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Entered as second class matter .January 1 1905 a; the postotfirr
At Shelby. North Carolina under the Act ot Congress March 3. 1879
We wish to call your attention to the fact that It is and nas been
otir custom to charge five cents per line for resolution? of respcer
cards pf thunks and obituary notices otter one death notice nas
been published This trill be strictly adherred to
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MONDAY. JAN. 1 1. 1T-2.1.
TWINKI.ES
Have you as yet donated a boo’; to tV R »ilinjr Springs
junior college library? If not, fall in lino!
Hereafter we look for quite a mimVr of defendants to
be sick and unable to attend court when Judge Oglesby comes
to town to preside over the session..
Well, the financial report of the city school system, for
which there was quite a bit of clamoring, has been published,
«o where do we go from here, now that it has?
Ample proof that Shelby is so much of a city now that
denizens are unaccustomed to things rural is seen in that
Shelby house cat which got caught in a rabbit trap.
This pafce:* continues to be an ardent defender of the
modern girl, for v.hat modern girl, pray, doesn't demonstrate
her belief in the newspaper slogan that "it pays to adver
tise”?
Leave it to the New York Pont to sound off with the
prize political pun of the year. And here’s how: “Hoover
has crossed the equator 15 times, but he is better known as
the man who crossed the Mason and Dixon line.” Ouch!
Governor Gardner wants the farmers of this county to
move up into the 75,003-bale class while he is away running
things in Raleigh, and all we have to say is that if he does
as good a job of governing as he expects our farmers to do
farming, then he will make every bit as good a governor
as we thought he would.
Now that we have Governor Gardner elected and in
augurated it seems as if Shelby's political interest is slowly,
but steadily centering itself upon the next municipal election.
Such is Shelby, but generally it seems as if “a good time was
had by all” in our political melees, for we keep coming up
for more, even though the Union Republican does insist that
WO very near took a Chicago count on the November bout.
At first Ye Twinkler became exceedingly proud and
Ixjaatfiri when the Shelby postoffice attained first-class rank
ing, but if being up in that class bodes any such future argu
a postoffice sight, then, as far as we are'concerned, it suits
us if they put Shelby back into the crossroad town class
where the postmaster reads all the post-cards. It’s a sight
how Greensboro has* been worried about that postoffice site.
A SERMON BY A JOKESM1TH
OF THE most sensible advice comes from the so
called comic writers and some of the most direct sermons
are preached by jokesmiths.
As a sample, try this sermon by Will Rogers in which he
takes as his text the freak run of the poor eantain-elect of
the California football eleven in the game with Georgia
Tech: ^
“Everybody is a-plcking on that poor boy out in Ca'I
fornia that ran the wrong way with that football. If I was
aa editorial writer hike Mr. Hearst, Mr. Brisbane. Bruce Bar
ton, Glenn Frank and all of those. I would ask how many
out of the hundred and ten million of the rest of us are head
ed the-wrong way: How many out of us have ever had pres
ence of mind enough to pick up a fumble: How many grab
bed out of the scramble what they think is success and don't
know till they reach the goal line whether it’s the right one
ear not ?**
.OGLESBY CRIMPS "CRIME
•pHE MESSAGE we have to say somehow expresses itself
best in the language of the street, and that rressrge is that
Judge John Oglesby certainly knows how to put a-crimp in
crime.
After reviewing the decisions of the Concord jurist dur
ing the court term here last week The Star is of the frank
opinibh'that if North Carolina had enough Judge Oglesbys, or
•rough jurists sticking doggedly to the Oglesby style, the
state .would witness a big decrease in crime.
Glancing over the court’s work of a week on the criminal
docket one fails to f;nd a single instance where a convicted
defendant was let off with one of those muchly abused sus
pended sentences, or even a fine. And at this particular,
point The Star digresses long enough to say that in our opin
ion suspended sentences and fines have never rut a halt to
a crime wave. }
On the major part of the criminal docket which Judge
Oglesby presided over twelve defendants were convicted and
when Judge Oglesby got through sentencing them the one
dozen prisoners had something like 33 years of “time to do?”
To some people the sentences passed by the Concord jurist
may appear harsh and a little hard, but let three Oglesbys
hold court in succession in Cleveland county, or any other
county, and that particular county will be finding itself
minus much of its usual crime. Sentences such as those
Oglesby passed would not seem harsh to any one were wc all
accustomed to sticking to the letter Of the law instead of
permitting ao& stories and tender hearts to carry us into
tha very midst of a crime wave.
Right at the outset of his first court Judge Oglesby in-,
formed the bar that he would hear all the cases and then
pass hi3 sentences. His reason for following that course was
very well explained. It is mighty hard upon a judge for
lawyers and relatives to keep going to him during a court
term begging for a few months to he cut off this sentence,
and a few dollars off that fine Under such procedure we
suspect many jurists just to get rid cf those pestering them
alleviate sentences already passed. But not so the Concord
jurist; he reserved his sentences to the very last and let
the bar know that what talking the members desired to do
had better he done before the sentencing period. And us
a result he passed his sentences according to the law. the
evidence, and the jury verdicts, and not after going through
the strain of being harassed and pled with by scores of peo
ple.
This paper by temperament is anything but a calamity
howler, and we get irked regularly at the fellow v.ho keeps
yelling that the world is going to the dogs, but put it down
here and now that unless more Oglesby tactics are practiced
in the court rooms of North Carolina we need not expect a
halt in the increasing crime. Instead of worrying about the
pace being set by the young folks, our jails filling up with
young boys, and our highways almost too dangerous for a
sane person to venture out upon, we should interest ourselves
in supporting jurists of the Oglesby type. Xo young fellow
is going to over exert himself walking the straight and nar
row when he sees no more punishment coming than a sus
pended sentence, or a fine for his dad to pay. And how oft
en, may we ask. do you hear of suspended sentences going
into effect? Seldom, if ever, and no one is so unsophisticated
as to believe that every man who has had a suspended sen
tence over him dodges law eolation for the remainder of his
life.
We are already advanced into the new year, but let us
reiterate that the big need for North Carolina for 1929 is a
few more Oglesbys—no, not just a few, but any number of
them.
ANOTHER “PHOOI.” BILL
jyjlt. POOL, of Hoke county, who some years back attained
a bit of fame, or notoriety by introducing a bill to pro
hibit the teaching of evolution in North Carolina—a bill, in
cidentally, that was dubbed the "fool” bill—is to offer a
similar bill at this legislature, Raleigh reports have it. Which
assures that there will be plenty of "moneyshiBes" in the
current session to entertain the state, and, most of all, oth
er states.
Seriously, however, it is further noted that Mr. Tool
thinks his bill will put a halt to the increasing crime of the
.state. "This evolution thing,” he deelacps, is the factor that
I is filling our penitentiaries with young white men, because,
he adds, the young folks haven't any standards or religion
any more. Of all the tommyrot we’ve listened to since the
presidential campaign that takes the prize! But it seems as
if U. It. Clark, Statesville editor, pops one at Mr. Pool that
will be hard to answer in that connection.
"But if Mr. Pool is correct, (about evolution theories
!causing crime), few young white men will be found in tire
|Tennessee State Prison?” writes Mr. Clark.
Wonder if Lawmaker Pool ever thought of that? You
know out in Tennessee “there aint. no sich thing as evolu
tion,” and of course they do not have any such thing as crime
—oh, no! To our way of thinking one dose of Oglesby, if
you’ll pardon our doubling up today, will be more valuable
in combatting North Carolina crime than every "fool” bill
Mr. Pool ever has or will introduce.
Something To Think
About
English As Wrote
..== By Bruno Lessing ■ ■■■ —
A little boy of four years had the
measles. And his father, to amuse
him. invented a new fame. (The
writer vouehes tor the truth of this
story.(
“Let's repeat ‘The Cow Jumped
Over the Moon," said the father.
"Vou say one word and I'll say the
next." The little boy was delight
ed. because he knew the poem.
“He," sa'd the boy. "Jumped,” said
the father. "!*©," said the boy.
“High,” said the father. “Itty." said
the boy. The father shook his
head. "You lose," he said. “That's
wrong."
“It's- right." declared the boy. in
dignantly. "That's the way it goes:
"He Jumpeu so high itty touched
the sky!”
And the lather saw light. Ignor
ing the pronominal abuse of the
cow’s sex. he had a glimpse of how
children learn English. It trickles
into the child's ear and linds
phonetic vent through the tongue.
The phrase, “that, he." had been
absorbed by the boy as "itty."
"He Jumped so high that lie
touched the sky." Which the boy
rendered. "He Jumped so high itty
touched the sky."
All of which, with double apolo
gies to the cow for calling her he,'
is silly,
BUT—
The writer paid $2 for a detective
story. (It’s wonderfully resting to
read the average detective story be
cause It involves no strain upon
the mind.) And he came upon this
phrase:
"Even though he wa„ lied to the
chair he would of made an at
tempt. . .
But the boy who.said "itty" was
only four year* old.
It t> conceivable that • child or
a very ignorant person should think
that the phrase " would have,” or
“he yould have.” is written “I I
would of.” or "he would of.” Be-1
cause the sounds that come to the1
ear through the spoken language1
j may be confusing.
| But what can possibly be said In 1
; extenuation of tj>e crime of a writ-,
er putting such gibberish as "he 1
i would of” on paper or a publisher'
j putting it into print?
“Of the making of books there
is no end."
The desire to write and to have j
the writing appear in pri'.t is im-:
! planted in myriads of scul*. This'
: ambition, as a rule, is based solely
! upon the conviction that the bud
ding author has a message to give '<
t to the world.
j Neither this writer nor any oth- j
i er self-respecting columnist will
j ever say a word to discourage this
j ambition. Because you never can
tell where the next bolt of literary
genius will strike.
But one can. at least, suggest j
that writers should know how to'
handle the tools of their trade. And.1
just as a carpenter must know how
I to handle a hammer or a saw.
every writer must know the rules
i of the grammar of the language in
which ire writes.
Administrator’s notice j
Notice is hereby given that I
have this day qualified as admin
istrator of the estate of S. L. Gantt,
deceased, late of Cleveland county.
N. C. All persons indebted to said
estate will make Immediate pay- j
ment to the undersigned and all
persons having claims against said
estate will present them to me
properly proven for payment on or
before January 12, 1930, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of ■
their recovery. This January 13,
1939
J. T RAMSEY. Administra
tor of the Estate of g. It.
Oantt, deceased.
Ryburn in Hoeys, Attys.
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j Around Our Town
I - Shelby Sidelights -
With Renn Drum _
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THE BOSS, BACK FROM THE
Gardner Inaugural ceremonies,
brings us a good little pun of in
auguration day which goes to prove
that there are some things the
; sophisticated Raleigh correspond
ents fail to get—anyway, none of
them, insofar as we've noticed, has
! published the story, and to our
way of thinking it was about the
best bit of repartee staged in Ra
leigh last Friday.
It seems as if there were a couple
i collegians staggering about the
hallway on the top floor of the Sir
Walter hotel. Pretty well in their
cups, or well-flavored to use a
more modern expression, they fin
ally wondered to the elevator door,
j "Going down', sang out the col
i ored elevator girl.
| ' Nope," replied one of the young
fellows as he tried to stagger in
the elevator door. "We wanter go
up . . , hie!”
: "Going down,” reiterated the
elevator girl.
By that time the well-flavored
young gents became a bit riled.
"Nope, I tell you. Me n my friend
here—he's a fine feller—We're goin’
up, I shay.”
"Well that's funny,” replid the
elevator girl as she grinned her
white teeth into full view. "Seems
to be that both yo boys air as high
as yo kin git.”
Now, did she mean that they were
on the top floor and couldn't go
any higher on the elevator, or was
the "high” she used referring to
inebriation? Perhaps she properly
meant both.
IN ANNOUNCING IN TODAYS
paper that he will be a candidate
for mayor again, Mayor Dorsey
while expressing his appreciation
of those who vote for him writes
this line: '*.... The more votes a
fellow gets the more he feels like
serving the people,”
Now. if we had an inclination to
be a wise-cracker we would have
written that line in this manner:
"The more votes a fellow gets
the more likely he will be of hav
ing a chance to serve the people.”
IF MATCHMAKER ARTHUR
Sides' boxing bout here this month
pans out well trf colyum would j
| suggest that Mr.nBldes match the
winner against Joe Jenks’ fighter.
Dynamite Dtinn. We've comicked
along with Joe and his fighter so
much of recent weeks that we're
getting anxious to see hie pel ter left
hook that paw of his In actuality.
SEEING AS HOW PROHIBI-j
tion has dryed up things hereabouts!
the Shelby street corner quartets!
may change the line In that old
ditty to read: "... A bottle of bay
rum and you!”
OUR PRIZE, WHICH DOESN’T |
rank quite as high as the Pulitlzer
Journalism award, for the best
newspaper heading of the year
goes to the Webb City Sentinel In
a report about two men being sen
tenced lor stealing two dogs from
a farmer that paper used the fol
lowing headline:
"2 Dogs, 2 Men. 2 Years, 2 Bad.”
That, we would say, is right 2
the pencil’s end.
SOME TIME BACK A SUPFOS
ed friend, who appears tc be over
ly interested in our future—we sup
pose “our hereafter” would be the
best way to say it since we mean
the next world—handed us a book
on evolution. And while we're sup
posing we don’t suppose it would be
the healthy thing to do to contri
bute that particular volume to the
Bolling Springs library drive?
NO DOUBT OOVERNOR OARD
ner is feeling right happy and
pleased with himself as he sits In
his chair in the executive offices at
Raleigh, but our bet is that before
a fortnight is up he will long one
or two times to climb the old bat
tered stairway in Shelby; walk In
his old office, toss his feet up on
the desk, and yell across the hall
to Odus Mull about a round of
golf out to Cleveland Springs.
But why mention such pleas
ures? He might get homesick. If he
should find time to read this chat
ter.
JUST AS A MATTER OF IN
formatlon we d like to know what
color that is being used on the new
hotel—cream, yellow, or one ol
those new-fangled colors used for
description in the hosiery ads?
AN ENT THIS SHELBY SCHOOL
problem our suggestion would be ,
to postpone any proposed proced-'
ure until the Benjamin Duke will
is read. News reports are that the;
will leaves a bit of money to edu- j
national institutions dependent
upon charity and to paverty-atrick- |
en sections. Who knows? And you
know 'where there's a will there's |
a way.''
Don't throw that brick!
EUGENE ASHCRAFT. WRIT
ing In his Monroe Bkiquirer, says1
“If I were a banker I wouldn't loan
one cent ot money to a Union coun
ty farmer this spring."
And now wen make our last
wager of the day: We "bet quite i
| number of farmer* In this county
I are very much elated over the fact
| that Mr. Ashcraft lives in Union
j instead of Cleveland, and runs a
i newspaper instead of a bank.
THE INTENTION WAS TO
make,the colyum short and snap
py today, and It does as seems if
it Is fairly short!
Union Community
News Gleanings
‘Special to The Star )
Mr. and Mrs. Will Mauney' will
move to Morganton shortly to make
their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Fate Poteet moved
a few days ago to Dover Mill.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dowell moved
back to the Union community re
cently.
Mr. Hope Dixon died Sunday
night and was buried on Monday
at Union church.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D Harnlls lit
tle daughter has been right sick
but Is better, we are glad to state.
Mrs. Margaret McEntire is sick
but friends are hoping for her early
recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Horn enter
tained thetr children at a delicious
dinner on Christmas day.
Mrs. Samuel Hamrick who fey;
the first of December and was bad
ly hurt, has about recovered.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Jones have
moved back to the Union settle-!
ment.
Mr. Yates Horn has built a new!
tenant house on his plantation.
- ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of P. P. Iwester, de
ceased, late of Cleveland county.
North Carolina, this Is to notify all
persons having claims agauist the
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Shelby.
N. C., on or before the 14th, day of
January, 1930, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons Indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
ment.
This 14th. day of January, 1P2S
FRANK L. HOYLE. Admin
istrator of P. P. Ivester,
Deceased
It Won’t Be Long—NOW!
Princess
THEATRE
SHELBY
Tues. Jan. 15
wmmmmm a m.m % i '■11
VanArnam
And His Band of Merry Minstrels.
The Mouth Piece °f Mirth and Melody
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WE ARE
CLOSING
OUR SALE SATURDAY NIGHT
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Positively this week ends our January sale. A1 tags
and sales cards come off Monday of next week.
Our buyers are now in New York and new Spring Mer
chandie will begin to arrive within a few days.
If you’ll shop this week the savings will amount to a
good deal.
TAKE ADVANTAGE
of this sale this week. You’ll find just lots of things
here at reduced prices, you’ll be needing this spring and
summer. It’s a wonderful opportunity to supply your
needs for now and the future.
This is our year’s biggest sale, when prices are cut to re
duce stock *.nd raise cash.
STORE WIDE REDUCTIONS
Thi* it not a sale on just a few items. It’s all over the
house. From the Basement to the Top Floor. Yellow
Tags with sales prices tell the story. Wise shoppers will
take advantage of these last few days and visit us often.
You buy high grade merchandise and the prices are
lowest.
THE
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