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At Shelby North Carolina under the Art ot Congress March 3 1879
We wish to call votir attention to the tact that It is and has oeen
our custom to charge five cents per line fot resolutions ot respect
cards ol thanks and obituary notices after one death notice has
been published This will be strictly ndherred to
‘ FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 102!). .
TWINKl.ES
In one of the daily papers we note that there is a pro
fessor on the faculty fit Duke university by the name of
Calvin Hoover. Now who wanted to know what caused all
that anti-Smith sentiment about Duke university last, fall?
The Shelby charter hiII scheduled to go before the pres
ent legislature makes it possible for the mayor and manager
to draw a total salary of $1,230 and some of the citizens are
offering strenuous objections. It is quite a hop from the
present salary to $4,200 when one recalls that about, a half
dozen fellows seemed anxious for the job last time.
Unless the press dispatches overlooked it, Representa
tive Odus Mull did not wear that red vest belonging to Sena
tor Willie Person when he stampeded the House on the ap
propriations hill, but then, you know, Mr. Mull is red-headed
and plays gold left-handed, as Judge (’lark has heretofore
noted.
WOMEN COME ACROSS
•THE WOMAN’S club has taken up the suggestion of The
* Star that the civic and service clubs of Shelby should see
that every Confederate veteran in Cleveland county pets to
the annual reunion in Charlotte in June. Now it is up to
the others. You can count always upon the women when
the cause is a worthy one such as tendering a bip event to
'the tottering old fellows in gray who have well earned the
privilege of enjoying the few remaining reunions before
them.
Get the veterans to Charlotte!
CRAMER S POLITICAL REWARDS
|^ACK IN the days following the November election while
North Carolina political leaders were still trying to shake
the surprised daze from their heads and wondering “how
come” the flop of the State into the Republican column, the
cool observers were already answering “Stuart Cramer.”
As the weeks passed the experts continued to reason
out North Carolina’s jump from the Democratic party to the
Republican and nearly always they wound up their deduc
tions with that name—Stuart Cramer. Many of them, al
though they did not say it, wore a bit alarmed over the en
try of the New Yorker, A1 Smith, into the North Carolina
and the Southern political situat'on, but very few of the
lead'ng Democrats could bring themselves to believe that
the Republicans could form an organization in such a short
period of time capable of switching the state nationally
speaking. But that’s what happened, and now those con
sidering themselves politically wise will readily admit that
the big textile man from Cram art on furnished a big part of
the brains and quite a bit of the money behind the turning
of North Carolina into the G. 0. P. ranks.
Immediately there came talk of Cramer for a cabinet
position. Not on’y had he been a big factor in the Repub
lican victory in North Carolina, but he also had aided much
in splitting up other portions of the ‘solid South’. Further
more he was closely connected with the Coolidge administra
tion by his close persona! friendship with Secretary of the
Navy Wilbur, a classmate at Annapolis. Added to that Mr. \
Cramer called upon Mr. Hoover during the cabinet-picking
days the president-elect spent in Florida. If a man ever earn
ed and deserved a reward it seemed as if it were Mr. Cramer.!
Surely Mr. Hoover could not yiass up a reward for those who
m.^3 it so that he was the only Republican candidate to
ever shake the foundations of the solid Democratic South.
But Mr. Hoover named his cabinet and Mr. Cramer’s name
was not in the list, nor was there a name of any Southerner,
Republican-Hoover-Democrat.
•ine naieign i>ews ana UDserver corresponaent in wnsn
ington writing to his paper avers that the textile magnate
was given the cold shoulder, so to speak, because of two
things. First, because the "Big Three” in Republican ranks
in North Carolina—Charlie Jonas, David Blair, and Brown-!
low Jackson—did not “go down the line” for Mr. Cramer as 1
-Mr. Cramer did for Hoover. All public maneuvers necessary '
were made for Cramer by them, he writes, but still they did
not “go down the line.” Just what the Washington writer j
means we do not catch. Second, he reasons that Mr. Hoover’s
overlooking of the South leaves the Republican South where
it has always been—merely the dupe and pawn of the north
ern And eastern Republican interests; votes appreciated, and
such, but nothing mere. Perhaps he innuendoes in his ex
planation about the ‘‘B g Three” that they did not overly
exert themselves for Mr. Cramer’s appointment, because in
the year of an unusual Republican victory a great amount
of pie might not be left for the others if a cabinet slice was 1
taken off to start with. And perhaps Messrs. Blair, Jack-1
son and Jonas did all in their power for Mr. Cramer with
out results. Anyway, the headline writers are putting it,
"Cramer’s Political Sun Has Set.”
SILENT MAN GOES RACK
^^R. CALVIN COOLIDGE, average citizen, is hack once
more in his beloved New England foothills—back home
ftirain after six eventful yet colorless years, years just as
colorless as Mr. Coolidge himself. But in stepping from the
Vmelight the former president leaves the country generally
in a mystified state; in passing from the White House the
inner Coolidge is just as sphinx-like to the world as he was
when he entered office. Despite the constant pursuit by
writers, photographers, and experts of the game of drawing
out the innermost secrets of man, the “Strong, Silent Man."
as The Hickory Record describes him, has kept within him
self, ns scrupulously guarded as is New England wealth, all
that would make it possible to describe his personality.
And today, just as it has for hundreds of days past, the
world asks itself what is the Coolidge personality?
During his administration he did nothing tremendously
important, said nothing of startling import, and brought
about no changes radical enough to cause even a slight gasp
from the most sensitive student of public government. As
others have said, he did little other than his duty, and he
did that quietly, silently and without the customary fan
fare of public movements. In not a single transaction of his
duty did he take unto himself the role of a martyr or the ro'e
of a great leader—roles often assumed by the great and the
near-great. His strange, aloof hold on the American peo
ple, what is back of it? The Coolidge personality? And, if
so, what is the Coolidge personality?
Could it not be that his simple, unassuming manner of
going about his duty is the real basis of his power? He stated
when he entered America’s highest office that he would nof
attempt to be a great president, but would merely do his duty
as he saw it and according to his ability. Which meant, no
doubt, that he would not lead along new lines, but would do
his best to steer the course in proper, fitting style along
known and tried channels. After all isn’t the role that Mr.'
Coolidge would not place himself in the very role that instills
one weakness in our democratic method of government? Do
we not have too many leaders and too many occupants of
high offices who are satiated with the desire to be defer
ent and oustanding for some act of their own instead of
carrying out plans and methods already known to be work
able? Is it not a popular custom of American office-hold
ers to wreck the systems of their predecessors and attempt
to build machines, or organizations of their own?
As The Hickory Record informs, Mr. Coolidge is going
to write and perhaps in his writing he will explain that mys
terious thing about him which causes many of us to admire
him although actualities forbid that we ever class him among
the great in the sense that we vision great men these days.
Rut until he does reveal something, now unknown, by his
writing we are content to believe that his strange hold on
the country came from the fact that he was satisfied merely
to carry on, leaving to others the glory, the shouts, and the
colorful historic pages brought about by their pioneering,
experimenting, and charting of new courses. A descriptive
word of Coolidge is beyond us except in negative form: He
certainly was not an experimenter.
Divorces.
I live In a state where divorces
are not granted or countenanced,
yet. I must say that I think di
vorces are justified In some in
stances. and 1 will endeavor to
recite the grounds for which di
vorces should be granted, accord
ing to my way of thinking, as A1
Smith uster to say before he went
Into the banking business anso
forth and here they are.
1. It the party of the first part
chews gum while playing bridge,
and Invariably leads the wrong
card while the party of the second
part Is her partner, then he should
sue for a divorce and ask tor ali
mony in the sum of not more than
S dollars a week. Including the war
and luxury tax.
2. If the party of the second
part practices spilling gravy on
his vest, and wiping the buttermilk
off his whiskers with one corner
of the table cloth, and refuses to
ask the blessing except when
company comes, I am sure the par
ty of the first part la entitled to
an act of divorcement without ali
mony. as her husband m no doubt
busted.
3. When the party of the tint
part persists with much vehe
mence to snore Into the face of
the party of the second part
while wrapped In the anna of
Morpheus, (N. B. Morpheus alnt
another man, as no doubt most of
you thought at first), and won't
turn over and snore in the other
direction, after repeated requests,
then the law should permit, grant,
deliver, release, and relinquish a
divorce without strings on It to
the party of the second part.
4. And when l he party of the
second part continues on all occa
sions to say—"I taken a dost of
medlson,” and “I seen her a loan
last night," and "She had not
came when I left and furthermore
—I don't think she ought to have
went in the first place,”—after re
peated efforts by the party of the
first part to correct such flagrant
expressions, then the marriage
cows should be annulled and the
nhildren (all 10 of them) ought to
Be willed to an orphanage with
out recourse on either of the nfore
aid parents.
8. If the party of the eeccnd
Bart finds s button missing on
my one of his garments, (from
.he britches on In to the skin)
more than BO or 60 consecutive
limes, and his handkerchiefs con
ilnue to have starch In them, and
10 pepper is ever found in the pep
| per box, and coffee Is out every
1 fifth or sixth morning and not
! discovered until breakfast la on
the table—then suicide, murder,
hysterica, end divorce are all in
order, and the party of the second
part should have plenty flowers
at her funeral. That’s the only
good reasons I can now think of
for legal separation after a family
has been started.
The nee b On.
We have had our swimming
marathons, and our dancing mara
thons, and our sprinting mara
thons, but the greatest marathon
ever staged In this old world of
woe is now going on between Chi
cago and Mexico, each straining
every nerve and sinew to see which
can commit to most crimes in a
12-month period.
A few weeks ago, a man shot
the preeident of Mexico. Chlcaga
not to be out-done, shot 2 men
that night in a restaurant. A few
days later, Mexico tossed a bomb
Into the etreet, and 4 persons pass
ed Into the sweet beyond where
the wood-bine twlneth, and mem
ory reverteth not. The follow
ing Tuesday night, Chicago walk
ed into * cabaret, and shot down
5 men in cold blood.
Mexico didn't like such a strong >
come-back so she marched a few
guerillas Into the mountain dis
trict of Ouchlcha, and before any
body knew It, a bunch of men and
women were herded into a small
lot, and were done to death with
bullets. That got Chicago's goat,
so she ups and picks out a covey
of T or 8 folks, and backs them up
against a wall and machine-gunned
them till they were no more.
And on they go. first—Mexico
la In the lead, and then Chicago
forges ahead. It costs nearly 3
dollars In Chicago to have a man
shot, but the gunmen are taking
orders to shoot 2 men for 5 dol
lars, or 3 men. 2 women, and a few
children for 11 dollars and a quar
ter. All of this would cost only 1
about 8 dollars and 75 cents in
Mexico. 11
The governments of these 2 mur
der zones differ In many respeots. j
If a man shoots another man in
Mexico, after conviction—he is
hanged, or shot. But In Chicago,
if a man shoots another man, af
ter trial, he is turned loose and
given 3 or 4 extra pistols. But If :
he keeps this up. and kills more
than a dozen men, he’3 liable to >
be sent to jail for 30 days, and
fined 30 cents. Chicago certainly j
does punish her criminals—by;
turning them loose and making
’em shoot for a living. | <
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UNUSUALLY ATTRACTIVE
Spring Footwear
at $A,95
T JL
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they always get good shoes at the Paragon.
We know you can buy shoes anywhere for $4.95,
but if you’ll just do us the favor of looking around
first and then see these, you’ll agree with us that
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“drew AND MATRIX FOOTWEAR *
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PL/ 'N A no *ANCY CURTAINS 1
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Embroidered
SASH CURTAINS
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Men’s All V/ool
SERGE SUfiS
Being chsed out
$15 to $2385
While we are trying awful
ly hard to close out our
Men’s Suits you’ll still find
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NEW TROUSERS
(From Duchess)
$ l-95 *» $650
G aranteed not to rip. $1
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Dresses & Coats
SPECIAL AT
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Another shipment reach
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$16-75to$4950 *
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NEW S?^ir:3 STYLES
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fj.09
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A very larg'e assortment here for your
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TURKISH TOWELS
$1.00 for a Dozen
81x90 ~
SEAMLESS SHEETS
A good sheet, free from star h.
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bed size_ tj) 1 »UU
42x33
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THREE & i aa
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(And they positively will
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29c YARD
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