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She 6lmlaml ftar Published Tri-Weekly. Star Building, No. I E. Marion Street Shelby, N. C. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscription Price. By mail, per year ,—?2 5 1 By carrier, per year ... — — - f t 00 The Star Publishing Company, Inc. USE B. WEATHERS_President RENN DRLM_Local Editer Entered a* second class mattJi Janaary 1, j»t>6, at the postoffice at inelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 187a. We wish to call your attention to the fact thit it is, and has been our custom to charge five cents per lint for resolutions of respect, cards 01 thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. Tib will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, MAY 1 ), 1962. TWINKLES, Babel had nothing on us if all these candidates heat'd the call of the people. It’s a dull week when nobody buys a mountain in West. rn Carolina. A man may think his wife i < an angel, but he never really be lieves it until she fly.-? away with another man. Our idea of a job that would not be easy is that of an under-i taker in Herrin, 111 . or a husband to Peggy Joyce. ♦fW- . ■ About 309,00) people are ein-J ployed in the motion picture in-, nustry. Now lessee how many di-j vorce courts do they necessitate ? Well, it dees seem as if “It! Ain't Gonna Rain No More” - although the song was more pop ular one year ago. How long will it be until or, one likens that “One Hundvrd ‘1 committee meeting at ( harlotte: with the last visit of Billy Sun-1 day. It appears that by the tiim Shelby get9 that new pusen < r station and a modern apartment house that it will thn be time: for an airplane landing field and imssenger take-off and about 10 more apartment buildings. One thing that helps the new - ly planted shrubs on the court square to grow is that all the city’s real estate offices face the square in the su: rounding busi ness blocks. A* yet we’ve he ard rone of the candidates e”i>rt*ss themsel ves any too strongly ur an eight months KOho-'1 te r\ the Poole Hill, and the Commute ■ of One Hundred. ! Here’s a tip to Cleveland eau >■• tv’s two dozen and rrore i " d dates: Never invent • i ■: •. to fori “the d«»ar pule'i(I seems that the old c.niv, .*.M work. The Monroe Enquire • . nvs that I an old fanner opined: “Modern dress, like a barbed-wire fenee,] protects the property, but does not obstruct the scenery.” Congratulations to the city for asking for a new station. Come to think about it Shelby needs a decent passenger station more than an apartment house. About half of the roads it, Brazil are said to be satis factory for automobiles, which is about 35 per cent behind North Carolina. Shelby school girls are now! making their own dresses, which might be compared to the work their grandmother did in' making “hankies”—considering sizes of the garments. An Arab 105 years of age has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for murder. Light punish ment, he says, for what’s 10 years, more or less, to a young ster like that? By way of the Lumherton Robesonian Ye Paragraph or learns that they’re hunting for candidates for the state senate down there. Judging bv numbers Cleveland county could snare them one or two for that office,I and an equal number for fill oth er offices. And then v. i d have a sufficiency here. Ye Paragrnnher bc!'ev,.s l> pene Ashcraft has created an other puzzle. He says: "1 don’t know which is the most aggra vating, chickens in the garden or I persons talking a half hour or | more over a party telephone line. One good thing about the chick ens is that you can wring their necks but the old hens on th'' telephone line—Oh. Me!” SPEAKING OF SPEED. They have a commercial de partment over to the Shelby High school, but it’s doubtful if that department has ever turned out anything that in speed would compare with the following young lady. “The stenographer we re quire,” ran the ad., “must be last, absolutely accurate, and must have human intelligence. If you ate not a cracker-Jack don t bother us.” One of th * answerers wrote that she noted the requirements and went (!t: “Your advertise rr.ent appeals to me strongly— stronger than prepared mustard —as 1 have searched, Europe, Ait ope. hope. Hoboken and Ja pan in quest of someone who could use my talents to advan tage. When it comes to this chin rhu.-ic proposition, I have never found man, woman or dictaphone who could get first base on me, either fancy or catch-as-eatc i ean. I write shorthand so fast that I have to use a specially; prepared pencil with a platinum print and a water cooling at tachment. a note pad made of as bestos. ruled with sulphuric acid and stitched with catgut. I run with my cut out open at all speeds, and am. in fact, a guar anteed, double hydraulic welded, drop forged, and oil-tempered specimen of human lightning on a perfect thirty-six frame, ground to one-thousandth cf an inch. "If you would avail yourself of the opportunity of a lifetime, wire rm. but unless you are fully prepared to pay the tariff foi such sendee don’t bother me, as I am so nervous I can’t stand still long enough to have mv dresses fitted.” “THE HOUSE OF A HUN DRED SORROWS.” (This editorial written by Ed ward M. Kingsbury in the New York Times December 14, w*s given the Pulitzer award for the best editorial of 192">, consider ing clearness, moral purpose and sound reasoning). i r»e wan arc grimy and discol ored. The uneven floors creak end yield under foot. Staircase* and landings are rickety and black. The doer of every room is jpen. Walk along these corridors. Walk into this rot m. Here is a sickly boy of 5, deserted by his mother, underfed, solitary in the awful solitude of starved, neglected childhood. “Seldom talks.’’ Strange, isn’t it? Some, many children, never “prattle,’’ like your darlings. They are al ready old. They are full, perhaps, of long, hopeless thoughts. There .".re plenty of other “kids” in this t«*?v»ir.r-\ Here is one, only three; Never saw his father. *' s ’ o*her spurned and abused, him. IP' i j weak and “backward ’J Hew wicked of him when he has i . i couieged and coddled.1 1 " games. How . hovi'i hOo children plav?, Not 1.1; kind. They live to suf-j W” j 1 i rcOm 21 is Rose, a house mother of jo. Father is in the hospital. Mother is crippled with rheumatism. Rose does all the! work. You’d love Rose if she, cable out of Dickens. Well, there! she is, mothering her mother ini room 21. I n rrom 20 age has been! toiling for youth. Grandmother has been taking care of three granddaughters who lost the:r mother. A brave old woman; but what with rheumatism and heart weakness, three-score-and-ten1 can't go out to work any more. What’s going to happen to her and charges? Thinking of that, she is ill on top of her physical illness. A very interesting house, isn’t it. Sir? Decidedly "a rum1 sort of place,” Madame? Come in ! room 23, Simcn, the dollmaker— but hand-made dolls are “out”— lives, if you call it living, here. Eighty years old, his wife of about the same ai?e. Their eye sight is mostly gone. Otherwise they would still be sewing on buttons and earning a scanty livelihood for t hemselves ami two little girls, their grandchildren. ’1 he girls object to going to an orphan home. Some children are like that. You must see those twin sis ters of 60 in room 7. True, they are doing better than usual on account of the coming holidays; making as much as $10 a month, whereas their average is but $6. Ft ill, rents are a bit high; and the twins have been so long to gether that they w-wild like to stay so. In room—but you need no guide. Once in the House of a Hundred Sorrows you will visit every sad chamber in it. If your heart be made of penetrable j stuff, you will do the most you j can to bring hope and comfort to ! its inmates, to bring them Christ1 mas and Christ: “For I was hungered, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty,1 and ye gave me drink; I was a ! stranger, and you took me in. I “Naked, and ye clothed me; 1 j was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came u..to me.’’ Statrsvi I? Paper Says* His* Speech I Was Not of Private Interest And I.vdfeally Kelpfui Statesville Daily Thomas Dixon, writer, i; an oralo:. He was an orator before he bcoamo j a writer. While pursum# the writing trade he has neglected none of the at- i complishments that are in the make up of the art of pleasing public ad dress. In fact he has improved his talent as a platform entertainer the while he >ts given his attention to producing boons and plays. Out.lin ing law license before he was 21, he attracted State-wiue notice as an ora tor when he was elected tc the legis lature from Cleveland county more than forty years ago. If he had stuck to vhe law in North Carolina he would no doubt have attained high public position. He has ability ami that, coupled with his fine oratorical powers, would in all probability have *ent him to Congress, made him Gov ernor, or possibly senator. But he quit the law- and the political game early, turning to the church. He becam * a minister of the Baptist denomination, as his father and his two brothers were, and he soon became distinguish ed asa preacher. His prominence as a minister attracted attention outside the State and he was called to the North. After a time he gave up min isterial work and took to writing. Many of Mr. Dixon’s books are bas ed on the period of the War Between the States and he has made a study of the events leading up to it and particularly of the condition of the South, following tha great struggle, llis recitation of the story of these events is an entertaining part of ids platform address, which he has named “The Rising South.” While he m. y give a little coloring, natural for the artist, he is fair in statement, al though speaking from the Southern viewpoint. It is well for the younger generation to hear the story, not for harm’s rake nor for hute'^ rake, but /or the truth of history. It should give them added respect for their for bears who endured and saved a civi' ization and builded it anew under conditions that are now almost un'oe lieveablc. * Mr. mxon ai;o truly says mat tne South has now reached its most di." fictilt point— 'ho pursuit of happiness. To this generation has come the in created wealth and with it the lei sure that gives opportunity ..o seaich !or hr npin The fathers had c3 struggle so hard for an existence that they h:yl little time to fall into evP ways. It is the luxuries heretofore unknown that bring increased temp tations. It is the use of ihe leisure end the pleasures that will show what we arc made of. Mr. Dixon recommends mixing play and work. The prescription isn’t new and it will he generally admitted that a proper admixture of the two ingre dients is highly desirabl ■. That will add to length of days and increase the pleasure of our sojourn on this ter restrial ball. Of course the imminent danger is that we may go—as is al ways the danger—to the extreme. In getting away from the incessant toil, as we should try to do, and taking some of our time and means for en joying ourselves, the leisure and its accompaniments may be so alluring tl at we may be indisposed to give the work end a chance. Play can be over done the same as work—and play is much more easily overdone. It is most appealing when we give way to it. The sure fire remedy for all of us that Mr. Dixon recommends is to have a place in the mountains and give two days out of seven to enjoy ing ourselves in the open spaces, com muning with nature, getting on top of the world and looking down on it. The picture that Mr. Dixon draws of life in the mountains is one that pleases. That part of his speech h* 8 tremendous boost for all western North Carolina, lie talks for the mountains of our State—his home State. You couldn’t tell he was inter ested in a development in the mour.-" tains if you didn’t know it. His boost ing of the mountain territory is im partial to help all anti sundry who have lots to sell up that way. 41 Autos Seised and Destroyed .107 Distilleries in the Eighth Dis trict, Says Sharpe. More than 2,000 gallons of whiskey ha? been destroyed by the 05 govern ment agents operating in the eighth district during the past month, ac cording to the monthly report of Eer C. Sharpe, administrator,. The agents have also destroyed 107 • | distilleries, arre3ied 229 persons on charges of violating the prohibi- ion law and destroyed property used in the manufacture of whiskey to the value of $111,237, the report shows. 11 Autea Seized. The officers have also seized 41 automobiles from alleged rum-run* n< rs and issued warrant tor 223 per sons other than those taken into cur lod>% and destroyed 335,678 gallons of mash. This report shows a slight decrease of activities as compared with that agents attending federal c ourt fin the I three states of the district the greater ; part of the month, it is said. In western North Carolina, the force , under J. L. Osteen, deputy adminis- ' tiator in charge of this district, seiz ed 11 automobiles, arrested 229 per- j *ons and issued warrant for 223 other persons, the report states. AgehtsJn this district destroyed 73 .stills, and destroyed property used in the manufacture of whiskey to the value of $29,932 50. The most successful reformer is middle age. That medicinal beer makes a n.ce beverage if you chew it slowly. The best philanthropy for the fire ' The Chero Cola Bottling Company, has removed its plant into fine new ! quarters on South DeKalb street. In j a new modern building, equipped with the very latest machinery this concern is now prepared to go a hundred per , cent of the distance in giving the I rtade a product which is becoming n:orc and more desirable and mote and more in demand. , The bottling plant was'formerly loc ated in the heart of town, in a build ing in the rear of the Pendleton Music Shop. Concerning his reasons for moving Mr. E. E. Holcombe, the pro. prieior, stated: "Our product is sold t from trucks, .and we therefore have the privilege of locating in a sect:o;\ of town other than the business sec tion. I decided to build a plant in a loention off the beaten brack, where there would be less dust and noise, and where we concentrate more on the job. " Picked out a site down here in South DeKalb street, and we have erected a plant which I think is a model. It is modern in every parti cular, equipped with the very latest and most sanitary machinery. “We have UBpanded the busines , now manufgptWtug at least ten dif ferent products. Of course Chero-. Cola will alav<mi bp the main stay of the business, and we expect it to re “>’n;n the best seller, but in addition to that wo are putting out some of the very best ot the beverages drinks under the lahc| of the Nc-Hi line — such as poach, strawberry, orange, root beer, etc.” Sir. Holcombe conducted the writer through the plant, exhibiting the very latest type of machinery for the cleaning ar.d refilling of the bottles. Great stress is laid, in the process, upon the cleaning of the botties. The latest perfected machinery for effect ing this, and sterilizing them, is net more than a month old. This is one plant, a trip through which encourages the appetite for the product. Utmost cleanliness is insist ed upon. The building which houses the plai t is three stories high in the rew, in cluding a boiler room in the basement, a supply room, and at the top a syrup room. The machinery in the main department rests upon a cement flocr. and every device has been used to effect complete sanitations Mr. Holcombe removed to his new location last week. In a couple of weeks he says, he will have the new plant ready for top speed operation. Meantime his force has kept the Tour trucks continuously supplying the de mand. Mr. Holcombe says this demand is continually increasing, the public tak ing more and more to the bottle b(V erage.—Adv. DIZE AWNINGS MAHUFUCIIJPiED m EREGTED— BY DIZE— EXPERTS— NOW THE PEOPLE OF SHELBY AHD SUR ROUNDING COUNTRY ARE IN A POSITION TO HAVE REAL AWNING SERVICE.E Dize Service begins with your desire to have your home or place of business awninged. Our specifications and advice in selection are at your service. We manufac ture the awnings to fit your requirements and erect them ourselves. — Dize Quality Awnings Look Better — Last Longer — —FOR PERSONAL APPOINTMENT CALL NO 11— Dize Awning & Tent Co. "remember your vision toda y spells your success tomorrow. CLEVELAND SPRINGS ESTATES WILL FIRST OF ALL CLEVELAND SPRINGS ESTATES Close To Business Surrounded By Nature’s Beauty. Be A Homeland And Playground For Shelby People. That was the plan passed on to the developer by the original owners. but CLEVELAND SPRINGS ESTATES Will Be More Than That. For a half century vacationists have been coming there to drink of the mineral waters, enjoy the playground facilities and the suburban resort life and climate. Many of these, to whom Cleveland Springs is a traditionary vacation ground, will want a home there—for that was what their fathers wanted. Shelby people and these regular visitors will build a regular suburban city. THEN add to them the hundreds of new visitors w-ho will be brought to see the advantages of Carolina’s “Most Dependable Development” and one of the best known resorts in two 3tates. What Do You See? A Homeland And Resort Unexcelled. YOU’LL LIVE THERE EVENTUALLY PLAN FOR IT NOW. ALFRED P. MARSHALL —Director Of Sales— Shelby, N. C. Executive Offices Royster Bldg.
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