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THE CLEVELAND STAR Shelby, N. C. Monday, Wednesday and Friday Subscription Price *ty Mail, ucr year _____--- $2.50 By Carrier, per year __—...$2.00 The Star Publishing Company, Inc. ITS t WEATHERS.1__President AENN DRUM_____-_Local Editor j Entered as second class matter January 1, 1005, at the postoffice ' At Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1871). We wish to call your attention to the fact that it is, and has been ■Ur custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been pub lished. This will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, MARCH 7. 1927. TWINKLES. , “F & N Officials Visit Shelby,” says The Star today. Good news, that, and now the only better news we can think of will be the announcement that the F & N itself is corn ing to Shelby. “Oratory Chokes Congress To Death,” reads a headline telling of the closing session of the sixty-ninth session of that august body. Tis a pity too that oratory had tfit' honor alone. American farmers struggling hopelessly for some kind of farm relief would have appreciated lending a hand in the strangling. It is encouraging news that comes from textile leaders hereabouts that the textile business seems to be on the up grade. The textile industry, employing over 3,500 people, means considerable to the welfare and prosperity of Cleve land county and the county will rejoice with the mill leaders, who kept the payrolls going full time in slack seasons, be cause of seemingly improving business and a better outlook for them. Governor Richards stand in enforcing the antiquated blue laws of South Carolina is drawing criticism, but without terming the stand either right or wrong the new South Caro lina executive is to be congratulated upon enforcing the laws as they are in the statute books. If all our law's were properly enforced we would nut have such a ludicrous num ber of equally ludicrous laws. A recent writer estimated that it would take an ordinary man a lifetime to read all the laws he is supposed to obey. A few really worthwhile laws, enforced and respected would be worth ten times that gob i of generally unknown legislation. Brute Craven, the Trinity philosopher, has a worth-! while idea in wishing that every representative in the North Carolina legislature had been of the type of I,. A. Martin, of Lexington, Davidson county’s representative. Represen tative Martin is so honest that ne is foolish, according to the viewpoint of politicians, one cJf 'whom remarked concerning i him: “That man Martin could get something in politics if he didn’t act so.foolish about being honest all the time.” In the absence of a full assembly of that type North Carolina should be thankful for those that *are of the Martin calibre Just how many such' there are we leave for someone else to say* 4 : . • • .• o. . , ... ... .... . POWER OF THE I HESS . Tfikjttg the eye from Miss Beatrice Cobb, of the Mor gantdn News-Herald and orte of the best known and most efficient newspaperwomen in the South, The Star begins to wonder just how much power there is in “The Power of the Press.”. Likewise the wonder cornea if the politicians are. . finding the women’s vote so terrifying as was anticipated prior to the giving of the right to vote. Taking North Carolina’s closing "do-nothing legisla ture” (a Gastonia Gazette term) as an example it seems as if the combined power of the press and influence of the women voters are still unequal to the task of successfully combatting the shrewdness of the political generalissimos. For instance, the Australian ballot. Seventy-five percent or more of the North Carolina newspapers either spoke outright for, or fav orably of the Australian ballot and the state league of wo men voters endorsed it whole heartedly, and the Australian ballot was tabled regardless. Do the press and the women of the state not know as much about the sentiment of the people as the politicians? Perhaps nay, and perchance yea, but the Australian ballot was tabled. The women of the state backed several other measures that were also defeated, and sensible editorial writers the state over advocated other proposed laws that failed to materialize. The law-making body even refused to change the day of the primary from Saturday to Tuesday, and although numerous worthwhile reasons were advanced for the change and none against the measure failed. Why ? ' The women voters gather this week for their annual conference and the dispatches of that meeting may not be so interesting to some of our lawmakers. Yet where do the newspaper’s come in, or get off? “The Power of the Press” and the influence of the good women added together and juggled about the lobbies and corridors at Raleigh apparently equal nothing judging by outcome of the recent legislative hopper. BULWINKLti WORKING Not long since there were whispers that there might he ' rcveral entrants in the next congressional primary for this district, the rumor news having it that Major A. L. Bui* * wipHle would likely have opposition. However, nothing has •hcen heard of recent weeks concerning the likely congres sional contest and viewing the recent activity of Congress man. Bui winkle it has hardly been a time for talking opposi ■ tion to him. . Come what may by the next election the congressman : for this district has rendered a good account of himself dur *' ing the recent session. The Gastonia Gazette goes so far as to say that at his present rate Bulvvinkle will develop as much ‘ power and influence as did Judge E. V. Webb during his period of representing the district, which might be taken to mean that The Gazette expects the present representative to return not once but several times, and if the voters take a similar view of his growing power such will likely he true. The Gazette says: If anybody should happen to a. k you, you might tell them that Representative Bulvvinkle has been one of the busiest men in this con cluding session of Congress. He has had a hand in some of the big gest legislation that has been enacted, or not passed, in Congress. Of course, his position on tho McNary-Haugen farm relief hill is well known. In the face of much opposition he voted against ibe I bill. His stand was justified by the veto which President Coolidgc ■ placed on the bill. The President in giving his reasons for the veto, used the same arguments advanced by Mr. Bulvvinkle in his speech Ugainst it. Then, too, in the matter of securing the federal branch bank for , Charlotte ihe Ninth district representative has shown what a fine ‘ worker he has been. The creation of the third federal district was largely the work of Bulwinkle and Overman. In time to come the popular Gastonia man will be as influential and powerful as Yates Webb ever was in Congress. T HELPED ALONG IN DEBT A philosophical Star reader in discussing “the times” recently agreed heartily with the thought advanced by Max Gardner that present conditions are due to the extrava gance and financial carelessness of the people who are now rather “hard up,” but he adds another thought in his belief that the general public, farmers and others, were helped along in t heir extravagance. “Easy loans and installment plans are behind every pessimistic remark heard today,” he declared. “True it is that most of us have been spending our easy money since the war in a reckless manner, but the thing that is hurting now is t hat we spent more than we made—thanks to easy loans and installments. We contracted the habit of buying every luxury on the market in our fat years and when the lean years came along we fell for the salesmanship that in troduces itself with these statements: ‘It will not cost you a cent now. Pay later when you have the money,’ and ‘let us arrange a little loan for you to tide you over a month or so.’ If the loans had not been so easy to secure and if the installment buying was not made alluring we would at least he even with the world now instead of behind,” continued the philosophic trend of mind. Portions of the attitude expressed may be considered pessimistic and of a buck-passing nature, but one or two thoughts in the expression are sound. There are few instances in the economic history of America where anybody starved because they did not obtain loans. Back in the days when mortgages were considered a disgrace many folks got along without them who were in harder circumstances than’hundreds today who have sought and received loans. This decade, 1917-27, has witnessed the carrying-on of a population of wastrels, hut too much of the blame should not be placed on the spenders for they were in a way edu cated to it. Business for a number of years has been hum ming practically solely because of easy payments and loans. And today the realization is dawning that the easy payments and future settlements tend to cramp the firiancial aspect. Whipping Bad Boys Having Revival In Detroit Courts; Spectators Cry ‘Harder’ By International News Service Detroit, Mich.—Whipping n form of punishment which was popular in bygones times, is ex periencing a revival in Detroit courts. If erring sons arc brought into court, it is not uncommon for their parents to appear with them at the request of the court to wield a swishing leather belt or a good stiff board. Most recent is the memory of lashings administered to the two 17-year-old boys who had stolen a radiator cap from an automobile. They were faced with the proposi tion (if a 60-day term in prison or 114 lashes. Bather thun ptidergo the rtigiua of the prisoq they accepted the whipping. The boys were Stanley Squaric and Vincent Johnson. In the man ner reminiscent of those unpleas ant days of the woodshed they took turns in bending over a court loom chair. Elio Squaric, Stanley’s father, laid the'strap on his son and Mrs. Maude Logan, an elder sister, administered it to Vincent. John I). Watts, assistant pros '■-'Utor. officiated as timekeeper, lie ordered one extra stroke for each boy “for good measure." When ihe boys came into the court room there were giggler, from a number of spectators of their own age. When the lashings started there were cries of “Hard er, harder!” Stanley was the first i to bend over the chair. When he was in position Justice John L. Riopello offered the boy’s father a long heavy belt which belonged to a police officer. Thanks, judge,” said Squar e, “but I brought this along;.” He drew a razor strap from his pocket. “Oh, you are prepared?” re marked the judge. “Very vvcjl, that will do.’’ Then the razor strap, began to hum. Swish—swish—swish up and down went the strong arm of t-he A “Jim” Davis, Secretary Of Labor Fi.ids Joy In Making Speeches r.'t Intern,'ii lonal Ne\Vs Service Wiinhif gtrtn. <lne <f the chief (1*>);(rhts i hut amount' almost chief delight with James John Davis, the secret ary of labor. Is making specche: . No member of the Hnrditr;r-( oolidge Cabinet has traveled further or talked on more numerous occasion- than lias “Jim ’ Davis, the little \V lohmait who came ,o the I'nlted States a a poor immigrant boy and worked ldms'elf up from a peddler in the steel.-jniiia to a p -sit ion in the Cabinet of two 'Presidents-. Not one of Ids -v-C frien'b would -ares o Davis of being an orator, hut he has a faculty of getting his message over, no mat ter what type of audience may confront him. Ills two favorite top's ; ar>- eJdl . dud re ":stra tion of t he alien jiupul.it Vm of the I'nit'-d States. Davis is h • f of •'> o • • 'l dren, three of lle-m bn'*n in W- -r ingtpn since he S''- ,sir< C: nerai of *h' I.real O-d e of Moo.,-, f.. has. chartf? of i "nrlv 1,000 ' h id-on in ‘ h ’ home i”• i'n tained t>v *h" ord r in Mcd»ph:ir't III. lie h"li we (Iijit «■ v rv ch:H in this coimf-v is entitled to at least a high school education : n I h' talk clone- did n o are devoted to a "living wage” for the .-country's workers in order that the it* chikl nn may i■■ calve an education. One o' his chief duties is keep* ini' undesirable aliens out of the cotij try. Th>; is, a man's size frisk, he admit. . It could he lightened 1” some extent if nil the al'ens al ready in the country could he reg istered arid those who are here il legally could 'through this regis tration system he cheeked up arid promptly deport'd to th? land from whence they cattle. If the wheat farme • i • n plat ters and fruit growers need harvest hands when the crop's are being harvested, Jlavis is the man who supplies them. Through the emnloymc n' division lie has been instrumental in supplying thou sands of “hand' .” He has somo derid: d view" on conciliating labor disputes and the Conciliation divbbm over which he presides has t topped n ! . i s vent many me inch «■ strikes. “I am a great holiever in the theory that employer and worker should get around the council fable and settle their dispute la fore a strike, is called.” he him as t* ither anti lh»- strap sa in accompawiiMcfit.f. pushed ami »h..\. 1 for points that they might detail. nst n« trha Spectators vantage see every ! scried on many occasions. Ur dor Davis the Conciliation division has grown to large proportions. I The labor Secretary is an carl' riser and is frequently at h's desk in the Labor Department when the 7 o’clock whistle blows. It is a 1 habit acquired while in the steel I mills. Although he is a member of two | golf clubs. Davis admits lie is 1 probably the poorest golfer in the | Cabinet. Chinese Joan I Mr/.. Sun Vat Sen, a college rradnate and widow of the former I nrovijshiaal preri.;- .t e? China, is •••‘po.ted as one of the leaders of I -he c-. ■.'< no--** t.ii.She is • ! railed "Q.i of the Cantonese” ■ rt a mi-. ' of the executive ! stall of u.c v.-atoii army. Beauty and Ccod Indeed. llip heuutiful is insepiara hh jilted to flip good and the true, . . . ,Ti>r llip very nature of the sense i/f beauty Is such that through it \'P ir:iiti a clearer run* ri jit of th.p other two value*. The i history of Hip raop has shown that at the hatght of materialistic sue- j i pss. tho desire for artistic enjoy* j input has boon it potent factor in! bringing a ppnp!e hack to the high-j 1 or ideals which underlie a penepfiil Ifitercourse hctwppn nations.-Iter* hort Sidney T.nngtield, in '■ Ae“ 'setic Attitude.” Messrs Hudson Hartgrove and Alton Hopper were Chimney Rock ’ visitors Sunday. NEWS OF IMPORTANCE Elmore Motor Co. South Washington Street. Shelby, N. C. Now the Dealer for rst. We have been appointed Chrysler dealer in this com munity, an appointment which we interpret as a high honor and a serious responsibility. The public during the past two years has come to look upon Chrysler as a manufacturer of a high order of integrity. By this appointment we feel that the good will of Chrysler owners has been placed in our hands for safe keeping. We wish to assure all owners that as Chrysler represen. tatives we shall serve them in accordance with the high standards of quality which characterize Chrysler cars. The supreme Chrysler Imperial “80”, as fine as money can build; the famous Chrysler “70”; and the lower-priced lighter six, Chrysler “60”, will bo on display at our salesrooms. We are eager to demonstrate to you w hy these sensational cars have appealed so convincingly to men and women who know and appreciate true motor car worth and value. IN SPRING SILKS $6,000.00 worth of n e w Spring Silks, consisting of the reliable brands, such as Corticello Crepe de Chines, Corticelio Flat Crepes, Corticello Taf fetas, plain and changeable, also Read ings Satins, Holdings Crepe, Beldings Crepe Remaine and many other new numbers suitable for the early spring trade. Buy these brands and you gel the best. — 39-INCH C0RTICELL9 FI,AT CREPE $2.69 — Real heavy weight pure silt:,' ; d't and clinging. 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