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AROUND OUR TOWN —SHELBY SIDELIGHTS— ” Zmm—BY RENN DRUM A MAN CAME In. * • • THE STAR office. * * * ONE DAY last week. * * * AND BEGAN talking. • * • Of THE trade-at-home. • * * DISCUSSION TALKED lately. * * * BY THIS paper. « * • AND SHELBY merchants. • * • HE WAS himself. • * • A SHELBY business man. * * * AND INTERESTED in. * * • A HALF dozen firms. ♦ * * HERE IN Shelby. * •» • AND HE SAID: * « * OF COURSE the customers. + * • ARE SOMEWHAT to blame. * * # FOR TRADING away. * * * BUT WE merchants. • 9 • ARE PARTLY responsible. * * • IN NOT making. * * • OUR STORES attractive. ♦ ♦ • AT LEAST more attractive. * • • i THAN THEY now are. j * * * i AND HE talked on. * * * OF HOW window display*. * * * COULD be improved. • * • AND STREETS better lighted. • » * AND STOCKS arranged better. j * * * , AND A more courteous. * * * PERSONAL CONTACT be made. I ♦ * m WITH PROSPECTIVE customers. * * * AND AS example. * * * HE RELATED an indident. * * * OF HOW he a merchant. * * * TOOK HIS boy. * * • TO 4 near-by city. • * * AND WHILE in a store. * * V A CLERK came up. * * X AND ASKEb the boy. * * * WHAT HIS name was. * » • AND HIS age. * * * AND SEVERAL things. * * • AND ADDED. * * • COME DOWN some da.t. * * * AND LET us. ... DRESS YOU up. * * * AND NOW that boy. * * * WANTS TO leave. * * « HIS FATHER’S store. AND GO back. I AND TRADE there. * * * AND THEN the man. ' * * • STATED THAT. * * * IN HIS store here. * * * NO ONE ever treated. 1 * » * .ANYONE THAT nice. "" * * * IN MAKING friends. ** * V * * AND CUSTOMERS. * * * AND WHEN the man. * * * HAD FINISHED talking. * * * AND KICKING himself. * * * WE WERE almost. * * * READY TO belive. * * * THE MERCHANTS themselves. * ■'* * COULD HELP matters. * * * AND THAT if they tried. * * * 1‘OLKS WOULD better cooperate. A good question for the sheriffs council and the drug store league to debate would be that of how much "■»ter Shelby uses on Saturday nights. Statistics issued recently by Super inteadent Tout* .-f ila nuinefpiil lijfM find water department, had it that the city uses 400,000 gallons of water daily on aji average. Now if the average is 400,000 daily what is j the biggest water day, and what day of the week is the least quantity cl water used ? Naturally somebody, from experi-1 enee perhaps, will say that Saturday : and the Saturday night baths will corner the biggest water supply of I the week. And no doubt that esti-; mate will be right. Hut wouldn't it bo interesting to know just how many gallons are I used on Saturdays ? Then judging the population of Shelby with the num ber of gallons used one might derive an idea, as to how many Shelby folks still take their material baptism on Saturday night. Until Supt. Toms puts out the exact figures the col yum will estimate that 3,500 of the 8,854 ! and more people add to the total a mount of water used on Saturday night. The next high day might he esti mated as Monday. The week-enders ’ who face Recorder Mull on Monday1 morning, and those lucky enough not too face him, should be thirsty enough on Monday after the “two! nights before” to put Monday in sec ond place. However, figurin'? on how much used each day will never reveal just how many Shelby people bathe re gularly, if at all. So don't worry. The trouble is this: Many good bath tubs I are living a life of idleness because their owners retain a bit of their, boyhood and .still hate to scrub their cars, and instead mix pleasure with necessity and golf the afternoon a way at Cleveland. Then a bath. The hotel's water supply cannot he esti mated upon as it is figured in a gen eral quantity. So the secrets of the bathroom are safe. Well, the old home town will get back to normal now that Shelby’s collegiate set has returned to col lege. The older men who have been wondering where all the cloth came from that goes in balloon pants wonder no longer. They've figured it out that it was taken off sister's skirt to go on brother’s trousers. Whereupon the economical fathers might try a trick: Buy brother two pair of balloon street sweepers and rut one of the legs off one pair into two dresses for the boy's sister. Cotton manufacturers shouldn’t howl. What business they’re losing since dresses have shortened they're getting back since pants have wid ened. A? was mentioned once before in the col yum: The silk hose manufac turer is the one profiteering and the only one benefitting by the styles. Short skirts mean a run of better hosiery, and maybe a run in better hosiery, while balloon trousers do not mean that sock production must be curtailed. But a mistake has been made. Manufacturers of men’s sup porters are suffering just as much as the hose manufacturers are exulting. With these balloon trousers the hoys instead of rolling their own just drop their own and supporters are a for gotten necessity.. Maybe the young folks are not learning anything at school, but they sure teach tine old folks some things every time they come home. So if you're wondering if a college educa tion pays figure out how much you've been learning from that boy or girl then balance it against the tuition and board. Add it up, draw your own conclusion and decide what you re going to io, then ask the boy or girl which suits them and you’ll do just what they say. 15 rahs for the college boy. He may not make the football eleven ,but be may cop the honor of having the widest ballons of any at the game, and the girl—well Fiddle War On i Here Is “Uncle" J. J. Wilder, unc.'e jot President Coolidge. who 'Claims that he Is a better tiddler than Mellie Dunham, Henry Ford's favorite fi.l Wler.',J Wilder bails from Plymouth, .. . I y - SO YA WANT M6. TA ' START TH'AJ£W YtA« WITH ] A CLEAN SLaTe. BY SPENDin' Ll . AACNEY FER SMOKES AN’ curriN’our poker am’ f/6ht SHOWS < WELL, WHAODA You / \ GONNA GIVE. UP"? J ' —Trying To MAKE OLD DRESSES AN’ WATS LOOK like Newf / W«y ALL Resolutions were?1 STATE CAPITAL Second Mansion Reception—Hi" Tax Collections—700 More Miles of Pared Road This Year. Raleieh. January 5.—The meeting of the North Carolina Judicial Con ference, The New Years reception at the Governors’ Mansion, induction in to office of the new Associate Jus tice, W. J. Brogden, announcement of 1920 highway program, completion of the new Meredith College and happenings of minor import absorbed interest in the capital city during the last few days of the old year ami the first four of the new. The ex tremely “cold snan” also contributed to the “gayefy of the season” in more ways than one. Judical Conference The Judical Conference created by act of the General Assembly of 1925 held its second meeting here during the week with Chief Justice W. P. Stacey presiding and a niorjority of the judge and lawyer members an swering to call of the roll. Numerous changes in the rules of nractice. Ju dical procedure and the judicial system generally were discussed, hut final action was postponed to c fu ture meeting scheduled for June of the present year. Both bench and bar expressed the wish to devise some means for the relief of the Supreme Court from appeals, abolition of the rotation of judges, restoration of the common law powers of judges in jury cases and an amendment to the State ! constitution to establish courts of I jurisdiction concurrent with that of the Superior court. A special com I mittee is to work out these recom j niendations and report to the next meeting of the Conference. second Mansion lleception Governor McLean held his second nublic reception at the Mansion on Friday evening that has occurred since he came into office nearly a year ago, and the first Mrs. Mc Lean has been privileged to attend, she being ill at their home in Lum herton at the time her husband was inducted into office last January. The function on Friday evening was a i brilliant affair in which many lead | ing men and women of the State , from distant towns ar.d cities parti cipated. The affair was entirely in [ formal and the charming hostess suc i ceeded admirably in making every I one “feel at home.” ’ New Associate Justice : A “goodly number” of friends from his home town came over to witness the ceremonies attending the induc tion into office of Willis J. Brogden, Durham lawyer, as Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday. The ceremonies were held in the Supreme Court room with Governor McLean sitting with the court. Mr. Brogden was pre sented to the court by Hon. Jones Fuller of the Durham bar, the oath of office being administered by the j Chief Justice. Retiring Justice Var j ser returns immediately to the prac tice of his profession in Lumberton. 700 More Miles of ltoad The State Highway Commission announces its purpose of starting on the construction of 700 miles of roads early in the new year, 200 to be hard surfaced and 500 miles of top soil, the program, when com pleted, to represent an expenditure of approximately $12,000,000. Added to this will be hundreds of miles constructed through cooperation with counties that are taking advantage of the opportunity to secure the ser vices of road experts by making loans to the State Highwav Com mission with the view to making im portant connections “while the going is good.” New Meredith Ready The Ne"' Meredith Colleye is nMUy for the reception of students who have engaged rooms in the recently constructed edifice three miles west of Raleigh in which the spring term will lie conducted. Heat and light, with other modern arrangements ;tre in fact and the girls are likely to find their new surroundings in har mony.with the spirit and progress of the times. The Carolina Power & Light Company promises to provide bus service between the College and the city proper. Dig Tax Collections Department of Revenue officials far e made public calculations which show that State taxes collected by that department during the last six months, period exceed nearly half a million dollars that amount garnered during a corresponding period last year, the sum ascertained to be $3, 752,822.24 for 1925. The difference is partly accounted for by increase in the rate of some clasps of special taxes, one of them being the bus tax which has already yielded to the State since the meeting of the Legis lature around $80,000. Federal taxes according to Collector Grissom, have increased eleven millions over a like period last year, his office having collected $920,00.000 since the first of July. Stacey W. Wade, North Carolina's Insurance Commissioner, thinks well of the cooperation the citizenship of the State has given his department in the prevention of fire losses, the Commissioner figuring a saving of practically eight million dollars has been realized from being careful. Mr. Wade reports a reduction “all along the line” and places the State on a descending scale. Heavy Spenders North Carolina is a big spender according to figures compiled by the Federal census bureau which show that in 1024 the State spent $5.79 for every man, woman and child, an increase of $3.83 per capita over the expenditure a similar period seven years ago. Total expenditure for the year ended June 30, 1924, is estim ated to have been $15,745,898. or the third highest in the Uniter] States. However this same Federal agencv finds that the “Old North State” sends fewer of its citizens to p’-ison than any commonwealth ex cept Mississippi, the commitments in 1923 being only 2,728. A big crop of new lawyers ‘‘is in the making.” one hundred and fifteen applicants for license to practice having been filer! with the Clerk of the Supreme Court. in accordance with the ruling that thirty days' no tice must be given prior to the legal examinations, the next one to be conducted early in February. Cotton Conference Delegates Twenty-three delegates to thp cot ton Conference in Atlanta January 5th were named by Governor Mc I.ean during the week, the more prom inent ones being Commissioner of Agriculture William A. Graham. O Max Gardner, president of the North Carolina Agricultural Society, and Dr. Collier Cobh, of the University of North Carolina. The purpose of the conference is to discuss national legislation relative to crop reporting by tlie Federal Department of Agri culture. “According to” Paul P. Brown, Se cretary of the North Carolina Bank ers’ Association, there are 590 banks in the State showing total resources of $494,698,015. In 1890 there were 39 State and National banks with total resources amounting to only $4,905,850. Figuring in the industrial hank resources of $8,772,362 runs the actual assets to more than half a billion dollars. Increase in Cars The visit to Raleigh on Friday of W. B. Cole, slayer of W. W. Ormond in Rockingham last August, created a bit of interest here. He came for a conference with his attorneys touch ing the suit for $150,000 damages brought against him by Rev. A. L. Ormond, father ol the victim of Mr, Cole -: wrath Fame of State’s Good Highways Encircles Globe Tin* fame* of North Carolina's good roads is oat ireling the globe. Two. mo:i chance acquaintances, stood a few days ago in the tower of the VV oubvoi't a building in New V ork ' City. They had struck up a speaking ticciuaiiv an. ■ on board a northbound train e , rout * from Dix ie to Gotham. One of the men was Lawrance 11 . VVi kiri-on, prominent. Charlotte business- man, and the other was S. T. Gilmore, an Austra lian, representative of a big tobacco corporation, who hid men fly visited many parts of the United States on business. “In 4ll of your travels through the United States wh.it haininre.- - sed you most about this country? Mr. Wilkinson asked the Australian “Hotels and good roa 1- and parti cularly the good roads in North Carolina.” was th * answer. In his travels about the country, Mr. G.'lmore said, he was forcibly struck with the' -madid hotel acco mmodations even in the smaller cities and towns. The hotels of the United States, he *said ir * far superior to those of Australia and are bgttir thain those of any other country he had visited. The most ast mi shin:' thing he had seen in thp United Hutas, thg Australian said, was the svstefti of highs, particularly the wonderful road system in North Carolina. Be fore going to New York, Mr. Gil more had visited several North Caro lina cities on business missions. He said the road developments he saw in this State were little short of marvelous to him. Opens Senate f ' ft ■Rabbi Ik J. Jack (above) of Littla Rock, Ark., who recently opened a Senate session in Washington' as the lirst .rabbi to ever open such a •ession The License Bureau estimates an increase of 162 per day in the pur chase of automobiles during the past year, the record showing around 59, 000 more cars than were in evidence this time last year, there being to day 357,360 “on the w.ng.' -A meeting of the Republican oiate Executive Committee 'i> txpe ted sitit to select u . uccessor i ,t rh.'i; n>a»' l«hn .1 • ■ ’ • FLIVVER SAM i he kind of mother who used to her f.v.vve y nr-old daughter was i'i so siie could travel on half fare, ; now say- .-.he si\te-;t. so she can drive th:> c;i. . Mo,to f. : auto driver: "Live and let .live.” I \ terrible a it imotiil • accident re i’<>. ' 1 r cent iv ly T. W. Hamrick, va- tlu hr. akiajj .if a strand of heads n a e ill's iai ju-1 tn • day before . i- u e r turn, d from a visit. f ie on Kl.vvfr: 100 |ier cent A ; Merry ('no. it o 1 dt iv, ;• was sun* he could ! ins . ■ it . in-ad i' the train. II- cair.c \vr iva yard b jrcttinj: over a safe ' ty- -a ;r :i vo y ii d. ' V i .!>•> n an. Ala Poston reports, 1,1 to am. t a car less driver and now boars the latt.k of a diamond tread a d a v;.cu .m: tread tire on his h'HT. T ie wiiy of i>. snaps Bill McCord The in..re trail't% the more rules; the m ire rule.-. t.ie moo violators there of. Oh* Salesman. I hate to disturb Your calm that is greatly admired, But my flivver's out there on the curb. And the parking time's nearly ex pired. Home is where the family and the automobile ain't. Two things at least thieves will not steal—-your character and the car you cannot get insurance on. Motor Sense is the Sixth Sense. But. alas, thousands of people hold a driver's license and a marriage li cense who haven't a grain of it. Epitaph. The roads were rough. The curves: were sharp, And that is why He plays a harp. ‘‘But we were only fifteen minutes getting here!” expostulated the pas senger. ‘‘I don’t give » hang about that,” snarled the taxi driver. ‘‘The meter says we've come twenty miles. Now, you fork over!” “All right," assented the passenger, paying. "Now you get ready to come with me for driving 80 miles an hour. I'm a speed cop.” ‘‘Brother Johnson,” .said Paranr. White. ‘‘Ah'd lak to git yo’ to come to eh’ch.” !j ''Why, pah son,” exclaimed Mr. Johnson, shocked, “dey ain't no need i'o’ me to come to ch'ch. Yo'all don Converted me Ins’ Augus’.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. One good-roads enthusiast allows as how the most dangerous curves are those sitting beside the driver. When a salesman tells you: “Yes on the level, this is a fine car,” you want to beware of the hills. We have reached the point, thinks | Sam Ellis, where the canny motorist ; carries a bicycle along so he can ride to work after he finds a place to park. Chickens in the car, say Robert Hord. have wrecked more autos than chickens in the road. Definition—A pedestrain is a man whose wife is using the car. It begins to look like the highway is the road to destruction *or the railroads. Americanism: Being bonified by birth control; killing children with automobiles. A Revision. "I want the man in the pretty n oon,” Cries the little girl of two. When thirty-two, why, then she says, “One ill a Ford will do.” Sign on the back of a Ford: “Not lazy—-Just shiftless.” Ere long we shall have 27,000,000 automobiles in America. Guess whe ther we're bragging or complaining. They drove an auto by radio in New York. Even that was safer than someone in the back seat driving. For making gas go up. Will Arey says, there's nothing like stepping on it. Motorists are afraid of hikers, as the result of recent holdups and shootings. Now if it were only possible for the ordinary pedestrian to dress up to look like a hiker and throw fear into all the motorists, it wouldn’t be such a sad world after all. the need ul the tunes is an aui, you can rate jimn lo\ui and then f I | up sit'd <"' ! i*1 lit' tt.< office SEES RETAIL TRADE .. IN 1926 EXCEEDING VOLUME LIST YEAH 1925 Sales and Profits of Dry flood!) and Variety Stores to Surpass 1924 by 5 percent Chicago.—The first six months r*f 192(5 should show business of about five per cent greater than the first half of this year, and the impetus of the improved trade during the last half of 1925 will be felt at leart during the first six months of the new year, says Frank C. Cunningham president of Butler Bros., in an in terview with a Woman’s Wear re presentative. The fact that unemployment is at a small figure and less than a year i go is perhaps the greatest element in the expectation that retail business next year should surpass 1925. Re tail business. Mr. Cunning ham adds is also being aided by the progress in the settlement of inter-allied debts which lias been a most unsettling factor in the nation’s trade, and also by the reduced taxes. Mr. Cunning ham foraees a speedy agreement on the French debt. The farmers generally are in pro per position to buy their needs, he says, although the what areas are affected for the TTme being because wheat is relatively low. The scaling down of cotton, he says nevertheless has not thrown the cotton growers purchasing power out of balance. Sees Fall in Price of Cotton Prices in 1926 will show little change from this year, Mr. Cunning ham believes, except in the case of cotton goods prices which should show a fair reduction because of the unusual size of the cotton crop. Mr. Cunningham, whose organiza tion sells to 200,000 retailers through out the United States principally in the smaler towns, estimates that re tail volume and profits in the general dry goods and variety stores for 1926 will surpass 1924 by amout five p>r cent. He believes that 1926 will be equal to 1929 and possibly better. Butler Bros, sales for 1925, he says with the December volume estimated should be more than 10 per cet.t greater than the 1924 sales. The 1925 profits of Butler Bros, are also expected to show a satisfactory in crease over last year. Discussing the many changes in the wholesale trade this year, Mr. Cun ningham asserts that hand to mouth buying with is here to stay, has wrought a revolution in the retail business because itt has changed the emphasis from buying to selling. He agrees that hand-to-mouth buying may be carried too far, but believes the general tendency is to buy four to six weeks supply instead of three months, with the retailer figuring it more important to turn his stock quickly than to place a large order to effect a small saving in price. Two Principles Envoi ved In the past 25 years, he says there have been two conspicuous successes in the retail fiefiS, namely the cK&in store and the modernized department store, which is radically different from that of 1900, These stores have evolved two prin ciples, says Mr. Cunningham, first that merchandise must flow in as fast as it flows out, second, there must be incessant selling activity. The merchant of the “old school,’1 who placed large orders to get a re duced price, he asserted, was unable to move his stock quickly, and he lacked the captital to buy the new things offered him later. The suc cessful merchants now put the pres sure on selling and use the same capi tal and same floor space, as before, to show half a doz*n items instead of one. 1 hus, he adued, they are able to operate profitably in this period when distribution is in a state of flux and the weak retailer is being eliminated The “new school” retailer considers a turnover of six times generally as fair and he considers less than four is poor merchandising. Mr. Cunningham asserts that, while there are many factors exerting un favorable influence on the jobbing business today, the sum total of the favorable elements is at least as great as the unfavorable. One of the most important favor able elements, he says, is that many large stores which formerly bought direct from the mill are now placing their orders through jobbers because they are buying in smaller quanti ties. “Learn to speak French as the French do,” But don’t in Pity’s name learn to speak English as Ameri cans do. Among those who approach the problem of distribution with little intelligence is the stork. Law, as you know, is will of the people. But only close observers show which people. A hick town is one where people say, “What! Smith shot,” instead of “Well, well; another killing.” He was a cashier and his wife had social aspirations. Puzzle: Find the cashier. We aren’t at the bottom yet. No show is as naughty as the advance no tices indicate. “How in the world did Neighbor Flopper happen to upset on a perfect ly smooth and straight, road ? asked Farmer Flint. “1 believe his Ford got scareu at a load of i.av,” replied Farmer >• r»
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