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®hf (EUvrland Max TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Subscription Price. By mail, per year __$2.00 By carrier, per year . ... $2.50 The Star Publishing Company, Inc. LEE B. WEATHERS President RENN DRUM - Local Editor j. ■ —■■■■ Entered as second class matter January 1, 11*05, at the postoffice at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March .'I, 1879. We wish to call your attention to the fact that it is, and has been our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has !>een published. This will be strictly adhered to. FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1924 This above all—to thine own self be true; And it musi follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. —William Shakespeare. The Union Republican now opines that Tom Best is too silent. We sup pose they’ll now say a parrot is mute and a phonograph dumb. Greensboro at least seems nlcased over the receiver appointed for the y Atlantic and Yadkin by Judge Webb, and that’s* the most pleasure they have shown since the matter cnme up. Yhe new secretary of t he navy may make the trip .to the capital by air. Wellt the last one to leave was “given the air.” Fate again cuts the deck of life. A 91-year-old railroad watchman was killed by an automobile at Reidsville Sunday after living near five score years and passing unscathed through the Civil war. “One step forward and two back ward." Fire losses in the United States in 1922 exceeded by millions the amount of the nation’s personal Income for the year. Now comes a clergyman who nays St. Patrick was an Episcopalian. We do not contradict the statement neith er do we gainsay that he was an Ir ishman, e en though he was born in Scotland and educated in France. • Watch ’em wail! The boys “that nothing was too good for" a few years back are again in a fair way of getting some recompense, perhaps. ■ ^'rauc,h Venable, former pres ident of the University of North Car olina, writes Senator Simmons that be has no time to read the Congres sional Record with the inference that it mostly talks and gets nothing said. At that, tho professor is a connoisseur of literature and speaks for many a man. JUDGE IS RAILROADING. It seems as if Judge Yates Webb was destined to be a railroad man in stead of the competent jurist he is. First, circumstances and legal opin ions very near gave him a private train without any track to operate it on, and now he apparently has a a whole, but losing, railroad on his hands. Not many weeks back some conductors were before the Federal jurist for transporting intoxicating beverages on their trains. The law read any vehicle nabbed, in the act of transportation should be confiscated, and there is where the judge very near had a train without a track Now, according to the Greensboro News he is general manager, direc tor-in-chief and controlling pilot of . the Atlantic and Yadkin, which was recently given a receiver at the re <U»st of the Southern system. Savs tl» Nfews following a proposal state ment from President Harrison, of the Southern: “Sounds like the beginning of a trade. What'll you take for the whole outfit subject to equity adjustments. Mr. Harrison? Or rather what would you be willing for the court to take? Judge Webb is running that road now, you know.” —NOT HARDLY. Tuesdays senate “heard Another fanfare of oratorv, runinn" the scale of all of the disclosures of jts inves tigators, and then listened to a sol emn warning that the people back home soon may demand that congress fo™ga *** *wand jury pursuits and address itself to a Program of con structive legislation.” savs a Wash ington dispatch. The fanfare of ora , tory is nothin? unusual it springs up like the measles, hut the warning, even sounded bv Borah, was eertain not out of place or bad wrong. . ‘‘The next campaign will not be won on the platform written at Clev We muat make our record here if we are anxious to continue in **nw«r ” declared the Idaho senator We agree with the statement that the ’ Gieualaad platform will have nothing ts do with the outcome of the next campaign, neither will anv record that is yet to be made. The record however, that wiH have, and is having n bearing on the course the G. O P ship will take m the political sea, has nfeead? been made and recorded as we saa it in printer's ink before the •law of the hmarirasi public. If there ha, aa some aa?, aaoagh scandal to A«Adee's presidential aa-,1 pirations because of his innocent con nections with the oil probe, then the] flagship of the Grand Old Party is likely to encounter turbid and roll- j ing seas. The Iduho louder did strike a true! note of warning, though, when he1 avowed the session would likely end; without any remedial measures, taxi legislation or enaction of other im-| portant duties. The session's record i of construetivones has been of noth-i ing hut destructiveness, and the in- j vestigation of reifledinl measures hasj heeli chnng"d to uncovering shocking; things. No, the Cleveland platform is immaterial. What has been writ ten in oil has been copied in ink. j IF SHKI.HY IS—TELL IT. Sometime ago a Shelby man made the suggestion through The Star’ J “Around Our Town’ column that the; town erect a sign, or signs, on the! main highway leading through the! town telling passers-by from the out-! side world the advantages of t he town. Nothing more has been heard ' ” the suggestion, which was made; in connection with the Paint-up cam paign, and it is our idea if the man will write his suggestion on the re-j mark blank of his Kiwanis attendance slip he will be hearing something of j it, a)i the clui» is always ready to sup-1 port, any movement for the benefit of Shelby. Clarence Keuster, iff Charlotte, i rpeaking before the Statesville Ki-! wanis club recently made a sugges tion similar to that of the Shelby | man and that club is already consid ering a design for an advertising sign! to he placed at the Southern depot thpre. The sign will bear facts and! information ahou the city’s location I and advantages. There- are thousands of tourists! who pass through Shelby yearly, and Shelby is one nice little town, we* think, hut is there anything thr., wifi stand out to make that tourist, \\'.w' may pass through only once, remem | 4h r Shelby. Perhaps after travelling down through South Carolina or up state the tourist will remark to those’ who accompany him: “That was a fine town in southwestern North Car-1 olina with a hospitable people, but I just can't remember the name”. Why1 not have some^method of touching up^ his memory? Make the name of the town link up with something worth remembering; he would probably re member the name of the county seat of the most progressive agricultural county in the state, or the center of a county that produces 40,000 bales of cotton and yet does not produce enough for its own mills. If Shelby is, nothing tells the stranger what it is. Unless he tnrries for awhile he does not know that he is in a section fam ed for its uniform climate; nor does he know the town has a resort, where a combination of mineral water and climate make it an attraction for any vacationist--Why not tell these strung ers of Shelby? SOMETIMES WE WONDER Is it not possible that in some cases the doer has something to do with what is being done, that is in the opinion of others? The critical eye is the instigator of morals in business, and there is a chance that on oc casions the criticism may he over done because of the doer of the deed. In speaking of the njill curtailment in Gaston countv the Yorkviltc En quirer is inclined to believe it is a "manipulated situation instead of a “forced extremity because of too much yarn on the market." The opin ion of the South Carolina paper is that than- is not enough cotton *to 1 un the mills until the next crop, and thut if the mills let this fact he known the price will soar upward to the advantage of the farmer and dis advantage of the manufacturer. "Mis. representation” the curtailment state ment is termed. laKint? it that a shortage of cot ton is the real cause of the curtail ment, can the move of the textile men he criticised too harshly? Examples might he taken: The co-operative marketing association was organized with the idea of giving the farmer enough support so that he might hold his cotton until the conditions on the market demanded a price more in keeping with the cost of production; the egg marketaing association and other such organizations are formed for the purpose of placing the pro ducer where he can sav “we have here a fine product, hut we are grouped together so that we may meet conditions in asking a reason able price for our product.” Such a banding together systematically of farmers has been a savior to the farming industry and is perfectly right and to be advocated at any time, but why be too harsh when another line of business tries a similar move? Buck it rather than harangue used methods. Now, we are holding no brief for the textile industry for this is a cot ton county as cotton is the major crop of the South. Along with the produc tion the textile industry has shifted to the southland. The two go hand in hand, so why not give the other f*l_ low a just showing judged by our own methods. OPINIONS -OF OTHERS Nerve Won’t" Do. "* ! (Jackson County Jouriai.) Couftney Riley Cooper,, in Success certainly spoke a mouthful when he stated that, “The American newspa per oday is an island in the midst of press agents, a beleaguered thing] struggling hour after hour and day! after day against entangling allian ces that would throw them into the; clutches of those seeking something' for nothing.” The difference between j the free publicity sought for Mr. Bai-; ley, candidate for governor, and Mr. Robert R. Reynolds, candidate for lieutenant-governor, is that the West] ern Newspaper Union is authorized to furnish anti-McLean propaganda, set] up and ready to run, free of any cost! while Aii venturelogue association (whatever that is) offers any news paper all the Reynolds publicity ma terial ther i. for $1. Really, take it all in all, that’s the nerviest one yet.. Bob has pulled a new stunt for poli ticians. If nerve will elect a man in otfice, Bob should change his pro gram and make the race for the I‘res idency. flood Rerord, But— (From Statesvi.Ta Daily.) .Speaking before the Charlotte Ro tarians, lion. O. Max Gardner, deplor ing and denouncing the scandals de veloped in our national life, remarked truly that the undermining of the faith and confide nee of the average citizen “is the tragedy and shame and danger and heartache of it all.” And further: “In this connection may T lay this tribute upon the altar of North Caro lina’s public life and public men? I have been intimately identified with our state government and general as sembly for many years, and I am happy to say that l have never sus pect any man in high office in North Carolina, Republican or Demo crat, of being guilty of corruption in the discharge of public duty." tou will notice that the former lieutenant governor was guarded in his language—none "guilty of cor ruption in the discharge of public duty.” That assertion, we believe can be sustained; and, as Mr. Gard ner says, it is cause for pride. But while there has been no "corruption in the discharge of public duty, so fur as revealed, the revelation of the moral character of some of our pub lic officials, in business relations and otherwise, is cause for humiliation and shame. The revelations should give us pause. They are a warning t-' th<> citizenship to be more careful in the selection of public servant:. We huve had enough outcropping tp show where we are headed, if we do not give more earnest heed to the privae character of public men. Abraham and Isaac. (From Greensboro News.) As we understand the situation, what the state republicans fear now is that Marion Abraham Butler may proceed with the Sacrifice of Isaac. Neighbors Began to Talk. (From Toledo Blade.) Suspicion began to take root when Albert Fall showed too much pros perity at home* The neighbors could not understand it. Not Snake Oil. (From The Monroe, Journal.) Many years ago there lived a lnrge 1 lack snake. He called himself Dem ocrat. Th-u'e also lived a large cop perhead, he called himself Republicsfi. Fach one started out on a journey and they happened to meet on the same road. They began to hiss at one another. Neither one would retreat for the other. The large copper-head said to the black snake. “I will swal low you.” He caught him by the tail and began to swallow him. Then the black snaw said, “1 will swallow you,” and he caught the copper-head by the tail and began to swallow him. Each swallowed until their beads met and then the copper head said "stop and tell me the difference between us, if you can.” The black snake ans wered: “You are copper-head outside but full of black snake and I am black snake outside but fu“ of copper-head. Lot us keep this trt ourselves and not let the little snakes know it. Hiss at me and I will hiss at you* You in me ami I in you, we are the same inside and outside, brother.” Can YOU Catch “Next Week?” "Next Week” is'v a favorite time for doing the important thins ahead of you—like open ing a savings account. And “Next week” so often never becomes "this week” that thousands Pf individuals and families hit the hard up grade pull without any sav ings to help them on the trip. Today is the best day of all to open that account. Your Savings will earn 4 per cent here—Compounded quarterly. Cleveland Bank & Trust Co. 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