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The Kings Mountain Herald Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published (or the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain *nd its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. ?>tered as second class matter at tbe postofflfe 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 Btagene Matthew* Horace Walker David Weathers Wan Weaver* Charles Miller Paul Jackson . . , ( 'Member of Armed Forces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE OWE YEAR? 52.50 SIX MONTHS? $1.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while sotne coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through urtf/i arrows. I Timothy 6:10. Censorship Out in Gallon, Ohio, the city board of education has ordered three novels re moved from the high school library as 'being . improper reading material for youthful minds. The three offending books were two by Hervey Allen, "Anthony Adverse", and "Toward the Morning". The third was Richard Wright's "Native Son". "Anthony Adverse" and "Native Son" were bestsellers in their time. The news that "Anthony Adverse" is a nasty, dirty old book will come as a shock to many present day papas and mamas who, if they did not read it two decades ago, thrilled to the film version which starred Freceric March. f'Antho ny Adverse" was a romantic, epic novel and the forerunner in style of the one and-only "Gone with the Wind". "Native Son,, was indeed a revlusivc sort of thing, but keeping the Gallon darlings in the dark concerning such matters would merely defer the day of revelation, if delay were possible. Voltaire, the reputed founder of the written word as a means of mass com ? proved that censorship merely insures readership. The Galion school board has done the authors a favor, undoubtedly assuring new Interest in the old novels and new royalties for Alien and Wright. A Fine Job While the Herald and all responsible newspapers make it their business to print the news as it happens, good or bad or in-between, most of them prefer to print good news and are glad when the news is good. Such is the instance at the successful conclusion of Kings Mountain's March of Dimes campaign, which, with final checking stili incomplete, showed the campaign over the top on the $5,000 quota. Success in this charitable campaign was no small task. It never is when the desired amount is in the $5,000-range, and more than once in the past month it appeared the campaign would falter and the community fail to meet its goal. The fact that the successful result was attained was due, of course, to the liber ality of Kings Mountain people who have a habit of doing their best on worthy causes. But it was also due, in major part, to the good work of the co-chairmen. George Thomasson and Charles Neisler, who kept working diligently when pros pects appeared discouraging. Our congratulations to them on their good work in assuring that Kings Moun tain would do its part on the March of Dimes job for 1954. Since the county took over the dog vaccination business, required regular vaccination of dogs and appointed a dog warden, there have been no cases of ra bies reported in the county, says Dr. J. P. Mauney, Kings Mountain veterinari an. That's a good report, meaningful as it is in many directions ? for the good of people, livestock, and family pets. Like typhoid fever, there's no excuse for having the rabies disease among us any .longer. It can be prevented by vaccina tion. Work is underway on the annual Boy Scout fund campaign in the Kings Moun tain district. The amount desired is not large, as such sums go, but the $1,700 is needed just as badly as if the total were much greater. Chairman G. C. Kelly and his committee members should be greet ed with generous smiles, non-cramped writing arms, and liberal donations. Headed South The fact that industry is moving South is recorded almost daily in the na tion's commercial journals. There are several reasons, not all of them the so-called cheaper labor sup posedly available in the South. A major one is that the climate is better, mean ing the buildings can.be more cheaply constructed, that seasonal stoppages for bad weather are fewer, and that less ab sences are recorded due to inclement weather and sickness. Other reasons are the availability of utilities and transportation service, and many other factors. Speaking to the Kings Mountain Lions club last week, Ralph Isley, wh i serves as executive secretary (manager) of the unique Gastonia Industrial Diversifica tion commission, said the big thing these days in attracting new industry is avail able floor space. If space is available ? cheap ? bringing in a new plant is almost a cinch. There is not much available floor space in Kings Mountain, and, of course, if there were, it would be a bad sign. It would mean somebody had "choked" on his financial load. ? ? There are many who discuss Kings Mountain's lack of industrial expansion and who expound the need for both ex pansion and diversification. Yet, no move is made to do much about it. In Rock Hill, S. C., uniquely success ful, a commission of citizens formed a corporation to handle the work of get ting industrial invitations accepted. Since the movement South is now firmly established, it is possible that floor space would be the major task of any Kings Mountain group attempting to duplicate the Rock Hill or Gastonia successes in this field. Since Kings Mountain is in a poor po sition, from the standpoint of availabili ty of water, industries not requiring wa ter would, of necessity, be the aim. But there are plenty of them too. Meantime, Kings Mountain, after years of prospecting, is taking on more and more the look of a mining commu nity, a trend likely to continue well into the future. Bad news for some was dished out by the city board last week when it raised the price of parking space rentals to a figure more nearly commensurate with the average monthly return of parking meters. As noted by the board members and mayor, the idea, in addition to in creasing the take, is to discourage the rash of requests for rental space. Too many rental spaces will defeat the basic "keep 'em moving" aim of the me ters. A medical doctor, by having his car nearby and by dashing away to wreck scene, home or hospital at breakneck speed, may save a life. But for most oth ers, locale of vehicle is of little Impor tance, except for personal convenience of the vehicle owner. Our congratulations to the Kings Mountain Woman's club on its decision to re-elect its able president, Mrs. George KL Houser, and congratulations to Mrs. Houser on the honor of re-elec tion. The Woman's Club has enjoyed a most active, financially successful year. The coming one should be a duplicate. Some people have to be forced, and the police department says it's going to be hard on those who havent purchased tags for their autos. A word to the wise is sufficient and a stitch in time might save a court citation. 1 /v TEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain ana paopte and traits 1 vl T H I S WEEK takan from ths 1944 ttlss of tho Kings Mountain Dr. Ralph McDonald, ? candl. , date for Governor, will be guest speaker at the annual banquet of the Kings Mountain Merchants Association to be held next Wed nesday night at 7:30 in the Wo man's club building. In preparation for the $10,000 Red Cross War Drive to begin here March 1, Co-Chairmen L. W, Hamrick and Mrs. F. R. Summers have appointed chairmen of groups to canvas* the city. jl j Social And Personal A Valentine party and dance sponsored by the American Home Department of the Woman's club was given Tuesday night at the Woman's club. Mrs. Edith Goforth wu bos t?u to members of Circle No. 4 of Central Methodist church Ttieeday night. Pvt. Bobby Allran, who Is being transferred from Miami, Fla? to Albany, Ga., was at his home In Kings Mountain for a visit this WWK. ** . .-y-gy. " MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Hazmaa Ingredient s: bite of news, wisdom, humor, and comment. Direction* : Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage.. The coffee industry Is getting more free advertising than it has since the war, when coffee among othter commodities, re quired little stamps as well as money, anu the ration stamps were more valuable than the coffee. m-m ? | Skyward-bound coffee prices are the reason, and senatorial committers are already exam ining, questioning, Inferring, and accusing, in an effort to find out the scoundrel who is running up the coffee price. As usual, there are conflicting charges and counter- charges. Thfe political leaders have hint ed darkly about that old bu jo. Ooo the "speculator". The V/all Street Journal, conservative voice of business, says "scarcity of coffee", and even Drew Pear son, at an opposite pole from thfe Journal in political view point, tends to agree. The La tins from Brazil, Pearson says, learn quickly. They have learn ed not to place all their supplies on the market at one time, but to dribble the coffete beans out slowly. The result is a higher price. 1 . The aim at the speculator makes good reading, at least, for everyone dislikes the specu lator exctept the speculator. A successful speculator is even worse, for he, supposedly got something for nothing, dis counting the wear and tear on his nervous system, which could cause him to collect early on his life insurance. It wasn't too long ago, to be suife, that a young Louisiana man tried to corner the cotton market and he almost did it. But the- news leaked out, prices plummeted, and the young man went to the financial wall. m-m The average coffee drinker, who uses a pound per wetk, more or less, is likely to be im pressed by what is required of a coffee speculator. At least, I was. Jim LeGette, the genial man ager of Thomson & McKlnnon's Shelby branch, supplied some interesting information. If you want to speculate in coffee, get up some big cash. The mini mum coffee contract on the New York market is 250 bags which doesn't sound loo big un til it is realized that thte total is 32,500 pounds. Even at whole saler's wholesale, that would put the coffee beans at some thing of a high figure. The re cent price of 74c per pound on the New York Exchange would mean $24,000 for one little mini mum order. m-m Mr. LeGette further confided that he does not handle a great amount of coffee business. About 15 years ago, he recalled, there was a Lattimore citizen who did a little coffee trading. He was the only coffee custo mer Jim has served in 35 years of brokerage in stocks, bonds, and commodities. Jim wtent on to say that he had another new account re cently. A customer called in to place an order for soybean oil. It was another "commodity" first for Jim. But I am straying from the subject. ... , . . m-m The consumer or coffee-ad dict's response to the rising price has bleen awful to behold, something similar to taking candy from a baby. A paper salesman declaimed this week, even as he admitted to being a slx-cup-per-day drinker, that he was/is not going to pay any $1.10 per pound for Maxwell House, Chase & Sanborn, Gill's Hotel Special, or any other brand. "I'll go to the water trough," he cried. m-m But 10 cents per pound diffe rential for 52 weeks of the year could only cost him $5.20 annu ally. As a local grocer remark ed the other night, the price of coffefe has little effect "on the individual consumer, but the in stitutional or quantity user suf fers. That's why restauranteurs have been thinking along the ? lines of IScent coffee. They have a big coffee bill. 1 am among the coffee ad dicts, so much so that 1 have recently made overtures to th" Sank*, non-caffein variety. 1 must relate, however, that San ka, while somewhat above the Postum grade (kin to that burned whfeat stuff the Euro peans called ersatz coffee dur ing the war), there to nothing to compare with real, top-trade coffee for fineness of flavor. X, personally, anticipate no buy er's strike from thfc medicinal department, though I am inclin ed to aaree with those most ve hemently hurt In the pocket book that a week's MMapMi of coffee ? drinking in the nation would put the skids umter the prices ? be the ogre speculator or shortage. t o ? M? Aalunl CROSSWORD ^ , By ,<? C. CorAm I I ???mil ' 1 ? ' ? m yiiyiiy & ACROSS l ? Correspondence after thought I ? Mythological strong man I ? Preposition 9 ? Infamous Kbit ot the Hum r. II ? Famous American philosopher U ? Three- toed dpA - "? ' I mSfhlfci It ? Qreek Utter 17 ? American temperance agitator (poet.) 10 Article uied by Ben jamin Franklin hi an ?1? Distress ^ 12 ? Flnt man 24 ? Printer's measure 25? Pronoun 27? lUstern U.S. state <abb.) 28? Negative 2? ? Historical Eaglish History's Pages 10 ? Inventor o( the telephone 32? Claw 35 ? Xests, SbeHejr and Tennyson wet* 37 ? Reach actoee 3?? Obscure 40 ? Novel 42 ? Preposition DOWN 7 ? Former U.8. President ??Bone 10 ? Mutical note 12? Printer'* measure 27? Discoverer of gravity 11 ? Electrically charged 19? ?r Francis Drake was tliis 20? English poet 21 ? In ventor at the ??? tftr&Mof (? 2 7? Corded fabric 29? Dash It-Ma. 11 ? M) liuieili. al god W the ana 14? Oreek letter It" Pathways ?? 1 3? Spanish leneral at t2te 10th century 4? Former VJ. President (pass.) 5 ? Jaeon'i ship (poee.) See The Want Ad Section For TMp Week's Completed Pux*Je A NO-GOOD-COMMITTEE The Senate Elections Corwplt tee has the power to review any Senate contest in which voting Irregularities are charged. And upon its recommendations, the full Senate may act to oust any senator whose claim to his seat seems legally doubtful. There would be no recourse to the courts alter such a decision to oust a senator, sincte the Senate is acknowledged to be the final Judge of the fitness of its own membership. ? Most recently, theCenate Elec tions Committee named a sub group to study allegted irregulari ties in the 1952 contest between Sen. Dennis Cravez, Democrat of New Mexico, and his Republican opponent, Patrick J, Hurley. After due deliberation, this sub committee decided to invalidate 30,000 ballots cast in that contest ?20,000 for Chavez and 10,000 for Hurley. Since Chavez wps originally re corded the winner by 5000 votes, the effect of reducing his total by a net of 10,000 would he to give the election to Hurltey by 5000, In other words, If its investiga tive work was sound, the-subcom. mittee determined that Chaves was not legally entitled <o sit in the Senate. Despite this, however, the Se nate does not Intend any action to oust Chavez. The reasons are interesting. The Republicans, who would re gain voting control of the Senate If they could take the Chavez steat figure they would lose a fight to oust him. They trail the Demo crats, 48 to 47, In Senate mem bership, with the other seat be longing to independent Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon. The Democrats, who like to suggest that immorality is by de finition Republican, show no dis position to oust one of their own number, since their voting con trol la at stake. And Morse, who dally publici ses himself as thfe most moral man in the Senate, If not In the nation, has apparently indicated sympathy for the Democrats in this issue. Now the finds of a Senate com. mittee are supposed to be sober and meaningful. If elementary politics is to govern what hap pens to them, then they are the opposite: A meaningless Joke. Worse, this committee's opera tions will stand condemned as a moral fraud. The committee took thousands of words of testimony for an evidently serious purpose ? to learn whether the sanctity of the American ballot had been violated. When it decides such is the case, the Senate which creat ed the committee decides, in its most flippant mood, to do abso lutely nothing about It Such immorality undermines the whole structure and character of the Senate. It Is no service to anybody who cheritjtafc uerao cracy. At the very least, the Se ihr >?i irl now rllsbanrl the Se nate Elections Committee as one Of Its permanent groups, since It no longer sorvea any purpttft, but to spend the taxpayers' mo ney In fruitless investigation. ? The dajttonid a<u*tU. WHO SAID ITT "That country Is governed best which is governed least." Who said It? Jefferson gets the credit for. it. Elbert Hubbard says he said it. But nobody can find where he did. Jefferson did say, "I am for government rigorously frugal and simple." but thafs not the same thing, not exactly. The Charlotte News advises anyone who hears the sentence ascribed to Jeffer son to counter with: "Thafs a good line, Bub, but it's not Jefter. "AND IN RIGHT FIELD. SENATOR ALTON LENNON" At the Freedom of Information Conference hteld recently in Ra leigh, J. R. Wiggins of the Wash ington Post focussed attention on a significant change that has tak en place in American govern- 1 ment. The really important work of legislatures, he observed, is no longer done in the main legisla- 1 tive chambers. The major deci sions are reached in legislative 1 committee i-oom?, and thara whyl legislative committee meetings should be kept open to this public. I What Mr. Wiggins said at Ra- 1 lelgh flashed through the mind as we read a piece in the New York Times Sunday by James Reston. Mr. Reston, commenting on the decline of Eloquence in] Congress, remarked that from newspaper headlines one would think an exciting "Great Debate" over the Bricker Amendment wtere in progress on the floor of the Senate last week. "No vision could be more in accurate," wrote Mr. Reston M. At 3:50 last Thursday af ternoon the situation was as fol- 1 lows: Senator Eates Kefauver, Democrat of Tennessefe, was read ing a speech which he seemed never to have seen before, and there werte exactly five other Se- 1 nators on th? floor: Senator! John M. Butler, Republican oil Maryland, who was walking a- 1 round in the well of the Senate; Senator Herbert H. Lehman, I Democrat of New York, who was I reading a sheaf of papers in the I back row; Senator Wayne Morse, 1 Independent of Oregon, who was I slumped down in his chair in an I attitude o* lawyerly boredom; Senator Albert Gore, Mr. Kefau ver's Junior a^ciate, who was present as a - demonstration of Tennessee courtesy; and Senator Alton Lennon, Democrat of North Carolina, who waa sitting all a lone out in right field." Where were the other 90 Sena tors? Doubtless a good many werts in committee rooms carving out new lawa, or quite probably investigating somebody's patrio tism. Some could have been greet lng constituents and showing them vote ? inspiring courtesies. Maybe a blessed few wtere en gaged in their own private ?tudy of the Bricker Amendment. Don't blame the Senators if they were not on the Senate floor. Much im portant wonfc of Congitess must go on and does ? backstage. But don't blame the six Sena tors who were on the Senate floor last Thursday afternoon either. A Senator leads a harass ed existence. Not much of his time is his own. And whtere can a Senator find more restful mo ments or more blissful freedom from interruption than on the Senate floor during one of those "great debates"? Tls Hot the age I of Daniel Wtebster. ? BmUhfield \ Herald. son'a." Who said, T do not *gr*e with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to says It"? Voltaire gets credit for it. Will Durant in The History of Philosophy put theee words In Voltaire's mouth but the quota tion cannot be found in Voltaire's works. Voltaire Just nevter thought of And General Pershing didn't says, "Lafayette, we are here." That waa some reporter's Idea of what he ought to have said. The reporter had morfe time to think of a proper response than the Perhapa the moral la that if one gets a reputation for making witty remarks he will have otk er* added to him. ? 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