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OPINIONS —OF OTHERS— Trying Out New Crops. (From Mecklenburg Time'.) through tm-l*s* effort - of dc ”> > strntion a gents new'lejrurn* <■ 'i ■ ami hay crops are gradually !>• iny in treduced in North Carol tea- In IV wan county .a farmer planted gal loti of Lon (I I soy Wan.- last :■ frdm Which he produced 0 bn, he I- a! valued, at $,)(i and threshed !u y v • 1 nfVotit $10. The Loredo is i o .. I fifitek bean nral docs not shatter •> • when it reach'- maturity re, do largo yellow my beat. -. This >•< acreage planted to I.nredo l»<*a i Rowan has- Won greatly iner-- a ••-.!. 1 i Stanly county feririT :.>•■ y sweet clover e<- fully and trial - of (ho new lluharn clover have rr ■ stilted in utiu tially largo yi Id- of hay. It is noli al l. th.-. when •..• acreage in leguretpou vfojisi: hei; fnCreuSoil soil, are not only Wing made much more productive Ini' the tendency i - to diver ify crop: and away from the oil-depleting c . crop system*of r.peeu'ai.ivo fatn *■■*.• wrdeli includes a gamble With hig.'v priced commercial feniliv.er:: with a crop that requires r•{;»•! I :i. I labor. 'flu* Ministers Prayed. (From New: Am! Observer.) When Will Rogers appeared ber01 < an audience of New York ministers, they were looking for a humo’-ou speech and he did pot disappoint .them. ■He started out with an a - mei.it of joke.i, which put hi listeners , in goat) humor, ami then something 'happened that the miniuer* h’d n< t looked for. He said that a lot < f win isfer« are too narrow minded and that they “need to read both i<h Rogers then gave them the other side of himself. He told them ‘hut he had been brought up in the Methodist church and that his sister, now at the point of death, was one of the me-' active* church workers in Oklahoma. He spoke of tier work in educating her children after her husband had died. As Rogers turned to leave, with tears rolling down his cheeks, he was stopped by an Episcopal bishop who turned to the other ministers in the room and said: “We are better men because Will Rogers has been in tni. room. Let us pray for his sister.” This audience of ministers had read both sides of Will Rogers, and both he and they are better men as a re sult. The Lonely Man. (From Memphis Commercia’ Appeal I lie is a lonely man on a fast train. Muybe he and his fireman do no*, ex-; change words on a run of .’0 miles, j On some engines he does not see the1 fireman when lie is in his seat. During the night, when passengers are sleeping and when only head and tail lights are burning, when lights in! I a dtages «#*•! town.-; an low. «'!»»-the countryside is i’ertt. no ore' is fnr 1 ther away fro.:r' ,.m.h With u.*j* fellow human beirijrr than the entri iee>- in his cab. Cocs'i i.rlj he i« plunfcin* Into Knac*' ;v-f one fro. inn* another world. Every mile of trned: ahead of him ia •in f.flvrrH’:--. He..- much better of j o’. ■ i nf mind on these r,i} lit:. ;ind’ Jivi; days Would. .1* be if the : he earriaur arid 'vagori , i; a-.-! the vi Ce ria i. w edd ep . .. :!. rr. ■- if when lb ‘ j d.-.i .train, iit chatve of 'Tv an:ion« : (>! ■';'; "i . ifi ' ache' i V> ■ !:: i v of no class -a' men who ■ i-re-'e ,'ie.i,-icv.ihirtv day ,n ..'iii .day w\ t!i. n the Ifiy oiWKivc on .'ice.;' jt up-to all of tis. then. Tn .f: . v. :..ie •uiV, to Keep hfe bur id lie id • ' dye ca , do '' it: bystop i io dcr:'." ,' <i !: rerif ... T ■ rit t;. flh v d > ho ' Amro A : d imes.) i And a u . ;.re on want'. to put hia d-- an;.' up -a ,b« onoraiion. .Just as the pi'irtler fil'd hi.-: in,print and the paint r -'ketch.' • his ifiitnln down in the :<o."!!■!• of ! i canvas,. tile suryoen j would; et iivio his name indelibly upon h. . . of'hir, surjjfeory. Hut will the.- public ubmit to beinp, all '{■[uttered nr yvith sifrn near bin in’crtial V Hi.-- the-■surgeon not leave i 'ionyi; ma‘-k:#, anyhow, to satisfy . bim '. And just- where would the la.he; i he- placed, say for appendicitis ? If si ■ man had hi stomach removed and a calf’s stomach substituted, where oujfht the marl: to go ? 11 a m:i:i have he; face sewed up, w. u!d he want the surgeon's name on his plant! countenance staring the public in the eye? It might be good advert • i ment fur the surgeon; bir. would the victim go about in a eonicn I led arid happy frame of mind ? 1 We are inclined to think the sugges tion will hot receive a very handsome endorsement on the part of the paying public. .Suppose a man were to have « serious opt rat ion; he would loci: like an animated adverti ing sheet eireu. lating in society. He would resemble a Community billboard or a theater cur tain. What woman would permit a sur geon's name to be engraved in livid letters on her shoulder? It would not produce peace on earth nor good will to surgeons. Functions would not be what they were. It is bad enough to have operations. To be ignominiouslv branded like ah Arizona steer would arouse consider, able opposition. Queer Names. (Phillip Curtis in American Magazine) It is .’hen we come to last name* that our hands go into the air and wo face real tragedy. The most startling name I ever heard, first, last and mid dle, is Singular Onions Gallyhawks! 1 would not even dare rite this name if it could not; be proved by court record in my own state. I know personally the lawyer who represented the members of the Gallyhawks family when they 1 petitioned the court to change the name to Gale. A sympathetic judge granted the petition. Kor is a list if family names taken from city directm ier, newspapers and other actual sources: Pinecoffin, Para dise, Pentecost, Easter, Christmas, Sunday, Monday, Frciday, Nutty, Matty, P:. ', Te'aryarden, Harsh-Bar tir. Dogbark. ( andlemaker, Catty, Pitch, Horseradish, Cashdollar, Wyper Mixer, Riser, Topping, Hopp, Skipp, Jump, Yapp. Yell, Hump, Bottome anti ShuU. The most curious combination of name- that I ever encountered person ally was vhen serving in the army in Kale , Arizona. The officer •in ckarg •' at ions was Captain Grubb; clothing was issued by Captain I dresser, ai d the financial of ficii r of th district was Major New iiiii. I oncch d in my own company n S; rgeant Sargent and I have met a Major Mu j o. >•; cc. ily I rail-across a list of 20,-. t.jfl pi ■efiar American names compiled i A ;• A. ,Jud: on, a departmental clerk in \Ya--hir.ut in, who took most of the .) from government records of the pen : land grant:, and the like. Here an some of the samples picked ft am various part: of the list, vv'hii ii ought to help roost of us beat our cognomina! burdens in silence: Dinky, Snoots. Zeal, Morality, Virtue, Pray, Sno: • , Yawn, St retch, Blink, Squint, Wince, Grin, Smirk, Simper, Titter, Ciyu'le, Snease, Culp. Choke, Stammer, Tremble. Falter, Stagger, Tots r, Blunder, Stumble, Mourn, Groan, Keelcver, Paa-nway, Die Dude, Crusher, Stunner and Popcdck. Will Power ? (From Greensboro News.) (ihaunrey Depew at 91 says that at 05 ho found smoking 25 cigars a day w; doing him no good, so he stop ped right off smoking altogether. T vonty-thre years later, at 88, he decided ti at a pint of champagne a day, hi., custom for many years, was cramping his style, so lie stopped the isunpegne, except that he allows hin cK a glass when “threatened with a cold,” Dos not say anything about a; -f iance from Mr. Volstead, who has aided ,.o many. Tilings That Mak£ A Town Great. “A little more praise and a little less blame, A little more virtue and a little less shame, A little more thought of the other man's rights. A little less self in our chase for de lights. A little more loving, a little less hate Are all that is needed to make the town great. A little more boosting, a little less peering, A little more trusting, a little less fiaring, A tittle more patience in trouble and pain, A little more kindness worked into strife, Are nil that are needed to gloriyy life, A little more giving, a little less VltLE, KENT** The Standby of the Home RENEW your furniture . quickly and economically. Restore overnight the wood work, wickerware, picture frames, lighting fixtures, bric a-brac—in fact anything that is at all dingy or worn. Pee Gee Re-Nu-Lac stains and varnishes in one operation. It is water-proof, and withstands the hardest usage. Glance around and note what has been marred or scratched. Apply Pee Gee Re-Nu-Lac and note the dif ference. Anyone can do a good job with Pee Gee Re-Nu-Lac. It isindispensable to the home. PALL WEBB & SON Shelby, N. C. ££*CElftg2i VARNISHES STAINS ENA s {rreec]; ! A little more smile, a little less frown, A little less kicking a mat? when he’s down. A little more we. a little less I, ei*y, A little more flowers on die path way of life And fewer no graves at the end of strife. A little more honor, a little less greed, A little more service, a little leas creed— A little more courage when the path ways are rough, A little more action, a little less bluff; A little more kindness by you and by me, And .oh, wh»t. a wonderful town it . would be." am PENS IT RNTTERE STORE SAFE CRACKED AND ROBBED Gaffney Ledger. A safe in the Cowpens Furniture store, at Cowpens, was blown open and robbed during Sunday night, according to reports received here yesterday at the office of Sheriff ,1. G. Wright. No details of the robbery were report ed. Two weeks earlier burglars robbed a safe in the store of the Caw pens Manufacturing company of approxi mately $250, according to reports made at the time. Jr -r~n *UTCHESS TKOlW-R . JO* a Button, *1S!-, i / j /r The TIME the PLACE and the TROUSERS SMART trousers for dressing up, sporty trousers for play, sturdy trousers for the work day —Dutchess Trousers for every occasion and each pair backed by the war ranty of "10 s a Button; ' a TUp.'’ Come in a’»J be fitted in body and nockr t-book. W. L. Fanning & Co. Shelby, N. C. OPINIONS Romance Of Another Millionaire. (From Charlotte News.) Johrv A. Spencer sold a new patenl for his thermostat the other day foi a cool million. Who is John A. Spencer? He is the same fellow that, as a boy worked the furnace at night in a Maine lumber camp and during this gruelling, arduous labor, he not only toiled and struggled manually, but he refused to let his brain go to sleep. He kept his eyes open and the men tal cells stirring and he observed, .'n that menial sort of a job he held, how variations of heat in the fire box made the furnace door alter nately concave and convex, j He put this information away back I somewhere in the niches of his mind and, finally, he had the time to work it out into the form of a thermostat for the conception of which he reaps the fortune of $1,000,000, We hear all too often from the lips of the young men of these days that the era of opportunities has passed, that it belonged to their fathers and ,r.one ever come their way. They lament the fact that they were not born in the cruder times of the past, in the days of the pioneers before all of the modern inventions and discoveries had been made, along about the time that Edison canto along, or Ford blazed across the sky or even before the days of these modern geniuses. " Then, these young men assert, they, too, would have had the chance that some of these blazers of the inventive trail had; they could have made some of the millions they have reaped, and had their names emblazoned on the firmament of the world But that’s not the trouble. The real reason so many young men of these days are whining about and uttering their lamentations is that they are not like John A. Spencer,—using their present-day occupation and toil and chance and opportunity as a stepping-stone to larger things. There was ho beaten path for Spencer to follow. He, too, could probably have wailed the day he war born and cursed the fortune that sent him into the drudgeries of furnace tending, but, instead of bemoaning his fate and refusing to make the best of a bad situation, he capitalized every" moment he was at work, using his brains as well as his hands, feed ing his mind with ideas as he fed the coal into the furnace,—John Spencer made his own opportunity, and that is what the modern young man is NOT doing. Chances for fame and fortune never glittered so brightly across the age in which any young man ever bom into the world as it radiates the hori zon of today. New ideas are in the mould. New conceptions are being given slant and bend and shape. The world is wait ing for the pioneers just as it wa'ted for those who worked their way toil ; sotncly into the ma^’ic mysteries o' ! electricity, or just as it waited foi ’ those who sought the unexplored I gions. of this American Continent for I gold, and opened up an empire. But the modern young man will rot arrive at any of the destinations at 1 which the ancient explorers and in ! ventors and discoverers arrived In standing around the soda foun ains sipping the drink, or walking the streets with their big-legged trou ! els, smoking cigarettes and v.atch J ing the flappers. It takes toil to reach a destinai'on ■ of ease. It requires mental effort to originate an idea. It is no snap, eith er, to break loose from the com-dec ent crowd and launch forth in o new i channels of thought, it is the part of a hero to cut away from the com J cions, wherever they may be, in tl. j schoolhouse, in the store, in the <• i j lege or or. the street, and ihaike tii.it 'application of one’s tftind to mat ■: . which may result in startling die v | erics. The unknown John Spencer of a f.-w I years ago, the hoy who at lb shaved jthe coal into the furnace of a Maine - lumber camp. is a millionaire today j because he had the courage to make j a man of himself, because he had the | grit to stick 'it out through exper j icnc'e that was grim and galliptr, br jcause he had the necessity to face of j making a living arid; found in thi I ccssity the golden beck of opportrn I ity before him. I Father and Child Both Drown. Goldsboro, ‘May 18.—Fred Thomp son and his five-year-old daughter, Ju lia Mae, were drowned at Stephens mill, 12 miles north of Goldsboro, Sun day afternoon, when a boat in which they were rowing capsized into the mill pond. The child is said to have reached out for an object floating it* the water. She lost her balance and fell into the water. The father plung ed in after her, capsizing the boat. Both were drowned. An older sister. Helen Thompson, who was with them managed to right the boat and got back in it. REV. MR. SHERRILL WILL PREACH AT NEWTON ON 21th Rev. C. F. Sherrill by invitation will preach in the Methodist church at Newton next Sunday. This is one of Mr. Sherrill’s former charges, the one he was serving when he was sent to Shelby. Thieves Spoil Homegoing. A New York dispatch of last We i says. The savings of a lifetime. |,oai |e<l against their return to Poland, th. I homeland, were stolen from an’ a,, [couple in third-class quarters ,,n , | liner Paris by two thieves just befn the liner sailed for Europe today j Ignatius Woroz'niec and his both 75 years old,.of Long Island, r'd without a money belt containi? >2,500 in gold, which they had Savi for the homegoing. A man they knew only as ' jnp | who had posed as a friend and help* ! them get passports, and a fake fu, | toms inspector, who insisted on s(fejj i how much gold they had, got'tin* !* ; way from the boviiuered old .ennpi In our own American language -j vote for militarism may A,.;,:],., putting the germ back iti. Germany, New York Ey; r.ing World. Oi rmariy being a repub • n,? along, -with the goose-steppii - tjutl is probably the usual amount lanw. ducking.—Indianapolis New.. Since Dr Eliot insists that there will be work to do in heaven *gVf got to get busy and save the .,ul,„} a few eiTi. iency experts.—Cs.iuSdi. Dispatch. WHY SUFFER W Get Rack Your Health as Other Sheity Folks Have Lone. Too many people suffer lame, ach ing. backs, distressing kidney dbtr tiers and rheumatic aches and paint. Often ‘his is due to faulty kidney ac tion tn i there's danger of hardened ar teries. dropsy, gravel or Brights di case. Don’t let weak kidney wear you out. Use Doan’s Pills before it is tab lute! Doan’s are a stimulant diure. tic to the kidneys. Doan’s have helped thousand.:. They should help you. Here is one of many Shelby cases: Troy C. Hicks, 22 Gardner St„w>: “A cold se ttled on my kidneys ant! I had such a severe backache I could hardly keep going. When I stopped sharp pains caught me over my kid neys and I couldn’t straighten. My kid neys acted irregularly, too. I read cf Doan’s Pills helping others and got a supply at Webb’s Drug Store. My back was soon strong and free from pair and my kidneys acted regularly.” 60c at all dealers. Foster-Mi liters Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. ad HENDERSON GILMER CO. WHOLESALE PAPER Charlotte, N. C. SPECIALIZING TOTAL ACCOUNT SYSTEMS AND SALESBOOKS. Paper Of All Kinds For Merchants Only. EVANS E. McBRAYER Wishes to call your attention to his large stock of Leonard, Shaw and j Dean Shoes and Oxfords. 500 pairs i in stock. In all the new shades and styles. During the past three years I have sold 2500 pairs of these famous Shoes and Oxfords. Have had three pairs returned to me .which were re placed with a new pair. So here it is in a few words: “Satisfaction new pair.” or a EVANS E. McBRAYER
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