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Weather Man In Philadelphia Asked Many Questions As To Coming Events. New York.—“Please,” asked the timid voice of a girl over the tele phone, “can you tell me whether June 17 will be fair?” Jnmcs H. Scan-, New York’s vet eran weather man, glanced at maps and records on his desk and pon dered a moment. “Why, thats your wedding day, Isn’t it?’ “Yes,’ the voice faltered in sur prise. “Yes, but how did you know?’ “Oh, I just surmised. 1 can tell you only this about the weather: you will always remember June 17 as the brightest day of your life.” This call came to the weather man exactly a hundred and 17 days before June 17. It war, impossible to fore cast accurately what the weather on that date would he. Iferc^ is his rea son for the answer he gave: Postpones Possible Worry “Our greatest enjoyment in life usually comes in anticipation. If I had told her it would he cloudy and rainy on June 17, she would have ex perienced 117 days of worry. But with what I told her she had 117 days of delightful anticipation. “1 figured that if it rained on June 17, there would be only one day of worry and that she hardly would no tice the rain, anyway, in the excite ment and joy of getting married.” Brldes-to-be are among I he tittecn hundred persons who dally call the weather bureau for information. On some days the office operator lists us many as a thousand “busy calls.” People planning picnics 'phone,’ the tired clerks who wants to know which week out of several will he best for him to take his vacation; officials preparing for conventions call; managers selecting opening nights for new plays. Millionaries who want to set sail in yatchs for distant points constant ly are served by the bureau. Ships at sea keep in close communication with this and other offices. The 'ice cream manufacturer wants to know the weather outlook for the week end. If Saturday and Sunday are to he cold and rainy, he saves money by cutting down on his out put. If clear and hot, he is ready for a big business. He likewise calls for daily reports. The weather man often Is asked if the moon was shining on a certain night months ago, whether the sun was shining, whether it snowed or rained on such and such a date. This information mostly is in de mand for court trials of civil and criminal cases. The weather record ■ plays an important part in many eases and on some days, Mr. Starr visits as many as seven different courts. Pays To Keep Air In Automobile Tires Motorists make money by keeping the air pressure in their tiros up to normal. And $10 or $5 or even $1 is good pay for such easy work. Here’s how it is done: it is reasonable to assume that the average tire user can check the air pressure and bring it up to normal on five tires in about three minutes at a free air station. Over a period of a year this amounts to about two and one-half hours. This is figured on the basis of checking air pressure once each week. This time may vary slightly, of course, but for the purpose of illus tration it is sufficiently accurate. Then let us estimate the cost of a set of new tires at $125. This figure is also variable, according to the size of the tires, the quality, etc. There arc'innumerable cases on re cord where there has been a direct loss of from 20 to 50 percent of the tire mileage due to neglect of the air pressure, declare Miller tire men. On the other hand, there are equally as many cases where proper attention has increased mileage to the same ex tent over previous records. Thus if we figure that the average tire user will save 20 per cent that will amount to $25, or $10 per hour. But whether it be $1 or $25 saved, it is time well spent. The tire user who has a regularly appointed time -for tire attention, amounting to from two to five minutes every week is guarding against future trouble nnd annoyances, as well as saving money. KINGS MOUNTAIN BILL FAVORABLY REPORTED Washington, June 16.—Creation of a commission of three members to in spect the battlefield of Kings Moun* tain, to determine the feasibility of preserving the field and marking it fot professional and military study, is proposed in a bill by Representative BuLwinkle, Democrat, North Caro lina, approved today by the house mil itary affairs committee. DOTY NOT TO FACE THE FIRING SQUAD Geneva, June 17.—Bennett J. Doty of Memphis, Tenn., who is now await* ing trial in Syria on a chavge of de sertion from the French foreign le gion, probably will be subjected to disciplinary measures and faces vir tually no danger of being shot. Henry de Jonvenel, French high commission er in Syria, indicated today. Solving of Mystery-Leaves fine Big ger Than Ever I:i Giving Credit To Discover i Ashevjjle Times. Around about 50 years ago the na tion cried out in vain "Who Stole Charley Ross?” Then for the half century the question was forgotten arid the name was not mentioned ex cept ns his story was told to naughty little children who had habits of dis appearing from their nurses’ sight. Now they think that he has been found again. One Julius C. Dellin ger, who has been living ut Denver, N.C., has reason to expect that he is the lost son for whose recovery $(!(), 000 was vainly spent. The Ross fam ily in Philadelphia is going to receive him to examine Iris claims. A family of Starrs seem to he sponsoring him. They are going to take his to Phila delphia. But now that it is thought that the lost man in found, it is amusing to watch the various claims that are be ing made for his discovery. The Greensboro Record says that the deed is their doing, and The New York World prints the story in full on the front page and attributes all the work to the Starr family. However there is a claimant much nearer than any of these who has hud a big hand in the work. A man on the staff of the Asheville Times was the first to in quire into an Associated Press flash that somewhere in a section of North Carolina there existed a man who hud claims to the fact that he was the lost son. This reporter went to the scene and himself located Dellinger who had not been mentioned in the story before. On the facts that he collected did all the rest work. Now other papers are taking up the cry “Who Found Charley Ross?” The situation is furnishing amuse ment for many and jesters are won dering if the killer of Cock Robin will also turn up. The case has even a more ludicrous touch. A tabloid newspaper in New York says that the Starrs intend to exploit Ross in a movie. This story was immediately denied, but the precept remains. The world ever stands ready to make the most it can out of someone pises mis fortune. . Ross or not. Dellinger’s fu ture is not bright. He may even wish that he had kept his identity a secret for the rest of his days. First Home Of Man A Friendly Contest -— Dean Collie Believes That Africa Was The Hahitat of First Man On Earth Beloit,* Wis.—A contest between teacher and pupil is being waged by Roy Chapman Andrews noted ex plorer, and Dean George 1,. Collie, of Beloit college, to establish the home of the first man. Collie, head of ihe anthropological departin'-'it, believes Africa w:.; the habitat of the first man on earth. His former pupil Andrews seeks to prove mini first lived in Asia. The con .est. which has berni car ried orr for several years, with' An drews the most active of the two, has disclosed considerable evidence sup porting the contentions of both, but the man’s first home is still a moot I ed quest ion. I CIO noi nope in prove that Africa was the home of the first ir.an," declared Dean Collie, "hut I do hope to take some step.; which may help others to decide the ouention. "Andrew.-, is certain that man orig inal*! in Asia and has the backing ol many good scientists. As 1 told bin- a few months ago ‘Let's each one of us go to it, and see whici is the’ best guesscr.” Twenty years ago Andrews was a student at Beloit and his earliest, les ions in anthropology and archeology were gleaned from lectures by Dean Collie. Andrews was graduated ill 19015, and became a naturalist and explorer. During the last ten years he lias led three expeditions to A.-ua. Excavation in Mongolia and other Asiatic countries have unearthed specimens which Andrews thinks sub stantiate his contentions. Dean Collie will renew his studies this fall when he goes abroad to con tinue the explorations commenced by Alonso S. Pond and others working under his direction. In the Saf-Saf region, in eastern Algeria, he hopes to finds tools that will aid him in following out his theo ry that man first lived in Africa, fools found there in previous explora tions, indicate to him that man was in Africa at a very early date, even if he did not originate her®. “The nearest relatives of man in the animal world are the large apes,’ he said. “Man has not descended through these apes but they are a relatively close collateral branch of the primates. It is well known that the highest apes, the gorilla and chimpanz.ee, dwelt in Africa. If Af rica was favorable for the develop ment of the higher collateral branch of the human family there are pos sibilities that it would favor a close ly related human /aiuily.” Mr. F. O. Gee and two son* Mast ers Felix and Alex Gee, left today for a two week’s stay in Virginia visiting Mr. Gee’s purents. TRY STAR WANT ADS. Educated Lincoln Never Would— Abraham Lincoln would never have j been heard of if he had been the grad i Mate of a modern American univer I sity, declared Prof. Charles E. Rugh I of the University of California, one I of the West’s most noted educators, in an interview in which he assailed modern institutions of higher educa tion, relates a San Francisco dispatch to the New York World. “If Lincoln had had knowledge j heaped yn him in the manner that it is heaped upon modern youths,’ he Raid, “his bruin would have become so befuddled as to be useless to him.” Hugh predicted that the university of the next generation will be ns dif ferent from the present day univer sity “as night is from day.” “Modern methods of teaching,” he , said, “must he relegated to the scrap heap and replaced by some others as I yet undiscovered. j The savant contended the tedency | of American universities is to heap all kinds of “meaningless knowledge” upon a student during four years of college life, “providing him with no opportunity to integrate the informa tion thus obtained.’ “Knowledge is useful only when tabulated,” Prof. Rugh continued. “It little profits a man to have his head filled with a jumble of facts and fig ures that are not dove-tailed.” A freshman entering the university he concluded, sits passively in the class room while knowledge is heaped upon him like hay. At the end of a four year coursp he is discharged with a diploma and the advice to-“stack it himself.” Origin of Confederate Flag (County Record, Kingstree) From the Birmingham News—It may be of interest to those not fami liar with Major Oren Randolph Smith’s designing of “The Stars and Bars” to hear from his own lips through the story preserved by his daughter, about the flag. As recorded by Miss Smith, Major Smith said: “In 1801 I was living in Louisburg, N. C., and I went to my old friend, Mins Becky Murphy (now Mrs. VV. B. Winbornq, of Wilson, N. C.) and asked her to put the stitches in a little ling for me, and I tore the bars and cut the stars while she sewed. “The idea of my flag 1 took from the Trinity. Three in one. The three bars were State, church and press. “Red represented Slate: Legisla ture, judiciary and executive, White lor church: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Red for press: Freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, liberty of press, all bound together by a field of blue, the heavens over all, bearing a star for each State in the Confederation. The seven white Stars all the same size, were placed in a circle, showing that each State had equal rights and privileges, irre spective of size or population. T he circle, having neither head nor foot signified “You defend me end I’ll pro tect you.” “After the model was completed, I asked Miss Murphy to make me a large flag. 7 by 18 feet, and, it was Monday, March 18, 1861, that I raised this large flag to the top of a pole 100 feet high, on the corner of the courthouse square in Louisburg, N. C., the county seat of Franklin, N. C “The pole I made by splicing two tall saplings taken from my mother’s plantation, five miles from the town. “Over the large flag I had a long blue streamer such as an admiral uses on his ship when homeward bound, and on this I had a star for the Old North State, for though she did not secede until May 20, I knew she was homeward bound.” Played His Last Game (Twin-City Sentinel.) Alfred Jordan, said to have been at one time thee hanipion checker player of the world, ha* played his last game —and lost. Jordan ;s dead and his dying days were filled with sorrow and poverty; in fact, it is reported that he was an inmate of a Salvation Army headquarters in Washington when he made his last 'move. Strange as it may seem, men and women every day find themselves in destitute, circumstances, when but a few years ago they were enjoying the luxuries of life. They had leaped into fame overnight because of winning a gaiAe or suddenly becoming champion of a certain profession. This fume brought them money by the thous ands of dollars when before they were barely able to earn a living. This was probably the case of Jor dan who had sat for hours in a check er game “jumping men” and “crown ing kings.” The slow game requires patience, thought and perseverence. He possessed all three which gave him an unlimited number of gold medals along with money that was placed in his lap. Jordan apparently could not stand prosperity and in stead of laying aside part of his for tune, spent it lavishly and lived in luxury. The reust was htet he became a public charge and very few knew that there was a man on earth named Jordan who once held the champior ship for playing checkers. Jordan has played his last game; he has made his last move and this time the Grim Reaper proved the mas ter by “jumping” Jordan. What a pity Jordan did not save so he could have been independent when he reached old age. Burt his story is merely one of millions. Me let flattery get the best of his judgment; he 1 thought he could always be the idol of ynen but in the sporting circles the | hero of yesterday is usvally the man j who failed to win today. Lay Auto Crashes On One-Arm Driver Of Joy Ride Cars Chica go.-—Th irty -f our a uto i* ob i les spinning beautifully along the boule vard and one tf them headed lor ar. unexpected ciash. That's what the National Automobile Safety council .••ays about motor accidents—one out of every 154 gets it! And don’t put all the blame on glaring -headlights, loose steering knuckles, mechanical inefficiencies and road-burning motorist who of fer homage to Demon Speed. The younster—from 18 to 80— who is so afraid the girl he's with is go ing to fall out that he puts his arm around her to keep her safe, is re sponsible for much of the expensive repairs made by telegraph companies to put new poles along the highway, “You just can’t drive a car safely and pel a girl at (he same time,” says M. Kirkland, director of the National Automobile Safety council. And the smoker who likes to flick ashes off a five-eent stogie and blow purple rings is increasing the danger hazard. The driver who enjoys a whiff of old Virginia should realize that it is better to light the old corn cob at home than to try lighting it while at the steering wheel and spend the next few weeks in the hospital wondering what happened. Great horn-rimmed spectacle, says Kirkland, don’t help a driver any to see any better. In fact, with the horn rims obstruct ing his vision, the motorists may drive into a parked car without know ing, it was there—-at least not until lie hears the crash and begins to look around for some one to blame! Boiling Springs Has Good Rain (Special to The Star.) The crops and gardens were much 'relieved by the nice shower of rain on Monday afternoon. The B. Y. P. U. is planning to give a special program June 27, when the neighboring churches will be invited. 1 A large crowd is expected to attend. ! Mr. I>. J. Hamrick left last week for Wake Forest to attend summer school. Mrs. J. R. Greene and children Mary Elizabeth and Phil, are spen I ing some time in Chapel Hill as the guests of Mrs. Greene's parents. Mr. John Mintz spent Sunday in Boone. Misses Lucile Buchanan and Malina | Jolley and Mr. Ralpti Holland motor ed to Chimney Rock Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Tilden Grigg of'Shel by were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Unie Hamrick. The Attie Bostick circle of the W. M. U. will meet with Mrs. D. J. Ham rick Thursday afternoon. Mrs. M. A. Jolley was hostess t>o the Tongues and Needles club 'aft Friday afternoon. After an enjoy-1 able hour of sewing, the club went in to a business meeting. Suggestions were made for the club ; to organize which would be beneficial j to the community. This being left open for discussion in the next meet ing, the business was concluded. T)ur-! ing the social hour, the hostess as-! sisted by Miss Magel Ledford served | tempting refreshments. A nether danger about carrying j whisky is that they may get you for i impersonating an officer. ■ ' | ,-Miss F.lizabeth Ebeltoft spent Mon-1 day in Charlotte. , I DR. H. D. WILSON f Eye Specialist And Optometrist 28 Years Experience. Prices Reasonable. Office at Paul Webb’s Drug Store. * IF YOUR HEAD ACHES, LOOK INTO A MIRROR Depressed? Sapping back? Lagging a littlte Look into a mirror. What do your eyes say? Tired and strained, eh? Better have them examin ed. If you are wearing glass es, do they sag—seem off center and out of true? In either case come here and let us give you accurate ly fitted, comfortable and be coming glasses. Dr. D. M. Morrison Next To Kelly Clothing Co. Telephone 585. SHELBY, N. C. * ... .. • Watl-HoHnnd Invitations Issued. T!ie following handsomely engravefl invitations have been issued: Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Pegran* Holland request the honor of your presence a> the marriage of their daughter, Eugenia to Mr. Charles M'. Wall jr., on Wednesday evening June IfOth, 1926, at 8:;J0 o’clock, Blue Flow er Garden, Shelby, North Carolina. This wedding will be a beautiful culmination of the four June weddings of four of Shelby’s^ lovely young wo men. Miss Holland and Mr. Wall will marry in the lovely flower garden „[ Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Suttle whiciT£i!( be a charming setting for this ha,.]» event. Miss Holland Is one of She*, by's most gifted young womeir being a musician of much note and also composer of no mean ability. She U a distinct tvpe of a beautiful blonde and has one of the most delightful personalities imaginable. She is tb? only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. p. Holland and is one of Shelby’s favor ite daughters. A wonderful little piano that’s amazingly small and inexpensive YOU’LL be astonished to know that the diminutive Wurlitzer Studio Piano is only three feet, eight inches high. And it is but slightly wider than its standard keyboard. Yet, from this dainty, compact little instrument conies a rich resonance you’d expect to find only in much larger and much more costly pianos. It has the same bell-like quality of trine that has made Wurlitzer famous for over a century. Its price is only 5295 anti up. You can have it with Player action for as little as 5-M5. Prices f. o.b. Fac tory. Come in and see and hear the Studio Piano. H't will gladly arrange tervi i cer.veuient It ytu. W. A. PENDLETON, “The Music Shop.” Shelby - Rutherfordton WHAT TIME IS IT? I low many times a day do you ask it? How many times a day are you asked the Time? Everyone needs a watch, it is an every day necessity. It is as important as your meals. A watch, in fact is the guide that keeps you in instant touch with your daily affairs. Without your Watch you are lost, you do not know what to do, you fail to keep your appointments, you are late with your affairs. No .man of any importance can afford to be without a good Watch. Perhaps you prefer a Strap Watch for “Sports” PwL+rw«f 'rin^s- . Pf you may prefer a fine locket Watch with which to keep tab on your af lairs. One of those handsome “thin models” as sleeK as a greyhound and as accurate as a chro /intw +piuCr of mechanism as can be matinee.. Get a Watch for Summer wear, you will <?.‘* lhc Motor Trip or on the links as well as fort“s£rt?’nrSRU Wiil need a good Watch whether loi opoits or Business wear. ( ome in and look them over, you will find a splendid assortment of the Country’s finest makes. George Alexander JEWELER . SHELBY
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