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FRIDAY, JULY 25,
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Money does talk, but il i also ft
great silencer.
This seems to lie a good year for \
peanuts- and peanut politicians.
The force of gravitation seems to j
* have no effect on taxes, says a par- |
ligrapher. Poor Mars,
One by one the "dog days" are
passing-- and the dogs, too, from the
appearance' of their thinning ranks
on the streets.
A distinguished preacher says,
“t^ealth is a disease." Our objec
tion is that it is not contagious
enough.
Wrieley gets some more advertis
ing. RecenMy a flivver at Hunters
ville was identified in Charlotte by
a wad of chewing gum stuck in the
top.
A Washington dispatch says North
Carolina was harder hit than any.
Other cotton state by the recent rains
and storms, but with a few more
weeks of the present sunshine Tar
Reelia will not have any alibis.
Henry Ford opines that soon mil
lions of airplanes will he flying over
head, which is warning that the man
who took America off its feet may
soon have the entire country up in
the air.
The record of Company “K" at.
Comp Glenn this summer is a matter
of pride to Cleveland county people,
for the company is made up of boys
from all sections of the county. Al
though the youngest unit in camp, the
local company classed among the
leaders on the range and drill field.
A delegation of farmers f rom
Montgomery county will soon tour
this county; a group of agricultural
students from the far eastern county
^f Currituck were visitors here this
week. - Which is added proof that The
Country Gentleman had the right idea
about Cleveland. *
It seems as if the drawn-out con
vention was worth the money. A
prominent writer in an article ap
pearing in the Now York World savs:
"I have known every man who has
been or has sought to ho president
for 20 years and 1 have never known
one better fitted for that great place
than John W. I'avis."
Speaking at Lake .Tun«tusk a Bishop
Mouzotj, of the Methodist F.piscopat
church, denied that the church has
lifted the man on worhhv amusements
and in the course of his speech de
nounced modern dancing, motion pie
*tnres and cigarette smoking by girls.
Bishop Mouzon will at least be given
credit, for “speaking his mind,1’ which
is not an overworked faculty nowa
days.
COURT ETIQUETTE
Since time has been, \v*> stmnosp,
unnecessary noise and disturbance
b»s been a part of courf proceed!tics
as much in evidence as the barristers
and defendants. No matter how mam
the seats, some people just cannot
be comfortable in a seat, while others
if they are late and fail to pet a
front seat, take in the proceedings
front the aisle. Just about the time
■something important is to he said or
done a half dozen or so pair of feet
'take the opportunity to shuff'e foi
■ttie door, at least it seems so.* When
the galleries realize that court or a
session is near at end, no wait is made
frtr adjournment, hut instead a rich
is made for the doors. Fact is. “Walk
-tight, Gentlemen,’’ has come to h*
About the most repeat ed phrase of
the court room. However, there ore
two Superior court jurists who do
much to curb this impolite practice.
When Judge Ben Long presides over
conrt in Shelby the footsteps are
light, the seats full and the aisles
empty, and Judge Harding’s eye as it
roves over the court room has found
A, seat for many a fellow. The two
eminent jurists are to bo commended
for the respect they require to he
given for the court, hut the citizens
of a leading county should have this
.ggspect at the outlet.
“DON'T BITE THE HAND, ETC.”
“Whew! It’s hot. I wouldn’t core
If it rained some more,” remarked a
fellow on the street one day this
week when the sun was showering
down its rays rather fiercely. The
size of that fellows bank account
this fall depends to a large extent on
I hose very rays that were bringing
from him heads of perspiration and
cxaspefa*cd remarks, and to the face
of the farmer a smile. No, the speak
er was not a farmer, but his business
is good or dull and listless according
to the success of the farmer. Sun
shine mean more to cotton than even
a Ford propelled Muscle Shoals. For
three weeks in this county the sun
sneaked in arid out after showers or
heavy rainfall and the cotton pros
pect was gloomy, the farmers dis
courager), hut a week of sunshine has
about placed them back on their feet.
A two weeks growth of grass is grad
ually falling before the plow and
hoc and the stalks are creeping up
and spreading out each day. The
rccen* rains and storms hit North
Carolina harder than any other state,
according to the national department
of agriculture. This section was one
of the hardest hit of any in. the state,
but the sunshine has almost erased
the damage done. Just remember,
it is a mighty hot sun that brings
good to no one especially if you live
in a eouit'y that depends on the cot
ton farmer.
THK KEPI BL1( AN CAMPAICN
How the Republicans will campaign
this fall is a mat tor of much conjee*
turc. There is a spot, a large spot,
they must ■ teer clear of, else they
may “lip. The pilot of the . (J,O.P.
campaign will ho a wonder if hi' man
ipulates the par'y throitirh the de
tours to -success and there are de
tours to he made. Teapot Dome must
lie. circled, likewise several vetoes, a
do nothing administration and many
other things. W. M. Hutler, 1he com
mittee chairman, in a pre-campaign
statement says that he is ready *toi
campaign on personality of candi
dates, party pledges or records.
(to the personality method he
would begin the campaign a loser,
lie makes this plain himself hv stat
ine that President Coolidge will only
make a limited number of speeches
and he kept as close to Washington
as possible, realizing Coolidtre’s'ina
bility to put anything over hv mere
personality. “Hell and Maria" Dawes
may make a picturesque speaking
tour, but Dawes will not malye the
people forget that he is not the can
didate for president. On personal
ly give Davis, admitted by the Re
publicans as being a fine looking man,
and “Fighting Boh” LaFollette both
more favorites than the G.O.P. stand
ard bearer. On party pledges and
the record of the administration Mr.
Butler has a still weaker plan of
conducting a campaign. What th"
present administration has done that
was not pledged eclipses by far any
pledges fulfilled. The statement of
Mr. Butler must have been a blind
the administration record must lie
left at home with Coolidge. What he
wilt do is another mattpr. Perhaps
after alt, the oil route would he best
—if they can Convince the voters the
Democrats were also connected with
the scandals, which is another im
possibility. Likely it will he a “fam
ily skeleton” affair—rather silent.
TWO COURT CASES
Events during the grind of a court
docket furnish a topic of conversation
always. In court this week a defen
dant, termed by the officers as a no
torious character, faced four charges:
housebreaking and entering, abandon
ment, and worthless checks on two
counts. Not guilty on one charge
“living together again” on another,
and costs nr^l payment of the two
checks on the last, was the substance
of the outcome of the four charges.
A subsequent case was that of a
young fellow, giving pis ace as 20
years, who was laraq, pitifully so, ns
the result of the travail of infantile
paralysis. The charge against him
was that of passing a worthless check,
and admitted. The defendant, whose
father is dead, had been in jail al
most three months—since his arrest.
Not very penitent and slightly resent
ful, it seemed, against the world foi
his fate, the young cripple was al
lotted six additional months in the
bastile. A trade, that of a tailor,
was, he said, all that he possessed.
The defendant in the first case, up
on four charges, walked from the
courtroom free with the payment of
the costs. The cripple in the second
case, facing one-fourth as many
charges, must serve six more months
Evidently, a lawyer is worth his
hire.
IDLENESS AND CRIME
A nurse in the home of one of
those Chicago youths who murdered
the Franks boy says that until he
was fourteen, the bov did not even
lace his own shoes. 11 is parents were
millionaires and gave him every in.
dulgence. He was pampered and pet
ted and made to think that his mission
in life was to have other people do
things for him. He is credited with
being a brilliant college student, but
a moral idiot.
This statement is cited by the New
York Commercial and from it we
want to draw a lesson which we have
written aboift many times in The
Star. One of the greatest dangers
confronting the young people of to
day is idleness and spending money
unearned. There are, too. many
young boys and girls in Shelby and
every other town who roam the
streets with no desire to work, yet
they are robust parasites on their pa
rents. None of them are petted and
nursed like the young Chicago mur
derers, yet they are growing up with
no knowledge whatever of what a
day’s labor means. When they reach
maturity an^jl are thrown on their
own resources, they seek the easier
iwcthod of gaining1 n livelihood and
while not all of them do it, many of
them turn to crime. The habit of
idleness and irresponsibility fixed in
youth will curse the young of today
when they grow to maturity.
And in the face of this glaring and
recognized fact, some states are vot
ing favorably on an amendment to
the Constitution of the United Stalest
to permit any state to negislate "no
work” for any person inside of its
borders under 18 years of age. Con
gress has granted such states per
mission to make a constitutional
amendment. We have a compulsory
school law in North Carolina and
limited employment for children in
factories and workshops, but as long
•is the children of school age attend
tho limit of the school term, there is
no sense or reason in saving they
hall not work outside of school hours.
Point out us one child who, has suf
fered of too much work and we will
show you a dozen who have become
law-breakers because of idleness. If
he Chicaoo boys who murdered the
Franks child had known the value
of work neither one of them could
have conic to worthlessness or ruin.
EFIRD’S STORE FORCE
ON PICNIC AT HOLLIS
Mr (I. W. Neely, manager of
Kfird’s department store at Shelby
on yesterday afternoon took his
force of clerks on a picnic to Hollis,
*he homo of P. 1). Withrow, North
Carolina’s rural merchant prince. The
store closed at 1 o'clock as is custo
mary for all stores and business
houses in Shelbv on Thursday after
noons during July and August and
they left in automobiles, carrying
with them th>'ir lunches, watermelons
and refreshments'to snond the after
noon at Hollis, near Cherry Moun
tain. Tho Efird force is composed
of (1. W. Neely, B. (’. Peeler, R. A.
Suttle. Brantley Smi'h. C. M. Webb,
Mrs. Gene Gamble, Misses Elora and
Edwina Alexander, Georgia Cabaniss,
7a'\ma llord, Lura 'Smith, Mrs. G. W.
Evans and Mrs. Charlie Spake.
MR. IIARTNESS IS SHELBY
VISITOR FROM SANFORD
Mr. W. U. Mar* ness, former Shelby
ci'izen, was a visitor this week com
inp over from Sanford, to which place
he moved the first of the week after
disposinp of his interest in the Eaple
Roller mill. Mr. Hartness says he
likes Sanford and that the millinp
business is pood. He came over to
Charlotte to take home his younp son,
Blanton. Blanton has been in the
Charlotte Sanitorimn for a month or
longer receivinp treatment, for an in
jured hip, the injury being sustained
hdro last fall on the playground at
the Shell*B hiph school. Mrs. Hart
ness has been at. his bedside since he
has been in Charlotte, but he has suf
fcwwutUy i ygautred to be taken home
this week.
APPLE TREE PLANTED
BEFORE WAR BEARS FRUIT
W. R. Page, of No. 11 township,
who was a Shelby visitor this week,
brought with him a quantity of fine
red June apples which he hjtd gather
ed from a tree on his plantation, the
tree having been planted before the
Civil War. It is not unusual for a
tree to reach this ape, hut for it to
bear sound fruit year after year is
somewhat marvelous. Mr. Pape says
the tree was planted by Mrs. William
Price when she was a small girl and
since it reached tho bearing state, it
has never failed, being on the isother
mal belt where the fruit trees seldom
miss yielding a crop.
LONG EXPERIENCE
Predcher Woodson has had a longer
experience in the fire insurance busi
ness than any other agent in Western
North Carolina. 11c also has the un
limited confidence of his companies
, and that is why he makes such quick
and satisfactory settlement of all
j losses.—-Adv.
Practical
Nurse Tells
Mrs. N. E. Snow, of Routs
1. near Ppris, Tenn., tells the
story of her experience as
follows: •
“I am 62 years old and I
have been a practical nurse
for more than 20 years, tak
ing mostly maternity cases.
One of my daughters suffered
from cramping at . . , She
would just bend double and
have to go to bed.
CARDIII
1 The Woman's Tonic
was recommended to her and
she only had to take about
two bottles, when she hardly
knew that it was . . she
suffered so little pain.
“M y youngest daughter
was run-down, weak and
nervous, and looked like she
didn’t have a bit of blood
left—just a walking skeleton,
no appetite and tired all the
time. I gave her two bottles
of Cardui. It built her Up
and she began eating and
soon gained in weight and
has been so well since.”
Cardui, the Woman’s Tonic,
has helped suffering women
for over forty years. Try it
At all druggists’. _
E-100
OPINIONS
— OF OTHERS—
Newspapers and the Truth
(From the Fayetteville Observer)
Occasionally one will hear the uni
formed remurk, “Oh, that’s another
mess of those newspaper lies. You
can’t believe anything you see in the
newspapers.”
What a terrible mistake. Such ig
norance!
No organization of men and women
in the world try to get the truth and
hold to it more than the average
newspaper workers front the highest
executive down to the copy boy. An
example of truth and accuracy of the
highest type can he found in the As
sociated Press, of which this news
paper is a member.
Another example may be found in
the work of editors who belong to the
National associations and who meet
annually and try their hardest to
work out better ways to get, the truth
and print it.
We do not deny that occasionally
a newspaper makes a mistake. News
papers sometime print that which is
untrue. IJut it is not the fault of the ;
newspaper. As soon as the editor is i
informed that an article is false, he
turns everything in his plant upside
down to make a just correction.
We have seen the Associated Press ^
kill stories which would have made1
great front page stuff because a flaw!
had been discovered. A substitute1
for the story may come along later.j
But w’hen a “kill” order on a news !
dispatch comes over the Associated
Press wires, it means that the story I
must be taken out of type even if the '
paper is on the press and a costly
mechanical shift is necessary to com
ply with the “kill.”
A newspaper is your source of daily
information. If it did not stick to the
truth and print facts instead of fic
tion, it would not live. You would
know nothin)? of world, national
state or local affairs were it not for
the enterprise of your newspaper.
If truth can he found anywhere in
this world it will be found in the col
umns of the average American daily.
“Confidence in Davis”
(From the Charlotte Observer)
From New York, from Gastonia,
from large places and small, from the
highest authorities on business trends
and conditions and from less author
itative sources, come expressions of
confidence and approbation because of
the nomination of John W. Davis.
That his nomination has had a steady
effect upon business and given busi
ness men generally a new confidence
in the future is becoming more and
more evident. Typical of many edi
torial expressions on the subject, we
find this editorial on “Confidence ir>
Davis” in the Winston-Salem Jour
nal :
“That the nomination of Davis and
Bryan has already had a steadying
effect on business is indicated by ex.
pressions of business men all over
the country. From Gastonia, one of
the great indus'rial centers of the
South, comes the most optimistic
views regarding the future of indus
try and business. One cotton mill
man says that his office received more
orders and inquiries on one day since
the nomination than any day during
the past six months. ‘I look for bet
ter business in the next sixty days,’
he said. This attitude was general
among textile men there.
“The nominating of Davis and Bry
an is most effective in creating con
fidence in the business world than
was the nomination of Coolidge and
Dawes. This is logical. Coolidge
was named as the leader of the Re
publican party just a few days after
Congress had adjourned. The record
Mr. Coolidge made during that ses
sion was one of sharp and definite
disagreement with Congress. Repub
licans joined with Democrats in over
riding the presidential veto. Had Mr.
Coolidge been able to put his pro
gram through, he would stand today
a strong candidate.
“That Mr. Davis is the abler of the
two presidential candidates is gener
ally admitted. He is progressive but
safe. Mr. Coolidge is conservative
hut powerless to set in motion a con
structive policy of administration.
There were many serious voters in
the country Who hesitated to vote foi
Coolidge at the coming election but
feared that the Democrats might not
provide a better alternative. The
Democratic party has named a man
who is perhaps the ablest statesman
in the United • States today. Its ex
hibition of good sense means inesti
mable results in the business and in
dustrial world. The election of thn
ticket will ensure a steady and
distinct recovery from the slump that
the ineffectiveness of the Coolidge
regime has hrought.”
A Fight Fan at That
(New York Telegraph)
We met a man who said he would
n’t pay a dollar to get into the na
tional convention, and he's a fight
fan at that. He attends all the big
championship bouts.
It takes a woman without a hus
band to tell how to run one.
Lesson for Travelers
(From Asheville Citizen)
The callous murder of Major
Leary (for such it is, by King’s r n,
fession), adds to the story <^f Ameit,
can himicide a case particularly re
volting. Here was a man done to
death by a man who accepted his hr—
pitality. There was not even an al
tercation to arouse passion. A p
destrian halts a car asks for a ride,
drives his victim at the point of a pi
tol into the woods and shoots hi,,,
down.
Such crimes as this which marked
the trapic death of Major McLea>y
calls imperatively for a stern revise ,,
of the rules of courtesy as the m
written ordinance have been observed
in the past by autonmbilists. It is no
lonffer safe, especially when riding
alone, \o ffive strancers a lift. Com,
mentinff on the McLeary case The
Charlotte Observer well says: “The
part of wisdom is this: Take nr,
stranger into your ear for a ride while
travelling alen, except it be a child,
an aged women or a blind man.”
In several states such caution a? a
means of self-preservation is already
practised. It is time to make it a
universal rule.
DIED AT 109 YEARS;
HAD DOCTOR ONLY ONCE
Newtown, Conn., July 23.—Mr..
Nora Bradley Kane is dead here at
the ape of 109 years.* “Work hard
and constantly and leave all the rest
to God,” was her motto which she
frequently quoted in advice to her
friends.
She made the claim that she had
never consulted a physician or suf
fered until a week before her death.
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