North Carolina Newspapers

The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year-------— M By Carrier, per year ..---............-*3 00 THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.” t.mc B. WEATHERS ..._____... President and Editor S. ERNEST HOEY ____...... Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM.... News EdUor 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, 1878. We wish to call your attention to the fact that It la. and has been our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards ot thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adherred to. MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1929. _ TWINKLES What we'd like to sec. if there be such, is the farmer who ever expected to get farm relief. Perhaps Senator Simmons wants Raskob unhorsed so that he (Simmons) may use the unhorsing for a stepping block to get off the elephant back on the donkey. The Charlotte Observer speaks of the hazing being given Mr. Hoover, and from what we read it seems as if Mr. Raskob is still considered a frosh in some circles. Lower Cleveland folks worried about the routing of Highway 18 are not the only ones who have a difference of opinion. There’s this Thursday afternoon closing proposi tion among Shelby merchants. “Gardner Calls Upon Press To Aid Him In His 2-Year Program,” informs a headline. Well, as we recall the press stuck pretty close to him during his eight-year waiting pro gram. That should be encouraging. Just the other day we read an out-of-date Chamber of commerce booklet telling what was going to take place in Shelby in 1926. A lot of things have happened here since 1926, and a lot have not. Shelby hospitality met the test for the postmasters last week, and now it’s only three weeks until the Suanish American war vets will be here—twice as many, and per haps more, as attended the convention of postmasters. The Philadelphia Inquirer pulled this one, so do not cuss us: “The backless gown is due for a summer stand, we are told. With the sleeves gone, the front, excised, and the skirt doing a fade-out, it won’t be long before those two cute little shoulder straps will have nothing to hold on to.” Nell Battle Lews, News and Observer columnist, is con ducting a contest on the twelve most vivid personalities in North Carolina. Ye Twinklcr lays claim to beating her to it. More than a month back Plain Talk, a plain-talking maga zine, started a series of articles on the vivid personalities, or characters, in American cities over 100,000 population and at the time we expressed regret that Raleigh fell shy of the population mark and thus prevented Battlin’ Nell from get ting ‘“wrote up.” SUCH WOULD BE NEWS IN SOUTH CAROLINA, we see, the governorship is being 1 sought by many, but why that information should be head lined in North Carolina, when we have at least six lined up for the Democratic nomination three years in advance, we cannot see. It would be news if there were no candidates at all for the governorship in either of the Carolines. HEADLINES AND EXPLANATIONS. THE WASHINGTON ITEM about Mrs. Hoover entertain ing the wife of the negro congressman at a White House tea received page one headlines of some size in some of the North Carolina newspapers and very small, inconspicuous headings in a few of the others, one of which attempted an editorial explanation of the affair. As long as the Hoovers have no apology or explanation for the guest list at the White House tea we fail to see why any Southern paper takes it upon itself to explain the episode. As for the varying head lines. we sppose it depends upon the sense of news values as possessed by the several headline writers? GETTING HISTORY STRAIGHT j7 D1TOR PAGE of Kings Mountain had a news item in the last issue of his paper telling of a Louiscana veteran, a native of this state, who came there on a visit, his first trip back in 72 years. In concluding the item it was stated “There was no Bessemer nor Gastonia nor Shelby at that time.” As for the Shelby part Editor Page erred just 16 years. Shelby was organized as a town site in 1841, and only last week The Star published a news item telling of a man born here who was back on his first visit in 81 years. All of which, of course, proves nothing more than that Shelby lacks several years of being a spring chicken. That may be classed as chamber of commerce boosting—and it may not. RIDING POOR TOM-TOM ^ QUESTION in the questions-and-answers department of one of the country’s leading magazines recently inter ested us. It read: “What legal steps would be necessary to lodge Tom Heflin permanently in an asylum for the in sane? Please explain carefully step by step, as I intend to act on thia, and do not want to spend more than $50,000 for this public benefit—that’s all the money I have.” There was no answer given; perhaps there isn’t one, and that may be why Alabama keeps sending .him back to Washington. WILL WE BREAK OUR RECORD? DERHAPS it is a bit early to become enthusiastic and hope ful, for all farmers have it in the make-up not to admit that anything is good until they have it in their hands with out strings attached, but, somehow or another, we’re be ginning to wonder if Cleveland county might not this year break its own record cotton; production of last year? Already we hear some one saying that there is a long stretch ahead, a stretcl^UwtCoiHt^ bring forth all manner of disaster, pests and unfavorable weather for cotton. Yet we ask it, for in recent days we’ve heard numerous farmers say that cotton looks about the best now it has at this sea son of the year in several years. And that goes for last year and the record crop which led the state in production. The only fear we have is the superstition hinging about the fact lhat the crop may be looking too good now. For several years, since Cleveland county began stepping to the fore front in cotton production, the season and the weather kept worrying everyone right up until the end. This time last year, and later in the year, the observant ones shook their heads and worried about the crop. It was either too wret or too dry, or perhaps it was both, one after the other. How ever, one thing that diminished our superstition this year is the fact that up until last week what with the rainy weath er and more rainy weather it seemed as if the farmers would never find enough dry weather in one lump to get their cot ton in the ground. Then about the time all the cotton was planted it started raining and getting cold again. “The crab grass is running away with the cotton, and the cotton com ing up is turning yellow and dying,’’ one heard on every hand. A week or so of hot weather and the gloomy spell passed. Perhaps that was our weather scare for the year. Anyway, we re putting it down here and now for future ref erence, with the condition all insert when prophesying on crops, that, unless some very unfavorable weather sets in before picking time (and for the farmers’ sake we’ll admit such could happen), Cleveland county’s 1929 cotton crop stands a good chance to excel the 1928 crop and of causing Governor Gardner to make a bit of rural whoopee among the friends in Raleigh he has been exhorting 1o keep an eye on the farmers of his county. SHOWED THEY WERE DUMB JUDGE RUFE CLARK, of The Statesville Daily, generally has the facts when he w'rites about anything, therefore the following eeditorial by him, entitled “Showed They Were Dumb,” shows that they did show they were dumb—and the “they” spoken of refers to the Southern Democrats in Con gress : “The Southern Democrats in Congress—the house— made a spectacle of themselves a few days ago and were ex tricated, from An embarrassing position as a result of cir cumstances and not because of their foresight. In fact they seemed to have taken definite leave of foresight for the time. The congressional re-apportionment bill was under con sideration. As is generally known, congressional represen tation is based on population—on the number of men, women and children revealed by the census count. A Kansas rep resentative offered an amendment, to exclude from the count as a basis of reapportionment unnaturalized foreign ers. Numbers of foreign born persons in this country have not taken out naturalization papers and are not legally citi j zens—can’t vote. Most of these are in the cities. They swell the population and increase the representation of the terri tory in which thy live. The amendment was adopted. The Southern Democrats, seemingly W’ith no thought of what they were inviting, voted for the alien amendment. They were punishing somebody else. Immediately Representative Tinkham, of Massachusetts, who for years has complained that the Southern blacks swell the South’s representation in Congress while the blacks, or most of them, are excluded from the ballot box, offered an amendment to exclude the non-voting blacks from the count. It was adopted. If it had stood the South’s representation in Congress would have l —n materially reduced, as a result of the dumbness of the Southern representatives voting for the alien proposition and opening the way. ihc Kepublican leaders were opposed to both amend ments. They were adopted because prejudice, sectional feel ing and partisanship ran away with the house for the time. As soon as possible the Republican leaders so manipulated matters as to get the amendments stricken out. But the Southern Democrats who would vote out aliens with no thought of the position they were making for themselves, made an astonishing exhibition of lack of forethought and judgment.” Nobody s Business GEE McGEE— (Exclusive in The SUr in this section.) In The Sweet Buy And Buy. The discount rate cni Wall street was 16 per cent yesterday and 14 per cent the day before and 17 per cent day before yesterday, but a break to 12 per cent is expected to morrow. In fact, all gamblers look lor better conditions minute after minute, and If they do not mater ialise, they are not disappointed they Just keep on looking Stock gambling is exactly like crap shooting with the exception it is apparently more honorable. Banks won t lend cash to shoot craps with, but every cent in the world is at the finger-tips of spe culators. In shooting craps, the shooters have no margins to speak of to put up. and in this respect, the Wall street gamblers differ: they manage to get “margins” by borrowing it from one another. We have been informed that from 4 million to 6 million stock shares change hands nearly every day on the board. At that rate, every share of stock in the United States is bought and sold two or three times over every two or three days. No questions are ever asked about the earning record oi stocks, nor did anybody ask what the real value of those Flor- 1 ida lots were. Everything de pended on the re-sale prospects. Millions of dollars change hands every week for stocks that the I buyers and sellers don't know for a fact that such stocks were ever issued When a man makes a dollar on : the board, somebody loses that dollar. Yet, it is a very respect able way to make money. Gam-. biins is a disease. The specula-! tors who fight and sqoeel and sfluawl all day long in the stock exchange are not content to call j it a day, but they go to their clubs' and other places at night and play stud poker and set-back and I throw dice for stakes until they ’get so sleepy they lia\e to go to: bed in order that they may be strong enough to ‘ trade" the nex' morning. Stock exchange scats sell at around $450,000.00, and they are worth it. Just think of sitting in a seat that offers you the oppor tunity to fish in a pond containing 118,967,000 suckers (the popula tion of the whole United States, minus the boys in (he other seats nearby. Why, It’s a cinch. The guy mi the outside who wires 8 broker on the inside to buy him I 30 shares of Damfino common has about as much chance to win as j Tom Heflin has of becoming the Pope of Rome. The Federal Re serve seems to be very fond of j the gamblers, and it looks like ] they reserve practically all of "it" for them. Then And Now. When I was a boy, I know one thing better than anything else in | the world, and that one thing was to obey my father and my mother, j Nowadays, when mother wants Billie Billikins to take a dose of Milk of Magnesia, she begins the ordeal in this manner: "Now Bil lie, come to mother, and be a good little boy, and take this teeny-weeny spoonful of medi cine: it's nice and sweet—watch mother taste it. Come on, dar- j 1 ling, and mother will take you to ; the picture show tomorrow night.! , and here's 10 cents. You can rut.' i to the store and buy lots and lot-j 1 of nice things." Billie Billik’n finally succumbs to mother's plead- * i ipgs and promises. — Bat when the time came for me ' to take a tablespoonful o£ castor oil, my mother had only to pour • it out and nod at me, and I made ! a dive for it like a hornet at a bald head, and I knew better than ; to even frown, much less whim per. If any of the kids ever 1 hesitated a moment before swal-! ; lowing the sweet morsel, a strong hand reached up over the fire board, and in less than 3 seconds, there were a dozen blue streaks on that part of the anatomy that first comes in contact with a chair when sitting down is in order. (My parents always kept from 3 to 5 switches parked on some ' nails just above the fire-board. A ‘ “fire-board" is known as a mantel now i. We had our good times though, and we knew how to have them too. We went in our shirt-tails and were satisfied. Clothes would have hindered us in the race t > the wash-hole at dinner-time. We shot marbles while the mules were eating, and played mumble peg and roley-hole when other game? became tiresome. Our favorite sport was setting rabbit gums and bird traps. It was a great honor during those times to own a bow and-arrow. and no snake doctor was safe within 50 yards of me unless he was securely hid. When liz ards saw me coming, they laid down and gave up. I don't want to see such times return, but I would like for our children to realize that perhaps daddy and mother know a few things. Parents • begin to lose their grip on their off-spring when they enter the second grade at school, and by the time they pass from the eighth grade to the ninth, they are gone forever from the contact and control of the “old fogies.” Such seems to be the rec ord of today's progress, and the ! end ain't yet. WE RE HANGING RIGHT ON To the belief that if a jock ey can make a horse flv ; and a blacksmith can make j the sparks fly, that prob- j ably boarders can make the | butterfly? Likewise we’re hanging on to the idea that better gas and oil is the only so lution to longer motor life and performance. The ex cellency of Sinclair gas and Opaline oil is the result of scientific refinement of bet ter basic quality. Cleveland Oil Co. Distributors Vi BARGAIN SPECIALS ALL THIS WEEK CHILDRENS BLOOMERS Rayon silk bloomers, sizes 4, 6, 8 & 10. Color, pink pnly 35c 3 for $1.00 Silk Gowns A summertime special. A $2.49 grade, the very best grade. Colors: Flesh, pink and orchid. A real pick up $1.39 Bathing Suits 200 suits carried from last season, boys, girls, misses and women. All colors, all sizes. Just take your choice 49c SILK SHIRTING 32 in. wide finest grade broadcloth silk stripes, all i the neatest shirting stripes. 50 and 75^grade. Special 24c WORK SHIRTS Men’s fine weave grey chambry work shirts, full cut sizes, 14 to 17. Special 49c Ladies’ Bloomers Rayon silk, all sizes. Colors, pink and flesh. 89c quality. Sale Price— 50c SILK TEDDIES Ladies’Silk Teddies. $1.49 grade in several . colors. Mostly small sizes. As long as they last - Special 49c I LACE And RIBBON SALE SATURDAY MORNING 9:30 Our entire stock of laces and insertions that sold as high as 25c per yard lc yd. .RIBBONS. 100 pieces of assorted rib bons, values up to 25c yard lc & 3c yd. Ladies’ Come Early. Queen Quality SAMPLE SLIPPERS Not,°ne pair alike, the siade that sells for Sg 95 the very smartest in new footwear. Sizes 3 31 4 - SPECIAL-— * and $4.95 BRADLEY’S BATHING < . SUITS I Just stroll by our window I d?{ \'e'v the greatest line * l?ntoba Rn^lUitS madc- SliP I fixed dley and you are J $2.48 to $8.95 SILKS SILKS ofbS?iL°ne lhousand yards ot .Silks such as Taffetas fw'6t ^atins' Satinback Ciepe. Crepe de Chine mm01petteu'r,Crepes' Rad’ ium, Rajah Pongees, China Fadleavl Brocaded s‘lk raiue. values up to $2 Per yard, to clean up quick if1** 49c yd. Underwear Crepe 30 i": Cotton Crinkle Crepe 1 !s» 38 in. Dover Mill silk stripe n tings. A variety of pat terns to select from. Special *Oc yd. Underwear Crepe Real mercerized French un derwear crepe. Colors, pink rose, copen, orchid and Nile. Sheer and soft. Special— 19c MENS SOCKS Assorted solid colors. Special— Sc BLUE BUCKLE OVERALLS S oz. white back indigo dye, triple stitched, 7 pockets, back pockets double. High back or suspender back. None Better— $1.39 A. V. WRAY & SIX SONS “SHELBY’S BUSIEST STORE,” “PRICES DID IT.”