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Local Editor
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tt Bhelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 1927
TWINKLES
This young generation should spell it “gineration.”
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has been reoSjed Sd*A' Rei1 P™* chapter h,
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otherwise call. * P or home where he would i
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farm county is not handicap b^'an eigffmon^hlcToon * *
Via TIia m*lEBBl’ AN» MEBBE NOT
political says that 90 pircen? of^hft^lA0 |that- a5 ob8erv»nt
are for A1 Smith onrt ;fr(.ent ol thQ leaders in Burke countv
ers in Pat'iwVu" an(i that more than 50 percent of the lead
tion, ancestry, and view. In Cleveland The Star believes the
opposite to be true from that credited to Burke and Catawba
counties. Perhups we are wrong, but if one must judge from
what one hears we are right. Here an in Burke and Catawba
there may be leaders who are for A1 Smith and like so much
for their followers to believe as they believe that they think
the public as a whole fee's the same way. It is not exactly
right to say that a county has a certain attitude just because
a few so-caled leaders are sc inclined. The people have their
say after a certain length of time, and we will wait until that
time to pass upon Burke and Catawba and their political
beliefs. Meanwhile we just wonder at A1 Smith’s ability to
keep us all wondering.
LIFE'S STORIES BEST
Jusj. a few years ago Alfred Aloysius Horn was merely
Trader Horn, a peddler on the Ivory Coast, a hawker of
kitchenware, as the press agents say it. A most recent
photograph shows Trader Horn parked amid luxury with an
income of $4,000 week. How was it done? One day Taylor
Horn knocked on the back doer of the home of Mrs. Ethel
reda Lewis, South African novelist. Interested in a charac
ter the novelist got the old trader to talking, As he pro
ceeded his story became more and more interesting. At the
end she persuaded the old fellow'—72 years cf age—to write
the story of his life in his own words. He did and today
“Trader Horn,’’ the story, is one of the best sellers in the
book world.
Perhaps the thought is that this nothing more than a
boost for a book. But it is more. In real life, about you
each day, are stories, living stories, more colorful, more in
teresting and more absorbing than any ever imagined and
transposed to the printed page. Few of these stories are
ever related. Life is a big book in which are written countless
thousands of stories more gripping and unusual than fiction.
The story of Trader Horn was Trader Hem’s own story and
that is why the 73-year-old peddler is today living in luxury.
Look at the life about you. It is interesting if you do not
need some one to translate it for you.
GIVE THEM EIGHT MONTHS
The Star does not know just how Horace Grigg, county
school superintendent, is going to find the sentiment of
Cleveland county on the eight months School when he offi
cially opens his campaign to advance the county’s educational
rating, but mark it down as,a certainty that this paper will
be in behind the movement when it does get underway.
It’s high time—and has been—that a county considered
a leader in agriculture and many other lines begins to think
about the like training given it's children. Not a single
county in North Carolina with anything like the wealth of
Cleveland county has a lower school rating. Not a single
county in the state with anything near as much to boast of as
Cleveland has to apologize for such an inadequate county
school system as Cleveland must. In no other county in the
state where the per capita wealth is near that of Cleveland
has a child a poorer chance to secure an education.
That is plain talk. Rather tactless talk to permit the
outside public -to gaze upon, but it is true. Why not get out
and admit it, and then improve the situation? Year after
year Cleveland county pays out thousands and thousands of
dollars for fertilizer to produce one of the largest cotton
crops in the state, yet out in many of the rural districts the
children who help make this big cotton crop do not have the
privilege of attending school more than six months in the
year unless they come to Shelby or go to one of t,he*big. con
solidated schools in the county. We build roads, bridges
fine homes, and buy automobiles and radios, but still we are
content to let many of our children stay in school only six
months in the year.
Twenty years from now where will the paved roads, steel
bridges, fine autos, and radio-equiped homes be? And just
the same score years ahead how do you think the men and
women of that day will look back Upon the money spent?
Which will mean more to them—The education they might
have had with which to face life, or the antiquated radio, the
worn-out motor car, the dilapidated home, and the same bar
ren outlook on life as you faced when a youth?
The major disgrace about the whole affair is that Cleve
land county can well afford an eight months school in every
school house in the county. There will be those who will
yell “Oh, the expenses will break us up. We just can’t afford
it.” Yet, if you’ll notice, those same folks will manage some
how to scrape up enough money to buy a new automobile
tire, a battery for the radio, a new roof for the hen house,
and a new coat of paint for the dwelling house. Still they
can’t afford to give their children a fair .shot at life along
with the majority of the children in North Carolina.
Cleveland county, the most boosted and biggest boasted
county in the state, is so near the (bottom in school ranking
that it may tumble off the lower end of North Carolina’s
poorer counties some of these days. Day and night we talk
cf our culture, our building record, our cotton crop, cur lead
ers in civic, political and financial life, yet each morning, for
half of the calendar, we turn our back on scores of youngsters
wending their way to a one-horse school that has open doors
only six months in the year.
Finally, we believe when it comes to a showdown Cleve
land county will go on record for the long term. The show
down is the thing. x
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Alibi A1 Sees
No Upsets In
Coming Games
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'Thinks McOowall and Ten Wolves
Will Trounce Wildcats. Some
Dope on Coming Events.
Well, it’s another week on the
calendar for Alibi Al, and a
week with a bad tastte for it is
the week of bill collectors even
ing up October scores. Despite,
this financial crisis Al has a few
football winners to mention and
an alibi or so to fall back upon.
Al can develop more alibis than a
ALIBI AL.
college girl can
dates, but when it
comes to a show
down A. A1 can pick
winners with any of
'em. If you do not
believe it look over
the picks made by
The Star's demon
dcpester for this
week and then
watch the scores.
Just like it was
a pain last week to
pick a winner in the
; State-Carolina game it is going to |
| be tough to tell all these old Wake
Forest grads hereabout that Furman
will lick the Deacons, yet v.e have
ti consolation for the loyal Baptists
it thev care to pull up a chair and
listen The consolation is this:
WATCH NEXT YEAR’S WAKE
FOREST ELEVEN. For once Wake
Forest has found itself able to use
that barber college cry of State and
Carolina, “Next—Next year.” What
we mean to say is that Wake For
est has a freshman football team
this yew‘that is a team. Handling
the backfield is a youngster named
for the banjo-faced fellow on the
comic strips, Moon Mullins by name
and this same Mullins was all-Amer
ican prep school quarter for two
years. Along with the youngster on
the team are numerous Oak Ridge
stars of other days and scintillating
players galore. Keep this mum, but
Hank Garrity never attracted such
a galaxy of stars in his entire life.
Ralph Gillespie, former Shelby star,
is doing well to make the third fresh
man team, which may give you an
idea. The speedy Art Hord, of Kings
Mountain, is a substitute on the
first outfit—so George Blanton,
Olin Hamrick, Durham and George
Moore and the rest of the loyal
boys may stand by and wait an
other autumn. Meantime if you care
to take a chance put up your wad
that Wake Forest will likely throw
the hooks in Carolina again next
year—that is, if those boys return.
As for Carolina, thefre is some
hope provided the university follows
the plan suggested for Yale and de
cides riot to have anything but an
amateur coach next year.
At this juncture A1 prods his
typist in the ribs fif he was a her,
A1 might have necked her instead)
and informs that it is his business
to predict football outcomes and not
to encourage old grads by discuss
ing next year's prospects. So, we’ll
get busy and whisper Off the elev
ens A1 himself named as likely win
ners. In getting set for his picks A!
names over c few of the games well
worth going to see. First on the list
is the Shelby-Kings Mountain setto;
Clcmson-Citadel, Vandy-Tech, Ten
ncscee-Sewanee, and State-Davidson
Otherwise A1 sees a rather tame day
Remarking that he couldn’t wait
any lc-nger while his bull was being
herded off a typewriter ribbon A1
Jotted down the following winners
and dashed over to the high school
field where he has a photographer
making a photo of Casey Morris’
Blue Beys.
Shelby over Kings Mountain,
(Friday.)
Asheville over Lincolnton (Fri
day).
State over Davidson. *
Turman over Wake Forest.
V. M. I. over Carolina.
Alabama over Kentucky.
Clemson over Citadel.
Georgia over Florida.
Vandy over Tech <mebbe>.
V. P. I. over S. C.
Tennesse over Sewanee.
W. and L. over Virginia.
Read 'em and weep, then glance
at the scores before you go to Sun
day school.
President Von Hindenburg stoutly
maintains that Germany drew her
sword in self-defense, but he doesn’t
far from home when attacked.—Col
umbus Dispatch.
Wall Reunion To g
Held At Henrie
The following >3 a ccn •
«ram for the Wail r. ,
Shoals Baptist church '
ta, Saturday Novemb. 1
band Is being furnished b, ,,
Haynes for his respet i
he has for the Wai! fs
10 a. m.—Song se 1
Robinson. 10:20—rh,..,
by Miss Luciie Wall. K/.v.v/"
—Quartet High Shoe: '■/
Devotional—E. F. Wall
C. 10:40—Duet by Misses in
j Imcra Robinson, Moor; r.
!Brief History of Wal! iy
Bess Wall, Mooresbo:. hi h
by Mrs. Bert Moon
11:10—Sermon. “Redirhr.c*
Well” by Dr. Zeno Wail, of &,
12—Song by congrog- . • C.
2 p. m.—Music by Ci.jc.'. ]
Short talks.
; OYSTER SUPPER AT M W
HOPE, EARI,, ON F)!!|
Tlie Senior B. Y. p. u. ef
Hope church at Err'. \ in giv,
oyster supper Friday afternoon'
evening on November 4th. En-j
cordially invited. Prdcwh v
|for benefit of union and chur;>
Advertise in The S
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