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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year By Carrier, per year —.....— $250 $3 00 THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. LEE B. WEATHER8__President and Editor B ERNES! HOEY___...._Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM___ News Editor A. D. JAMES_....___- Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1. 1005 at the postoffice At Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress March 3. 1879 We wish to call your attention to the fact that it 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. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1929. TWINKLES A magazine writer avers that athletic training makes a woman ugly, hut, ol’ course, he doesn t refer to the daily dozen for the figure’s sake. The Star today joins in with all Shelhy and Cleveland county in welcoming Governor Gardner and his tamily on their first visit home from the executive mansion. Mr. Coolidge's favorite exercise was the riding of an electric hobby horse, and now it develops that President Goolidge doesn’t ride, hut keeps fit in winter by the medicine ball method, and fishing in the Spring. Among the other problems Governor Gardner has upon his hands seems to he that one of finding a job that Repre sentative Odua M. Mull will accept. He has publicly refused one, and according to the Raleigh writers he turned down two others. Congressman-elect Jonas thinks that Cramer,, the big Sun of the G. O. P. in North Carolina, will yet land in the Hoover cabinet. Here’s hoping. But, if the plum, anticipated In the first cabinet and not delivered, continues to be dangled before the Republican portion of the South and never lands, there may be a reaction. OUR LATEST GALLANTRY |N THE SPRING a young man’s thoughts are not alone in ^ turning to certain things. Take a peep at this Springtime paragraph from the editorial page of Hon. Josephus Daniels’ Raleigh News and Observer: “We were ardent supporters of the Federal army in Mexico until the News and Observer printed that picture of the wife of the rebel leader. Senora Escobar, our sword is at your feet!’’ MR. ETAOIN SHROLU IF YOU HAPPEN to be even a near approach to a regular * newspaper reader you no doubt have often encountered in _ your favorit^ newspaper a line reading ‘etaoin shrdlu.” The line, known in print shops as a “pied line,” has caused many queries on the part of newspaper readers, who may be inter following editorial appearing in The New York World: Secret Diplomacy?—Done at the city of Washington this srventerth day of January (etc.). (Seal) Calvin Coolidge. Frank B. KeUogg, etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu cmfwyppp.—Csiwfbus Dispatch. “We reprint the above as it appeared in the Literary Digest, issue of March 16, in the department called “The Spice of Life.” For it occurred to us as we read it that Etaoin Shrdlu is perhaps the best-known comic character in the American press. With all the puckishness of Harpo Marx himself, he pops up in the most unexpected places and at the most inopportune times, always to be widely applaud ed for his incomparable drollery. So it may be of interest to know what his origin is. “He is popularly believed to be the result of some me chanical error on the part of the linotype machine. This is thought to slip a cog, or some other dido, and thus bring him into being. This is incorrect. He is the result of an error not on the part of the machine but on the part of the oper ator. What happens is that the operator makes some kind of slip so that he does not wish to complete the line he is working on. But the inner works of the linotype machine are such that they must have a certain number of letters dropped into them before they will push out the current lipe and get ready for the next one. So the operator feeds it letters as quickly as he can by running his finger down the back of keys in front of him, expecting to throw out the faulty line when it has come from the mould, but sometimes forgetting to do so. The keys are arranged in this order: E S C V X T H M B Z A R F G (a) > O I) W K lb 1 L Y Q & N U P J — “So it can easily be seen that when he runs his fingers down the first two rows, Etaoin Shrdlu stands a good chance of getting into the paper. FALLING, FALLING. FALLING! VWHY do fatal airplane accidents attract more attention with ™ the reading public than do auto accidents? The Lenoir News Topic, now owned and edited by Johnston Avery, says - “the difference is we have become accustomed to automo bile fatalities, while air tragedies are yet unusual enough to be news.” The explanation is offered by The News-Topic in com ment upon the recent airplane crash in Charlotte in which three people were killed, and the same morning paper which brought the news of the airplane crash carried news stories nearby telling of three or more deaths in automobile acci dents. But the major attention was attracted to the air plane crash. Or, in other words, newspaper readers talked more about the airplane crash than all the auto crashes com bined—and it might be said that from the news viewpoint there is no better news story than the one which causes one reader to ask another, “Did you see such-and-such an item in the paper today ?” followed by a discussion of the event or tragedy. In admitting that The News-Topic is correct in the opin ion that an airplane crash creates more interest than an auto crash because we are not yet accustomed to having a Tar Heel citizen killed daily by airplanes, we also contend that there is another angle to the wide interest in airplane crashes —in practically every human there seems to be an inherent, deep-bred fear of falling through space. That fear, that imagining on the part of the reader of his or her tumbling and twirling through space to an almost certain death be low instead of the person or persons who do fall is the real basis, we believe, of an interest in airplane accidents greater than that in auto accidents. Just what that fear is, or what produces it, we leave to the students of neurology and psy chology, but we do know that at some time in life the ma jority of humans have dreamed of falling, falling, falling, or have concocted in the subsconscious mind a picture of them selves falling from vast heights to the ground below. The terrified feeling accompanying such gyrations of the men tality remain in the mind and come to the fore when somc>| one falls in an airplane or from the top of a high building or bridge. Not long since the head of a great news gathering or-! ganization in explaining why Mrs. Lindbergh, mother of the Lochinvar of the air, was good newspaper “copy” gave what was in our opinion one of the best definitions of news ever delivered. “Mrs. Lindbergh and her thoughts and actions just after the great accomplishment of her son, and after the *3urs of waiting which must have tugged fiercely at a mother’s heart, was news second only to her son because throughout the world every mother could have and was imagining herself as Mrs. Lindbergh." Not many people “live to tell the tale” after plunges from airplanes or buildings and from actual experience few of us can imagine ourselves in the shoes of those who do fall, but due to a human’s inherent fear of falling, reenforced by dreams of long plunges through space, the majority of us can imagine ourselves as the victims of every airplane acci dent. In fact, we’ve watched people read of airplane fatalities and could almost read the terror and horror on their faces as they pictured themselves penned in the cockpit dropping down to meet an earth shooting up to meet them. The next time you read of a bad airplane smash, keep track, if pos sible, of the workings of your imagination and see if you do not, for a moment anyway, imagine yourself falling instead of the victim or victims. Nobody's Business GEE McGEE— (Exclusive in The Star in this section.) Infant Mortality. So many children arc being per mitted to drive automobiles In our town, the city council has been ask ed to pass tlie following ordinance: Ordinance No. 999. 1. It shall be unlawful for any daddy, mother, uncle, aunt, step mother, stepjdaddy, grandma, grandpa, old maid, or any other person whomsoever to permit his or her youngun to drive a car un less the said youngun has been weaned at least 2 months, except, where a kid ninnies from a bottle, he, she or it may be permitted to drive a car on the back streets, provided that the said bottle and nipple are left at home. 2. —In case it is found necessary and desirable for a daddy or moth er to let the youngster drive their car or cars, the said daddy and mother shall see that the hippin on the said youngster is pinned with 2 safety pins Instead of one, and in case of a wreck, which Is caused by a safety pin suddenly working loose nnd jabbing the said daddy and mother shall be guilty of wilful neglect, and shall be re quired to fix and repair the dam aged radiator ansoforth at their own expense. 3. It shall bo called a mis demeanor for any boy under the age of 16 to drive a car ut a greater speed than 74 nfiles per hour while hugging a flapper in the same seat with him and iu case he tries to hug a flapper In the back seat, then he shall be required to reduce his speed to 73 miles per hour, and re main at that gait until he has got entirely through hugging and wiped his mouth. Any guy who violates this ordinance and runs over a hog or anybody else will be took to law for manifeasance and forced to pay for both. 4. Where there are more than 5 persons on the front seat ol a car. it shall hi no event be per mitted for either of the 2 boys to try to sit in either of the 3 girls’ lap while driving a car around a blind corner at a speed greater than 70 miles per hour, unless, of course, one of the girls is sober and able to hold her left hand on the steering wheel too. 5. No high school girl shall be permitted to drive a car through the crowded sections of the city while powdering her nose or lip sticking her Ups, and when this exercise becomes a bounden duty. : then the said girl shall stop at a jred light and do her dolling up while the light Is getting ready to turn green. (Finis.) Wanted: 100 Good Comers, j Our town has a grievance. Some folks ain't been doing what good j citizens ought to do. They have j blocked progress, and they know It. All of the thinking people be lieve that somebody ought to be took to law. A town can get along without slow-pokes and stumbling blocks, and the sooner we get rid of our old fogies, the better off we will be. Here's the trouble: Two or three years ago, a few so-called leaders got together and built a bank on the best filling station site In our whole city. The idea of putting a commercial institution where a first-class filling station ought to be is ridiculous, and a great many society women and business men arc not only wrought up. but their dander has broke loose, and they are Just about ready to tear down the derned old bank, and let the oil company have the lot, free gratis, for nothing. And that ain't all: a bunch of deacons and elders are figuring on building a church on our next-best filling station corner. As tax payer and vote—I want to rise up and say that there's plenty room out In the country for churches, and possibly a desirable site can be had on some back street for the Third Methodist, and if they do go ahead and stick a church at the corner of Main street and Seventh avenue. I’ll never take sacrament again with that bunch of sinners so long as I live. There are 5 more dandy filling | station corners in our town, but they are occupied by dwellings, stores, and hotels. Of course, the 84 filling stations vc now have are on as good corners as there were to be had at the time they were built, bu£ I am in favor of con demning all of the buildings now occuplng corners suitable for fill ing stations, and utterly destroying them, and turning the said land over to some good filling station builders. There ain't any use keep ing enterprises out of town. Most of the real attructtve cor ners in the best residential sec tions of our city already have beautiful filling stations on them, and there's a big advantage in hav ing a filling station right next to your home: when anything smells bad, you'll know tt's the filling sta tion, and when a pole cat visits your community, you will not hear a •'breath” of it, as they smell so much like some filling stations. Now, Folks: Wake up. Come on city council and provide space for more filling stations. We need at least 11 additional stations so’s there will be a filling station for every car, and let's start this slo gan: "Four filling stations to ev ery block.” Yes sir ree, we’ve got to have gas, and filling stations Is where you get it. Hurrah for Prog ress ansoforth! I FEDERAL SOLDIER BURIED AT HEBRON Peter Ilamot Dies At Gastonia At Age 82. Buried With Masonic Honors. 'Special to The Star.) Toluca, March 28.—Funeral serv ices were held on last Sunday, March 29 at Hebron Methodist church for Mr. Peter L. Hamot, age 82. He died at the home of his son at Gastonia following a heart attack. Mr. Hamot served with the fed eral army during the Civil war, holding the commission of ser geant at the close o£ the conflict. He was married to Miss Nancy Ellen Blanton in Shelby on August 2, 1871 and lived in the Toluca section for many years, being a resident of Hopewell, Va. at the time of his death. Beside his wife the following children survive: C. V. Hamot of Gastonia. Rose, of Norfolk, Va., Elma of Hickory and Doll of Hopewell, Va. The following brothers and sisters also survive: Doll and Carson, of Los Angeles, Cal., and Simon of Erie, Pa. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. M. T. Hlpps. The deceas ed was a member of the Methodist church and was a Shriner. Tire Masonic rites, members of the Shrine from Hickory acted as pall bearers. A lot of beautiful flowers marked the new made grave. Yelling loudly to induce a deaf man to "stick ’em up.” a Chicago hold-up man without a gun attract ed the attention of a policeman and was arrested. BLOATEDJFEELING And Other Troubles Went Away After This Sooth Carolinian Had Taken Black-Draaght. Iva, 8. 0^-"I have rued Black* Draught, at Intervals, Tor about five Tears,” says Mr. J. P. Gilliland, of this place. “I take It for indigestion. "After eating. X would have a tight, bloated feeling, and pains in my chest and stomach. I would spit up my food, and some things I ate would not agree with me at all. "I would be hungry, but afraid to eat on account of the Indigestion. I would be constipated, too. “Some one told me that X should try Black-Draught, which I did, with good results. I take just a small dose after meals, and X feel like a different person. "X do not have any more trouble of that kind. X can now eat al most anything X want to, at any time, and It does not hurt me. “Black-Draught Is a splendid medicine. 1 can recomend it to others.” Thousands of people have found relief, in cases of common indiges tion, by taking a pinch of Black Draught after meals, and continuing this treatment for several days. Take Thedford’s Black-Draught, ft is purely vegetable and acts in a helpful way. without the had effects >f mineral drugs._SC-199 black-draught L Indigestion tf 11»ou \r.«• % , REMEMBER —a new interest period be gins in our Savings De partment Monday, April First. Come in today and open a Savings Account or add to your Savings Ac count as the case may be. Hundreds of dollars will be added to our Savings Depositors accounts Satur day, which is interest for the last three months. You, too, can get these fine divi dends every three months if you’ll open a Savings Ac count here. START TODAY At The CLEVELAND BANK & TRUST CO. SHELBY VOL. Ill, NO. 7 Virginia Carolina Chemical Corporation Copyright W* Soil Erosion Is Costly Soil erosion washes millions of dol lars a year right out of the pockets of America's farmers, nays II. II. Bennett of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He pitches at us a total estimate of around 120 billion pounds of plant food that the rams get between Christmas and Christ mas. So many figures make FULL ROWS diary, but that looks like as much plant food as there’d be in 500 million tons of a 2-8-2 fertilizer. Anyway the cost of dams and ter races and grass and trees to stop all that waste for a lot of years would cost a mighty little part of what it robs away EVERY year. Let's hear a motion. V-C Saves Costs Expense per acre goes up with “factors snd practices designed to maintain or in crease cotton yield,” says the U. 8. Department of Agricul ture. But these same wise factors and practices, it adds, LOWER THE COST PER POUND. And that ipeUo Profit. V-C bags are full of it. ‘‘That plant foods can be reduced to formulas as exhct as those used for animals is coming to be understood." —U. S. Department of the Interior. --V-C The man who’s too stingy to feed the crop that he expects to feed him is like the Scotchman Mixed Goods tells about. He was leaving to visit kinfolks, and called back to his wife: "Dinna forget to take little Sandy’s glasses off when he isua lookin’ at anything.” -v-c Fertilizer Brings Profit Proper fertilization and culture bring generous response from the warm-hearted Irish potato. Be cause those that the south grows are in the market early and command good prices, it pays especially to fertilize them well. Fertilizer means earlier maturity, bigger yield, better quality, larger size,—the points that : bring good price. i One wat to catch step with the procession and stay up with the leaders is to subscribe to a good farm _ journal—and read it! , -v-c Look With Your Eyes! Cigarette advertising just up and borrowed the “blindfold test” from fertilisers. Used to be a smart aleck thought he could pick the best fertilizer by a blindfold test—as if plants grew on smells. Everybody knows now that what makes a crop hustle is not the perfume in the air but the plant food in tho bag. Blindfold testa are out of date, yet aome folks still shut their eyes with out any blindfold. They buy their fertiliser.BLIND! They don't use either their eyes or their noses. All they want to know is which is the cheapest. Buying blindfold on smell, foolish as that is, would be better than buying blind on price. But why do either one? Just be sure V-C is on the bag—then you KNOW you’re buying right! -.-V-C It pays to fertilize cotton heavily u-ith V-C. Up to 1,000 pounds per acre, use a high grade V-C . . . and collect your profits! -—V-C Let Poor Lands Go “The answer to surpluses may be found in the more efficient farming of the better land, with the return of still more of the marginal land to pasture, woodland and waste.”— Dr. Firman E. Bear, Ohio State University. -V-C “I have used V-P Fertilisers for a long number of years. Last year the yield from my entire cotton operations netted me 600 bales— an average of a bale to the acre. I used 400 pounds of V-C Good Luck 3-12-5 to the acre. All through the growing and maturing periods I could tell that the plant was getting sufficient food.”—It. C. Singletary, Blakely, Ga. The Chemists Work Fast “Chemical research, in providing new uses for farm products, will do more to relieve the fanner than all of the legislation that can be passed,” said Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wis consin, last summer. Si* months later the Bureau of Standards in Washington announced a way had been found for making wallboard from cornstalks and a little factory was making two tons of it a day at Ames, la.; also a way had been worked out for getting xylose, a rare sugar, from cottonseed hulls and peanut shells; and ths Bureau was hot on the trail of peanut shells as a substitute for hardwood planer shavings in g\psum fiber concrete. -v-C-—— V-C cotton makes a lot of lint btjors ths boll tceeiil can roll up his sleet es. -v-C—— The Right Grade Is Wailing V-C Fertilisers for cotton havs the biggest demand in the following grades, shown in the new order of nitrogen - superphosphate - potash: 5-8-3, 3-10-3, 4-10-4, 4-12-4, 5-15-5. These suit a wide range of soils. If you want advice about the right grade for your farm, write to the V-C agricultural service bureau at. Richmond. Where Grass Belongs Gnus in its right place looks mighty pretty, no nut ter how much you hate to soe it in a field. In front of the house, around the church or the school, in the courthouse square, the cemetery lot, or a little park at. the depot, rich green grass is a rest for the eyes. But good grass has to be nourished—though you might not have thought to. To grow it right, grass must he fed on its own plant foods. These are all in V-C FAIR WAY, a highly specialized product intended for nothing but grass. Just be careful NOT to put it among your crops. IVIRCI.M t.CAIIULIN A CUE.MICAL Mill.. Genuine Boker Keen-Clip Grass Shears DeLuxe New \ Propeller Type prinkler World’s FASTEST SELLING LAWN MOWEKS! . . Finest Construction One out of every eight mowers sold this year will be a Lakeside .. because of its 'factory-tested, smooth-running, effic iency . . and because it is America’s Super-Value. Steel Reel, Nozzle, 50 ft. Hose for $6-98 Complete Reel holds 100 feet of 34-inch hose s Hyatt Koller Hearing* Quiet, self-oiling bearings . . knife-keen, self-sharpening, cutter blades . . large cast iron wheels . . a hardwood roller, handle and patented grip. Heavy Red Rubber Hose 50 ft for $4 .49 Brass Nozzle and Couplings Seamless rubber hose with corrugated tread that wil' last for years. Nozzle is adjustable from fine' spray to heavy V stream. — (bee Our au /ertisement On Pe^e Fourteen) MONTGOMERY WARD 6 CQ 1139-141 S. LaFayette St. STORE HOURS: 8 A. M. to 6 P M. Shelby, N. C. Phone No. 167 8 A. M. to 9 P. M. SATURDAY
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