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THE CLEVELAND STAR W** Shelby, N. C. Monday, Wednesday and Friday Subscription Price «Qr Mail, par year _____*..$2.50 %■ Carrier, per year____$3.0t> n — - The Star Publishing Company, Inc. LEE B. WEATHERS..... President KENN DRUM ..,.. . __ Local Editor Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the postofficc tt 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 Mr custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards Off thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been pub lished. Tnia will be strictly adhered to. WEDNESD’Y, AUG. 24, 1927. PS- .J.-JL-'.J5JL . TWINKLES The easy way ordinarily doesn’t lead anywhere except to the jail house and content. jg -I* • . • . — Another present day mystery: Why isn’t si brief filed by a lawyer ever brief? In dad’s day when a Lit of feminine scenery flitted down the street the remark was “Wow, what a bear.” These days it is “Meomi, isn’t she bare?” A mountaineer killed himself the other day. Suicide among the mountain people is unusual, hut perhaps competition of extracts anO canned heat against “mountain’ eawn” was too strong. Women’s fur coats and men’s top coats arc beginning to appear in the display windows of the clothing stores and the sight leads the Gastonia Gazette to remark “it won’t be long Certain political dopcsters in Cleveland county are clamor ing for cheaper marriage license. One thing about it, pros pective grooms will line up with that faction. At present rates it costs about as much to get married in North Caro lina as it does to get divorced. It’s the Rocky Mount Telegram that gives a mighty fine explanation of the over-worked county fair motto “bigger and.jL>etterM every year. The Telegram says “Probably the reawon fair advertisements bear pictures of cattle is because there i&so much bull about them.” Prof. Burns, the Scot who made a success of Piedmont' School,,this county, says the youngsters of today are just as gowrias those of yore, except that they’re different. Ye I TwiikW agrees. About 16 inches less skirt on the girls and abfflfl TO inches more breeches about the limbs of the boys, and added to that a knowledge of the world at 16 that would have shocked pa and ma at 30. TWINKLES While we’re trying to digest all the facts and figures con cerning the many North Carolina “firsts," it might he worth-1 i^hile to note that the state had one of the highest death rates. Perhaps trying to establish first place at the pearly ! gates? TAX RATE LOWERED f Cleveland county’s tax levy has been lowered two cents by commissioners. The announcement no doubt was discuss ed with interest about the county this week. A change in taxes, up or down, is always discussed, perhaps more when it is up than do\yn. It is an interesting sidelight the com missioners offer in the unofficial news that taxes might have been lowered even more had the value of personal property n0t, be<? cut so- Th« commissioners saV that with the levy reduced two cents it will be a strain to meet the budget expenses. They hoped to lower the rate XmnbUtWWld fin<l. "V Way 0f K(’ttinff around the personal gump What caused that slump, anyway? Was it the list !n/,. 0r was 11 depreciation? Those questions will no doubt be discussed considerably. NEED HEALTH OFFICER Th. ^ winter ^eydantl county had a smallpox epidemic This summer for a time there was a typhoid epidemic Roth epidemics proved costly to the county in lives, monev an!i dmabJed citizens. The suggestion of a local physician before' canable Witt ofrat ^ COUnty sh6uld havy <» full time, Stime w^fl rr1S * f°d °nc- Cha»<*« «»'e that with ft full time health officer those epidemics of recent memory would never have been. Furthermore each vear many Cleve-1 land county children are not in school because of various K L^mentS' Thus sltuation could' »Vid would, be veme- I “ ina C°mpeto,'t health ^ving full time work in | expenditure of public money for building roads, bridges and such is all right if not carried too far, but the tawS?"1?!8*from #ood health. County money spent for a health officer would be money well spent even if Bomethung not so important had to be done away with. A HARDSHIP ON KNEES HL .'Phe Hendersonville Times suggests a novel method of raising tax money for financing various things in cities States, and for the nation. As The Times suggests a tax’ should be imposed upon every woman showing her knees The tip follows : e. POdng, China, a woman who exposed her knees was lined ten dollars. In thus country a woman who exposes her knees does not get I second glance from the male population. Knees are so common that most men prefer to look the other way. However, the Chinese law gainst displaying legs and knees offers a suggestion to tax commis si0118' leg.slatures and others charged with the big job of finding the phoney to finance local, state and national governments. An abundance of tax money can be secured by arresting and fining all the women who expose their knees. The tip perhaps would bring forth a lot of surplus coin for govxernment treasuries, but asking the men on the streets who look as representative how long will it be before our law makers pass such a bill ? GOOD NEWS, THIS News has a way of varying. On occasions it is sad and bad. tgain it is good ,and often it is just of the readable type. is for good news the statement of County Agent Hardin in lie last Star can hardly be excelled as pertaining to good ews in Cleveland county. This county, despite arguments to the contrary, places lit much dependence in the cotton crop. The dependence sn’f particularly mean that of the farmer—it also includes merchant, the banker, the automobile dealer and so on. So cotton, or poor cotton, means that suits, dresses, and shoes will not sell so fast in the fall; automobiles may be left standing in the show rooms; bank accounts may dwin dle. Cotton, a good year of it, in Cleveland county means general prosperity. Indications point to such a fall. The season has been fairly i good, perhaps really good. There was a boll weevil scare— 11 he worst scare of all to a cotton county—but the county ! agent's statement was that the boll weevil will not hurt the cotton crop this year, unless something unforeseen shows iup; , What could be better news? SEEING THINGS WORTHWHILE ( ol. Wade Harris, Charlotte Observer editor, is in Europe and on occasions he is having editorial articles in his paper entitled “The Editor Abroad.” Apparently the veteran edi tor is seeing and writing about things worthwhile as interest ing things to the people back home. Of course other Euro pean visitors and writers see perhaps the very same things Col. Harris is seeing and have written about them many times, but the entertainment from the Observer editor’s ar ticles comes from the fact that he is seeing and writing of some things the others never have, and the things he does write of that have been written of before are portrayed from another angle than the hackneyed descriptions. Back dur ing the Snyder-Gray murder in New York a middle western •newspaper sent one of its column writers to New York to cover the trial. In between trial stories the columnist stroll ed about the New York streets. He began to see things he had never read about and he began to write about them. The result was that his column, carried in his own paper and in a New York paper, was such a success that New York wanted to keep him. Yet he was writing about the same citv scores ot columnists and special writers diffuse information coneern nung daily—and his stuff was new. They had become accus omed to many of the interesting things which were new to the visiting writer. Everbody doesn’t know New York like a New York newspaperman. That’s why the visiting writer was interesting. Likewise every one doesn’t know Europe bko the big feature writers and that’s why Col. Harris with his new sidelights is proving interesting to his readers Scandal In Mad id Bull Ring As Famed Bull Fighter Runs Away Madrid. Hull-fights arc a very complicated institution in Spain. They have a traditional moral code, that requires on the part of the foreigner an extended study, to only begin to understand, and then he ran never appreciate as well as a Spaniard can, the question of whether the bull-fighter is a real buil-fighter, and whether the bull is a real bull. Kxaetly what a bull should he n what he should not be, and what a torero should do and what he I should not do, are technical ques tions in an art that can count among its true devotees, only those of Spanish upbringing. But a re cent scandal broke out in the bull ring in Madrid, that even those' who have never seen a bull-fight fan appreciate. ( hicuelo, the famous bull-fight er, had to stab fourteen times, be fore he succeeded in killing his hull! Hoots, shouts, whoops, whist ling, stamping of feet: Crrowd Is Angry “Out with him! Out with him!’’ ! "Quo se vayal” roared the furious 1 public, But little did they dream of the unheard of spectacle that "'as still awaiting them. “Down with Chicuelo!” came the onamimous cry sweeping the arena like a storm. Was he the hero of yesterday? That does not matter. Down with him today! The Span iards have no idols in the hull-ring. Chicuelo stabbed fourteen times before he killed his hull! Goodby, ChicUelo! The crowd is in a real fury. What is to be done with Ch; cuelo? The refree is challenged to give him a punishment that will serve as an example to others. In the hullabaloo, Chicuelo has disappeared. The spectators, in a moment of ominous silence, take note of his disappearance. From whom had Chicuelo run away? From the rag ing bull, or from the raging pub lic? The dying bull, fuming from the injustice of having been deceived into the arena to the accompani ment of gay music, had still enough life in his dagger-sharp horns to fling several men to death. An amphitheater of twelve thou sand enthusiasts, who have had their patience exasperated, and have had their sense of sport and decency violated, have to be treat ed tactfully. The referee, seeing that matters were taking an alarm ing turn, ordered the search and capture of the fugitive 'torero. Since Chicuelo refused to come out from the infirmary behind the arena, to which lie had fled, and where the doctors certified they could not see anything the matter With him, the referee ordered him to be sent to jail. It was the only safe place for him! Free Eye Clinic For School Children Moginn.ng August 15th and continuing through September IC.'h, 1 will examine in niy offices children's Eyes Free of chr.rgc. Mill be in Kings Mountain office FRIDAYS from 2 to 7 p. m. DR* O. M. MORRISON, Optometrist < Telephone 585 Downstairs Webb Building Shelby, N. ('. [ Estate ^eAXROLA Come In Now! See The New HEATROLA AND PLACE YOUR ORDER— Free Coal Given from Aug. 27 to Sept. 17. SHELBY HARDWARE CO. -PHONE 330 Gurley Has Hard Football Season Former Shelby Coach Couldn’t Get Games With Big Teams In State He Tells Papers — Hickory.—In announcing that his team would face t hehardest foot-, ball schedule ever to be Undertaken by a small college In North Caro lina, Coach Dick Gurley, of Lenoir Rhyne College said he expected only four of last year’s letter men to report for training here Sep tember 1. The Mountaineers open the sea son September 24 in Washington with Georgetown and close at home November 24 With Elon. “Lenoir-Rhyne faces a proposi tion this fall,” Gurley told the As sociated Press. “Only four letter men are returning. We lost Spur lock, Wistrant, and Cox from the j backfield. They were our best I backs. Others not coming back include Overcash, center; Paysour.1 end; Hood, tackle; and Rhodes, end of the varsity; and Van Poole, Rumple, Bober and others who were good substitutes but did not i make their letters.” Lenoir-Rhyne faces the stiflest schedule ever undertaken bv a small college in North Carolina, Guriev believes. He has some good material coming to school this fall I but he says the chances look “mightly slim for us to build a team from new material that can begin to compete with the sche dule.” No member of the State “Rig i Five” conference would give the : Bears a game, Gurley said. Take Safety Pin From Babe’s Throat Danville, Va., —An open I safety pin an inch long was removed from the pharynx of the infant child of Mrs. Sid ney Pruden, of Thomasville, N. C., who is here visiting her mother, Mrs. J. R. Ferree. For two days the child hud cough- j ing spasms and symptoms of strangulation. A specialist examining the throat observed a small me.al fragment in the throat and took the child to the hospital where examination showed the barh of the safety pin was open and pointing upward. By use of forceps and an ap pliance used to turn the barh inwards the pbtruction was removed without an anaesthe tic without doing further damage. HALF PRICE SALE Of 100 Men’s Suits WE HAVE IN OUR STOCK 100 MEN’S ALL WOOL SUITS WE ARE OFFERING FOR A QUICK CLEAN UP AT ONE-HALF PRICE. $15.00 SUITS $7.50 $18.00 SU1TS $9.00 $20.00 SUITS $10.00 $22.50 SUITS $11.25 $25.00 SUITS $12.50 $27.50 SUITS $13.75 $30.00 SU,TS $15.00 $35.00 SU1TS $17.50 WE ARE NOW SHOWING NEW FALL SUITS FOR College Men. You young mei who will be going hack to school soon and who want ne w Fall Suits with plenty of pep with style, workmanship and durability — you owe it to yourself to inspect these new suits. Look them over, try them on, pass your opinion, comment on them. We know you’ll like them., We bought them especially for you, and they await your most critical inspection. \ NEW FALL SUITS. $15.00 to $35.00 Nix & Lattimore — CLOTHIERS, HATTERS and FURNISHERS — —__ Announcing the Illustrious Statement from Walter P. Chrysler: In announcing the Illustrious New Chrysler “72,” we arc confident that our latest product b as great an advance over today’s fine cars as was the famous “70” over the best of four years ago. The New “72” is ultra modern — again setting new standards, establishing new results for the industry to follow. The New Chrysler “72” with the Great, New “62”, the New “52,” and the mag nificent Imperial “80” — are Chrysler’s covenant of faith with the public which has so gener ously demonstrated its faith in us. Longer, Roomier, Faster, Handsomer The Illustrious New Chrysler “72" —longer,roomier, faster and hand somer— hut that tells only a touch of the “72" story. For the first time, in a car costing less than $2000, the New “72” gives an engine of 75 horsepower, with -counteriveighted 7-hearing crankshaft and rubber engine mountings to wipe out every last vestige of vibration. It gives you speed of 72 and more miles an hour, pick-up of 5 to 25 miles in 7 seconds, hiU-climbing ability thr.t sweeps you up even mountain grades at constant acceleration. It gives you rubber shock insu lators, pioneered with such great success in the Chrysler Imperial ) 80. The spring ends arc anchored in blocks of live rubber, eliminat mg wear, noise and the need for lubrication. These insulators, with the special Chrysler spring suspen* sion result in riding smoothness hitherto unknown. It gives you longer, more beautiful bodies, tastefully appointed, lux uriously roomy,and fully equipped with saddle-spring seat-cushions and adjustable steering wheel to give you the utmost in comfort. Test it to your satisfaction in every conceivable manner. Only then can you appreciate just how much wider is,the gap which the Chry sler / ? ’ has placed between itself and all others in this class. i(<u'.‘ri'>us New i Mpwani,, f.0. b.l Convenience of ti ^Itr yvpu^-l-izh' hMy ylry $-.495 «md Metros.. ( hry*„r<i:ole“« -.re to atom the me payment*. A»k about Chryslcr s attractive plao. “Red'Head” Sets Chrysler Performance Farther Ahead For those who seek supreme per formance— speed, pick-up, hill climbing ability, going beyond even the qualities of its standard sixes—Cht :-sler furnishes its new “Red - Head” ht^;h compression engine .... The New Chrysler “Red-Head” will be rcgularcquip ment on the Illustrious New Chry sler “72” Roadster, giving even greater speed andacceleration than the standards announced. It is also available for alt other “72” body models. George Thompson Motor Co. SHELBY, N. C.
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