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(Slmlami ^Ur TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Subscription Price. By mail, per year _$2.00 By carrier, per year_ $2.60 The Star Publishing Company, Ine. LEE B. WEATHERS_President RENN DRUM .Local Editor Entered ns second class matter January 1, \1905, at the postoffice at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. We wish to call your attention to the fact that it is, and has been our custom to chargd five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituafy notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered t*. -TUESDAY, APRIL 2D, 1921 The quitter wins just about ns oft en is the winner quits. Murphy, the boss of Tammany, is de»4, hut Tammany lives on. We suppose the college boys wear the large-legged trousers so ns to feel at home in overalls during vacation. **6oolidge Addresses Chemical So ciety", says headline. Trying to tell the chemists, perhaps, a formula for an oil mix-up. x--• — “A town where business men at tend week day services’’—that's Shel by, I)r. White suys, and.a recommen ijdtibn hard to surpass. .The soldiers’ bonus bill and the paved highway from Shelby to Kings Mountain are things to be looked for ward to. There is evidence that the people of the rural sections are observing the Psynt-up campaign, why not j Shelby take similar interest in the Clcnn-up campaign? A tourist nowadays looking for scenery in Western North Carolina will- likely see big and attractive post ers.telling of the joy in Carolina cig arettes and the safety of Skid-Still tires.. "The attendance at my morning Services here is greater than any oth er town I have ever held a revival in considering the population,” declared Dr. . John K. White, president of An derson college, who is conducting re vival services at the First Baptist church. So, Shelby must be a church goipg town as well as a Sunday school town. . •Farmer bob.” Representative Robert L. Doughton,! more familiarly known as "Farmer Bab” in Washington as elsewhere, is not this district’s representative at the nations capital, but “Farmer Bob” is a North Carolinian active enough in the interests of his people, especially the farmers, to deserve commendation no matter what district he represents. He has represented his district in congress several terms and ns yet no snores have been heard from his section of the floor. When congress starts to sidetrack some beneficial legislation for the farmer a big. red-faced giant from Western Carolina rises to his feet and biases forth, and generally that bill is passed if his party’s strength is equal to the task. Doughton is a farmer by | choice as well as by birth. He knows by experience what the farming class needs and what it does not need, and he can be found at his post every day battling for his people down home, the tillers of the soil. A man that is deserving of his popularity among the farmers. TIME TO EXTEND OUR LIMITS The time is at hand when the cor porate limits of the town of Shelby should be extended, not to see how much territory can be taken in, but far enough to include the surburban dwellers who are enjoying the priv ileges of the town and are not pay ing their part of the expense. This nrrtter has been under discussion for many years and, while there were some bitterly opposed to the sug gestion at the time, we believe in all f-irness the time is at hand. Much of the omrosiMon* has realised that exrjrf’on is the thing and now they ! favor it. while some are no doubt opposed and aj,jvays will be. For near ly 40 years the town limits have been the same, subscribing a circle, the rtHffUs of which has been three quar ters of a mile from the center. In these 40 years the town’s popula tion and wealth have multiplied many times We have grown so that there are os many jn the surbnrbs as there are in the incorporate lim its,^ yet this imaginary boundary line s<y3 they are not a part of Shelby in the census figures, in the taxable property, in the tax burdens, in the matter of municipal government. They enjoy nearly all the blessings and privileges the rolks living in town enjoy such as police protection, school advantages and in most cases the water and light service, yet they art not a part of the town. The majority of these surburban dwellers want to come in and be a part of a bigger Shelby. We feel that selfish ness will not be a cause for protest against this movement and that the right sort of motives will be back of the undertaking. If we know the sentiment of the majority, they want this thing done and we hope it is not far distant. JOHN W. DAVIS FOR PRESIDENT While the Republicans have prac tically nominated Mr. Coolidge for President the Democrats seem floun dering around for the most suitable man for which to win. McAdoo. who once looked to be a favorite is drop ping by the wayside. Underwood is sjtill pushing ahead and his support era are determined’ not to let their enthusiasm lag, but being a southern man from a Southern state that is always Democratic, Mr. Underwood will not be selected, however capable he might bo. A1 Smith of New York s a man of the people and living in a pivotal state lie could be nomi nated except that h- is a Catholic. The nation has never had a chief who is a Catholic and we hope never will because this creed Reeks to mix church and state with h always brings trouble. Then there are others hut our best bet 'rnr a winner is .John W. Davis of West iVrginia, former member of Congress and Ambassador to the Court of Saint James, England. There are those who protest the nomination of Mr. Davis because he is one of the attorneys for J Pier mont Morgan and Co., Wall street fi nanciers. This is no reason why he is unfitted because we believe he is big and broad enough, if elected to the presidency, to serve the- people with justice and fairne.s, His law 'irm is precisely the same firm with which Grover Cleveland war a mem ber for more than 30 years and Olcveland’rf membership and the fact that he too represented big monied interests as r lawyer, did not bias or prejudice his mind. Davis is not going.up and down the country seek ing delegates but in our humble op inion he is the sort of man that will *vin if the Democrats can center on him. BRING THE CONVENTIONS. Scattered over North Carolina are a number of cities that have the slo- ! eran, “Carolina's Convention City.” Not a single town with this slogan has better facilities for a convention c'ty than Shelby. With Cleveland Springs ami the commercial hotels of ! the town Shelby offers many advan- ' tnges for state or district conven t ons of any kind. More conventions can be brought to Shelby, once the ad 1 vantages of holding them here can be 1 presented. Of course there is some ex pense of playing the host to a large gathering of any kind, but it. is an in- i vestment hard to surpass. Does not practically every visitor to the town become enthused over Shelby? But they generally come singly or in groups. Think of the advertising the town would get from just one state convention. It is one of the easiest, least expensive and best means of ad vertising town. One convention will bring another, and so on as the fame of the town’s hospitality and conven tion advantages spread. Every year district mid state medical societies meet somewhere, district church and Sunday school conventions. State T. P. A. and Merchants association con ventions, livestock meetings, insur ance men and bankers. Practically ev ery business and profession holds state and district meets. Other towns and cities act as hosts, why not Shel by? Individual business and profes s;onal men might see that some of their conventions are invited here as well as the Kiwanis club getting be hind the movement. Make Shelby a convention town! Railroad President Never Watched Clock From The State. Patrick E. Crowley, who has just been chosen to succeed the late A. H. Smith as president of the great New ^ ork Central railraw system at a t'me when only full-sized men have places in railway managements, was never a clock-watcher. As he began work at 14, his schools and colleges ; ha,-e been out of the ordinary. In \ fact, since Crowley began working as messenger boy in the office of the j Erie Railway his school has never ; been “out.” Young Crowley studied teelgraphy j while a messenger, became telegraph operator, station agent, then disnstoh- i "*• At 26 he went to the New York,1 i Central as a train dispatcher; and stepped up from one office to a higher one, always trying to increase the ef ficiency of the road within his sphere. He was nobody’s pet; he had no rich friends; no “pull" or influence. But he didn’t watch the clock for quitting time. Nothing was too big for P. E. C. to tackle, and he came to be dubbed by his fellow workers, “Pull Eighty Cars.” And while he mastered every de partment in which he worked Mr. Crowley read and learned things out of books. He Studied men, not for any set purpose but because to know men was part of his business, part of the day’s work. Having pride in his own effort he had pride in the work of the New York Central. And he never watched the clock. Now, when looking over the coun try for a man big enough in all parts to fill the post of executive of one of the great railway systems of the country, the eyes ofthe directors fin ally came back to and were fixed upon a man who had come up from the lower ranks; on the men who had educated himself while he gave all he had in him to doing efficient work for his employers and who—never watch ed the clock. date has after he discovers how the voters feel on the subject.—Key West <Fla.) Citizen. Reparations for war seem to be the indispensable condition of prepar ations for peace.—Troy Times. OPINIONS — OF OTHERS » Figuring for Nothing. (Greensboro Record.) .J. VV. Hailey devoted some time in his speech here Thursday night to fig uring out how much money the peo ple of the state pay each year for the stop law. According to his mathe matics and his assumptions, with the cost of stopping one-fourth of a cent every time a railroad track is crossed by an automobile, the people pay to the railroads $.‘!t>5,000 yearly in North Carolina, to keep from getting killed. Then he ruined it all by stating that >f course we don’t pay it because we lon’t stop. All that money lost becalise of not stopping. He certainly set up onething to knock down. This is a fair sample of most of Dailey's political propositions. • Well, Well! (Krcrtri Greensboro News.) Come to think of i*, that was one mean trick of Max Gardner to leave ‘he Senate** and Mr. Overman at home, for Max has a brother-in-law who is nightmares to Overman and friends whom The Senator is watch ing. Honest Stupidity. (From Statesville Daily.) Mr. Denby, he that was secretary of the navy, is declaring some more hat he is entirely responsible for the oil reserve leases, that the leases prevented the reserves from being drained and were a necessity. If we get Mr. Denby he evidently feels that ho should have a medal for leasing the oil lands and that the time will -ome when the country will applaud him. The fact that Mr. Denby is ap parently sincere is added evidence that the country should be congratu lated that a man of his caliber is wifely out of the cabinet. Corruption in government is horrible, but honest tupidity can at times do as much or more harm. Dangerous Kir.se-. (From Roanoke (Va.) Times.) These pesky scientists setm bent •i taking all the joy out of living. If they had their wav the human race would be so hedge I around with re * fictions that life would he .just about the most-boring experience im ■'"inable. From time fo trime scien + sts have shaken a warning finger at ' u* young folks and warned them of the dangers of promiscuous oscula tion—stealing a kiss—for short. Now comes one of them, Dr. Donald B. Armstrong, and tells a convention of Cross workers that'kissing is an “extra hazardous occupation” from the standpoint of heal h. so much so that the most distant future may t.nd life insurance companies re garding kissers as poor risks. Just imagine fillin'1* out an appli cation blank for a policy and run ning across such ouestions as “Do vou kiss? If so, when and how‘oft en ? The “when” won’t be there by chance, either, for Dr. Armstrong, who is assistant secretary of the Me tropolitan Life Insurance company, is sure that the dangers inherent in osculation—-you know, kissing—vary considerably with the time of day. If you’re at all interested in the subject, it may save you from fu ture peril to learn, according to Dr. Armstrong, that the kiss is most dangerous in the morning, a little less so in the afternoon, while the evening is the time to kiss, if it must he done at all, since the chances for immun ity from evil effects are best then. 'Iso, although Dr. Armstrong, did not say so in his address, the chances for immunity from detection are prob ably better in the ee’vning than at any other time of the dav. It’s serious business, is kissing, and the risk of matrimony isn’t the least of the dan ger that attend it, take it from the scientists. Negro Car Thieves Are Arrested Here Jim and Cornelius Phillips, colored hoys of Gaffney, believe in mixing re ligion with business. Sunday night during the preaching service at the Gaffney colored Holiness church Jim and Cornelius “tuk onto" a Ford tour ing car, while the owner was inside worshipping. Their escape was good temporarily, hut thev came to Shelby and tried to trade the car to Charlie Upton at Putnam's garage. Upton suspicions were aroused and he kept the negro hoys hanging around while Deputy Sheriff Austell telephoned Gaffnev officers, and the result was that Jim and Cornelius were the guests of Sheriff Wright on the re turn trip to South Caroilna. Jim admitted taking the car, the of ficers say, but declared that he thought it was the property of his uncle. Cornelius was a little younger and told a little more according to the officers. In addition to annexing the car they also took up with a num ber when they passed the road con^ struction camp out from Kings Moun tain. It was a truck number, but it was their idea that they could get by with the number just as easy as the car—and both failed, The senate by placing an impost on radios has put a tax on air. Now let the rest of us get together and de mand that it include hot air.—Phila delphia North American. The most beautiful and desirable location for residence in North Carolina now opened to BUILDERS OF GOOD HOMES This beautifully located and finely developed property, less than five minutes drive from the heart of our city, with all the conveniences of water, electricity, hard surfaced roadways, etc., sub-divided into lots of large dimensions, guaranteed as a Residential section. These conditions make this the future MYERS PARK OF SHELBY. There’s no reason why this property should not be the show place to all visitors that come to this part of the State. The Hotel, the Sulphur water the advantage of living on the Char lotte-Asheville Highway. All these are matters that should appeal to HOME SEEKERS. We are not TALKING INVESTMENT very much however, byit this is just a hint that any person buying a lot now will realize a big dividend on his investment in a short time. We are looking for homeseekers, but we can’t blame the man or woman that buys a lot here just to see it grow into money. - This property is selling fast, SIX lots sold last week, three this week, there’s quite a num ber of prospects and its a matter of first come first served. If you want to buy act now Price for each lot is $1,250.00. ANTHONY & ANTHONY Royster Building. Shelby, N. C.
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