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Slid (EUvdnnd MM Published Tri-Weekly. £t*r Building1, No. 1 E. Marion Street Sth Iby, N. C. Monday, Weo lesday and Friday. Subscription Pries. By mail, per year-$2 5il By carrier, per year --J3.00 Ths Star Publishing Company, Inc. USE B. WEATHEKS_President RENN DR'uM_Local Editsr Entered as second class matter January i, itfOO, at the postoffice at fchelby, North Carolina, under the Ar.t of Congress, March 3, 1879. Wo wish to call your attention to the fact thtt it is, and has been our custom co charge five Cents per line for resolutions of respect, carls of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This Will be strictly adhered to. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1920. TWINKLES Babson and David Clark both agree lhat the textile industry is in for better times. So might it be. By the time babies get to be three year old models, they are introduced into society nowa days. Petting and necking shorten life, says a physical director. No doubt about them shortening married life. A Minnesota editor praises a club girl who won a prize “for her extraordinary fine pair of calves.” Bovine or human? At least we won’t have to wait so lonur in the “bobber” shoos since Shelby has 49 chairs with in the corporate limits. The safest place in the world for pedestrians in Mesopotamia, where thei’e are only four auto mobiles in the whole country. When a prisoner told a New York magistrate that he waswol > a burglar, but “the champion long distance Charleston dancer of the world.” the wise judge held him without bail. A Boston man is trvmg to natent a square doughnut While it is hard to fit a round peg in a square hole, it may be possible to fit a round hole in a square doughnut. Twenty nine years ago a party of young Shelby people repre senting “"allaptrv and beauty” os Clvde Hoev nut it. “buggied” t"> Chimnev Rock. Times haven’t changed except in the manner of travel. INDEPENDENCE American people have an in born habit gf independence of Ihought and action. It is ckri - roteristlc? ft#1! them. Down a1 Ahoskie<*!rlmoil town in E.vt ern Carolina, the congregation of a certain chu*vh wanted to build a new church building which is reeded. They disagreed over the site and abandoned the idea for several years until the congregation can unite. So of ten various organizations are dis rupted by disagreement. Some times the disagreement is over which bank funds shall be de posited in or which post office the letters shall be mailed at. Isn’t that an American charac Rteristic? It’s a fine trait at times, but too often it retards progress. NAMING THE SCHOOLS No one could raise anv valid objection to the action of the city school board in naming the city schools after the heroes of the revolutionary war. Our streets are so named as our town and county took their names from two men who helped win the battle at Kings Mountain which resulted in our independence. This gives us a reason, and a just one, to follow the war hero name sake idea and the very fact that our principal streets have been given the names of revolution arv war leaders, has brought no little attention to the town. It should be borne in mind there fore, that South Shelby school is hereafter to be known as Morgan school; the Eastside school vWbere a handsome new building 4a being erected is officially eall Bson school; the new edi lorth Shelby between ton and LaFavette ikes the name of Wash while the gramma' ilding erected during to meet an emergency is to be known as school. TO LASH OR NOT TO LASH I “To lash or not to lash’’ is a perplexing problem among the prison camps in North Carolina. From some sections come the re port that prisoners refuse to work, defy the boss and lay down on the job of working while serv-j ing time. One superior court judge has gone so far as to say that he believes the corporal punishment should be prohibited.' If it comes to that, the criminals of the state might as well be turned scot free. Pardon Com missioner Sink is eternally right when he declares that to spare the rod will spoil the prisoners. There is a vast difference be tween punishment and cruelty. No one wants to see the unruly and rebellious prisoners cruelly treated but when they deliberate-* l.v rebel and defy the camp au thorities, they should be punish- , ed and the law and courts should! determine whether or not such I punishment has been inhurrtan,! cruel and unjust. It is possible to get camp superintendents who know when to punish and how far to go with it if political pre ferment is forgotten in their selection. LEST WE FORGET Just inside the western en trance to (he court house, there stand-! a tall wooden bulletin board, painted white. The paint is slowly cracking away. The thirty names painted on it are gradually fading and dimming, as the memory of the boys these names stood for fades in the mind of the county. Yet they re presented the one-time flower of Cleveland, a flower that bloomed but to die. Nearly eight years ago, the bulletin was erected in memory of the gallant band of boys that gave their lives for the promo tion of democracy. Thirteen of them went to their last resting places with German bullets in Iheir bodiesseventeen yielded to the diseases and hardships that inevitably accompany war. No matter that the cause for which they sacrificed their all is today clouded with the greed and the animosities of nations; they are all heroes. And as heroes they deserve that their memory shall be bet ter perpetuated than by a wood en board. As their names are obliterate^, there is obliterated 'also another memory—^hat of a great cause which inspired a united America in the last days of a world struggle. Several times plans have bee-, discussed to cast these names on a tablet of imperishable metal. Nothing came of it. for what is everybody’s business is nobody’s business. At one time, concrete designs for a copper memorial were drawn up. Yet there is nothing to show for therp. W’hy? INGRATITUDE "I will tell you an incident in i human life,” said a later-day philosonhe".” IIrm-v .Topes walk " •' 1% , yf .Tlr-l SI --->»-f Vl V)js i,- i -nd f-md; “Smith. I just tv down the street and he w <s krocking the devil out of , ., c*..:-i -0ll (he meanest ... ■ (ho world.” V hereupon, Smith, after a vcor e-fs thought, replied: “1 don’t know why Brown should bo knocking me. I never | did hiih a favor.” i * * * A wise and experienced and , shrewd man of Shelby stopped ! the writer on Warren street (within a few steps of his office) ; Tuesday morning1 and right out of a dear sky, without prelim i inarm i, propounded this query: “Whv is it if you do a man a | favor the tendency is you lose ibis friendship? Why is it that, if a man owes you money and doesn’t pay it. sooner or later he comes to regard you somehow as his enemy? “If you remind him of the debt he resents it, and if you sue him. he monies to hate you. Why is that?” The query in one form or anot her is as old as man. and nrohablv man has been acting in a wav to prompt it since the be ginning. (jet us siy there are three answers: Voltaire said: “Man is inherently a beast.” We will discard that one, notwithstand ing that beasts sometimes, ac cording to old tales, do show gratitude—as witness the fable of the mouse and the lion. For answer number two we will quote Emerson. The New Englander said: “Self reliance is man’s basic virtue, and he re sents any condition which tends to rob him of it.” If you stop to consider, that is pretty wise doctrine—man dees seem inher ently to resent you giving him anything, or making life in any way easier for him. For answer number three we will turn to Carlyle. This wise! Scotchman said, in his essay on Burns, that you can actually do little or nothing for a man, that he must do it all for himself. And if you attempt to force any j other condition upon his than i the law of his being, you work 1 him ill. Put these three thoughts to gether and you get this compos ite answer to the riddle: First: —that man is inherently pretty j rotten to start with; (M. Veil-! taire believing evidently in the | doctrine of original sin;) second-; ly, a man likes to feel strong and I conquering, and not weak andt futile, and a gift, or a loan, cr| a favor operates to make him feel ineffectual, setting up what Freud calls an inferiority com plex; and thirdly, that rightly looked at you ca;s really do nothing for a man, and if you at tempt to. you are due to get the worst of the bargain. All of which sounds pretty complex, in asmuch as we are admonished, as a prime requisite of well be ing, to serve humanity and to live for others, loving them as ourself. But no matter what the psy chology explanations may be, ac tually and practically, man ex hibits nd more despicable trait of character than ingratitude. If you do a man k favor, whether that be the extension of credit or otherwise a sense of common de cency would, it seems, impel him to return it in kind. That few do is the common experience of ntjjnkind. Henry Ford is pretty wise in the ways of human nature, and it is is his practice directly to do nothing for humanity, but to put hurfvinity in a position to help itself. He has solved the riddle of helning people in a wray that the individual may benefit and yet keep his self respect. If he gave or loaned money indiscriminate ly, as many think a rich mar. should, the chances are he would reap such a crop of enemies as man never had. GETS 70 BUSHELS OF BARLEY PER ACRE Gastonia.—Three and one-half acr es planted in barley last spring by L. A. Barbee, of Lincolnton, have pro an acre, or a duced an average yield of 70 bushel.' an acre, or a total yield of 244 bushels, reports County Agent L. B. Altman. This is a better yield than for any small grain grown on Mr. Barbee’s farm, declares the agent, although he threshed 540 bushels of wheat from a field of 24 acres. Even this yield is above the average, says Mr. Altman. Overstated “I gave you,” said the discharged employee, “the best five years of my life!” "Were those your best?” asked the merchant in surprise. Graham Brothers Trucks are built to endure. That is why they make such mile age, last so long—and sell so readily to careful buyers. [Qraham Brothers Trucks with Dodge 1 Brothers %-Ton Commercial Cars, I meet 90% of all hauling requirements. J CHAS. E. LAMBETH, MpTQR COMPANY, SHELBY BRANCH * South LaFayette St. — Shelby, N. C. Graham Brothers SOLD BY DODOS BROTHERS DEALERS everywhere TRUCKS Who Said Low Price? Goodrich Radio Balloon We have the tires, we have the prices that make them wonderful money-savers for local motorists. Think of getting a tire built in the great Goodrich fac tories, at prices like these! Gome in and see with your own eyes these handsome, sturdy, dependable Good rich RADIO CORDS. READ THESE! SIZES PRICES 30x3£ Reg. Clincher ...... $7.95 30x3 i Oversize Cl. ..$8.75 31x4 . $13.20 32x4.$14.f>0 32x4 h .$19.05 33x4-J.. $20.65 SIZES PRICES 33x5 .. $25.00 29x4.40 . $9.85 30x5.25.$15.35 30x5.77 .$19.40 31x5.25 . $16.00 33x6.00...x..$20.45 Mauney Auto Supply Co., Inc. SHELBY, N. C. J. C. McNeely Just Back From New ir -'.'liftR/I if > .ri t , With A Great Stock Of Merchandise Composing The New Fall And Winter Styles For Women. Unquestionably The Greatest Display Ever Shown Here. McNeely’s WILL TAKE IT’S PLACE HENCE FORTH AS THE FASHION HEAD QUARTERS OF SHELBY^ n -i»5itrK Watch Monday’s Star FOR DETAILS OF THE NEW STYLES AND MATERIALS. J. C. McNeely Company
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