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Shelby’s “Genteel Vagabond” Writes Will, Describes Burial r {Continued from page one.' recently in writing- man's laist ckx-u tnent. "Last Row In (Summer.” One of the particular requests he makes in the document is that the musical program at his funeral in clude a solo “The Last Rose of Summer,” because, he explains, "it bespeaks my life—a flowering, fragrant romantic period for a time • ■ ■ ■ Now wilting, petals fallings . The Will does not include the re ffuest, but he has mentioned it to friends, that he hope* the singer of his Xavodte song, the song which, bespeaks his life, will be the sweet heart of his boyhood days. Back in the days when the wanderlust be gan to call him, when he picked up his guitar and his collection of dialogue and moved Dp the heart and JlrL jit beautiful girl, his one remaining eye back to the had the and he's And Its her f» longer the - 1 sweet, girlish voice he remembers , that he wants to sing his favorite ! song—sing it when the day arrives! that he conies back home to Shelby j forever. Another funeral request is ih?tj he be buried with military rites j with some of his Spanish-American j war buddies firing the last salute “Polite Little Turtles.” Always considered eccentric, he has retained his love for the ani mal world—a love that caused him! to be considered peculiar when he ■ recited Shakespeare's ‘Seven Ages of Man" and other verse to a pet! dog, *to the birds, or to any wild animal which might be near. Dur ing the present summer he has been taking his meals at the Tied mont, cafe, operated bv M-s. Alice Boland, ard tt-r-ie he has ivh'led away many hours playing and talk ing to two small turtles in a glass jar in the window. In his will he mentions them, expressing the hope that in the Unknown Spirit World that there will be a place for good old men and for polite little tur tles Very little of material thingi docs J 5 VALUES D YOUR Newest i ABODES cal m ‘tftisses’ Silk 'A1 shipment of [ Jfockg ;of the lat ^ swj: shades and de | have tjust been receiv cannot afford to §§ Jarge and beau * $9i95 LrJm Men’s All Wool Suits In browns, the season’s most outstanding color and color combination for stylish men’s Suits. They’re here, men, and at what surprisingly big values at ?n\'h low pric | es! See t’ ind you’ll know. $9-95 $13-95 $1795 TVO PANTS $1135 & $21 95 he possess, he explains in the doo j ment, but to the nieces of his! brother. Walter, he wills the profits! and dividends which may accrue i in the future from his book. ,!1 Years of Genteel Vagabonding m the United States." The book, the saga of a wander er, flits from state to state, from } section to section and tells of a lift ; many people dream of. a sort of care free gipsy roving. He earned hr livelihood for the most part during ; those 31 years by his one-night. ' one-man entertainments, and iia.f has given them from the Blur Ridge mountains to the a.j and Iris audiences have rang >d frorr 10 to 15 people before . a w.rr; torch stand to a packed house in leading theatres. Ip those days he never referred to himself as in "a - tor" but, Instead, as a “professional; entertainer," because in th* o’ri south there was stigma of a kind at-I tached to an acting person Hn| entertainments were us tally j Shakespearean recitals aecoimun-j led by a strumming of the gut.ar , a guitar, swung over his shoulder i as he tramped from stand to stand which brought him the name of1 “The Wandering Troubadoui" in1 the hill country of the Carolina?, j Tennessee and Kentucky. Wh.li on | one of those wandering trips. cir-| rylng his guitar on Viis shoulder and I humming a tune to himself, he lost | his left eye when the eye-ball v as 1 punctured by a short from me <>uo of a youthful hunter in Tennessee "I never received a cent for it. and had to pay my own hospital bill, ha aays, and then he explains it b; adding that “the youngster did noi Intend to hit me " Next summer? Well, he deesn: know whether he will be able io c<> back here next summer, but while he is here he wants his will written and filed because he hope* to b’ buried in “the old family burying ground in Shelby .' The wandering troubadour has prepared for the day when hisnra' - elling will end. Miss Webb Speaks At junior Red Cross Regional Conference To Be Held At Gastonia. October 9. Many To Attend. The council of the Junior Red I Cross of the South Shelby r.choo1 has received a cordial invitation front Attorney Edgar S. Whitaker, chairman of the Gaston county Red Cross chapter and Mrs. Frye, field organtwr. to participate in the program of the regional conference in a one-day meeting to be he' l a' Gastonia Wednesday. October 9. The afternoon session which be gins at 2 o'clock will be turned over to the Junior Red Cross coun cil of the South Shelby school a' which time the Juniors have bee;, asked to give a demonstration of how they conduct their monthly council meeting Between 30 and*40 Juniors and several members of the South SttfeJ by faculty will attend. Miss \Vinnle pianton will have charge of trans portation to Gastonia. Just prior to the program to be rendered by the Juniors. Miss Selma Webb, principal of the school has been invited to speak before the conference. Her subject will or ‘ What the Junior Red Cross ha*' Meant to our School." The theme of the regional con ference of Western N. C. this year will be "The Economic Value of the Red Cross in the State and Com munity." Red Cross workers and chairmen from many counties are ] expected ro'attend. Mr. Walter Davidson of the Na- j tional Red Cross headquarters in Washington, will be the main luncheon speaker. The conference will be held at the Armington bote'. It is reported that the meeting wi'l take up a wide variety of topics The program will include ditcus sion on community health, cra ters. tuberculosis and other themes of Interest to Red Cross workers. Modern Problems “John." said his wife over the telephone, "you must come home at once. I have mixed up the -Mugs of the vacuum cleaner and the wireless and the loudspeaker is sucking the paper off the wall." RICHARD DIX In “THE WHEEL OF LIFE” PRINCESS - MON. — TUES. RICHARD DIX In “THE WHEEL OF LIFE” PRINCESS - MON. — TUES. Shelby School Head Say* Equipment Here Short For Good Work • Continued from page one.' notify each room of a change in periods, this new system to stlipl: ment the old system that required the principal to punch 14 or more buz buttons to notify the classes of the change in period. We want lo teach punctuality. The new .sysv-'m will help The old system which did not ring simultaneously, threw classes in commotion and less nrd efficiency." declared Prof. Smith, "Demoted” Children. Principal Abernethy spoke on the change In the length of recitation periods to 4j minutes, explained why some of the children who had not satisfactorily completed hen work were "reclassified” and just how the teachers are trying to ren der a personal instructive service to individuals and groups and how tin1 sludv periods are supervised in o: ■ der that every help might be ren dered. Gaffney Grand Opera, On October 8th-1 Oth' Limestone Ladle* In Shelby Ad vertising Great Musical Event There. j — Gaffney will have four nights of j grand-opera this fall and wirier — ; two in October and two in Decem ber. -Arrangements have been com pleted by Dr. R C. Granberty, president of Limestone college, for the appearance there of four of the leading opera singers in this coun try. Members of the Limestone fac ulty, including Mrs. R. C. Gran berry. were in Shelby yesterday ad vertising this musical treat to which many Cleveland county peo ple will go. Tiie artists coming to Limestone include Melvina Passmore. prtma donna soprano of the Chicago Opera company: Leo De Hierapoli?, baritone, leader of the Montreal and 8t Louis Opera companies: Dimi, i Onofrei. tenor with 12 years ex perience in Grand Opera: and Bianca Saroya. soprano of the San Carlos Opera company In addition to the above top-llr ers, others who will have parts in the entertainments presented wt'l include _ Olenn Crowder Stables, basso, of the Converse college music faculty: Miss Burvelle MacFarland, of the Limestone college music fac ulty; Miss Dorothy Ritchie, direc tor of the txnrgsjion department; Professor'JJ.*3* Trammell and Miss Ka,tie Maude Townsend, of the col log# musjif department Datb* Tor Entertainments. The schedule tor the grand opera entertainments follows: Tuesday and Thursday evenings. October 8 and 10, and TueM^y and Thursday evenings, December 3 and s. A general plan for the four nights calls for arias and duets, all from grand opera music, during the first half of each entertainment. After an intermission of about 20 min utes. the stars will present one or more complete acta from grand opera in costume. First Programs. The first night. which will be Tuesday, October 8. Miss Saroya and Onofrei will present parts of "Cavalleria Rusticanna." than which there is no more beautiful music, according to critics The second evening. Thursday, October 10, the same artists will present parts of three acts from Faust by Gounod Professor Sta bles will play Mephistocles in the famous garden and prison scenes. RICHARD DIX In “THE WHEEL OF LIFE” PRINCESS - MON. — TUES. i RICHARD DIX In ' “THE WHEEL OF LIFE” PRINCESS - MON. — TUES. RICHARD DIX In “THE WHEEL OF LIFE” PRINCESS - MON. — TUES. Young Sharon Man Drowned At McAdenville Early Today (Continued from page one ' were notilied and Mr. MorcnctiJ arid a party of friends left as soon as possible for the scene of ths tragedy for awhile it was Impos sible to determine hist what Mor > head boy it was, Guy had been working, for the Southern Bell at Charleston. S. C and at Wilming ton but only recently had been transferred to the western part if the state llad Just Written Home. His distressed mother stated th's morning that she had a letter 'rorr him mailed yesterday at. Mount Holly. Young Moifhead was about 21 years of age of strong athletic build, and popular with his fellow workers. He was well known i Shelby and the death caused yre:'1 sorrow to his many friend* and tne friends of the bereaved family. ONLY FOOTBlLL 15 WELL TAUGHT Thl* Is View Of Dr. Hamilton lloli In Regard To The Modern College. New York—Football U the only thing that is well taught nr that students learn anything about, de clare* Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins college, who contributes an article on the defects of modern education to the September issue ot the "Forum ’’ In condemning the system in vogue In moat colleges of allowing a certain number of cuts in each class this educator explodes. "Imagine a football roach permitting a candi date for the team to take ten cut* during the season. Football 1* taken too seriously for that. Indeed, it is this seriousness that makes it I he only thing well taught on our cam puses today. The coach insist* on getting the best out of each candi date. He fires the 'duffer' or quit ter Irom the squad without the slightest compunction. The profes sor, on the contrary, maintains no such rigid standards in the class room. 8o loose are his requirements that, as any graduate knows, about a third of the degrees are unearned Yet in apite of the coach'a aeverity. his relations with the player orf the field are human and friendly—quite I ....... different from the lord-and-sert at titude between the professor and the student By instituting a sttni lur regime in regard to scholastic t\vork, Rollins hopes to achieve re I suit* a* successful as those of .the I coach " Di Holt lias no use for either the lecture or the lentntion methods of education Under the latter he says, 'the teacher is little more than • detective trying to discover the degree of the students unfaithful ness, using marks as the measure ot deficiency Marks, and not the mas tery of the subject, tend to become the objective of the student The system put* a premium on blutling. "If the recitation system is bad. the lecture system is worse It as sumes that what, one man has per haps taken a lifetime to acquire— succeeding only by dint of pains taking observation, long continued reflection and possibly the use ot his creatlv* Imagination—can be relayed or spoon-fed to another who lias not gone through a like process. The truth la that lectures can teach nothing '• The writer in the "Forum” recoin mends the “Two-hour Conference Plan” as the only Intelligent method of college education Besides the lack of human con tract between teacher and student re stilting from the educational meth ods used. Dr Holt has two other faults to find with our colleges These are: First, the Insatiable im pulse to expend materially; second, the glorification of research at the expense of teaching The first, he thinks. Is being checked, but of the second he says "Today we find hosts of men en gaged tn the laborious, •time-con suming. and unprofitable task of writing uninspired theses on unim portant subjects and trying to learn more and more about less and less; while teaching orientation courses they take the opposite extreme and try to make their students learn less and less about more and mort. Strangely enough, the teacher—pro fessors—the men who are primarily interested in teaching students ra ther than subjects—are usually not the ones who win promotions or calls from other colleges Yet it is these rare souls who make the real impressions on the students.” Mr. Livmgton Freeman left Wed nesday for High Point where he goes to take charge of a Pftider grocery store. Try Star Wants Ads. Jonas Promises D. A. R. To Push Kings Mountain Park Sheriff, Deputies And Others Held In Marion Battle (Continued from page one.) can. Wiley Newland, Davey MilL, Alien Stuart, George Buckner. VV O. Hall. Roy Woody, Lawrence Bradley. William Elmore, Abner Bunchanau, Jack Parker. Willa o Johnson Willie Allison. Daniel Frady, McClain Bradley. Oeorce McCombs, Charlie Taylor, W, M. Sparks, W 8 Black, (who Is now in hospital). Gudger Clark, E Redden, C. G. Sprouse, Lonnie Bryson, James Bryson, (brothers of Luther Bryson, who died of wounds re ceived yesterday morning). Reuse Mills, Ed Johnson. Kirk Lunsford. Wesley Fowler, Roy Minlsh. „Will Webb, John Wykle, W K Styles. Burgln Stacy and Del Lewis The bonds call for all defendants to appear In court nt. 9:30 o'clock thla morning "But if they're not here, they'll not be called out," said Judge Harding; "That is, they won't be penalised if they go to the funeral of the four men who were kilfcd If they go elsewhere that’s anothef matter '' KImi Funeral. The mas* funeral for the four dead strikers. Luther Bryson, 8am Vickers, Randolph Hall and John Jona*. was set tor 9 o'clock today It will be held at the open air meeting ground, and Is expected F> be a spectacular affair. Sophie Melvin Arrives. Sophie Melvin 19-year-o!d com munist worker who was freed from a second degree murder charge it) Charlotte Monday arrived here and offered the aid of the International Labor Defense to members and or ganizers of the local branch of the United Textile Workers of Amerlea. She was accompanied by Liston M. Oak. publicity director of the In ternational Labor Defense Ihey were given a cold reception by Ross, director of the Interna tional Labor Defense, who declar ed the communists were "trying to horn In' on thla town, which be longs to the American Federation of Labor " Apple Sauer I'm here because I loved a dear girl and she jilted me." said Inmate No. 16,311 In the mad house .."I’m here because I loved the same girl and she accepted me," said Inmate Nol6.212. May Also Ask Congress To Build Road Alone With National Fark. Joint Meeting. Kings Mountain. Oct. 4.—The Frederick Hambrlght Chapter D. A I R held its regular October mceiing Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock I at the home of Mrs. C. E. Neisltr, | sr, on North Piedmont avenue The subject of the meeting wit j "The Battle of King* Mountain ’’ j Congressman Charles A. Jonas, of | Lincolnton, G. G. Page, of Kings Mountain, who is chairman of the Kings Mountain Park Commission, and Wiley H. McGinnis, mayor of Kings Mountain, addressed the chapter. In speaking of the proposed na tional park Congressman Jonas as sured his hearers that he would do all within his power to pass the bill through congress which was in troduced and put through tha lower house in the last general session by his predecessor, A. L. Bui winkle, with only very slight changes. He said he would probably ask that the bill carry the appropriation instead of authorising it. He might also un dertake to include In the bill funds to build a road to the perk. Explains Bead Matter. Chairman Page, in speaking of the report of the commission, stated that the reason provisions for the road were not included in the orig inal report upon which the Bui winkle bill was based was the feel ing that the government would not be inclined to build a road to a park that did not exist but that the local state authorities had given as surance to the commission that a passable, all-weather road would be constructed in case the park bill was enacted into a law. The local chapter accepted the in vitation extended by the Vorkville Chapter to meet at the battleground next Monday, October 7, to celebrate the 149th anniversary of the Battle of Kings Mountain. He Coaldn't Say. A woman remarked to a well known bishop on one occasion, “Oh bishop. I want to tell you something very remarkable. An aunt of mine had arranged the make a voyage in a certain steamer, but at the last moment she had to give up the trip; and that steamer waa wrecked Wasn’t it a mercy she didn’t go?" "Well, but—” replied the bishop. ‘T don't know your aunt.” Sterchi’s Now Off In High Gear After our formal opening last night Sterchi Bros, are now offering high data merchandise to the public. 58 retail stores and 10 busy factories means greater Savings to YObf. JJ* — BED OUTFIT — .'{•piece bed outfit—large filler iron bed. choice of several finishes, comfortable springs, and guaran teed all cotton mattress—special for Friday and Saturday. The famous Athens Red Star coal range at sub stantial saving—full size cook top with six eyes— white enamel oven door panel—guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction. 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