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THE CLEVELAND STAR Shelby, N. C. Monday, Wednesday and Friday Subscription Price l*y Mai], per year _ -- $2.50 By Carrier, per year ________$5.00 The Star Publishing Company, Inc. LEE B. WEATHERS -.—....— President RENN DRUM . „.-------- - Petal Editor Entered as second class matter January 1, 1005, at the postofficc pt Shelby, 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 ■Or custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards •f thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been pub lished. Thia will be strictly udhered to. FRIDAY, JAN. 21, 1927. TWINKLES v Independence in some persons is nothing more than ig norant stubbornness. Ike, of Casar, may be responsible for the thought that women think of men before marriage and for them after. Life has its fanciful pranks. A man serving a lifetime term in Sing Sing has a big fortune waiting for him in a New York bank. As for advice, there are about a dozen colored fellows out on the chain gang who can tell you that it doesn’t pay to take the other fellows coal and chickens. , Arthur Brisbane, tho great editor, asks the general public for its opinion of prohibition. The several thousand “speak-easies” located in his remarkable city of New York should be a good answer for him from one side at least. It’s a pretty good world: Shelby doctors say the general health of the town is the best in several winters and under takers report the lowest death rate yet. He who wouldn’t smile over that is a real pessimist. The Hoey Oratorical contest is only a week off and win ning the Hoey medal is about the biggest achievement for Cleveland county high school boys. Although only one can win this year it is a pretty sure thing that at least a dozen youngsters are now grooming themselves to be that one. A news item from Washington says that 305,985 people are in the employ of the postal service. Doesn't it seem that with all that many folks working for him Uncle Sam might get two swinging doors at the postoffice here that some body other than an athlete might open? NOT SO RAD. A review of Shelby’s growth during 1926, being prepar ed in this office for an industrial survey of the state, shows that during the year $885,009 was spent for construction in the town. Approximately $150,000 of that, amount went into residences, a considerable sum was for business buildings, and the rest was for municipal and school impprovements. So, after all, it wasn’t such a bad year, and business values will continue to be sound in any town under 10,000 population that can record a near million dollar construction program every year. Don’t be afraid to buy a lot. When $150,000 goes into building homes every year lots will stead ily increase in value, and a home on the lot will nearly always be in demand. ONE OF THE REASONS. There are those who unthinkingly wonder why at times money seems scarce and “times get hard.” In a news dis patch from Raleigh is one of the very plain explanations. The modern world lives just a little too fast for its incomb and own good. The Raleigh dispatch says that foe every working day of 1926 North Carolinians spent a quarter of a million dol lars for automobiles. Read that ovi r again and perhaps, like the jazz-song of a passing generation, you'll understand “where the money goes.” A quarter of a million do lars daily for autos in a state that boasts none too great a number of income tax payers ; a state that cannot afford an eight-month school term to edu cate its children. That times are so good seems to be a remarkable cir cumstance. IN NEW STRUCTURE. It is to be wondered what the late J. I*. Caldwell would think of The Statesville Landmark in its new location, which is to say that this week The Landmark and Statesville Daily, published by P. A. Bryant, moved into a new and modern newspaper home, fully equipped to serve a growing section of readers. In 1880 J. P. Caldwell, whose story will be told about North Carolina newspaper offices for Several generations yet, bought The Landmark after it had changed hands several times in its six years. There for a dozen years the great Caldwell first established the reputation as the peer of North Carolina editors. Then when he moved on to The Charlotte Observer Caldwell sold the plant to R. R. Clark, who started as a youth in his print shop. Several years ago Mr. Clark, who ranks close to Caldwell in his reputation as an editor, sold The Landmark to P. A, Bryant, who has since establish ed The Statesville Daily and made of it a success. For 47 years The Landmark—and when folks in Iredell and several surrounding counties see it in The Landmark it’s so—has been under the control of only three men and the statement may be taken literally and exact—no man, no party, no whim and no graft has had to do with its policy. And the news , paper convictions of the three have differed very little. Caldwell was not rich when he gave The Landmark its statewide reputation; Clark started in the printshop, and Bryant, as it is remembered, worked about the presses a barefoot boy in the summers earning enough money to send him back to the university in the winters. And today from that beginning the newspaper home for The Landmark and its succesful offspring, The Daily, stands as a goal marking cohsiderable achievement built upon the consistency, hard work, fearlessness and an uncqualed newspaper code of three men. A VICTORY FOR YOUTH. . It was a Canadian and not an American that swam the • Catalina channel and copped Wrigley’s $25,000 prize, but somehow one is glad that the heretofore unknown Toronto boy, press-agented as swimming for a widowed mother, won instead of some of the women wearing axle-grease costumes, or one of the professional swimmers among the men. Just why Wrigley offered the sum of money for the swim is not known, unless it was for publicity purposes, and „ who or what will benefit by the achievement seems a blank, but as the victory was recorded it holds out something for youth to strive for, rather to incite youth to achievement. George Young, the winner, was the son of a Scotch lal>or t and late years his widowed mother cooked and washed to >arn a livelihood. To enter the race the youth borrowed his nother’s last $80 and rode a motorcycle to California. En oute Wrigley himself lent the boy $60 to help him along in lis journey, little thinking at the time that he would later five him the big prize. That was the background for the | ictory of the new swimming champion. Had you ever heard \ <f him before he crawled out of the cold water a winner?! )o you suppose anyone expected him to win, an unknown— i mere boy who came in on a motorcycle while the champs u rived in special Pullman compartments? Hardly. Young vith a part of the money will take the widowed mother to 'alifornia where she may have life a bit easier. In the victory with its rather interesting background here is a moral of life even more interesting. You can’t over tell at the beginning of a race. Old, experienced swim mers with expensive trainers and reputations did not get the f.25,000, and the shabbily clad boy you see selling papers on the street, driving a delivery truck, or riding a bicycle for a iving may get considerably farther in life than the well dressed boy with name, money and influence. That’s one of the bright things about life and youth in this country of ours. The young channel victor stuck doggedly to it and won because to him winning meant everything and losing meant nothing Out quitting. That incentive is the difference that often counts between the boy that works on the street and the one that by circumstances is permitted to idle there. Southern Beauties Are All Wet; Our Girls Paint Faces Too Much Charlotte Observer. i The ancient and time-honored theory that the south is the home ot feminine pulchritude is a myth. No more the blush of natural charm suffuses the cheeks of our g.rls. No more the traditional al lurement of shy reserve can coax the chivalry of the nation to their feet. The Broadway girl has stolen her stuff. Miss Lucy Adams, of New York, health education secretary of (he national Y. W. C. A. and one n a position to know, is the source of this heresy. • Miss Adams who left for New York shortly ufter evincing her opinions, blames the preference of the southern girl fbr the compact over the protein for the limbo into1 which her far-famed beuuty has relegated. Northern girls, flappers and all, possess a i.aive beauty that stands out in sharp contrast to the rouged and lipsticked faces of the south ern girl. And far greater care in her diet is shown by the Y'ankee girl. Those who cat in cafeterias choose their food carefully, as a general rule, eating only that which contains a certain number of proteins. Their diet is carefully regulated. ‘■The average northern girl couldn’t last the afternoon on a lunch consisting of a chocolate milk-shake and a sandwich,” Miss Adams said. Shun The Compact Cosmetics are used sparingly iri the north. They are not needed, Miss Adams says. “New York girls show a great er interest in athletics than the ones in the south,” she said. “That probably accounts for one of the reasons cosmetics are not needed. The climate of the north, while extremely cold at times, is not the damp, penetrating kind. And it doesn’t vary so much, either,” she added. Night Life Night life, with Broadway and a thousand and one night clubs offering diversification, is taken as a natural course by the young people. “But," said Miss Adams, “the very fact that girls adhere to a careful diet and take an interest in gymnastic exercises offsets any damage done by late hours.” She added that the majority of southern girls were lax in their exercise. “Of course, gymnasium training hasn’t been here so long as it has in the north. That’s probably re sponsible for a part of the laxity shown in physical training in the south.” Railroad income for 1920 is es timated at $1,245,000,000 net. That « our idea of a net income. With the radiophone going, a husband won’t be safe, even across the Atlantic. NOW IS THE TIME TO SPRAY FRUIT TREES. Complete line of Spray Pumps, from tlic Barrel to the Bucket size. Also Compressed Air and Hand Spray Pumps for large or small orchards. Well Pumps for hand or power. All cur Sp: ay and Well Pumps are the famous MYERS. Complete line of MYERS PUMP Repairs. Farmers & Planters Harriwarn Or I BIG - SALE - AT Alexander s Beginning Saturday Morning GEORGE ALEXANDER, Proprietor of Alexander’s says:—“We are going to offer the biggest bargains in Jewelry ever seen in the history of Shelby. Every item in the store is cut to the bone. We are going to sell the goods, and the public will get the benefit of the price slash. Come in Saturday morning and take a guess fos" the big clock to be given away. A guess won’t cost you a penny; you don’t even have to buy an item to get a chance at this fine gift to our patrons.” SALE STARTS SATURDAY MORNING. Come early and get the pick of the stock. Highest class Jewelry—Clocks, Watches, Diamonds in all sorts or Settings, Silverware, Pearls, Ornamental Table Pieces, Hand Bags, all kinds of Novelties. V:\TCH WINDOW DAILY FOR BIG EXTRA SPECIALS. REMEMBER-SATURDAY MORNING. 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