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TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1921.
"POLICIES, NOT MEN."
Our attention ha* Keen ■elled to
young Shipman'* reply to Lieutenant
A. S, Cline, of Lincolnton, who took
exception to the manner eon Sliipman
sought support for father Shipman in
hi* second primary campaign against
Frank Gris*. of Lenoir, Th« riimimi.
niention (•*!!* the attention of legion
member* to the motto of the Ameri
can Legion- “Policiee. not men.” And
that motto, in our opinion, i* largely
r"*non*ib|e for the anpport Griat ia
being given over the state. A principle
a* well a* a policy in the backbone of
the Griat following. In our knowledge
rot a single supporter of the World
War veterAn known anything against
Shipman, the man. Neither do. we, hi»
record in office an well aa tha man
himself ia above reproach, hot what of
the principle* and policiea of thoae
who hare tried to oust from tha rac*
the "young upstart who tried to (ret
in office bocauae of hia war record?”
It la not the man in particular the
I.etrion member* of North Carolina
end the:r frienda are luoportinfr but
the principle. Americana hara a hab
it of being for the "under dog:’ when
the game has a tendency of being
plared unfair. Son Shipman had tbs
ripht idea—juat expressed it wrong.
No one could hardly call the young
Lenoir man good looking—the World
War canned that.. The closed print
shop, the shouldered gun, and the
wound stripe are a part of hi* cam
paign—and ahould be, Oor politician*
must be weakening in their mental
powers when they think they can
acare a fellow who still hold* hia head
to one side hecauan he did not flinch
when he went (jeer the top into the
hail of steel and hurating shrapnel,
which disfigured him for life. Per
bapn Griat will loae, but in tha stand
he has made with the support of his
“buddiea” the motto of the Legion—
"Palieie*, net men”—will be bettm
known, end the ex-service man some
few were inclined to overlook and for
pet will l>e respected and considered
the more in this state. .*
HELP PlIT IT OVER.
The chamber of commerce of Kings
Mo"ntain, our neighboring town, ha*
decided to make the celebration of the
famous King* Mountain battle this
year one of the .greatest events erst
held at the historic "turning point”
of the American fight for freedom. In
the undertaking Kings Mountain
should have the eager cooperation of
every citizen of Cleveland county.
People are prone to overlook the im
portant in their midst and turn fov
their exultation nnd shouting to sum*
far off thing or place. Such in the
case here. For nearly k century and a
half American boys and girls have
felt the patriotic thrill of American
prowess as in their histories they read
the daring stand of the Colonists and
their defeat of the “Red coats’ at the
battle of Kings Mountain. Tet there
are hundreds of people In Cleveland
county who have never Been the battle
ground except at a distance. Yearly
thousands of people make a pilgrim
age to soma mecca or shrine of patrK
otism not half so embedded in the
Rnirit of freedom as Kings Mountain.
The visit of Senator Copeland, nf
New York, brought the famous battle
ground into nation.wida prominence
for a short time, but even his visit was
not given enough publicity.
This voar not only Cleveland conn
tv hilt the entire section surrounding
the battleground, in the two Carolina*
where for the most part live the de
scendants of the heroes of the battle
should take a hand in making if a
celebration in keep'ng with wht Is he
log celebrated. Proper publicity
should be giyen the event prior to the
date so that residents of other state*
p'Sv plan in advance to visit the bat
tleground on that day. The large state
doilies and papers in other states
will gladlv carry the interesting and
historic stories that should he pre
pared in connection with the event.
THEY TAKE NOTICE.
Sometime back the local county
board of agriculture and extension
workers started in the county a
“Paint-up’ campaign. This was fol
lowed by a “Name-the-farm” cam
paign. Six hundred houses and barns
have been painted so far and we mean
bv so far that the campaign has just
started and that it is the ultimate
hope that every home and barn in the
county be painted. Many farms have
been named and attractive signs er
ected at farm entrances telling vial
tors and passers-by the names. Both
campaigns have meant much and will
mean more to the county directly, but
the first benefit to be derived is the
publicity given the county over the
state due to the campaigns. Ninety
nine counties in North Carolina have
been watching Cleveland county this
year for the nation’s greatest farm
paper termed Cleveland “one of the
most progressive agricultural coun
ties in the entire country." The suc
cess of the paint-up and name-the
farm campaign have been broadcasted
over the state by the Extension News
and the extension service publicity
bureau with the result that many
newspapers over the state are encour
aging similar campaigns in their
jcounty with Cleveland held up ns an
'example. Says the Stanly News-Her
| aid in a recent edition.
“Speaking of cleaning up and paint
j Ing up. the farmers of Cleveland coun
ity seem to be doing that very thing
I A few months ago a [mint campaign
: was started in that county and since
the opening of the campaign, <500
houses and barns have been painted,
according *o farm demonstration
| agent, Mr. R. E. Lawrence. That is a
fine record. Cleveland county is orio
I of the leading counties. The farmeri
I of that county are among the fore
most in the state in many ways. The
| movement started in Cleveland, how
ever. will not tie confin'd to that
county, hut it will he seen to spread
throughout all of Piedmont North
Carolina in the early future. Already
farmer* of thin county have learn
ed the value of a coat of paint on theit
farm house* and bams. There was a
tim# when most Stanly farmers re
garded painting as a useless and ex,
f.ravagant piece of huainer.s. Todav,
however, they have learned that it is
money well invested, that it not only
make* for better sanitary conditions,
thnt it enhances tho beauty and at
tractiveness of the farm, hut they
ha»e also learned that it is one of the
j greateat protection* to the building*
and aa auch is money well spent. It I*
only a question of a few year* until
practically every farm house in this
county will he painted as beautifully
! aa the houses in the towns anl villa#
ea.
Another thin# to ho noted abou'
Cleveland county and that is that the
1 farmers are said to bn naming their
farm. The News-Herald has hereto
fore advocated the idee of naming
farms in this county. Wc have noted
that tho man who names his farm ns
a rule always takes a keener pride in
it# appearance and the example In
Cleveland county proves this conclu
sively. When a man names his farm
he not only takes a keener pride in its
appearance, hut he usually becomes
ambitious to make it as attractive as
poaeihle. A year or two ago thi* farm
naming campaign was launched It.
Stanly and resulted in the naming of
a large number of the fnrms, in some
sections every farm in the community
having been given a name. Many
farmers, after naming their farms,
had attractive letter head and envel
opes printed, carrying the names of
their farms and the names of the pro
prietors. In the future we shall see
even more of this than in the past.”
ARTIFICIAL BOOMING
The national Democratic convention
In New York has been the most noisy
and uncontrollable set of men and
women we hare ever rend about.
Moat of the noise has been an arti
ficial boom for A1 Smith, governor of
New York, whom New Yorkers want
nominated for president. His boom is
lively enough, in fact too much so,
but it is not genuine. From the looks
of things this far away, hired noiso
makers and demonstrators are packed
into the convention hall to explode
upon a given signal, the purpose being
to lead the delegates to believe that
A1 Smith is the choice of the nation
for president. As a matter of fact he
is the choice of New York state, but
New York state is not the nation by
any means. Fortunately for Smith, the
convention is being held in his home
state. It has been convenient to hire
men with drums and sirens for the
purpose of infecting the convention
with the mob spirit, so that it might
be induced to nominate him at the
dictation of Now York instead of at
the dictation of common sense, as the
Greensboro Daily News so well points
out.
Smith would make a good run no
| doubt, hut the convention should not
be stormed into nominating the man
whose crowd produces the noisest
demonstration.
These lines are penned before n
nomination is made, so we still main
tain that the best selection, since Mc
Adoo and Smith forces have clashed,
is John W. Davis of West Virginia
whose crowd has been quiet and whose
demeanor has been gentlemanly and
dignified.
CRAZY INDIAN WAS
WALKING ARSENAL
Robesonian:
Reinforced with a double-barrel
shotgun, an automatic pistol, a 44
revolver and a Winchester rifle, all
loaded for action, Ishmael Chuvis,
craay Indian of near Rowland, had
to bo shot through the leg before he
could l>e taken when Officers Miller,
Carper, McLeod, deputies, and Sitten
and Rogers, of Rowland, went for
him yesterday afternoon. Carper shot
him, inflicting a flesh wound only
vhen after the second peaceful attempt
the Indian drew his automatic and
threatened to shoot. Chavis was lodged
in jail here and kept those near the
jail awake for some time by trying to
tear the place down.
He had been on the warpath for
some time and had snapped the
Winchester rifle in the face of his
son-in-law and was considered very
dangerous. Rural Policeman Carper,
with one arm in a sling, shot once to
frighten hi mbut on seeing that it had
the opposite effect, cracked down on
hia leg. The Indian gave up peaceably
then.
r
OPINIONS
— OF OTHERS—
s_^
How Prohibition C’amc.
(From News and Observer.)
Doan Ingle, of London* “the
Gloomy Dean,” accounts for prohibi
tion in America on the ground of “en
j'huslastic morality” plus “maximum
j production and maximum wages.” But
the maximum production and maxi
mum wattes didn’t come until prohi
bition did. Neither is prohibition due
j to “enthusiastic morality.” It is due to
jthe conviction nation-wide in extent
that liquor was a national menace and
deserved to be outlawed. The first feel
,;ng in the matter was humanitarian.
There soon came another section of
opinion which saw the outlawing of
liquor as an economic measure and
ithis was perhaps the most influential
consideration. It is a mistake, as so
many people claim, to say that pro
hibition represents a fanatical effort
ho enforce morality.
The "Mortgaged” Car.
| (From The Mooresville Enterprise. >
At. the next regular meeting of the
North Carolina General Assembly
steps will he taken to tighten up on
the bootleggers. In other words, there
should he a clause added to the con
fiscation of liquor cars whereby the
mortgagee could not lay claim to every
vood car that is picked up by the of
ficers. .It has come under our obser
vation that in several cases which
came before the recorder’s court in
this city, when a good car was taker,
over by the officers, some fellow would
turn up in due course of time with a
mortgage and claim the car for pay
ments due, pay the costs and take the
car. That »ort of business will not hold
for long, even though no action is tak
fn at the next meeting of the Legisla
ture.
Rutherford “Steps Out.”
(From The Sun. J
Rutherford county has a progress
've hoard of County Commissioners.
They have built n new modern jail, are
erecting a new and up-to-date County
Home, given us good roads, in many
sections of the countv, are co-operat
ng with the Stnto in trying to pre
vent forest fires, have put on a full
time health officer and will soon put
on the Tuberculosis campaign among
cattle All these progressive steps
have been taken and taxes not increas
ed, as many would think. Rutherford
does not have a high tax rate. We
doubt if any county in the state has
done as much as Rutherford with the
tax money available.
^ tax Paycrs should have no
'ki-k” coming as long as they are
getting value received for their mon
ey Of course the board has made mis
takes. They are only human and are
expected to make mistakes, but we
i Hunk they have done exceedingly well
and we congratulate and commend
tnom. T**t the ffood work of progress
and betterment go on. Rutherford
county is now one of the leading coun
ties in the slate in agriculture, manu
facturing. scenery, good roads and
consolidated schools.
Itoa^s p«y For Themselves.
(From The Fdge field Advertiser.)
North Carolina has issued bonds to
'lie amount of $65,000,000 for road
luihling. Already the state has built
ami improved 6,200 miles 0f road
witlun the last three years and is
nlanninir to build 1.100 miles more it
is estimated that the gasoline tax
will pay the interest on the bonds and
provide a sinking fund for their re
tirement.
In a speech in Spartanburg a few
days ago, Mr. Page, chairman of North
Carolina Highway Commission, gave
out some interesting figures which
prove that, in nutomobile service alone
good roads pay their own way. Ac
ording to Mr. Page, the average con
sumption of gasoline per ear in North
Carolina was 520 gallons, while in
1925 it was 446 gallons. At 25 cents
per gallon, this represented a saving,
under good roads, of $18.50 per year!
|«nd for all the machines in tlfe State
it was approximately $4,575,000. This
was in gasoline saving alone, to say
nothing of the upkeep, wear and tear
hill. Surely no one should object to
paying a gasoline tax when the mon
ey is spent in building good roads I
“Dawes and Coolidge, Grocers.”
(From New York World.)
Some one has discovered that 14
years ago the town of Worceste
Mass., had a firm of “Dawes an
Coolidge, Grocers,” and the claim i
made that it was a direct ancestor <
the present Dawes, and at least a
indirect ancestor of the present Coo
"tee, who formed in 1777 a partnc.
ship destined to be reaffirmed in 192.
It was another world that the olde
Dawes and the elder Coolidge looke
on from their grocery windows:
world in whlchh all attempts at s<
curing peace were regarded as “or
tangling,” and no one conceived ths
co-operation between nations woul
ever progress to such a point that 5
countries joined one league; a worl
whu-h the organisation of labor wa
unthinkable, and the idea of union
would have seemed an impertinent ir
fusion upon the privilege of an err
ployer to single out his workmen an
settle with them one by one.
The world changes. The Worceste
grocers would not know their great
great-grandsons; but here and ther
an old idea holds, and Dawes an
Coolidge sell apples at the same ol
stand.
I eople are smoking so much now it
,s har<* <-o tell when to call a fire
i wagon.
“DRESS UP” July 4th
No matter where you spend the
Glorious Fourth you will want a nice
cool Summer Suit, Hat, and a pair of
our Famous Low Cut Shoes.
Right now is your opportunity to buy your outfit at reduced prices. We are clearing out
our summer stocks to get ready for the big fall campaign which will be on pretty soon.
. Summer Suits...$15.00, $20.00 and $22.50
Straw Hats .$1.50, $1.95 and $2.95
Low Cut Shoes...$3.95 to 57.95
Shirts ...95C to $3.95
Socks.25c, 50c, 75c and $1.00
Union Suits. .95c, $1.25 and $1.50
Belts.v... 25c, 50c, $1.00 and $1.50
Ties ...... .25c, 50c t o$2.00
Look All Over The City—Then Look Here And I’ll Guarantee You’ll Buy Your Outfit
Here. Once A Customer Always A Customer Come—All Things Are Ready.