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MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1027.
TWINKLES.
*• Anfiiu the Chinese situation: Those who have argued
with a Chinese laundryman know that the longer one pala
vers the worse matters get.
The Star’s question box last week flung in a trick ques
tion asking “Who’ll be the next mayor?’’ Modesty perhaps
kept a half dozen answers from coming in.
As was remarked prior to one recent outburst, a calm
in the political situation here means that, Shelby’s mayoralty
race will have interesting news ere long.
A writing humorist advises Cbolidge not to get any fat
ter with the admonition that a fat man is never taken ser
iously. He recalled that Taft, slightly portly, carried only
two states in his last attempt.
The superintendent of the Statesville test farm says the
white frost of the past week did very little damage. Perhaps,
but what about the hurt feeling of the weather prophets who
just knew for a fact that spring had arrived?
A lawyer told Judge Webb in Federal court here last
Week that his client just had to have some way of making a
living in these “hard times.” The judge not knowing the de
clining price of bootleg, with competition in canned heat,
, maw be excused for not coming back with the reply that rum
making isn’t a way of getting in high finance anymore.
It comes out that Mr. Ford does not write Mr. Ford’s
* Own Page in his periodical. A fact that the thinking public
surely had thought out long ago. Now we suppose some oho
will soon come along and say that the bookworm champ of
the heavyweight fighters does not write the chapters of his
' life history. What a blow that, will be to those who look t>
, Mr. Tunney as a cultured gent'envm who punches Dempsey
about occasionally for mere exercise.
HODGEPODGE HYPOTHESIS
“Knight Again Attacks N. C. Roasters and Roosters.’’
Treads the headline depicting the most recent speech of the
* state’s educational Moses. And with the imparted informa
tion conres the thought that of recent weeks one has not
■ heard so much boosting of the Old North State. Reflect a
^.moment and see af'Sve are not right. Can the credit for the
'lapse of boosting and boasting be given to Pro. Knight?
•T’ A~scTehtist coi§fiHM8bng arid informs a springtime world
that there is no such thing as “spring fever.” It never pays
to dispute with the scientists, but what, pray, may we call
Jthis.JegUng that arises after reading that Rabe Ruth has
•klaffjttd out two homers and a Kings Mountain high school
t'Jturler has turned in a no-hit, no-run game?
»•*•« In the press of the state these days numerous items are
“^appearing telling of new industry coming in. Charlotte,
* Statesville, Greensboro, and Newborn are among the towns
‘ and cities securing new payrolls. About Shelby more fre
quent talk is heard of a new plant or so. Some may nsater
h.ialize at an early date, but put this down as another prophecy:
if the P & N comes by way of Shelby the town will have a
least four new industries within the course of a year,
Athletics andjjjdur^tion offer one of the puzzles of
present day progr^s. There are those who say education is
now secondary in bur colleges with athletics taking first
rank. It is a matter of individual opinion, but The Star
notes a recent incident giving strength to the assumption.
Last week a state-w!de Latin contest was held among the
high schools of the state. $helb.v had several entrants and
the news editor of this paper kept an eye peeled for news of
the outcome. Long after the contest was over a small item
did creep into the papers, finding a little space not taken up
by the outcome of the .c ent-basketball and track tourna
ments. A letter from Chapel Hill says that the correspond
ent there did not send out the results immediately. Anyway,
Shelby took a third and fourth place a'though the winning
was not heralded even here as wrere the baseball and football
honors of a year or so back. Conclusions may be drawn ac
cordingly.
t» ROWING WORSE? NO
‘ I wonder where the young folks of today are going to
take this old world?”
Next to the weather that’s the favorite convers'd on
opener these days when those not mute skittish enough to
keep the pace talk about those able to keep step.
And by way of information put it down for a fact that
the world is not growing worse. In fact, there is a possibil
ity that it is growing better. What’s more, the young folks
are headed for the dogs. Listen gently to this: the world old
sex impulse and reactions are better today than three quar
ters of a century back.
,i Believe it or not, but the court records right here in
this county show it.
1 y Over in the county court house of Cleveland the minute
record of the first Superior court ever held in this county—
the year of 18*0—shows that one of the first eases ever dis
posed of by a Cleveland county court was a divorce from bed
and board. Imagine that. Back when grandpa was a mere
T kid—that is if he was living at all, there were divorces and
reasons for divorces for in the first divorce record the de
cree was granted.
: Added to the divorce case were several other cases em
phasizing that young folks have always been rather speedy.
Isn’t speed a necessary part of real youngsters anyhow?
Nearly one case out of four on the docket had to do with the
age-old problem of free, or illicit love. Such charges were
. entered on that court book 86 years ago with more frequency
than in the court docket of this week.
There were not as many divorce cases on the docket, it
• is true, as are on the docket this week, but there were more
,ol’ the free love cases and the discerning may use their own
judgment as to the degree of sin.
<*-’ Kneedength skirts, rolled hose, pocket flasks, and pet
*$ng parties were unknown terms in those days. But girls
•vwere girls and boys were boys* and in the absence of the
r,lioel ef flasks it is recorded that the first court in this county
Jwas ’leld in the same building in which a barroom functioned.
USo automobiles parked along the dark lanes in those days,
hut the court record told of a couple living together for years
kout the necessary legality of a marriage ceremony. The
ime you’ll notice exceeded that of a parked car. And, re-j
nember, that was 86 years ago, and not just a few years
iack.
Such comment may be a sacrilege of the past, but facts j
u-e facts and there is no use of consigning everything to the
logs when the canines failed to take^hold back in 1841.
Woman Healer Attracts Big
Crowds To Home Every Day
Like the famous shrnie of St.
Anne de Baupre of Quebec the
modest little home of Mrs. Gray
Bynum, at Iron Station has be
come a rendezvous and a haven!
for thousands of sick and afflicted j
souls at! in search of health and
happiness, according to a dis-1
patch from Newton.
Since the day several years ago
when the fame of this quiet, and
unpretentious healer was first
noised abroad to the highways and
byways where dwell life’s hapless
victims of disease and painful af
flictions, Mother Bynum has laid
her hands on thousands of God’s
children all of whom com.*
humbly to her modest abode on the
Piedmont plains eager for the
healing touch that smites disease
that
first
and makes men well.
Day by day they cont'nue to
come—the halt, the maimed, the
blind, the lame, the broken ofj
heart, weary and heavy laden '
souls—all of them in search of re
lease from the grip of disease.
And all of them have gone away
happier souls—and if the reports
that come back from those who
have been touched may be taken in
evidence—well of body and mind,
set free from the ailments
gripped them when th^y
came.
The story of this healing wo
man, a mother of nine children,
who refuses to charge for her min
istrations, reads like a miracle it
self in a world that has censed to
believe very much in miracles.
I She sits in her front yard when
the afflicted come to her and bnVU
fast to a small hush through which
‘she claims she receives God's heal
ing power. As the humble seekers
after succor come to her pres
ence she lays her hand »r>oo f'*e
afflicted body and still holding the
sacred bush, which. like Mos 's
Burning bush, is supposed to he
consecrated hv the presence of
God, commands the sickness and
affliction to depart.
Seekers for health, however,
cannot be cured, she snvs, if they
do not come meeklv with believ
ing hearts and contrite spirits, nor
! can their afflictions he srv**-n
i down and banished if they fail to
follow her three necessary re
quirements.
The things that are necessary
are:
1. Faith in her healing power ns
well ns faith in God.
2. Absolute abstenenh* from
eating all manner of fruits from
which wine may be made such as
grapes and blackberries.
d. Absolute abstenence from
Coca Cola and all forms of liquid
medicine.
This gre"t powe- to set men
free from disense did not come 1 ■>
her by any chance, she says. r‘
came after long struggles with
God in prayer, even •*« .Incob
struggled with the angel, for from
the day when she first longed for
the healing pow»r to the day v h *n
the heavenly gift first n«o v. •“=
a long period of abnegation and
intercession.
I in a very personal 'oss 'he dn
i sire to heal was horn. Her ovi
mother died of cancer years pto.
, Immediately after that sorrow had
j come into her life she bocnn to
pray daily for the power to heal.
For «ix years she prayed con
stantly.
One night several yen’*" •'"n the
answer came, she says. “Not only
did it give me the power to heal
cancer but also the pew*"* to h'nl
all other d'soas» and afflict!oo8.v
One of the first miracles re
corded by her is of o wor i • wh
has since become her devoted
friend and housekeetv^r This w ■>
man was sorely afflicted. She suf
i fered from a grave case of ♦,uh«r
culosj* and from other maladies.
Through faith and the laying on
'of hands the long standing dis
eases vanished. She became
cured woman, and through sheer
i gratitude came to live w'th Mrs.
Bynum ami to assume her house
hold duties so that the work of
Divine healing might not he im
peded by household drudgeries.
Since that dav people have come
by thousands. On Sunday it is no
common sight to view ns many as
75 automobiles parked about her
homo, all bearing those who wish
to he released from affliction.
Sometimes the scoffers come,
nnd often the more curious and in
credulous. Most sof the visitors
conic from places afar because the
Healer’s neighbors hereabouts hold
little faith in her prayers.
She says that she treats more
than 2,000 people in a month. She
always performs her healing work
clad in an ordinary household ap
ron in which are two Pockets, into
which she puts the voluntary con
tributions which friends and pat
ients give her. She refuses to make
any charge whatsoever for Tier
work. In spite of this, however,
her pockets are nearly always
bulging with money.
It is said that none of this
money ever reaches the vaults of
a bank.
Many Lenoir and Caldwell ■
county citizens have visited Iron ]
Station, and many of them come
back with the same report as'
made by persons from other
places. They claim to be healed of
affliction from which they were j
suffering, and are greatly im
proved in health.
IlPOTlDLl !
(Wickes Wambolt. in Observer.) !
I am not sure whether this article |
points a moral, or whether it will
enlighten anybody, or whether it
will place additional power in the<
hands of already almost invincible
woman. But anyway, here goes.
A young married woman appear
ed at the home of her mother in a
highly disturbed state of mind. She
threw herself across her mother’s
bed and began to weep copiously.
When her mother solicitously in
quired the reason for the salt tears,
the daughter sat up and declared
dramatically that she was through
with her husband. He had become
mixed up with another woman; and
she was through.
Whereupon, the mother, instead
of registering horror, anger, or any
other form of intense emotion,
merely smiled enigmatically and ob
served :
“Don’t got excited, child; that
is the nature of the beast. Thou
sands of women have that condi
tion to face, and those . who get
along the best, face it quietly and
deal with it intelligently.”
The daughter, surprised at the
matter of fact way in which her
mother had received the strange
and awful news, sat up.
“You don’t mean to tell me.”|ajia
gasped, dashing away her’tears,
“that all men are like that! My fa
ther was never like that!”
“No, my child,” replied her moth
er, “not ail men are like that. Thrve
are some who arc not like that; He
had three such affairs before he gbt
it out of his system. And I had to
stand by him and putl him through.
“The average male member of so
ciety,” continued the mother, “may
have wonderful intelligence in
many ways. He may be a remark
able statesman, ft marvelous finan
cier, wonderful captain of indust) y,
and yet be a perfect fool where w.
men are concerned. He may be St
astute, so lar-sighted. so keen wit
ted and quick witted that the heads
of big business bowed to him r< -
vercntly; and yet some baby face!
female moron can tie him into i
double bow knot before he knows it.
“Most males are susceptible,
husband evidently falls into Hub
classification. It is going to lie a
part of your ‘un til-death-do-us -
part’ job to grab Jack by the scuff
of the neck and save him two or
three times, just as 1 did your fath
er, but you will find him well worth
the saving, I am sure, just r.s I d e
vour father.
“There is another thing, my
dear," went on the mother, “as a
matter of fact, a man never does
quite so well as when his wife has
something on him. Once he comes
to the realization that ho Itas made
a fool of himself, and that she
knows it and has stood by him ir.
his foolishness, arid held the fort al
though he deserted, he gets to eat
out of her hand and jumps through.
Never again, after such an experi
ence, can he go around hi r with
his ehest puffed out as mighty lord
of creation. Look around you, my
dear! Look around you at the
tracable. well-behaved, model hus
bands and you will find that in i)'J
cases out of 100 their wives have
the goods on them in one way or
another.”
“My dear," she said, “Jack, by Ins
fool behavior has put himself abso
lutely into your hands. Now, don’t
you be a fool too and neglect your
opp< ktirixjty. You have got hin.
right where you want him,” and the
mother smiled grimly and held up
a clinched hand and squeezed. Ii
took slight strength of the imagin
ation to see that mother had a poor,
weak male by the neck.
The Brotherhood of Battered
Benedicts may mob me for this.
Sure That’* It—
The answers to those ques
tions in Around Our Town fol
low :
1. —Mrs. Fred R. Morgan.
2. —A. C. Lovelace.
,‘1.—W. D. Burns. Scotch.
4. —Mrs. J. D. Linebergcr.
5. —Charles Blanton, grand
fr 'her of Messrs. Charles C.
and George Blanton.
6. —At Laurel Hill church
above Toluca.
7. —On East Warren street
about two hundred feet cast
of the Masonic temple.
8. —Rev. S. M. Needham.
9. —Lawton Blanton.
10. —Clyde R. Hoey.
Watch for the next list.
Newspaper Thinks Ministers Ad- '
vcrtise [,ev. is Hook Which
Criticises Parsons I
Raleigh Times.
A news story from Gastonia i!-]
Iustrat.es what we felt sure would ;
be the practical reaction to Sin
clair Lewis’ latest novel “Elmer
Gantry.” In the first Methodist
church Dr. Poire.:t •). Prettyman !
devoted an evening airmen to a
heated denunciation of the work
and author. The book he declared
to be a “coninierciulizat.on of all
the antagonism to the church,”
and said that “to combat its in
fluence will require heroic work
on our part and on the part of ali
'Christians.” To Lewis himself
Doctor Prettyman applied the epi
thet of “rake.”
See how the thing works out!
Sinclair Lewis in his book was not
attacking the church, short-sight
ed and rather vulgar 'agnostic that
he has shown himself to be per
sonally. He was seeking to attack
some thing very different—that
badly needs attack -the organized
show business of the professional
revivalist who seeks money
through the sensatiofts his me
thods create. Instead of affront
ing, his purpose should appeal
most of all to the substantial
clergy who have elected a calling
involving much sacrifice, and
whose efforts nothing so misre
presents and compromises as the
illegitimate activities of the men
of whom Gantry is put forward as
a type. Yet the method of the nov
elist was so crude, his chief char
acter was so over-drawn, that the
respectable clergy jump to the
conclusion that what was meant
for an expose of the religious
mountebank was designed as an
attack upon preachers generally
and upon the church.
We recently pointed this cut i:i
some detail in a discussion of the
book shortly after it appealed, on
the ground that Gantry, if hi:
prototype anywhere existed, was a
flagrant exception to the truth,
even as a picture of one of the
familiar avaricious and malicious
campaign and tabernacle brother
hood. Whereas a reasonable and
accurate study of them and their
methods might have served the
good purpose of opening the eyes
of the public and thus materially
aided the sincere clergymen, the
gross exaggeration wns for them
as a class an undeserved public
sympathy and oven brings to
their aid the very ministers against
whom they are waging constant
war.
As Doctor Prettyman said in
one part of his discourse, the book
is likely to make its author a mil
lionaire; and we dare say that
'he sales in Gastonia since the
sermon have increased many hun
dred per cent.
Coffee Prices Get
Back To Old Stand
The anticipating lar"'1 coffee
crop in Brazil, the world’s leading
coffee raising center, is making
possible a return to prices that are
within a few cents of the prices in
efect in the good old days before
the war. One of the leading chain
store groceries has already put
invo effect the lowest prices on
coffee in.many years.
Prior to the war, in 1 *>13-14 and
1915, the average price of a t rnd
■f coffee, according to figures of
the U. S. department of com
merce, was 29.9 cents. With the
entry of Atberiea into the war
prices for coffee went soaring.
After the war they dropped
sngnuy, nui reacnei ineir peak in
1025 and 1926, when the average
price of a pound was 51.5 cents
It is believed that the anticipated
large crop will permit a con
tinuance of low coffee prices /lur
ing 1927.
The per capita consumption, of
coffee has grown greatly during
the past few years, until row the
average American drinks 405 cups
of coffee a year, whereas his
English cousin Jii.iks only 45.
Only ll.u pepole of Sweden, Nor
way, Denmark and the Nether
lands drink more coffee now than
we do.
This increase in coffee drink'll g
is due primarily to the fact that
America is now getting finer cof
fee than ever before as a result of
the activities of the chain stores.
.Ttyeir buying powers and facili
ties have made it possible for them
to put on the market, at prices
that greatly Increased consump
tion, finer coffee than were us
ually sold.
Coffee is now decidedly cheaper
than other food commodities.
There is no monoply on coffee and
although Brazil controls 60 per
cent of the world’s production, in
coffee as in other products, large
crops always mean low prices.
The high prices of the last two
years are gone, apparently never
o r -ura again as the acreage of
coffee Planting is being steadily
in're; sed and the industry, gener
ally. is prosperous.
HAPPY ILEf
FOR THE II PACE
(By J. J. Krouser, Editor and
Publisher of The Oxnard, Cal.,
Courier. INS Staff Correspondent)
Oxnard, Cal.—Neitzsche, fam
ous German philosopher, hailed the
advent of the superman and the
world doubted.
But not Dr. Annie Besant, world
famous student of mankind, presi
dent of the International Theoso
phical society, and patron of Jiddu
Krishnamurti, young H i n cl u
“World Teacher.”
Dr. Besant does not doubt, She
is sure that the superman and the
superwoman are coming. But first
there must come the superchild—
the “new race child,” as Dr. Be
s.ant calls it.
The famous woman leader, who
has studied humanity all her life,
with the greater part of her in
terest centered in children. di
vides all children into two classes.
At the age of four the quick
child has the intelligence of thm
ordinary child of seven or eight,
according to Dr. Besant, who the
other day discussed her great sub
ject with International News Serv
ice.
"The quick child is intuitional,
grasps ideas and situations more
readily; is impatient of explana
tions and arguments, and can be
advanced in its studies more rap
idly,” Dr. Besant declared.
For the proper development of
this new race child Dr. Besant is
starting what is to be known as
the “Happy Valley Center,” at
Ojai, near Oxnartl in Ventura
county, 80 miles north of Los An
geles.
She calls the Ojai Valley one of
the beauty spots of the world, ri
valled only by some sections of
Egypt and India during the rainy
season.
In this “Happy Valley” anl by
means of the new race child Dr.
Besant has started to found a cen
ter for the development of he
“new civilization for America.”
Only a little more than a
month ago she issued her first ap
peal for funds for the purchase of
405 acres of hills and mesas near
ly five miles from Ojai, and lying
between the Lower and the Upper
Ojai valleys.
Contributions have begun to
eorne in from all over the world
One woman in England sent 2,000
pounds, Dr. Besant said, and there
have been hundreds of one-dollai
contributions.
Although the first substantia’,
payment of $40,000 does not have
to be met until the middle of Anri!
the amount is already assured, if
not actually on hand.
Preliminary development of >he
center is to begin at once. Plans
are now being made to plant trees,
ornamental and of the fruit var
iety from which an income may
be derived. This will be followed
by erection of the school and
homes for the people who will be
attracted to Happy Valley. It is
Dr. Besant’s hope that the school
will open in two years.
Dr. Besant expects to remain in
Ojai until the middle of April
working out her plans for the
Happy Valley center. Thereafter
she will spend three months of
every year here. With her at this
time is Krishnamurti. the “world
teacher” as she calls tvm, end who
also plans to spend at least three
months of every year at Oiai
where those who may seek his
personal teaching may meet him.
The need and basis for her new
center of the new civilization Dr.
Besant describes host in her own
words:
“American anthropologists tell
us that a new human type is ap
pearing in the United States and
common observation confirms the
fact. History tells us that with
each new departure a new civiliza
tion begms, founded on the teach
ings of a great prephet or super
human man.”
Wants People To
Hear Dr. Agar Sure
Editor The Star:
Eoi mo urge the people of
Shelby and Cleveland county to
attend the all-day services at the
First Baptist church hsre Anril
1st, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m.
and ending at!) p. m. Both dinner
and supper will be served on the
grounds, and the women should
bring well filled baskets.
Besides Dr. R. T. Vann and Dr.
C. E. Maddry, we are to have the
exceptional privilege of hearing
Dr. F. A. Agar. Having heard Dr.
Agar several times in Washington,
I unhesitatingly say that his com
ing to Shelby gives us the oppor
tunity of a life time. It is su'd
that Dr. Agar is an Irishman and
a physiciani that he lias seen a
missionary to Africa and to the
Indians. I know that for many
years he was the "efficiency man”
of the Northern Baptists, and he
may still hold that position;
though he has also done valuable
work in the South during the last
few years. He has written several
useful books on church finance
and kindred subjects. He is as
practical as Benjamin Frranklin
and as interesting and humorous
as an Irishman can be.
D. A. TEDDER
I Bankruptcy Of Charlotte 8 Auto Race Bowl
May Prevent Staging 1927 Speed Classic
(By International News Service)
| Charlotte.—Dixie is wondering
| just now whether it’s uo get its
! annual speed classic th:s summer
or not.
The Charlotte Speedway, the
South’s giant auto racing bowl, is
been auctioned off for the benefit
bankrupt, and the property has
of holders of $-50,000 worth of
bonds.
Nevertheless, the American Au
tomobile association has assign
ed July 11 for a series of sprints
at the Charlotte oval,
i Whether or not the races will be
I continued here, according to local
(officials, depends on the purehas
i ers’ desire to keep the property as
■ an automobile racing plant.
1 The housewife may easily make
a budget of the canned fruits and
! vegetables needed for her family
through the winter and can these
in summer. Mrs. Jane S. McKim
i mon states that 1,061 women did
this last year.
WATTS GUNN MAY FLAY
GOLF AT CHARLOTTE
Davidson. —(INS) — Georgia
Tech and Davidson college Wj|.
meet in, a golf match on April <i
which probably will be played 01’
the course of the Charlotte* (
try club.
The Georgia teams has as one
of its members Watts Gunn, team
mate of incomparable Hobbv
Jones. Other members of the Tech
team are Moreland Smith, S(.rni.
finalist in the Southern Amateur
tournament at Memphis las. ve-r
and J. H. Williams who ha pin -
ed for the Georgians two vm, /
Davidson’s team will likelv be
composed of Steve McGill, j,,
ville, Ky., Boyce Lincoln, Atlanta"
W'. C. Wolfe, Louisville, and Ing]^
Love, Quincy, Fla.
Tom Tarheel says he may not
make much money this yea;- p-t
he is certainly going to Stay out of
debt.
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Introducing The Latest Model
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CORSETS!
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