Mow that the sunshine has pushed
(lie mercury back up the t'crmome
t, r. the fever in Shelby real e ate
;t!-o rising again.
A Florida man heart about otrr
heat around here and came up this
week. He arrived here Monday bight
during the cold drizzle, and of all
things, he was wearing a panama
hat.
Needless to say, he found it wasn't
that hot—as climate goes anyway.
Meaning he was impressed wifi;
Shelby’s real estate possibilities.
And, continuing the Florida
thought, W. G. McBraycr is home’
from Florida and adds a bit of com
ment to those who are predating
the present and future of the sun
shine state. “Business is steady and
good in Florida, he says, “in every
th ng except real estate.”
And after you digest the state
ment you realize that after all there
not a panic in Florida. A year agi
(verybody was selling real estate,
but now they’ve discovered that to
work well things mds.t be well bal
anced and business generally P
picking up. Of course interest i.
bound to lag in real estate when
everyone is not centralizing on it.
In other words six months ago it
was hard to find anything on a
I lorida business street except a real
(state office. Clothiers, druggists,
cigar merchants and grocers were all
telling real estate. Naturally, some
thing had to happen. Now the cloth
ier is back selling clothes, the gro
cer selling groceries and a normal
amount of folks are in the real
estate game. Yes, it is as McB-ayer
says: “Everythin is selling wgil, ex
cept lots.”
Around town one- hears much fav
orable comment for summer baseball
in' Shelby this year. Hickory amt
Newton have already held meeting?
and raised around $3,0(>O each to
start the season. Such a plan follow
ed in Shelby wouldn’t be so bad.
That Shelby is now hire- enough
to have some sport in the summer
< her than golf is a certainly.
Along with the baseball plans it is
rumoured that Marshall, the Florida
developer, may have some trap shoot
ing. tennis tournaments and swim
ming contest on the Cleveland
Springs Estates.
Such speaks for Shelby real estate
Nobody excepting older vacationist.
will he content to spend the summer
in a town where there is not sport.
Local real estate men visit.ng the.
“triangle section-’ around Asheville
and Hendersonville lately say that
Shelby’s best real estate period is
just ahead. Asheville and Hender
sonville. can accommodate just so
many people and already, some two
months before the summer season,
both cities are about full and talk
ing of putting them up in tents.
Along with this report back is a
corroborating bit of information
having it that inquiries are coming
here about, hotels and attractions
from people already in that section
seeking less congested centers.
Moral: A little bit of Shelby ad
vertising, hotels and realty, wouldn’t
hurt if placed in the Asheville sec
tion. Everybody who visited Florida
couldnt stay in Miami; many of them
moved out tt> Ft. Lauderdale and
other nearby points.
W. H. Lyle- grolf pro at Cleveland
Springs asks the colyuni to pass along
a bit of advice from him to local
golfers. “Those who join the Cleve
land Springs club now may get in
at the old rates of $50, he says, but
when the new club house and IS holes
are completed the entrance fee will
move up in the hundreds.” And ho s
right. Golf as she will be played on
the best course in the state and
around a club house that will put
Shelby on the map will naturally
cost something.
Local building and loan associa
tions are not saying much publicly
but from activity about their offices
it wouldn’t be a bad guess to say
that Shelby will see an unprecedent
ed building program this spring.
Some folks don’t need opera glass
es to see ahead in a business world.
Not so many moons ago \\ m. Line
berger started Belvedere Heights.
Admittedly, it was nothing but a
dream to begin with, and there were
those who said “No, nobody in Shel
by wants to live in a suburban resi
dential section.”
If you’re not sure which was right
look at Belvedere Heights today and
in and around it Shelby’s best at
pearing residential section.
If that doesn’t convince you, try
to purchase a lot there now at any
thing near the original price. 4nth
remember, Belvedere Heights was
only a pipe dream two years ago.
Phillip G. Affleck, Washington
malty dealer, down to look over his
Shelby proeprty—which, by the way.
he is very proud of—says Shelby
should have one other thing—a col
lege or prepartory school for girls.
And it comes to mind that here in
Shelby is one of the leading teacher
training schools ip the tin..
''■■i.v tills school may have a building
"1 its own. Today, it is turning out
1 c«-ll«‘rit teacher.-, and with proper
Jiuarlcrs many girls would enrol]
r.t re for toe teaching course.
What's niore, Cleveland being a
’i"!,g 15apto> section- might some
bay have a junior college for Baptist
girl Such an institution would be
widely pationmed, there's no doubt
about that.
So let’s hope sometime. Mr. Affleck
w.d see in Shelby that which he
suggest:.
A Indy read* r of The Star, who do
1 i k h t s in f ici i o n s t o ri es s a vs die r c*
will be interest aplenty in Ti'e Star's
new story, starting Monday. “The
Good Bad Girl.’’ Such a girl should
seem l.felike, she says, for every
girl is both good and had and will
enjoy u story that gives u little of
both.
Jack Houser says real estate; isn't
talked any higher in Asheville than
in Shelby, He proves it by pointir.k
to “Slim” Logan, local realty sales
man. \V hen “Slim” says anything
about real estate it is said some six
feet and four or five inches above
the ground.
Today's Shelby puzzle: How many
Shelby folks got rich in Florida? All
answer- may be filed with Everett
McDaniels. He didn’t go.
Tom Tarheel says he nearly ruined
a good par tun* last spring by run
ning his cows on it too early.
Viat.h the tobacco plant bed for
attacks of t lea beetle, advise exten
sion workers of State College. Holes
ui the canvas should be repaired and
the frame kept tight to prevent these
beetles entering.
He’s Worth Half Million
Bui Stays at His Work
if you had
\V nulil you' bo. happy
half a fndlion dollars’
Think what such a fortune would
mean. Travel, hooks. .•nUtotriobil"*,
servant ', bunting and fishing;, golf,
radio.-, several, homes, a yacht, or
two—almost anything and every
thing you needed to make life com
fortable.
But would you be 1 appy ?
farl Larsen has a half million dol
lars—and he isn’t happy! He feels
that his life is pointless. The many
thing- he thought he would uo when
i e got his fortune, he doesn’t want
to do now.
Started on $10
The alarm clock, which he thought
he would throw out of the window
still jars h’m out of the bed at five
o’clock in the morning.
Carl Larsen landed in NVw York
in the whiter of 1869. lie had $10 in
his pickets—and that went to pay
railroad fare for his first job—build
ing some stairs up-state.
He went west, lip worked several
years as a carpenter. When they
reduced his pay from S4 to S:»;a day
lie quit and opened a restaurant in
San Francisco, Calif., with $500 he
had saved. lie worked sixteen and
eighteen hours a day, had trouble
with his wa.ter-partner and closed
up. He started again, with borrowed
money. He built, his own chairs and
tables and counters.
Raised Chickens
He made big money. His restau
rant became famous. Because he
couldn’t get fresh eggs, he bought a
ranch and raised chickens. He
became wealthy.
Carl Larsen was 35 years old when
he opened his restaurant. Today
Larsen, now 82 years old, stands be
hind the same counter.
‘Tm losing money every day," he
says. “This street, once so busy, is
died, no one could make it succeed
here.
“I cant quit. What would my men
do? Some of them have been with
me for thirty f,ve years Whet would
my customers do? Some of them
have eaten here for thirty years.
Has Few Ro aiives
“If I closed this re.iU-urant, where
would my men work? Where would
my friends eat?”
And then, somef’ni* bitterly:
“Anyway, why should I quit?
What difference does it make if I
die with $500,000 or with $50,000? I
haven’t anyone in the world, except
some relatives in Denmark whom I
haven't seen for more than sixxty
years.
Credenza ®
J
An invitation to all
Come in today and look over our line.
These new instruments have a complete
range of models and prices. . . .
The new Orthophonic Yictrola is not
only marvelous to listen to—it is beau
tiful to see.
We have just the machine to suit
your needs and your tastes.
Let the new Orthophonic Yictrola
bring beauty and incomparable music
to your home. This is an invitation to
all. You an always welcome here.
w. A. PENDLETON,
SHELBY, N. C.
“What is Democrat”
Finding Explains
Washington.—The answer to th(<
question “What is a Democrat ?” has
been found the Pathfinder, paid.shed
here, announced today, on the basis
of findings by Senators Robinson,
Arkansas, Harrison, Mississippi, and
Edwards, New Jersey, a> judges of
a contest in which .10,000 uarticipat
ed. First prize went to Dr. M. I'.
Taylor, county health officer of As
ter, New Mexico, who submitted this
definition:
“A Democrat is one who believes
in the fullest freedom of speech,
press and religion; the separation of
church and State; laws that bear
equally upon all classes without spec
ial privilege or monopolistic advan
tage, rights of States guaranteed by
the Constitution and less National
paternalism.’
Edwin Alexander Halsey, “con- '
fidential secretary for Democrats'' of
the Senate was rated second with j
this definition;
“A Democrat is one who votes to '
adhere to the principles of the party
as expounded by Jefferson, Clever'
land and Wilson, which assure per
sonal liberty, freedom of religion,
speech and press; equal justice, in
dustry, frugality and happiness; ab
horring corruption and privilege and
preserving inviolate the He public in
vigor and union.”
Regional B. Y. P. U.
Meeting At Hickory
It is expected that a large n.um,
be;; of delegates from the churches r
it ; Kings Mountain association wt'j
attend the regional R. Y. I*. I'. c> r.
ferencc to be held at the First .Dap
list church at Hickory, April 23-25.
I'liif regional conference includes
the associations of Kings Mountain,
(la .foil, Mecklenburg Cauarrua and
Soutli oMuntain while other i.
poci.itions are expected to send dele
gates. Kiiicrtainment will be on the
Harvard plan with bed and breakfast
lo-nistied ,hy the citizens ot Hickory.
I'd ‘grate: will secure their other t wo
meals while attending the confet.
ence. Many of the leaders in Rapt in
V««ir>i{ FVnhle's wo>-k in this and other
States will be on the program ar.d a
re I treat is in store for those who at
tend.
If farmer of North Carolina would
plant early corn for hogging down,
they would make many dollars of ex
t*a profit on the corn, says W. W.
Shay, swine extension specialist,
ing his cause only as a great phopiu t.
elaborate plans for welcoming Ki s
niilnui .i it> Cal fornia arc being sc
crctly made by his followers.
The franc will keep on declining
while the French keep on declining
taxes.
“There is vast satisfaction in ob
scurity,” says a philosopher. Boy,
page Colonel Mitchell.
Anyway, Mussolini is a real czar,
lie's not like some of these little
czardines.
Suckers aren't so green. They find
confidence men the law’s agents nev
er seem able to locate.
I'pper class: Those whose presence
is used to persuade the middle class
to buy lots.
The lady-shop windows suggest to
dad the regular spring pocket clean
ing.
The smaller the town the easier it
is to look naughty in u closed fliv
ver.
i
will gasp with surprise at the.thrilling
revelations in
“The Good Bad Girl"
By WINIFRED VAN DUZER
V
Mimsi Marsh thought she was
sitting on top of the world. New
York seemed at the girl’s feet at
last. The things she had longed
for all her life were now hers—
beautiful clothes, a luxurious
apartment, a snappy roadster.
The bills? They T went to
wealthy Willy Perry, who was
traveling in California. And the
bills kept coming in, bills to be
paid by a man who had not yet
discussed the toll New York be
lieves a girl must pay.r
“Mimsi is a model; Perry1 pays
her bills,” they whispered
One day Willy Perry came back
to New York! What price, Mimsi,
are you going to pay for your fur
coat, your collie dog, your tea
dances with the gigolos?
The answer to this question
will be a great surprise to you.
You will be held breathless while
you follow the story of Mimsi's
life in “THE GOOD BAD GIRL”
the thrilling serial of New York
day by day. It will be the most
exciting time of the day — the
minutes you devote to the daily
instalment of this chronicle of
true life. D^n’t fail to read the
first chapter. You will wait eager
ly for each succeeding one. Re
member—it begins (date)
and will appear exclusively in
the columns of
THE CLEVELAND STAR