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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. It may sound cruel to <ay, but a goodly number of young ladies in these modern Jays do their choosing and so bring things to pass that the fortunate, or unfortunate young men think they are doing Lhe choosing. In such instances both should be pleased. . No, Dorothy, the girls are not shackled to any such convention, and are seemingly more able than ever to take care of themselves. Yet it does make good pathetic, sob reading. ' ‘ • -—MY CREED (Edgar A. Guest.) To live each day as though I may never see tomorrow come; to be strict with myself, but patient and lenient with others; to give the advantage, but never to ask for it, to be kindly to all, but kindlier to the less fortunate, to respect all honest employment, to remember always that my life is made easier and better by my sen* e to others, and to be grateful. To he tolerant and never arrogant to treat all rtien with equal courtesy; to be true to my own in all things, to make as much as 1 can of my strength and the day’s opportunity, and to meet disappointment without resentment. To be friendly and helpful wherever possible; to do, without display of temper or of bitterness, all that fair con duct demands to keep my money free from cunning or the shame of hard bargains; to govern my actions so that I may fear neither reproach nor misunderstanding nor words ttf malice or envy, and to maintain at wnatever temporary co4t, my own self-respect. .* . • !j To keep faith with God, my fellow men and my country. This is my creed and my philosophy. I have failed it often, and shall fail it many times again, but by these taecH ings of my mother and my father I have lived to the best pf my ability, laughed often, loved, syffered, grieved, found con solation, and have prospered. By JHendships I have been enriched, and the home I have builded has been happy. Exercising Judgment in the Expenditure of Money t T does not matter whether you earn M two dollars a day or two hundred if you spend all you receive. The ulti mate result is the same. It does not matter how much y.ou earn, but it makes a big difference to you what amount you decide to set aside that determines the future of you and yours. We do not assume the rifehk to ^dic tate what you should set aside ^nd keep, but— Those who gather noth ing in youth will have the same amount in old age. Cleveland Bank & Trust Co. “THE BANK OF SERVICE” SHELBY, N. C. vv- iii.'1 ILLINOIS HUSBANDS PUT DIVORCES ON A BIG BUSINESS BASIS (Py Internhtional News Service.) Chicago.—Although not incor porated as such, divorte might well be termed a “business,” the latest records of the Circuit Clerk’s of fice reveal with the showing that financial settlements arranged be tween parting husbands and wives who have appeared before the Chi cago divorce courts now aggregate $1,500,000. The records reveal that 15 per cent of al marriages contracted in the state of- Illinois now meet fin al dissolution in the divorce courts. It is further revealed that 80 per cent of all divorce actions are in sittuted by the wives, rather than the husbands, and that in the over whelming majority of cases deser tion is given as the grounds. During 1926, the figures reveal, there were 80,000 marriages in Illinois, of which 14,000 unions were dissolved by annulment or di vorce. The city of Chicago contrib uted 40,000 of the marriages and 8,000 of the divorces. Notwithstanding that 70 per cent of the petitioners during the past year sought no alimony, the total which Illinois men had in vested in the “business of divrce” continued to mount steadily, until now it has a capitalization equal to that of many good sizes industrial corporatins. PRINCE TRIES RUNNING TO KEEP IN CONDITION (By International News Service) London.—American visitors to England this Summer, if they care to get out of bed early en ough and wait outside the grounds of Buckingham Palace, may be re warded tvith the sight of the' Prince of Wales alighting from his automobile in running shorts. Following a precedent establish ed last year, the Prince in order to keep fit, every morning when he is in town rises early and leaves York House for a run around the extensive Palace grounds. After his run he drives to the Bath Club, where he has a swim. Seventy-five tons of pennies are spent by New Yorkers each day for newspapers. NOTICE OF RE-SALE OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the pow er and authority vested in me as trustee and executor of S. R. An thony, deceased, late of Grover, Cleveland County, N. Cv and pur suant to an order of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Cleveland County made on July 23, 1927, I will offer for re-sale at public auction at the Courthouse Door in Shelbv, N. C., on Thursday, Au gust 11, 1927, at 1:30 o’clock, P. M., or within legal hours, the fol-1 lowing described real estate: (B)—Two lots adjoining each other, situate in the Town of Grover, N. C., approximately 75 feet by 117 feet, being the same land described in deed of trust from S. R. Anthony and wife, Etta Anthony, to B. T. Falls, Trus tee, on record in Book 136, at page 3, of the Registry of Cleveland County, N. C. The bidding on this combined tract u'ill start at One Hundred and Fifty-Four Dollars ($154). ~ ' (E)—That lot situate in the Town of Grover, N. C., 125 feet by 160 feet, being the same land described in deed .of trust from S. R. Anthony and wife, Etta An thony, to the Shelby & Cleveland County Building and Loan Associa tion, on record in Book 135, at page 137, of the Registry of Cleve land County, N. C. The bidding on this tract will start at Sixteen Hundred and Eighty Dollars (1680). Terms of Sale: CASH. This July 23, 1927. J. B. ELLIS, Executor and Trustee of S. R. Anthony. UNTERMYER RELEASES RETRACTION BY FORD New York.—Settlement of the $200,000 libel suit brought by Her man Bernstein, writer and editor, against Henry Ford based on anti- ■ Jewish ait*!* in the Dearborn l, dependent was announced by S uel Untermyer, Bernstein’s an®!! ey. The settlement followed J* a letter of retraction made buhl,1 by Untermyer. As part of the consideration fi the withdrawal of the suit UntZ myer said, Ford had agreed toT operate with Bernstein in an off*! to obtain and destroy editions « “The International Jew” a |)0^i composed of matter taken fr„n articles in the Dearborn Iridep-mj ent which has occn translated ]*, several foreign languages. animjl The death penalty for was one of the ancient customs Holland. The records show that* cat was hanged at Longuevi]]t| 1476 for biting an infant to deaft a steer was publicly executed 1 Meddlebourg in 1671 for g0rinj( woman; and a cow was put^ death for attacking a little girl«> —BETTER MEATS CLEANER MEATS AND QUICKER SERVICE. That’s what you get when ordering from our market. We carry a complete stock of Fresh and Cured Meats at all times and it pleases us to give you the choicest cuts of Western Meats at a pric? that will satisfy. Give Us A Trial And Be Convinced. 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