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(SUvdand J^tar TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Subscription Price. fy mail, per year_$2.00 y carrier, per year_$2.60 The Star Publishing Company, lac. LEE B. WEATHERS_rroeldant RENN DRUM..Local Editor Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the postoffica at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1876. We wish to call your attention ta 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 j death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. n .. ■ ■ »>'■ j'-ien. i.» TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1921. If opportunity knocked as often as1 temptation tickles “Who’s Who” would fill several libraries. Wonder if LaFollete will be another Roosevelt? And if he does, who will be the Wilson? .After this week end there will be! those in North Carolina who will seek | secluded spots for the neat wesk end. ’* .Speeding progress. Some of the more modern flappers opine that bob-1 bed hair is old-fashioned ajhd altogeth cr too common. “The house devoted the day to t he farm relief bill,” read* a Washing ton headline, but this house dt devo tion has brought very little relief. 1 Mr. McLean while speiking may have thought his audience su only fair, but in the hand-shaking that followed, we bet he thought the en tire county bad turned out In a body. Nobody ever heard tell of this coun ty moving or has any idea where it is going, but there are several wondering “how Cleveland is going to go Sat urday." Our idea in that Meears. McLean and Bailey would both be better off if ] Preacher Jimison and Jim aBrrett woud cancel that tongue-lashing con-j test scheduled in Raleigh Tuesday evening. On the front page of this issue may be found a list of all the Democratic candidates, both county and state. No detailed description is given of any candidate, nor any endearing terms used, for it is a list carried merely for the information of Star readers. On the list may be found some fine men, and all of them are consider ably better than opposition politics -paint them. BIG WHEAT CROP. Information gathered from every wheat section of the state is that a bumper crop l* expected in North Carolina. While the weather has been rather discouraging with other crops wheat over this state is said to be looking better at this season of the year than over before. Down in Dav idson county, where wheat is tbo ma jor crop, the fields are reported to present an excellent appearance and fine prospects. Reports tell of similar crops in Yadkin,, Iredell and Rowan. The forecasters have it that although \ the acreage has been decreased the . crop will be a large one and of fine quality. A LESSON WORTH WHILE. . A comedy “Six Cylinder Love” pre ; Rented Friday night at the Chautauqua ‘ tent was worth the price of a whole • season ticket. It presented a problem | which is all too common in Cleveland ! as well as every other section where financial disaster comes to those who ' mortgage a home to buy a fine car. It > is not always the price of the car and \ its upkeep which brings ruin and hu . initiation, but it is the faster life such as expensive dinners, costly \ clothes, punishment for violations of > the traffic laws which aid the car ; owner to slip down hill. Automobiles , are much to be desired and are great vehicles of pleasure but the owner ship of one beyond one’s ability is dangerous to property and future hap piness. Many no doubt sat through the performance Friday night and saw the ill results of extravagant living ' in’handsome suburban homes and rid i ing in high powered automobiles when a Cottage is all such a one can really afford. The plav was full of comedy throughout, well acted by seven stars, the outstanding one being Robert Strauss as Gilber Sterling, while Carl Reed, whose face is often seen in the movies running him a close second for first honors. FOR THE BOYS. One of the most fitting suggestions heard recently is that the new foun tain house on the court square be called the “Memorial Fountain” and that a bronze slab carrying the names of all our World war dead be placed in the interior so that the handsome building may mean something to the coming generations besides an orna ment and drinking place. The sugges tion should meet the hearty approval of-every citizen of Shelby and Cleve. lahd county. The majority of counties in North Carolina and every other state in the Union have a memorial of some kind honoring their soldier dead in the world’s greatest war, yet C^pveland county has nothing morel than the roll of honor in the county | court house. The fountain is already built and unless the people say otherwise it will hereafter be known just as the “foun tain on the court square.” How much better It would sound to be known as the Memorial Fountain and at the same time we could point with pride ! to our memorial to the boys who gave their all. The cost of a ■•uitable bronze ! tablet to carry the honor roll, so that ;those who may visit the fountain in ’ years to come might read of Cleve land's contribution in young manhood, would be very small and could be eas j ily raised. Moreover, the legion post | would in all likelihood place some ■ mark of respect to all ex-service men I in the building, and parents and rela ; atives of the boys who never returned I will follow the example of other coun ties and place in the building a chair I or some remembrance of each indi ; vidua). The suggestion is possible and when a movement is started the co operation will be on hand. Make it the “Memorial Fountain” so that it may mean more than the "new fountain house on the court square”. What organization will be the first to sponsor the movement? IMPRESSIONS OF MR. Mcl.EAN. Angus W. MceLan who spoke in the court house here Thursday night made a most favorable impression upon his huarers and we predict here and now his nomination in the pri mary next Saturday, for wherever he has gone he has made a frank, hon est and clear-cut statement of his posi tion on public matters without the flourish of oratory and the rash promises which carry too many vot er* off their feet. Mr. McLean is a business man and farmer and a suc cessful one at that. The state has long needed a genuine business adminis tration and it has a chance now to get it from a man who has made a success of his prive affairs and whose heart abounds in love and loyalty for hi* state. Thii han been n peculiar campaign in that it hns not had any real big issues. The one outstanding contest has been over the question of taxa tion. Mr. Bailey has made his cam paign almost entirely on an attack against taxes and this has naturally brought him some following but we have an idea that Mr. Bailey I aughs up his Rleeve every time he makes the rash statement that he will reduce taxes. Hasn't such argument been made time and time again in cam paign speeches, yet the tnx rate has bounded upward, not because the gov ernor put them up but because the people themselves or their respresen tatives in the legislature or on the j county board of commissioners have granted the demands of the people for better roads, schools, bridges, public institutions, better health, etc. If the. people want the state to progress, cer tainly they must pay for it. 'Tis true there are certain unequalities which Mr. McLean says he will undertake to wipe out but he does not play the part of a demagogue and promise low taxes if he is elected governor. All taxes on lands are levied, collected and spent in the counties where the land is located and the governor has nothing to do with this whatsoever. Mr. McLean does promise an econ omical administration of state affairs, i He wants to institute the “budget ! system" so the 66 department- will j report to him as chief executive and j that by working in harmony as one | great state, economies can he brought ( about that will save the tax payers. In I that matter of roads he wants an 1 equalization fund and this is what we have strongly advocated for some time. We wish to say that both Bailey and McLean are morally fit for the high office, but while Bailey attacks the tax system which he through the I Democratic party helped to evolve, McLean upholds the system and advo cates economy and a readjustment where inequalities and injustices pre ■ vail. McLean is stable, while Bailey is fickle. McLean has been loyal to the | party all these years; Bailey was loy al until he became a candidate six | months ago and took out his hammer '• to knock on the sore tax spot because he knew this is a vote getter. We know of no better evidence of | McLean’s fitness for a business ad ministration than his record as a pri vate citizen and his record as assist ant secretary of the treasury and a member of the War finance corpora tion under President Wilson. Mr. Wil son praised him for his efficient serv ice, for his unselfish patriotism and for his contribution to the success of the war. Talk about being a friend to the farmer, McLean proved just such a man when as managing director of the War Finance corporation he had charge of the distribution of 300 mil lion dollars for the relief of farm pro ducts and sent 30 millions of this amount to North Carolina banks which in turn was loaned to farmers' to help them through the depression. Endorses Bailey. To the Democratic Voters: I think Mr. McLean is a Rood man and would doubtless make a Rood gov ernor, but I do assert that every vote cast for him is a vote to perpetuate machine politics and ring rule In North Carolina, which in the last an alysis means the end of representa tive government and the substitution of an oligarchy. Which do you prefen If you want a government of the peo ple and by the people, then you owe it to yourself and your posterity to go to the polls and vote for J. W. Bailey for governor. C. J. WOODSON. (Political Advertisement.) Aesop’s fables had nothing on a vacation letter. MR, ELLIOTT IN REPLY TO DOWNS ; Discusses Religious Intolerance. Says Mormon Elders Were Stoned Out of Shelby. | To the Editor of The Star. We note Mr. P. E. Downs’ criticism Mn last week's Star. President Harding said after being in office a year: “The thing that pained him most was to i learn of the bitter religious intoler ance springing up in our country.” Our government was founded on poli tical and religious liberty in free ! speech, free press and free religious ■ conscience. That was so well under ; stood that no president mentioned it ; unt.l Lincoln appealed to it. Roosevelt reiterated it and put a Jew on the Su preme court. Taft sustained it by mak ing a Catholic chief justice of the U. S. Supreme court by appointing Judge White, a southern Democrat. Wilson expressed it in suggesting a Catholic general to command our allied armies in the world war, and that move brought a quick conclusion. I write from the viewpoint of history without prejudice “The truth alone will make us free. Disaraeli, a Jew was one of England* greatest prime ministers. 1808 to 1880, he advocated the free dom of common people. Civilization is based on tolerance in respect of dif ferent opinions. That all questions hayjj some merit or they could not be debated. People inherit thoir policies and religion and can not all see alike. Lack of understanding cause most quarrels. Onr Christianity stands for peace and god will to all men, with mutual tolerance. Where Catholics are fewest, prejudice against them is greatest. They can be misrepresented without defense. What I said in re gard to a Catholic president was in the interest of th“ national Demo cratic party, southern Protestant and northern Catholics, chiefly compose the Democrtaic party, and if the party lives they must work together. If they split, it may be best for the country for the Democratic party to suicide and get out of the way. Mr. P. E Downs made diligent search of his tory to dispute my contention and the most he finds is the presumption that the Catholic Baltimore colony had acted on the principleof real estate profiteers in allowing religious lib erty. And he finds that some Baptist missionaries were ill-treated in Brazil 50 years ago. But he ndmits that those Catholics founded a republic and now allow religious liberty. President Coolidge’s church once persecuted Baptists and Quakers and hanged witches, but they reformed and he did not object to being on a presidential ticket headed by a Baptist. It Is within my memory that Mor mon elders were stoned out of Shelby and they never came back. lhero is propaganda being retailed for good money to make iirnorant peo ple believe that if Catholics get in power they will burn Protestants at the stake ns they did under the Span ish inquisition 400 years ago. I don’t think the few Catholics in this coun try could menace Protestantism if they wanted to. The “Holier-than thou,” pretenders are the greatest joke of the age. Only the K. K. K.s cluim it and their white robes attest it- J. C. ELLIOTT. S.—I heard the lecture of ex Governor Brough of Arkansas at Shel by chautauqua May 20, on conditons and prospects of our country. He pre sented our great material wealth and prosperity in industry, commerce, fi nance and education; and how we were leading the world on all lines of human endeavor. But unfortunately, compared this great Protestant .re public with Catholic Italy (the nest hole of Romanism). He said we had 10,000 murders a year, 70 times as many as tlaly. A people must sec their sins before they will forsake them. Here all are profiteers and i grafters including the politicians and all the professions. The farmer is the meat of them all, o(T him they live and eat. He gets 60 cents for a barrel of apples that is retailed for $7.50. Sells a cowhide for $1.30; 7 cents worth of which makes a $12 pair of shoes. Our preachers are helpless to stem! the tide of wickedness and appeal to the Ku Klux to save us, and they are entering the churches in their white, robes as ministering angels. Is that Protestant ? J. C. E. Sharon Memorial. Memorial services will be held nt Sharon Methodist church the second Sunday in June, or June 8th. Preaeh :mr at 11 a. m by the pastor Rev. B. Wilson. Dinner on the ground and de. coration of the graves followed by a speech in the afternoon by Hon. J. Koan Davis of Kings Mountain. The only time you can get a pic ture of a smiling congressman these days is just after he has been declar ed not guilty. A policeman in Hollywood, Cal., has inherited a fortune so at last a cop may see someof Hollywood’s night life. A small town is a place where they can remember how many husbands every woman has buried. Boston University has a course in Society is becoming so modern it is considered old-fashioned sit on the front porch without laughing about something. For best results use Texaco. Ad Drive to the Red Star, Green T filling stations.! Ad Y—— > SWIMMING PARTIES ! Ideal place to enjoy a good swim. Three acre pool of fresh water, clear and clean. 1 Come and enjoy yourself. I Open all summer. Just a feu blocks from hard surface. Bathing suits rented. Private bath houses. Free parking i space and picnic grounds. Lady chaperones. JOE COLE, Life Saver and Manage;', Kings Mountain Swimming Pool B. M. ORMAND FUN PLAY I LOAFING f —these aren't enough f Make Vacation Time Bring You Something Else You boys and girls who have studied and worked all year in school— May the coming vacation weeks bring you all the good times you’ve' been hoping for. And—we hope they will bring you new interest in school work, and in getting ready to do things worth while after school days and college days are past. Vacation time is the time to “tune up” for better, hard er work ahead! Cleveland Bank & Trust Co. Shelby, N. C. When you think of Success, remember that a Bank Ac count is the surest way to prepare for Opportunity. ---——-, ARE YOU GETTING AHEAD? Or are you just marking time? So many people are go* ing headlong, spending all they earn, then some. If your income is fifty per, or a hun dred per, live within—and save some too—of course you can’t do what a man can do making a larger income. You don t have to, but whatever your income, do on it—and forget the fellow with a larg_ er income except work on and save so your income will be larger later on. then you can do like the other fellow. That’s not bad advice is it? Save through our Savings Department. We welcome you. Cleveland Bank & Trust Co. Shelby, N. C. Are You Letting Your Expenses Eat You Up? Dr are you living within your income, holding down expens es and saving a little all along? Matters not your income, if you are not saving, you are not getting ahead. We advise that you live within your in come and save a little. Do on what you’ve got to do with. We invite your business. Cleveland Bank & Trust Co. Shelby, N. C. v— ' -* | Wray-Hudson Co., calls your atten tion to our special prices on Men’s overalls. 50c saved is 50c made. Ad j ANNOUNCEMENT WASHBURN & COMPANY wishes to announce to the general public, customers and friends that they will discontinue retail ing Gasoline and that they have gone strictly in the wholesale business. To our customers and future customers we wish to announce that you can secure our famous ATLANTIC GASOLINE, Motor Oils and other products at the following Pumps and Filling Sta tions in Shelby and Cleveland County: CAROLINA MOTOR INN LATTIMORE GARAGE, Corner DeKalb and E. Warren St. BELMONT FILLING STATION South LaFayctte St. FALLSTON HARDWARE CO., Fallston, N. C. P. L. PEELER Belwood, X. G. E. C. SARRATT, Earl, N. C. BEAM MOTOR CO., N. Washington St. WHITEWAY FILLING STATION South Washington St. Lattimore, X. C. BLANTON’S FILLING STATION, Fallsloa (toad FALLSTON GROCERY CO. Fallston, X. C. ROY P. CROWDER, New House, X. C. Z. B. WEATHER’S SONS, Slicit),', N. C. LILY MILL STORE South Shelbv (New Station to be Opened o June 20, Corner Sumter and LaFayette.) 0 You will find the very best quality goods and real service at 5 the above places and any business you can give them will be ap- * preciated. WASHBURN OIL CO. JOBBERS and DISTRIBUTORS GASOLINE and OILS Shelby, N. C. 105 N. LaFayette St. L'c’lfi?' <31 rr=n I?3!! TPf! F" r?T> <r*n <31 n=*i rran n=ai n=n
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