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Entered as second class matter January 1. 1909 at the postofftce
At Shelby. North Carolina under the Act of Congress March 3. 1879
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‘ WEDNESD’Y, MAR. 13, 1929
TWINKLES
Our idea of getting out of two troublesome situations
with one act would be to turn Chicago loose upon Mexico, or
Mexico upon Chicago.
Since some of the fighting in the Mexican revolution is
near the Mexican border Will* Rogers thinks the U. S. Senate
should pass a law to make a bullet light in the same country
it started from, or advocate wider rivers between two coun
tries.
Vice President Cttrtis has been given five varieties of
gavels since he was sworn into office, but so far none of the
gavels forwarded him was made of an A1 Smith auto tag de
spite the fact that several hundred such tags must have
been discarded in recent months.
“Coolidge Attracts Attention As Writer with First
Magazine Article/' informs a headline. And he did, but Mr.
Coolidge may write magazine articles “from now on” and
be will never again write one line that will attract so much
attention as did that line he wrote before he began writing
magazine articles—“I do not choose to run.”
1 TJhink of the many times you’ve heard that expression,
or a similar expression employing the word ‘bunk/ Where
did the word originate? What does it mean?
If you do not know, perhaps the following information
contained in an editorial in a recent issue of The Rotarian
magazine will interest you:
“The little word ‘bunk’ is on everybody’s lips today.
Like most slang words, it is ‘racy of the soil’ whence it
springs. It is an Americanism of the purest water. For
those who do not know, or have forgotten, ‘bunk’ is a cor
ruption of ‘Buncombe/ a county (if North Carolina, Once
Upon a time, records Wheeler, in his History of North Caro
lina, ‘the Congressman for the district rose to address the
House without any extraordinary powers, in manner or mat
ter, to interest the audience. Many members left the hall.
Very naively he told those who remained that they might go
too: he should speak for some time, but he was only talking
for Buncombe/
" ‘When a crittur talks for talk’s sake,’ said Sam Slick,
‘jist to have a Speech in the paper to send to home, and not
for any other airthly puppus hut electioneering, our folks
'call it bunkum/
“‘Bunk/ then, properly understood, does not mean, as
ao many seem to think, just something you do not agree
with, or even an extravagant or ridiculous proposition. It
means something said in public to serve some special interest
—otherwise, propaganda. There is nothing Rotarians, of
all people, should be more severe on than ‘bunk,’ as defined,
and it is something they should be the last to be accused of
by their critics. That there is a lot of it about, nobody can
deny. G#oup organization has done much good in many
ways to make men think for their fellows in the same busi
ness and not only for themselves. But it has also tempted
men, in the interests of the group, to talk in slogans which
are often found by test to mean nothing in practice. Often
do we find a bad practice made light of because it is not
done by the group. But if the group preaches and the in
dividual does net practice, the preaching is bunk; it is some
thing $aid for show, and there is little or nothing behind it.”
WHERE “BUNK” ORIGINATED
HOW READERS ARE SERVED
•THE AVERAGE newspaper reader no doubt never realizes
A just how much work and effort is expended in furnishing
the news reports he reads each day, or the news photo* he
sees each day. And this, by the way, is no shop talk for
The Star as the notable newspaper f4at we intend to relate
boosts a news photo service that does not even serve this
paper.
Lindbergh is big news always. The average newspaper
reader, although unaccustomed to news value, knows that.
Several days back, not long after the Lone Eagle’* engage
ment was announced, Lindbergh and his wife-to-be. Miss
Morrow, were in a plane crash near Mexico City. Sooner or
later all the timid folks, and some not so timid, had feared
Lindy would be in a crash. And when the crash came it was
unusually “big news”—big news with a touch of romance
added due to the fact that the famous flyer's first known
mishap since he attained fame came when he was riding
his fiancee. Of course photos were made of the mishap along
with photos of Lindbergh and Miss Morrow climbing from
the wrecked plane. But new* dispatches had it that Mexican
authorities had confiscated all the plates and films of the
wrecked plane. Hundreds of newspaper readers accustomed
to seeing their big news stories in pictures as well as in type
were somewhat disappointed by the dispatches. But hours
after the mishap, despite the news that the films had been
confiscated, a complete picture story appeared in all the
newspapers served by the NEA photo syndicate.
Hew was it done?
■ *~A daring photographer, immediately after making his
pictures got them aboard the Mexican airmail from Mexico
€8tjr t* Laredo, a distance cjf 1,291 miles. Meantime another
plane with a newspaper reporter aboard left Hous
ton, Texas, and flew to Laredo to meet the airmail. Then the
special plane flew back to Houston, a distance of 417 miles.
At Houston special mats were made of the photos and rushed
by plane at night over an unlighted course from Houston to
St. Louis. More than 2,800 miles of flying in all. At St.
Louis the pictures were broadcast all over the county by
telephoto.
Thousands of newspaper readers the next day saw
photos of Lindy and his girl climbing from their wrecked
plane—“we’s” first accident pictured in the home papers
of readers.
No, the average reader seldom ever knows just how
much expense, effort and danger there may be behind some
of the items he or she reads, or some of the news photos
they sec.
THE MONAZITE INDUSTRY
■yHERE seems to be something funny about the conflicting
1 information that has come up in the movement started
here to revive monazite mining in this section, and along
with quite a number of Cleveland county citizens who are in
terested, The Star would be pleased to have the straight of
it.
First we hear that no monazite is found other than In
this section, Brazil and India. Then along comes a mining
engineer of State college with the information that there
are vast deposits of a good grade of monazite in Florida.
Later this statement is discredited by several men in close
touch with the monazite industry, or, rather, who were in
close touch with the industry in bygone years. The move
ment to restore the industry here continues and the word
given out is that monazite mining can be profitably resumed
here if a sizeable import duty is placed upon monazite and
monazite products coming in now duty-free from Brazil and
India. Hopes again swing high among the people of this sec
tion owning monazite lands. Then comes definite and to
the-point information from the head of one of the largest
of all manufacturers of monazite products that an import
duty on foreign monazite will help not a bit in restoring
monazite mining in the Carolinas, because, as he explains,
there is very little demand these days for monazite products,
such a little demand, in fact, that no monazite is being mined
even in Brazil and India, and, therefore, a tariff would not
help. "The monazite industry is a dead one,” he writes a
Shelby man, "unless a new use is found for it,” informing
that the demand for any product made of monazite is dwindl
ing each year and there is enough above the ground mona
zite sand, which is to say monazite sand in stock, to supply
the demand for years to come, which means that there is no
demand that monazite be mined here or anywhere else un
less a new use develops.
So, there you are. Make heads and tails of the affair,
if possible? Somebody, if there be such a person, in posi
tion to know the exact standing of the monazite industry
should make It plain so that the people hereabouts might not
have their hopes raised one day and dashed upon the rocks
the next. Perhaps Mr. Mason, head of the Welshback com
pany, knows what he is talking about when he says the
monazite mining industry is a dead industry, tariff or no
tariff, again there may be those who will think Mr. Mason
is talking for business reasons. The Star would be pleased
to pass along authentic information on the subject to the
readers of the paper. Certainly no progress is being made
as the matter goes now with conflicting statements coming
out nearly every day.
SI
“Nobody’s Business”
- BY GEE McGEE -
(Exclusive In The Star In This Section.)
Smith Vs. Jones.
Old Man Smith and Old Man
Jones had a fight about some poe
try the other day. and it came
very near being a serious affair. It
all came about by reason of an ar
gument. just like all other fights
start.
These two old friends were talk
ing about literature ansofortb. an
Old Man Smith recited the first
stanza of "Mary had a little lamb.
It's face was white as snow," and
Old Man Brown ups and corrects
him, and says, “That there pome
runs thls-ser-way—'Mary had a lit
tle lamb, lt'e feets were white as
snow’ and you are simply wrong
when you say “face.”
Then the dander of each one
rose and kept on a-rlslng. One
swore that it was "face” and the
other swore it was "fewe,” and Old
Man Jones said that he had made
that speech at school thousands
and thousands of times, and he al
ways said—"It's feets," and he was
man enough to stand by It. One
word led to another, and before
anybody knew what had happened,
Old Man Smith caught Old Man
Jones by the whiskers and around
they went like a whirli-gig.
And the fight went on, and every
minute or two, Old Man Jones
would say it was "face” and Old
Man Smith would say, "You're a
liar, It was "feets." Hair and whis
kers flew In all directions. Old
Man Jones swallowed his quid of
Browns Mule and Old Man Smith
got his shoe hung in the fracas,
and fell on the wood-pile, and then
they began to tumble and roll over
one another.
They both awoke in the hospital
the next day. They were stitched
and bound up, and occupied <cots
alongside one another. Nary a word
was said for the first 36 hours, yet.
i‘ I
they had both regained conscious
ness during the first 30 hours.
About mid-night the third day, Old
Man Jones found out who his room
mate was, and he flew mad again,
and said—"Smith, it’s feet, and I
mean every dam word of it.”
Just about that time, the nurse
came in with a First Reader, and
read as follows: "Mary had a little
lamb, it's fleece was white as
snow, and everywhere that Mary
went, the lamb was sure to go.”
Therefore, it was neither “face”
nor “feets” after all, but "fleece.
(Most trouble is due to just such
matters as Old Man Jones and Old
Man Smith fell out about.)
Grumbling Grumblers.
Nearly everybody seems to enjoy
the stunt of grumbling. Nothing
ever suits us. It is either too hot or
too cold. Our shoes are either a
little bit small or the least bit
large. Our coffee is generally too
weak. Taxes are always too high.
And its flies or mosquitos, boll
weevils or the red spider, lo-cent
ootton or 15 cents, and our peaches
are full of worms, and our preach
er preaches too long, and just one
darned thing after another.
Uncle Joe grumbles a great deal,
but his family grumbles at him
more than he grumbles at every
thing else. He could always beat
anybody you ever saw having sores
on his hands at cotton-picking
time, and when the fodder got
ready to pull, he’d have a few ker
nels under his arm. and if he was
wanted to help set-out tater slips,
his back was half broke. You just
ought to see how Uncle Joe is "tied
and wrapped’’ during work-time
He looks like he’s been in a wreck.
His throat is always sore, and he
enjoys sitting down more than any
thing else, especially at the dining
table. V
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Your outfit is not complete without a bit of
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SPECIAL SHOWING
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Every frock in this big display
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$9.75 TO $49.50
COME AND VIEW
NEW EASTER HATS
A display of smart exclusiveness in
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Fashioned of the favored satins, rib
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many unique novelty trimmings. An
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$4 $5 $6 $8
HOME OF HIGH GRADE
FOOTWEAR
And Loads of New Styles for Easter
Do not forget that well shod feet
make or mar the finest Easter outfit.
You can secure most satisfaction in footwear here
where shoes are selected with women’s new gar
ment styles in mind at all times. That’s what we
do and we also give careful attention to fitting
feet for comfort as well. Our complete Easter,
showing was never more pleasing nor more reas
onably priced.
$4.95 T0 $11.00
FOR EASTERTIME
SHEER
CHIFFONS
FROM CADET
$1.95
A collection of the season’s
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NEW
SILK GLOVES
FROM VAN RAALTE
$1.50
These gloves from Van Raalte
arrived recently and are as
pretty as gloves can be made.
CUBAN HEEL
PATENT STRAPS
$4'95 lo$1000
SPIKE HEEL
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I
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High, low and medium heels.
A number of different shades
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