8 PAGES TODAY VOL. XXXIV, No. 94 SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1927. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons By mail, per year (in advance)—92J% By carrier, per year (in advance) 99,OB One of the biggest group of men kver to nssemble in Shelby gath L,t in one Sunday school class Zre yesterday when the First Baptist »"d Cental Methodist classes met together^ How much water flows in the lauare mountain well each minute? Js it all pumped up? If so, how many people drink water theie ^ily? Some estimates are given h, this issue. ^ „ \ state health official has something to say in today’s paper pgarding typhoid fever in the county. ^ „ , A Shelby man has as yet to set t dawn-to’-dusk record by auto |cr0,s the state, but one perhaps ,aved him a fine^ thereby recently. The cotton market of recent weeks has attracted general in terest. Keep tap through The Star. There were not so many divorces ranted during the court just clos ed but more than a dozen are ex pected to come up in September. A woman smoking a cigar— that's the latest odd event about the town. Substitute Booze Plentiful, Court Finds In Docket Camphor, Extracts And Other Ar tificial Kicks Constitute Re corder's Docket Some of these days Recorder John P. Mull may come to the con clusion that he is holding a weekly health clinic instead of county court. On Monday morning he hears of more ailments than the ordinary physician. This morning particularly was a rehash of an ailing week-end. The county judge had two cases of toothache to dispose of as well as *n alleged case' of extracts, a daub of camphor, and a Tiottle of Pep tone. Of three defendants charged With imbibing intoxicants to an extent not a one plead guilty, or tnd it testified against them thr.t they used “yawn.” That’s a stroke of success for Mr. Volstead. The iforesaid gentleman by his famous constitutional amendment ordain ed that there was to be no liquor, that men should cease imbibing pure cawn, apple, rye, or some thing else as the case—or cases— wight he. And could he have heard the county court docket here to day he would have realized that th" day of guzzling whiskey is tbout over, but as to the other stuff that kicks—oh! Well. Two defendants had the tooth ache according to the evidence. One tried various remedies, in cluding Peptone, but finally got well-kicked on a 30-cent bottle of waling liquid for neuralgia. When •ndge Mull finished the 30-cent bottle cost him an additional $10 *nd costs. The other fellow put camnhor on a piece of cotton and •tuck it in the aching molar. The officers say the sidewalk was not wide enough for him to walk on. he third defendant, officers testi . told them that he bought an ontire case of extracts, but the de fendant did not take the stand and ce did not tell of a toothache or other ailment. Continued Rape Case - n McDowell, colored, chi . an ass»Ult with intent to was held hy the cour 1 next Monday, attorneys fo Wandant asking that the ca •ontinued until that time, each Grayson, who is i ranger m the county court * of defendants in the ' those close to the market predict another jump tomor row. JURY DISAGREES case comm A jury disagreed in recorder’s court today. It isn’t often that a trial in the county court ends in a “dog fall." to express it in slang, but a drunk charge in court this morning failed to convince all the jurors one way and the case was continued until next Monday. The defendant was charged with being drunk in a public place and Attorney Speight Beam prosecuted for the state as the solicitor was distantly related, it was said, to the defandant. Peyton McSwain wal defense attorney' and a difference arose as to being drunk and disor derly. The defense contended that it is no misdemanor to be drunk, but that a man must also be dis oiderly. The state contended that being drunk in a public place was a misdemeanor. Judge Mull in charging the jury offered still another view when he told the jnry that a man convicted of being drunk was automatically convicted of being disorderly. A drunk man he said could not be normal and or derly and therefore would be dis orderly. Whether or not the jury had its controversy of the legal techincali ties of the case or over the evidence is not known, but there was a disagreement, unofficial reports having it that the members of the jury, one or more at least, differed strenuously on something. Was Cutting Hair Of Brother-In-Law When He Fell Dead Funeral services of young Lynn Shuford were conducted from First Baptist church here Saturday afternoon with inter ment in Sunset cemetery. A dispatch from Hickory adding further details to his sudden death Friday says: “The life of Lynn Shuford, 29 year-old Hickory barber, was snffed out suddenly Friday when he was seized with a heart attack while trimming the hair of his brother-in-law, Ralph Weaver. “Without warning, Shuford ceas ed operations. He placed his hand on his breast and quietly murrniur ed “O Lorrd,” as he dropped to the floor amid the clatter of falling sissors and combs. By the time associates could reach him he had him he had expired. “Shuford had been chatting with his brother-in-law on the various topics of the day and gave no inti mation of not feeling well. He had never complained with his heart be fore, relatives said. “At the outbreak of the world wor Shuford enlisted with company A, first North Carolina infanntry, which later became a part of the 105th engineers, 30th division, and served overseas. Oxford Orphans To Visit Shelby Soon The Oxford Orphanage Singiig elass will visit Shelby this month, it is announced by Masonic officials here. The group of youthful singers will be here Monday night, August 22, and the place where they will appear will be announced later. Ad vance reports are that the orphans have their best program ever this yer. DO PEOPLE DRINK 600 GALLONS WATER DAILY ON SQUARE? Dopeslein Figure Out That Flow of One Gallon Per Minute Would Bo Sufficient Water. Do the people who quench their thirst at the Memorial Fountain on the court square here drink 600 gallons of water daily? If so dopc sters about the court house have figured it out that a flow of one gallon per minute in the well would be sufficient for all used purposes of the fountain. And that leaves the problem of how many gallons do flow in the well per minute. There is no getting around the fact that the fountain, with its cool water, is a regular oasis to the city. Especially is it so on Satur day when hundreds of out-of-town shoppers ir^town become thirsty in the jam anid want a drink of water. Of recent Weeks the water in the fountain well has been running low almost every afternoon. On Sat urdays the flow gets so low tha; very few are able to secure a drink. For a time it was thought that the added use of water in the summer was keeping the well about bal anced with its demand, but Satur day some of the dopesters about the court house began figuring and finally decided that the flow must be less than that. They worked at it this way. If there is a flow of only one gallon per minute 4,800 people could take a drink there daily with water enough for all, and the dopesters found that estimate up with the view that 4,800 people, counting bottles and jugs, do not drink there daily. now 01 une KUiiun pt;i mmuu: would mean 60 gallons per hour, or 600 gallons for a 10 hour day, ard 10 hours about covers the drinking day on the square. Estimating that the average for a drink is a pint (and that’s about twice as much as the ordinary person drinks) 4,800 people would be able to secure a pint drink daily. Are 4,800 pints of water used at the well daily? Not by a long shot, say the fellows about the court house who watch the thirsty crowds. Thep the well hasn’t a flow of one gallon per minute, or the the flow isn’t being pumped up, the dopesters say. Of course, numerous people, they admit, bring gallon jugs and bot tles for water to take home and put in the refrigerator, but the es timate of a pint a person takes care of this, they say. The average person does well to drink a half pint on every visit, and a flow of 600 gallons in 10 hours (a gallon per minute) would mean 9,600 half' pints in a day. Figure it out for yourself some time when you paws by and the wa ter will not bubble, or mayhaps while you wait for the flow to get strong enough to fill your jug. Pint Booze Costs $20 When Picked Up Total Coat of Drinking Pint and Beating Another Man’s Wife Is $35 in This Case. Despite the present day low price of bootleg a pint is worth $20 when you pick it up beside the road. What’s more it may cost you $15 additional if it is potent enough— “has the kick” y’know—to cause you to beat up another man’s wife It’s long been a matter of de bate whether or not a man can beat his own wife, but there isn’t any argument about it ii1 you beat an other man’s wife—or that’s the way County Judge John Mull looks at it. And he, by the way, is the same fellow who sets the price of $20 on a pint of bootleg that is found. I.ast Friday night Buster Downs negro, who lives up-county stood behind a tree, or so he said, and watched a white man get out of his car and hide a quart fruit jar be side the road. When the car left Buster ambles over and picks up the fruit jar, finding therein a pint, of booze. He guzzled a portion of it, he says, then started for the home of a friend. Just before ar riving “he killed the pint”, as they say in circles where pints are killed. Entering the house be found the friend away, but friend’s wife was at home. The wife noting Buster’s condition asked him to leave where upon it was testified that Buster displayed his ability to juggle pro fane words about in the atmos phere. The friend’s wife then insist ed more strenuously than ever that Buster leave, and it was then, she says, that Buster whacked her a couple of times across the back with a stick. Judge Mull ended the case by pricing the entire affair at $20 and the costs—and the costs hap pened to be about $15. The “Man on Horseback’? Will Nicholas Long worth, speaker ol the house of reproaenta fives, be the “man on horseback” pf the next presidential campaign? Nobody knows—except that the affable Nick, on a visit to Glacier National Park, obligingly poked astride a horse for the photographer We’re Living Longer Now, Health Statistics Reveal On the whole the multitudes whoj dwell on this earth are healthier and happier and longer lived than they were at the last turn of a century. Such is the conclusion of the Rockfeller Foundation, of No. 61 Broadway, in a preliminary review oj its activities in 1926. It was written by George E. Vincent, president of the foundation, and made public last week. During the year the foundation spent $9,741,474 in world-wide health programmes. These ranged from the most highly cultivated 1 centres of civilization to the most i obscure abode of the heathen. I In the revleWt’resident Vincent | modestly discloses how the founda I tion ‘let a hand" in wid^y ac claimed triumph of preventive; medicine. He added: “Health departments report the decline of communicable disease? and the fall of the general death rate. In recent years the infant mortality rate has dropped rapidly. In London, for example, it fell from 159 deaths (within the first year) per thousand living births in 1900 to 68 in 1925, and in New York from 192 to 65 during the same period. “Smallpox is almost unknown in parts of Europe and in a few states of the United States. Typhoid epi demics are rare in efficiently ad ministered communities. “Tuberculosis is decreasing among many populations. Diptheria is coming under successful con trol. The out look for preventing the spread of scarlet ' fever is brighter. Malaria is being ousted from various strongholds. Yellow fever seems to be making a last stand. "Cholera cannot seriously invade a country which has a modern wa ter supply and proper disposal of wastes. Typhus has few terrors for communities addicted to soap and water and clean linen. “But the modern health move ment is not content with sanita tion and the control of communi cable diseases;, it goes on to the hygiene of groups and of indivi duals. It is Slot satisfied with a negative prevention of disease; *t preaches a gospel of positive, ac I tivf^ytgorous physical and mental wellbeing." There is no desire on the part of the foundation to impose a rigid medical policy anywhere, President Vincent stated. He pointed out that university trustees, here or abroad, are never asked or permitted to bind them selves or their successors to con tinue any particular method of organization and teaching. The foundation’s activities rang ed from China to Brazil, France, Poland, Jugo-Slavia, Siam Porto Rico, Nicaragua, Salvador, Argen tina, Italy, Spain, Palestine, the Philippine Islands, Canada, Nigeria and 244 counties in the United States. These included aiding fourteen medical schools, contributions to public health training, nurses’ train ing schools and direct war on vari ous diseases, such as hookworm, malaria, yellow fever and tubercu losis. Shelby Man Cajoles Speed Cop By Tellling Of Dawn To Dusk Auto Trip And Gets Apology Instead Of Fine These dawn-to-dusk automobile trips across North Carolina’s pav ed streets saved one Shelby man $10, maybe $25, and a trip to police court. The story flits back from a re cent fishing trip, and most any ruse is condoned when an Isaak Walton is hurrying along in.anticipation of the nibbles. It goes like this: An auto loaded with Shelby business men set forth last week to the Carolina beaches in the region of Wilmington, fish ing being the aim of the jaunt. Down in Eastern Carolina the fish ermen were “stepping on it” with a rather heavy toe and going out of one town they "hit it up” near the danger line of the speed limit. Suddenly out of a side road shot a speed cop on his motorcycle, yell ing for the fast-moving car to halt. “Curses,’ said the men in the car—or that’s what they would say in real fiction, this is the truth—rs they drew a mental vision of the fishing party being (relayed several hours while they paid a fine for speeding. But the nimble wit of one of the party never worked better. Leaning from the car he shouted at the cop: “What one-horse town is this anyway ? Looks like you might show a little courtesy some times. It’s the first town I have passed through in my dawn-to-dusk trip from the mountains to Wil mington that the courtesy of a mo torcycle officer to escort me through town has not been extend ed.” The frown on the face of the speed cop gave away to an apolo getic smile, membeis of the party say, and he replied: “Beg your par don, Mister but for some reason we were not notified that you were coming through and I’m sorry that there was no escort for you. Hope you make a record. S’long.” “Ta-ta,” came the parting word from the car as it sped along in a cloud of dust. But the roar of the motor drown ed the gale of laughter in the car that might have made things look suspicious to the officer as he ram bled back to town on his motor bike. Moral (if there by any): The danger of opening wide your gates for somebody to speed dangerous ly through while seeking a useless record. * Scout Boys Off To Camp For Week Members of Henry Edwards Troup Left This Morning For Lake Lanier. Scoutmaster Henry Edwards left this morning for Lake Lanier with the members of his troop for a week’s outing at Piedmont Council j camp. Mrs. Edwards accompanied the party. The youngsters were in high glee, expecting a delightful outing. Those who constitute the party are Allen Suttle, Charles Switzer, Pegram Holland, H. Clay Cox, Sherrill Lineberger, H. A. Logan jr., Hubert Panther Alfred Eskridge, Mat O’Shields, Billie Joiner, Joe Thompson Lyle Thomp son Billie Thompson, Harvey Wray, Robert Lee Walker, Zeno Wall, Oakland Morrison and Ed Wash burn are already at camp but will join this troop and stay over for | the present week. SAYS PRESS HELP | STOP TYPHOID BY URGING VACCINE Dr. Miller Commends Star Fo< Publicity About Typhoid and Articles on Vaccination. “The publicity that has been given to the outbreak of typhoid fever in Cleveland and the atten tion that was called to the impor tance and sanitation, has done much toward stopping the spread of the disease,” said Dr. H. E. Mil ler, of the state board of health here Saturday en route from Lawn dale to Raleigh. “From talking to the physicians, I find that thou sands of people have taken the ty phoid vaccine and have improved sanitary conditions about their premises,” continued Dr. Miller. “The people would not have known the danger if their attention had not been called to it in the public press and tf the papers had failed to publish the facts, I dare say very few people would have realip ed how important it is to- safe guard our bodies against the di sease by taking the vaccine. The response has been wonderful and I believe there will be no tnora cases unless a few develop front coming in contact with typhoid pa tients.” Prevelanet in Foothills. Dr. Miller has made a thorough study of typhoid in the foothill sec tions of the state. There were in all about 30 cases in the Lawndala village. The beginning of the di sease said Dr. Miller was from drinking bad water which the au thorities in the village had warned the people against. The cause has been removed, in fact was removed several weeks ago, but a few cases developed by contact with patients already sick. Practically 100 pet; cent of the people in the commun ity have been immunized against typhoid and the last cases to de velop were in a family where thd well members nursed sick ones and would not be vaccinated, because "they didn’t believe in the medi cine.”, it is learned. Physicians and[ the press have pointed out the ne-, cessity of vaccine and Banitatipni and Dr. Miller feels sure that there will be no fresh outbreak. In Burke county, a score or ftior$ springs into which had flown pol luted surface water. The disease has been more prevalent in the foo# hill section because of the defici ency in raihfhll and the throwing of refuse from the kitchens drf the surface of the ground, wlltre the slope drains the water to the springs. There have been a fewg cases of typhoid in rural Cleveland, due to this cause, says Dr. Miller, so it is very important that those who use springs, exercise the great est care in the disposal of refuse from the house and the sanitation of surface toilets. In the Lawndale community, with the cause relieved, the situation has been well in hand for some time and as Dr. Miller says, no new cases except “contact cases.” He wag greately pleased with the co-oper ation of the officials there and with the people generally in aiding in stampng out the disease. Typhoid On Decline Health Officer Say* Raleigh.—Typhoid fever has ap.* parently hit the toboggan id North Carolina, the state board ofl health announced Saturday. Report for t he week ending ail noon, showed that 70 cases of that disease disappeared in the state this week, compared with 77 Iasi; week. ( Dr. Chas. O’H. Laughinghouse* state health officer, back from a week’s trip in western North Caro lina, where he conferred with offi cials in Cleveland and Burke coun ties with regard to the unusual number of fever cases in thosa counties, said the conditions haci been bettered and few new cased are developing. Bad water in the mill section o£ Lawndale, in Cleveland county* caused around 30 cases of typhoid to develop there last month, whila unsanitary conditions in a rural section of Burke county caused aq outbreak of fever, said Dr. Laugh* inghouse. / To Get Bids On • Highway 206 Job According to an announcement from Raleigh bids will be received up to Tuesday on 5.41 miles ct dirt road in Gaston county oq highway 206 between the Cleve land county line and the Liueolzt county line. , Numerous other highway bid$ will be received at the -aaic