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COME TO CLEVELAND’S SECOND BIG FAIR NEXT WEEK—SEPT. 29—OCT. 3—HORSE RACES DAILY, FINE EXHIBITS, BIG MIDWAY, AIRPLANE. FAIRSECTIOH FA!I! SECTION VOL. XXXIII, No. 76 THE CLEVELAND STAR. SHELBY. N. C. FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 1925. 52.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE -EVOLUTION AS A HUMORIST SEES IT The discoveries of Thomas Picker el writer and humorist, regarding evolution are very entertaining and m the standpoint of wit settle the controversy: ‘’That there can be no shadow or (luuht man came from the lower ant ma], is disclosed from researches this writer has made in the archives or the Knglish and Americau languages an(| by excavation of innumerable idioms,, similes, metaphors and other figures of speech. He says: "Certainly man came from the unr eal The facts are indisputable, irre pressible. Darwin didn’t know half ot it. Harrow is but a superficial think er and Huxley’s prognostications face into insginificance when the facts are revealed. Take our language. It ail points to animal life of the lower ol der. In the first place man is born by the stork; then he crawls and whines and before long he is a regular littie pig. He grows up like a week. "Later on in life he is a poor fish and a sucker, but often acquires horse sense. Road-hogs flourish, end-seat bog- obstruct, and the early bird gets the worm. People look sheepish, act calfish, craw fish, prowl, srmn arid fiftis the hand that feeds them. Women arc butterflies and vampires; some hus bands are insects. Roth men and wo men are bull-headed, arid some are snakes in the (trass. Occasionally one meets a cor.sumate ass. Wise old owl.., sly old foxes and eaple eyes prey upon their felkwmen. Sometimes a dirty dop runs amuck. Kangaroo courts are common. Clodhoppers hop and jay walkers walk. All of us pet stunp without a bee in sight and the female is more deadly than the male. “Aviators hon off and fly. Old maids pet catish, and maids that are not so old are kittenish. Men ar<. sharks, old bears, wolves in sheep’s clothinp, and pull the wool over our eyes. Some folks are 100 per cent hull. We lionize heroes. Who is not ac quainted with some old crab or silly goose? Men are lobsters, they shut up like clams and some crawl in the'r holes. Every county seat has its court house rats; every town has its chick ens and old hens. The whole world Is invested with parasites. “We develop elephantiases, horses' neck and a whale of a lot of other things. We arc landlubbers, sea-dugs, turtle doves and otherwise fine birds such as lame ducks. We are dark hors es, hunks of cheese, little shrimps and often wiggle out of things. We do the goose step, the turkey trot, arid the camel walk while we git a hump on ourselves. We have our bear cats, ham actors, and jackleg lawyers. We sinp like canaries, laugh like hyenas, shea crocodile tears, and hound and but Va lo one another. We are stubborn as mules, slick as eels, but often have to pony up. We are big frogs in little ponds and little frogs in vice versa ponds. We make ’em pigeon-toed, wal rus’-toothed pug-nosed, monkey.faced, ! chi.'ken-hearted and cock-eyed; and all | of us are more or less cuckoo. Final* | ly we sing our swan song and croak; still the half has never yet been told But it’s all monkey-business and it gets out goat. Ain’t science the snakeV hips!” Flags Will Descend Worth $10 At Fair Chas. L. Eskridge, local dealer f ir Fords, announces that on each day of the county fair next week he will s n.I into the heavens a large bomb which will explode in mid-air and release u parachute to which will be attaclnl an American flag. This flag will float to the ground in or near the fair ground and the one who recovers the flag will receive a credit memorandum of $10 Our Anniversary _ • The Paragon Furniture Co. 1919 - 1925 Is Keeping Step with the wonderful growth of Shelby and Western North Carolina. This firm started business in 1919 and gross sales for that year were §47,758.90. This year sales increased §29,000 over last year. rlhe ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS MARK has been passed long ago. We are nearing the QUARTER OF A MILLION MARK a year. Just a few months ago the entire display floors were refinished and five thousand more square feet of floor space was added, giving us OVER TWENTY THOUSAND SQUARE FEET OF FLOOR SPACE. OUR EXTENSIVE LINE The Paragon handles a complete line of furniture house furnishings and burial supplies, represeting the leading manufacturers. The first floors are devoted to Living Room, Bed Room, Hall Furniture and home furnishings. The Second floors are devoted to dining room furniture, rugs, odd pieces an. burial supplies. OUR TRADE HAS BROADENED The Paragon’s trade has grown beyond Shelby. This well known fl™ Cleveland and adjoining counties. Our trucks are on the go all the time delivering high grade furniture and home furnishings to customers. OUR UNDERTAKING DEPARTMENT is well equipped, having the very latest equipment such motor, hearses. &ra\c co ers, lowering devices, tents, chairs, flowers and other up-to-date equipment fo, first C'aSSTh«npuldic is invited most cordially to visit our place and spend an hour view ing the beautiful displays. The Paragon Furniture Co. “O N T H E S Q U A R E” Shelby’s Leading Furniture Dealers and Undertakers A Peep Over The Midway At The Fair Grounds to be used on the purchase of any Ford car, truck or tractor. These flags will he released ore each day of the fair and are a novel way of adver tising, although it means a co t of $50 in merchandise to Mr. Eskridge. Mr. Eskridge will also erect an in cline with a forty per cent grade or. which Ford motor vehicle:; will dent onstratc their puling power. This v.ill lie another feature of the free at tractions at the county fair which be gins Tuesday. r--- - . t Horse Trained By Pop Geers At Fair Turf fans at the Cleveland Coun i .y Fair next week will get a thrill out of some of the steeds entered, j ‘S;.(i Rusia” trained by “Pop’ i Geers, perhaps the greatest char acter ev r known on America’s race track , has been entered. The horse is owned by Colonel McEhuy, j of South Carolina, who will entei two other horse;. It will be remembered that > “Tramp Past,” one of the McEltoy horses, ran away last year on the half mile track and gave the pack ed grandstand a big thrill that Wi s not booked. ADAM VICTIM OF GOUT ASSERTS ANCIENT PAPER London, Sept. 22.—-Adam died of the gout, says an ancient document held by the Herald’s College of Loh don. The document, the origin < f which is unknown, but which was written in the sixteenth century, pro fesses to trace the genealogy of the Saxon kings’bade to Ajdaht atod Eve. It assert that Adam succumbed to i the “gowte'f and \&s buried in Ile hron. Whether, ig ho had continued to cat an apple a day he would hav* kept the doctor away, is not mention ed. Ford Has Made Money at Rate Of $1.25 Second Cleveland.—Henry Ford ha.' beer, making automobiles for 23 years, and today his business and personal weal in is estimated at more than a billion dollars. A mathematical shark here has fig ured it out that if Henry would quit work now, convert all his wealth into one dollar bills, and start counting them it would take him 120 years to do the job by counting at the rate ol $1 a second. In other words if Henry had start ed working for SI a second, $3,000 an hour, it would have taken him 120 years instead of the 23 to have m.v-” his money, working eight hours a day. Take out your watch and watch tnc hand tick off a second, and thin I think that for every one of these sec onds that have been ticked off in the 24-hour days of the last 23 years, ap proximately $1.25 has been added t<> Ford's wealth. And this does not take into account the amount of mope* he has spent. ALLEN DECLARES INTRODUCTION OF SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION IS REVOLUTIONIZING STATE’S LIFE hnleigh, ■ of. file \y*. tola nt tier-; rtati.i!) of school eirl h lh ti ta n i onjj , 1V{. thinking the o lucntii nal life of (.ho state. It ha* alii i*)y don,, it,. And If!;; rapidly i-eyoiut ionising th ■ whole life of the tifatc." i htit was tlie -l.;,i ■ p.," t of Nuperin telull nt et. I 'ul.oc Instruction A. T, Ajlen, today, in di eu ing the growth of the school consolidation idea aid the Coincident growth ,.f t.,he t-ajjspcn tation of children trout their homes to the schools, and return. "if you doubt t! fcMftt ait," Mr. Allen continued, ‘‘all you hate t ■ do. is to fro into one of the eemnuinit h .; where one of the r consoiiciated idga schools has hecn in existence for a ftau. T lie whole life el the community and the surround inf: territory is lic inpr affected. Mr. Allen mid. The schot Is are having- the effect of bring ing new interests, new ideas, and new life to entire sections. Consolidation which is growing rap idly in till* state necessarily had to wait the development of the system of transportation of schol children, and that in turn, hits been developed along with the growth of the road system of the state. Consolidation, based on the trans portation of the children. Mr. Allen said, is having three-specific efforts. It is widening communities and com munity interests; it is providing bet ter educational facilities for the chil dren brought to the consolidated schools; and it is resulting ip longer school terms, The latter feature, he said, was due to the reaction of the people of the community. "When they get a taste of good schools, they want more and provide longer terms f. r the schools." The result of further development of the system of transportation o£ school consolidation the two going along together with the bringing ot a good high school within reach of the estimated 50,000 rural boys and girls who now have no access to such a school, Mr. Allen said in answer to" a question as tothe ultimate result of the log; al development of the'sys tem. He then quoted figures to show the result of the two ideas, transpor tation and consolidation, within the past few years. On result of tin development of these two systems ha- been to reduce the 3,0000 one teacher schools in the state five years ago to 1,500 at the , present t ime, he said. It has also help ed greatly in the increase in the num !. her of high schools. In 1017, when, under the supervis ion of Dr. Joyner, Mr. Allen said ‘ho 850,000 high schol aid fund was es tablished, there was not a high school in the state, outside the special ear -rifX districts. A year after that fund was established, there were 138 such schools, with an attendance of -1,00(1. These high schools had to be estab lished, b. wever, he said, in thickly populated districts, and it was neces sary for dormitories to be erected in order to take care o£ the county chil dren. This gave the ‘county people a taste of high schools,” said Mr. Allen, and when consolidation and trans portation, began, the high schools be gan a more rapid increase until there were 40.000 rural boys and girls in ' high school in the state during the I school year 1024-25. | The transportation of school ehil ! dren was first begun in 1912 by Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, with horse-drawn | vehicles, operating on a basis of a ra dius of three or four miles. Develop* j ment of good roads and of motor ve hicles has increased that radius to 15 miles in this state. Last year, in fact, Mr. Allen stated, one route in Cas well county was 18 miles. This was ' ovci- sand-clay road, and the record made was cited by Mr. Allen as un u uul, the truck never missed a day ami tlie children never arrived at school late during the entire school year. This radius is destined to lengthen, di. Allen believes. For after all, he I” in ted out, the cost of transportation of children is based primarily on the cost (d the trucks and pay of drivers and the addition of a few miles to the route has little effect on the cost per pupil. "Is it true that school consolidation and the transportation of school chil dren is having a tendency to destroy the communities, by destroying one of the community renters—the schools," Mr. Allen has asked. His answer was emphatically in the negative, “What it does,” he replied “is to broaden the communities, and thus broaden the idea of those in the communities. In the same way, the development of transportation facili ties is broadening communities and In creasing contacts all over the country. “Not consolidation,'’ he said, in ans wer to another question, “but the general increase in educational facili ties and the increased number of chil dren receiving education is respon sible r the movement of young peo ple to the cities. "As the children learns about the world, they have an increasing desire 1 to get out and see something of that world, hence they leave the country". But that is a phenomenon that Mr. Allen is not worried about. The num ber of farmers who remain in the country will largely be governed, In the end, by supply and demand—for stuffs, he believes. In the past^ in fact, he suggested, too many people have been on the farms for the good of this farmer himself. 739-Pound Man Coming Next Week With Nat Reiss Shows. Is the Ori ginal Entertainer of Fat Men. "Happy Jack" Eskert is coming to Shelby. That announcement, in itself, means nothing, but when it is understood that “Happy .Jack” weighs 739 pounds and is conceded the greatest one m#n entertainer on earth* .the APpoCttce ment takes on meaning.* “Happy Jack" is one of the star en tertainers with the Nat Reiss shows, which are coming to Shelby this year to furnish the “Pleasure Trail” at tractions a the Cleveland County Fair. In addition to “Happy Jaik” there arc fourteen other high-class entertainment and all of them are "fit for all the folks”, officials of the fair announce. “Happy Jack” is thirty-four years old and he has entertained tens of thousands of people in all parts cf {he world. He is just what his name implies, and although he is ultra-un fashionably obese he is tie happiest pieec of humanity on earth today_ happiest, because there is more of him to be hajipy. In fact,, he l*irly radiates happiness and he is said to be the greatest one-man gloom-de stroyer on earth. Ho is the largest Elk, the biggeBt Moose and the heaviest W. O. W. on earth. There are man yfat folks in the world, some of whom call themselves "Happy Jack” but there is only ore “Happy Jack” Eskert and he weighs 739 pounds. 'THE BIG BANP WITH THE NAT REISS SHOWS AT THE I Cleveland county fair next week, . ■,%;
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