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The Kings Mountain Herald gMg _$&&& GSd Established 1889 A weekly newspaper devoted to the promotion of the geaeral welfare and published for the enlightenment, entertainment and benefit of the citizens of Kings Mountain aa4 its vicinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House. Entered as second class matter at the postoffW at Kings Mountain, N. C., under Act of Congreas of March 3, 1873 EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Martin Harmon . Editor- Publisher Charles T. Carpenter, Jr. Sports. Circulation, News Mi* Elizabeth Stewart Society Mrs. Thomas Meacham Bookkeeping, News MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Eugene Matthews Horace Walker Bavld Weathers Ivan Weaver* Charles Miller ?> Paul Jacksdn . (?Member of Armed Forces) TELEPHONE NUMBERS? 167 or 283 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE ONE YEAR? 41.50 SIX MONTHS ? 91.40 THREE MONTHS? 75c BY MAIL ANYWHERE TODAY'S BIBLE VBRSE For false Christs and false prophets shall rite, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. St. Mark 13:?2. A Cordial Welcome It is not everyday In the week, nor every year, that Kings Mountain can boast of entertaining a personality of national or international repute. Friday, then, will be something of a red letter day in the annals of the com munity generally and in the history of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club partic ularly, when Donald T. Forsythe, the president of Kiwanis International comes to Kings Mountain for a visit of state to the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club and to Carolinas Divisoin 1. TJie Herald obtains an unusual mea sure of pleasure in the visit of President Forsythe, for he is a smalltown news paper publisher, having become the sole owner of the Hancock County Journal, a county seat weekly paper at Carthage; Illinois, after first joining the staff as managing editor in the twenties. His Journal Printing Company also operates a job printing department, printing ? everything from tags to 400-page books, which is in the tradition of the weekly press. In addition, President Forsythe also founded a journalism department at Carthage College. Mr. Forsythe's acceptance of the Kings Mountain Kiwanis club invitation ' to visit here is undoubtedly due partial ly to his friendship with Dr. W. P. Ger berding, the friendship a product of Lu theran activities in the Mid-West. Both attended Thiel college, but Dr, Gerber ding says he is earlier vintage and the acquaintanceship developed later. It is hard for a district governor to visit all his clubs. Thus can be seen the magnitude of the task of an Internation al civic club's leader in visiting his many clubs. As the leader of a great organization spread all over the globe, President For sythe is a man of influence and respon sibility. To paraphrase Senator Hoey, may his stay in the realm of the rolling plateaus and inspiring mountains be pleasant, and may he return soon to see again his friends of the Tar Heel state. Look To Buffalo Engineer W. K. Dickson says look to a better source for water, and suggests Buffalo Creek. Others keep wondering how far it would be ? and how costly ? to Broad River. The question and the recommendation sire academic, since the money available at present dictates remaining in the pre sent area and being content with a few more gallons of potential supply. A projection of the population of the / city in 1950 to present indicates a grow ing population that, in a matter of a few years, is going to require much more wa ter, assuming merely normal growth. However, if Kings Mountain follows the pattern of most cities, it will become very dry indeed before any efforts are made for handling the water problem on a long term basis. At least, Mr. Dickson's skirts will be clean. He will have pointed up the need. Congratulations are in order to G. C. Kelly and his hard-working team which has made an "over-the-top" report on the 1954 Boy Scout fund campaign. A reminder is in order, too, that the Red Cross campaign currently underway de serves the full support of the communi ty. Those who haven't yet contributed should make their plans to help this worthy cause. Our congratulations to Milton Hope and OIlie Harris, the stellar high school basketball offensive stars, on their selec tion to the all-conference basketball team, and to Johnny Kiser, a former high school luminary now at Oak Ridge M'li*ary academy, who was named to the all-star team for junior colleges. Wrist-Slap For foe Vice - President Richard Nixon had some effective meat in his address of last Saturday evening concerning for eign policy and other phases of the charges against the GOP as previously advanced by Adlai Stevenson. Some of the innuendoes were pretty rough, i. e., that the Democratic party likes to fight wars, but innuendoes are . customarily rough in the political arena. However, Vice - President Nixon's wrist-slap for the Republican bad boy, Senator Joe McCarthy, left much to be desired. ? Mr. Nixon's tone of voice sounded like a proud mother discussing her child's latest prank in a "he means well but ~~3oesn't know any bfetter" vein. Few peo ple think Senator McCarthy's intentions are good for anyone but Joe, himself. Mr. Nixon could have done much bet ter, fortified, as he was, with his experi ence on the House Un-Americn Affairs committee, which did the major work in putting Alger Hiss in prison for perjury. Mr. Nixon did not, in any way, im pugne the motives of Senator McCarthy, who, not unreminiscent of dictators of the past, hangs the "Communist" tag on any and all who don't ascribe to the Mc-? Carthy opinions and jump to the Mc Carthy suggestions. On the charge of Mr. Stevenson, that the GOP is half-McCarthy, half-Eisen hower, Mr. Nixon gave an insufficient reply. Spring Warm-up Finally, with a spate of filing fee pay ments and formal announcements, it ap pears that the ticket will be full for the spring Democratic primary, with at least one candidate for each office. Thus far, the contests are limited, if * any, indicating a quiet spring in the county political wars. Of course, there will be some contests and some of them may wax warm. But the sap is flowing later thaft usual. Not so on the state-wide scene, though the full effect of the bombast in the Scott-Lenrton affair is not yet being felt in the western area. One reason perhaps is the fact that Senator Lennon and Former Governor Scott are considered to be vying for the Eastern Senatorship, not that there's any rule for preventing both senators from living at Raleigh, Charlotte, Dur ham, or, for that matter, at Loafer's Glory. Generally, however, the state has followed an East-West division on its senators. Since Senator Hoey lives at Shelby, the West is less excited about the race now proceeding. Odds are the situation will change. Mr. Scott is busy making solid, con servative speeches in a seeming effort to play down his reputation for shooting from the hip on any and all occasions. Senator Lennon, the theoretical conser vative candidate, sounds mighty liberal with his pronouncements. The idea, on both sides, is to attarct those other votes. It's a long time until May, and, on the county level, there's still another month co file.. Last week's court action against a father who didn't keep his under-age son in school should have a salutary ef fect on others who let the youngsters rule the roost and attend school on whim. A boy or girl should be in school until 16. even though it sometimes ap pears the instruction isn't "taking" pro perly. The process of osmosis operates in education, as well as biology. Some learning gets through. Our cordial good wishes to Kings Mountain Masons on their observance of the eightieth anniversary of Fairview Lodge 339, A. F. & A. M. ' y-v YEARS AGO Items of news about Kings Mountain area people and event* 1 V/THIS WEE K taken from the 1944 files of the King* Mountain Herald. Dr. Gus W. Dyer of Nashville, Tenn., chief of the speaker's bu reau of the Southern State Indus trial Council, will address mem bers of the Kiwanls and Lions clubs this evening at 7 o'clock In the Woman's club building. Faculty members of " Kings Mountain high school won a dou bleheader In the annual faculty student basketball game Tuesday ; night in the high school gymnasl um. Social And Pergonal Misses Betty Cash and Jean Cash werte guests of honor at a J birthday part)' Saturday after ;noon at their home. Mrs. R. C. Etherldge arrived from Laguna Beach, Calif., last Saturday and will toe in Kings Mountain for an indefinite stay. Aubrey Maaney is on a busi ness trip to New York City. Mrs. Herbert Gannon and j daughter of Yadkinvllle are) gufcsts of Mrs. Carroll Barnes. MARTIN'S MEDICINE By Martin Harmon Ingredients: bits of mw, wiedom, humor, and comment. Direction. a: Take weekly, if possible, but avoid overdosage. To steal a line from a certain product well - advertised on press, t-v, and radio, the Herald should have looked "cleaner, fresher, smoother" last week than it ever has. The Improved look should continue this week and henceforth. m-ia The reason was another ma chine addition to the composing room, called the Eirod strip cater. And strips are the pro duct. Howtever, we get ho less than seven different kinds of strips out of this strip-casting machine, four of which can ac tually be seen in print, ar d three of which cannot. m-m Actually, it perhaps requires an experienced eye to note thte refinements in -the printing pro cess wrought by this new ma chine, which Is not 1/10 the size of one of Amos Dean's Buick Super's, though it costs as much. The Eirod purchaste is a matter of refinement of our basic printing process. For nine years, here at the Herald, we have been re-lnvestlng In basic printing equipment ? typeset ting machines. Job presses, a rotary perforating machine, a precision saw, paper drill, news paper press, etc. ? and future purchases will be In the nature of refinements ? to obtain even better typography, to Increase efficiency and speed of opera tion, and to further meet our continuing pledge to publish a gradually improving paper. m-m The reasons the Eirod Im proves the paper's appearance and sharpness of typography are several. Among the items it tasts are metal base material, on which Compositor 'Horace (Red) Walker mounts the many metal castings, of autos, ciga rettes, lingerie, dressfes, suits, coats, furniture, movie stars, etc. Until the Herald installed the Eirod last week, the base material used was wood ? either social pressed- and-glued plywood which Is not available from nearby sources, or red wood, which Elmer Lumber Co. has been most helpful In sup plying. However, lumber planes do not shave to the fine micro matlc thicknesses required for precision printing, and in addi tion, wood, under heavy pres sure of the printing presses, has a tendency to "give" or to compress. The papers at the end of a press run, for Instance, weren't quite as sharp as the first ones. m-m Spacing material, In varying widths, Is produced on the El rod, and many, many pounds of It are used In each weekly edi tion. Previously, the Herald compositors have been required to give great attention to sav ing this costly material. Now the machine will produce from molten metal new spacing each week, much as a typesetting machine chews up for this week last week's old typfe. The saving in time and trouble will be con siderable. Another benefit will be the demise of broken border a round advertisements and chip ped rulte between the columns. M?tal, of Itself, is not cheap for its per pound rate multiplies quickly when it's placed on the scales. A ton of the stuff arriv ed by truck the other day in four not-too-blg boxes. Where every (effort in the past has been made, due to financial necessity, to save and re-use border material and column rule, it will now be possible to use full-length, newly manu factured stuff feach week, a contribution to both efficiency and good appearance. m-m Here are the "seeable" pro ducts from the Elrod strip caster: 6-pt. column rule, used be tween columns, around ad vertisements 'r 3-pt. column rule, for ad vertising, and related pur poses: 12- pt. border, used mostly in black sale advertising: 12-pt. border, which pro vides variety in advertis ing layout from other | kinds shown here: m-m It Is a real pleasure to be moving into the "refinement" end of printing equipment, and, not unsurprising, this is the first step. A seemingly costly one It is perhaps the cheapest of the several "refinement" ma chines which we expect to be adding over the years. But it is a start, and the Herald staff, both front and back, looks for ward to further progress In this direction. Printing equipment dealers are real nice. They offer terms approximating those of thte First National Bank. GMAC, CIT, and the other Institutions - of finance. Painless, though regular, extraction la the key note, but there's no waiving the down-payment We expect to be In hock awhile, but we think if s worth ffi Viewpoints of Other Editors 1 CROSSWORD + + + By A. C. Gordon See The Want Ad Section For Thl? Week's Completed Puul'e A PLEA FOR titp After discounting the purely partisan aspects of Adlai Steven son's speech before a Democratic gathering at Miami Beach last Saturday night, it could be well termed an outstanding Ameri can's plea for President Eisen hower to exert the Influence and power which earnfed him the re spect and support in the 1952 elec tions. He asked that the President take the steps necessary to heal ' the schism that exists within the Republican party and to* get on with the business of governing the country. ' Mr . Stevenson was speaking more as an American than he was a partisan and one could sense, in listening, that he held Mr. Elsenhower in respect. But his was a troubled voice concerned with the broader aspects of the world situation which seem cur rently to be side-tracked because of domestic disharmony. The New York Times, a potent supporter of President Eisfenhow jery sounds the call for positive action by saying: "We believe that President Ei senhower and his advisors will be mistaken if they proceed on the thbory that there can be unity be tween fairness and unfairness, between the< Judicial approach and the demagogue's ranting, between an effective drive against com- 1 munism and a reckless bid for personal publicity. We believe President Elsenhower will lose more, In popular approval, in the integrity of his Administration ana in his own peace of mind, if he tolerates Mr. McCarthy than if he separates himself from Mr. McCarthy now, unequivocally and by name. If therte is one qua lity that the people of this coun try have always respected, and do respect now. it is moral cour age." The President needs only to take his case to the people to learn that they hold him in re gard nearly equal to that' in which they held him when Re publicans, Democrats and Inde pendents combined to sweep him into office. ? Chatham County Newa ' - HAIL. SPIRIT OF SPRINGI One or two robins do not make a spring; a few hardy members of the clan nearly always winter up this way and can be seen even in early January by those who want to look deep Enough in the brushy tangles. But when flocks of robins appear in the pasture lands, that's something else a gain. And several flocks are now reported as far north as the lower Berkshires. They Are very busy and they're not singing much, but they are .?ere. The American robin Is a thrush, cousin of the wood thrush, the hermit, the veery and various oth er sweet-voiced individuals It was originally called a robin by Eng ish settlers who weren't too well informed "ornithologically. They ?aw a red breasted bird and re membered the English robin, which is considerably smaller and belongs to the family of warblers. |?o they called this big American pird a robin, too. It doesn't great ly matter, for both birds an friendly, like human company, ?ing, have reasonably good man to have a round. And. for th* spuria lists, the ornithological differences w?1* ?oon *?ough classified and P?t on record. And nobody cared toomuch If the popular name per Oor American robin la probah CONSTABLES MUST GO It will be nearly 11 month?, of course, before the General As sembly meets again but candi dates for places In that august body will announce sometime within the next few weteks. This is as good a time as any, there fore, for residents of Rutherford county to let their prospective legislators know what they want In the way of good legislation. There is one enactment that The Rutherford County News wants. That Is an abolition of the office of constable. I There is no need for this office anywhere in North Carolina. A statewide law. really should be passed to eliminate it. If no state wide law is enacted to do this, however, Rutherford county should seek a local bill to accom plish this purpose within our own boundaries, at least Rutherford has had some bla tant demonstrations of the weak ness of the constable system. The weakness is that the system gives badges and authority to men who do not necessarily have the train ing or the temperament to serve as police officers. Men who pos sess law enforcement authority should operate in an organized police department. Constables have the opportunity, at least, to operate within their territories as independent, one-man police de partments answerable to no one except the voting public and that only once every two years. It must be said to the credit of the vast majority of constables that most of them remain Inac tive or they act only in coopera tion with regular police depart ments or sheriffs deputies. The comparative few who go earnest ly into the law enforcing business after being elected turn the spot light on the defects in the whole system. ? Rutherford County News. GOATLESS PUBLICATIONS Ole Weimar Jones did such a good job of summing up the press vs. secrecy issue that he surpris ed even his closest friends who knew his ability already. One little sidelight we think should be taken up and expanded, though it has no enormous con nection with the issue. That is the fact that the producers of little newspapers have to Carry a big ger burden of personal responsi bility than do the staff members of large publications- The aver age reader of a large paper may not even know the names of those who write the news and editorials which make him fume. If he knows the names, he rarely I knows anything else about them and even more rarely will he ever encounter them. We have run a few one-man publications in our day and on appreciate wiut Cousin Jones is driving at. Everybody in your small town knows who is respon sible for the editorial, and the full weight of public disapprova .? ly the best known bird in this country. It will nest almost any where, welcome or not. It will clean ptore bugs off a front lawn than a vamuum cleaner could. It will chase cats. It will wake its human neighbors shdrtly after midnight with its Joyful matin song in May. It has as fine a strut as a blue Jay. It eat* cherries, but it alao eats a lot of bugs that eat cherries and other things that Kardenors grow. Best of all when tM Hocks of robins arrive it's a safe bet that there's going to be spring again before long. We're glad to see those flocks of robins moving in. ? Now York Timet , Farthing Seeks Re-Nomination As Solidtoc LENOIR ? James C. Farthing of Lenoir, today forwarded his filing fee to the State Board of Elections at Raleigh, as a candi date to succeed himself as solici tor of the 16th Judicial district, subject to the Democratic Pri mary on May 29. The district is comprised of Caldwell, Catawba, Burkte, Wa tauga, Cleveland and Lincoln counties. lack Sink's Father Dies Funeral services were held Fri day for Homer C. Sink, 56, of Thomasvllle, father of Jack Sink, former city schools fapulty mem ber and assistant coach, now with the army In Germany. Mr. Sink, a Thomasvllle busi ness man sinde 1.921, died after suffering a heart attack on March 10, while attending choir practice at Grace Lutheran church. He was a prominent Lutheran and member of the PO S of A. He was a native of Davidson county. Surviving, In addition to his son, are his wife, Mrs. Ada Hln-' kle Sink, two brothers, and onfe granddaughter. ? a powerful thing ? presses down on one man. Somebody told us that even the big publications have to shift responsibility around and dilute It. Time magazine, we are told, has a mythical staff member named Harvey Matthews. He Is the office goat, and unsavory mis takes are laid to his door. If an Irate reader makes his way to the Time office, Mr. Matthews has just left by plane for Alaska. But whe;. you operate in a town four blocks long, you can't conceal a Mr. Matthfiws^a Joe DoaXi. or John Doe. 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