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$he #ImJand £tar TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Subscription Price. By mail, per year-$2.00 •L. By carrier, per year--$2.80 The Star Publishing Company, Ine. LEE B. WEATHERS_President RENN DRUM_- Local Editor Entered as second class matter January 1, 1906, at the postoffica at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March .1, 1879. -* We wish to call your attention to the {act 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 9 * death notice has been published. This r, will be strictly adhered to. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1924. From what Mr. Bailey says it is healthy to run for office, even if not wealthy and wise. The latest North Carolina inven tion seems to be a success: A machine without a crankshaft. A Raleieh man saya the name "Ir ish potato" i* misleading because the potato is an American product. What about calling them “spuds”? < m ■ The rqodorn girl who loses her com plexion while swimming had a grand , another who suffered with rheumatism when it rained. Statistics have it that one person in nine in the United States owns an automobile, which must mean that the other eight ride on mortgages and w., f installments. ’"*r A tri-town meeting of the Kiwanls M- jdubs of I.incolnton, Forest City apd Shelby will be held at Cleveland , .1 Springs Monday evening and it is up to the local club to see that the famed Cleveland hospitality is not lacking. "LITTLE MOUNTAIN GIANT.” At his home on the Swannanna river Monday paused another of North * Carolina's former governors—Locke Craig. Since the day of Zeb Vance no ^ 4nan has held the love *n(I respect of the mountain people like the “Little Giant of the West,” and in their grief the state mourns with them for Craig was really a native of‘ the east, an adopted son of the west, and the un animous choice of his people for gov ernor. The passing of Craig, perhaps one of the state's greatest orators, brings to mind the fact that there is ,-i' ? only one former governor of the state _ living—W. W. Kitchin. In recent years what we call recent despite flitting 1?tme. death has chrlfoed Ayeock. Jar vis, Glenn, Bickett and now Craig. What hardships do we impose on our public officials? Are our governors dying from a strain similar to the one that has left us only one ex-Pres ident? Strenuous campaigns , prior to the time he took the governor’s chair weakened Craig physically, weakened him enough that he never recovered. The official duties of governor are not 1 1 burdensome enough in our opinion to wreck the health 6f the men we send to Raleigh, but what of the campaigns prior to their nomination and elec tion? What of the minor and unoffi cial favors, speeches and trips we re quire of our governors? Are we, as one prominent writer said of our Presidents, killing our governors? A campaign has just closed in this , state, a campaign in which both can * didates made speaking tours of prac. tically the entire state, on occasions three and four speeches and a long automobile ride in one day. It is their contention that the strenuous cam paign put them in better physical condition and it may have temporar ily, but will not the continuous grind and exertion prove injurious to their health in after years? Who knows but what in the unforeseen future a .shortened life may be attributed to days and days of unaccustomed acti WHY NOT FOR CLEVELAND? Each year Kentuckians no matter where their home or how distant their residence flock back in large numbers to the state of blue grass, colonels and race horses. From year to year they adjust their business and make their plans so that they may go back for time to childhood scenes and mingle for awhile with friends of other days. In fact, the “Kentucky Homecoming” is one of the greatest assets of that state. When the reunion is over to the four corners of the world the Ken tuckians scatter and with them they carry enthusiastic visions of their hdhie state, publicity that no adver tising space affords. In watching a Kentuckian prepare for this event the thought came to us of a home coming dav or week for Cleveland county. Scattered here and there, from Cal ifornia to Maine and from Florida to Washington live folks who call his toric Cleveland county “home.” Some are wealthy, some famous and others iust “ordinary people,” but home has the same meaning to every man; the old fishin’ hole and the memories of school days the same lure, and there comes reirnlarlv the desire to go back for a visit. Many never come that would have had some little reminder given the slight impetus needed. This is the aim of a “Home Coming Day”. ’ With only a little effort every man or woman, or their children, that have gone out of Cleveland county- could 'be communicated with and brought back for a day or two, or perhaps a week. It would moan much to the county. Many of them know not the Cleveland that is considered the state's moat progressive agricultural county and ranks among the leaders in every activity. A visit here by them would mean nation-wide publicity. It has been suggested that one day during the fair this fall be designated as "Home Coming Day’’ and that special effort he made to get in touch with •vary native of the county now living eleawhere and invitations sent to all informing them that a special pro gram has been prepared for their benefit. As yet the plan is only a dream, but many are becoming inter ested and within a short time an or ganised movement may lie underway for a "Cleveland County Home Com ing.” The Star thinks it would he a success in many ways and would lm glad to publish any comment or sug gestions concerning such an event. Boiling Springs News Of Interest Special to The Star. Boiling Springs. June 12.—The fam iliea of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Moore, I John Greene, Tom Greene, Cootie Barnwell and also Mrs. L. A. Bigger staff, G. Cooper and Queenee Scruggs enjoyed a motor trip to Morganton on Sunday. Mr Henry Cash who has been enroll ad in college in Spartanburg, S. C,, has returned home for his summer vacation. Mr. Richard Connor and family vis. it«*<J relatives in Spartanburg, S. C., Sunday. MUa Mary Sue Pruett of Meredith college has recently returned home. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. J. B. Hamrick of Boiling Springs was obliged tn return to the hospital at Rutjiarfordton for treatment. Mias Ksfelle Walker is considering attending summer school at N. C. C. W. in Greensboro. Miss Ellen Baldwin of N. C. college haa been sppndin" a few days with Mri. Wakefield Hamrick and Miss Lo|% Connor. a|j\ /ien Bridges and farnily spent Sunday with his brother Mr. C. Brid Miia I.ola Connor paid n short ▼ini* to Mrs. Wakefield Hamrick last week. We aro exceedingly (dad to welcome home many of Boiling Spring’s young people who have been awav to college. Miaa Johnnie Maie MeBrayer will Ifave within a few days to attend the summer school at Asheville. Boiling Springs is not n very large place. Indeed it s'very small, Ne matter how gloomy or what a frown on the face, Boiling Springs is the place to help rki you of them all. Plato Riley Buried At Pleasant Hill Special to The Star. Mr. Plato Riley died June 5th 1924 ha was sick only nine days. He sj)enf all of this time in the Shelby hospital where all was done that loving hands and physicians could do but it was to no avail. He joined Pleasant Hill church five years ago where he has held his membership until death. Mr. Riley leaves behind to mourn his death his father and mother, four brothers and three sisters and a host of friends. He was 21 years and 24 days old and was laid to rest in the Pleasant Hill cemetery at 3 o’clock, under a mass of beautiful flowers. The funeral was conducted by his pastor. CARD OF THANKS. We want to thank tjio friends and neighbors for their kindness shown us during the sickness and death of our dear mother Sarah D. Glenn, who died May 18th, 1924, also the attend ing physicians Drs. K. W. Gibbs and J. W. Wood, also the nurse Miss Vic toria Furgeson. Ad. The Children. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to take this method of thanking all our good friends and neighbors for their many evidences of kindness and sympathy during the illness and death of our dear little girl. Your expressions of sympathy and many kind acts have helped us to withstand the great ordeal. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd W. Hamrick. It’s Old But True. “The codfish lays a million eggs While the helpful hen lays one; But the codfish does not cackle To inform us what she’s done, And so we scorn the codfish coy, While the helpful hen we prize; Which indicates to thoughtful minds That it pays to advertise.” SALE OF TRI CK. 1 Under authority contained in Sec tion 24.16 of Consolidated Statutes of .North Carolina, at 12 m„ on the 26th day of June, 1924, one Vim truck, in order to satisfy an indebtedness duo for repairs. This the 11th dav of June, 1924. W. C. WRIGHT. NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. By virtue of the mechanic’s lien Cursuant to Section 2434 of the Con olidated Statute for repairs to one Ford roadster, the property VV. Tom Champion, same being repaired under his direction, more than 30 days ago I will sell on Saturday June 28th, 1924 at 2 o’clock, P. M., to the highest bid der in front of my garage at the Do ver mill, one Ford roadtser, Model 1919, for tne purpose of satisfying a lien for repairs to the extent of $26.75 This the 11th day of June, 1924. C. C. ADOMS. Downs Discusses Catholic President Give* Some History—Is More Oppos ed to ('alholic Mixture of Church and State Than Religion. My dear Mr. Editor: Just this much and Mr. J. C. Elliott may go on pleading the cause of the Democratic party nationally ad infini tum, since it was in the interest of partisan politics he wrote. When ! wrote the article to which he replies I was purposing no controversy but only to show the nature of religious liberty Catholics have ever given in America, and I shall not enter into such even at this hour. However, suf fice it to say I too wrote from the viewpoint of history without preju dice, and I challenge the venerable ,T. C. Elliott or any one else to lay a dif ferent charge at my door. It is an evi dent fact from the history of this very tolerant (?) religious sect prior to the founding of our governmen and in light of all that it stands for yet to this good hour that we would never have had a government found ed upon political and religious liberty given us by them, but we would have had bondage and slavery for these in matters of government and religion. I say this for the well known reason that we have no other way of judging a tree than by the fruit it bears, and j if they have ever received orders to | change the type of fruit that they j have borne for all these years the I world has not been made aware of any such. Now so fat as my diligent search is concerned to dispute the gentle man’s contention, I will say that it was only a mere -matter of turning to the facts as I have them authentical ly recorded for me by the historians. It required no diligent search on my part in this particular instance con sequently to dispute his contention, as he says, while I will further say that I learned these facts a few years ago while preparing a pap'-r on Christt. anity in America and little thought I at that time that I would ever have an occasion again mak** reference to them. Nevertheless, I will now add, as I might have done in my former ar- I tiele, that Cecilius Calvert, second ; Lord Baltimore, had to warninglv I threaten his two priests, taken on at the Isle of Wight in Maryland com pany, that they were going against certain stipulations contained in this land charter to prevent them from pursuing their custom for which they are still standing charged undisputed !y, on their own part, on no othei I ground than to save his land invest-! ment in America. Hence, I reiterate the historian’s statement that Lord | Baltimore in his accession did not rise “above thp plane of the smart real-es tate fptcjhlfttor that he might realise on his tyvestrifent.” Even if he granted ,tHi* TO%Sl«d'^eligintts liberty thejren erable writer in fiis advocacy of it gets nowhere in his argument by using it ,a,s an example, for it was an absolute divorce from the principles of the Catholic pope at Rome to whom ho owed first allegiance but he did it for two reasons; namely, a stipulation in the Maryland charter granted him and because he wanted to realize on his land investment, and not because tlie pope sanctioned it. However, there is no analogy be tween the work of Disaraeli, the Jew, who one time was prime minister of England and the theory of religious liberty given America hy the Catho lics, for to repeat from my former ar ticle their priests, (Catholics) teach their people that “a Jew, a Protestant, a Mason, a dog and the devil are all the same.” Again, what has the ston inr of Mormon elders out of the town of Shelby and the number of murders i in America, and all of us I feci sure I deplore the fact that such ever occur, .have to do with the theory propound ed hy the advocate of the kind of re ligious freedom we would have had |had French Catholic Montcalm tri i timphed over Wolfe on the plains of Abraham in the battle of Quebec •luring me I'rench and Indian War?” This victory of Wolfe’s at Quebec forever settled the fate of the contin ent and we should not at this late hour think of trying to sell this vic tory for a mess of political garlic. However, we might say, since he has injected a comparison of the murder.* in America with Italy, when it has nothing whatsoever to do with his orl final theory, though with no reflection upon the Italian people, that possibly a good portion of the murders just, re ferred to may come from Catholic Italy insomuch that six of these who could hardy speak the English lan guage to be understood were only re cently hanged in the state of Louis iana in connection with bank robbing and murder. With a restatement of niy position, that it makes no particular, materia! difference to me, who our next presi dent should be denominationally, but I hope we may have a good strong, clean, honest gentleman, while he may he l'ke the present incumbent, Mr. Coolidge, not a member of any church I repeat the conclusion of my former article in substance and say that so long as a man owes his first and greatest allegiance to an earthly dig nitary in the personage of the pope of Rome let us keep him where he be longs, not simply because he is a cath olic but because of their theorv of union of church and state, away from the head of our government I do not care what party or how many na tionally it may send into everlasting oblivion as Mr. Elliott seems to fear for his party, for that which our gov ernment grants us todav is more ; sacred to me than a "political party by name or existence. This is my last and I close it by stating my position against in these words, which is no equivocation from what I have heretofore said: I am opposed to no man, if he has the qual ified abilities, being President of the United States on the ground of his re ligious belief. Therefore, I am not opposed to a Catholic being president j of the United tSatcs just because he ' happens to be a Catholic, but because ! of the doctrine promulgated by the pope; union of church and state and acquiesced in by his subjects wherever and whenever they have bad the con trol of government in charge. P. E. DOWNS. Benaja, N. C., IM. 1 —■■■„, TI-. i ^ OPINIO NS — OF OTHERS— V___ ■ 1'ow Thin the Line. (From The Uplift.; , The boys who wore the gray are passing, passing fast. Just the other day we buried one of the brave men, who followed Lee and Jackson to his last earthly resting place. He had made his last march, j This week his friends and the few surviving members of the Confeder ate soldiers in our midst, followed the I remains of Capt. H. B. Parks to his gt*ave. These frequent deaths among us of the men who stood up in the i trials through which the South wen in 1861-’GS, bring to us who have an intimate, first-hand knowledge of that stormy period, a supreme sadness. Captain Parks was a gentleman; he attended to his own business; he was a good citizen; he was highly respect ; ed citizen; he was the leader in the couql.y of the Confederate band, and the old boys loved him, as did others who knew him. He lived on the farm ! until age an infirmities made farming | loo difficult, and he moved to town, where he has led a peaceful and or derly life for sortie voars. Game? Why, so far as the records now reveal, he is the only Confederate soldier in all this section panic enough to drive an automobile and did it reg ularly. Not many days ago the old Confederate was negotiating his gas oline steed through the crowded main street, on Saturday afternoon, the equal of any driver. It was a real machine with, power and action. This pleasant gentleman, ^who has left an interesting family of worthy children to honor his names, will he missed fromjour midst. He has gone and is now with the majority of his comrades, awaiting the arrival of the balance, in their alloted time. ^he Tax Cry. (From Statesville Dafly. It,is thf|. A«#r#i>oto NewaHhat has been calling attention tothewact that while there was much commotion over the gubernatorial race, with fairly accurate knowledge of what each can didate would do in the event of his election, at t|>e same time a legisla ture was being chosen with more or less indifference an unconcern as to vtfhat the legMntnps will do, which is much more important. It is a way we have. We sfrirtPleur shirts on occasion i over the elocttim of a governor, whose power js verydimited. And we give lit tle concern tft the selection of candi dates for the legislature, and mani fest almost no concern as to what they stand for, while in our state the real power is in the legislative body. Locke Craig. , (From Charlotte Observer.) Locke Craig, beloved by the state of North Carolina and idol of the mountain people, has gone to his long sleep, to rest forever in the hills that were so close to his heart, among the people he loved with ardent devotion With the passing of the “Little Giant of the Mountains,” the state has lost a servant whose devotion to the people was not surpassed by that of any man while the Democratic party has lost a cluimpion of distinguished ability and mighty influences in the state. As Governor of North Carolina, Locke Craig made an indelible im press upon the state. He championed the cause of pood roads and educa tion in his addresses as candidate and governor, and it is a happy circum stance that he lived long enough te see magnificent fruition of some of the seeds he sowed. He was a cham pion of progress and helped greatly to hold and ctystalize the sentiment of the people to hack up the great pro gram of progress that since has been in such a large measure carried out by a succeeding state administration. Governor Craig was one of the three stalwart figures in the great triangu lar contest of 1908 for the Demo cratic nomination for governor, hut was defeated in the convention held in Charlotte by W. W. Kitchin, who served four years as governor. In 1912 the Democracy of the state paid its mountain champiop the great tribute to nominate him without contest, no man opposing him. Locke Craig was a man of stalwart character, of high ideals; he loved the people and they loved him. Long years he served the state before he became governor, unselfishly and with distin guished ahility as the champion of the cause of Democracy, and after his re tirement from the Mansion he contin ued to serve his party and his people long as his physical ability would permit. The state will mourn his passing, as that of a distinguished and devoted servant, a loyal son and a champion of human welfare and progress. DON’T BE MISLED There’s Lots of Good Gas And Oils But Remember Texaco Products Have Won Their Way On Merit. Always Uniform Texaco Volatile Gas Insures More Mileage. More Power. Quicker Pick Up. Easier Starting. Texaco—Clean, Clear, Full Bodied Motor Oils And Greases Guarantee proper lubrication of bearings and working parts. Less Carbon. Holds its body under heat. Texaco Crystalite Kerosene Best for your Lamp, Torch, Kerosene Engine or Tractor. Ask your grocer for Texaco Crystalite. Drive To The Texaco Stations Displaying The Red Star Green T Signs. 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