^3ic ,§lur Published Tri-Weekly. Monday, Wednesday end FHdfiy. Subscription Price. The Star Publishing Company, Inc. Entered us second class matter January 1, I9()b, at the postcffice at Ihelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March .1. 1S71). We wish tf' 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 thankf and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly rdhered to. By mall, per year _. By carrier, pci year LEE B. WEATHERS RENN DRUM — President Local Editor The best way to get a reputa tion for wisdom is to say noth ing. The fellow who isn’t ashamed j of himself now and then isn't! honest. Front the list of deeds filed for record here it seems as if Shelby is staging a little Florida boom of its own. A headline writers informs us that Mr. Coolidge does not use profanity. Nor dots anyone else who seldom says anything. Wouldn’t it be grand if the local banks would carry our note* tar 62 years as America does for the foreign countries? It is good advice that Clarence Poe hands out to the farmers in his five, words—“Let’s Market Cotton Veiy Slowly.” With five people being born in this country every minute what would we do without the auto mobile accidents to make room for them ? Our prize for a pun goes this V’eek to the fashion note that says: “As soon as the girls can find out how to take something else off without getting into trouble there will be another change of fashion.” Bishop Denny advised the men attending the Methodist confer ence to grew moustaches, be cause it is one thing the women cannot copy. Th'* good bishop ap parentIv overlooked the fact that that it is one thing the women generally erase although they cannot copy it. A prominent college student Was killed in an accident the oth er dav. The news story in form stated that he was a frat brother of a well known football player. And by that we suppose t he next highrst honor in college beside making the football eleven'is to be a frat brother of a footbadl player. See if there are not a few sehool book a about the place that, might be given to the needy chil dren. Building new school struc tures is all right, but they’ll not benefit the child who does not have the money to buy bocks. It’s a Thanksgiving plea and if answered might make the day some happier. North Carolina led the South last week in deaths by automo bile accidents. Six were killed in the state and 11 iniured. New we suppose the parents who stopped their boys football career be cause one was killed will sur°lv j not let them drive the family car anymore. PASSING THE BUCK. If it happens to be your fate to become the" possessor of a plugged dollar, it does not make the plugged dollar good to pass it along to a neighbor or fellow townsman. Then whv chase the Undesirables out of one commun ity or state into another? Frequently a court sentence banishes a defendant from the county or state. No wayward man or woman has been made better by being banished on an other community. There is no excuse for such passing of the buck by our courts. HAVE A CHASER. Henrv Ford, father of the fliv ver and philosopher of finance and what not, savs that the fuel of the future will be derived from apples, a statement that has set scientific world agog. Imagine fuel being made from applet? But down hrre in the North Carolina foothills there is no as tonishment over Ford’s proph ecy. Once they, meaning outskl crs, called this foothill country backward—get the once, it isn’t being done any more—but the announcement of fuel from ap ples is nothing new hereabouts. It’s old stuff for us. So old, in fact, that government officials have been attempting for years to halt the manufacture here abouts of what Ford calls the fuel of the future.’ ^resuming tht Ford, being in directly interested in automo biles. was talking of fuel for the autos, we pause, or rather con clude, bv asking just, how many folks there are in these parts who haven’t ‘tanked tip’ on ap ple juice? The brand of fuel soueezed from 1 he apple hereabouts may not give more miles to the gal lon. but it gives more merriment to the mile—or did before 1he advent of artificial flavoring So after all the esteemed fatht v of the flivver cannot claim the Edison honor of the apple-juice fuel. CHURCH DRAWING CARDS. The church is attempting to carry on a program with money and popularity instead cf prayer and piety. Such was the thought expressed by the pastor of an Advent Christian church at Charlotte Sunday. The preacher carried on a bit and Quoted prom inent men, such as Lloyd Georip to shew that the doom of civili zation is near. Even with the authorities he quotes we can hardly reach the preacher’s conclusion regarding Ihe end of civilization, for scien tists only last week informed os: ihat the world will last 5,000, 000,000 years yet and then ye up in smoke suddenly. Perhaps we omitted or added three ciphers to the estimate—il makes no dif ference. But as to the first state rnent of the preacher, regarding Ihe supplanting of prayer and piety in the church by popular ity and money, there is consul*, i»r»ble truth. Take a deep breath and with it a deep thought and then pon der over the churches of your\ acquaintance. How many of them are devising schemes and ■ drawing cards to get the crowds, in other words, prove popular? How much are our churches,! rather our congregations, depend ing upon the power of money? Let there be nr misunderstand ing. Fine churches must be, and attraction must be modern. There is no criticism of that. But do you go to a theatre because the seats are comfortable and the room well ventilated, or does a good picture take you to I he comfortable seats? Why not ap ply that version to the churches? The comfortable scats and the beauty of the building that is easy on 1 he < ye are very nice, but shouldn’t something else take vou there? And likewise, money bo.vs manv things, yet there are many things money will not buy. Money and pouulat Hv for the church are all right In fact, they are modern necessities, but the wherefore and whv of the church should not he belittled so as to give away to the drawing card. LAWRENCE ANT) FARM PROGRESS. R. E. Lawrence who has re signed after five years as farm demonstrator of Cleveland has accomplished much for the conn tv. Some farmers' of course feel, that- a farm demonstrator is a useless expense, but the federal government shares half of the salary with any countv that is entera ising enough to have on ■. and those who do rot see any benefit in a demonstrator are us ually those who have never call ed on him for service and advice. We ( anno! think that Cleveland could boast of its arr.icnltur.ai “quick step’’ without a demon strator. Lawrence has been the leader of this work and natural ly to him shruld go the greatest amount of praise. Within its five year ; we have produced more po taloes because they are more profitable through proper stor age and marketing; poultry houses are seen in every section and this industry proves a year round* soui ce of revenue: more pure bred cattle are browsing the hills and pouring milk and but ter money into the pockets of their owners than over before; more fields of alfalfa fill the barns several times a, war; the number of rounds of lint cotton per acre rank Cleveland near the top as a cotton producing county because of the scientific use of fertilizers; some 1,000 or more rural homes are lighted'by elec tricity through the dozen or more rural lighting systems and our two county fairs have had such an abundance of farm and field exhibits that nothing but the state fair in Raleigh has out stripped us. Mr. Hardin who comes to take the place of Lawrence has a splendid example of achievement tc live up to. From his appear ance and reputation. however, wc feel that he will “carry on” ip a glorious way the splendid work which has been started. DID YOU KNOW? Jawes M. Thomson, publisher of The New Orleans Item, says: THAT advertising: has developed within a generation in the United State*-, of America until today more money is spent tor advertising than is spent for the entire wheat crop of the .United States. Thus, if bread is the a fa ft’ of life, advertising is the staff of business. THAT while advertising started ir. a humble way and was an incident of the first publications in which it appeared, it is now the tail that wags ktbe dog in most of the great daily newspapers of the United States. For the larger part of the revenues of the most successful daily papers in this country i. represented by ad vertising rather than circulation re venue. TH AT from a rather crude and shaky begging, advertising has de veloped into a combination of business profession and ait. THAT there appears to be no-rea sonable limit to Hie continued growth of advertising. Nearly 30 years ago when I started into business there was a question in the minds cf con servative people regarding the truth fulness of advertising. Fakers and get-rich-quick schemers were among the. first people to appreciate the val uc of this great force in command ing public attention. Today the ad vertising columns of first class news papers and magazines are written by men whose professional standing is beyond question, and whose word is a: goad as their bond. Years ago most of the reputable papers excluded not only medical fakes, but all forms of fake advertising from their col umns. Today the presumption is ali in favor of tire accuracy of the ad vertised statement, and is all in favor 1 of the good quality and fair price asked for the advertising goods. 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THE PAST QUARTER OF A CENTURY IN THE U N I T E D STATES HAS SEEN ADVERTIS ING BECOME THE MOST IMPORT ANT FACTOR IN THE DISTRIBU TION AND SALE OF COMMODI TIES AND SERVICE. STATE CAPITAL CONDENSED NEWS (Continued from fir. t page.) !y divided with the whites occupying a section of the auditorium apart from the colored folks. A number of State officials, inclu ding the Supreme Court, “got cold feet” during an autumn blast last week and vacated their quarter.-, far a brief period. The absence ,.f heat was the result <•'' disconnection of pipe lines to make the connection with the new Revenue Building near completion at corner of Salisbury and Morgan streets. The Supreme Court repaired temporarily to the Hall of the House of Representatives. State Mortgage Not Recorded i Attorney (ionera! BrummiU has brought a suit for the State which ! bc cks to prevent the sale of a tract 1 of land owned by the Warren county Cotton Warehouse on which the com monwealth holds a mortgage for $C, 500 advanced by Treasurer B. R. i Lacy three years ago from the Cot J ton Warehouse Fund, The mortgage j .scans not, to have been recorded then and now {he Bank of Norlina,1 which made a later loan of 87,500 and I had its deed of trust recorded, is recking to sell the land under the i authority given therein. The Stale has since Lad its deed of trust re ' corded arid claims the first right to I dispose of the property. Judge Mid- ; yette grants the State a restraining i order and the Attorney General is • lighting to have it made permanent. ; Thanksgiving Appeal The Publicity Committee of the j North Carolina Orphan Association j ha.- mailed an appeal for a Thanks- j giving offering for the various or phan homer to 20,000 individual citi zens of the State, with the sugges tion tiiat each one forward a cash contribution, in some amount, to the orphanage of his choice on, or near Thanksgiving Day. Or, says the com mittee, the amount may be forwarded through church and Sunday School authorities and fraternal orders. .The pastors of churches, editors of news papers, public . official;:' and others are admonished to give the widest possible publicity to the movement, which is philanthropic in purpose and date-wide in extent. The amount suggested is one day’s income. 'Get your new Winter gar ment while the stock is complete and varied. 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