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The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Carrier, per year-— .. 12'50 .. *.100 THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LEE B. WEATHERS_Prealdent and Editor S. ERNEST HOEY ..._Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM ..———-—. New* Editor A. D. JAMES_- Advertising Manager Entered as second claaa matter January 1. 1905. at the poetofllce At ShelBy. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 8. 1879. We wish to call your attention to the fact that It la. and has been mir custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanics and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adharred to. MONDAY, .ILLY 22, W2fb TWINKLES England is attempting to put an economy program into •ffoct and began in the right direction by picking a Scotch premier. Every time any National nr State commit si on is ap pointed, it i- pretty .safe to assume that, the 1 roll Id 1 will all be over before any report is ever made. North Carolina is to try the instalment plan of paying taxes. That will be no new experience for mo t of the na tives who own automobiles. It will be a little difficult to create very much interest In the United States in the threatened war between Russia and China. Most of us would be pretty well satisfied if they both exterminated each other. General Dawes says that he does not propose to wear my knee breeches at Great Britain's court. However, we would prefer them ho plus fours, if we just had to wear one or the other. AND ANOTHER MISTAKE. “ETVERY TIME HE OPENS ms mouth he puts his foot, in kit.” That once was an old-time joke hut most certainly i* appears to apply aptly to the governor of South Carolina, the Hon. John G. Richards. Governor Richards is back in his home State, after at tending the conference of governors at Npw London, Conn., and is making strenuous efforts to explain to his constitu ents that he. did not say to a Connecticut audience that Her bert Hoover was destined to be the greatest president the United States has ever had. The governor says that the newspapers misquoted him. If memory serves us correctly, this Is a favorite prac tice of the South Carolina governor, claiming that his words were misquoted by the newspapers. He did that very fre quently when he was running for the office he now occu pies, but it is passing strange to the average newspaper reader that the reporters can quote correctly most of the public speakers but manage to get confused about some few individuals. MAKING AVIATION REALLY SAFE. KJO MATTER HOW MANY “stunt” flights break records— A’no matter how many aviators get across the ocean or how many hours the refueling ships stay in the air—the average man will not be ready to trust himself unreservedly in the air until he feels that he will be just as safe in an airplane as he is on the ground. For this reason the real advance in aviation nowadays is being made, not by the “stunters”—although their ex ploits have a certain amount of value by the regular, un sensational day in and day out achievements of the com mercial fliers, particularly the air mail pilots. A short time ago a newspaper reporter traveled irom Los Angeles to New York by the air-rail hookup of Trans continental Air Transport and the Santa Fe and Pennsylvania railroads. Here's a paragraph from his story of the trip which points plainly to the sort of thing that, is bringing aviation closer and closer to the realm of every day affairs: “Weather reports," he wrqte, “told up there were storms between Winslow, Ariz,, and Albuquerque. We took off anyway, but our two pilots talked with ground stations ahead and behind us by radio, and knew just where all the storms were. So we simply flew around them. . . . The Al buquerque weather report told of three storms converging to the eastward, so we had to detour again, but we sped around them quickly in the midst of lightning and rain and reached Clovis, N. M., before dark, which the pilot had not expected to do." Bad weather is the one thing which is the great hazard in keeping the commercial airplane from being 100 per cent safe. Now, with the aid of an elaborate organization, the aviation companies are learning howr to rob it of its terrors. When this system is carried just a little bit farther, so that every prospective airplane passenger can be assured that the plane is not going to run into any fogs or storms, the com mercial aviation business is going to make tremendous ad vances. C RITICIZING MR. HOEY. 'T'HE ELIZABETH CTTY Independent goes out of its way to make some scathing remarks about Mr. Clyde Hoey of Shelby in connection with the preliminary hearing of the strike case at Gastonia. The Independent objects to tbe fact that Mr. Hoey asked a woman witness if she believed in God. The Elizabeth City paper should understand that this is a question any lawyer has a right to ask of any witness. The witness is being placed on his or her oath, and if she does not believe in God, then he or she does not believe in the Bible and when the witness places hand on the Bible and takes oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, if that witness does not believe in God and in the Bible, then the oath taken is of no value whatever. The wit ness might just as well, if he or she be an atheist or infidel. swear nn the Blue Back Speller, so far as the value of the oath is concerned. It isn't probable that Mr. Hoey will be very much wor ried by the editorial expression of the paper in question, and1 his friends here in Shelby and in other North Carolina towns,! are not going to pay any great amount of attention to what the Elizabeth City editor says and thinks. The editorial in question is reproduced in part: “Shame on Clyde Hoey! What a noble and heroic fig ure he made in the last national campaign when he took the stump and declared that no bishop should lead hirn into the! Republican party! All over North Carolina Clyde Hoey made j a profound impression by his always temperate and dignified I but forthright utterances. But behold him at the preliminary! hearing of the Gastonia strikers charged with the murder | of a policeman; he is questioning a woman defendant and he asks her if she believes in God? The effect of that question was to arouse native religious i prejudice against this lone woman. Here was a woman who; had evidently expressed her doubts about God. She didn’t know whether she believed in God or not. God to this hard j pressed woman of the working classes was the God of Rocke-j feller and Morgan and the God of fat priests and richly clad evangelists. God to this woman was a jealous despot who1 favored the rich and left the poor to welter in hovels and grind away their lives at machines for the bare necessities of j life. God to this woman was a tyrant who cursed the poor! with morp children than they could support and spared<chil-! dmi to the rich who could better care for them. She had seen so much mummery and hypocrisy in churches that she could not believe that the God they propitiated was more: than a ghost. Had life not been so hard for this woman maybe she too could have been sure of God. Or if she had been a dishonest woman, a sly hypocrite, she would have pro fessed a belief in God and concealed her doubts. It isn’t what one believes or doesn't believe that counts against him in this world, it’s what one professes to believe or disbelieve. And ( Iyde Hoey with his saintly pose and apostolic locks faces this woman in a court crowded with simple people, who know very little and believe much, and exposed her doubts about God. Tt was the cheapest, sorriest, most vicious act of pettifogging. Nothing more. Is the mighty Hoey of Ihe apostolic locks to essay the role of a Torquemada in the twentieth century? “It is very convenient for Mr. Hoey'to believe in God. He was born in a religious household that had prospered in its beliefs. The followers of the Lord in North Carolina have been very nice to^ Clyde Hoey; they sent him to Congress; they have showerd much money upon him; they have en couraged him to aspire to a scat in the United States Senate. His has not been the lot of the underprivileged woman at whom he points his finger of scorn. “One’s belief or disbelief in religion as practised or in God as preached in these United States should not prejudice his or her case; it is the inalienable right of a citizen of these United States to worship God, according to the dictates of his own conscience, or not to worship; the State and the Courts have nothing to do with the belief or lack of belief of any one under the sun.” Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— (Exclusive in The Star In thla aection.) Hoi Enough For V'ou Today? Uncle Joe Is a man of vivid rec ollection* and possibly hallucina tions He ha» lived through some peculiar events and circumstances since he first saw the light of df.y. He spent 2 years in Texas t hen he was around 25 years of age. a few days ago, I happened to be com plaining about the hot, weather, and he lit out ns follows: "Pshaw, boy. You don t know what hot weather is. When T was a-living in Texas back yonder in 18 and 92. we had a summer that was a first cousin to Hades. I lemem ber that one of my old hens laid a chicken that was not less than 4 days old when it arrived. And the water In the creek was so hot, a fel low had to wade into it gradually to keep from getting scalded to death Lots of the flsn were cooked and floated around here and there, and all a guy had to do to enjoy a square meal was fetch along a hunk of bread." ' Yes sir ree. We fed our rows on cocoa and they gave from 3 to ft gallons of hot chocolate every day. We had punkin pie when we want ed it. All we had to do was cut the punkin open, add a little salt and pepper and there she was. Water melons got so hot they , exploded like fire-crackers and a great mar.y of our hogs got their hands baked to a nice brown. but we didn t bother them." I asked Uncle Joe how the folks stood it, and he said that most of them wept down into the well about sun-up, and stayed till after dark It was fairly cool in the well, the water being only about 188, so he said. He said most of the ice' fac j tories went broke as the ice wouid ! be Just like a coal of fire before ithey could poke if into a refrigera tor, and folks finally quit trying to buy it. Umbrellas were absolutely use less during that memorable sum mer. Uncle Joe swore that the sun would shine through an ordinaly shingle roof as if it were glass, and that the only thing that kept him from suffering a sunstroke while In the field was—he wore a wash tub for a hat, and his shirt was made [out of a cow-hide. A couple of fish ^iook sinkers melted in Uncle Joe’k pocket once. Some one inquired of Uncle Joe if the crops were not terribly dam aged. and he told them that it really “hope ' the cotton, but parch ed most of the corn He w-iye'* 4(> acres In cotton by himself that year and made 132 bales, tut that was only a normal crop fr r him. He showed us several places where the sun burnt great whelps on him, but later on. we found out that those lascerations were caused by the K. K. Ks. when they initiated him into the Grand Doman of the Inscrutible Scrutibles. But. really. I think it was rather warm it Texas during the summer in question, don't you? — >Vreck-ord Of a Wreck. (Time .__ Frequently Place . _ .. - Anywhere Driver No. 1 .....You Driver No. 2 . .... ..... . Me YOU—"I was driving along mi my side of the road, making pos sibly 10 miles an hour, when that, tow-headed gink in that Chevrolet came busting down the highway on the wrong side, and If he was mov. lng at all, he was hitting 'em at 85 miles, and before I knew it, he ran right Into me. and you see for youi - self what he did to my car." ME—‘'X was driving along on my side of the road, making possibly 10 miles an hour, when that red headed gink in that Ford came busting down the highway on the wrong side, and if he was moving at all he/was hitting 'em at 65 mile,, and before I knew It, he ran right into me, and you see for yourself what he did to my car " Eye-Witness—"Yes sir. Cap \ was setting in my front pi-taer, and I heard something that sound ed like two cyclones, one coming up the road and the other coming down the road, and it appeared to me that them cyclones met right in front of my house, and when we pulled 'em apart, they turned out to be a Ford and a Chewy. Flying Why, they was both doing mor< than that. Both of them was right in the middle of the road " Oarage Rill .Straightening 8 fenders_110 70 2 new windshields.. 10 00 8 new casings . . —.. 75.oo M. ..aneous repairs. 00 00 Mechanic’s time . .. 20.00 Helpers time . - 15 Doctor'* Bill. Taking 34 stitches on you .. $30.00 Taking 34 stitches on me_30.00 Dressing 2 heads - ------ 10.00 Adjusting 2 sets of ribs-... 40 00 50 yards of bandages ..- 16 00 Children Find A Snake In h eed Barn To Editor of The Star Two little granddaughters from Virginia are visiting us. and raised an alarm yesterday morning thi‘ a large snake was crawling o\ hay in feed room. I had gone 'o mail box: but, my wife seized an, implement-of warfare and -aliirci 1 forth to settle Rut instead of the basil ik eyes of the deadly copper* head', she saw the benign visage of the king snake the deadly foe o< the lurking, venomous copperhead and rattler.* who v as camping on the trail of his enemy. He w .• pared with the thanks of hit would-be executioner; but und»r protest of the grandchildren. In their untutored simplicity they were like the son-of-toil who killed the twelve foot boa constrictor of the bowman. Upon remonstran of the owner his excuse was "Jest so they is snakes. I kills 'em wher e\ er I find 'em.' Seriously, the king snake is a real benefactor; and this wil Ipercolate through t!;e hair of the public when enunciated by some loud, mouthed politician. The wisdom that caused the Deitv to place the antidote for poisons near where the lurking poison grows, provided the king snake to destroy noxious reptiles. We are also witnesses of another temporal blessing that excites our reverence and gratitude. Two weeks ago. a large venomous copperhead hid under cutting-room of our barn thereby rendering himself a menace to life and personal safety of the family when feeding horses and cat tle and gathering in the eggs of the festive and tuneful chickabindie CORN CRACKER. Card Of Thanks. We wish to thank those friends and neighbors who were so kind and sympathetic to -our dear mother during her illness which was fol lowed by death this week. CHILDREN OF MRS. WHITT BLANTON. TRY STAR WANT ABS rees-Grid Atwater KeitTs New tori//< v EL.15CTR©* DYNAMIC^ ofemtrmt V a tttateti ktvt — maker of fine radio for nearly 7 years—has beaten every record with this great new Screen-Grid set. It draws more out of the air, sends more to the listener. Let us show you the feel of the new power and sensi tivity—raking in the stations from near and far and separating them with needle-point selectivity. Hear the new velvety tone—Electro-Dynamic, of course. Un wanted mechanical noises are filtered out; you hear only the music! Look inside the set and see why only Atwater Kent’s fine workmanship can produce such result s. . Convenient Terms if you irish COME TOP AY V H EADQUARTER9 The taMeeet. BoM 19 uaea OA.C. tube* end one reetifyiat tube. Lean tnbee, $sa. Model P-4 Electro. Dynamic table epeaker. «S4. nears* k model** SPEAKER Shelby Hardware Company “WE SERVE TO SATISFY.’’ SHELBY, N. C. . — ■ ' »■ -■ ■ . ■ . CAMPBELL’S ANNUAL JULY CLEARANCE SALE Now Enters Second Week GREAT MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE HAVE SHARED IN THE UNUSUAL VALUES OFFERED DURING THE OPENING DAYS OF THIS GREAT MERCHANDISING EVENT. THE TIME IS NOW LIMITED AND YOU WILL DO WELL TO BE WISE AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SLAUGHTERED PRICES ON MERCHANDISE DURING THE REMAINING DAYS. WITNESS FOR YOURSELF THE WONDERFUL VALUES WE ARE OFFERING. CAMPBELL DEPT. STORES SHELBY-LAWNDALE
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