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Published Tri-Weekly. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscription Price. By mail, per year___ $2 5oj By carrier, per year ..._ $2.00 Th* Star Publishing Company, Inc. LEE B. WEATHERS_President i RENN DRUM_Local Editor| Entered aa second class matter January 1, J90t>, at the postoffice at Mtelby, North Carolina, under the; Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. We wish to call your attention to the fact that it is, and has been our rostom to charge five cents per line; for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after on death notice h*« been published. Thi will be strictly *dhered to. FRIDAY, FEB. 5, 1026. THE GOOD ROADS SPIRIT Bo determined tiro the f > ward looking business men in . m° sections to have good roads that they advance county money to the state highway commission with which to build hard surface roads, the money to he refund ed to the county when the state makes it available. The citizens of Hendersonville to make sure that they have a hard sm face connection with Iliyhw \y No. 20 at Bat Cave, will let the countv advance the money vr» ther than go another year with out this important artery of travel east and west. Highway No. 20 from Wilmington through Charlotte and Shelby! to Asheville goes through Hick ory Nut Gan and misses Hen-1 dersonvillc. Now that the Hick-! ory Nut Gap road is open, Hen - dersonville is alert to the im-j portance of a connection and the travel to Asheville does not; necessarily sco Hendersonville,! that live town is alert to the im-i portance of this connection at ! Bat Cave. Recently Mr. Kistler made j the proposition to Rutherford; county that if the county would j advance the money, to be re funded when state road money is available, he would see that the contract is let at ^noe for the hard surfacing of Highway 20 from Rutherfordton to Bat Cave. Whether Rutherford does what Henderson is doing in ad vancing the money has not been announced, but they realize that where such progress is under I way as is now taking place in; the mountains of Western; North Carolina, good roads are j Of prime importance. Cleveland county rejoice if these two links lire built, whether we ever 'can the sttae any money to build Toads in Cleveland cr not, HIGHWAYS AND ACCIDENT! The f <ct that C'cre v :>6~ fatal accidents on the high wavs in North Carolina last .’ • cannot in any way be ch r.rct' to any negligence of the S r Highway Commission which >’ made every safeguard for safe tv travel. Drivers arc noiit'icu of every curve in the road, e\ rr.v narrow bridge, every railroad crossing, even marked a center line in the highways as a warn-1 ing for drivers not to pass o.tch o‘her on curves. In the f >co of! all these safety notices, 3G5 peo ple were killed last year in au-| lomobile accidents and indica tions are that list u ill be long-' er this year. How to prevent it is a problem yet unsolved. Judge Harding a' distinguished Charlotte jurist, j ask? that the speed limit law | be revoked. He thinks it a! force because nobody obeys it. [ He advocates a change in the j law so the reckless driving would j a crime rather than speeding.! Both should be and are viola-1 tion of the lav.-. Excessive speed is bound to be dangerous and, is reckless driving itself. If the J speed law is repealed and reck-] less driving is the sole control of travel on the highways, then the avenue is left open, for all sorts of interpretions as to what reckless driving is. As to J whether driving is reckless is a 1 matter of opinion among men whose opinions always differ. As to speeding, a mechanical j devise known as a seedometer i tells a true tale, as reliable in J one community as another and: never influenced in its opinion. If Judge Harding would keep the death toll from mounting he had better keep all road laws and advocate their strict enforcement. “Re sure you’re right, then go ahead” is a very annoying policy in fk, cafeteria. COME ON WITH ME NTS IMPROVE While we realize that the town of Shelby as well as all other towns are up against ; prob’eai to finance themselves, the towns that grow spend mo ney for public improvements. Here is the Piedmont belt where the progress is unprecedented, it is a difficult matter to antici pate the growth of a few years and the tendency is to be too conservative, therefore we soon outgrow in five years what we thought would answer for a ten year period. The Star has always been on po.-ed t v extravagant bond is sues for it re ilizes that pay day is coming and often the paying pinches. In the matter of street paving programs carried out here three and four years ago, it has become necessary to take drastic steps in forcing the col lection of assessments past due. This will tmharass some property owners who haven’t the ready cash with which to pay. On the other hand their property has increased in value several fold because of the im provements. Right now, demands are coming for more street paving extension of sidewalks, sewer and water mains, electric light lines and other public improve ments. How to answer these de mands is a problem in the face of a $200,000 school building program and a $200,000 water plant. But if the people are will ing to pay for extentions and sign up on the same basis the previous work was done, why should they be denied? A town belongs to its people. Property owners pay the tax and if they are willing to assume the bur den, why not outline extension programs for water, lights, streets and sidewalks that will meet the demands. The cost may be great but Shelby has not reached the Jimit of its bonded indebtedness and its credit is good for an amount large enough to satisfy the de mands of the tax payers. Our idea Would be to add another $50,000 or even $100,000 to the present bonded indebtedness if such would give the people the public improvements which they demand and have a right to expect. Negro Pupils Being Taught In Churche3 As Result Of Fire Wrecked Building Was Insured for $10,000 and Insurance Company May Rebuild Structure. With the coming to Shelby the end of this week of an insurance inspec tor, who will appraise the loss on the budding, definite plans will be la'd to reconstruct the Shelby negro school which was partially destroyed by fire Wednesday. II i i understood the blaze wes <"' "d by a defective flue. a feet which came to light through an i - tor; t co l y t ♦ y Superintendent f a fog whig: the fire. Horace Or g r, princim 1 of the f*' < !! y He-li rei ed si caking for Mr. r ' " 1 ’ ♦oil The Star that he t.e ers'ood the building was insured i in .Nlb.OoO, and it is believed the in cur::.nee company will undertake to re I1’"' the damage rather than pay the pel CV. Such a program, ii. appears, he. met with the tentative approval of the school authorities. Meantime, pending the adjustment ii.d the reconstruction of the building rbe negro pupils are being housod in three negro churches in the district. “School work is being carried en wtihout interruption.'’ Mr. Grigg said .Asked if it was anticipated the re constructed building will be ready for occupancy the current term, Mr. Gi igg r< plied that it was planned to carry ;m school work there, not only before the term end, but at a very early date The one they call a “lucky stiff” never seems to have any luck at dodging the hard jobs. SHY MEAT at the SUMY IYH I ‘A Clean-cut Market’ ■ i Special: Select Oysters. Your Patronage Appreciated. v INTERVIEW FIRST STARTED IN 0. S. That Form of News Gathering Start ed in Civil War Days, Distinct ly American Washington.—The collection and distribution of news is one of the most ancient of occupations, but one phase of nows gathering, the inter view, is of comparatively modern American origin. Interviewing, in the form in which it is known today, appears to have originated in Washington about the time of the Civil War, when there was a great demand for news bear ings on the internal situation. The reading public, always with a rernlv aonpetite for personalities, re ceived this style of reporting with so | much favor that a few years later President Andrew Johnson was cre dited with expressing a preference to giving an interview to sending a message to congress, for “everybody ! seemed to read the interview and no , body seemed to read the messages.” i One of the <«rrli»<»*. of these inter i viewers was “Mack” th" correspond ent for the Cincinnati Commercial, says Harper’s Magazine, January, | 1874. His first interview was with I Alexander II. Stephens, and was the i result of a two days’ visit at the hit ters’ residence in Georgia during the summer of 18G7. During the ensuing winter the im "oaehment project was reviewed in j Washington, and “Mack” "applied the I interviewing process to Andrew I Johnson. The matter discussed was nearly al ways the pending mpeachm ?nt; the manner was that of a quiet talk, each pa:ty asking and answering quer— t-orvs in turn. Neither pencil nor note hock was introduce I during the* con versation, but “Meek” alwavs ask'd the President if he was willing that the result of the conversation should go into print and if there was any thing he dcs; nil to have omitted. The President’.1- desires in this con nection were always scrupulously re garded. More than vice the cl oof oxetuUvo sent his secretory to request *Me< 1. ’ to meet him, j r'.e; t g *m- << v;i I ing a message to congress. Dr. Russel of the Roma n Time:;, in | a book covering his vist to tile ■ United States gives the following ac count of one of the early attempt.-, at interviewing, under date of Wash ington, March 28, 1801: “On returning to Willard’s Hotel 1 was accosted by a gem'eman who came out from the crawl in front of the office. ‘Sir,’ he said, ‘you have been dining with our President to night,’ I bowed. ‘Was it an agreeable party? said lie; ‘and what do you think of Mr. Lincoln?’ ‘May 1 ask to whom I have the honor of speak ing?’ ‘My name is Mr.—* —. and I am the correspondent of the New ■ York ——-’. ‘Then, sir, I replied |‘it gives me satisfaction to tel! you that I think a pood deal of Mr. Lin coln, and that I am equally pleased , with the dinner. I have the honor to wish you good evening.” South Carolina Leads in Number Children j South Carolina has in proportion 1 to its adults more children than any state in the union. For every 100 per sons under 21 years of age* there are I only 8(5 more than 21 years old it is I shown in figures in the current issue of South Carolina Education. North Carolina with 89 adults ro every 100 children is the n^xt “most childly” state. The figures were obtained from “The Effect of Population Upon the Ability to Support Education,” a study by Harold F. Clark of Indiana university, this study tending to ex plain in part at least the apparent shortcomings of South Carolina and other Southern states in cduca'i>ona! progress. With the child population considerably outnumbering the adult the economic problem is naturally heightened for a great proportion of the young are dependent upon older persons for their support and contri bute nothing to the wealth of the state. California, at the other ex treme, has for every 100 children 2oi) adults, while Nevada’s figures are 100 to 208. William S. I’ool (Lincoln Times) MV. William S. Pool, a highly re spected citizen of North Brook died at his home near Bess Chapel Mon day night. He had reached the ad vanced age of 82 year ■, 7 months and 20 days. Deceas'd had been in failing health for the past two: years. He was an aid Confederate soldier and a member of the Baptist church. The interment was at Bonn Chap el cemetery with funeral service con-1 ducted by Rev. J. J. Beach of Cherry yille, assisted by Rev. Bingham pa. tor of Boss Chared church. About the only consolation in being poor and unknown is that dry agents won’t bother you. A true radical is a man who can’t l ive you unless you are unreasonable. It takes a lot of faith to believe ♦ hat everything since Locarno indi cates the millennium. It’s Italy’s own business. Bosses never rise except where people are willing to be bossed. All you need to be a leader is to find a natural-born follower him first. and find am Number or Spelling Matches I'lan ned—Money is Contributed to the Library. (Special to The Star) Friday morning’ at 0 o’clock the student body assembled in the audi torium at which time* we had a de lightful and interesting program rendered by Miss Adams’ section of the first grade. Bible verses were repeated by eight little boys and girls of Miss Adams’ section. Irene and Elizabeth Rh nehardt sang very e.veetJy a “Good Morning Son.” 1 arc nee Scruggs reeked '‘The Snow Men” and I old o Jones “January.” All the pupils in the tirst grade sang “Fairy Snowflakes Song.” Pupi’s in the 2nd, and 3rd grades also helped Miss Adams with her program, Mrs. Grady Lovelace was present and sang a solo for us. Wo are glad to have Itc v. G. P. Abernathy with us Monday morning during our chapel exercises. He made •i snlend d talk to the pupils assem bled, telling them that the one hope for this world was the Gross of Ghrist and urging them to put em phasis on Ghrist. The primary grades are learning the following new songs: “The Dairy Ma ds", “Clip-Glao” “Round and Round the Vll'age.” Spelling Match Vv'e are planning to have a number of “Spelling Mutches” next week in the auditorium. Mrs. Moores’ section i of the 3rd grade will spell against ! Miss Howie’s section of the 3rd; Miss Rankin’s section of the 4th will : pell against Miss Hoyle-a’s section of the 4th; Mrs Gas.stevens section of the l oth will spell aga'nst M ss Sheri dan’s sixth, and Mrs. Blanton’s 7th, grade will spell against Miss Webb’s eigth grade. A project that has proven very interesting i,s one in “Health” by Miss Rankins’ fourth grade. A ileal.h Store-” ha been bu'lt in that | room. The bc%s in the room built the ; dore and pai ted it. Posters for the store were made by the girls. Let | ti vs were writte n by the pupils to d'ir.rent grocery stores asking for ; samples for the store. Quite a num : her of samples were contributed. ; The children are very much inter | catted in t he work. “The Daily Ilealch [ Gharts” in this room have proven ta he very successful. Those who come to school with clean hands and fane and their hair c embed are rc 1 warded by having a star placed by | t'nr:r name. Mjfs Raskin also has in ! her room a “Clean Teeth Chart” and ] those who brufdi their teeth daily are : rewarded by having a star also plac j ed by their names. This health pro ! jocj which Miss Rankin has worked ! out. is worth while. i The following have contributed j- money to out- Jibrnjy: Mr. .1. ,1. Fer i ris. Paul Wohp, wl Q. Jones, C. R. ! Smith, Mrs. Dovie Hamrick, Charlie ' Hicks, R. H. Champion. T. M. Peters, P. F. McSwain, J. H. Ilardin and W. II. Ledbetter, The following contributed books; Mr. Marvin Blanton, Miller Snake, Rev. A. S. Itaper, S. D. Garter, D. L. | Gran\ II. It. Wilson. Hershell Blan ! top, M. D. Humphries, W. H. Ledbet ter. It. E. Li dbetter, R. W. Weaver end J. M. Byars. We are very grate ful to these spirited men and women for these donations. Big Increase in Use of Gasoline Pri'dict $13,000.00!) for Automobile Fund This Fiscal Year With the use of gasoline increased by over 2.000,000 gallons s:nce Jan uary, 1925, and each gal'on paying a tax of 4 cents instead if 3 cents, the automobile division of the De partment of Revenue collected $723 493.92 in January 1925, as compared with $508,317,98 during the san».1 month last year. Indications now point to collections of $13,000,000 for the fired year end ing June 30 as compared with ten millions collected during the preced ing fiscal year. Gasoline consumption during the last month in North CaroPna amount ed to the normous total of 15,918,099 gallons despite the fact that it was mid winter and the collections from this source amounted to $630,643.94 as compared with $425,221,94 in 1925 when the tax was only 3 cents in stead of 1 cents, the present rate. Automobile licenses last month yielded $81,59(5.98 as compared with $68,613.50 in 1925 and title eertifr-1 cate taxes increased from $9.482.50. to $i0..253. SYNDICATE BUYS BUSINESS PROPERTY IN ASHEVILLE j Asheville.—Madrid B, Loftin. i Goldsboro attorney and Judge F. H. Brooks of Smithfield, representatives of an eastern North Carolina real i estate syndicate have during the past! two days purchased approximately j $200,000 worth of business and semi business property in Asheville for an investment, according to Ed. L. Lof tin, local realtor * who handled the deals. Tentative plans were announc ed by too purchasers for the develop ment of a large tract of acrcgae in the Weaverville section. Amerieanismt Wishing to be a San riow without doing anything more L.trenuous than pressing a button. (Continued from first page. eomprehensive idea as to the town’s business growth. Last year the to tal freight receipts were $1,180,220.83 which is SMOO.OOO more than the pre ceding year and twice the gross re ceipts of 1922. During 1925 there wore 9.125 solid car loads of freight received at the two stations, 2,190 car loads of merchandise or (mixed cars) while 4,285 solid and mixed uter i' codi.se ears were shipped out from the two local stations. The Southern j operates four passenger trains daily and four freight trains daily, while tic Seaboard operates two passenger 11 aims, two local freight trains, four through freight trains and one “switcher” through Shelby daily. Ir> riicntions are that this year will make ! another record, the total receipts fir 'the month of January 1926 being $15 600 more than for the same month ; a year ago. Express Receipts. , i'\m'is receipts for. 1925 weiv •"•■8 Mi.81 for the two coriipai:ie£, A meric'in Railway aril Southeaster n, |which have offices here. Over 1,100 Telephones. li April 1022 there were 437 tele '• phones connected with the central switchboard and in that year the an 1 mini receipts were Si2,000. Then (there were 00 long distance calls a day; now the average long distance calls amount to 400 and the total 're ceipts of the Piedmont Telephone ard Telegraph company's local exchange last year were S51,000. The number of .telephone subscribers reached 812 in 1924. I ar t year the number went ori , up to 1,020, yet in .Tannery 79 new .service connection were made, bring nig the total number of subscribe! s above 1,100. In 1922 therq were tire i ot era tors to care for the businev;. Now 11 work full time and two on pai t time to handle the business. As an Automobile Center. Approximately 8575,000 worth of j automobiles were sold in Shelby by io'ai dealers last year, according to Pud Webb who read a carefully i | repared paper of Will Arey. There art seven usses operating every day from Charlotte, five from Asheville, two front Morganton, two from Rntherfordton, and two from Lincoln j tor, supplementing the six daily railroad passenger train service. Colbert McKnight, young son of John S. McKnight, delighted the Ki [wnnians with several harp selections, | while District Trustee George Blan ton continued his report on the Co lombia meeting, urging Knvanians to weai their badges on all occasion-. f mall bags of Eagle mill flour, gifts of the Eagle Roller mill and Hava-Rexa cigars, gifts of the Rex Cigar company, were souvenirs giv er, to each member and visitor pies 1 cm.1 Syndicate Buys Big Tract In Rutherford Rutherford Sun. A Greensboro syndicate, h■ aided j by Mr. Smith Richardson, pres'den , of Vick Chemical Cemnany, and in | \vh ch ary interested Mr. Cavl .1. DaiLett, Mr. John Atwell and sev eral other well known capitalists ! have recently purchased a tract of j over five hundred acres between j Rutheffo-dton : nd < hiimev Rock. The tract, according to Mr. Atwell, : who has been in the city several days working on this deal, abuts on the Rocky Brond Rivi»r and on Highway No. 20, and adjoins the property cf • Chimney Rock Mo:n‘aiiK Inc. The fact that Mr. Richardson, o"1'' c f the wealthiest men of the state, and j one of the most level-headed busi ! ne-s men in the country, ha. th j fai.h in th.s section to invest a largo amount of money is very significant ' and one that should drive home th< • necessity of b ing ready for th ' I grout future which is in store for this section. When men of th's cal: ! hre are wilb-'»- to back their judge ment with their means it seems no better recommeadat on could be as!.-, cd. SPECIAL MUSIC SUNDAY AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Music is to be a special feature at the Presbyterian church Sunday. At 11 a. m. Mrs. Helen Morton Beam 1 will sing “Hold Thou My Hand” as i written by C. S. Briggs. At 7:33 -p. | m. the choir will render the anthem. “Sun of My Soul” by J. Lincoln Hall. ! No choir works mere faithfully than the choir at this church, and its ef forts are always of high standard At the morning service the pastor, Rev. H. N. McDiarmid, will have for j his subject “Friendship with CTir.st” ! and in the evening “The Outlook of I tbrf Kingdom” will be'the tour T v' will conclude the pastor’s series cf sermons On the Kingdom of Heaven t Th i series have proven very, i1 e-ting to those who have followed the iormons. The Workers Council of the , Sunday School w ill meet at'9.30 a m. i The departments begin work at 9:45 j •i. m. J. S. McKnight :s the superin tendent and he would like to see 1 every Presbyterian in Shelby at .Sunday school. The .Jun;o>- Christia i I Endeavor under leadership of Miss j Elizabeth Alexander will hold its meeting in the Sunday school audi tor um at 4 p. m. The Seniors at G: 30 p. m. will be led in Bible study by Miss Mary Moore Keller. The publ e is invited to all the services at this church. Read Preacher Woodson’s Ai. It would be a wood idea for every >ne who contemplates takinp life in mrance to read what Preached Wood* a>n has to say on the subject in this! ssue of The Star. ad.i - SPECIALS FOR THE WEEK AnclSier Casa of these Regular $2.G0 La dies Silk Hose,' slightly irregular. All the newest shades. Fifteen different colors. SPECIAL PRICE .. $1.00 Ladies Pineapple Stitched and Sport IlibPccl Hose. All colors L_ 33c w r r-M *0'^m w w i» i Mis-1 .■■ and hoys heavy ribbed hose. Black and Cordovan. All sizes. Special .. 0 m* kJ wAiT'ajr m.4- vu's.4 u 0 %#'-X -w Full size Turkish towels. Heavy weight. Special 19c 24 c 81x00 Sheets. Best quality. Full sizes. Special . - t_____ $1.24 42x33 Pillow Cases. Fail size. 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