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The Cleveland Star
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At Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress. March 3. 18*9.
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MONDAY, OCT. 22, 1928.
TWINKLES
Ask any owner of cotton mill stock about C oolidge pros
perity. Then when he snorts wrathfully at you ask him if
ho h^s heard that Hoover would continue the Coolidge poli- ■
cies. . i
"Campaigns Are Not What They Used To Be." reads a
headline in The Star. Perhaps they are not, but the only
reason is that with all the paved roads there is not much mud
to sling and an even filthier slime has supplanted the missing
mud.
It’s cotton picking time in Cleveland county now with
the children in nearly every rural family out to break previous.j
records for a day’s picking. These records may not attain
the publicity of football and baseball records, but consider
their real worth.
When friends- wanted Roosevelt to use the Catholic, or
* religious issue against President Taft, leddy withered the|
advice with his scorn. Would that there were more Repub
licans and a few more Democrats of the Roosevelt calibre to
day.
It is quite a tribute the Yorkville Enquirer pays when
• * it say* that the remodelled Baptist church here will seat
almost as many people as attend all church services in \ork.
Incidentally, Dr. Zeno Wall, pastor of the growing church,
I J predicts that the enlarged church will not hold all who pack
‘ • about the doors for the first two services.
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One of the fixed warnings about motor car travel is
, > “never ride on the running board.” A colored boy paid no
' - heetf to the set regulation the other night and the result
t is that he is through riding ip motor cars—unless they have
them in the next world. Might use the incident as a moral
to your boy who rides the fender or hangs on behind as he
speeds along on his skates.
Casey Morris’ football eleven lost its major game of
x- the year in Charlotte’s victory, but about Shelby they will
be talking of the game fight of Capt. Gold and his lighting
teammates almost as long as they have talked those who in
days gone by licked Charlotte. After all, performances like
the Shelby captain put up, with all the odds against him, are
what make football the popular game it is.
It seems about time for the slander-mongers in the Re
publican party and among the anti-Smiths to dig up another
name for Clyde Hoey. He has smiled and passed on in his
gentlemanly, Christian manner at the “pole-cat” taunt until
the expression has outlived its usefulness—that is, if it was j
worth anything except to make more friends for Hoey and
more enemies for those who stoop to such things.
HICKMAN PAYS THE PRICE
IJICKMAN, THE MAJOR criminal of the jazz age, is dead.
From the outset it could not be doubted that he, because i
of the horrible features of his crime, could escape certain
punishment. Yet we have seen justice lag along and side
step much in the manner of an elusive football half back so
often that we, in our own brutality, have to admit that we
were not exactly certain he would get what was coming to
him until he did get it. May it be the lesson it should be to i
fast moving youth. j
POTEAT SPEAKS FORTH
r\R. WILLIAM LOUIS POTEAT, president emeritus of
Wake Forest college and one of the most brilliant educa
tors of two generations in the South, says “the Church of
Christ cannot enter politics/’
The statement of Dr. Poteat, who gave the best part of
his life to educating the Baptist youth, comes at a timely
moment. In emphasizing his declaration he points out that j
Jesus Christ shunned such moves when they were advised I
to advance the religious kingdom.
• Taking the church into politics i.s taking the church back
to the day before Christ came to this world.
HARKING BACK 10 YEARS
CUCH TOPICS in an election year, and many years after
the public permitted their glory to dim, may not be so!
interesting now, but in many spots of the county, we believe, j
there will be those who will note with interest that on Novem- j
ter 11, a bronze tablet will be unveiled in Shelby honoring
the Cleveland county boys who died over there, and their
pals who served with them.
It was a year or two back that The Star started a plea
for a suitable memorial to those boys who gave their all. At
the time there were visions of marble slabs and monuments
on the court square. The appeal did not meet with the exact
response anticipated, but that water has gone over the mill
wheel. Next month, a handsome, bronze tablet, with the
names of those who gave their all engraved thereon, will be
dedicated on the Shelby court sqquare. On the same day
mefdbers of patriotic organizations in Shelby are planning
i
a big dinner and celebration for the four or five hundred ex
service boys yet living.
In the ten years that have flitted by since the memorable
day, November 11, 1918, Cleveland county 'has not staged j
any major celebration of Armistice Day. Let us join together;
next month and make up for the days we have overlooked.
What do you say?
SMITH SENTIMENT GROWS
«pov. Smith is gaining ground daily and has a stronger hold
on the South now than ever before.” is the statement to
be heard on all sides. In our opinion, it is because the peo- -
pie only recently began to realize that there was nothing to
all the slander spread about in connection with his name, and
now they're going to vote for Smith because they know he
is worthy of their vote, or they are going to vote for Hoover
because they are for Hoover—not merely because they are
against Smith as was the sentiment weeks back. Lies and
mud-slinging may mislead a good portion of the populace for
some time, but not for very long.
Will Cleveland county make more than 45,090 bales of
cotton? You answer—The Star is merely recording the an-'
swers for reference when the final ginning report is issued.
JONAS APPEALS TO LINCOLN
VWE NOTE IN AN ADVERTISEMENT in a Lincoln county
W paper that Chas. A. Jonas. Republican candidate for
Congress against Major A. L. Buhvinkle, pleads to the citi- {
zens of his county to vote for him regardless of party lines.!
Incidentally there is a line in the advertisement which reads:
“If elected I will be the representative of all the people, and
in the discharge of my duties' I will know no party, no class,
no faction ... I ask the vote of every man without regard
to party or creed.” Without regard to creed—get that, if
you please. Has not Mr. Jonas and members of his party
tried to stir up opposition to a Democratic candidate because
of his creed? Is not Mr. Jonas’ party in its desperation re
sorting, as a last measure, to an attack on Alfred E. Smith s
religion to keep him out of the White House?
Is it exactly fair play for an organization that attacks
the creed of rival candidates to ask for support regardless of
creed? Consistency, where art thou?
ASBESTOS WRITERS
DIGHT FREQUENTLY some aroused citizen, angered over
politics, comes in and asks for a piece of asbestos on
which he, or she. may write a scorching denunciation con
cerning the views of some one else for publication in The,
Star. And just as often as they come in we take it upon ;
ourselves to cool them down. At least we try to get them ,
beyond their flare-up before they start writing.
One caller will want to “bless out” any and every voter
who is for Smith; the next will want to do the same thing
for the Hoover supporters, and the third wants to lambast
anti-Smith Democrats, or Hoover Democrats, whichever they
prefer to be called.
Perhaps there are those who wonder why we attempt to
persuade these wrathful citizens not to deliver their scorchers'
since the paper invites communications. W£ do invite letters
to the editor, letters that speak of issues in sane, clear ^tyle,
but we do not invite personal attacks, and slanderous remarks
from one citizen to another.
Admittedly if all the hot letters, which the writers at:
first wanted published, had been published. The Star’s cir
culation list might have increased by leaps and bounds for
a limited time, for a big majority of readers seem to enjoy
personal shots made at each other by citizens angered over
politics. However, this paper is of the opinion that such
mud-slinging, abusive tournaments are not good for the fu
ture of a community. After reasoning with many of the
would-be writers' they agree with us. At the time they may
feel as if it will do them good to write a letter to The Star
and “bawl out” some neighbor or friend who does not agree
with them about the presidential election, but after think
ing it over calmly for a moment or two they realize that in
two weeks the election will be over and regardless of which
candidate is elected he will be our President. But if such
letters, as they at first desire to write, were written and
published the wounds would remain open for many years;
friendships that have lasted for decades would be torn asun
der, and a chill, inhuman atmosphere would hang between
neighboring homes.
Perhaps your neighbor or your friend does appear to
you to be a “nit-wit” because he does not agree with you
on political questions- (and that statement applies to both
Smithites and Hoove rites), but in the heat of your differ-'
enee with him be on the alert as to your talk, and particular- ’
ly so as to what you write—because when it is down in black
white it is there for the oncoming years to read. Murders
are committed at moments when the temper gets beyond
control; if all those in prisons and wrestling with mental
anguish could have halted long enough to think sanely, how
much better the world would be. Look across the street at
vour neighbor. Think of the many things you have had in
common; of the times he lent a helping hand when there was
sickness and death in your home, and of the times you have
cheered him up when he was in sorrow and depressed. Would
you. when you think it over eooly, break that neighborly,
brotherly spirit, because of a political difference? Is it not
best for you to go your way. and he his way for just two
weeks longer, then be neighbors and friends again?
No, this paper might gain a few readers by encouraging
the writing of personal taunts and jabs between brother citi
zens, but in passing up those few additional readers we might
get, we proclaim proudly that we prefer to persuade them
to think twice before writing anything that might become
as a stone wall between neighbors, or make life-long enemies
of the best of friends. Already there are men who have been
friends for years who are now hating each other, and will
be hating each other when three men have succeeded either
Smith or Hoover in the White House.
Take your time in saying your say during the next two
weeks. It is possible to boost and defend your candidate
without knifing a friend. Why not do it that way,.the gen
tlemanly way? . _ . ...
4
Can It Be That All
Are Hypocrites But
Senator Simmons
Lexington Dispatch. i
Senator Simmons says that the j
Democratic party is waging a cam- j
paign of hypocrisy. Welt, that is
just his private opinion. He may be
right, but as the Charlotte News j
believes, it may be just as reason- j
able to believe that such political j
leaders as Max Gardner, former j
Governor Morrison. Josiah Wil- ;
Ham Baily. Clyde B. Hoey. Jose-1
phus Daniels, and others 'who are j
standing loyally to the Democratic i
party, are right and the senior sena
tor wrong. Is it possible that all
other great patriotic leaders of the
Democratic party who are now
standing loyalty by the ticket, coun
ty. state and national, are all hypo
crites and that Senator Simmons is
the only one who has not bowed
the knee to Baal? We hardly think
so.
The truth ol' the matter is that
the senior senator is possibly just
a bit too loyal to the power com
panies of this country Indeed in
dications are that he is more oval to
his power friends than he is to the i
great party that has made him what j
he is today.
Dixie, Watch Your tSep!
• George Rothwell Brown in The !
Washington Post*
Senator Simmons, who can't
travel from Goldsboro in New Bern
without getting his tires punctured,
on broken glass, chose an inop-,
portune time to denounce Ai Smith •
to the North Carolina dry for ;
evading the liquor question in the:
South, at the very moment when
the governor is discussing that burn- j
ine issue of the day in Nashville. '
If Dixie slays the Democratic party
in November in its own heme the
time will surely come when the peo- ;
pie of the South in sackcloth and
ashes will gather in their places of
meeting and with tears and lamen
tations invoke the wrath of all the
gods at once upon the heads of their
false leaders. Let Massachusetts'
and New Jersey beat AT, Dixie— 1
watch your step!
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SHE’S RED HOT
THAT
Closing Out
(
Sale
AT THE
Paragon Bargain
Place
NEXT TO KENDALL MEDICINE COMPANY
WE’VE TOLD YOU OUR STORY
Now Read These Prices
AND JOIN THE HAPPY BUYERS
100—50 Pound Mattresses
Regular Price $12.50
S6-95
(FAR TOO MANY)
Folks. you have never seen as many mat
tresses in your life. Our warehouse, our at
tics and everywhere we have mattresses
stored. Now to those that didn't fret in on
this bargain first day just come on back and
fret yours. We’ve brought in more from stor
age. Sorry we were so busy we could not
replenish our stock first day. It’s a great
buy and we are selling ’em like "hot cakes."
Half Price
AND LESS
Mirrors —
Pictures
Aluminum Ware
Oak Dressers
Chairs — Tables —
Dishes — Tapestries
i
Bed Springs
For Single and Double
Bed.
$6.50 Wool
BLANKETS
$3.95
Assorted Colors.
CHAIRS
95c
With Cane Bottom
Big Lot
BED SPRINGS
i
PRICE
PORCH
ROCKERS
to oe
A ridiculous price
on this item.
EVERYTHING
IN THIS
STORE
MUST BE
SOLD QUICK.
6x9
CONGOLEUM
RUGS
$1.95
$25.00
TAP RUGS
$12.95
BRIDGE
LAMPS
$1.95
9x12
CONGOLEUM
$4.95
A Close-Out.
$60.00 Ranges Now $39.95
Here’s another thing we are overstocked on. But nothing at
all wrong with them. We put our price low to sell them. If
you need a stove see these at once.
A SOLID CARLOAD KITCHEN CABINETS —
MUST BE SOLD AT ONCE.
Come on let’s figure. You’ll get one plenty cheap.
ODD CHAIRS
To Be
CLOSED-OUT
\ AND PLENTY OF
THEM.
GREAT
BARGAINS
IN
ODD PIECES
OF HIGH
GRADE
FURNITURE.
The Paragon Bargain Place
NEXT TO KENDALL MEDICINE COMPANY.