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The Cleveland Star CLipi |)V \I /' MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 6; Mall, per year —----ti By Carrier, per year_____._$J THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. LEE B. WEATHERS __..._____President and Editor 8. ERNEST HOEY___Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM____ News Editor A. D. JAMES_..................._Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1. 1905. at the post^lice At Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of CongTess, March 3. 1879 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 of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adherred to. FRIDAY, AUGUST :](), i’ivjiT" TWINKLES S IS Another thought about Governor Gardner's revelation that there are no high school graduates in the State prison: Perhaps the boys with sheepskins are too slick to be captured and convicted. One more week^of play for Shelby children, one more week of turmoil for Shelby mothers, and one more week of rest for Shelby teachers—School opens Monday week. Mark Twain lived before the day of the endurance tests, .vet his theory was that the earth is used for an insane asyl um by the other planets. He might have to improve on that statement were he living now? FORD RIGHT OR WRONG ON PROHIBITION? *THE MAJORITY of us will agree, or will want to, with A Henry Ford in his statement that it will never do for prohibition to be repealed in this country. Mr. Ford in his declaration stated that he would cease to manufacture cars if the days of the old saloon were to return, and, to his own mind, perhaps, clinched his view by adding that “prohibition Is now 99 percent effective.” Extreme statements seldom tend to convert others to your beliefs, and extreme statements and stands by dry fanatics have retarded prohibition enforcement just as much as extreme views by anti-prohibitionists have ■ kept back the ‘‘temperance-instead-of-prohibition” they clamor for. Mr. Ford, more or less extremist in his views, is meeting with considerable criticisms, some of it deserving, because to be a dry does nbt necessarily mean that one must close his eyes to the facts and make statements difficult to prove. If as Mr. Ford says, prohibition is 99 per cent effective now, then perfect prohibition will he a sorry spectacle. Mr. Ford surely realizes that he can be a dry, as the majority of the leading citizens are, without shutting his eyes to the fact that prohibition enforcement is nearer 99 per cent rotten than effective. How can he make such statements if he knows his own Detroit, where thousands of speakeasies serve alcoholic drinks, and wrhere now and then, a few of Mr. Ford’s hundreds of workers must get a nip or two? Yet Mr. Ford would close down rather than try to work men who drink? Continuing his views, the auto manufacturer, of whom it has been said that he can better autos than statements, says in meaning that a man who takes a drink is no good. It naturally follows, if this holds true, that a drinking nation cannot be a progressive, clear-thinking people. Mr. Ford might be wrong in that statement, also, as a minister, Rev. G. A. Schmatz, points out in a letter to the editor of the New York World. Talking up Mr. Ford's statemont that drinking men, individually or collectively cannot succeed, Rev. Mr. Schmatz says: “I might remark to Mr. Ford that the Germans with their Bremen, their Zeppelin, their Diesel engine, prove that highest efficiency obtains without oui: absurd prohibition.” That is a hard one for Mr. Ford, who doesn’t believe highest efficiency can be reached by a drink ing man or a drinking people, to answer. Perhaps none of the Germans who built the Bremen, fastest of all ocean liners ever took a drink? Or perhaps the genius behind the Graf Zeppelin and Dr. Eckener, the man who handles the awein spiring air liner, never take a drink. Perhaps, yes. On the other hand the extremists who oppose prohibition term every known crime of modern days as the progeny of prohibition. They err just as does Mr. Ford. Solutions to problems, especially such a major problem as prohibition, are not reached by make-believe. Mr. Ford doesn’t pitch a mass of iron, steel, tin and cog-wheels into a hopper then shut his eyes upon what comes forth as he makes himself and the buying public believe it is the finest car built. He and his engineers face the facts; if a certain portion going in fails to do its part, then it doesn’t go. There is too much of the make believe on both sides of the prohibition question. One side makes itself believe that it is being successfully enforced, while the other side forces itself, beyond the realms of better judgment, to believe that there is no good whatsoever to l>e obtained from real prohibition or temperance. So long as such sentiment exists prohibition will be a putrid soi*e in Ameri can government and society. REPORTING THE TRIAL, OF STRIKERS FAIRLY.' pHACriCALL\ all of the larger Eastern papers have their staff writers in Charlotte to report the trial of the Gas tonia strikers charged with murdering Police Chief Aderholt. The Star, long of the opinion that the New York World is unexcelled in giving unbiased news accounts, welcomed the knowledge that the World had a staff writer there in the person of John J. Leafrjr. yet in one of Mr. Leary’s early ac counts of the hearing we find what to us seems to be be tween-the-line writing making the drawing of deductions easy for the reader. In listing the counsel on both sides of the case, Mr. Leary’s list of prosecutors has one described as follows: “Clyde R. Hoey, silver-tongued orator of the State and a brother-in-law of Governor O. Max Gardner, who is largely interested in mill properties.” Perhaps it was necessary to so describe the Shelby attorney, but it appears as if it will be easy for the World reader back East, already of the opin ion that textile barons are persecuting mill workers, to draw the conclusion thaat Brother-in-Law Hoey is merely in the case to sec that Brother-in-Law Gardner’s mill properties arc well protected. Perchance it was unnecessary to say that he was employed by the State to assist Solicitor Car penter because he is considered one of the leading barristers of the section; and no doubt it was of no news interest that Mr. Hoey has defended more mill workers, and other defend ants at. the bar of justice in North Carolina, than he has ever prosecuted. And, of course, it was needless to include in the description that Mr. Hoey, a man of some means him self, has very little, if any, stock in textile plants. As for Governor Gardner’s mill properties, which must be worked into the prosecution of the strikers: Admittedly Mr. Gardner owns mill stock, the most of which is in a rayon and silk mill with one of the highest wage scales and best working con ditions of any such plant, but it is a 4 to 1 wager that the majority of his wealth, of which he has quite a bit and earn ed it himself, is invested in other than mill properties. Fact is, it is this paper’s opinion that a very small percentage of the Governor’s wealth is tied up in the textile industry. It is peculiar that some of the most zealous about criticising the State for injecting such useless information as belief or non-belief in God into the trial should themselves insert in nuendos that the strikers are not being prosecuted by State employed lawyers but by attorneys of the mill interests. But so goes newspaper reporting at times, even in our most unbiased papers. It reminds us of the Rafe King case, more of local interest. A recent South Carolina visitor to Shelby, discussing the King case, said “Well, it’s true, is it not, that his (King’s) father is very wealthy?” Immediately we recalled the usual lead line of the news reports from the King trial, including those of the reliable and esteemed As sociated Press: ‘‘Rafe King, scion of a wealthy Shelby fam ily.” Mr. King, the father, may be “moderately well off” (that’s a North Carolina term for the New York writers to rub off) but there are many Shelby people more so, and here in Shelby he is not considered wealthy. Yet it is easy to get the state of mind brought on by “wealthy Shelby family” description, if you care to analyze the query of the South Carolinian noted above. When worthwhile evidence is brought in for a defendant who has been termed “wealthy” the average reader immediately decides for, himself that it if n’t true because it is only purchased evidence resulting from the defendant’s wealth. Just how much, if any, in fluence the purported wealth of the King family had to do with his trial we dare not say, but we do believe that it caused the average reader, not cognizant of the actual facts, to discount in his or her mind actual evidence which was of a beneficial nature to the defendant now awaiting an appeal from a death sentence. Newspapers are too much inclined to add the word ‘‘wealthy” or “prominent” to the description of a defendant in court, and in thus making better color for the news item sentiment is created against the defendant, be cause the average man wants to see the wealthy person fare just as he (the average man) would before the bar of jus tice-something he seldom sees when actual wealth is on trial. With Mr. Hoey being described in Mr. Leary’s style it is easy to comprehend that readers back East, when, and if, Mr. Hoey makes his appeal the conclusion will be that his zeal and swaying oratory were only employed and worked up to keep labor organizers from getting Brother-in-Law Gardner’s “mill properties” from slipping into the non-profit class. NOBODY’S BUSINESS GEE MeGEE— (Exclusive in The Star 'ii this Section.) The government's cotton crop estimate for the current year was just about what the speculators knew it would be. In fact, they had already found out how many bales the south would make: the private estimator-, had told them You see, it's this way: The gov ernment gets a few opinions from Tom, Dick and Harry, but the private guesser* do just the re verse: They get a few opinions from Harry, Dick and Tom, and thus come forth the so-called es timates. The government evidently has some extremely good guessers on its payroll: Some time around the first of July, the boys assembled in meeting in Washington, D. C„ and told the world that the United States would make just so many bushels of wheat, but a gluten rug began work on the golden har vest a few days later, and it forgot to rain in Idaho and those thunder clouds in Wyoming proved to be only'"a boomerang, so Uncle Sam's smart guys had to meet and do all their guessing over again. They reduced the estimate by some thing like 267,765,876 bushels. They put wheal down 32 cents a bushel in 3 weeks and turned around and put it up 66 cents a bushel :t 3 weeks. Now, folks, we have decided to put In a "private estimate'’ ma chine. and we will need help from friends all over the cotton belt. We will appreciate any Information that a person might decide to s ib mit regardless of whether i.e ever saw a stalk of cotton or ever wore an outing night shirt. ’Ve will assemble our information, end then "let it loose" to Wall street every few days. We feel sure ihe bears will pay us something if we are not too bullish. The fol lowing letters have already been received. flat rock. s. C., aug. 22. 1929. mr. gee megee, private gesser, nnderson, s. C. deer sir:— the cotton craps is off -V8S in this section. the boll weevil has bit off the squares and the sharp shooters has shot off tire leaves and it ain't rained a drap since i was a little boy. it is so dry, around here that that old beck don't slobber rone after he has just et up my patch of clover where my wife had hoped to get 3 bales, i and she won't make ovei 200 lbs. of seed cotton, plese rite the farm bored to send us some monney or fashions at once, and foam me if you can give me a job ansoforth. yores trulie. Mike Clark, rfd. Athens, Qa., Aug. 23. 1929. Dear McGee:— Crops going back fast acc >unt i dry jyeather and will probaoly ' prove a great disappointment to Mr. Ford and Mr. Chevvylay. Corn is way off and gardens simplv ain't. Government estimate at lease 2.450,000 too high. Yours truly. I. M. Ruint. Whaia Place? New York.—Coatless men are for bidden to ride in the elevators ot the Garment Tower, a skyscraper devoted to wholesalers of women’s wear. FORD AIL WRONG SHIS DR. DM Columbia President Declares Pro hibition Greatest Friend The l.iquor Tiaffic Has. N. Y. World. Henry Ford is all wrong oh the prohibition sUrd. he has no eai understanding ol the problem and his views would really aid the liquor traffic. Dr. Nicholas Murray Bu'ler president of Columbia university and advocate rf repeal of the Eigh teenth Amendment, says in an an swer to Ford's ultimatum that he will quit making cars if rum returns. ‘'If Henry Ford really wishes to diminish the evil effects of what he rather familiarly calls booze,'' he ought to exert himself to get the Eighteenth Amendment repealed and to substitute for it a sound, an American, a moral and a Chris, ian method of dealing with what is a vitally important social problem." Dr. Butler declares. ‘‘Mr. Henry Ford," Dr. Butler says “appears to live in a land of dreams and to be wholly oblivious to the realities which surround us. He does not seem to have grasped the iact that the question of prohibition has little or nothing to do with liquor or the liquor traffic, but that it is a question of government, of social order, or public morals and of com mon sense. “The Eighteenth Amendment has to all intents and pur poses, endow ed the liquor traffic throughout this nation and has set it free of all tax. “Prohibition is the most poweiful friend that the liquor traffic has ever had. Prohibition is the most re sourceful enemy that the temper ance movement has ever had to face.” On the other side of the argument F. Scott McBride, general superin tended of the Anti-Saloon League, announces that the statement by a manufacturer "employing more thr n 200,000 is the most potent yet made on the question.” “The effect of booze on the labor ing man's work,” Mr. McBr:de states, “the poverty caused by booze in the workingman's home, the ef fect of booze on the brain, are enough to lead any outstanding manufacturer to say 'If booze ever comes back I am through with manufacturing, assures the Eigh teenth Amendment and forestalls any repeal. “But one thing remains to do. It is to bring about observance and enforcement.” Although unable to read or write, Eees Davis of Cardiff has sung the leading tenor role in more than 175 oratorios, operas and cantatas. 6 6 6 is a Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. It is the most speedy remedy known LAKE LURE 50 miles from Shelby. A delightful week-end trip or evening drive. An Alpine _setting on beautiful_ LAKE LURE. - PRINCESS - THEATRE SATURDAY INN N3 I’LL SHOW YOU II Thrilling adventure with a daring, reckless highwayman! Stirring romance with a swag gering, bold lover! Action drama from the greatest of Western story-tellers! Also 3rd CHAPTER “QUEEN OF THE NORTH WOODS” And "DOGGONE” Comedy. 10-20 CENTS NEW Fall Frocks At The PARAGON SPECIALLY PRICED (SIZES UP TO 50) $ 1 o°° This special dress offer is the result of .our recent New York purchase. You’ll be agreeably surprised at the quality and the workmanship found in them—and si7/3s for the Miss, Madam and the larger woman—all at one price. COMPLETE SHOWING New Fall Footwear The styles are unusually attractive this season. Tans and browns being exceptionally stylish—of course you never go wrong in black. We invite you to call in and let us show you what will be worn this sea son. $5.00 t0 $10.00 ENNA JETTICKS For Extra Wide and Extra Narrow Feet You need no longer be told you have an ex pensive foot. Enna Jetticks have all the ear marks of better shoes and they cost you only $5.00 and $6.00. LOVELY NEW FALL FABRICS The Piece Goods section is aglow with the new season’s fabrics. You’ll enjoy a visit to this department as the tables and shelv es are loaded with lovely new Fall goods. COTTON PRINTS In planning your fall sewing, in making your school dresses—you get the best fab rics, that never fade, and the prettiest pat terns from our Print Goods Department. 19c TO 50c YD PLAIN AND SPORT WOOLENS The new Woolens—we think—are as pret ty as can be. They are extra wide and a very short cut will make a dresS. They are all displayed in our Piece Goods Depart ment. 82x108 RAYON BED SPREADS $2.95 Rose - Blue - Gold You can buy Rayon Spreads eve.7 day at this price—but not such spreads as these. They’re larger and much better than the average. All made in one piece with no seams. A remarkable value. SO and 54 In. LINEN BREAKFAST ROOM CLOTHS $1.00 Regular .$1.50 Values A special New York purchase from a firm going out of business en ables us to offer these large size lovely linen covers at this price. A variety of colors for your selection. — THE — Paragon Dept. Store i _ .. __
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