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The Cleveland Star SHEI.BY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE f By Mall per year-... $2->o i By Carrier per year ___ 13 oo ffHE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LEE B WEATfrERS ..-—-President and Editor ® --——-».. . . . - Secretary and Poretnan RENTrbRtnr----- New* Editor A- D JAMES ................-....—.. Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1. 1905 at tne postoffire At Shelby. North Carolina under the Act ol Congress March 3. 1879 We ertftrl^p oaT! ydhr attention to the fact that It t* and has been dur custtjft M* efctp-Re ftve cents per line for resolutions ol respect Hards of tnshks' and obituary notices after one death notice has tfeen published This will be strictly adherred to WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1929. TWINKLES Correct this observation: All bill collectors on their rounds yesteidflv were greeted as follows: “Happy New Year old fellow ” f It .really is an ill wind that doesn’t send a puff of good along for some one. We notice that several lawyers are get \ ting a bit of publicity oilt of the horrible Vanderburg crime j in Gaston county. If they want to put over the publicity stunt in big style, they should ask Clarence Darrow down Iji torhelg defend the 17-year-old Vanderburg boy. ■ijj " _ STEADY COTTON INCREASE ■pEN YEARS AGO, up to December 13, Cleveland county had ginned 21,797 bales of cotton. Five years ago the gin ning to December 13 was 38,547 bales. This year to the same date 48,503 bales had been ginned. WTrielfc indicate* i that Cleveland farmers have been mnking a steady increase year by year—with more than a 25,000-bale gain in a ten year period—and are not merely in an outburst this year in topping the state in cotton production. CLOSING THE SCHOOLS "THERE ARE STILL those in Shelby, street talk makes it appear, who believe the school board will find some meth od of running the Shelby schools for the full year. That was one of the big arguments in opposition to the tax levy prior to the election: “They’ll find some way to run .it if we show them that no more money is coming.”, The school board says the year cannot be completed upon funds avail able. So, it seems as if some one is to be shown. MR. FORD’S IDEA |_JENRY FORD, taken to task by various people for re marking that a young man will never gain success by the simple process of paving all his money, insists, in a sec ond interview, that he ts right. "A toy’s Job,” he says, "is not to accumulate dollars, but to use them in preparing himself with the training, knowl edge and experience whfeh' every leader needs. If a boy saves, it should be with some such expenditure in view.” We can’t help feeling that Mr. Ford has hit the nail pretty squarely on the head. Getting money, after all, is not an end in itself for anyone but a sordid materialist. Wise ly spent, monegjekds to a large, free life; carefully boarded, h leads to parsimony and self-denial that cripple one’s powers of appreciation and enjoyment. ON THE GOVERMENTAL GRID QOVERNOR-ELECT GARDNER in lining up his adminis tration in the manner of a field general in football re j; marked to the gathering of legislators at the farewell ban \l qtre there’that “some will run interference, others will carry ll the ball, and still others will do the blocking.” Since govern ment works in that manner we don’t suppose it will be good football for Representative-elect O. M. Mull to carry the ball when the long term school idea comes up before the legis lature—a back who doesn’t think a gain can be made seldom gains. X&f^mOantime, we presume, the educators of the state will be looking to see who is doing the blocking when that particular play is called. Mr. Mull, remember, predicted thai the legislature would not pass the eights months term • bill. niLic, Mondi HOW BAD NEWS SPREADS ERS of The Star no doubt noticed in r s flWUe a display advertisement boosting a near by militarjHnktitute, or preparatory school, with one of the lines reading “we will have a few openings for the term be ginning January 2.” '* , Perhaps many of those glancing at the advertisement took it as a casual newspaper advertisement of a preparatory think a little longer and it might occur to you that the advertisement had some connection with recent events in Shelby. With the local school term curtailed below that required for standard high schools perhaps the officials of the preparatory school realized an opportunity when they saw it, believing that undoubtedly there would be people in Shelby who might want their children to, receive a full year of schooling. Bad news spreads faster than good news. The preparatory schools may find a good field in Shelby. ji AND HOEY, TOO IN THE LAST issue of The Star it was noted that the con tributors of the'To-the-Editor” letters to daily newspa pers of the state were still riding Senator Simmons. Since the 'natter his been brought up it Is seen that they are also still riding Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby. The “they,” of course, differ in each instance, presumably with the Smithites after Simmons and the anti-Smiths after Hoey. * op#a,letter Sunday to the Greensboro News a writer,'Signing“Percy Liles) of Wendell,” loosed a broad F |he direction of John W. Hester, of Durham, and in’ * wiffo the following Temarks: * am neither a scholar or lawyer as he professess to be but he cannot divorce the Democratic party from the above organizations and marry it to Tammany hall, Raskob. A1 -Ids negro lovers up north, nor can he and his it out to the bootleggers, rtun runners, the breweries or the pope of Rome as he and Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby tried to do November 6. Now take some good common horse sense advice from a man that lives out in the sticks, sober up politically and be a true red blooded Protestant American. The Bible tells us that whom God would destroy he first makes mad and that is where you stand today Mr, Hester.” Anent that reference to Biblical destruction: Of course Percy, who finds time near two months after the election to say such nice things, isn’t a bit mad—no, not a bit —and ■not'being*so is in no immediate danger of such destruction. NOT SPOKESMAN, BUT BRIEF gOME WEEKS back Representative-elect Odua M. Mull,, of this county, made the prediction that the next legislature would not likely look with favor upon a state-wide eight months school term. Immediately after the prediction be came public knowledge the naughty Greensboro News im mediately queried: “Is the voice of Mull the voice of Gard ner?” Whereupon it appears, from communication directed to the editor and appearing*in the Greensboro paper, that Mr. Mull sat himself down and ended that matter with the fol lowing terse letter: “Editor the Daily News: Question: ‘Is the voice of Mull the voice of Gardner?* . Answer: No. Reason: It would be rank extravagance to make one out of this two, ns I am sure Governor Gardner is individual ly full size. O. AL Mull.” So, it seems as if Mr. Mull is going to be no "spokesman” at all for his friend, but if he were to be we would opine aft er reading the above letter that he would make a good one. He’s a little more brief and to the point than the average “spokesman.” > GETTING US WRONG yHE HICKORY RECORD misinterprets us. Recently this paper wondered how the people of North Carolina would take it if Governor-elect Gardner had gone off on a long tour at the expense of the state as did President-elect Hoo ver at the expense of the nation. And anent that idle bi't of curiosity The Record wrote; “The Shelby Star is one of those complaining about Mr. Hoover taking a good will trip with the government paying the bill.” Continuing The Rec ord wrote: “We were with The Sfcar in opposing Mr. Hoo ver's election, but we cannot fail to admit the significance of an enterprise so far reaching as his Latin American trip.” To get ourselves straight, The Star has as yet to com ’ V in about Mr. Hoover’s trip, As stated abowwemerely wondered how at-home taxpayers would take it if the gov ernor-elect should try a similar stunt with them paying the bill. Fact is, in commenting upon the Hoover trip we said “wp are* rather in accord with the good will that should re suit from the tour.” In our bit of imaginative- supposition about the Hoover tour and annular'One for Gardner we mere ly attempted to paint the. attitude of the average citizen regarding governmental expense And tell us not that there would be no howl if a North Carolina official travelled about on the expense of the state, no matter how much good will resulted. As for, Mr. Hoover, we’re for permitting him to get everything out office he can, honestly, for the toll the office of president takes, from our observation, It always more than it tenders.. Something To Think About Touching On Speed • == By Bruno Lessing = Sitting; at a roadside and watch ing the automobiles whl* by. Gee whb, liow they whix! None doing less than M miles an hour. Many stepping It up to M. And some, When the bap. Isn’t looking, getting away with 40. If you wen to walk along this same road It would take you from fifteen to twenty minutes to cover a single mile. The automobile is certainly a wonderful contraption) If you walk, however, you ob serve many details of trees and flowers and lawn and hill and dale and brook which the automobillst overlooks. And, if you meet peo ple. you can pause to chat with them The automobillst usually notices hlngs a hundred yards aft er he ims passed them. When it Is too late 'o observe them closely. All of which is perfectly o. k. “for them as likes it.” Blit it vou pause to consider a aspect of modern life, you-will ob serve that most of us ere traveling through our education, our read-, tng, our enloymenta, our religions and, even our family life, in auto mobile1'. Instead of walking. We seem to have the speed ma nia. We travel rapidly and im patiently it might be worth while to bdnskier whether we are any better off at the end 01 the trip titan we were at the beginning. Or. In other words, do we get anywhere? To be sure, in an emergency It Is a wonderful thing to innlhilate space thickly. Bi» does life con sist of nothing btit, a series of emergencies? Must we eat In a hurry? Must we learn rapidly? Must we read quickly? Must we woo and wed in a rush? —— Eating In a hurry produces In * digestion Attempting to learn rapidly ends in learning nothing at / all. Reading quickly prevent* as from absorbing what we read and is, therefore, a waste of time. Woo ing and wedding in a rush Is ac countable for many divorces. To derive the fullest benefits of life one must acquire a certain sense of balance and of the proper proportion of things. Leisure is Just as important as nurry and. as a general rule, is more beneficial and produces more lasting results. Why not strcll leisurely through the field of learning and pause to master the details of the phenom ena we encounter? Instead of try ing to rush through in a high-pow ered car. Why not read good books, leisurely, and pause to think and investigate and check up? Instead of trying to cram the contents of a doeen books into our brains ih a dozen days, on the basis of fifteen miles to a gallon. And there weren’t so many di vorces In the days of the one-horse shay as there are in these vapid j days, Even if you have an automobile —and an automobile is a good thing to have—there Is no reason why j you cannot leave It in the garage I once In a while and go on a hike.'’ The curse of it all is that when we own a car we feel that we simp* ly have to use it. We hate to leave it Idle. We feel Ve are losing- our • money’s worth. That ts sad reasoning. By aban doning the “hike,” both literally and figuratively, we lose more than can be measured In terms of money. The latest trouble of the former Kaiser is that his exuberant troth - er-in-law, Alexander Zouokoff, has decided to become a clown. It tocks as If the new resruit of the family' has caught the Hohen^'iewi yearn ing for the tenter of the stage. Manchester Union. * V i V Manufactures For in?8 Va'urd At $1,155,000 000, New High Mark. Textiles One-Third. Raleigh.—Commerce and industry gcnera"y in North Oorolina enjoy ed a successful year m 1928. An inventory of the output of industry made- by .the department of con servation and development show ed manufactures for the year were valued at $1,155,000,000, a new high mark It was pointed out by the censer - , ration department,in making, public the figtires that “the record was made in a year wh n some of the leading commodities of the state, notably standard textiles, were sell ing at a low price. Textiles, com prise nearly cne-thlrd of the state's total of manufactures. • Tobacco manufacture, prncipally cigarettes, made a new high record at ov?r four hundred and thirteen million, dollars. Among other lead ing industries of the state furniture , ranked third with products valued at approximately $54,000,000. Lum i ber values were about the same as in 1927, a little over $53,000,000 Fertilizer, flour and car construc tion were a shade off from 1927 while cottonseed oil, leather and printing and publishing showed substantial gains. In taw materials, farm and min eral products were on the up-curve as were bank and capital resources Expansion in present plants and cudiftg of-new industries greatly in creased the state’s potential manu facturing output during the year. ■Resorts, recreation, hunting and fishing were extremely active with about one quarter of a million dol lars paid for hunting a~>d fishing license alone Gasoline tax and li cense tax from the 500,000 cars in the state amounted to seventeen millions dollars. After a survey of industry, the de partment of conservation and de velopment declared opportunities ■for now industries were numerous and favorable. In this Respect it was pointed out that 73 leading commodities used in industries of the state were imported from else where and that only 21 out of the 54 classifications in the textile field were produced in the state. " We owe,a good deal to the Pil grim Fathers, artd the nice thine about is that it is one thing we probably won’t have to pay.—Ameri can Lumberman (Chicago). Auction Sale Of Horses & Mules Shelby, N. C», Monday, January 7,11:00 A. M. « We will s^Il at public auction a car load of Kentucky bred Horses and Mules. These/horses and mules are from 3 to 7 ‘years of age weighing from 1 COO to 12^0 pounds, are well broke and ready to , go to work. This is your j opportun^ytohuy exceptionally fine I b^rs^s and rnv^es at reasonable prices. 1 We have sold hundreds of carloads fo thousand of satisfied customers. Sale ra:*n or shine. ~ ^plIettp^Horse & Mule Co. — % lK-li IIU DAMITA i -i* 'V7 V- it • | . ■ 4 LIU DAMIfA i»*tOR8lOO£N tOVE'«*n.i Latest European Sensation In “Forbidden Love” At The WEBB TODAY TOMORROW , The Screen's newest lovers JOAN NILS ^.CRAWFORD ASTHER lOS* Starring Two of the Screen’s Best WEBB THEATRE WOOTTON’S LADIES SHOPPE JANUARY .'** ■ >*' • - V DRESSES AND COATS 75 Coats At % The Former Selling Price COATS AT. $10.75 to $79.75 Of Satin-Velvet,. Jpc/epe ^nd Velvet combinations, Eventing Frocks, none reserved-all sizes included— af our y2 PRICE SALE EXTRA SPECIAL ' HIGH GRADE RAYON • • BLOOMERS Regular $1.G0 values, at choice ... 69c RAINCOATS At V3 Off Price ALL STYLES INCLUDED. * MILLINERY Your Choice Any Hat In Stock ..... $2.00 BATH ROBES Your Choice Any STYLE 1/4 OFF—
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