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The Cleveland 3tar SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE . By Ms if pat year--- ,2s0 By Carrier pet year -—--- *3 w THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC LEE B WEATHER8 . President and Edltoi S ERNES! HOEY__Secretary and Pori man renn drum. New* edl,0, A. D JAMES.-. Advertising Manage! Entered as second class matter January 1 1905 at the postoffln At Shelby. North Carolina under the Act ot Congress March 3 181a , We wish to call your attention to the fact that it is and nas oeer our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of reaper cards of thanks and obituary notices after one death notice has been published This will be strictly adherred to WEDNESD’Y, JAN. 115. 1929. TWINKLES A freak that would be more of a freak than any Phineas T. Barnum ever corralled would be a bill collector who has never heard “Come back Saturday, and I’ll pay you.” It makes a lot of difference whether the rec^ie^t is a man or a town. F’r instance this headline in the Green® boro News: “Yanceyville Jubilant As Electricity Is Turned On.” They’ve been calling Mr. Coolidge an economic-.! fellow, tight-fisted, so to speak, as well as tight-mouthed, for years, but we noticed in a headline the other day that “Coolidge Gives Away His Dogs.” Of course, it could be that the “dogs were eating their heads off” and the New England e-orony of the President made it necessary for him to get shut of them. THE SCHOOL QUESTION AGAIN r»ITIZENS of Shelby school district are goirg to vote upon ^ the propositipn of issuing bonds to cover the school de ficit. Even, in advance of the passage of the bill calling the election The Star would say that the measure should go over. Despite the fact that an election proposing r.n increased tax levy for operation of schools was defeated none of us should be adverse to paying what we already owe. And at the pres ent a bond issue seems to be about the best method. £• ••• ■ cj> • •- r : — 'o- - • v A CROS^-FAMILY PUZZLE •THOSE OF YOU who have in time pact been interested in * cross-word puzzles and other such teasers might fi a bit of entertainment in working out the follow og puzzle, which The Laurinburg Exchange proffers under the title ‘‘A Problem in kinship”: “A colored man who lives in the Sandhill section of the county came to a Laurinbug lawyer's office this ’ ””k ."”d put this question to him: Bill was my step-son. Then Bill married a woman with two daughters. Bill's mother died and I married one of his wife’s daughters. Then Bill got* a divorce from his wife and married her other daughter. Then I got a divorce from my wife and morried her mother. Bill’s divorced wife. What kin am I and Bill? It was something of a mix-up in family relations and the lawyer has not answer ed the question yet. Can you figure it out?” GET G. O. P. BENEFITS DY THE PAPERS we see that York county, South C '.rolina, women are going to demand cotton bags and sacks in stead of paper and jute bags when they go to market. The spirit is fine, but we are not inclined to believe that the movement will attain its aim—that of boosting the price of cotton by creating an increased demand for cotton products. Along about the same time that cotton farmers are worry ing about the problem of getting mone money for their cot ton, people of this section are honing th^t a-dutv. may be placed on foreign monazite so ^hat the mining of monazite might be resumed in this section. That’s a better idea than demanding cotton sacks. Seeing as how North Carolina voted for Mr. Hoover and numerous other Republicans it might not be a bad idea for the state and the South to ask him for a duty on both monazite and jute and their products. The citizens of a state which turned the "Solid South" into • wabbly political section might demand something for the transformation they brought about . WHAT EDUCATION DOES OFTEN one hears the expression that too much * money is wasted upon education. To an extent that statement is true as we believe quite a bit of money is ex pended upon education for boys and girls who do not desire an education and have no desire to make use of it when they get it. The drones should be culled from the registration lists of our colleges and higher ed*’.'>at:on,'l hr tpuMons, but because they should be eliminated is not sufficient reason to slow up educational progress. From an exchange it is leerned that less than one per cent of American men are college graduates, yet out of this one per cent have come: Fifty-five per cent of our Presidents. Thirty-six per cent of our members of Congress. Forty-seven per cent of the speakers of the House. FiljHsix per cent of the Vice-presidents. . Sixfy-two per cent of the Secretaires of the State. Fifty per cent of the Secetaries of the Treasury. Sixty-nine per cent of the Justices of the Supreme Court, CTATISTICS issued at Washington have it that only 49 per ' cent of the farmers in North Carolina read daily newspa papers, while just 48 percent read weekly papers. Those fig ures intrigue us somewhat, for they of Ter a basis of specu lation on estimating just what value newspaper reading is to intelligent farming. Without the inclination to boast it is recall d that Cleve land county farmers lead the state in production of cotton and were termed by no less authority than the Country FARMERS WHO READ nationally circulated farm periodical, as lhe “ex ers of the South.” In Cleveland, as our estimation runs, fir more farmers read newspapers than the average accredited to the entire state. The major portion of this paper’s circulation is in rural territory or in homes where there are agricultural interests. The Star’s circulation at present hangs about the 5,009-mark, which means that The Star goes three times each week into two-thirds of the homes in Shelby and Cleveland county, using the accepted basis of five to a family to determine the number of homes in the county. Although The Star leads all other papers in cir culation in the county, and perhaps has more circulation in the county than the combined circulation of a couple of week ly papers and at least two daily papers, several thousand other newspapers are read by Cleveland county farmers. Which leads us to believe that around 75 percent of the farm ers in Cleveland county read newspapers. Our estimate may not be correct, but it will not be so far wrong, and in recent years th:s prper as well as other newspapers read in the county have devoted quite a bit cf space to agriculture and agricultural interests. Perhaps that is one reason why Cleveland county farmers are now consi ’cred “example Carmers,” if you’ll pardon Us for the observation. “flobody’s Business” - BY GEE McGEE - (Exclusive In The Slar In This Section.) i 81c Semper Tyrannls. When a woman goes down town with as much as 15 cents In her compact, she's out shopping. When she has as little as 50 dollars on her person, she's just looking around, and getUng ready to send her money out of the state to a mall order house, but when she gets ready to buy, she takes the whole world seriously and hunts up the store that will let her have some stuff on credit, then she’s on a buying excursion. Now, folks, when you see a wom an begin to tote samples home you can just put it down that you'll not see her again for 3 months. She either uses those samples to patch with, or uses them as a bluff. Most women like to make everybody think that they mean I business when they keep a clerk I busy for an hour showing her mer chandise that she is not at all in terested in. Most ladles like to "shop” away from home. The seme dress In Punkville at 10 dollars hlg'.ier Is much nicer thnn the same dress at home 30 dollars lower. Some I tilings that are sent out on appro val arc returned the day after the ! party with regrets. And the rea 1 son fashion hath decreed that teddies have pockets Ln them' is because stockings are both too long and too thin to hide money ln, and furthermore, If a female were to carry her dollar bill In her hose as of old. why, she’d liafter undress when she got ready to find Jt way up there. Installment buying has hurt the credit grocery business. People who can dress up for 3 dollars down and get gasoline at 25 cents per gallon don’t mind going hun gry If they cem ride and they dotj’t mind letting the grocer walk either. Riding la a sedative. Did you ever i.otice how nappy folks i seem when they are riding? I met I a covey of motorists on the way i to a funeral the other day where 1 their loved ono was to be laid to eternal rest, and every one- of them were smiling and grinning from center to circumference. Yes sir rce. Ride and leave your trou bles behind. • Automobiles are a great aid to the shoppers. Th?y make it con I venient for you to leave your home [ merchants who pay the taxes to help educate your younguns and I go 'way off some where and spend your cash, that is—the little bit of cash you have after you've set tled with the finance fellers. Be fore the advent of the gas bug gies, doctor's collected nearly 40 per cent of their bills, but now they get only 25 per cent of them after waiting until the poorhouse stares them in the face They do a lot of enforced charity work so's their patients can ride and stay .well. That's all for this time. I am thankful, however,, that "one of the people X am writing about live in “My Town." The Dead-Beat. A dead-beat is a living corpse which thrives on what it can leach. His promises are not worth 5 cents a dozen, and his wife is gen erally bad off when he is asked to pay for what he got by false pre tense. He is always broke. He is worth to his community Just exact ly what a spider in the dumplings is worth to the dumplings. A dead-beat never dies young, and when he dies at all, his kin folks have to bury him. He would not think c*f stealing at night, but he thinks buying on credit with no intention of paying s not steal ing. He sets on errgs of imagina tion from c ay to day, and hatches new ideas and schemes which per mit Tim to get stuff that other folks have worked for. ‘ . ~ :■* It Is ri3*-t -s> to Judge \ men by Kto duv; pre ’lvl : but if he pays honest debts | his credit is always good, and his standing among the church folk and business houses Is generally A 1. A dead-beat Is a mighty poor excuse for a human being. A dead-beat loves a job like a cat loves a dog. He can give more rer.scns for not working than a boll weevil has grandchildren. He can dodge his creditors with the same agility that humming bird dodges a sparrow’ hawk. He works his wife and younguns like Nero worked the galley slaves, and they get as much of their own wages as a hen gets of the eggs she lays. Tjje average dead-beat is always glad to see the merchant or the bank which he owes go broke, yet he never claims credit for helping them on tow'ard bankruptcy. When he gets sick himself, he hollers for a doctor which he never pays when he gets well. And when he gets j "real low," he sends for the preach | er (to come and pray for him) that would have starved to death had all his members been like him, and when he is packed away in “peace ful sleep" by an undertaker, he leaves nothing but a bad reputa | tion which the undertaker can't deposit In a bank. All men who don't pay their debts are not dead-beats. There are thousands upon thousands of honest folks that can't pay what they owe, and when they have tried faithfully and have failed, their debts should be Lforgiven them. But a common, everyday dead-beat that parasites on the people with whom he comes in contact ought to have the 7-year Itch all the days of his life.’ * ..I Something To Think About N*'".* Civilisation By BRUNO LEASING a \ George Bernard Shaw is quoted in “The Living Age,'' as having the following statements: “Humanity is forever changing. History tells us of six or seven civil* cation which have gone to ruin. All reached a point of development similar to ours, and collapsed be* oausi humanity, in its political phase, destroyed everything. I see no reason why we should not dis appear In the same way: all signs point in that direction. “Modern humanity is not Crea tions last word. We have the con solation of knowing that if we suc cumb it will only hasten the ino | inent when the Life-Force will pro duce something better." A dumbbell would consider these statements pessimistic. An Intelli gent person will see the optimism of them Each civilisation, thus far. lias, Ur some way or other, im proved upon its predecessors. When a civilization comes along which, even without adding new knowledge or experience, possesses a genius for grasping the best which the past civilizations offered to man kind and possesses the courage and ability to mould its life accordingly. we» shall come pretty close to the mihenium. “Moder" bumanity is not Crea tions last word!” Let us hope not. Let us give to whatever concept we have of the creative force of this universe credit for being able to do a vastly better Job. Think, for a moment, of what the sane ar.a normal people in the Uhited States find in this present day civilization: Religious and racial bigotry and Intolerance Even after 20 cen turies of Christianity. Widespread ignorance and petty t hose Razor Blades -Here’s The Way Pittsburg, Pa.—Fuel gas can be squeezed out of iron and steel, such as, for instance, discarded razor b’-'t’es, is tbs belief of N. A. Ziegler, scientist of the Westlngliouse re search laboratories. The inventor, in describing his findings, recalled that an old Ford piston, for Instance, gives up 33 times its own volume of fuel gas; wrought iron land steel in less amounts. This gas, which burns with carberetor adjustments, an automobile. Two cubic feet of cast | iron gives enough gas to furnish 10 horsepower for 12 minutes. The iron which Ziegler takes gas has a brilliant, lasting sheen,1 instead of the dull dusty surface common to cast iron. It is better, for making magnets than ordi nary iron. He uses a high-frequency induc tion vacuum furnace for the ex traction of gas from cast iron. The metal to be melted supplies its! own heat for melting, and a pow- j erful vacuum draws off the gasses that boil out. The furnace melts the hardest steel, but will not burn tb.3 hand or scratch a cigarette pa per. It is built of glass and, as the glasses are drawn off, glows with a brilliant, soft blue light. No wonder the temperature dropt in Ceiifeinia with Mr. Hoover date lined from Florida.—Atlanta Con stitution. prejudices. Even spending hun dred of millions of dollars annual ly for education. Vulgar taste in reading, in amusements, in eating and drink ing and in the ideals of life. Even despite all teachings of church and state. Even despite the fact that the world’s learning and experience from the dav.'n of recorded history, are recorded in books to which the poorest and the humblest have! ready access. There you have real pessimism. ; But you also have the truth. * i Tf, in some ...future century, our civilization follows those of the -,t. and is wiped from the face of the earth, one cannot help wonder- J ing what phases of it will stand out for the admiration of those who will j build a new and better civilization. - | I They ought, really, give us credit for having done wonderful work n the line of science and inven tion and the comforts of material ! life. The Woolworth building, the automobile and many bridges and dams will stand out as the won ders of this age. Just as we admire the. pottery of the Aztecs and the statues of the Greeks. But when... ir comes to those things that tejtfesent the develop ment of the! irtfnd and the soul and that will:show a future civili zation what^ a fine, intelligent, high-minded, unselfish and tolerant race we were, we are sure to get the "ha-ha !T That is, if Shaw is right and the next civilization is really an improvement on ours. Time to riant and the best varieties of Ve getables Free Flower Seed Collections And how to get them. — me told in the (/olden Anniveisaiy Catalog „ WOOEfc Writ* for your copy today. T. W. WOOD * SONS, S38, Hth8tr*0t. Blckuond. T*. INTERNATIONAL TAPER COMPANY New York. December 5th. 1928 The Board of Director have declared a egular quarterly dividend of one and tree-quartersj>er cent (1 H%) on the Jumulative 7% Preferred Stock of this Jomparw, and a regular quarterly divi 'end of one and one-half per cent !}■$%) on the Cumulative 6% Pre • rred Stock of this Company, for the urrent quarter, payable January 15, 1029, to holders of record at the close of business December 26. 1928. Checks to be mailed. Transfer books will not close. Owe* Shxfhsrd- Yiabtnu. and Inna. 1 INTERNATIONAL PAPER and FOWER COMPANY Near York. Decamber oth, 1928 1 The Board of Directors have declared a regular quarterly dividend of one and three-quarters per cent (IH%) on the Cumolatire 7% Preferred Stock of this Company, and a regular quarterly divi dend of one and one-half per cent (1 V4%) on the Cumulative 6% Pre ferred Stock.of this Company, for the current quarter, payable January 15th. 1929. to holders of record at ther close of business December 26th, 1928. Checks to be mailed. Transfer books will not close. K.G. Ulh^at Inna Ft Farmers Meet Here Feb. 1C The February program of agri culture in Cleveland county will be mapped out and discussed at the regular meeting of the county board of agriculture of which A. E. Cline le president and Alvin Hardin, county agent, Is secretary schedul ed to be held at the county court house Saturday afternoon. Feb. 16 at 2:30 o’clock. Timely matters of Interest to farmers will be discussed and It Is hoped that a full attendance will be present. All persons interested In advancing the agricultural in terest of this county are Invited. Try Star Wants Ads WEAK, RUN-DOWN Alabama Lady Could Hardly lift Her Head. Began To Feel Stronger After Taking Cardni. Lesley, Ala.—“I was In an awful bad state of health” says Mrs Charles Jerkins, of this place. “1 was all run-down and weak as could be. I did not have the strength ol a kitten. Some days I could hardly lift my head from the pillow. "I looked like a skeleton. I was so thin and haggard. It took all my will power to drag myself around the house. I never walked any far ther than I had to, for it hurt me to stand on my feet. “My back and sides hurt me until X thought I could not stand It "I saw myself growing gradually weaker and I did not know what to do. I tried several things but nothing helped me. “One day I read about how othei women had been helped by taking Cardui, so I thought I would try it I found It a splendid medicine. Af ter I began to take It X soon began to feel stronger and able to dc things. “From that time to the present X have taken Cardui several times when I was run-down In health. It has never failed to help me.” Cardui should help you. too. Lyric Theatre GASTONIA STARTING < Monday Feb. 18th \ i AL JOLSON IN l “The Singing Fool” Vitaphone | Singing And Talking Picture. h AT 7500 PER DAY MAJESTIC IS UNABLE TO • SUPPLY THE DEMAND. Our next allotment will arrive today. Hear this all-electric GIANT MON ARCH OF THE AIR and you too will be just as enthusiastic over it as we are. PENDLETON’S Music Store Exclusive Music Dealers For 22 Years In Shelby. 4 w-:. ..* TRY STAJR WANT ADS FOR RESOLTS 4,800 Homes Receive The Star Every Otto Day—Mr. Merchant Get Your Message Tc The Home Through The Star—You Will Gel Results That Will Satisfy. 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