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The Cleveland Star SHEI.BY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mail, per year_...........____—— W 50 Carrier per year ............._..._— #3 00 THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. T ine B WEATHER8__......_ President and Editor B. ERNES! HOEY___ Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM.. News Ed,tor A. D*JAMES ___ Advertising Manager entered as second class matter January l, 1905 at the postoffice At Shelby. North Carolina under the Act of Congress March 8. 1879 We wish to call your attention to the fact that tt is and has been our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adherred to WEDNESDAY, MAR. 20,1920 TWINRUES It will be a good news story—for a good news story, y’know, is the recital of the unusual—when some one down at the State capital declares that Mrs. Max Gardner is not the most beautiful woman in official social circles in Raleigh for years. “Even Critics of Hoover Admit He Has Made A Good Start.” Could that possibly be taken to mean that the critics of Mr. Hoover might be more broad-minded than would have been the critics of his defeated rival had the latter been elected? In view of the fact that the legislature was what it was we wonder if the lawmakers returning to their homes this week were greatly missed while in Raleigh by their re spective communities? And if that be treason, may all those who have been troubled with the same curiosity be beheaded with us. “White is Best Color for Warning Signal,” headlines the Greensboro News in relating the late discovery that a white object is the best warning signal to be worn by a pedestrian who does not desire death under an automobile. And for years, reluctant to giving up our old-fashioned ideas, we had been of the opinion that white was not a color. STATES THAT PAY 'THE TOTAL revenue turned into the United States treas ^ ury from all sources in 1928 was $2,775,276,956.23. Of this sum New York, supplied more than one-fourth, and the four states of New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Illinois paid more than half of the entire national revenue. ♦These four states should be most influential in promoting conservation and economy at Washington. And all gdbd Re publican states at that! OUR AUTOMOBILE BILL ACCORDING to offfcial records recently compiled the American public will spend $10,000 millions of dollars for fcWtolfiobiles, replacement parts, accessories, tires and gaso line during the coming year 1929. Of this sum, >5,400 millions will be spent for automobiles and trucks and 1,200 millions for accessories and parts. In 1928 tires, gasoline, parts, which make up the basis operating cost of automobiles, cost the public 4,122 millions, and the cost of cars was 4,153 millions additional. Adding the 1928 gasoline and tire cost it will be seen that the public will spend something in excess of 10,000 millions during the coming year for pleasure and business purposes. • • SEVEN SECONDS VS. LIFE |N VIEW Of the fact that a North Carolinians killed almost daily in auto accidents it might be well to erect signs at all railroad crossings reading: “Go ahead. Try and save that seven seconds, but do so at the risk of your life.” “The average time,” says the Bangor Commercial,” it takes a fast railroad train to pass a crossing is seven sec onds. “Yet more than 7,000 automobilists were killed at grade crossings last year. They couldn’t wait seven seconds. '“They will wait where they are until Gabriel blows his trumpet, for there is no way of beating that. ‘“What are seven seconds in the life of a motorist ? , “To lose them may be to save fifty years.” \ _ COOUDGE’S ALMA MATER AN EX-PRESIDENT is always good newspaper copy for ^ weeks after he leaves office as his movements for a short time thereafter, and occasionally for longer periods, are watched closely by the general public. When Mr. Cool idge left Washington following the Hoover inauguration special reporters were assigned to go with him to his North ampton home and keep just as close tab upon him as upon the1 new president. Photos were made of the Coolidges back home again and column after column of news space was de voted to relating the various incidents connected with the home coming. But it seems that at Amherst college of which Mr. Goolidge is an alumni, the typical New England restraint wa$ shown. The Amherst Student, college publication, de voted a “personal” and nothing more to the notable event of the return of the home-town boy. The “personal” read: “Calvin Coolidge has returned to his home at Northampton after an extended stay in Washington.” Now who wonders where Coolidge got his silent demeanor and lack of demon strativeness ? THE NEGRO FARMER E?ROM 1910 to 1925 the increase in negro farmers in North r Carolina "was greater than in any state in the union, and in the increase Cleveland county ranked 19th in the 100 counties ofr'the state. A portion of the credit for North Ca&Uhfc’s agricultural advance in the last decade is right fully credited to increased farm progress among the negroes andifl |he increase in farms being operated by negroes. In like manner the negro farmers of Cleveland county, now the largest cotton county in the state, must be given due credit fop a ^art of this county’s high ranking nowadays in the agricultural world, for in Cleveland county there are negro farmers unexcelled anywhere in the country. The transfor- I mation of the negro farm-hand of the old days, indolent, i I lacking sticking qualities, and unambitious, into fanners t who take an interest in their work and strive to equal the i i white race in farm production has been remarkable. Cleve-!, land county could not possibly be on top of the state in cot-. ton production today if it were not. for the negroes, and in the listing of the county’s many bale-to-the-acre farmers I quite a number of hustling negro fanners and tenants should , not be overlooked. i C D THE SCHOOL MOVEMENT DEGARDLESS of what future action may he taken about the Shelby city schools, it is the opinion of The Star that the parents and school patrons of Shelby should see that the high school, and if possible the elementary schools, remain open for the full term. A movement to that end is now on toot and patrons are being asked, in view of the fact that the school treasury will be empty one month before the end of the regular year, to subscribe enough to continue the schools for the extra month. Not to do so would be an injustice to 3,000 school children who are not to blame either w'ay* you look at it for the condition now facing the city schools; it isn’t fair to the youngsters not to have credit for a full years work in school. We say that the high school first of all should continue the full year, because, according to school officials, it may be possible for the students in the elementary grades to move up a grade with only eight months work—that is, such will be possible for a large percentage—but due to the fact the high school work is outlined for a nine months’ course it will be impossible for high school students, especially the senior class, to receive credit for a full year. Regardless of your attitude as to school expenses, taxes or any other department of school activities, surely you cannot hold back the child you have in school for a period almost equal to one year rather than defray his or her expenses for one month— a sum of something like $10 as estimated by the Parent Teachers organization. Not if you’re interested in your child’s future. Think it over. I I ( ( Some folks spend so much mon ey for nice clothes to wear to church they don't have anything left to pay the preacher. There couldn't possibly be over 5 Inches difference In the wave lengths of WEAF and BEEF and WORF, ’cause I am able to tune In on all three of them at one time and hear a pea-thrasher and a buzz saw and some cats fighting —since the radio commission has adjusted things. The man who invented the au tomobile minus a hand throttle on the steering wheel, and the guy who discovered the saxaphone, have not added anything to the comfort or convenience of the pub lic. Congress has voted about ftfl, 000,000.00 to be loaned to the farm ers who suffered the loss of their crops by reason of storms last year. Now, look-y here farm ers—all In the world you've got to do to get some of this money Is—Go to see the man who has charge of It. put up some Liberty Bonds, or something else of a liquid value, then go on back home, and wait for ft or 9 months, and then go back to see ttte man that you have already saw, and find out what's the trouble, and he will let you know that your application for a loan has been turned down. So you see—It ain’t much trouble to borrow government money. I heard a most remarkable state* ment from a young girl the other day. I had not anticipated such a shock. She was pretty. Her fea tures were almost perfect. Her ankles were examples of nature’s best art. Her "3 good reasons” were fine to look at, hence the amazement when she said: ‘‘Moth er, I think my skirt Is a little bit too short.” I have decided that I'd rather let my old lady stay sorter fat rather than have her take up the habit of smoking a cigarette when she wants a stick of candy. The retail merchants of this country lost >876.542,879.25 last year by reason of bad accounts (dead-beats>, not counting the 999JM9.999 hours of sleep they were entitled to and didn't get. A Bed-time Story. Mother: Darling get ready for bed. Darling: Oh, mother. You al ways make me go to bed too i soon. I don’t get to sit up and play a bit. Mother. I'm not sleepy, and 4 want to play some more. Mother. Hi get ready in a little while. I want to put the pink dress on Susie, and I will just have to comb Jennie’s hair, I wish you’d just look at It mother. I can’t go to sleep now, mother— 'cause I ain’t at all sleepy. Mother: Hurry, darling Get your nightie on. Darling: Aw, mother, you know I slept a long time In the com- | puny room this afternoon. and ( the Old Sand Man has not come yet. Mother, please let me play Just a few minutes longer, mother. I want to wash my tea set, and mother—please help me to fix Judies head. It broke off this morning. I don’t think little girls 1 ought to go to bed so soon. I . wish I had some chewing gum. I could eat some candy, too, If I | had it- Mother let me sit up a ■ heap longer, please, mother. | Mother: Are you ready for bed, darling? Darling: Mother, I can't find that old nightie. I believe some body stole it. Mother, let me play with my ' little automobile just a teeny weeny bit. X am not sleepy, mother. And I think if I would go out in the hall and play with my scooter, I would then get sleepy, mother. Aw, mother—you hurt my feelings. I don't get to play any since Christmas. Mother, please Wait till I put my dollies’ trunk up. Mother: Come here to me this minute. Darling: Aw, mother. (Sniff, sniff, sniff). Now I lay me down to wake—sleep, I pray thee lord my soul to take—I mean—keep— (Sniff—sniff—sniff—) And if—I die before I sleep—before I take —Aw mother—before I wake, I pray thee lord my soul to sleep— to take. Good night, mother, but you got to let me sit up heap later than this tomorrow night. ( Travel writer says the Einstein I theory Is attracting much more popular interest in America than in England. England is used to fog. —Arkansas Gaeette. What we dread to think of is Einstein In another world trying to communicate with Sir Oliver Lodge—Dallas News. CAMPBELL’S CORRECT EASTER APPAREL RIGHT IN STYLE AND LOW IN PRICE A LARGE GROUP OF EASTER FROCKS IN GEORGETTES, PRINTS AND FLAT CREPES - $4.95 $9.95 All the newest styles and shades in prints and solid colors, dark shades and gay spring like patterns in prints. Styles and sizes to suit everyone. 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