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Entered as second class matter January 1, 1006, at the pos toff tee
At Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 8, 1879.
We wish to call your attention to the fact that it l*. 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. SEPT. <020.
TWINKLES
Among other things showing how observant North Caro-j
Hn» lawmakers are is the /act that the open .:•>»>. lor squir^j
rel hunting begins on Sunday,
And. folks, if by some chance you are deaf, dumb and
blind, the Cleveland County Fair begins its sixth .perform
ance two weeks from Tuesday,
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In Constantinople they’re swimming at night to evade]
hath feevS, we read in the newspapers. But we haven’t seen
the photos of any Constantinople bathing beauties who
would rather evade the fees than be seen. y
Somehow that 100-percent-American demonstration by
thaanti-Red mob in the Gastonia-Charlotte area does not , as
Wtook afcflWka-V.e the.fUwpmg: of the American Constitu
te. > .
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REMINDERS WE’RE EXPECTING
/ TO HEAR SOON
T^'A'yE^MORBiponthfi, about the time of the next Dem
k*' ^tl^brimaty, we're expecting some folks to remind
*0tt0opkiWnafc Senator Simmons did to the Republican tariff
frfthaiate^ummej? of 1029!’'And then we’ll he expecting to
‘Kea^sionjeone.answer: “But. look, too, what Senator Simmons
• Hiifbr^t^ieJQwnocratic party in North Carolina in the late
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' FROM- CLOWNTO CIRC IS
KING—AND WHY
rlFTWYEARS.vor so ago John Ringling was a circus down
r and his four brothers were circus employes. Today the
Ringling circus is the best known and the largest in the
world, this week the announcement coming that Ringling,
which has already swallowed up the majority of the other
circus companies in America, had purchased the five out
standing circuses in the country not already controlled by
him. That means thafcthecircus clown of the early seventies
is now the king of the circus. >
The gap,in between the circus clown and the circus king
mu»t be, and is,4an interesting story. Any success of such
magnitude has much romance and color attached. Nearly al
ways an outstanding success is asked the why of his success.
Insofar as we have observed'the founder of the Ringling
circus,Aor*anyone connected with the vast show organization,
has^neveryadvanced the why of the present Ringling prestige.
Reading the lines and between the lines The Star will
effer;a,guess as to the secret of the Ringling triumph—if it
, be noj^th^golden key to the rise of one who clowned for the
<$rcusTpatrons to the high peak of ruling the circus world.
I then let us term it a moral which all business men might
thke.time^to meditate upon. When Ringling and his brothers
started their first circus in the early seventies their entire
capital was $5. Of that meager sum, $3.70 was spent for
handbills and advertising to advertise their first night's
stand. From that small beginning to the present day circus
control of the world the Ringling circus has continued to set
aside a. big portion of its overhead for advertising. To brief
it down, Ringling assembled, and has continued to assemble
a good show, then he interested himself in attracting patrons
to see that show, using newspapers, billboards and various
other advertising methods.
If advertising did not make a circus king of a circus
clown, pray explain the expenditure of more than two-thirds
of the original capital stock, $5, for advertising?
THEY HAVE PRECONCEIVED
IDEAS, SURELY
JT IS INTERESTING, very much so, to us to note how
many people from the North and East have preconceived
opinions about how we live down South, opinions so strong
that it .seems hard for them to get the ideas out of their heads
even after they come down and sec their error.
Just last week The Star got a laugh out of a New York
reporter’s statement, in covering the strikers trial at Char
lotte, about North Carolinians not using and being opposed
to the use of cosmetics. The writer, our guess is, got it in
his head before coming down that we were a score of years or
so behind times and had never heard of painted cheeks,
rouged lips, sun-back dresses, and dimpled knees bared for
the once curios world to see. The fact that he must have
seen many painted women, a sight not unusual in North
Carolina in many years, since he came to Charlotte failed to
smother the preconceived idea that our “backwoods” girls
know nothing about cosmetics, and he said so in one of his
dispatches back home.
Many people back East, believe it or not. still helieve we
use vicious blacksnake whips driving Negro cotton pickers
into the fields, that we have no autos or modern conven
iences, no schools, or passable roads. One of the New York
writers in telling about the trial referred to the "dusty” mo
tor bus which rumbled into Charlotte from Gastonia. Editor
Harris, of the Charlotte Observer, immediately called that
dusty description. It seems a never-ending task for South
erners to attempt to get these preconceived ideas out of the
minds'of visitors from the East.
I.ouis Craves, in his Chapel Hill Weekly, cites an amus
ing example of one angle to the erroneous opinions held of
the South and Southerners:
When any man writes realistically about the Negro, peo
ple far away often fall into the error of thinking that he
himself is & member of that race. At Kanuga recently Col
lier Cobb met a distinguished Episcopal clergyman from the
North, and they got to talking about Chapel Hill: “Of
course*!* said the prelate, “I know that your professor, Paul
Ore fen, is a full-blooded Negro, but hasn’t that man Odum a
good deal of white blood in him ?’’ A week or so later Mr. Cobb
quoted the remark to DuBose Hey wood, author of Porgy
and other books about Negroes, and Mr. Heyward replied:
“The same mistake is often made about me. When I went to
speak in Buffalo I saw placards that described me as 'a mem
ber of a well-known Negro family of Charleston’.”
GO GET ’EM FOR TH AT
HIGHWAY PATROL
p EPORTS from a recent auto smash near Shelby, in which
it seemed miraculous that several lives were not lost,
have it that the crash was caused by the attempt of one car
to pass another car while they were both nearing the top of
a grade where any car that might be approaching from the
other direction could not be seen. If you care to check up
on it, you will find that a big percentage of North Carolina’s
appalling list of auto fatalities is caused by this very act.
Other than meeting a brainless road hog, or a drunken
driver, there is no more dangerous moment Upon the high
way. No car should ever attempt to pass a car ahead until
both are where they can see the road ahead. Nine times out
of ten, perhaps, the fellow who darts out from behind may
get around and ahead of the other car before, something ap
proaches from the other direction. But the tenth time,
when another car comes speeding from the opposite direc
tion and the two crash head-on, may claim several lives. No
matter where you are you will be able to pass the car ahead
in a minute or two after reaching the top of a grude or get
ting around a curve where it is possible to see the clear road
or the approaching car ahead. Why risk a life, perhaps your
own, to.save a minute or two?
The new state patrol officers, motorists say. are very
particular about this very thing, and they should be. Many
of us who consider ourselves careful drivers pass cars ahead
when we cannot see the road ahead, and the patrol officers
will be doing those of us who think we are careful and also
those who haven't foresight enough to be careful a favor by
warning us of such tactics, and by tagging us in before a
magistrate when caught the second time—that is, if we’re
still living when he finds us.
Grid Prospects Just
So-So At Shelby Hi
hack Of Experienced Backfield
Men Worrying Shelby
Coaches Now.
There will not be any Four
Horsemen flash in the bark
field of the Shelby high foot
ball eleven this year, accord
ing to reports coming from the
training firld on the eity park.
Experienced hackfleld men are
just not there.
These reports have It that
Coaches Morris and Falls have
nothing to do than turn one of their
miracles, as was the case in base
ball last spring, If the Shelby high
grid outfit even creeps above the
mediocre class.
, Hoodoo Handicaps
Early season dope was that Coach
Morris would have a rip-snorting
barkfield to start off with but a
weak line in front. Now that actual
practice has started and has been
underway a couple of weeks, it Is
the other way around. There isn't
anything on the field that resem
bles a beckfteld of ball-toting abil
ity. while up In the line is a pretty
heavy bunch, but most of them
green as the new undersized money
First of all "Milky” Gold failed
to come back. That was the same to
Shelby high as an entire backfield
not. returning 10 an ordinary team.
Then the coaches and Ians began
to pin their hopes about the flashv
little quarterback, Zeno Wall, and
Eskridge, the big fullback candi
date. But about that time Wall
bruised up a knee injury which he
received during summer play In
another sport, i That left Eskridge
out of what appeared at first to be
a corking good backlield. Wall aft
er more than a week la off of his
crutches, but may limp about In
definitely before getting back in the
game. So, as things stand now,
about all the Shelby coaches have
for a backfield is Eskridge, who can
handle his share of the job and
promised to make a great back If he
could have been in regular with
Wall and Gold, and several candi
dates not yet tested under fire.
These include Rippy. sub quarter;
Wilson, Barrett and others, althougn
Barrett has much, very much, to
learn about the game
Game Pretty Soon.
In another week Morris and Palls
will be putting what they have to
gether in the form of a first-string
eleven for the opening game with
Belmont. That opening contest
should show what to expect—wheth -
er a mediocre outfit, or an eleven
just a little better than that; Noth
ing better can be expected, it seems
now, and it will take some extra
hour handling on the part of
coaches to get that much out of the
material.
Game Saturday
May Terminate
The City Series
If Cloth Mill Wins, It Is A11 Over.
But KisUldf Sava
•‘Wait."
The second game of the city base
ball title series. between the
Cleveland Cloth mill and Eastside.
may be the last game. It will b.’
that if the Cloth mill aggregation
wins, for they have one game al
ready to their credit, and the series
was arranged upon the basis of two
best of three.
However, the Eastside fans w.l
tell you that the series will lack
some several runs being over with
the game tomorrow afternoon. Fans
suporting the Eastside club remind
that Eastside doggone near won
last Saturday’s game, which Cline
Owens Lee ended in the ninth
frame.
Going To Be Better.
"This Saturday," say the Eastsid
ers. "we're going to be better than
we were last Saturday. That'll be a
ball game worth anybody's money."
Leaguers Come In.
In addition to the fellows who
have been playing in both lineups
from the leagues which have been
there will be several newcomers
closing down for the last week or
so.
Pro players scheduled to appear
in the game include 'Snag'' Or
mond. pitcher: George Reinhart,
outfielder; Hugh Ormond, infield
er: and Cline Owens Lee, infield w.
The game starts at 3:30 at the
city park Saturday afternoon.
CALL WORLD YOUTH TO
FIGHT FASCISM. REDS
Berlin—A call to the youth of
the world to fight both Fascism and
Communism has been set out by the
central committee of the German
Young Democrat*, m the shape ot
an invitation to an International
Congress of Ltbe! Youth in Berlin
November 13 to 17
Declaring that both Fascists and
Bolshevists are exploiting the post
war poverty in Europe, the Young
Democrats’ invitation reads:
"Wherever we look in Europe, the
parliamentary institutions ol democ
racy are hard pressed by Fascism
and Bolshevism. In such a situation
democracy can no longer merely de
fend the position it has won It mud
attack.
MM) LOST VILLAGE BURIED
BV SAND 100 YEARS AGO
Fireside legends in northern Ger
many for nearly four centuries have
told of the lost village of Lonzke.
which was swallowed by a mountain
of moving sand The other day rem
nants of tte village were discover
ed in the wake of a drifting sand
dune on the Baltic seacoast of Pom
erania.
About 1540 this little fishing vil
lage stood on the coast with, a great
dune between it and the sea As
prevailing winds blew steadily in one
direction, the sand particles were
carried away from the sea and the
whole gigantic mound worked grad
ually inland, burying the homes of
the fislierfolk. who abandoned the
village and moved elsewhere The
Hdvance of the drifting dune was so
gradual that no life was lost in the
destruction of Lonzke In the time
that has passed since that day the
dune has slowly moved further in
land until now remnants of tin
buried homes have come to light
German antiquarians, searching
the spot, have found bits of um
ber, household utensils atid run
the coins of forgotten German
princelings of the fourteenth and
fifteenth centuries, reports Popu
lar Science Monthly.
Keep in (ouch with home
while away at college. A spe
cial rale of $1.50 for the nine
months is made by The Cleve
land Star to school students.
Special Excursion Fares
To
FLORIDA
Saturday, Sept. Hth, 1D2D,
Via
Souther Railway System
Round-Trip Fare From
SHELBY. N. <.
To
Jacksonville, Fla. __ $15.50
Miami, Fla. $25.50
Tampa, Fla. ,__ $23.00
Brunswick, Ga. ____ $12.50
Havana, Cuba.__ $50.25
Savannah, Ga. $7.50
Tickets on sale Septem
ber Hth. Final limit. Sa
vannah, Sept. 21st, Bruns
wick and Jacksonville. Sept.
22nd. Other destinations
Sept. 26th, and Havana.
Cuba, October 3rd. J
Round-Trip Fares to oth
er resorts in Florida.
Ask Ticket Agents.
EVERYBODY RAVING
ABOUT THEM . .. THF
NEW FALL
WRIGHT-BAKER’S
—£iid you will too the minute you
see. them. It would take lots' of
high powered adjectives to des
e) ibe them, so we are going to leave
that undone, hut w& are extending
to you a personal invitation to
ionic in this week and see them.
Don’t forget that your charge ac
count is welcomed at. this store,
DRESSES
AT
Your Charge Account Invited—Wright-Baker’s
YourNewFall Suit
HAS ARRIVED!,
—at WRIGHT
BAKER’S '
—Come in this week and give it the once over.
Every day brings new ones to our stock. You
will be pleased with the large selection and the
variety of the styles.
Our buyers have just returned from the eastern
markets and Ihey brought with them the cream
of the best manufacturers. You'll like a Wr:ghY
Baker Suit.
Wriffht-Baker Co.
107 N. LaFayette St. - - W. E. KQON, Mgr.
[ummi£ii
CAROLINA’S BIGGEST FAIR
IN ITS BIGGEST YEAR
Cleveland County Fair
AT SHELBY
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24 THROUGH
SATURDAY, SEPT. 28
GET READY, FOLKS
V L'JUSSflBHHHBBmnHHR HHMBnaaBHBMMHI
FREE: All school children of Cleveland & adjoining
counties will be admitted FREE on Opening Day—•
Tuesday, Sept. 24. Bring them all, parents and
teachers!
FASTER RACES THAN EVER BEFORE - MORE
SPECTACULAR FIREWORKS, MORE THRILLING
FREE ACTS —A GAYER MIDWAY, AND THE
BIGGEST OF ALL TENT SHOWS—RUBIN AND
CHERRY.
The GREATEST AGRICULTURAL ARRAY, FROM
THE FARM AND FROM THE FARM HOME, EVER
ASSEMBLED BY A SINGLE COUNTY.
TAKE IN ALL OF THE FIVE BIG DAYS & NIGHTS*