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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mail, yrr *____M so By Carrier, per year_______13 oo ~ THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LEE B. WEATHERS ___President and Editor S. ERNEST HOEY _Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM_____News Editor A. D. JAME8____Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1. 1906. at the postoffica 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. WEDNESD’Y, JUNE 19, TwimwEF* " It’s tough \vpaU\CTrto be forced to keep working. Even that old blatherskite Andy Gump has gone off on a fishing trip. ' Mayor Walker, according to New York dispatches, is de termined not to be the big town’s clown. But there are some thing, y’know, Jimmy, a fellow can’t help. Shelby seems to have a habit of leading in nearly every endeavor bobbing up. Last week 87 pairs of twins gathered for a picnic in Mecklenburg, and the Thompsons from Shelby with three generations of twins topped the record for the day. A big summer and fall arc in store for Shelby and Cleveland county. The Spanish-American war vets come next month, the State Baptist convention early in the fall, and then the event of annual events hereabouts—the county fair. The South and West may join together politically and demand some farm relief of a type other than loud talking during the campaigns, and that union, say we, will mean much more to the welfare of the sections involved than splitting up over a candidate’s religion. livery body is orally lambasting the lad who stowed away on the Yellow Bird for the flight over the Atlantic, but we’ll take up for the youngster long enough to admire the youthful pluck and daring lie exhibited. Had Lindbergh fail ed they would have called him a foolish boy for his daring attempt. He did not and a great portion of his success may be attributed to youthful daring. It is such that keeps the world moving. CONGRESSMAN DE PRIEST •“THERE WAS a considerable stir, particularly in the South, over the fact that the wife of the negro congress man from Chicago, Oscar DcPriest, was entertained at the White Ilouse by Mrs. Hoover. Since that time, however, De Priest himself has said some things that may not set as well among the political leaders in the South as did Mjrs. Hoover’s tea, which, by the way, was Mrs. Hoover’s busi ness. Not long since Congressman Tinkham, of Massachus etts, attempted to pass an amendment that would cut down the number --of .eoiigressmen in the South. Congressmen are apportioned according to population and the Tinkham amendment contends that there are congressmen from the South who would not be in Washington were it not for the fact that the section has congressmen in proportion to a population which includes non-voting blacks. DcPriest was not in Washington when the Tinkham amendment came up. but he has let it bo known, according to the Raleigh News and Observer correspondent, that In- will support the amend ment if it comes up again, and if Representative Tinkham does not lead the fight, DcPriest may. In other words DcPriest wants bis brother blacks in the Bout h recognized politically, or lie doe not want a big per centage of our congressmen recognized because they do not recognize all the colored voters. Before the end of the Hoover regime the DePriest family may prove a barrier to the Republican attempt to win over the South for keeps. THINGS THAT ARE ILLEGAL JT VERY ONE knows that the states and cities of America have passed scores of odd or foolish law's that no one obeys or even knows about. But did you ever check up to see just exactly how weird some of them are? The Portland (Ore.) News recently presented a com pilation of some of them. The list makes interesting read ing—proving, as does, how easy it is to get a law passed to remedy almost any imaginable kind of abuse. In Seattle, for instance, it is against the law to sprinkle salt on the sidewalk in the wintertime to melt the snow. Everybody does it. and nobody knows there’s a law against it—but the law is there, just the same. In the old days, it seems, the salt would run into the gutter, form a brine and injure horses’ hoofs. Los Angeles has a law forbidding street car conductors to shoot jack rabbits from the car platforms. In New York state it is illegal to travel more than 20 miles to church on Sunday. In Massachusetts it is against the law to travel at all on Sunday “except for charity or necessity.” Needless to say, this law has been completely forgotten by every soul in the Bay State. In Georgia it is illegal to elap a man on the back. In North Carolina the law provides that twin beds can not be placed closer together than two feet apart. California statutes provide that if you have a canary you must keep it in a cage of a definite minimum size. Port land has made it illegal to tickle anyone under the chin with a feather duster. Kansas has forbidden the spitting of to bacco juice in public. Read that list, reflect that it only hits the high spots, and ask yourself if it wouldn’t be a good idea to get togeth er and rid our statute books of all such dizzy laws. EDUCATION BY RADIO pDUCATIONAL methods have changed greatly in the last half century. The instruction given a child in the schools of our grandfathers’ day is profoundly unlike that given in the schools of 1929. The change, we believe, has been for the better. Yet the change is not ended. Indeed, it is possible that the next half century will see changes infinitely greater than the last. The modern school child still uses text books and blackboards, just as his grandfather did. Who knows but that the school youngster of 1970, say, will never see a book or blackboard from one month’s end to another, but will get his instruction, instead, from radio loud speakers and mov ing picture screens? It is quite possible. Secretary of the Interior Ray Ly man Wilbur, addressing the Radio Educational Conference recently, touched on some of the possibilities. Listen to these remarks: “In the field of auditory education within the last few years there has come an entirely new force, the radio. It has given practically continent-wide range to the human voice and to the musical instrument. It makes it possible to use the ear for enjoyment or education whether in the home, the public hull or in the schoolroom. “It seems inevitable that great use may be found for the radio in our public educational system. The lecturer has always had a strong place. Now when it is possible for the most expert lecturers to be chflsen and to have their audi ences in many halls, homes and schoolrooms, instead of in one hall, we sense the beginning of a new era.” The possibilities of this sort of thing have hardly be gun to be realized. The radio and the movie can make study a pleasure to the child, instead of a task. And when study be comes a pleasure, the student is really learning. THE NEXT CANDIDATE? WILL be the next presidential candidate of the Dem ocratic party? With the idea that the next candidate may be one calculated to unite the warring factions of the party wen D. Young is being mentioned often. In fact, Mr. Young was the favorite candidate of many leading Demo crats in 1928. Since that time he has been active in repara tions work and is an outstanding national figure. Other than that he is one of the business giants of the country the aver age citizen knows little of him due to his modest nature, which was revealed when he asked New Y'ork recently to call off the big celebration planned for him as a welcome back | from Europe. The Raleigh News and Observer gives thi3 ■ brief but complete sketch of him as prepared by the Central Press: “Born at Van Horncsville, in Herkimer county, New York, October 27, 1874, he did chores at an early age on the Mohawk Valley farm. He attended school off and on, be tween ploughing and milking and bringing the cows home. “Finally he went to East Springfield Academy. Then he made rapid progress. He was graduated from St. Lawrence university in June, 1894, at 20, and then began studying law at Boston university. “He went through the three-year course in two years. Then he served at the university as a lecturer in common law pleadings from 1897 to 1904. “Business began to come to him as a lawyer. He mar ried early—in 1908—to Miss Josephine Sheldon Edmonds, of Soutbridge, Mass. Of their five children, four are liv ing. “Specializing in litigation pertaining to mechanics, he gained a national reputation as a lawyer who knew electrical engineering. "In 1913 lie became general counsel of the General Electric company, then vice president in charge of policy, the1 chairman of the board. He moved to New York in 1913, but finally, to bo closer to the concern’s plant in Schenectady, N. Y., he bought his father’s old farm nearby. “He swept into international notice when he became the author of the Dawes plan of post-war settlements. Said General Charles G. Dawes of him: “He told me what to do and I told the others they must do it.’ “And now, the reparations settlement, credited gener ally to the tact of Young as chairman of the commission, has created a presidential boomlet for this industrialist-inter nationalist-statesman. He’s a Democrat and declared for A1 Smith in the 1928 election. “He has a flock of degrees and decorations.’’ Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— ; (Exclusive in The Star in this section.) On account of too much auto mobile, the women and Mr. Fred Landbank will soon own all of the real estate in this country. The women paid "love and affection" for theirs, and the other gentle man inherited his through the government farm relief system. If cigarettes will do all that Is i claimed for them in the advertise ments. it won't be long before ev erything else in the way of cos metics and plain food can be dis carded. If smoke will make the flappers thin while sugar will make them fat, I am willing to put up with fatness for a season. My grocer says—when a custom er drops behind with his bills for a few weeks and discontinues to ask the price of the stuff he buys, he begins to get ready to lose that account. More money is lost on salad dressing eaters than on combread addicts. If dresses get much thinner, vc men won't even miss them when jthey are finally discarded. A [pound of material wi! make all the necessary <?) clothes for a college graduate, and sonic of the girls are now complaining be cause they have to be bothered to death with old stuffy frocks. I expect to see ’em wearing nothing but a fan and a smile and a pair of ear-bobs and one other garment before the season - is over, but that's "Nobodys Business.” so sit ! down in front. Cotton Letter. New York, June 13.—In sympa thy with Squirt-Hi Oil, Jiily broke to 18.87, making a new low for the season. Probable showers pre dicted last week failed to arrive, but they will probably arrive i«t er. therefore It might behoove the bulls to straddle their shorts and hedge their longs. The bill be fore congress to put a tariff of 3 cents on cotton at a ad valorem to dictum unum compos «e-hi ba sis will no doubt place the wool growers In a better position to compete with the silk worms, nnd in that event, teddies will be dis carded altogether in tavor of cot ton hose supporters. that Is—If hose are not di;,cardee also aiorj with dress backs. Wc advise look ing The prohibition officers a Ions the Canadian border earn about $250.00 per month, that la —the gov ernment pays them that much and calls it a salary. A great many ot these men have saved as high as $1,400.00 per month from thei" "earnings,” which goes to show that they are indeed an economi cal bunch. With the aid of such consistent men, prohibition will no doubt become a reality within 5 or 8 hundreds years—if the art of making booze should become lost. Mike And The Tariff. flat rock, s. C. June the 19. 1929. deer mr. editor: — i have laid off for several months to rite or foam my views to you regarding the tariff ansoforth which is now taking up most of con gresses time which is costing us tax payers about 500000$ a day not counting graft or other nccessa: y expenses. I have always believed (hat the government ought to put a high, tariff on mussle shoals and then sell them to a private roppev-ri tion and force them to run it and make nitrate of sody for the Mr mers at cost which should be lim ited to about 7$ per turn, includ ing the luxury tax and return post age. while 1 am a dimmercrat, and have always been., i agree with the republicans that a high tariff ought to be put on rice buttons and safety pins. if we let them germans start to making these things for us, this industry vill die storm dead in less than 3 weeks, and you all ro how dead i a storm kills folks. 1 notis allso that a high tariff is recommended for flower bubs and jhonny quills from holland. we should grow our own flowers and if wc ever let them furriners get started to shipping thp same into tills country, It won’t be long befoar the only bo-kays we will have to take to funerals an soforth, Including weddings, will be made of feathers and sealing wax 1 am a strong believer in ‘he tariff. i agree with my college from the west, mr. borah, that be foar them itla.v-ans are allowed to fill this country full of their spa getti, that they will be required to pay a tariff of c5 for every stick of it they ship. wc can raise our own spa-geti if we will only try it will grow betwixt cotton and corn Just like peas do. now. mr. editor, i don't want to get into no controversy with cole blease or tom helfin over this question, but you can print this if you want to and sign my name to it in black and white, no hoov er dinunererat can scare me of ten my principles, without a high tariff, i would hafter pay c3 for postage stamps, but now my post offis will sell me all i want for cl. rite or foam if you want mere from me. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. Fruit Fly Past Leiby Believes Raleigh—With thousands of cars of Sandhill peaches Doing moved to Northern markets, Dr. R. W. Leiby, state entomologist, has expressed the hope that the dread Mediterranean fruit fly is a thing of the past in this state. Four full grown specimens of the fly were found on some fruit in a store here June 1 but, though insect specimens are being received daily by Dr. Leiby, no other gen uine cases have been discovered. Justice Stacey Is Married On Monday Lake Placid. N. Y.—Announce ment was made here today of the marriage of Chief Justice Waiter Parker Stacy of the North Caro lina supreme court to Mrs. Maude DcGan Graff, Lake Placid club, on June 15. The ceremony was performed at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Mel vin Dewey. Mrs. Stacy arranged the first 'Adirondack musical festival and later extended her musical work through New York state at the request of the department ot education and finally throughout the United States when the Rocko leller Foundation became interest ed. Justice Stacy and Mrs. Stacy will spend the early summer at the Lake Placid club, returning to Ra leigh, N. C . for the opening of court in August. All Over Till The Next. From The Indianapolis Star. The situation down in Mexico indicates that the rebels might as well devote their time to laying plans for the next revolution. GUESS AT THE WEIGHT OF A PILE OF COAL — SIX VALUABLE PRIZES FREE— 1,00k at the pile of coal in the old Gilmer Store Room between the Piggly-Wiggly and Union Trust Company, Make a guess at the number of pounds the pile contains. No one knows, not even do we know, how many pounds the pile contains. Write your name and guess on a slip and drop it into a sealed box in the store. FIRST PRIZE—ONE TON BLOCK COAL. SECOND PRIZE—ONE TON EGG COAL. THIRD PRIZE—ONE-HALF TON BLOCK COAL. FOURTH PRIZE—ONE-HALF TON EGG COAL. FIFTH PRIZE—500 LBS. BLOCK COAL. SIXTH PRIZE—500 LBS. EGG COAL. Everybody is entitled to guess except Coal dealers, coal truck drivers or others accustomed to handling coal. NAT BOWMAN COAL CO. PHONE—OFFICE 601. PHONE—RESIDENCE 402. Why He Run*. From The Detroit News. "A man must exercise to live," states a radio health adviser who has unwittingly hit on the reason why a Mexican rebel runs. A THING TO BE REMEMBERED The last time we were in town our attention was at tracted by this sign one of the soft drink parlors: “We don’t know where mom is but we have Top on ice.” Pop will always be in soft if he realized that mo toring economy depends up on the quality of the gas and oil he uses. There’s in telligence in selecting pro ducts of proven excellency. That's why so many insist on SINCLAIR gas and OPALINE oil. Cleveland Oil Co. 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