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TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1924.
Anti-suffragist says men may
stop having their hair cut because it
is becoming too feminine.
The Watts*Morrison p'pisode on the
convention floor at. New Yorw is be
ing discussed as if it was the first
time ;• of the two ever used
Arneri gb ;i
While w: are talking of America’s
supremacy in, the air our public
speakers should not be overlooked.
The most independent thing notic
ed on the Fourth was an unruly fliv
ver that refused to budge..
Rutherford’s full time health offic
er is now active with the duties of his
office, but a similar movement in this
county seems to have died in its in
fancy—along with several others.
The coming of so many Russian ac
tors to America may be explained by
the fact that eggs are selling for on#
cent each in Russia.
The tables have turned. Max Gard
ner, in the habit of charging for his
advice, had to pay nearly one hundred
dollars for advice from home folks
while at the convention.
Concerning the Democratic conven
tion the Asheville Time* remarked
that the man with the most religious
prejudice usually has the least relig
ion.
A new faction^ is to be dealt with
in North Carolina politics, ami one
of sonic power. The ex-service men
had their first little skirmish Satur,
day since six years ago—and they
won. ,
TIME “FUGITS”
Shelby c nee had n bettor baseball
dub than Charlotte, and “No banan
as today’’ was not the first saying
of its kind. Proof of our assertion
is in the ten and twenty years ago
column carried by The Charlotte Ob
erver. Saturday. Furthermore, Fed
eral Judge E, Yates Webb, was a
barbecue speaker much in demand
twenty years ago, and the saying.
“On the Rock'-” must have originated
in Gastonia forty years ago. These
assertions are based on the twenty
and forty years ago column of the
Gastonia Gazette of Friday.
Ten years ago The Charlotte Ob
server carried a news item which
read: “Watermelon crop a failure.
Farmers :-t»y they have no melons to
day”. The ha nano ditty might have
“Darwined’ from the melons. Twenty
years ago The Observer carried an
Recount of the Fourth of July base
ball game which said: "Shelby out
classed Charlotte in a baseball game.”
Perhaps though it was n high school
game instead of professional, which
is a present dav possibility. Twenty
years ago in The Gastonia Gazette
C. W. Fuller announced that his big
bnrhecue would he held at Bessemer
City August <>, and that the speakers
would include “Hons. E. Y. Webb, It.
B. Glenn and Jake Nowell.” Forty
years ago The Gazette carried the fol
lowing item, which might have been
entitled, “On the Rocks”:
‘‘S^rr- three weeks ago a plucky
old h oneludcd to sit on one egg,
and t v: :. i ■> order to break up
her calculations filled the box in
which she wanted to sit with rocks
thinking ’hat of course her sitting
propensity would then be broken up.
But. not so. The old hen spread her
self out on top of the rocks and for
more than a week has hot comp off
to eat or drink. She takes to those
rocks without any seeming incon
veri*ence or trouble of mind. A little
five year old says that the old hen
is going to hatch out young rocks,
and if there is nothing new under
the sun. it is agreed to let her try
her skill at them.”
Yes, time obeys no speed laws, and
changes many things as jt flits by.
WHAT WE PAY; WHAT WE GET.
Cleveland county has been drseriml
hated against, in the matter of road
building in North Carolina and The
Star wants to submit a few figures to
prove that we are entitled to more. In
the first place the road bond issues
total 65 millions, not counting what
the state gets from the Federal gov
ernment. ff Cleveland were an average
county, we should be entitled to #650.
000, but Cleveland is above the aver
age of t^e 100 North Carofnia coun
ties in wealth, population, road mile
age, number of motor vehicles and
territory, so if the proper distribution
.were made, Cleveland should he en
titled to about $750,000, yet we have
less than a half million invested in
the Kings Mountain-Shelhy road and
bridges, the only state constructed
road in the county. Mr. Page says the
| average gasoline consumption per
I motor vehicle in North Carolina is
1340 gallons per year. This is lower
it ban ever before because of the good
irojuls, hut figuring gasoline on this
I basts each of the 4,000 motor vehicles
'sed *135 worth of gasoline annually,
or a total consumption at 25c a gal
lon of $540,000. On this the state levied
three cents per gallon of $54,800 which
without automobile license tax of
$70,000 makes a total of $130,800
which the state collects annually from
Cleveland county auto owners to main
tain the county-seat highways, pay in
iterest on bonds and create a sinking
fund to retire them. In less than four
' years at the present rate( the county
jwill have paid the State of North
! Carolina all that she has invested in
hard roads in Cleveland county.
We cite these figures to show (hat
we are entitled to* have the contract
let f<fr the hard surface from Shelby
j'west to the Rutherford county line
and that the highway commission
should adopt u road leading south to
the South Carolina line arid maintain
it just as she is maintaining the coun
ty seat roads leading now to Ruther
tordton, Morgan ton and Lincolnton.
fn all the southern part of the
county there is not a state-maintained
highway and we submit to Mr. Kistler,
the highway commissioner from this
district that we are not only entitled
to a state-maintained route south, but
the contract should he let for another
link in the Charlotte-Asheville high
way to the Rutherford line.
HIBLES FOR HOSPITALS
A Shelby minister recently visit
ed the Shelby public‘hospital and
as he passed from room to room
greeting the patients and inquiring
about their condition he noted the
absence of something perhaps not
missed before that should never have
been missing to he missed-—Bibles in
the rooms. The minister has visited
marry hospitals and according to hi:*
recollection the local hospital is the
ordy one not to have a Bible in each
room. A never failing source of con
soation the suffering yearn for tho
comfort that the Bible alone can give
and they at least have noticed the
absence of the Holy Book from their
rooms. No doubt it was an oversight
that no Bibles were provided, but
the oversight should have been no
ticed prior to this time. Shelby peo
pie seem inclined to give the hospi
tal very little attention. However,
the minister who noted the absence
of the Bible did not forget ami upon
reaching town he mentioned the fact
to one of the town's leading business
men—we insert the "leading” be
cause of his act, not knowing who
he is. This business man generously
volunteered to buy enough Bibles for
every room, and Saturday 30 Bibles
wore delivered to the hospital. Who
the minister and the business man
were is no one’s business hut their
own, but it is the duty of Shelby peo
ple to see that many little favors that
can he done are done for the suffer
ing and sick who are forced to enter
the local hospital. Who knows but
that the little acts of kindness may be
repaid sometime in a similar manner?
(JR I ST AND HIS "BUDDIES"
In the second primary Saturday
for Commissioner of Labor and Print
ing Frank D. Grist won over M. L.
Shipman, incumbent, by a majority
even larger than the fondest hopes of
the Lenoir printer. With the victory
a new political faction mnkes an ac.
live debut into North Carolina poli
tics. Hereafter a candidate for his
own (food should be at lcnst on friend
ly terms with the American Lejfion
and ex-service men. Saturday’s pri
mary was an unofficial battle be
tween the American Legion and labor
The votinjf was light, but in some
instances heavier than expected duo
to the activity of the World War vet
erans. Unusual it was, marked by
two incidents. Grist was the only
veteran on the state ticket and he
won, and in winning he defeated a
state office incumbent for the first
time in many years. There were
those who tried to scare the ex-ser
vice man out of the second primary
and the move, perhaps, beat Mr. Ship
man, for Carolinians are for fair
play first, last, and always. At the
same time the impression was left
with the ex-service men that a few
politicians considered the ex-service
candidate an “upstart” and his ser
vice supporters equally so. It riled
the boys and the landslide to Grist
is their answer. Congratulations are
in order to the boys as well as Mr
Grist, for it was a victory of their
making—and several people know
their scrapping ability.
AMERICAN STUDENTS EX
AMINE MEXICAN PYRAMIDS
Prehistoric culture in Mexico will
be studied next summer by a group of
students led by Dr. Bryon Cummings,
head of the department of archaeol
gy, University of Arizona, who will
visit the City of Mexico, to examine
the pyramid of Cuicuilco, which is
said to be more than 10,000 years
old. This pyramid was uncovered
through the efforts of Doctor Cum
mings, with the assistance of the
Mexican government.
•Instico is blind, but most of us
think we are eye doctors.
Some college has been giving the
thermometer a few honorary degrees.
Mon are known by the company
they keep; women by the clothes they
keep on wearing.
June is gone and those who man
aged to stay '-.ir.-*!'' through it are
'fairly safe for another 11 months.
GREAT CROWDS SEE
! Eight Episodes Presented Despite
Downpour of Rain Friday.
Graphic and Reautiful
Gastonia, July 4.—Although the
latter half of the event was marred
I by rain, the Gaston county histori
cal pageant presented here this af
ternoon was thoroughly enjoyed by
an audience of more than .1,000 peo
ple. The pageant depicted the his
tory of Gaston county from early In
dian days to the present time. There
were eight episodes, and each one
I was presented by some one of the
I towns of the county. The whole af
j fair was written and staged by Miss
Pearl Xetzer, late of the Carolina
| plnymakers. Unwritten and legen
| dary history was graphically and
j faithfully portrayed by the actors,
j of whom there were n thousand in
all the episodes.
Every sort of costume and cus-1
tom from the Indian to the present
J was represented, including the buff
and blue of the revolution, the pow
dered wigs, knee breeches, slippers,
buckles, hoop skirts, pantalets, the
gray of the civil war period and the
khaki of the world war, Indian mai
dens, dark haired and with a glint
of romance in their eyes (a few with
bobbed hair and rouged cheeks,) stal
wart Indian braves with tomahawks
and hows in their hands, squaws with
.papooses on their hacks, an old negro
mammy with a white child on.her knee
—all gay and laughing, intent on put
ting their best into the pageant.
Properties such as Indian tepees
and flint lock rifles were there in
abundance.
The Indian scene by Mt. Holly
was splendidly executed and showed
a great amount of work on ,their
part. The acting was extremely real
istic and artistic. The solo, ‘By the
Waters of Minnetonka’, by Miss'
Grace Kohn, was acted out in panto- j
mine by the 30 or more maidens who;
rose and fell in unison with the beau
tiful and weird melody of the Indian
lover. The scene ended in the abdi
cation of the land by the redskins af
ter the signing of the deed 1o the
white men.
In Pioneer nays
The early pioneers going to church
were represented by the Lowell del
egation. Small girls and hoys be
tween their parents, the father car
rying a gun, and the old prairie
schooner of the few who could af
ford to ride, all joined in the pro
cession which led to the outdoor
grove where the stern ,old preacher
who believed in eternal fire and brim
stone for those who sinned and ever
lasting goodness for the chosen, held
the devotional services. The strain
of the good old doxology arose in a
stirring strain over the stage, and the
praying and singing were done with a
gusto that is not altogether true of
present day church goers.
The Cherryville group portrayed
the historic signing of the Tryon
declaration of independence, and the
men who performed this part were \
just as much in earnest as were their
forefathers who pledged their alle
giance to the cause of freedom and
justice for all. Their scene was
merged into the stirring episode' of ,
the call of the South Fork boys to
arms by the announcement that the
British were coming. The scene was
laid gt the home of Major Chronicle,
where a magnificent reception was
being, given by him for his distin
guished guests. The stately minuet
was danced by Belmont and Gastonia
men and women, who endorsed it with
all the grace and dignity of the early
days. The closing scene showed the
patriots going to fight in defense of
the country and the women shedding
tears over their departure.
In Ante-Bellum Times
Old Confederate and ante-bellum
days were faithfully reproduced by
the Dallas group, who brought in a
stage coach with two of their citi
zens in it to welcome the assemblage
who awaited the Virginia reel. And
dance it they did, if any group of
Old Dominion folks ever did. The
orchestra of the old time type plunk
ed and sawed away at their strings
while the agile footed men and wom
en. who are not so old after all,
skipped and hopped around like three
year olds. The audience could not
refrain from clapping their hands
when the string band bore down on
a particularly lively air.
The mining of iron ore in Gaston
county was shown by the Bessemer
City delegation who had a large
smoke stack to represent an iron
smelter. When the boys came march
ing by with the stars and bars on
their shoulders, the workers joined
them with a mighty whoop of ap
proval.
I BEER HELPS WAN LIVE
TO BE OVER 100 YEARS
Berlin, July 5.—Tiring of life in the
country some 80 years ago, Herr
, Bruno Beremlt moved to Berlin. He
has lived here ever since and a few
days ago celebrated his 102nd birth
day.
The old gentleman says he is sure
if he had remained in the country he
would have passed away 20 or 20
years ago. Fie thinks- city life is con
ducive to longevity, although he owns
hundreds of acres of farms in various
parts Of Germany. Herr Berendt drinks
heer for breakfast and began smoking
a pipe before he came to Berlin.
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