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Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the postoffice at
Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879.
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MONDAY, DEC. 5, 1927.
TWINKLES.
The real wizard of the Ford enterprises is undoubtedly the
press agent.
Of course, you’re going to contribute to the Christmas fund
for Shelby’s unfortunates.
The political mystery of 1927 remains unsolved: Will Cool
jdge run? Your guess apparently is just as good as any
'Other.
» • M M _
As Ye Twinkler sees any Democrat living could beat A1
Smith if he could emp'Oy the publicity director recently used
by a certain automobile manufacturer.
Judging by North Carolina’s experience, one motorist be
ing killed daily, and improved highway program must be an
asset to the survival-of-the-fittest idea of life.
? SictDorton is the new head of the Shelby Kiwanis club and
if he can keep it moving along as he has the county fair it
should be one bustling luncheon organization.
.* One of the men Buck Duke left to carry on says that North
Carolina’s greatest growth has just begun. Frankly if Shel
*by is to keep step it is high time new industry was coming
in.
Another man is suing for the theft of his wife’s love. He
places the value of that love at $50,000, but the manner in
which, he lost it indicates that it wasn’t worth a plugged
dime.4
Ar. ijr. 'Melton, of Boiling Springs, writes: “Here's my pat
on the shoulder for your editorials on the ‘log along high
way.’ They have disappeared.” And to our way of thinking
if they had not disappeared several motorists might have
been patted in the face with a cemetery spade.
CRIME SENSATIONS
Since the Snyder-Gray murder, which has recently bobbed
up again due to the turning down of an appeal, no lurid crime
story has monopolized the newspaper headlines for several
weeks. However, with this Lilliendahl murder at Mays
Landing, New Jersey, drawing more and more space daity it
seems as if the reading public is to again be filled up on crime
that arose over perverted sex icteas. Yes, that must be the
attraction. A murder that dees not have mystery or sex an
gles id rapidly passed up as minor news by editors who
should know wh3t the readers like. For the average man and
-.woman with clean minds it must be. a puzzle as to how wives,
or husbands for that matter, reach such a state that they
will plot with their lovers on how to do away with their mates.
Sexual outlook must be greatly warped when it pays such a
price for realization.
GRADUALLY 'IMPROVING
The fact that Cleveland county, located in a section not
usually considered as the cotton belt, now stands second in
cotton production in the state is attracting coosifW»Hl«
comment. A few years back when the county barely climbed
into the 40,000-bale class this paper predicted that the peas
had been reached. Seemingly we were wrong for last year
the total crop got in gun-shot distance of 50,00o bales and
this year may go up to the same mark. The Charlotte Ob
server had often called attention to the cotton-producing
prowess of Cleveland farmers and now down in the eastern
part of the state—considered the ideal cotton sect ion--they
are beginning to perk upland wonder about this hill country’s
cotton crop. The Humbert on Robesonian published in one
of the east’s biggest cotton counties, says in a recent issue:
| Robeson drops be'ow both Johnston and Cleveland
counties in number of bales of cotton ginned prior to No
vember 14 this year, whereas last year at the same time
Robeson was several thousand bales ahead of any of the
rest. Cleveland, Gaston, Polk, Rutherford and Union are
the only counties that report a larger number of bales
this year than at the same time last year. Johnston
leads with 42,834, as compared with 55 323 at the same
. time last year, Cleveland comes second with 38,987 as
compared with 34,036 last year, and Robeson comes third
with 37,858 as compared with 58,189. Think of Cleve
land, which a few years ago was no cotton county at all,
and which grows cotton just as a side line, raising more
cotton than Robeson, which for many years held the un
disputed lead and where cotton is one of the two man
;; money, crops!
SPORT S GREAT WEAKNESS
* There are many briefs that might be worthy of presenta
tion in defense of America’s trend to sports. Despite the oft
heard criticism of too much football in the colleges and too
much attention to baseball in the summer, there are many
good points to both games. The main weakness to all sports
!is that the loser gets nothing but sarcasm ahd all the glory
' goes to the winner. Such is the fickleness of the public, but
in the making of a gentleman it is a poor policy to teach a
‘youth that there is no respect except for a winner.
! Football offers the best illustrations. Tad Jones, the vet
eran coach of Yale and one of America’s greatest, failed to
turn out such trampling teams for a year or so, and the Yale
"fails—forgetful of the days swhen Jones led Yale* to victory
himself and unmindful of the great elevens he had produced
.—began to yeH for his scalp. This year Jones heard enough
of the unfair criticism. “When this season is over I’ll be
through,” he told the peeved alumni who would be satisfied
with nothing but victorious teams. The heights of athletic
glorY js attained at Yale when Old Eli wins from both Har
vard and Princeton. This year Yale won both games and top
ped it off by defeating Army one of the strongest footbai
, elevens of all time, and Jones, making it his last season to
please the alumni, gave Yale one of its greatest team’s. Now
they want Jones back. That is the sport spirit in America.
A poor come-off, we say, when you have to win and keep
winning to keep your job with past laurels and circumstances
counting for naught.
North Carolina has a closer-home case. The university
looked bad during the major part of a season for a great uni
versity team. Here and there cries crept up of changing the
eoache*—many a good football coach has been crucified in
Jsorth Carolina by fickle fans— yet as the fag end of the sea
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son came Carolina licked State, Dhvidson and last of all Vir- |
trinia. Have you heard anything about changing coaches late-1
ly? It would happen again wer; the scores identical next
year. . ,
A poor spirit that when the w nner is the whole show in
sport, or in life. It was Appleton, we believe, who wrote of
the real fighter—the fellow who knows he hasn’t a chance
of winning even at his best, but keeps giving his best and
and keeps fighting. This year We watched a football game
in which one side was hopelessly jeaten and became more so
as the game progressed. There w^re flashes of real brilliance
and great plays by the yinmn8 team, but to the writer’s
mind the heroes, when it comes dpwn to the worth, were two
fellows on the losing team who kept fighting to the last. They
were-beaten with no hope of winning and they could have
eased up a bit and the outcome would have been very little
different, biit they didn’t—when (it ended with no chance at j
all these two boys, who drew a small whisper of praise, were
fighting just as hard as they were when the game opened
and chances were even. Who would you say were the heroes ?
When Babe Ruth hits a home run thousands cheer, but
when the bambino strikes out just as many people jeer. It
is mightly easy with letters and in ltfe to turn “applaufye’’
into “applesauce.”
A certain portion of life works on the same poor basis as
modern sports. Is there any hope for better standards when
the youth, who will be in the business and professional world
tomorrow, is taught mere and more each day that to the win
ner beings the spoils regardless ?
Writer In Lincoln
Discusses Teachers
The following letter recently ap
peared in The Lincoln County
Newe:
To The Lincoln County News:
Will you please print in your pa
per the following:
As a tax payer I have for the past
few years closely observed the man
agement as rendered by so many of
the Teachers or leaders, as we might
term them, of our public schools. I
have also examined soma of the
boohs and I can only say v.hat’s
next? God only knows.
This Consolidation and unlearned
and Godless and Christless genera
tion of people.' where are we going
anyway? So many of our teachers
need to be taught. So many don't
care. About ninety per cent of our
children, if they get any learning, we
must give it to them at home. So
many of them say they do not get
one lesson a day; whats the teacher
for anyway? They are {pught so
many things nowadays that ought
not to be so what’s the matter any
way. We must all be asleep. What
will the next generation bring forth.
I just want to say this kindly and
not as a slur to anybody. I just won
der what some of our lady teachers
expect to reap from what they sow,
doning men’s overalls, and going out
after night hunting. Well, 1 don’t
know, but I wish we had more strict
hunting laws. ,
We use to have an old seng stating
"Where He Leads Me I Will Follow.”
I wonder if there was any leading
In this?
Whatsoever a man soweth. ’ that
shall he also reap? I cap say we as
teachers and leaders ought to be
careful what kind of Impression we
leave for the younger to follpw?
We will all some day I fear, when
It Is too late, see our mistakes In this
life. We only go through life once.:
At death, when probation is closed,
v. o can’t change any thing so it is up i
to us to prepare to not only live in [
this present world but to be prepar
ed to live cn and on in the world to I
come.
Kducation is all right, I am not
kicking any one that wants it. It is
all right in its place. What this
world needs today is more knowl
edge of God and His Holy Word. j
1 rusting no one will get offended
at this, if you do, bring your bible j
and wc will reason together.
Respectively yours,
• J. P. HOJJSER. |
NORTH CAROLINA IIOG
RECEIVES BIG HONOR
Chicago. — Upstart, a Berkshire
boar from the Klondike Farm, at
Elkin. N. C,., won the grand'cham-1
pionship for Berkshires as we!l as I
the Class Three Junior yearling boar !
I prize at the International Livestock i
Show here. In addition, Upstart’s \
Lady,” won first award in the Class
Eight junior yearling Berkshire sow >
1 competition.
Upstart was born and raised in
[North Carolina, and was 17 month
o’d today, winning against boars [
four months older. He weighed the i
day he left the farm at Elkin 750
pounds, in ordinary breeding condi
tion. The two Klondike Farm en
tries were the only livestock ex- i
hibits from the State at the Chicago j
show, and possibly from the entire
South.
The Klondike Farm is located
near Elkin, and is owned by Thur
mond Chatham, of Winston-Salem, 1
and managed by Ruohs Pyron.
Cal says he can find plenty to do 1
in private Hfe. Us Democrats wish
| he’d a thought of that sooner.—Dal
| las News. j
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THIS WEEK
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Georgia Writers
Still “Call Names”
(News and Observer)
Journalistic amenities have im
proved since the days when rival
newspapers called each cither by
such endearing names as “hyenas’
and "Jackals” and the like. It had
been supposed that sort of writing
had fallen into innocuous desuetude.
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supply you with the proper
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BUY FROM
YOUR HOME
MERCHANT _
everything you possibly can.
They are the men who keep
our town going. Give your
home merchant your co-oper
ation. When you buy from petf
dlers, or out of town or from
those who do not live here!
those who do not support our
churches, clubs; a^id different
mstitutions, those who do not
pay taxes, etc., you help tc kin
your town and county.
THINK BEFORE YOU BIT
“The Peddler.”
(Asheville Advocate.)
A few days ago a peddler
selling silk hosiery stopped at
the door of an Asheville home,
and, according to information
reaching this office, began in
terviewing the lady of the
house.
As soon as he reached a pe
riod, the lady started taking.
‘I am so glad you called." she
said, whereupon the salesman
had visions of a fine order, "i
am on the finance committee
Of our church," the lady con
tinued, “and I know how much
you are interested in all our lo
cal enterprises, so I am going
to-let you make a subscription |
to our pastor’s salary. I am so
glad you called this morning." .
The peddler swallowed his
Adaip’s apple a time or two, ,
sparred for words that were
net contained in his prospec
tus, and finally said: “\yell, '
you see. lady, I do not live
here. My home is in Atlanta,
and the family gives some
thing to the church there, so I
guess you’ll have to pass me
up.”
The lady w as a member of
*he finance committee be
cause she had powers of sal
esmanship herself, and con
tinued to press her argument
why the man selling good- to
Asheville people should con
tribute to the support o!
Asheville institutions, but she
didn't get the subscription. '
and as soon as he could do so.
the young man bowed himself
away.
The incident has its virtues
Building up a city is a com
munity effort. The place
where We live is built up in the
degree with which we co
operate. The peddler drops
in, gathers up all the orders
and loose cash he can, and ,
then departs. He means well,
wants to make a living, but ,
he cannot cooperate. The more
peddlers and the more ousi-^
ness they do, the poorer we be
come as a community.
The next time a peddler rings J
your doorbell, hit him for a j
contribution to your church
or community chest.
Trade with your Home mcr-ij
chants everyone of them.*
their stocks are just as good
as any other towns, especially
here in Shelby. Our mer
chant’s stocks are equal to the
larger towns stocks, give your
Home merchants a chance
give them your business—ami
Shelby will grow.
The Paragon
Stcres—
—have gbne the limit, our
stocks are large and com
plete. give us a chance is a’!
we ask. Our sales are the
largest this year in our His
tory, our stocks are the best
our prices are right—come to,/
see us. A visit to our stores- *
now will convince you. Our
Christmas displays arc ready,'
Thank you
The Paragon
Stores, 1
Shelby, N. C.
Regardless Of
The Rain
—The Paragon Furniture Co.
unloaded a solid car load of
Mascot Ranges Saturday—,
which makes the 3rd solid car.
load this fall and winter ThSxe
who know buy the Mascot—
you will sooner or later, why
not now. Beginning today we
are starting a sale and demon
stration on Mascot Ranges
and Sellers ^Citchen Cabinets
See our advertisement in this ’
paper. During this sale you '
will save money—Come!
VISIT THE
PARAGON ;
FURNITURE j
CO. *
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We Are All Dreuij
ed Up For
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CHRISTMAS
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Not so in parts of Georgia. An edi
tor of that state, called “the Georgia
Beranium,” recently had the follow
ing to say in his writings about a
well-known editor:
If ever there was a man so w'arped
with hatred, so desirous of using
venom, so hateful in trying to turn
the words of others to lies to fur
ther his own hatreds, Anderson, of
the Maccn Telegraph, takes the
cake. He has no regard for the
truth; in fact, it is useless to tell
him the trutti'for he is so totally
unacquainted toith it that lie would
try to warp that to feed his own
venom. Might as well sing psalms
to a jackass or feed cordial to a boa
constrictor. It would be useless to
quote him a decent statistic. He
would not know it if he saw it and if
he did see and know it he would
twist it to dip in his venom and
hared until the statistic would turn
green with his poison. He is so
utterly hopeless that qur only ex
cuse tor reprinting the following is
just to show a jackass in full bray
and under good headway. If every
citizen of this town did not know
the truth of the statement made by
this paper. If they did not know the
actual, honest truth of the local
situation, we would not even notice
this garter snake.
What did Editor Anderson do
when such language was hurled at
him? He printed it in his paper so
that all his subscribers could read
it. Some attacks utterly defeat
themselves by their violence.
There isn't much more science can
do for the kitchen, except to invent
■ >■> electric can opener,—Sacramento
Bee.
Style Expert At Charlotte Critical.
Of Those Women Who Expose Their Knees {
(Miles Wolff in Charlotte Observer)
The flapper fashion of exposing
in for more criticism—this time
from a style expert.
Miss Annye K. Caswell, who sup
ervises the sale of dresses and fem
inine underthings in one of Char
1 lotte’s leading department stores,
1 yesterday landed a sharp uppercut.
She started her conversation by
remarking’ that pretty knees are
just about as scarce as new’ Fords.
She continued by saying that this
exposure of bon or bumpy knees did
1 not improve the appearance.
She would up by declaring that
some of the extreme dresses were
jvell nigh indecent.
“The knee and the limb are the
most compicuous things about a
woman now.” declared Miss Cas
well.
‘‘Nobdy gives a face more than a
glanoe, but it is the knee that
sta^ua out in bold relief.”
“Don’t misunderstand me,” she
cautioned, "I am not opposed fb
short dresses. I thinly they are fine.
I advise my customers to wear
them, but I do think moderation
would at least be wise.”
To Miss Caswell, the poet who
remarked about the “thing of beau
ty” and the “joy forever” was cer
tainly not talking about v/omen's
knees.
YOU’LL be proud
of YOUR I
Heatrola, too I
-wi M j
SO many people arc installing HeatroiasJ
And no wonder. Heatrola owners are al
ways saying a good word for it. They bought
it because it is so beautiful
and so easy to keep clean.
They boost It because it fills
the whole house—every
nook and corner—witr*
even, moist, healthful heut.
Let us tell you ail about the
Heatrola and the easy-paj*
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— PHONE 330