School Board In
Praise Of Griffin
(Continued from page one ’
enforce his own views or to domi
nate the Board in matters of policy,
either financial or otherwise, and
has at all times co-opcrated and
worked harmoniously with the
Board; and whereas, the Board is
entirely responsible for the financial
condition of the schools at present
and he has only carried out the in
structions and advice of the Board
In the expenditures of money:
Therefore, be it resolved, that this
Board go on record as expressing
its appreciation for his distinguish
ed services both to the school and
to the City of Shelby, and that a
record of this resolution be placed
upon the minutes of the City School
Board, and that a copy of same be
published it The Cleveland Star.
This the 31st day of May< 1929.
Signed: B. H. Kendall, J. S. Mc
Knight. Jno. R. McClurd, D W.
Royster, R. T. I.eOrand, Trustees
Shelby Special Charter School Dis
trict No. 33.
Griffin Boosted
By Kiwanian* Here
Club Expresses Appreciation Of Re
tiring Superintendent’s Dis
tinguished Work Here.
The following resolution praising
and expressing appreciation for the
remarkable service Supt. I. C, Grif
fin has rendered to the city schools
of Shelby was passed unanimously
by the Shelby Kiwanis club at its
last meeting:
Whereas, Prof. T. C Griffin has
been superintendent of the Shelby
Graded Schools for the past thir
, teen years and during this time has
rendered conspicuous public service
and has been influential and active
in every worthy cause, contributing
a large share to the civic welfare of
the comntunity;
And whereas, he is a charter
member of the Shelby Kiwanis club
and has rendered faithful and ef
fective service as a member of this
club:
And whereas, he will soon termi
nate hi sconnectlon with the Shel
by school system and his duties will
carry him away from Shelby, and
we desire to express our high ap
preciation of the distinguished ser
vice which he has rendered and of
his able and successful conduct of
cur schools, be It, therefore.
Resolved First: That we express
our appreciation of the long and
distinguished service of Prof. I. C,
Oriffin as Superintendent of the
Shelby city schools and commend
him for the zeal, ability and un
selfish1 devotion which he has at all
times manifested in the conduct of
the schools.
Resolved Second That we record
our high estimate of him as a school
man of exceptional ability, of recog
nized capacity and of unexcelled
energy, and we wish to pay this
tribute to him because he has so
richly merited the approval of the
entire community in the long per
iod of distinguished service render
ed us.
Reeolved Third: That a copy of
these resolutions be spread upon the
minutes of the Kiwanis club as a
lasting testimonial of our apprecia
tion of him as a citizen, educator
and Klwanian, and that the Secre
tary furnish to Professor Oriffin a
copy of these resolutions and that
same be published in the local
paper.
New Currency Hit»
Shelby Thi. Week
XJnrle Sam's new currency which
will be placed in circulation July 1
has made its appearance at the local
bank. The new currency which is
gieatly reduced in ‘size from that !
now In use Is grade in all denom
inations from . on* dollar to ten
thousand dollaa biHs, and because
cii the smaller size t. Andrew Mel
lon. secretary of the treasury, states j
that the government will save mil- j
lions of dollars, annually. It is un- I
derstood that all of the banks have!
received notes in $1.00, $2.00, $5 00,
and $10.00 denominations for dis- j
play to their customers, but since
only one note o1 each denomination
has been received none of the i
money will go into circulation until
July 1. Mr. Bettis, cashier of the
Grover bank was in Shelby this
morning and had with him four
notes which attracted much atten
tion among those who saw them.
PERSONALS
Mrs. Erie Nelson and little son.
Donald Palmer, of Pinehurat. are
visiting her mother, Mrs B H
Palmer.
Mesdame* T. A. Spangler, J. H.
Harrelson. Miss Billie Harrelson
and Frank Harrelson spent Sunday
in Maiden. Miss Billie remained for
a few days visiting friends there.
Mias Elizabeth Spangler attended
commencement exercises at Mars
Hill college last week and visited
friends in Asheville for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burrus left
Shelby Friday for MocksvUle where
Mrs. Burrur will visit her parents.
Later she will go to Winston-Salem
to attend the commencement of
Salem college, which is her alma
<
Illness Threatens England's King
The outbreak of an abscess near the wound from the operation
which saved the life of King George of England during his re
cent illness is confining His Majesty to his bed. The same doc
tors who attended him during his illness are at his bedside and
say that he can attend to public business. Jn spite of this en
couraging report the English people are anxious over the con
uition of their sovereign.
Gardner Makes Talk
To High Graduates
<Conlinuccl from pane one '
aertaken to apply a yard-stick to
yourself? Ha\e you ever tiied to
measure your own possibilities? I
mean in the best, sense. Have you
ever asked youl'self "How far can
l go? What can I. by the Grace of
the Lord and by the drive that is
within me. ever become?"
The very fact that you are sit
ting on this rostrum instead of out
yonder somewhere in the audience
or out yonder somewhere in tJu
world. Is itself evidence that each of
you has capacity superior to what
I am going to call the "run of the
mine" young boys and young girls.
You could never be sitting here, on
the point of receiving your diplomas
as graduates of the Shelby high
school, if you did not have the
capacity to succeed—-If you did not
possess the stuff for achieving suc
cess.
How far. then, can you go? What
can you t'o? What can you be
come? What success may you at
tain to? Well. I am going to tell
you. In weighing my answer,
though, I want, you to remember
that I am speaking to young boys
art* girls, to young men and young
women, to the graduates of the
Shelby high school. What limits are
put op your chnnces of success?
How far can you go? How much
can you grow? My answer is this
If'you want to, you can. If you
want to, you can. Can what? Why,
can anything Can go anywhere, can
do anything, can become what you
wish. There aren't any bounds set
to your achievements. If you vet"
not young people, I could hot sav
this. But you have youth, you have
capacity, you have an inheritance
and an environment and you are
growing up in the period of this
world which, all together, make !‘
possible for nte to say "if you want
to. you can "
I wonder if any of you sitting
there is thinking now "the gover
nor is certainly preaching a com
fortable gospel. The only thing I
r.ted to do is want to." W 11. I am
not preaching a comfortable gospe1.
The only thing you do have to do
is lo want to. There is no reason
able success to which you can not,
each of you. attain, if you want to.
But that "if you want to" is a hard
saying. You must really want to,
and you must want to intelligently,
Of course, most of you do want to
grow, to i.chieve, to live the good
life, in the sense that you would Ilk'
to do this, if it were easy, or if
i* did not prevent your doing some
thing else that you want more, or
if it did not prevent your having
certain pleasures or certain satisfac
tions that you feel that you cannot
give up. But to want the best that
we can think or feel or do or reach,
and to want it with intelligence, to
want it in the way that holds some
hope for attainment, is no; easy.
It is hard—so hard that some of
you, unless you a-e a most remark
able class, will not be interested Ul
doing it.. You will not want to
enough.
If you want to—you can That Is
a hard saying, but those of you who
wish to attain the highest possibil
ities must worship at this shrine,
and you will find it jealous of your
constancy and your devotion You
can not pursue it and at the same
time worship at the altar before
v hich most of American youth to
t.ay offers its homage. The chief
idolatry of this materialistic minded
America today is not the worship of
the golden calf. The sin of the
American young people today is
their worship at the altar of get
ting by. "Getting by" is the height
of ambition of too many young
Americans—getting by in *por\
getting by in work, getting by in
■school, getting by in the home.
Getting oy is taking tremendous
toll of young America today. How
many of you, not having studied,
not having prepared your days
work, and not knowing anything
about it, have come off of class, not
ashamed at having wasted your
tune, and having failed to improve
yourselves, and having muffed your
opportunity, but pleased, delighted,
fit hating got by. "I got by matn.
today." or "I certainly got by thst
French test without, having worked."
Well, "getting by" and "if you
want to" will not work together.
The person whose ambition is to
"get by” does not know how to
"want to’ enough to be successful.
The person whose ambition is no
greater than getting by can per
haps get by. but he can not get
much else. You've got to believe in
the thing you want to do and the
person you want, to become.
n you want to. you can. What
does if you want to’ imply? What
limitations does it set? For one
thing, if you want to become the
person that in your best self you
wish most to be. or If you want to
U come able to do the thing that in
your heart you would most like to
b< able to do, this if you want to
implies and requires that you must
bo willing to prepare yourself.
In this complex and changing
world of 1920 in which we depend
more than ever on machinery and
oiganiaed group aetivttics for doinir
the work of the world, in which a',
any time one more machine may be
invented which will perform the
work previously done by ten or
twenty or fifty persons, the neces
sity for prolonged and adequate
preparation is more vitally essential
tb the ambitious young man or
young woman than at any other
time in the world’s history. But the
necessity for adequate preparation
has been recognized as far back as
history records human endeavor
The children of Israel spent forty
years—almost a lifetime—m pre
paring themselves to enter and to
live in the Promised Land. Jesus
spent thirty years in preparation
ior three years of active ministry.
Always u lias been necessary for
the person with ambition for real
achievement to pay the price of
adequately preparing himself for
responsibility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow'
caught this idea and expressed,it in
his matchlessly faultless phrase,
when in the ’ Ladder of Saint Au
gustine" he said.
"The heights by great men reached
and kept
Were not attained bv sudden
flight.
But they, while their companions
slept,
Were toiling upward in the
night."
Whr t else dees ’if you want to’ de
mand of youth? One other thing!
School Finals Here Over;
Annual Awards Are Given
jou must pay, I think is this: You
must be willing to take delayed re
turns. The truth of this saying is
oh! so easy to understand, and so
hard to live by. I warn you, you
may not be able to do it. Rather,
I would say, you will set up a goal
of high achievement and set out for
it,, and then you will find this and
that and the other thing that you
Will wish to enjoy here and now,
and you will find that they wiil
build up interests which will check
your pursuit of your major ambi
tion. Old Omar Khayyam caught
our problem here when in the Rub
aiyat he played with the idea, “Ah,
take the cash and let the credit,
BO.1’
Frankly, it is easy to make a beau
tiful plan for your life; it is very
hard to keep in the race when tin
goal is across the continent, as in
Mr. Pyles' Bunyan Derby, which this
stout-hearted, plodding Paul Simp
son from Burlington is sticking in,
01 when the goal is four years, or
ten years, or twenty years of your
life from where you stand today.
If in your heart you resolve that
you will want to enough, you will
find one other price you must pay.
You must have and keep an open
mind. You must be willing to keen
on learning. Our Master said "ham
to know the truth—the truth will
make you free.’’
It is going to be hard. I think,
tor me to get you to catch accurate
ly the meaning of what I am say
ing here, because young people still
have open minds. Your teache-s
here, perhaps, sometimes find it
hard to get some one of you to ap
proach with an open mind some
political or social question, but they
dr. not know how easy their task
is really. They ought to try to teach
some adults, some grown-ups. to get
u new point of view, or some hope
an open mind on a question of opin
ion
You will stay young and there will
be. some hope for you really to
achieve, so long as you continue to
have an open mind, to look at a
question n its merits in the situa
tion in which you find it; On the
other hand. I know' of no more
certain mark of age, of growing old,
than the crystallized mind. The
man who knows that he knows
about this question, or that, or the
other, is already an old man. But
you yourself can determine how
long you will keep an open mind or
hew soon yours will be crystallized
ar.d you will quit thinking.
iIllustration: Mr. Bryan:
"The trouble with Mr. Bryan," said
Mr.-.
j "Is that at thirty-five he quit think
ing and began talking"
I have given tonight a simple
iormula for achieving what is clos
cit to the heart of each of you. I
have told you that you can do and
can become what you will—if you
want to.
This simple formula will work for
you, though, only when and if you
want to in an Intelligent and a ra
tional way. I’m not telling you that
you can achieve anything worth
while simply by playing the game of
wishing. I have told you the very
tpposite of that. To want to ra
tionally will put a severe discipline
upon you. It requires a willingness
to prepare yourself for living the
kind of life that will bring you to
your goal. It requires a willingness
to accept delayed returns. And it
requires that almost hardest of all
things to acquire and keep—an open
mind, a willingness to measure and
judge questions of opinion on their
merits in the situations we find
them in.
From another view this formula
will discipline you. You may set
up your goal and plan your life
lor achieving it. But you will find,
as you strive to reach it, that It
moves on and ever leads you on
and on. You will find that one
goal achieved but points the way to
another farther on and higher. In
this characteristic way that worthy
goals have of leading on, however,
is what makes us grow. And as long
as we can grow, there is hope for
us.
No matter if one goal achieved
but points the way to another far
ther on; and its achievement points
to another; for as Robert Browning
says it.
“A man's reach should excel his
grasp.
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(Continued From Page One)
Griffin, who has directed the Shel
by schools for 13 years.
Graduation Program.
The program ran the gauntlet of
the usual graduation exercises with
the class mascot little Miss Anne
Andrews catching the spotlight
along with the three score and seven
boys and girls leaving Shelby high
for the last time.
In addition to the awarding of
the outstanding honors, the other
annual awards for exceptional
school work were made together
with the presentation of gold base
balls to Coach Casey Morris and his
high school team which recently
won the town's third state baseball
championship for high schools.
Sentiment surrounding the de
parture of Supt, Griffin crept into
the program along with the adieu3
of the graduates when the school
board read a very complimentary
lesolution of appreciation for his
great educational work for Shelby
youth and then presented him with
a fine white gold watch as a part
ing remembrance. The senior class
then matched the gift of the school
board by presenting the superin
tendent leaving with them a hand
some desk set.
The outstanding awards made
v.ere as follows:
The Washburn cup for the best
all-around boy in conduct, scholar
ship and athletics to Ralph Gard
ner.
The Eskridge cup for the best all
around girl in conduct, scholarship
and athletics to Mae Ellen Mc
Brayer.
The Gardner debating me lal foi
the juniors to Sophia Hunt.
The LeGrande medal for fresh
men and sophomoes to Sara
Thompson.
The T. W. Hamrick medal for best
speller to Mildred McKinney.
The William Lineberger medal
for the most improvement shown
during four years of high school
work to Lola Cook.
The Cleveland county fair trophy
cup for the best scholarship record
lor the four years to Dorothy King.
The Dover medal for the senior
making the best record in Bible
study to Lula Agnes Arey.
Another feature of the program
was the presentation of the Athen
ean oath of loyalty by the graduates
to the new mayor, Mr. S. A. Mt
Murry.
Still Talk Summer
Ball With Shelby
In Class D Loop
Hickory, Statesville, Gastonia. Lex
ington, Concord And Shelby
Proposed.
Will Shelby have summer base*
ball this year? Although the quea*
lion has not been discussed much
here, considerable Interest la being
evinced by five other towns In the
proposed class D league which may
be organized by baseball fans.
Discussing the likelihood of such
a league The Hickory Record
sport writer says:
"Baseball may be the dull spot of
the sportlight for Hickory during
the present summer season, but if
Hickory fans will join in the
argument and start the ball roll
ing Hickory should be in a class D
organized league for next season.
There's no reason why class D
baseball wouldn't pay in this sec
tion of the state, and other towns
and cities are just as anxious to get
something started.
a ciass u league could be form
ed with Hickory, Gastonia, States
ville, Concord, Lexington and Shel
by as the entries. With the support
o' the neighboring sections, each
city could support a team.
“If the proposed western Carolina
league is formed for next season,
the cities of the group will have an
unusually good opportunity of turn
ing the clubs into major league
minor camps, such as Salisbury,
Rocky Mount, and Columbia.
“Word from reliable sources in
dicates that several major league
clubs are seeking class D teams for
r.ext season, and because of the
large number of baseball prospects
in this section for future big league
players, the majors would be more
than interested in taking charge of
the situation in a number of cities
or this section. The park for these
league games would, of course, have
to be furnished by the citizens of
the cities represented in the cir
cuit.
"Dreaming and thinking about
such a league as proposed for this
section will be worthless. What we
need and must have for the organ
izing of the circuit for next season
is action now.
“Fans of Hickory. Statesville,
Gastonia, Lexington. Concord and
Shelby should call for special
meetings to discuss the problem
during the summer and get action
on the plans started in time to as
sure the cities of basebal for next
season."
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