Llf THE CLEVELAND STAR «f*j Shelby, N. C. f* Monday, Wednesday and Friday Subscription Price 0f Wai^ per year . - $2.50 ttf Carrier, per year------- $3-W The Star Publishing Company, Inc. LEE B. WEATHERS.-.. President RENN DRUM .-.... Loe»l Editor Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the postoffice at 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 tnr custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards af thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been pub lished. This will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, JULY 25. 1927. TWINKLES Now that they’ve gone to taxing the rings feminine 1 Shelby wears perhaps some of ’em realize that their fortune include more than their face. “Principal Here Not Picked Yet,” reads a Star head line. Well, the school youngsters will do that soon enough once Supt. Griffin selects him. In North Carolina the requirement for a physical exam ination bars the physical and mental weakling from getting married, and a high-priced marriage license bars the finan cial weakling. Ought to be a great state some day if health, happiness and coin hold out. One county official here is said to have expressed a dis like to,publication of political forecasts by the “good people.” Perhaps that story Friday of seven officials in one county near being indicted did not appeal to several people, but in this matter of politics it isn’t so much what the politician likes as it is what the people like. And they do like to talk about what they like. NOT KINGS, BUT Numerous newspapers have been commenting on and .ridiculing the monarchy cry of “The King is dead! Long Jive the King!” The most recent instance being that of the •death of King Ferdinand, of Rumania, and the naming of the young boy Michael. North Carolina newspapers chimed in on tfe anvil chorus, to use a street term, but in this country ■we Give jwery little room for criticism of the^honor-passing so 'soofffrfffir a death. To those who really observe events and •woWwie'frts it would be no strain on the memory to recall times when public officials in this state claimed by death had office-seekers out lining up friends to secure the vacant of fice ^ face interment of the previous officeholder had been Tnadj^flJi fact, as the memory recalls several appointments made in North Carolina before the upturned sod lost its air of freshness. Yet we sneer at kings and peasants. CHECK UP A LITTLE If yoU haven’t been keeping tap on Shelby’s growth for a year or so try this stunt: :■ Get in your ear and drive out the Cleveland Springs road. Observe as you go. Then turn the motor up North Washington street on beyond the hospital and back down North LaFayette. Go on then to the extreme end-of South LaFfiyett'e and in turning come back up South Washington, or DeKalb. Next head west out West Warren and back up "West Marion. Meander the family car then to developments and section you haven’t touched. Go back home, let your . mental vision slip back five years. Remember the Cleveland ;[Springs road, Washington, LaFayette, Marion. Warren and the other-streets as they were then. If your memory is good !i ou can recall every residence on each street and the people | who lived*therein. When the past gives away to the present !^ee how many of the houses and occupants on the same "streets you know now. You’ll be surprised. There will be i.fiear half dozen homes in each direction of the compass that o> olt3fiP!*ia've known nothing about. The next day you will • be Mkuig«questions. !; *SHWl>y is, ami has been growing. Try it and you will '[readily fall in with the belief. SMOTHERING NEWS AND CRIME ^Nothing better helps to breed crime than smothering news. Yet there are .thofce. including public officials who [frequently remark that “nothing should have been said about ;it.” or “it would have been better not to have mentioned it.’’ •Such an argument is pure tommyrot. The truth may hurt Some times but there’s nothing like the truth for straight ening things out. and knowing that the truth will be told, if found put,,,is a mi»hty fine deterring influence. Speaking at the State press meeting last week. Julian Harris, noted Georgia editor said: “The need for editors to print the.truth whether the facts are creditable or discredit able'to their community or State has never been greater • than it is today. And neVer has been the responsibility rest ing on each and every editor to do his full share toward rid ding his section of the forces and ideas which are menacing its intellectual progress and spiritual growth, and making a jest of justice and a lie of liberty.” Right plain talk that of Mr. Harris, but nevertheless ad vice that should be followed. One of North Carolina’s troubles today is that too many “firsts” hide the sight of the “lasts.” A lot of things in North Carolina could be improved if the truth were told about them and kept being told until there was nothing injurious to be broadcast. THE YOUNG MAN HE WANTED » Figuring that a newspaper keeps pretty well abreast of ;Jts citizenship a business man came into this office recently and asked that suggestions be made to him of several ^ounjfcjneQ he might want to fill a position he has open, a yositioa with promise. Several likely young fellows were narrveiBr 1’CWhere will I find them?,” came the query. “Well, you’ll find this one down on the street about the drug store, and over there on that bench on the court square Us another one,” replied his informer. •* “No thank you. I’m looking for some young fellow who 'has been working at most anything while waiting for this opportunity to come along. The fellow I want hasn’t been .idling.useful minutes away twiddling his thumbs until the !|)ig moment came.” “Sorry,” the would-be informer stated, “but all the Voung ffellows of the type you seem to want are all working, ;&o far as we know, at something else.” ‘’Well, go ahead and name a few of the working bovs }ou „^qyw, boys you believe deserve a better job. Some where in the bunch is the boy I’m looking for. And if you itan’t think of one tell me all the boys from the country who have graduated in- recent years at the high school here. I flo not jnqan your town boys are no good, but the man I want -tfilHtave to Win better training than that received by -riding the range and benches with the drug store cowboys, and he’ll have to have more stafnina than that required for pn all night dance,” Come to think about it, who would you have recommend 'd to the caller. There are several such boys, many of them, out for some reason or another most of them seem to have ?ood jobs already. Somewhere back up in those queries there may be a thought or so for parents. MAYBE THEY DO NOW. Dorothy Dix, who hands out advice, consolation and .heer to the love-lorn and unhappily married, says "Women vill never be entirely emancipated until they are free from ;he shackling old convention that denied them the right to .hoose their own mates.” A good line of thought, Dorothy, but the only fault is :hat generally speaking they have been emancipated for ?ome time. Of course, there remain those who contend that this and that girl, many such, take the first man they get a ■ihot at, fearing they may never have another matrimonial opportunity. On the surface that opinion may hold water; jut what knowledge men have been able to secure fif the sweet young things is enough to make the opinion sound like junk. It may seem altogether a matter of’Chance, or the working of Lady Luck, that a certain youngi girl' meets a certain young man, courtship and marriage follow. It may seem that the girl was picked and did not do any choosing. 3n rare occasions such may hapen, but it isn’t any more rare han that of a man. A young girl generally can see in her ac juaintances the young man she likes and oft times she gets rum. Just about as often in fact as the young man. The men Jo not always get their first choices. It is all a bunch of sob sister stuff that most of the girls are chosen instead of •hoosing likely mates themselves. 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