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$5re l^lcvrlami §iav 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 g-"- ■■ ■■ ,i--. ... Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the postoffice at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, Mnrch 3, 1879. tVe tvish 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 been published. This will be strictly adhered to. TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1024. COUNTY WEALTH AND TAX RATES. The University News Letter pub lisher! at the University of North Cor ojinn always furnishes interesting and .informative data on North Carolina and the current issue shows the tax- j able wealth of the 100 counties per in. ! habitant. It ranges from $i,900 per in- > habitant for Durham down to $405 per j inhabitant for Wilkes. Cleveland is i placed twenty second in the list, hav ing $097 per inhabitant. The bulk of the counties that exceed Cleveland sire those in which are located the largest cPies with their industrial plants such as Durham with Durham, Guilford with Greensboro and High Point; Forsyth with Winston-Salem; Buneomhe with Asheville; Mecklen burg with Charlotte; Gaston with Gastonia; New Hanover with Wil mington and so on down the list until Cleveland is reached in the twenty second place. As for the aggregate tax rate, Cleveland is given as 75 cents on the $100 property valuation. We have heard lots of complaint about high taxes in Cleveland, but the Univer sity News Letter shows that 75 of the 100 counties in North Carolina have tax rates at $1 or more. We should get some comfort, therefore, from the comparison. By comparison we find that if our rate is high, it is higher in seventy.five per cent of the other North Carolina counties. We take our hats off to Forsyth which stands second in wealth per inhabi tant but whose tax rate is the lowest of any county in North Carolina, be ing only 55 cents on the $100 property valuation. This low rate is due to two things, business men at the affairs of government and the large industrial plants that make Winston-Salem the busiest as well as the largest city in Carolina. DEMOCRATIC HORSE RACE. If the Republican nomination is go inp begging, it is quite otherwise in the Democratic camp, where McAdoo, Smith and Underwood are out on the fighting lines daily and niirhtly, with Ralston, Glass. Cummings, Davis, Cox, . Ritchie and Silzer all hoping for the lightning. And yet the winner may ^not even be among these, for it has ' been demonstrated that one of the most difficult tasks in all the world ^ is to get twothirds of a Democratic National convention to see things the same way. In New York and Missouri * there are two eminent Democrats “who have been placed in a peculiar i position, but one which yet has its - possibilities. Senator Copeland has ^hanging in his office a large picture of Governor A1 Smith, while he slips out ' here and there and mukes * good speeches for Al. And yet there are those who think Copeland himself may he dragged into the Presidential fight if hi,s candidate should fail to make the goal. He and Smith were elected -in November, 1922. Copeland carry ing New York state by almost 300,000 . and leading his ticket in numerous • counties of the state. In Missouri ; former Governor Gnrdner is elected a delegate at large instructed for Mc Adoo, but if the latter fails to climb the riffle, why shouldn’t Bre’r Gard. ner aspire to high honor*—if not the Presidency, then perhaps second place? And events have demonstrated that in these parlous times even sec 'ond place isn’t so had, particularly ..with the Democratic party in high “feather and practising its crowing V voice for the November concert. Dem ocrats have always liked a horse raee, and everything indicates that they -will get their fill of it next month at the New York convention. If candi dates are selected who are not objec tionable for one reason or another to „a large section of the party, and the - platform made with sanlity, there 1* no reason for defeat in November. YOUR IDEAL. Speaking before a group of nurses recently at Raleigh, Dr. Delia Dixon Carroll, of whom Shelby ami Cleve land county is justly proud, saidf “Bob your hair and paint your cheeks when the woman you respect most has done so.” That was the theme of her talk to the graduate nurses: “Pick out the woman you respect .most and when in doubt about any thing await her example.” Perhaps, if some one shoulld ask “Della Dixon,” as we know her, what one thing more than any other has been responsible for her success, for her outstanding prominence, her reply would be “fol lowing In the footsteps of my ideal.* That was her advice to others, ami it may be the "why* of her prominence. No doubt those 78 boys and girls, referred to as Shelby’s largest grad | uating class, arc beginning to think that advice is considerably easier to j obtain than were their diplomas, and it is, but being charitable, we also wish to contribute to the real begln 1 ning of their career, and our advice is, to follow the advice of Dr. Carroli. Somewhere there is a man or woman that you admire, one that typifies something that the inner you would like to be. Perchance his or Tier station is so high and exalted that you are almost afraid to hope and aspire, but there you are wrong—just watch their step, and yours, and keep walk ing. There will be cross roads in your life. You’ll wonder which to take, for | sometimes the one that glitters most is wrong, and there is where you can follow the trail of your ideal ahead. Choose your ideal wisely, and choose high, for there is nothing too great, nor no dream too fond for the Amor iean boy and girl of today with the chances they, which means you, have. Above all, hold that ideal, for as yon ding'will your record he written. And in that ideal, remember you yourself may bp one. There are others coming up the trail. Your footprints will lie followed ns those in front of yot». The trail is endless and many fall out, will you ? r OPINIONS -OF OTHERS «. ■ -.-* * WILSON “TACTLESSNESS," (From Statesville' Daily.) Speaking at memorial exercises at the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, Rev. Bernard G. Bell of New York said "It is said that he lacked tact and patience, that he alienated us from his cause. In one sense, of course, he did lack tact. Mr. Wilson was tactless ns Mr.-Lincoln was tactless. He knew the necessity of a united nation. Friend ships, political considerations, w°re as nothing'. The purpose was everything. “It was this sort of heroic tactless ness, incapable of believing men less devoted to jrreat human visions than he was himself, which Mr. Wilson had." That is a correct interpretation of the Wilson attitude. Men who have an obsession for a cause, whose souls are aflame for a «Tcut ideal, do not consider compromise or policy. They have in them the stuff of which mar tyrs are made. They cannot under stand why all people do not see the vision as they see it; and they cheer fully risk their all, with as little thought of anything; hut their objec tive, as the real soldier in actual bat tle. There are zealots who damage Wood causes by excessive zeal and de sertion of reason; there are fanatics who pursue impracticable dreams But since the beginning of time the race has gone forward only because of the loaders who had a vision and who re fused to be diverted from it. The mass would never move upward and toward but for those who get fur out in front, sometimes beyond what is considered safe and sane, and cry out continually for an advance. By and by, sometimes after its chief cham pions have passed, the cause for which they fought under adverse circum stances, is accepted. Its advocates were ‘’ahead of their time,” we say. But for the people "ahead of their time.” the lenders with a vision, we could hardly make progress at all. What n pity it is that these men to whom the world owes so much so rare ly receive while they nre in the flesh the glory and the honor they deserve; and sometimes not even their memo ries are honored. But, praise he, usu ally the pioneer souls who blare the way think little of self, or not at all; if they did they woujjd not Mate the way. They would be afraid thnt it would cost them something. Moral cowardice is our most con spicuous sin. We so often refuse to follow our honest convictions because of fear of personal unpopularity or thy h>3ii of a dollar in business. We simply lack the nerve to stand up for our honest convictions. For instance, in the primary election Saturday a lot of folks will vote for candidates they don t want to vote for because they lack the courage to do otherwise; and others will stay away from the polls because they haven’t the courage to {To out and vote their honest convic tions. Before The Bar. (From Charlotte News.) The friends of Governor A1 Smith are exerting themselves with printers’ ink to tell the country how the Gov ernor stands. Whatever of this, it is strongly in evidence that where he would like to'stand is up ngninst the bar with his foot hoisted on the brass railing. BABY BORN WITH TWO HEADS IN YORK COUNT\ Yorkville Enquirer. A baby having two heads, both oi them perfectly formed ami eoveret with pretty brown hair was horn tc Mr. and Sirs. Ernest Moss of Hickor) Grove last Sunday morning. The ir fant wns born dead, there beingsomt doubt as to whether or not it had evei breathed, According to those who saw it the baby also had two bodies anti was of double so*. The body was viewed by a number of people of the community prior te burial. The two headed baby recalls tc mind the fact that a baby with twt heads was born in Sumter county a few weeks ago, one of the heads growing on its back. This head was cut off according to reports from Sumter and the infant will live, it ie Irelievea. a.* j|A NOTICE OF SPECIAL TAX ELEC TION DISTRICTS NOS. 41. 43. 45. Whereas, a petition has been pre sented to the Board of Commission, ers of Cleveland county signed by the governing school boards of all the school districts within the proposed special school taxing district, the metes ;m<J hounds of which are here inafter set forth, requesting this Board to order an election in the ter ritory embraced within the boundary ies of said proposed school taxing district, olid boundaries comprising the present boundaries of Lattimore Local Tax District No. 45, Double Springs Local Tax District No. 41 and Padgett Non-Local Tax District No. 43, the exact metes and bounds of which special school taxing district are as follows: Beginning at bridge on Lattimorn and Shelby road (iporge MoSwain’s line, thence S. including the Geo Me Swain’s fnrm and Martin Pannel place now the R. L. Hunt plnce; thence W. with the B. M. Jones line Including the farms of L. V. Lee, Mrs. Ella Jones, Mrs. Roxanna Hamrick, A. C, Jones, J. A. Jones, W. A. Crowder and J. B. Lattimore to Sandy Run creek; thence N. to the Seaboard Airline trestle corner of old Padgett line; thence W. to the North creek; then up the creek to Rutherford county line; thence east with said line Co lumbus Jones’ including his farm; Ibence to and including the Joe White farm; thence with the No. 7 and 8 line to and including Cathey Wolfe place now owned by D. W. Jenkins; thence to t he New House and Latti more road; thence shuth with said road excluding the lands known aa the Gaither Pliilbeck land; thence with Lhe raid road including the lands of Cohen Wright, Mrs. J. D. Stockton Irvin Philbeek and Aaron McSwain to Double Springs line; thence E. includ ing land of J. G. Lattimore, Aeey Hamrick Ambrose McSwain, J. C. Green, Martin Green and J. P. Mof lison to Brushy Creek; thence down the creek leaving out C. I. Blanton place to tile No. 7 lino; thence west to Gilead Green including the lands of Bate Blanton; thence with the Eastern boundary of Gilead Green line ami Sam Poston line, excluding the lands of the latter to a culvert on the Lat timore and Shelby road; thence West with the Shclby-Lattimore road in cluding the lands of Broadus Me. Swain, D. A. C. McSwain to the begin. ing. to ascertain the will of a majority of the qualified electors residing in sai.« district upon the question of creating a special school taxing district com prising the said boundaries ami of levying a tax of not exceeding fifty (GO) cents on the One Hundred Dol lars valuation of property, both real and personal, in said district, and whereas, said petition has been duly approved and endorsed by the county board of education. inow, i newtore, the lioaru of com missioners of Cleveland County, at their regular session held on June in«l 1924, do grant said petition and order that an election be held at the usual polling place in the town of Luttimore, N. C„ in the aforesaid dis trict, oh Monday, July 2d, 1924, for the purpose of ascertaining the will of the electors within the proposed special school taxing district upon the question of levying a special tax, not exceeding fifty (50) cents on the Owe Hundred Dollars valuation of all prop erty, real and personal, in said dis trict, in addition to the county tax for the six months’ school term. It is further ordered that W. S, Walker he and is hereby appointed registrar of said election and that he be furnished with a copy of this order, and that J. L. Green and C. C. Walker he and they are hereby appointed Judges of said election. It is further ordered that at said election those who are in favor of said boundary becoming: a Special School Taxing District and of levying a spe cial school tax in said district to an amount not exceeding fifty cents on the One Hundred Dollars valuation ■of property, both real and personal, in said district, shall vote a ticket on which shall he printed or written the words, “FOR SPECIAL TAX’’ and those who are opposed shall vote a ticket on which shall be printed or written the words, “AGAINST SPEC IAL TAX,” it being understood that if a majority of the qualified electors at said election shall vote in favor of said special tax, then said boundar ies shall constitute a special school taxing district known as the Latti more School Taxing District, in which a special tax not exceeding fifty (50) cents on the One Hundred Dollars’ worth of property may be levied for school purposes and that this shall operate to repeal all school taxes heretofore voted in any local tav district within the said boundary. It is further ordered that a new registration of voters residing with in said special tax district shall be had and that the registration books shall be kept open between the hours of 9 a. m. and sunset on each day, Sundays excepted, for twenty days preceding the day for the closing of the regis tration books, for the registration of any electors residing within the afore said boundary and entitled to register, and that said books shall be open for registration on June 10th, 1924, and close on Tuesday July 15th, 1924, be fore suid election and that on each -Saturday during the period of regis tration the registrar shall attend with his registration books at the polling place in said district for the regis tartion of voters and that on the day of election the polls shall be opener? from Sunnis*, to sunset and the elec tion shall be held as near as may be under the law governing general el ections. It is further ordered that, after the closing of the polls, the registrar and uoll holders shall duly certify over their hands the number of registered voters at said election and the num ber of voters for and against the spe cial tax and transmit same to the Board of Commissioners, and same shall be filed, and the Board of Com missioners shall canvass and judici. ally determine the result of said elec, tion and reeord such determination on their records. It is further ordered that due pub lication of this order and of said elec tion and new registration be made by publishing this order in the Cleveland (Continued from page One.) to contribute toward their purchase. He also presented to the dub captain the Washburn Athletic cup an em blem to be shared in equally by the football and baseball teams. Nelson Callahan, the school’s favorite orator, followed Mr. Mull and in an eloquent speech of presentation presented to Coach Gurley a handsome traveling bag, the gift of “the boys who have gladly worked under his direction and wish for him success in a larger field." It was an unusual program, well carried out, and one that should mean much to the welfare of the future Shelby. It was a program that con tained a rehearsal of achievement, pride in accomplishment, and spoken hopes for the future, and in every de tail was typical of Kiwanis. Registered Cattle For This County Cleveland Gradually Becoming n Leader in Registered Herda. To Exhibit This Pall. Six hend of registered Jersey cattle were added to Cleveland county herds last week. Since last fall over a car load of registered Jersey cattle has been bought by farmers of this coun ty. The cattle bought last week was selected from Catawba county herds by the following farmers: Will Miller and Will Dixon, of Lawndale: Lamar Davis, of Enrl; R. B, Dixon and J. A. Plummer, of the Bethlehem section. Three years ago there were only five breeders of registered cattle in the county and only 18 head of reg istered cattle. Now there are 50 breeders and 150 head. Tom Cornwell, president of the county Jersey Breed ers’ assoaiation, says that he expects 100 head of registered cattle to be pur on exhibit at the first county fair this fall. ’ SMILE AWHILE * **•*****»«*» Soph—“Why does a stork stand on jne foot?” Fresh—“I’ll bite, why does lie?” Soph—“If he’d lift the other foot, he’d fall down.”—Chaparral. “Say, is that an ew girl over there?" asked a customer in the rap id-fire restaurant. “Nope?” answered Heloise, the head waitress, "just one of the old ones painted over.” Economics Professor—“Name some production in which the supply ex ceeds the demand.” Student—“Trouble. Heck—“Bo you think that silence is golden?” Peek—“No think about it. I know it is. If Pd kept my mouth shut I’d stiH he a bachelor.” “Po,” said Clarence, “what would you think if you saw one of these fish they say can efimh a tree?” “That it was time for me to get on a water wagon and stay there, son.” “How is your new hired man, Ezry?” asked Farmer Flint. “Well, he aint much of a worker,” replied Farmer Fumblegate, “hut ho is the best checker player I ever hired.” She—“Mother saw you kiss mo last night and she is very angry.” The Vain Male—“Why, I’m noth ing to your mother and she is noth ing to me. In fact, I scarcely know her.” Father—“This thrashing I’m going to give you will hurt me more than it will you Johnny.” Johnny—'‘Well, don’t be too rough on yourself pop, I ain’t worth it.” He—“The decree is granted. Now, darling, we can be married at last, just as ‘ soon as you have settled the divorce court fees.” She—“Oh, never mind jho fees. I have a charge account there.” George—“I hear Albertson is al ways setting traps for his wife.” Harry—“How awful! Jealousy, I suppose?” George—“No. Mice.” Mistress—“Who broke that china jug?” Maid—“The cat^-mum.” Mistress—“What cat?” Maid—"Why, ain’t we got one?” GRASSY POND MAN IS BURNR1) BY GASOLINE Gaffney Ledger. V. A. Humphries, well-known plant er of the Grassy Pond section of the county, who was painfully burned at hia home Wednesday afternoon, was reported to be improving yesterday by Dr. Roy Pinney, the attending phy sician. Mr. Humphries’ left arm and a considerable area of the left side 6f his body, and a small patch on his right arm, were badly burned when gasoline with which he was attempt ing to destroy a honeysuckle vine flar ed up and ignited his do thing. He was saved from death by persons who stripped his burning clothing from his body according to Dr. Finney. The honeymoon is over when the bilHng exceeds the cooing.—Seattle Star. Star . once a week for three weeks, the first publication hereof to be mads in the issae of June 10th, 1924. R. L. WEATHERS, Clerk to Board of County Commissioners. Gaston Jury Rids County Of Road Nuisances. Breeding Places Of Crime Charged. Gastonia Gazette. A Gaston countv jury decreed in Ru oorio- rovi'-t Thursday that the “sharks” along the road between Gas tonia and Lowell must fro. and that right soon. They were declared n nuis ance and ordered destroyed hv •Ti|d‘»'e Devin. fly action of citizens of Rnnlo and surrounding community, an in dictment was brought against Robert Cook. O. C. Cook. Sam Atkins and Dan Woods, charging them with main taining a nuisance. The indictment charges that these men “late of the County of Gaston, on the 15th dav of May in the year of our Lord one thou sand nine hundred and twenty-four, with force and arms, at and in the eountv and at and on divers others days and times before and since afore said unlawfully nod willfully, on or near a certain oublic highway in said count” allowed people to assemble and did operate and maintain a cer tain store or place commonly called a shack, where people assembled, and which ulaee was kent open on Sunday, and where automobiles narked at or near said store, all of which were to the evil example of all others in like case offending to the common nuis ance of all the good citizens who passed ,and renassed said store or shack, and to the common nuisance of all the good people of the community and did maintain and set up a tilace which is a public nuisance, and did al low men and women to congregate and assemble at the said store or shack, and did allow lewd women to he and assemble at the said store or shack, and did allow drinking of in toxicating liquors at . said store or shack-, and did allow men to be at said store or shack in a drunken condition, and did maintain a place where auto mobiles parked in the public road, and endangered the lives of the citizens in general who passed and repassed •isiid store or shack, all to the com i.i*>n nuisance of the good people who passed and repussed said store or shack and the people who live in the coin munity against the form of the statute in such case made and provid ed and against the peace and dignity of the State.” It was pointed out that the Wilson Fletchier tragedy had its inception at one of these shacks a few weeks ago. Many prominent citizens of Ranlo, including Revs. R. L. I-orbis, W. L. Barnes and Hauss, andthe superin tendents of the three mills, B. J. Dob bins, Marshall Dilling anti J. A. Mc I'alls all of whom testified that the places were of bad reputation and that much more transpired there than the public really knew. Judge Devin in passing sentence uiged property owners in the county not to allow such institutions on their land, that they were an eyesore to the good people. SPECIAL SALE Van Raalte Gloves Our Entire Stock Of Novelty Gloves Are On Special Sale. Choice of any $3.00, $3.50, Raalte Glove Special. $4.00 Van $2.48 W.'l. FANNING & COMPANY If you happened to count the gasoline pumps, as we have done, over miles of city streets and country roads,we know you would be impressed by the large showing of “Standard" pumps. In a popularity contest pn gasoline a count of pumps will prove our leadership. As you go bowling along country roads you can’t help noticing how much the “Standard” pumps outnum ber others. If you are engaged in man ufacturing or in sales you know what ceaseless effort it takes to get such universal distribution, to hold the public’s approval year after year as “Standard” Gasoline has done. The Standard” pump at every turn in the road is a monument to the in dustry, skill'and optimism of the thousands of engineers, chemists and organizers who keep “Standard” Gas oline die recognized leader in its field. A There is only one way we keep that leadership. That is to keep quality up to the highest possible notch and to be constantly on the lookout for ways of raising it still higher. We have done this since the earliest days of motoring. STANDARD OIL COMPANY [New Jersey] ** STANDARD GASOLINE Th« wonderful new f»el-“Sta»dard” Gasoline-now avail e at many Standard pumps, completely eliminates “gas knock” More power on the hills! Less gear shifting! Less vibration! 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