountain and its 'vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as seoond class matter at the postoffiee at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports- Circulation, News Miss Elizabeth Stewart Society MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews .Horace Walker David Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson (?Member of Armed Forces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS- 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? 18.50 SIX MONTHS? $1 .40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Oalations 5:23 Mr. President Since his inauguration last January, President Eisenhower has lived in a sort of neVer-never world, apparently, at first enjoying the honeymoon custom arily accorded a new president, then, later, glad to get away from the busy whirlwind of Washington to the plea sant climes of Colorado in summer. Most of the decision-making was be ing done by the cabinet officers and de partment heads, with Charles E. Wilson, Ezra Benson, Foster Dulles and Sinclair Weeks making the headlines. Only last week, in the Harry Dexter White business, where Herb Brownell was carrying the ball, did Mr. Eisen hower step forward and let it be known that his new name is "Mr. President", in fact as well as title. The result was some embarrassment to Mr. Brownell, the chief politician of the new administration, to headline grabbing characters like Rep. Velde and Senator Jenner, but great increase of stature for President Eisenhower. Former-President Truman, who was charged with "government by crony", undoubtedly was influenced by fii?= friends, as was the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. But in the final analysis both Mr. Truman and Mr. Roosevelt made the big decisions on their own. And that is what the people expect of their presi dent. A supine push- button. operator is not the kind of president the American people want. Impugning a' former president served the short-term purpose of getting the heat off the agriculture secretary, Mr. Benson, but it had serious overtones which, as one commentator noted, may ruin the GOP. The people do not expect the Republican party to spend its time hashing over ghost business, Harry White having been dead since 1948, but they want the problems of the present given attention and the eyeS kept look ing ahead to the future. Mr. Eisenhower, in his laudable call down of. his politics-happy associates has made a strike which will stand him in good stead, as he offers a constructive program in 1954. He will have the people behind him, on both sides of the fence, and that is what he needs. With the peo ple, he can handle the operators. As for the White matter, credit much maligned Lamar Caudle for perhaps the brightest statement of all. If the FBI had White on the suspect list. Caudle re marked, certainly; the FBI didn't stop watching him, merely because he took on a new job. Generally speaking, there won't be much objection to the city's change of plan for auto licenses, from metal tags which cost the city about 20 cents, to paper decals for which the city will fork over eight cents. The motorist will still find the tariff a buck. The trouble will come when the motorist begins apply ing the decal, a seemingly simple wet ting down process, but one which is not always as easy as it looks, particularly on these fancy, full-vision curved win dows popular these days in recent model cars. Perhaps the city will spend its ad ditional profit by selling the stickers on an "installed" basis. It appears the city is rather lucky that O. Max Gardner, Jr., had decided to dis continue his beef-growing and dairy operations. Mr. Gardner's help in sup plying the city with an irrigation system for use in increasing the city's water sup ply was a most generous gesture and would have beer, even had he charged a fee for his equipment. The community is in his debt. * A best bow to Mrs. Fred Anthony, named Woman of the Year for the Beth ware Home Demonstration club. Welcome. Carlton Purchase of Frieda Manufacturing Company, a Beaunit subsidiary, by Carl ton Mills, Inc., of Cherryville, comes as good news, not only to the Crowder's Mountain community, but to Kings Mountain, which has always regarded the Crowder's Mountain mill, as it once was called, as a part of this industrial community, even though it lies within the confines of Gaston county. The news is particularly good because the intention of the new owner is to re sume production as quickly as the ma chinery is over-hauled and renovated. The plant had been standing for sev eral weeks and, in spite of the unem ployment compensation cushion, prices of foods, clothing, autos and other con sumer goods leave no great amount in the normal paycheck, let alone the un employment compensation payment. Carlton Mills, of course, is practically a home concern, its principal center be ing neighboring Cherryville, 13 miles distant, where the company has for many years enjoyed a reputation as a "running" mill and one which believes in good citizenship for industry, as well as for individuals. There wasn't anything wrong with Beaunit's citizenship, for that matter, but it is fortunate for the neighborhood that Frieda, now Carlon, is transferred to capable, friendly, home ownership. ? Buy Christmas Seals It's time to buy Christmas seals for 1953. The Cleveland County Tuberculo sis association seeks $8,000 to continue its work in the local fight against a dread disease, which is not a great amount to spend in helping to eradicate this once-ravaging killer. The nation-wide fight against tuber culosis is paying off, with incidence of the disease going down yearly. Most im portant is the work of the public x-ray machine which many times shows indi cations of trouble before the patient has any idea he's ill. This enables early at tention, and, in almost all instances, a complete cure. It would not be amiss to mention that the people of Kings Mountain, and Cleveland County, we suspect, are not taking advantage of the services of the x-ray machine as they should. Like most things which are free, the x-ray service isn't as appreciated as it . might be. Everyone should get a chest x-ray once annually as a precautionary measure. A trip to the dentist often, saves a tooth. A trip to the x-ray machine often saves a life. Meantime, send in a check for Christ mas seals. Helping The Homeless Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, an American holiday, observed since the days of the Puritans, at which time the nation pauses to give thanks for the good things that have been received dur ing the past year. Many churches, the Masonic order, and other organizations mark Thanks giving as the day for special appeals for their orphanages, those wonderful Insti tutions where children who have lost their parents get food, clothing, shelter, and education until they are grown men and women able to care for themselves. Kings Mountain citizens have always done their part in these appeals for the parentless, and the year 1953 will be no exception. Congratulations to the Lions club on obtaining Rex Enright, of the University of South Carolina, to fill the speaking engagement at the club's annual football banquet. Mr. Enright is a successful coach and a quick man with the quip, too. 10 YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and events THIS WEEK taken from the 1943 files of the Kings Mountain Herald. Fire early Thursday morhing gutted the Kagle stores and com pletely razed the structure it oc cupied in the heart of the busi ness section to cause damages es timated at from $10,000 to $15, 000. Mrs. Madge P. Warllck has ac cepted the position with the local Ration Board to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of MisS Mary Frances Gantt who has en tered the service. Social and Personal Miss Mary Salena Parton be came the bride of Thomas Lad shaw Trott of Kannapolis in a ceremony of beauty and charm in Central Methodist church last Sunday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. Pfc. Gordon T. Whltesldes has returned to Fort Jackson, S. C. f-ii ,JL *'? -i<* '? after visiting here. Mrs. J. C. Thomson and Mrs. Nell O. Thomson and daughter, Jane, spent the weekend in Greensboro with Mr. and Mr*. Stewart Thomson, former resi dents of Kings Mountain. Mrs. Webb Spake of Gastqnia was a Kings Mountain visitor over the weekend. . , i ?. ? ? MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmoa Ingredients: bits of news, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction*: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. Every now and again some citizen will come across an old paper and send it to the Hterald, which is most appreciated, since there are skips. in the files from 1925 to 1934, and prior to 1913. m-m Thus we are indebted to Mrs. L. P4 Baker lor the latest con tribution to Herald and .commu nity history, she having for wardted a copy of the Kings Mountain Herald, under date of February 13, 1930. The big rea son Mrs. Baker saved this is sue, she thinks, was the ban ner headline "HOOVER COM ING TO KINGS MOUNTAIN", meaning of course that the then-president was going to do the honors at the mammoth ses qulcentennlal of the Battle of Kings Mountain. Major portion of the paper was devoted to the forthcoming event, down to the detail of Governor O. Max Gardner's persuasive letter of invitation, in which he pointted out that a Hoover ancestor came from North Carolina. It was also noted that the Kings Mountain sesqul - centennial program might be changed to a two-day affair, as, many will remember, it subsequently was. m-m But there was much else of major historical interest in the Herald of February 13, 1930, though it only contained six pages of six colurnr.s each. The issue read "Vol. 27, No. 7" in dicating the Herald became the Herald in 1903, a half-century ago. Today, the Herald carries "Vol. 63", which does not total properly with 1930's Vol. 27. Howtever, somebody during the" past 23 years has traced the or igin of Kings Mountain news papers back to 1889 and adopt ed that date as the actual be ginning. m-m ? Interesting history is contain ed in the "School News" depart ment, which listed B. F. Or mand, Jr., (now with a Rever end in front of his namte), as editor-in-chief. As it turned out, all B. F. had time to write was the basketball results, with some of the news good, and some bad. But the boys' high school team had defeated Shel by, which made thte best read ing. Though the charge of edi torializing might have been lodged, all old-time sports fans, and almost all of the new models hereabout will under stand this 1930 prose: "Th? Kings Mountain High School boys came back for revengte, after dropping their first game to Shelby early in the season, by defeatinc the Shelbyltes. 34 to 23. The Kings Mountain boys gave Shelby a licking they'll never forget. Defeating Shelby is like conquering a giant ' The box on that giant victory listed Kings Mountain perform ers as D. Stowe. C. Stowe. Win chester, Capt. Jacob Mauney, Oates. and J. Mauney. Jacob Mauney tallied 16 points, and I presume the C. Oates was Bus. white the C. Stowe was Charlie FrtnK. Of the others, I'm hazy. m-m But the box on the girls' game I know a little better and suppose they will not object to remembering a few past years too badly. They were S. (for Sara) Hambright. K. (forKath rvn) O'Farrell, S. (for Sarah) Ormand, N. (for Nfell) Hord, Capt B. (for Bertie) Wright, and M. (for Margaret) Plonk. That team had a winning streak underway at the time. m-m Among the other interesting items in the 1930 paper was a one-paragraph essay on the "Characteristics of a Good Citizen" over the signature of Albert Allran. a seventh grade English student. m-m Blakely Motor Company was bragging about its sales of Ford cars and trucks and, in an advertisement, listed H. W. Gamble and C. V. Alexander as recently satisfied customers. Otherwise, advertising lineage, in the winter of 1930, was a bit thin, though a couple of foreign firms were represented. Prin cipal local advertiser in the is sue was Home Building & Loan Association, showing assets of slightly more than $300,000, Just about one-fourth the total A. H. Patterson lists in his re ports today. m-m B. J. King, operating the pa per under lease at the time, had a good run of personal items, and reported, among other events, the return of Byron Keeter from a Nfew York pur chasing trip, the appendectomy of Master Fred Finger, and the return from Florida tours by Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Anthony, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Hemdon, Mrs. H. T. Fulton, and several other citizens. A front-page. Item re ported the loss by fire of the' W. L. LeRlchieux house on Can sler street. 1 CROSSWORD By A. C. Gordon ACROSS I ? American yellow blooming flower 8 ? Combining form meaning "oil" 9 ? Be indisposed 1 2 ? Cry of a sheep 14? LMoit poisonous serpent ( pi. ) IT? Tree known for Its tough wood (poet.) 18 ? Exclamation of inquiry 20? Before 21 ? Popular American blooming bath (post.) 25? Shortened kathode 2 6 ? Preposition 28? Chemical symbol for stannum 29 ? A kind of dog (pi.) 3 1 ? Ancient Sun god 33? Spanish affirmative 35 ? Type O en us (abbrev.) 36 ? Mystic Sanskrit word 39 ? Aquatic birds 4 2? Man's nickname ' 44 ? Above 46 ? Chemical symbol for radium 4 8 ? Approaches Flora and Fauna 51 ? Indisposed 33? Note of musical scale 54 ? Shade tree* 56 ? Scanty 59 ? Small deer #0? ' Technical knowledge ( abbrev. ) ?1 ? Woody plant 64 ? Large animate DOWN . i ? Large brilliantly. colored 6?h (pi.) 3 ? Perform 4? Tree o I the hooeyeucklt family 5? Com pan direction 6 ? Mythological bird 7? A flatfish 10 ? Anger 1 1 ? Sweet-tinging bird 1 2 ? Member of a boy*' organisation (abbrev.) 1 3 ? Serpents * 1 5 ? Popular tree with a popular fruit (pl-> 16 ? Aquatic fur-bearing ' mammal 1 7 ? Insect 19? Possessed 2 2 ? Small Invertebrate animals, usually pests 23? Consume 24 ? Compass direction 27? Either 30? Thus .32? Chemical symbol for silver 34? International Seedling Club (abbrev.) 37 ? Oreek letter 38 ? Flower of the orchid family 40? Every one Individually (abbrev".) 41 ? Lamprey 43? Cousin of the moose 4 5? Dance step 4 7? High mountains 49? City in Oregon 50? Animal that lives upside down 52? Resinous substance 55 ? Personal pronoun 57? A bone 58 ? Suffix of ordinal numbers 62 ? Regarding 63 ? Elementary Orders (abbrev.) See TIi* Want Ad Section For This Week's Completed Puzzle Viewpoints of Other Editors FATAL FASCINATION "Why is it that so many wtell educated people fall lor commu nism?" This question, which apparently puzzles many Americans, is often followed by the comment: "There must be something to communism if it attracts such people." Actually communism does have an appteal to a certain type of in tellect because it deals with hu man relationships in a way that stresses the "scientific." The world today contains about two-billion people, each one a problem to himself and to the oth er 1,999,999,999. This makes for a cfertain amount of friction; even chaos, and the result is a state of affairs that is exasperating to some mentalities. Why can't we have a society in which people can be made to react like chains of molecules, or chemicals in a ttest tube? Communism, with its "dialectical materialism," pro mises just that. The approach would be highly scientific. .As in ^animal husban dry, breeding would be controlled so that the Ptate would have the best stock for its purposes. The sick and the troublesome, (es pecially those afflicted with in dividuality, would be segregated from orderly communistic society ? as we see them segregated to day in Siberian labor camps. Thtere would be an orderly pat tern to existence because the po liticians who run the State would tolerate no ideas or action con trary to what they think best, , Missing from this Great Plan of the communists and their fol lowers, however, arte two signifi cant factors ? God, and the fact that man differs f^m other ani mals because God has given man a soul. Realistic communists re cognize the danger from those two sources and act accordingly. Our so-called brilliant people, in their wisdom, considter them un important, mere superstitions which can be educated out of "the common man." There is one other thing they overlook ? - the fact that man wants freedom ? American Le gion Magazine. MANY UNHAPPY RETURNS There will be no singing of "Happy Birthday", but the fact is that the prestent Federal in come ta:< on individuals is 40 years old this month. Curiously, the income tax which became law on October 3, 1913, was simply part of a tariff statute, the Under wood Act. v In those early happy days of the tax, a single person Was ex tempt from paying anything at all >lt his income was undter $3,000, and a married person was rxempt if he earned under $4,000. The rate was only one per cent on net incomes up to $20,000, two per cent \ip to $50,000, and so on up to a maximum of seven pter cent on net incdmes over $500,000. Only 385,000 individuals filed returns the first year, compared with 53.000,000 in 1950 fthe latest year for which detailed compar able data is available). In 1931, a married man who had a net In come of $10,000 and who had a wifte and two children paid all of seo In Federal bicome taxes. To day h> jpayftfifrt TMon. The Income tax levied In 1913 W"s made possible by the rati fication that year of the Sixteen th Amendment to the Constitu tion. Tbte amendment had been GOOD SENATORS DON'T A prominent member of the United States Senate Is fond of saying, as he did to a Ntew Jersey audience a couple of nights ago, "You don't go skunk-hunting in striped trousers and a tall hat while waving a lace handker chief". .This picturesquely and typically irrelevant remark may or may not satisfy his listeners, but it may also raise some ques tions in thfelr minds about other things you don't ? or shouldn't ? do. You don't trifle with your country's security for purposes of self - glorification. You don't ig nore the Constitution, specifically the First Amendment, in order to intimidate your opponents. You don't attempt to destroy reputa tions with groundless insinua tions to score a political point, whether thte victim is a candidate for high office of the opposing party or a nominee to high office |of your own party. You don't prove yourself willing and eager to undermine the foundations of your Government's foreign policy by the most unrestrained and vio lent attack on our strongest and oldest allies. You don't attempt to wreck your country's propa ganda program by holding a pub lic carnival, especially when you know that needed reforms are being carefully and meticulous ly studied without fanfare by some of your most able collea gues. You don't aid the Commu nists to erode your country's well deserved reputation as the strong -hold of liberal democracy by do ing everything in your power to make it appear to be a citadel of anti-liberalism, anti ? intellectua lism and reaction. You don't publicize classified military documents in order to make a headline. You don't ig nore your responsibilities as a public official by promoting mis trust, suspicion and disunity a mong your fellow - citizens. You don't forget that our beloved country will remain the hope of the frete world, which Is the only kind of world worth living in, as long as Its people remain true to the liberal, democratic princi ples on which this Republic was founded. ? Neto York Time a. TWO questions Two important qifestkms of the moment are these: (1) Are American farmers Jus tified in asking for price supports at 90 per cent of parity if firm era will vote for proper produc tion controls? (2) Would not flexible price supports, ranging from 75 to 90 per cent- of parity, say, be moite effective in reducing farm pro duction? The Progressive Farmer has given valid answers to these questions In an article In its Oc tober issue. The artlcfe ought to be widely read, not only by farm ers who certainly should under stand the reasoning back of 90 per cent supports, but especially by the city folks of America who often express thte mistaken Idea that rigid price supports give an unfair economic advantage to ag riculture ? Smith fteld Herald submitted to the states in 1909. Three state legislatures ? Conne cticut, Rhoi* Island and (M ? In any event, whether or not It Is trute that life begins St 40, - it seems safe to predict that the 40-year-old income tax has a long and rdbust life ahead. - Twin CSty * Sent i ?t. -v- im AT EASE. MEN! Lounge around all you like. Don't cratnp your style to pamper your clothes. Let US do the pampering. We'll bring back that "like new" look in a flash for small cash. Give US a ring! WEAVER'S CLEANERS Phone 910 V 310 N. Piedmont Ave. Fed Brighter TODAY! CHEER WINE PROVIDES NEEDED ENERGY Drink to your heoHh. Drink for taste .thrills. Next time and every time, drink delicious CHEERWINE. 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