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$lrc ilmlanil Jfc TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Subscription Price. By mall, per year ___$2.00 By carrier, per year_ $2.50 The Star Publishing Company, Inc. LEE B. WEATHERS ..... President RENN DRUM-Local Editor Entered as second class matter January 1, 1005, at the postofTice at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1870. We wish 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 notico has been published. This will bo strictly adhered to. FRIDAY. JAN.~ 2,1925 * THE LITTLE YEAR. Just at the stroke of midnight, When the smw lien white on the hill, The bells ring nut from the steeple, And the people eheer with a will; Town and village are eager; The little hamlets are gay; For the Old Year is departing, And the Niw Year comes today. Sweet as a child that wakens And holds out dimpled hands The Little Year is standing, A sheaf of gifts in its hands. His hours are all unspotted; His <'ays hnve never a stain; He comes with summer and winter, With the sun, the dew and the rain. What greetings real and loving, What gifts have we in store, To r this New Year fruitful As i: ver was year before? Shall vo help our toiling brothers In th» grace of the fleeting days? Shall vp work in the sight of the Master, And fill the world with praise? S:nce yesterday’s nlaee is vacant, And tomorrow is not here, Shall we crown todnv with duty, As we meet you, Little Year? And ihuk shall our hearts he happy, AfWf h Hit <V# HeavenV. own hlue, in Hie rose time and the frost tithe, Gofne to <**•• Irvfs with <rdu. ' — Mftrgftrtt E. Sangfter. Wilj the New Year bring Shelby fextend'-'t city limits? S p •' f>rs intellectually. Im agh ' things the children could leath father and mother. " ■■ f ■■ — Money certainly does piny havoc with sonic lives, especially if the other ftliow has it. Takirig off a contemporary: May baps the meek will Inherit the earth, hut remember the inheritance tax. Ike, of Casar, has resolved not to resolve so much this year. Apparently, he is yet getting over the Yuletide. If the bus and taxi business here is enough to force* two trains out of the running, why is it not large enough for a taxi tefthindl? Asheville is now engaged in tell ing the world that the Mountain City escaped the predicted cold snap. Next summer the publicity will change. David Lawrence says Uncle Sam has let France know that the payment of theif debt is expected. “Hun” with expectation! ' < Thfe Hickory Record asks “Docs Prohibition Prohibit.” Yes, it prohib it* those who would drink from drink ing gbpd Jiquor, judging from recent deaths’caused by poison intoxicants. Another consolation in the accept ance of the Duke offer by the Trinity ^ trustees is that in a "few years some member of the Duke University eleven may be chosen on Camp's All-Ameri can—if Walter lives long enough. From the memoirs we (rather unit few governors have been or yvill be better friends of the Raleirrh newspa per Writers than was T. W. Bickett. Which to our Way of thinking is quite a tribute tO the late governor. Let’s appeal to the Inter-state Com merce Commission. A South Carolina •ntappsSrate tied the tic that binds durii the holidays for $’ for each couph wd here in Cleveland only 16 couples staged home weddings during the Vuletide. A catcli-thc-attcnUon feature writ er-in a national magazine opines that the next wqr will last ony two days. That during that time everybody on earth will have been slaughtered. Per haps, then we will have peace and a League of Nati on-—without people. Once was we thought a news story was to convey something new. How ever, a bit? headline in one of the maming papers says that the “Trin ity Trttatees are Grateful For Duke’s Generous Gift.” It would he news, hig news, if they wer# not. V " fry the advertisements that the r ' Line is running a throu*., . _ Florida, known as the “Orange J31tr.,>«m Special.” Up here two Seaboard trains are not running through, but are through rul ing, per haps known as the “Crepe Bus Spe Ridicule made some people, and made others ridiculous. Thanks to thp farmers of the county the footnote on the office stationery of Th? Star, which once read “Cleveland, the fourth largest cotton producing county in the state”, will have to be changed to “second in cotton production.” Frankly, we would not mind the expense of new stationery again next year. IS THE LITTLE TOWN PASSING? North Carolina, famous at least here at home in recent years, is a state without an outstanding city— apologies to Queen Charlotte—but a sage whose opinions wo somewhat re spect, tells us that the network of highways over the state will mean a Consolidation of the little towns into larger cities. With four or five cities of some size, none of which would hardly bo called cities by other states, North Carolina has been Conftnented upon in years past as the state of many little towns. It is so. In other state; in travelling from one large ! metropolis to another few small towns are encountered. Here we speed down upon one every ten. or fifteen miles. But are not these towns that dot the wsif) of the state gradually a lipping into the nearest city only to leave a rural center as a marker in the path way of progress of the nearby city ? A network of highways has made it eery for those in the little towns to patronize the business houses of the city, once many miles away, but now drawn closer by wonderful roads. It is just as easy for those in the lit tle town to “trade”—trade means much—in lh" city as it was for those in the contryside to assemble hereto fore in the little town. The business man’s definition of “What is a Town or City?” may be the answer to the change that is taking place. What need is there for the small town when the big city with all of its conven iences, bigger displays, naturally bet ter bargains, and greater assortment is only a few hours drive away? As the cross-road general merchandise store that once met the traveller around every curve has vanished, will not the small country town? There is no pessimism in the query, hut is not'the change taking place? The main question is, however, what towns will survive, and what cities will become bigger cities? It'# .hist a mark of Co re. I but progrWit!—shop Id I such n change he fcfdng on. Remem ber, the i it tie ontt Uriel two-room school houses that at one time nestled here and there on a hill have given away to the big, modern consolidated school. TIME TO HALT. The General Assembly which meets this month will he called upon to ap i prtopriate §40,000,000 for the colleges and charitable institutions of North Carolina and there are a few college professors in' the state who feel that there is no limit to which the'state can go in spending money. To our way of thinking the state has gone far enough in debt and unless we cnll a i halt, the state will he hopelessly j plunged in debt. It is true that we have made wonderful progress hut we have been progressing on borrowed money. The state treasury already races a deficit tins year of six or eight million dollars so it would be tbe sheerest folly for the General As sembly to plunge us more in debt and bankrupt North Carolina. There are only two states in the union, New York and Massachusetts, which now have a larger bonded indebtedness than North Carolina and these two slntcs are richer and on an older and sounder financial footing. It is folly to see how large we can build our educational institutions just for pride without regard to reason. Buildings at the State college, Ral eigh, that, were the pride of the insti tution 15 years ago are being torn down to make room for larger ones.! The University has on the largest building pr> gram in all history. It has turned out so many students who ! are influential in affairs of state, they ! wield an influence which is hard to re j sist, yet they should not have such. i» pride in seeing the University grow | bigger that the state's financial Struc ture is weakened. With all that we have spent on the higher institutions of learning, the cost of an education is three times as much as it was 15 years ago. Where must the money that is be ing appropriated come from? Why, j from the taxpayers of North Carolina i to he sure. Taxes are already high enough and if the revenue from in comes, franchises, privileges, inheri tances and corporations drops off as it is sure to do in years of bad busi ness, a state tax on land must be lev ied. I.and is already taxed high enough and the Democratic party has crowed over the fact that the state levies no tax on laud. If it comes to the levy of a sales tax it will mean tbe doom of the party in power and i bring the good state down in shame, i A sales tax is the greatest nuisance that was ever devised and the state wants to plum such a mess. Let us think of no more bond issues for awhile, unless it be for roads, which are on a sound and self-sup porting basis. If the legislature grants ■ the requests that come from the strong educational and charitable in stitutions this year, the state will be plunged so deep in debt it will be a serious question how to emerge. We , know we are sounding the true senti ment of the tax payers of Cleveland county in this matter. Those who are preparing to get on I he water wagon would much prefer an ice wagon. OPINIONS —0 F OTHERS— Meaning, Perchance, “Scrapple"? (From Greensboro New;;.) In this paper last Saturday there was copied from the Fayetteville Ob reiver an article in which this query, of George Bailey, of the Houston Post, appeared; M hen they write of backbone stew, chitlin's, cracklin bread, hog jowl and turnips, souse and liver pie, why in the mischief don’t they do it in poetry instead of commormlace mvi«i» “they” referring to numerous North Carolina .scribes. A Fayetteville bard had accepted the challenge, and the Observer printed some verses in which the separte excellences of each item in the Bailey category, from back bone stew to liver pie, were sepa rately cx tilled. Our peculiar interest in these mat ters lies in liver pie. George Bailey was born in Iredell county and bad a good north Iredell upbringing. Is “liv er pie” in the north Iredell vocabu lary? Is it a Texan term? Is “liver pie known in the Cumberland ver nacular? Strange nomenclature is found in the east. It is inconceivable that Mr. Bailey, in such an enumeration, should have omitted the most delectable of t by products of hog-killing time, which is scrapple; even if he did fail to ack nowledge a comestible of such high and merited popular favor as fresh sausage. It seems clear that by “liv er pie” George means scrapple; and we are assuming further that the bard of Fayetteville so understood; al though it took us several days to get around to it. We have heard many names ap nlied to scrapple, but liver pie is new. “Liver Pee,” now—a lot of people used to prefer to call scrapple liver pee. Mr Webster’s monumental v/ork affords no direct light; but it is known that the old ones occasionally interchang ed the long and short sounds of i. For instance, there was “pee,” meaning a mail’s coat; it is obsolete, hut “pea jacket” comes from it. This word for coat was also sometimes “pie”. And if the two sounds were used for “coat", What, more reasonable that they may have also been mod for an article of food ? It tastes as well, as “liver pud ding.” “liver mush*’ or “liver hash,” all of which outlandish terms, we be lieve, are applied to it. It does not, boweer, tuste as well served cold; that such an outlandish custom pre vails will surprise and shock many people. It must be carefully compound ed by a person of high talents, of ex perience. and lore handed down for generations, then cooked in a cake Then slices must be cut therefrom amT fried, and sered hot. And with due re gard to the Fayetteville Observer’s hard, no poet had yet been found to do justice to North Carolinn scrapple, as made by the ancient formulae of Iredell and Alexander, ami we wot not how many other sections of the state. Duke University. (From Charlotte Observer.) Had the board of trustees of Trinity eolleee failed to accept the terms of the forty-million-doHar trust fund es. tnblished by Mr. James B. Duke, in cluding the change of name to Duke University, it would have caused great surprise, lor it had been a foregone conclusion that, the board would do ex actly what it did, when it met at Dur ham yesterday. Acceptance by tbe Trinity trustees means that $(5,000,000 will he made availably at once for building pur poses and that Duke University, of which the present Trinity College be comes the nucleus, will receive an nually .'52 ner cent of the income from the $10,000,000 Duke .Fundation, or from that nortion of it that remains after the $0,000,000 is used. In other words, as it is generally understood 32 per cent of the income” from $31, 000,000 will go to Duke University annually. At an income rate of 0 per cent this will mean about $650,000 an nual income for the university from, the Duke Foundation alone, as it now stands. But the Foundation will in crease from year to year until it is doubled, and the income of the univer sity from this source will Increase in proportion. An interesting point that has been a subject of discussion since the crea tion of the Duke foundation was an nounced is cleared up io the announ cement of the Trinity trustees, which explains that the name of "Trinity College” will l>c perpetuated, in that a college unit of the great university will be permanently known as “Trin ity college.” The public has hardly yet obtained an adequate conception of the full meaning of the contribution of Mr. Duke to the cause of higher educa tion. It means that North Carolina is to have within its borders a great un iversity that in time will be an insti tution of National renown such as Harvard and Yale, including a groat medical college, a great law college, a college for the training of ministers, for the training of teachers, for the training of journalists, etc. It will be many years before we can adequately comprehend and appreciate the full meaning of the gift of Mr. Duke which Will grow in its benefits and service to the Commonwealth of North Caro lina and the South as time passes. The benefits and the blessings that spring from Duke University will be cumu lative through’ generations, increasing like money placed and kept through scores and scores of years at com pound interest. However, the effects of the mam moth contribution to higher education will be felt immediately in new in spiration and a wider open door of! hope for thousands of ambitious young ! people for whose higher education | there is not adequate provision at the \ present time. Immediate Impetus to general edu- j cation in the state will result from! the Duke philanthropy and the cstab-l j lish merit of Duke University. •|J On The iioad Somewhere. Gaffney Ledger. A letter addressed to “Mr.--— -, Goil Knows Where, Now I York,” was dispatched from the I' j Gaffney nostoffiee Sunday, it was 'stated yesterday bv Postmaster f'. B. Gaf !lettei possibility that the addressee will bell •taceo yesterday ny Postmaster Jj. ■ jaffney. While the chances are th<> !E otter will He undelivered, there is ail • found by the postoffice department, 11 Mr. 'Gaffney raid, "'any pieces of im-ii properly addressed mail are received! at the local postoffice daily, and every effort is made to get the piec es to the persons named. \\ hat A Young Woman Wants. <From The Omaha Woi:d-FIera)d.) An Omaha ) readier undertakes to! elucidate, with the help of feminine | members of hi: congregation,, what, a ; young woman desires in choosing a 1 husband, ‘the result i.; intersting, if! not entirely conclusive. He is able toils genuine it. a frw things that some uj • women consider desirable, but admits i j that is is beyond his power to inter- ^ ! l> t. the di-ia:no that a girl dreams, I I I when the mating impulse is upon her ^ | rJ ' e explanation seems fairly dm- ’ 1 ble, The young woman doesn’t know 1 j herself ju.it what it is that should ! make one young man more desirable j j than r.rother. A id even where some i portions of her dream? take a fairly ‘ intelligible form to herself they are ! hnid ta interpret for assimilation by the male undestanding, • If the selection of a Husband were ;; purely iulctectual process styles in husbands could be fairly well stand- 1 jsrdized and a definintc set of for mu- , i lac outlined to cover all but the pa tholog'edi exceptions. But mating isn’t an altogether intellectual process. It m perhaps becoming more so than it used to be, but if that is the case di vorce court records seems to bear , out the conclusion that- the intellect ! i- lefts to hi t rusted than the emotions. 1 In one conclusion of the preacher j there can he fairly unanimous agree- j ment. 1 hat is that the young woman I seldom gets ail that she expects. * Prince Charming, shaving in front of i the bathroom mirror, is quite a dif- | 1 ferer.t being from the knight who I j came a-courtipg. S Outside Solicitors. (From Statesville Daily.) Judge Wpbb has held invalid the Greensboro - ordinance requiring non resident solicitors who take orders for morcbnndiva and collect a part of the purchase price: to pay a license tax and post bond to make delivery. The test was made by an Indianapolis con cern that retails much hosiery in these pan: and all about Judge Webb held the ordinance a tax on inter-State commerce. 1 he decision is of inter est in other towns, where the aid of the municipality is frequently invok ed to protect local dealers against the inroads of solicitors who sell the re tail trade. I Horseshoe Robinson. (Charleston News and Courier.) Upcointtry newspapers are aybat ing for a new edition of .John P. Ken nedy’-, admirable historical scenes of which arc laid principally in Spartan burp. Union, Cherokee and York counties, although its hero, as the Yorkville Enquirer reminds 11s, “cam paigned in Charleston, on the Peel Pee, up the Congarne, along the Broad and fought at Kings Mountain.” To our way of thinking, it is the best story of the Revolution ever printed,! though v.e should qualify by saying that it h,.s been rood many years; since we read it. It is not only rich in historical value, but i- a capital story j with mar.v t.hnlimrr passages. The Yorkville Enquirer tin, printed it. as! a serial several tire.' ; the last time,! if it will permit u.; to say so, having, been in JttOf! ,-ather than in 1904. We had thought that it was still avail able in book form. A great many edi tions have been published. If it is out of print surely the growing interest ‘ in such matters manifested in the Piedmont should justify a new edi tion how. Held for Killing —— t Gastonia, Dec. SI.—Jim Adams, Myrtle Mills and I.uela Mills, negroes, | were placed' behind the bars at- the | city hall th’s afternoon to be held in [ connection with thy death of Mattie I Mills, the kcj*j o Woman who was mys j teriously murdeml in North Gas tonia last Thursday, Christmas Day. The two girls are daughters of the dead worn vv, Jib Adams is alleged to be a close personal friend of Mattie Mills. The two girls have sworn to state ments that they last saw their moth er on Christmas eve at about 8 o’clock at the, home of Katie Little john. They display of no concern or grief over, her death at the'inquest held last Friday caused the officers to suspect that they did not tell all they knew about the affair it is said. “Silent Night, Holy Night,” is one hundred years old, a Dresden dis patch says. Young folks will prob ably decided it’s too old and atop sing ing it. READY-TO-WEAR AT PRICES THAT WILL ASTOUND YOU IN ORDER TO CLEAN UP OUR BIG STOCK OF READY-TO WEAR, WE ARE PUTTING ON SALE BEGINNING FRIDAY MORNING AT 9 O’CLOCK ABOUT 400 GARMENTS AT 1-3 TO i-2 OFF REGULAR PRICE # AND THIS MEANS SOMETHING, FOR WE HAVE NEVER CONDUCTED A SALE WHEN OUR STOCK WAS LARGER. McNEELY QUALITY IS IN EVERY GARMENT. NO OLD STOCK. EVERYTHING FRESH, NEW AND STYLISH. i 75 Wool Dresses at ‘HALF PRICE. 29 Coats from 1-8 to ji-2 off. All Silk Dresses 1-3 off. Big- lot newest things in Sweaters at 1-2 off. One lot of big square Wool Shawls 1-3 off. AH hand bags 25 per cent reduction. M I LINE R Y Any winter hat worth up to $6.95, your choice at $2.00. Any winter hat worth up to $3 0.50, your choice at $4.00. Any winter hat worth up to $18.50, your choice at $6.00. GLOVE SPECIAL We have about 300 pairs Chamois Suede Gloves, all color's and sizes, priced up to $1.75, your 'Cl choice only. v l • All Kid Gloves 1-4 Off. hosiery special Saturday morning at 9 o’clock, we put on sale 100 pairs ladies lisle Silk “Mod ern Girl” hose, all colors and sizes, fresh from fac tory, $1.50 val ues for. $1.00 MUNSING UNDERWEAR In order to better advertise this line, which has no equals on the American market, we offer all Munsing Underwear during this sale at 1-4 off regular price. No Charges, Nb Approvals No Charges, No Approvals During This Sale During This Sale J. C. NIcNEELY GO. SHELBY’S EXCLUSIVE LADIES STORE. Roytter Building, Shelby, N. C.
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