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MONDAY, DEC. 24. 1928.
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TWINKLES
Now that our own Reno has Paris going in the divorce
business why shouldn’t we get our dress styles there?
Some people seem unable to catch the Christmas spirit
unless they get hold of it in liquid plural form.
The holidays will soon be over, but before becoming dis
couraged remember that the legislature next month should
furnish some more fireworks.
A man committed suicide in Georgia and three women
claiming to be his widows attended the funeral. Our idea
is that all would not have been there had his will been read
prior to the funeral.
Another Yuletide calamity howl: Only one influenza
epidemic comes along at a time, but there are 18 m'llion or
so automobiles in America. Who could blame an undertaker
for preferring an automobile to a “flu” epidemic?
Ye Twinkler’s observations on Shelby business streets
Saturday and today caused him to believe that no one read
the “Shop Early” lines in The Star until they got hold of
Friday’s issue.
As we get it, city officials are going to let the people—
tome of them—have what they want for a time and see if
they really want it. Speaking, of course, of firecrackers and
other holiday fireworks.
Don’t stop us if you’ve heard this one for we’ve pulled
it before—but it will not be but SSO-some days until Christ
mas after tomorrow. If you!were too late in your shopping
this year to pick up some of the bargains you wanted, just
start cut Wednesday and be sure you shop early for Christ
mas of 1928.
A CONSOLING THOUGHT?
A supporter of the state-wide long term school measure
gets rather irritated at us because we say that Mr. O. Mul’,
considering the position he is in, more than likely made a
good prediction when he foretold the defeat of the measure.
As a eonsoling thought, if nothing more, to that supporter
we would remind that Mr. Mull has at times erred slightly
in his predictions—for instance that one just before the
ballot battle last month.
MAY IT BE A MERRY ONE
TTHE STAR would write its 4,800 Christmas greeting cards
* all at one time, which means that the paper takes this
opportunity of wishing a joyous Christmas season for the
4,800 homes into which the paper calls three times each week.
In some instances, quite a number of them, the influ
enza epidemic has served to “put a damper on” the Christ
mas gaiety, but generally speaking tomorrow will be a big
Christmas day for Cleveland county people. Anyway, we
wish it so.
SUPPOSE JUST A BIT
COME OF THE papers, this one net included, have been
Making some rather sarcastic remarks about Trcs dont
eleet Hoover’s tour of the Latin-Amcrican count lies aboard
a government, ship and at government expense. With the
routine of the Federal government far removed from a con
tact with our individual lives we seldom become critical as
individuals of Federal expense unless it hits us direct
ly in a tax of some kind. And for that matter, we
suppose, we would feel it very little if Mr. Hoover should visit j
countries on both continents. Fact is, we are rather in ac- j
cord with the good-will that should result from the tour.
But since we started out to draw upon the imagination,
suppose such a tour was brought home to our own state?
Just after his election suppose Governor-elect Max Gardner
had secured a special train for himself and family, friends, j
and prospective cohorts when he gets into office, and had j
gone off on a trip, at the expense of the state government,
visiting various states in the union, greeting other governors
and making, so to speak, a good-will tour for North Carolina—
would there be a howl on the part of many North Carolinia
citizens who are now railing against taxes and expenses?
Well, it seems to us as if Governor-elect Gardner would have
just as much right to make a good-will tour at the expense of i
the people electing him as would President-elect Hoover. f
Are we right, cr did our imagination run wild?
THANKING FOR THEM
pOR THOSE who this evening will receive a bit ot Christ
mas cheer because Shelby citizens opened up their hearts
to the fund for their more unfortunate fellow-citizens, The
Stir would thank those who contributed to the Christmas
charity fund.
There are those—such always exist—who seem to think
that The Star gets something out of the Christmas fund the
I paper raises each year for the poverty-stricken homes of the
elty. To that class we would say that the paoer derive?
nothing more from its appeal than that feeling of having!
Ij done it* bit in extending a helping h- to tho«e Me has
m dealt with more harshly than with us. The paper "does no'
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more, and asks no more, than do the representatives of the ;
various civic clubs of Shelby who gladly tender their time to]
aid in investigating the various cases and distributing the (
needs among the needy after The Star makes the appeal for
funds with which to work. Howbeit, there are always those
who cannot comprehend any one or any organization doing j
anything for others when there is no material reward; their i
realization cannot cope with that feeling down in the inner
person, a feeling material rewards will not produce.
But, such talk isn’t becoming for such a season. And jj
to close it we will say that the life of many a little tot has been j
and will this evening be brightened by the Christmas fund.
And many a care-worn, overworked, troubled father and
mother will face the new day with a new light in their eyes,;
within them tomorrow a renewed feeling that the Babe of
Bethlehem did brighten the lives of those following Him, even
while they linger on the earth He suffered in for their sake.
Unless you would care to intrude in one of the homes
where the fund will be distributed this evening you will
never know just how much your gift meant, how it bright
ened the lives of many traveling along a rough trail, but for \
them The Star again thanks the contributors to the fund:
just as gladly as it appealed for the fund. The spirit of the
giver more than anything else is the Christmas spirit.
I THE MODERN MIRACLE |:
(A Christmas Editorial By Bruce Cattcn.)
jy/IIRACLES don’t happen these days—not very often, any- |
^ * how. We put our faith in things tint we can handle j
and understand ard diagram. A matter-of-f~ct and skepti- j
cal age has stopped locking for marvels, and for that reason
it doesn’t s:e any.
But, for all that, vn still have one miracle left, that even
the most case-hard 1 of us can experience. Every year,
when Christmas ec’ , each one of us can transform him
self, for a space, from what he is into what he would like to
be.
Christmas—though the glittering shop windows some
times lead us to forget it—is more than a day on which we
exchange gifts, eat hearty dinners and speak cordially to
strangers. It is a celebration of the greatest miracle and
the most beautiful story the world has ever known. And,
as we celebrate it, w>e unconsciously absorb something of the
reflection of that miracle and that story and become better
men and women than we knew vre were.
The world 20 centuries ago was not a very refined 01
civilized place. The southern fringes of Europe, Asia Minor
and the north of Africa were under the d-minion of Rome. •
Beyond, in all directions, stretched barbarism. The world’s
stock of hope was not large. j
^But- into that world came something new—a hope and a j
promise. Before the eyes of those who would trouble to j
look there was raised a new vision; a vision that shotved man- j
kind proceeding along an ever-mounting road, that showed |
men, not as blind strupplers in a losing fight with a hostile
creation, but rs g'orious sens of light rising to claim an
everlasting heritage.
That vision is'sf’t vi'h us. On Christmas day, as we re
read the old story of the little town, the star in tnc sky, the;
wondering shepherds, the devout wise men of the east and
the caroling angels, We realize, once p.scre, the tull sigmfK j
ounce of it.
And that works a miracle within us. For the moment ■we
are lifted out of cur drily shells of caution, re eive, fear ard
suspicion. We gat a gh'nip. e'of the deathless nobility of all
human lives, and it transforms us. We can greet the
strangers all about us as we are meant to greet them—as
brothers. We forget to be jealous, resent fill, suspicious, cold.
We become what we have always whhed we might become.
The transformation does net endure. A tew days after
Christmas we go back to our old ways, and the strung
a crowd is merely someone to elbow out of the way and no.
rn immortal spirit clothed in the. mirae'e of human flesh.
But some residue lingers in our hearts. Bit by bit, over
'ong years and ccntures, it builds tip in r.n ertion of faith,
good will and hope.
So wo may trke courage. Each Christmas leaves u.s
a little better than it found vs. Each year, a<t the tiny lights
blaze out on the little green trees, the race moves a little bit
closer to the ideal,* for which we should strive.
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To All Our Friends And Patrons:
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
It was a pleasure to serve you In 1928, and we look
forward to the same pleasant relations during the
New Year.
THE PIGGLY-WIGGLY
I. J. STILWELL, Owner.
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KUrrg Christmas
The New
CLEVELAND
EXTENDS TO YOU THE
THE FELICITATIONS OF
THE SEASON
With a fine new store and better
facilities, we are entering the New
Year better prepared to serve you effic
iently than ever before. Make up ycur
mind to take advantage of this splen
didly equipped institution during 1929.
CLEVELAND
DRUG STORI
New Charles Hotel.
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SEASON’S
GREETINGS
It is a happy custom at this season of
the year, for the wheels of commerce
and industry to pause while we tune
our hearts to the Christmas spirit of
Good Will. Let us add ours to the
many warm greetings you will receive.
A Merry Christmas to You and Yours
and a New Year Replete With Happi
ness and Success.
Wright-Baker
Co.
107 N. LaFayette St.
Shelby, N. C.
A. V. WRAY & 6 SONS
Greetings And Good Will
To Our Friends And Customers
With Christmas here at last and the end of the year just around the
corner, inventory time isn’t far away. In “taking stock” our interest lies
net so much in merchandise on hand or business done as in that greatest
of all assets—good will.
To close the books without expressing to your our appreciation of
your many courtesies to us and the business we have enjoyed from you
during the year, would leave a debt unpaid.
We have been grateful indeed for your patronage and the confidence
in us which you have thus expressed. It has been our earnest, sincere
purpose to serve you the very best we could and to give you always the
greatest possible values. The nearness with which we have approached
that goal in 1028 determines the measure of our success.
As the old year draws to a close and 1929 begins, we pledge to you
anew our continued loyalty to this ambition and our determination to
serve you better than ever before, if we can, in 1929.
That the Christmas seacon may be a happy time for you as well as
those whom you hold dear a~d that the Good Ship Prosperity may sail
home to you in 1929, laden with a full ergo of those treasures of life which
you desire, is our earnest wish. A merry Christmas! A Happy New Year!
“Get it At WRAY’S”
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