3ilw £ le vel a nil Published Tri-Weokly. Star Building, No. 1 E. Marion Street Shvlby, N. C. Monday, Wwnesday and Friday. Subscription Price. By mail, per year_ $2 50 By carrier, per year_f.'i.OO The Star Publishing Company, Inc. LEE B. WEATHEItf_Presided EENN DRUM _JL Local Editor Entered as second class matter January 1, 3906, at the postotfice at Utelby, 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 custom to charge five cents per lino for resolutions of respect,* cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one deatn notice has been published. Thif will be strictly adhered to. FRIDAY, .JUNE 18, I92G. TWINKLES.. How much .summer pleasure is there in 142,000 pounds of ice? Shelby folks used that much to cool off last Saturday. The Vancouver Star says: “The guy who said the lesser cannot contain the greater has never worked in a woman’s shoe store.” Second primary candidates in this county may find a friendlier people now than (hiring the cam* paigning in the first primary, seeing as how it has rained. It’s a dull week when a new realty development office doesn’t open in Shelby; and some day if the thing keeps up Shelby will have to build another office building—mebbe. Local clothiers ask us to pass along to the college boys the ad vice of James Selvage, Charlotte News columnist, that clothing stores still sell hats and hose supporters. Why not have Shelby’s first half-day closing this summer, on next Friday when luncheon club' members will be the guests of the town at Cleveland Springs? It would give more people time to play the role of hosts. Real dirt farmers, such as Corn Cracker relates of in The Star today, are the ones who made Cleveland county famous as an agricultural leader. All they have needed was the press agenting and now comes the venerable ex-school teacher to the rescue. It is noted that Frank Grist is giving many folks employ ment. Perhaps that’s why the “Help Wanted’’ columns of stale newspapers are Pot crowded any “ more. Rut there’s a wide gap be tween the call for labor as heard in such dispatches and in the ac tual demand as seen in news paper columns. Hereafter at election tijtne when the candidates toll of the the outcome ahead one may use the predictions in the Overmen Reynolds race and thereby de rive an estimate of the ballot count. Overman’s manager miss ed the result bv near 20,000 votes and “Our Bob’’ was not “Our Bob’’ to near 75,000 folks he thought he would be. JUST AN APPEAL. Early in next month a second primary will be held in Cleveland county. Following the last pri mary it was some time before the official count of votes was received—through the fault of no one in particular. This appeal is, therefore, to the various judges and regis trars over the county. After the official vote is counted Saturday j night, have it ready to be sent in to the county election board early Monday morning so that the official county vote may be computed. By following this plan i it will he possible to announce ] the official vote by Monday aft ernoon and prevent the spread ing of rumors that certain can didates have w°n, or lost. R is likely that The Star will compute unofficial returns Sat iii'day night as was done on the first primary and the valued as sistance of voting precinct: offi ciate will bp highly appreciated in petting the vote early in the night so that waiting crowds hete may get an idea as to the! outcome. ---*•-HISTORY OF AN IDBAl/i How many Americans know! anything of Simon Bolivar, the, George Washington of South! I American freedom? How many I know that it was his brave stand ' against threatening oppressions of European despots that preeip j dated President Monroe’s great l declaration of American inviola j bility? Bolivar, a dissipated younp South American nobleman, read lour Declaration of Independent' i while recuperating from a period t rf drunken orpins, and was seiz j ed with the ambition of uniting i the stricken countries rtf his con tinent in a union that might com j with our United States. He I failed, even though his failure ' was glory—he was beaten by t he l"e!< of homogeneity* in races that had no common basis for such an alliance, but in his fail ure h<> set an example to would be diplomats that should be bet ter b'jmieb todiiv Simon Bolivar’s last words were. “I have plowed the seas.” "is ideals were beautiful, hut impractical, due to the opposing r-'cial characteristics of the peo ples with which he had to deal. And for the same reason, t bO league of nations, beautiful as it mav seem in principle, is falling apart today because rations ri*o unable to forget their age-old animosities 'md selfishness for *he good of the entire race. Tt is human nat ure. It always will he human nature. And '*Hbnu«,h the league is a child of the hrn>n of our greatest American states man. one who gave his life for the spread of bs doctrines, it js •incip^rosfui. Sad it seems that civilization has not yet re«chc i '*'■ !'"i' of eooc.p hnd good-will. Woodrow Wilson but “plowed the seas.” THEY LIKE SHELBY. Shelby is selling well. It is an easy task, one of rnt triotie origin, to believe that your home town is one that will carry a fine appeal to the out sider. Sometimes it is haul to fathom whv outsiders can pass through and not be detained per manently by lures of the town a native knows so well. Natives rf practically all towns feel that way, which comes even more natural than rising to the feet for the “Star Spangled Banner.” But the real test comes when outsiders display marked impr est in the town. Shelby had a goodly amount of her boosting ( keyed this week. A visiting del egation of Floridians express themselves as being favorably impressed with “The City of Springs.” Thev displayed no sur prise at the storv of Shelby’s re markable growth, and on the other hand seemed to feel that future growth, that of the next year or so. would surpass the rapid growth of the past few years. % All of which is good. But. there is another method of selling a town other than chamber of commerce advertising. It is: Personal contact and hospitality. Which does not mean.that Shel by was unhospitable to the Flei i da visitors. So far as is known every courtesy possible was shown 4iie Clearwater visitors, but Shelby is known as a friend ly town and it will necessitate going out of the way a bit to up held this reputation, that, in fact, is the best building asset nf nnv town. Next week several hundred of the leading business nien of the serf ion, coming fro mahout one half dozen surrounding towns, will take a half-day vacation at Cleveland Springs. It’s no obli gatory gathering and no effort will be made to sell Shelby, but the oroper courtesy shown to wards entertaining these prom inent visitors will mean much to the town. Tf the 'isitors next i week are favorably impressed with Shelby thev will m time to; come be "ood advertising modi-' urns for Shelby At some future time many of them may be ask-j ed about Shelby by prospective citizens or investors. If the in quiring ones ere told that “Shel bv is a friendly, hospitable place with sociable, open-minded citi zens” the best advertisement that co"M be written will have been said. The visitors of next week will be entertained along many lines and >t is up to Shelby folks to see that no one fails to enjoy the occasion. That’s the proper way to soil a town. Industry and climate rank below citizenship on the list of growing assets. LEWIS AND THE BABBITTS. (Liberty Magazine.) Sinclair Lewis has visualized a Main Street vod and defied it to strike him dead Added to that ho has refused the Pulitzer prize of $1,000 for the best novel of 1925 on the theory that $1,000 Is a sum large enough to 'corrunt writers and Influence their writ ings. Lewis who writes rather bor ing books about dull people, ij !a result of sending a Sauk Cen ter boy to Yale and grafting so phomoric atheism upon contempt i for Corn Belt culture. He is an acute example of the boy whose people sacrifice and work that he i may be educated and succeed only in making him feel to good to associate with the home folks. His gesture in defying God is ! reminiscent of the small-town I bravo who, after telling a lie, says he hopes “God may strike him dedd” if it isn’t true. If is own idea of God is ouite as ridi culous as is the god he pictures Main Street as worshipping. It 1 is no more like the true God. an the devout see Him, than Lew’s* small town characters are like the real ones. Some authors appear to deve l op the god-eornplex easily and to mistake the results of their good publicity work and salesmanship j for the proof of divine genius. After a few sessions with the mutual admiration association of successful writers, the ton denev is to deny Providence any credit for their talents. They forget that special skill in laying bricks, selling automo biles, building bridges, digging ditches, or organizing for the improvement of cities and towns, is quite as muehra talent as com i pcsing best sellers. i I hey tor pet also that skill ih i mitring words together dees not necessarily carry with it greater j wisdom or sounder judgment. It 1 simply confers upon writers the i m ivilepe of paining a wider hear ing for their notions, which may he and often are, very thin in deed. The professional write'r of the lewis tvpc gives this writer a ! sharp, distinctly localized pain. Main Street and Babbitt, used as contemptuous synonyms for the average American town and the average business man, indicate the assumption of superiority by ( a class largely unessential an i partly parasitical. The American business man is one of the most ingenious and intelligent*human beings th° world has ever ^een. For all their great skill in the use of words. Socrates lived in a kimonr in a warm climate, and Shakes neare lived in a state of bodilv filth and tUscomport of domicile that any American clerk would deem barbarous. The business man developing the inventions of theinventor is most responsible for this change. The celebrated proletarians had little if any thing to do with it Thev merely obeyed orders and their orders i came from the Babbitts. The Babbitts put shoes on Mr.! Lewis’ feet a hat on his head and gave him all the garments in between. They built the build ings of the university he attend ed and endowed them. They handed him a typewriter for less than $100 and gave him copy paper at considerably less than a cent a sheet. They carried news of his defiance of God across the country over their telegraph! wires, printed it in their newspa- j pers. and distributed it through nut onnnfrv If the posturings of Lewis are ; to attract attention to himself and to his hooks, he is a stood Montebank. Look at the space he is drawing here. Tf he actually believes he is better or more useful than the Babbitt, he’s a chumn. The Bab bitts are indispensable to our civilisation—and Lewis is not. CHAPMAN-NORMAN MARRIAGE I SOLEMNIZED AT BELWOOD ! (Special to The Star.) A marriage of great interest was that of Miss Fannie Belle Norman and Mr. Bynum Cnapman which was sol emnized Wednesday afternoon June 16th at 2 o’clock at the Methodist par sonage in Bel wood . The wedding was a ouiet affair and the ceremony was performed by Rev. J. M. Morgan pastor of the bride in the presence of a gathering of only the immediate families. The bride was beautifully dressed in a costume of lariat crepe, trimmed in silver gray with accessories to match. Mrs. Chapman is very popular and has a charming personality, having taught in the public schools for sev eral years, she has numbered her friends by the score. Mr. Chapmun formerly of Murphy, is now engaged in the mail service at this place. Mr. Chapman is a broth er of Walter M. Chanman of Shelby. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and groom left for their honey moon going to ihe mountains of Ncith Carolina. If Lipton does come again—and win a yacht race this time—some body will howl about his expense ac ■ourrt* !;,r t; ... , * > We shudder ty what.scigntists would reconstruct if thev should dig up some well-known skulls of this age. I Lawndale Route 1 Events Of Interest (Special to The Star.) Lawndale, R-l, June 16.— As 1 have not seen anything from this part of the state in a long time I will try to let the people know what we are do ing. We are feeling mighty • bad at present on account of dry weather, a good rain sure would niuke a big change in the people for we aie | very dry through this section. Mr. Sam Davis and family spent last Sunday with his brother Mr. Dor man Davis near Latiimore. Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. McMurry vis ited Mrs. McMurry’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Rob Carter of Lincolnton las*. Sunday. Mr. Walter Hull and family of Dou ble Shoals spent Sunday with Mr. John Hudson. Mr. Will Heavner and wife and two children of Polkville spent Sunday wifh Mr. and Mrs. John P. Peeler. Mr. Carl Smart of Beams Mill vis ited his parents Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smart last Sunday. Mrs. R. E. Shuford spent last Sun day with Mr. Robert Crowder. Mrs. Sam Smart spent Sunday with Mrs. Creola Peeler. Mr. Robert Shuford visited his son, Garland Shuford of near Hollis last Sunday. Mrs. W. J. Powell spent last Mon day with Mrs. Jno. F. Peeler. Dir. and Mrs., Charlie Randall at tended a birthday dinner at Mrs. Randall’s father, Mr. James Digh last Sunday at Lawndale. HLEASE TRIES TO HALT U. S. JOINING THE WORLD COURT Washington, June 1?.—Another ef fort to block American membership in the World Court was made today bv Senator Blease, Democrat, South Carolina. He presented a resolution, which was laid aside under the rules. re questing the president and secretary of State to take no further action to ward the League of Nations or join ing the so-called World Court until further orders from the American people or the United States Senate.. HALF DOLLAR TAKEN FROM GIRL’S THROAT Washington.—Removal of a half dol lar from the throat of a 14-year-oid girl by surgeons of the university of ! Maryland hospital prevented her from choking to death. The girl, Helen Clandaniel of Stevensville, Md., is ! now entirely recovered. The opera tion, which was extremely delicate, was performed with a esophagoscope, an instrument with a small pair of pliers at the end. ' Florida-Shelby Party V Two Sections Ma; Asheville, Juno 1?.—Seeking places for Florida residents and Florida vis itors to pass the summer months, nine Florida men, including R. G. Law rence, motor secretary of the Clear water chamber of commerce, arrived in Asheville Wednesday The party Mr. Lawrence said, is exploring West ern North Carolina to obtain infor mation for Florida motorists and vac ationists. N. B. Hansplant, executive vice president of the Clearwater chamber of commerce, will tell radio lisieners in of Western North Carolina and of the Florida party from station WGHB t Wednesday evening. Mr. Lawrence said: “Although I have lived in the South virtually all mv life and had known of Asheville and Heudersbnville, I had no idea this mountain country was so ! wonderful," Mr. Lawrence continued: “What you need is to tell the w. rhj j of yourselves and of what you have. You ought particularly to send out definite and complete information concerning the motor routes of this region. Hundreds of north-and-south ! motorists avoid your section because they know it is mountainous and know nothing more. The existence of the mountains causes them to suppose it is difficult to traverse. “There are thousands in Florida who will spend this summer in West ern North Carolina if they are told what you have here. And the mem bers of our party will do their best to spread this information. In turn, we want your folks to know what a delightful place Florida is in winter.” The party, traveling Dy automomie, came to Asheville by way of Hamlet and Shelby. Its members expect to leave late Wednesday for Wa.vnes ville, to return to Ashevilfe Thurs day, and to go back to Florida by way of Shelby and Charlotte, Mr. Law rence said. Dreams Of A Fire And Leaps To Death Greenville, S. C., June 17.— Dreaming that he heard someone yelling “fire” so frightened an un identified man, believed to be Jack Extipe, that he leaped to his death from the second story win dow of (he Alexandria hotel. He awoke suddenly and dived through a screen as lie" passed through. Landing on the roof of the front porch, he ran to the edge and jumped to the pavement below. He died a few hours later. Hr told ambulance attendants that he had heard someone yell ing “fire” and upon awakening lie jumped out of the window. isits Asheville; / Cooperate In Boosti-ig White Girl And Negro Held For Murder Of Baby Wilmington, Del., June 17.—A y(,unK white woman and a negro were held on charges of murder tonight in con ; ncction with the finding in a creek near Henderson, Md., last Sunday, ot a body of a male baby. 1 he iody wa. found in a burlap bag, weighed down with stones. The woman. Edna Edwards also known as Edna Reed, who admitted she was the mother of the child, was arrested in Denton, Md., yesterday. Lee Harris, the negro, wa taken into ; custody today following the girl s statement to autobirities that Harris threw the child into the water while still alive “because he feared it was his.” She admitted carrying the baby to the creek with the negro. She gave the boy to him, turned her back, and did not know what became of him. I afterwards, she said. Harris denied jail knowledge of the affair. Sleeping With Head Toward The North , The Uplift. Some more propaganda has been turned loose by several scientists. Several Frenchmen have discovered (?) a remedy for insomnia. Very learnedly they advise placing youi bed with the head towards the North Pole. Why, that idea has been well known | for fifty or more years. The late ; Prof. Ludwig, of Mt. Pleasant, in his day the very foremost and most scholarly mathematician, maintained that sleeping with the head to the north was right and proper. It is said that if you take a boy and sus pend him by a pliable and freely moving rope tied around his waist, I so as to balance him, and giving him a swing his body, when it comes to a rest will stop wdth the hoy’s head to the north. We suppose, if this experi ment be tried out south of the equator, the head will point to the South Pole. Those French scientists are fifty years behind Mt. Pleasant. Series Of Meetings On At Dover Church Series of meetings began Wednes day night at the Dover Baptist church. The services are being conducted by the pastor, Rev. I). F. Putnam and a welcome is extended to every one in the city. The hours of the services will be at 7:30 each night. (Continued from first page.) /_______ FORMER DEPUTY DE IDES TO TO REMAIN OUT OF RUN-OFF .nent of withdrawal by Mr. Dixon: “My first impulse after the recent primary was to request under the law a second race. In this feeling I was greatly influenced by the desire o: my loyal friends and the high am bition which I have entertained in serve ns sheriff of my county, but after thinking seriously I am con vinced that it would be for the best interest of the Democratic party and all concerned if 1 withdraw and per mit Sheriff Logan to be nominated without further contest. In this con nection I want to express my ever lasting appreciation to my fri#nds for their support, confidence and good will, especially do I want to impress upon my home people of number nine township my deep appreciation for the great vote they gave me. I shall never forget their faith and trust in me. 1 also want to thank those who have insisted upon my making a race and I want to assure them that I am not unmindful of their friendship, hut I have weighed the situation care fully and it is my best judgment to accept the results of the first primary and to abide with confidence the ver dict of my people. E. W. DIXON. Tells Of First Name Of Kings Mountain Kings Mt. Herald. Attorney Stonewall Durham was ■ in town the other day and in discussing the early history of the town he said it was first called “Traceyville.” The name, he said, was given by the rail road company in honor of his grand father. Dr. Tracey. He soul his grandmother, Mrs. Tracey, was oppos ed to the name on the principle that ;t was not a good thing to name a town after some living person. Mr. Durham said there was considerable correspondence between the Traceys and the railroad company until the name was changed to Kings Moun tain at the suggestion of Mrs. Tracey. He said that the correspondence re mained in the family until some year ago when the old home was burned Mr. Durham considers it a most for tunate turn in the tide of the com munity when the town took the name of the mountain on whch the great battle was fought and won, as it gav e the town a historical setting and value that the first name could never have done, even though the name of Dr. Tracey is still famous among the settlers. ■f' If you rather lick your partner than joni with him in getting the business, it’s a cinch you aren’t a Re publican. CLEVELAND SPRINGS ESTATES — THE YEAR ROUND HOMELAND WWHW.VWftS\WAV.,AVAWyAWWWWWily, N. C., Royster Bldg. 1