Eastside Evens Up City Title Baseball Se ries
Spurling Explains
State Prohi. Laws
Statf And Federal Prohibition law
Are Nearly The Same; Either
Ha* Jurisdiction.
In an interview last week pub
lished in the Lenoir-Topic Soli
citor L. S. Spurling, of this dis
trict, discussed the enforcement
of the prohibition laws. He said
‘ Fully fifty per rent of the crimi
nal cases now being heard by the
courts have to do with either auto
mobiles or liquor'' He went on to
say that ‘ The chief reason is t >
be found in the greater number of
laws to be violated now on the
statute books." He thinks the in- !
creasing number of outsiders that ;
are constantly moving in. and also I
to the steady increase of population
is a moving factor in the lawless
ness. Both of these are factors to be
considered he thinks, when th<’
question of the largely increased
amount of business of a criminal
nature that now faces the courts
comes up for discussion.
Speaking about the liquor laws,
he said that as both North Caro
lina and the United States gov
ernment have almost, exactly the
same laws relating to liquor vio
lations, the only question of juris
diction between the. two in the
prosecution lies chiefly in whicn
of the two acquires original juris
mciion. i nus a a state oittccr
makes an arrest in a distilling or
liquor selling case. the state
courts of course acquire jurisdic
tion. The other way if the federal
officer makes the arrest.
North Carolina, however, goes a
step further than the federal gov
ernment, in that while the latter
will grant license to a druggist to
sell intoxicants on a doctor's pre
scription this state will not furnish
such a license. So a druggist wiso
secures such a license In this state
has his pains for his trouble. The
government license alone won't do
him any good. This is, of course,
no contradiction of the federal law.
It is otherwise in Virginia. There
the state law does not intcrfer°,
and druggist, can sell liquor on
prescription if they have a govern
ment license. Theoretically, at least,
so far as the law poes. North Caro
lina is a bone dry state
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In Theology Weds
(Special to The Star/1
Harmony, Scpt. T2.--Tn a beauti
ful and impressive ceremony : sol
emnized Wednesday afternoon at
5:30 at the home of tlie Baptist
minister Miss Gladys Mildred Me
Swatn became the bride of Rev.
Ptvlla E Bingham. The brides
brother. Rev. W. L McSwnin offi
ciated, using the ring service.
The home was simple but beau
tifully decorated with . flowers cut
from the garden. After the two had
been united in holy matrimony the
party retired to the dining room
where an informal dinner was serv
ed It was a unique occasion in that
the bride is (lie sister of Rev. Mc
Swain and the groom is a brother
of Mrs. McSwiin. Sire is also the
daughter of Mr. I,. M. McSwain of
Earl and was educated at Shelby
high school and Mars Hill college.
For the last two years she has
been teaching school in Cleveland
eounty. The groom is the son of the j
late Samuel J Bingham of Fa 1
ston. He was educated at Fallston i
high school. High Point college and j
is now- a senior at the Westminster ■
theological seminary. Westminster, I
Md
Rev. and Mrs Bingham are now
visiting friends and relatives in i
Denton. Morgan ton and other points '
prior to their bridal trip to Nor- ;
folk, Va and other places of inter- i
est. Their trip will culminate 'll j
Westminster. Md where Rev. Bing- j
ham will be expected to graduate 1
in the spring.
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interest to their host of friends'
throughout, many states and we a.’,
join In wishing them many Joys and
a useful service in the ministry M
the gospel.
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‘Snag’ Ormond
Baffles Cloth
Mill Sluggers
High School Roys Star In Game
With Many l.raKUcrv Rig
Game Coniine.
When Kaxlside trumping over
the Cleveland Cloth mill Hub
Saturday by a 7 to I score the
Shelby city baseball title seats'
Is now one-all and the final and\
deciding same is In be played \
the coming Saturday afternoon.
Strengthened by several players,
particularly ah rrnorv ball liurler
who couldn't be hit out of the in
field, Eaxtside showed a remarkabl’
reversal In form Saturday in lar
ruping out. an easy win over the
Cloth mill crew undefeated so far
this year.
Hurls Well.
The result, was largely due to the.,
hurling of "Snag" Ormond. Sahy |
league pitcher, for the Eastsidoi -
but while "Snag" was keeping the
usually strong Cloth mill hitters'
helpless three former high school .
boys on his own team were piling
up enough runs to assure a victory !
Youth must be served Tire game I
played before one of the largest j
baseball crowds ! ere in years, clea" !
ly proved that. Five fellows who j
have performed in pro baseball, ail 1
the way from textile circuits to the
major leagues, were In the Eaststd,'
lirv'up, but the bats of three Casey
Morris proteges drove in those
lueky seven tallies for Eastside
Sparks, playing in left-field. banged
out four hits, drove in several of
the runs and was an important fac
tor in driving "Jinx" Harris, former
Piedmont and Sally league hurler,
with Ills fast ball from the mound
Ray Parris, hign school catcher,
who was catching Ormond s jump
ing balls, slammed out a couple of
base blows, as did ' Mud" Poston,
another of the youngsters who help- j
rd win a high school title for Shel
by.
Ormond's hurling, however, was
one of the tastiest bits of pitching 1
seen here in years. To ' Snag" it. i
was back home, with some of the
hig crowd cheering him and some
jeering him It has always been that
way for "Snag" In Shelby, and ne
enjoyed It. When the game Was
over the cloth mill team had secur
ed only two hits off his delivery.
The first was of a questionable va
riety but had to go for a safety.
Cline Owens Lee early in the
game rammed a mile-a-minute
drive down the first base line, which
was too hot for Tommy Harrill.
Piedmont leaguer. or any oth; r
first-saeker to handle. And the.
was the.only hit Ormond gave tin1
until the ninth when "Rooster"
Bridges slammed a drive over the
infield.
Harris, rated as about the best
floating pitcher in North Carolina,
-started the game for the Cloth mi’l
crew but after five or six frames
had to seek cover as the Eastsiders
began to slam his offering about th«
park in a manner indicating they
had never heard of his no-hit rec
ords. Of course, quite a bit of Ha"
ris' downfall was due to his suppon
Catcher Hornsby had an off day
and Harris' fast balls would not
stay in his mitt. To make it, worse
Hornsby's throwing arm couldn't
find second base. Other inconveni
ences included some delayed think
ing, throwing and fielding upon the
part of Charley Harrelson on first
base, and lack of experience in the
outfield by Dalton, shortstopper
moved to the left garden.
All In all it was a great game, and
for the major part of the fans
those interested in baseball and j
neither team in particular—the out- ;
come was pleasing. Had the Cloth |
mill won the series would have '
ended. But, as it is now. there will
be another game Saturday—and
what a game!
It may be that a few more play
prs will be added to thp line-up.
and there Is much talk about |
bringing in major leaguers, players 1
from the Southern, and from any
where where they are good. One
thing about it, there was no labov j
unrest in Shelby Saturcay, About i
all the textile workers in town along j
with everybody else not working j
were at the game—and this Satur- i
day there will be more there.
"Curly" Smith relieved Harris on I
1 he mound for the clotn mill, b it ^
damage was already done and
■heroic hurling of the young
ider amounted to lit tie
i idea, for those not present, a !
- e type of baseball shown can
mined from a survey of the fol
■ng lineup:
bastside: Ray Farris, catcher;
Snag Ormond, Sally league, pitch
er; Tommy Harrill. Piedmont lea
gue, first base; White, semi-pro,
second base; "Red’' Ormond. Inter
national league, shortstop; Costner,
Foray semi-pro. third base; Ray
Sparks, ieltfield; George Reinhart.
Sally and American league, center
field; “Mud" Poston, rightfield.
Cloth Mill; Hornsby, catcher;
"Jinx" Harris, Piedmont, Sally and
Southeastern leagues, pitcher, Char- i
ley Harrelson. first base; ‘Rooster')
Budges, second base. Cline Owens ,
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INTELLIGENCE NOT
WANTED IN JURORS
Corn Cracker Discusses The Selec
tion Of Jurors And Gastonia
Strikers Case.
Editor Cleveland Star"
We imagine that nil wore sorry to
Irani of the juror losing ills mini
ill the much heralded striker car e
recently in progress tn Charlott*',
N (’ Had it born In some benight -
rd region like New York. Tlhnoi..
^>r Pennsylvania, thr cmciusion
would hai r born that a ri a. v mror
answered the purpore as well a.
a moron or an imbecile. while a
dead one would have boon pretrr
ablo to ntlirr. As everybody knows,
tlio court procedure of North Caro
lina .never- has any Incompetents on
a jury; but men of highest intelii
I’onoo and of a very judicial mind.
Iniagme a peer of the realm srlcc!
od on a .special \rimo in Cleveland
Gaston. Richmond or Mecklenburg
claiming.lie never heard'of a shock
ing murder and relate with a burst
of pride that he never reads daily'
papers, magazines; nor anything
else in the way of literature except
a medical almanac, or "A Blow
Train Through Arkansan " With
the superior educational advantage.',
that prevail in North Carolina the
palladium of liberty is safe and the
Remus of justice ne\er alien s Beale’s
to tie tilted.
Of course we are never afflicted
with stupid, cymlmg-headed pro
fessional jurors; and the spectacle
is never witnessed when there is a
vacancy in the panel of looking up
some moron .that has relapsed; and
who, like necessity, knows no law
One way of accounting for this
salutary state of affairs, is that on:
lawyers do not place political pre
ferment above their hopes of
Heaven; but desire the reign of
justice, though the Heavens fa’i
and stay donn. Imagine a Cleveland
county sheriff looking with 1’ofiy
disdain upon a man of sense, edu
cation and independence and select
ing a drivelling half idiot because
he steppeth promptly at the man
date of his political idol wlw> is
paraded in print as "counsel for th
defense " Such a scene is no hotter
than we expect in untutored Ken
tucky. Tennes-ee and Massachus
etts;- but in erudite and Judicial
North Carolina the genius of juris
prudence is never constrained to
weep at such perfidy;
In some regions, anybodv ran see
that the attorneys ring in a cold
deck. Nothing disqualifies a juror
so quick as intelligence, fir mess
and political independence Tn mo
of courts. Arnold, Capt. Kidd or j
Satan would be immune from jus
tice in a jury trial. Every lawyer,
especially for the defense would
act in role of a. sob-sister; tali
gruesome. theatrical platitudes
about how his imperial majesty,
Satan would look with his tresses
shorn to prepare him for the elec
tric current, and picture the be
reavement of Mrs Satan when de
prived of her bread-winner. Thank
God for rounty commissioners in
North Carolina who draw' intelli
gent juries; for lawyers who never
try to prostitute the ends of jus
tice; and witnesses who swear 10
their own hurt and change not;
even in pro nice dt bribery and
other corruption.
We have bombastic orators and
editors who discourse v apid plati
tudes about our state and national
glory We claim majestic rivers,
mighty oceans, towering and prince
ly forests, lofty mountains that, arc
the repositories of untold mineral
wealth; while our soil of unmatched
fertility gorges the granaries of tlie
world and feed its teeming mil
lions. The majesty of the law Is
invoked, as standing on eternal
vigil to protect the patrician in his
palace or the plebian in his hovel
in life, liberty and the pursuit oi
substantial happiness.
The spirit of education stalketh
through the land; while the mallow
tones of the church bell are heard,
calling the devout, to worship.
But we are the most lawless civil
ized country on earth; and an Eng
lishman, Frenchman or German
would be provoked to ungodly glee
to see some of our "peers of the
realm" officiating as jurors In any
of these regions, murder is promptly
punished, and the nobility fares like
the toiler of low estate. Jurors are
selected because of tlieir intelligence
and integrity in England, and some
loud-motithed lawyer does not dic
tate the court proceedings. Here, if
a man is stupid, provincial and
semi-Illiterate, he is liugeed to
tlie bosom of jurors for the defense
as a priceless treasure Everj man
or woman is entitled to trial by liis
or her peers; but if some aggrega
tions of professional jurors are
peers of anybody but the vicious arid
feeble-minded, some of us can't
discriminate.
M L. WHITE.
Lee, Southeastern league, short
stop: Cleve Cline, semi-pro, third
base; Dalton, leltfield; Bumgard
ner, centerfield; Hornsby, right
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A Fun-Maker For
Fair Visitors
Children! Above Is one of the fel
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af the Cleveland county fair which
opens Tuesday, Kepi 24 Remember
all school children will be admitted
free on opening dfty.
Card Of Thanks.
We wish sincerely to thank tho e.
our friends, including the doctors
and nurses at the Shelby hospital
for their thought fulness and kind
ne'ss. to us during the fatal illness of
our sister, Mrs. J. J. Blanton, of
Fall ston.
Ktgned Mrs J r Grieg, Gas
tonia: Miss Lizzie Ledford, Joseph
Ledford and C M I^edford. of
Lawndale, brothers and sisters of the
deceased.
Perhaps Babe Ruth %
Will Go To First
Yntk World;.
Out of our, very oldest suftst i nvi
rails up to iiilorm (is Hint Babe
IIuiU "ill shortly be playm? fn-d
r Ip. i Asked how lie ramp by tilts
1 ;\tn;ev,ne item (it news, he said
I lie had Just limited it out.
I ‘ I low ' w p inquired
' Tbr\ ime It to him," lie rr
I plied ' After ,dl these veils they've
[ ant to fyve him a couple of >en
muis at fir ' base before he buys a
[ ifinch It s (lie least, they can do."
"What - the matter with rlRht
field?' ’
Me cant lav out thee and
pound around after fly halls muen
' lonster Bic as he is. and old ns he
is, he's through it he tries to keep
it up His letjs will i:t\e out But at
til: t. base he'll he pood lot quite a
few names yet Mrs one of the lies'
first base.' men . in the luraie s. too.:
you mieht remember Mr s been '
there before."
"flow about Mr Grim??" i
‘ Well, how about him? Look in j
your buttm? avpraires and you'll see
lie's hitting under .300 for the sea
on Huggins has got, him batting
fifth and sixth, and that'll give you
in idea of how bad he's been go
ing. Ma\br he ll go out in right field
and shag flies Maybe he'll get trad
ed off But I'm telling you, it wont
he long before yon see Ruth on first
base Not. tills season, probably. But
pretty early next season.”
■'Well, thanks "
‘ You're .welcome I'm giving you
a chanee to put over a great big
scoop '
So here is the great, big scoop, fop
what it Is worth Thinking It, over,
we see not lung wrong with it ex
eept that the legislature would havs
to change the name of Ruthvllle,
But r\en that might be arranged,
With a little swapping of votes.
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