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Our Most Consistent Winner IIIIIHII.I. ill I .. Ml.■■■■. — --------- ! or raKn JL 2] ^SV»T OUl tTOfA THfe NtfnONAA SIMGLE3 tM mon -mtaxySH WnOKAL S\W5L£S IN ueuEH VWON BJQ2V sme ttAvto ujrrMour LOSU4G A SET. By QUIN MALI WIIE;m it corni-3 t^* icnsist cne? in wiiininij it seems that the 8?een fWit bonnet -—of whatever ei.ib’.om goes with consistent w-.nvlng—must be given to Miss Uclen \Yil!» without so nsosh as one dk'-enting vote. Mias Wills is the young woman from Cailfo-pia who is making a name fcr herself in the tennis world. In fact, it can be assumed she has atreadyestablished herself quits firmly in that particular branch of sport. It was only recently that she topped off another sensational sea son by capturing the women’s na tional title again. She gained this ▼ictory by defeating Miss Helen Jacobs, a fellow Californian, in »tra;ght sets and in doirg so main tained her record of naving won •vorv match she has entered since the "1927 nationals, without drop ping a set. In other w >rds, she has defeated all opposition in a period •f a year in straight sets. Which is fait proof for the claim that ■he- hasn’t had to extend herself to win against the present crop ol op prr. cults. 'ihe plaving form displayed by Vi-, Wills during 1P2S has bre ught forth the subject of again pitting tita Californian against Suzanne Lenglen, the colorful ! reach star, who defeated our Helen in the only match which they ever played. Miss Wills’ rooters cla.'m that the Helen of today is unbeatable. Her record of the past year bears out their claim. Suzanne, at the top of her form, might defeat the Helen of today. It would be one of the greatest matches ever played, but the event never will occur. Lenglen is no longer at the top of her form, and “I’ere” Lenglen is authority for the statement that it is doubtful if she ever will play before the pub lic again. Another thing is that the French star is said to be from 18 to 20 pounds over her best playing weight. Suzanne didn’t say this, but it is a fact which the French tennis critics have discovered. With the French woman elim inated as a possible opponent, it would appear that Helen can go on being unbeatable for as many years as she cares to devote the major portion of her time to ten nis. Her recent victory in the national singles affords her an op portunity of equaling o- surpass ing the record of I.lolla* Mallory, who is the only champion to hold the title more tnan five times. Molla won it on eight occasions, 1 and undoubtedly Miss NV ills has sufficient margin over the field to continue winning it for three more years. The player who is to stand a chance against Miss Wills must master a slow, cross-court, severely angled drive and be able to follow it with a deep one to the base line. This method, according to Lenglen, contributed greatly to the Frenchwoman’s victory over the Californian. It is said by the critics that Helen can play a daz zling game back and forth across the baseline but that she does not cover her court well when she is forced to run up and back. But against this combination Miss Wills often unleashes such speed and power behind her driving that an opponent has no time to think of a change of pace—an angled drive just over the net, followed by a smashing one to the baseline. But the proof of the pudding seems to lie in the fact that Miss Wills remains head and shoulders above her field. No one has come forward who can cause her to exert herself and until that time arrives Helen will continue to be unbeat able. When someone does make her extend herself it is quite probable that Miss Wills will solve arty in tricate combination or change of pace and still remain unbeatable. ANNOUNCING SPECIAL BATTERY PRICES Phone 194. Phone 194. We wish to ANNOUNCE that we have been assigned the exclusive dealer for the sale and service of the well known NATIONAL BATTERIES in Shelby and vicinity. We maintain a first class service station on all makes of batteries. NOTE OUR LOW PRICES Guarantee Exchange Price 11 plate for Fords, Chevrolet, Etc. 90 Days $ 7.95 11 thick plate in Fords only 12 months S 8.95 II thick piate in Cl:ev., Essex, others 12 months S 8.95 13 plate Fords, Essex, Chevrolet, others 12 months S 8.95 13 thick plate Hudson, Bnick, Dodge 18 months §19.95 15 thin plate Hudson, Buirk, Dodge 18.months S10.95 1? volt for old model Dodge 18 months §13.95 — All Sizes In Stock For Immediate Delivery — ALL BATTERIES INSTALLED AND SERVICED THEREAFTER. Ideal Service Station Corner LaFayctte and Sumter Sts. Shelby, N. C. Rapidly Growing: Japanese Legume Beginning to Become Popular With Piedmont Farmers. The following appeared 1n +he Charlotte Observer, as a communi cation : Watch Kudzu! Some enthusiasts are making so bold as to declare that this rapidly growing Japanese legume is going to revolutionize agriculture, particular ly livestock farming, in the south, and particularly in the piedmont section of the southeastern states where the plant apparently grow, to perfection. Kudzu is a plant the luxuriance of which everyone has seen as porch vines. It is a legume and is gener ally recognized as about the fastest growing plant known. Eugene Ash craft, editor, farmer and kudzu en thusiast of Momoe, measured a 10 foot growth in 14 days, an average of more than 8 1-2 inches every 2-1 hours, Kudzu makes good hay— ; better, if anything, than alfalfa or ! clover because it holds its leaves better in curing. Enormous Yields. One outstanding fact about kudzu | is its enormous yield. The agrieul ! turai experiment station at Auburn, j Ala., reported it as being an “ex 1 cellent pasture plant" and continu ed: *Tcv a hay crop we have found j It to te very valuable. It has pro duced for live yesus on the poorest ; sort of land here an average of 3 1-2 ton." per acre without any expense | ot fertilization or care whatever dur ing that time.' In a teat at toe experiment sta tion ot the United States depart ment ol agriculture at Arlington. J Va.. a y.eid ot rive tons per acre was reported In Flcridft, Georgia, and Alabama jicids un good laud are | said to have reached as high as 10 : tons per acre ot cured hay. Those j sections have longer growing sea-, sons tarn the piedmont region, but the test at Arlington, Va., would in dicate that piedmont farmers might, expect a yield as h*gh as live tons ; per acre or slightly more. If kudzu is such a wonderful piant why has it not come into more general use as a neld crop? Trial Patches. The explanation is easily found. A number of farmers in this section have planted trial patches and have been enthusiastic over the behavior i of the plant. Planted 10 feet apart on 10-foot rows the plants have by the second and t.-iud year, covered j the entire patches. The runners on the joints so that by the end of the second or thud year there are literally thousands of plants in stead of the few that were original ly planted The trouble, however, has been in the cost of the roots. First-class roots have ccst $30 to $40 per thousand. This means a cost of from $30 to $75 or more per acre for plants, depending upon the spacing. Even at such a cost as this, however, • farmers in Florida, Georgia and Alabama who have advertised kudzu I plants for sale have not been able j to Supply the demand during the past few years. It appears now that all this is go- j ing to be changed. A few years ago j Eugene Ashcraft, of Monroe, pur chased 1.800 plants and put them on , an acre of very poor land. Thej plants were in transit for several days and only about 150 of them lived. At the end of the third year even the 15 Oplarts had pretty thoroughly covered the acre. Mr. Ashcraft was enthusiastic over everything connected with kudzu except the price of the roots. He knew- that kudzu seed were extreme ly scarce, high in price, and low in germination. He bought a few and was so well pleased that last year he imported a coiisiderable quan tity for himself and a number of farmer friends, and this year he has planted 20 additional acres in kudzu, using the seed instead of the plants and reducing the cost to only a few dollars per acre. An Important Legume. Mr. Ashcraft and his friends have now satisfied themselves that kudzu may be established upon land in this section through the use of seed at a reasonable cost and that this means that kudzu must quickly come into its own as the outstanding and most important legume grown in this section and as \ tremendous factor in the development of the livestock and dairy industries. Mr. Lex Marsh has fields of kudzu on farms in both Union and Meck lenburg counties. He is unqualified ly enthusiastic. His kudzu fields have been visited this summer by scores of dairymen and other farm ers and as the end of the summer approaches this number increases. It is said that the same is true of other fields of kudzu in other counties in the Carolinas. J. R. Sams, county farm demon stration agent at large in North Carolina and specialist in pasture plants, is another kudzu enthusiast and he is spreading the gospel of kudzu all over tms section. Most Enthusiastic. Mr. George Branscom of Melvin Hill, Polk county, has 15 acres or more in kudzu and is more than en thusiastic over it. Four years ago Mr. Branscom plarted kudzu roots five feet apart in the row with corn that was planted in five foot rows. During the three years since he has planted corn in the rows of kudzu and every year his corn middles be tivezn the original rows has shown fufestantiai increase in yield while the kudzu 1ms made such a mass ui growth that for the past three jcars he has been able to cultivate J his com only tw cd The kudzu enthusiasts rathe i logically claim that a plant thu will yield from throe' and one-half tc eight or 10 tens pet acre of first j class hay year alter year, regtrdless of droughts or wet spells, and that will flourish on the thinnest sort of land and the steepest, rockiest hill sides, all without hme, fertilizer and constant re-seedlntj, must be a won derful plant. Certain it is tn-ik hundreds of far mers in this section ere watching and investigating kudzu. HOOVER BEST IT SITS G, 0. P. PIPER Harris Reiterates Charge That lira- ; ver Revoked Segregation Order Atlanta. Oa.—Charges that Her- j bert Hoover, Republican president ial candidate, in his capacity as secretary of commerce revoked a long standing order under which white and negro employees were segregated in his department were reiterated here in a public statement by Senator William J. Harris, of Georgia. The charge previously had been denied. The Georgia senator charged that the segregation order was in force until Secretary Hoover as a con tender for the Republican presi dential nomination opened his cam paign in an Ohio city. Negro Editor Asks Change He said that Just before the Ohio primary a negro editor from the Ohio city appeared at the office of Mr. Hoover to discuss the segrega tion order which, he declared, was shown in articles in Washington newspapers at the time and also in correspondence between Secre tary Hoover and Senator Stephens, in Mississippi. After the visit of the negro editor to Mr. Hoover's office, an oral order was issued under which segregation was revoked and white men and women put to work side by side with negro men and women, Mr. Harris charged. The Senator from Georgia became director of the census under the Wilson administration in 1913 and at the time he discussed with the chief clerk the question, of segre gation of negro clerks fm the white clerks employed in the de partment under civil service, ac cording to his statement, 'There were a number of these negro clerks who had alway s Work ed alongside of the white men and women clerks in the different sec tions of the census office,” he said ‘‘I issued to the chief clerk an order that the segregation be made.” He declared that this order was m force from that time until Mr. Hoov er, as aspiring to the presidential nomination, opened his campaign, if an order revoking segregation had been issued in this department even by the assistant secretary of commerce it certainly would have with the knowledge and approval of Secretary Hoover,” the Georgia sen ator said. Mr. Hoover is the respon sible head of the department of commerce and the bureau of cen sus is a part of this department. Such a decisive move as the break ing up of segregation of the races in the bureau of census could not have been made except on respon sible; authority,” 111 behind the How dust does stick in the walls just back of your pictures! One thing’s sure—it can’t “stick” very long in Dcvoe Velour Finish! A swish of your wash cloth and it’s as clean and bright as the day it was painted. Its velvety surface is as easy to clean as the shiniest enamel—that’s Dcvoe Velour Finish! Ideal for every room in your house. Costs less than $1.00 to paint the 4 walls of an average room. PAUL WEBB & SON Shelby, N. C. THE NEW FRIGICAIRE Conveniences developed . . . for women No stooping . . . no corners to clean. Removable shelves . . . complete simplicity IIEN women buy, they look * * for conveniences. Thai's why domestic science authorities helped design the New Frigidaire. You’ll find the inside of the cabinet made of seamless porcelain enamel with rounded corners ... as easily cleaned as a china plate. Shelves are spaced for tall containers. They are removable for cleaning. Even the lowest one is at a cou venient height. No stooping. The top of the cabinet can be used for c?> ^.tra shelf space. A n d the Xe w Frigidaire is quiet. You don’t hear it start. You don’t hear it stop. You don’t hear it run. Furthermore, your New Frigld nire will actually pay for itself. There will he no more ice to buy. ISO more wasted food due to spoil age. Foods are kept fresh and wholesome 1 to 5 times longer so you can buy in larger quantities. T.he.se combined savings are greater than its cost and the cost of operation. The New Frigidairo is now on exhibition at our display room. Come in and sec it as soon as possible. Low prices ami easy terms If you buy the Xcw Frlgulaire on a dc 1 erred payment plan ... a* moat people do . . . the lirst payment need be no greater than the cost of a few ice books. And Frigid aire prices were never lower or general Mo* tors terms more lib eral. Select your New Irigidairc note. Wait ing simply means that you are paying for a .New Frigidaira with out having it* Arey Refrigerating Company S. Washington St. Phone 280 SHELBY. N. C. The Policy Behind His Success IT WAS a proud moment in the lives of these parents. Their son had just been elevated to a high position. The whole thing was in the papers, with his picture, for friends and neighbors to sec. A Tilot Policy had helped. For an educational policy,^taken out short ly after the birth of this same boy, had seen him through college and started, properly equipped, on the highway toward success. Lot your children enjoy the same educational security. 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