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WED. SEPT. 28, 1927.
TWINKLES
Have you attended the county fair? If not, do not miss
the remaining days and night.
They may call ’em the weaker sex, but if you’ve noticed
it takes only about half as many girls as hoys to carry on a
modern dance.
The Gastonia Gazette broadcasting: “First Day of Fall
Brings Weather Fit for a King.” General observation also
■was that Saturday suited “us cominary folks to a T.”
It was Robert Quillen who got that one off about Hell
being advertised every day, while Heaven gets its publicity
on Sunday only.
Very few undertakers have been heard raising a howl
4 about the prohibition laws. Government chemists who test
\ the stuff the officers capture can explain the why.'
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One well known political writer says Herbert Hoover
| does his own thinking, yet the writer has the nerve to guess
• that the Republican may want him for president.
A Rocky Mount man is predicting a medium winter with
* three snows, but after seeing how' they all got fooled on the
‘ supipier just past what’s the use of reading all the predic
* tions?
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Modern comforts, a Shelby man says, keep women look
ing young even at 50 years these days. We wonder if the
j comforts he refers to include the drugstore accessories that
• go to make the skin one loves to touch ?
• Newspapers are carrying big headlines about radicals
| trying to wreck trains carrying American boys back in
France after 10 years away. Those hoys ought not to mind
, a few train wrecks considering what they passed through
on their last trip over there.
Some of the newspapers are ragging Max Gardner be
cause the Shelby man had a hunch that Jack Dempsey won
a fight. Thinking it over one reaches the conclusion that if
Gardner could receive the vote of every fellow who thought
likewise he would be next president instead of next governor.
, The State board of health, word from Raleigh has it, is
urging old-fashioned breakfasts for school children to assure
-efficiency- The members of the board should remember that
.time has so fugited that few mothers of the present day are
i. old enough to recall what one would look like, much less prc
f pare it.
Dr. Zeno Wall’s Sunday sermon on this age of material
ism in Which the world seems to have its sense of vpluos
crossed ^as a fitting one. Dr. Wall is far from being a pes
simist and can see some good where other folks usually see
nothing but bad, and his observations were such as to point
out glaring defects in the present day world which are in
need efcjsetnedy.
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NOW HOW’S THIS
I Shelby on Monday of this week, incidental to fair open
* ing and the convening of Federal court, had enough political
celebretiea on hand to make one think that a state conven
tion of both parties was in season here. Bunk, you say?
Well, listen" to some of these names: Republicans—Chas. A.
Jonas, W. A. Bristol, Thomas Harkins, H. Clay Cox, and
II numerous assistant district attorneys and deputy marshals.
;* Democrats—J. A. Hartpess, M. P- Alexander, Kemp Nixon,
and others along with several Shelby home-towners like
Clyde Hopy and Max Gardner who have been known to have
slight connection with the aforementioned politics.
Oddly enough, there was not a single row or argument
: reported.
ON BUYING FARMS
. f*A visiting real estate dealer in Shelby recently remark*
. ed that Cleveland county farmers were about the best pros
; pe(*ts5lm had encountered for farms. Every year, he said,
f^bess who had been working on shares for other farmers
;; in this county purchase farms from him.
'That is a tribute to the tenant farmer class of this coun
; ty-H-the fact that they save what they make, and make some
thing tooave, and then invest it in land of their ow-n.
i* f However, do not forget one thing. Cleveland county hai
mort'fttrms cultivated by tenants than it should. It is to be
I! hoped .that an equal number are purchasing farms on their
" owueach year in the county where they make the money
II wrftNvhicti to purchase. If every farm in Cleveland county
; wja^ffij;med by the owner, how much difference do you sup
:! pose it.would have on our general yield?
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MENDING LIVES
Not long since the county judge of Cleveland told a
Shelby luncheon club that he knew of no better movement
to back than a home for reforming wayward boys—boys who
are now going to the chain gang and prison, where they re
ceive*, a .thorough education in criminology from hardened
criminals. „ , , ^ ,
Shortly after Judge Mull made his talk Josephus Daniels
wrote in the Observer of reforming boys, the article
coming after a visit to the Jackson Training school. Com
menting on the Daniels’ article the Salisbury Post has the
following- which should be of interest to those who read the
cAk^judgetVcollmendation for this county—and inciden
ttfy»tfee*county judge should know how things are going:
Josephus Daniels has been in Concord visiting the
JacksM* Training'school. He writes in his News and Observer
and rfftrs to this work as “Mending Boys,” and asks if
there ofn be better found?
Mending lives has always been accounted fci most com
mendable work, and surely mending yopng lives is the better
part of any such program, for the young ones have longer
rto live and longer to make their lives count.
~ ♦phose who are disposed to belittle the ag in which we
live, class all as bad and by comparison make today sinful in
the lightrof yesterday ought to give thought to the various
mending plants of the State, chief perhaps being the Jack
son Training school of which The News and Observer editor
These too would ask with Mr. Daniels, could the
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State do a better work than this? We doubt if it is, or can
find a better thing to turn to; nor outproducing more good
results. Surely all of us are glad that our State is engaged
in this business of mending lives—young lives—and wish
that the work might be extended to others in equal distress.
SUICIDES DECREASE
The suicide wave is receding, it is noticed by The Char
lotte News after scanning statistics offered by a large in
surance company- The insurance experts revealed that the
decrease in suicides recently is more apparent among the
younger folks. Does that statement recall anythingvto your
mind? .
It was not so long back that the papers were filled with
headlines about “student suicides.” Here, there and every
where it seemed young people, with a life ahead of them of
fering an uncharted but what appears to most folks an inter
esting path, were taking their own lives. Before, during,
and since that wave of youthful suicides the observation of
this paper had reached the point where the belief was tnat
the modern world operates on “crazes.” It was dancing, then
killing one’s self, then flying, and what have you.
Yet one feels a sense of relief in hearing that the actual
figures show a decrease in suicides. Perhaps a lot of the
youngsters wanting to get publicity finally realized some
one else would be reading the headlines. It’s a fast old world
at times, but sooner or later as times passes it will set itself
down and get to thinking what it is all about
School On Short
Term For Harvest
Hugh Brittain Meets With Acci
dent. Surprise Tacky Party.
Personal News.
• Special to The Star.)
Casar. Sept 27.~-The Casar school
is running only one session each
day from eight to twelve thirty
o'clock. In this way we hope to keep
the children in school and at the
same time not get behind with
our cotton picking.
Casar's new cotton gin is now
ready for business.
Georgia Lee and Catherine War
lick visited Mary Lou and Agusta
Richardes Sunday.
Hugh Brittain lost control of the
car he was driving Sunday and ran
into a high bank. The car was very
badly damaged, but the driver was
uninjured except for a few bruises.
A surprise tacky party was given
at the home of Miss Willard Brack
ett on Friday night. The costumes,
which were the source of much
amusement showed great original
ity and cleverness.
Miss Mary Dee Palmer, who has
been ill with flu for several days
was on duty in the Casar school
again Monday.
Miss Pauline Newton and her
grandfather. Robert Downs spent
Saturday with relatives in Llncoln
ton.
Thursday Casar defeated Ellen
boro in baseball at Ellenboro. The
score was 8 to 9.
Misses Eleanor Jones and Ercie
Dellinger spent last week end at
their respective homes in Shelby
and Cherryvllle.
Duke Interests To
Do Great Building
Estimate That North Carolina Will
See Two Hundred Million
Dollar Program.
(By International News Service.)
Charlotte—Opproximately $200.
000,000 worth of construction lu j
North Carolina is tentatively plan- j
ncd by the Duke interests in North
Carolina, it was learned here today.
However, the program is depend
ent upon the decision of the Inter
state commerce commission regard
ing the application of the Blcdmont
and Northern railway to extend Its
interurban electric lines in the
state.
The construction-program was an
nounced here by W. 8. Lee, execu
tive head of the Duke interests,
which include the Southern Power
company, the Piedmont and North
ern railway, and the Southern Pub
lic utilities company
Examiner Haskell C. Davis of the
Interstate Commerce commission is
expected to make his report on the
arguments for and agalrtst the P.
and N. Extension to the commission
at an early date.
The P. and N. is seeking author
: ity to extend its lines from Char
i lotte to Winston-Salem and from
I Spartanburg, S. C., to Gastonia,
! thus filling the two gaps
; 13-YEAR-Ol.D BOY
KILLS STEPFATHER
Berkley, Cal —Charles Van Aldei
welt. 39, deartment manager in the
San Francisco office of the Ameri
can Railway Express company, was
shot to death by his 13-year-old
stepson. Jerome Cornell, during a
quarrel between Van Alderwelt and
his wife at their home here.
The boy readily admitted shott
ing his stepfather His mother tried
to shield him. insisting she did the
shooting, but after Jerome's story
was checked and corroborated by
his 13-year-old step-brother, Char
les Van Alderwelt jr., the mother
admitted her son fired the shot.
R. E. SIMPSON MAY
GO TO CINCINNATI
Charlotte,-—R. E. Simpson, gen
eral manager of lines east of the
Southern railway, with headquar- I
ters here, will be transferred to i
Cincinnati. Ohio, as general man- I
ager of lines west, effective October ;
1, according to an unconfirmed re- ]
port current here.
Railroad officials refused to he
quoted on the report but intima- i
tions were given that an important
announcement may be expected
from Southern circles in a short
time.
TRAFFIC HAZARDS
LOOM AS PLANE
AND AUTO CRASH
Akron, Ohio—Traffic hazards of
the future are forecast by an au
tomobile-airplane crash here.
B. E. Fulton was circling to land
his plane at Fulton Field here when
Mrs. Rose Robinson drove her au
tomobile under his plane.
As he leveled off four or five feet
from the ground there was a Jar
and a crash.
"That certainly was a rough
landing." said Fulton.
"Yes,” said one of his passengers
“you just hit an automobile.”
Baptist Students
Raleigh. —(INS)— The North
Carolina Baptist Student conference
meeting here the latter part of Oc
tober at State and Meredith col
leges, is expected to be attended by
more than 600 delegates from all
parts of the State.
The program includes addresses
by Dr. Frank H. Leavell. Memphis,
Tenn.; Russel Owen, Coral Gables,
Fla.; Dr. J. E. Dilliard, Birming
ham, Ala.; Dr. George W. Leavell,
China; Dr. Charles E. Maddry and
J. A. Ellis, Raleigh; Dr. Clyde Tur
ner, Greensboro; Dr. Francis P,
Gaines. Wake Forest, and others.
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not only do we Shelby peo
ple say that "Shelby is a
good town”—but people
who do not live here say ft
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Shelby people, or large
numbers of them, own their
homes. Home owners make
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a little effort- upon, your
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