The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year ..................---.......... *2 50 By Carrier, per year_..............——--*2 00 THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. r.nr b. WEATHERS___............ President and Editor S. ERNEST HOEY_____Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM__ News Edltor A. D. JAMES.Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905. at the postofflce 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. MONDAyTmAV 20. 1020 ~TWINKLES The Prince of Wales, we read, lias taken up flying, and all we can think to say is that he will not fall as many times from his plane as ho did from his horse. The reason so many people howl when some person s threatens to name all those who are dry publicly and wet privately is because there are so many people—oh, why fin ish it? It is The Rocky Mount Telegram which reminds that it is the silken calf and not the golden calf causing a lot of trouble these days, except that The Telegram said it “at tracting attention these days.’’ North Carolina continues to maintain her high batting average in auto deaths. Seventy-three people died in auto ac cidents in the state during April, a little above the two per-dav average. .Now that there is some indication that the power com panies nre buying up newspapers, or attempting to buy them, the next fellow who refers to “the power of the press” may mean what he says, and again he may be putting over a bit of sarcasm. Taking note of the fact that 18 of the 08 members of the Shelby High graduating class declared their mothers had been the most beneficial influence in their lives while only five voted for dad’s beneficial influence, The Greensboro News remarked: “Maybe the old man was so busy digging up the cost of their keep that he couldn’t keep in tune.” The Macon Telegraph comments upon the dispute among Republicans as to where their party was born, but seeing as how Macon is down where the country is still Democratic we have a hunch The Telegraph could have a better time commenting upon the dispute among Democrats as to wheth er or not their party is ready to bury, and where. Some issues back The Star made a query about school attendance records in Cleveland county and along came a flock of tardy and absent records stacked up by gchool stu dents in various schools. The publication of such records should indirectly aid in building good school attendance in the. county, and all such records make good reading. Keep them coming. What became of the plan to abolish the Cleveland county chain gang? A plan that later devolved into another plan of making the chain gang a county institution instead of a No. 6 institution? If some change is not made, will the county secure its proportionate part of the money coming in from the additional one-cent tax on gasoline? Editorial comment by the Rutherford newspapers and by leading citizens of the neighboring county to the west speak very highly of Shelby’s new school superintendent, Capt. B. L. Smith, who comes here from that county. Some time back the Shelby school board let it be known that they were in no hurry to fill the very important post left vacant by Supt. I. C. Griffin, and it seems as if they made a rather good job of it by not hurrying. This, without doubt, is the season of the year during which the friendliness and neighborly spirit so widely herald ed as a Cleveland county asset is annually revived and re kindled. It is memorial season and for several weeks news items in The Star have told of the annual reunion of pres ent and former members bact at scores of “old home churches in the county where the day is pleasantly spent together. A RECORD IN FIGURES J^IGHT often in boosting style the people of Shelby refer to the remarkable growth and progress of the town in the past decade, and figures published in the news columns to day depicting the great increase in the enrollment of the Shelby schools tell a story of their own as to Shelby's prog ress. With 11,152 students now in the schools of Shelby the enrollment has increased just .439 per cent since Supt. I. C. Griffin came here 13 years ago, while the high school en rollment has increased even more, or .612 per cent. Those are actual figures—the cold, hard facts—and not typical Chamber of Commerce boosting, and in this paper's opinion they speak mighty highly of a school system as well as of fering an indication as to the growth of the town. INTERESTING HISTORY EACH article he submits to The Star we grow more and more of the opinion that no more efficient historian could have been named for Cleveland county than Prof. W. E. White, of the Lattimore school. He apparently inherited from his father a writing ability and also a deep interest in history, and once he completes his volume of county his tory we feel sure that it will find a welcome place in prac tically every Cleveland county home and as a textbook in j < very Cleveland county school. Prof. White’s article telling of three rural families in Cleveland—the Bridges, Crowder and Lattimore families— furnishing twenty-one soldiers for the Confederacy is a very worthwhile bit of information to pass down to their descend ants now that the “boys in gray” are few in number and their deeds with the passing of a few years will be related and recalled only by histories. It might, be that there are veterans and other older folks still living who could give much valuable information to Prof. White, and such being1 the case they should do so. RUTHERFORD POLITICS JJP IN RUTHERFORD county, which casts the biggest Democratic vote of any county in the tenth congressional district, the citizens have started querying each other as! to why the largest county in the district has never had a congressman, and it docs seem as if the largest Democratic section in the district should be recognized with a congress man some time. Apparently the Rutherford folks are de termined that the some time will he the next time the dis- ; trict elects a congressman, for they have already gone to | work with a vim to convince the remainder of the district that Rutherford should have a congressman, and while they are doing the convincing they arc also looking about for the man. A mass meeting is being talked at which citizens of the leading sections of the county may be assembled, decide upon one man and back him with the entire county strength. That, to us, is the sensible plan, for if the congres sional bee hums long over the county a half dozen or more men may imagine that, they feel the bee in their bonnets, and thus the county would be split up on several candidates while the candidate from some other county in the district would be walking away with the nomination. Already the Raleigh political circles arc talking “Hie next governor’’ and the senatorial race in the east, which may or may not involve Senator Simmons, but those are not the only indications that a mere election upset such as that of 1928 can dampen the ardor of Tar Heels for talk ing politics. Ex-Governor Morrison was a visitor in Raleigh recently and the daily papers in the item about his visit included the following: “It is known that he (Governor Morrison) has sought the place now held by Senator Over man, but deferred to the senator’s wishes to hold the post this time. Just how it will turn out in the next race re mains to be seen.” And so it does, since it could be that the senatorial race in Western Carolina may be almost as in teresting as the one in Eastern Carolina promises to be. i. _!■ ' ■ JUU !" J1_.!_ .'lii-liLJ!_ . Jg^» Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— (Exclusive in The Star in this section.) Who Did You Say? I am slightly hard of hearing, being somewhat deef in one ear partly deaf in the other ear. The manufacturers of so-called ‘ Aids to deafness'' evidently got hold to my name through the medium of some friend who had t>een trying to borrow a dollar from me, or telling me to stand out of her wav. All of the dealers or makers of such instruments or parapher nalia have written me repeatedly offering their wares. A western concern submitted a little jigger that you poke into your ear or ears iif you buy 2>. and they agree to refund half of your money in 6 months If you are not satisfied with the result of their famous vibrator. It consists of a small wire spring that must have cost nearly 1 cent, the same being fastened to a tiny piece of metal that surely stood them close to 2 cents. Yet they offrr this "thing" for only 25 dollars, CASH WITH ORDER, I decided to catch a June bug and tie him to my ear and thus get all the vibration I want for nothing. They resemble «arh other verv much in every respect except in the mat ter of first cost. A Wisconsin doctor offered me a small rubber cone about the sue of a goober for only 10 dollars. CASH WITH ORDER. His in structions say that you must poke this wonderful goober-jigger into your ear so's it will press against the drum and thus wear it for a few months. I got 2 of 'em hung back behind the bees wax in my ears, and a doctor had to fish 3 hours for them, and when he finally landed them, they were punctured worse than a Ford cas ing at a house-rasing I never heard a wink for a week after using these machines of torture. A Chicago house was more liberal in their otter They pledg ed themselves to send me their article free of charge, provided I deposit 15 dollars with them as a guarantee of good faith. I had plenty of faith in them, and didn't send the money at firsf, but they wrote me that the faith was lack ing at their end of the line. I did their bidding The deaf destrot er eame duly *o hand It. worked O. K. I felt like a lightning rod all the time I had it on. I had to tote a battery about the size of a pink flask in my hip pocket, and the transmitter was hooked onto my shirt bosom and felt like a bread tray, and the receiver clinched my head between its spnhg I was wired from my knees up. and with that blind bridle and gears on. no mule had anything on me. I returned it. Another concern sent me some thing that looked like a teapot and strainer combined. It would take 3 strong men to keep the con traption to my ear. It served the same purpose that a conk shell would ,.er\e. Everything roared by all right, but I never did un derstand what, they were trying to say. Then I used a tube