The Cleveland Star
SHELBY. N. C.
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LEE P WEATHERS__President and Editor
a ERNES! HOETf _._Secretary and foreman.
RENN DRUM ....-:...— News Editor
A. D. JAMES__...___.... Advertising Manager
Entered aa second class matter January I, 1905.'at the post-office
At Shelby, North Carolina under the Act of Congress. March 3. 1879.
We wish to call your attention to the fact that it Is and has been
our custom to charge five cents per lino for resolutions of respect,
cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has
been published. This will be strictly adherrefl to.
FRIDAY, OCT? 18, 1929. _
TWINKLES
“Nude legs,” says a Star headline, “Are Also Crude
Legs.” And the office boy glancing over the paper rema k*
"Some of ’em, brother, some of ’em.”
In Kansas, undoubtedly, they do not have rumble seats,
for the board of health there, in issuing rules for guidance
of kissers, advises “never kiss in crowded places.”
“Heflin Attacks Fall,” says a Rocky Mount Telegram
headline. Upon whom the headline does not say, but for
our IKrst guess we’ll say the Pope.
A young white girl in New York is engaged to marry the
negro captain of a college track team, and taking notice of
the announcement The Monroe Journal says that her name
“is Oedelschoff, her father is a German, her mother is
French, and her offspring will doubtless bo chocolate.”
Just how busy the times are now in Cleveland county
can be determined by the news dispatch from Grover early
in the week stating that BOO bales of cotton had already been
ginned there by the town’s two gins.
Seeing as how everything came out Ye Twinkler would
advise members of Connie Mack’s Athletics for not a one of
them to dare thinking about spending the winter in Chicago.
As quick as they are on the trigger there a fellow who had
anything to do with making those ten runs in one inning
wouldn’t likely have much chance of dying of old age
COWS VS. COTTON: A DEBATE
FOR CLEVELAND FARMERS
* A N INTERESTING editorial in The Yorkville Enquirer (
™ goes like this: “Year after year 10,000 good milk cows!
in York county would produce more wealth than 100,000
acres planted to cotton.
“One hundred thousand acres of cotton will produce 30,
000 bales. At $100 per bale that will total $3,000,000. Ten
ihousand milk cows should produce at the lowest estimate
20.000 gallons of milk per day. This at 40 cents a gallon
would total $8,000. This multiplied by 365 (days) would to
tal $2,924,000 annually, and in addition there would be the
natural increase in calves, and 10,000 tons of manure per
month at $2 per ton would total $20,000 per month or $240,
000 per year. Cows will beat cotton as a revenue producer.”
Cleveland county farmers' can, and do make more than
30.000 bales of cotton on 100,000 acres of land, but there is a
great opportunity ahead for farmers of this county in dairy
ing. One milk plant in Shelby now reports that it could
easily use 40 .gallons more milk per day than it now receives.
That does not include a growing demand at the Shelby Cream
ery and upon private markets. The advance of the poultry
industry has meant much to Cleveland farmers in recent
years and will mean much more in time to come, and **o\v
1he next forward step is for the county to “take to” the dairy
business. The boll weevil hasn’t hit us so hard yet, but
when, and if, it does, chickens, eggs, milk and butter to sell
on the market each day will prove a triple life-saver.
A FEW REMARKS ABOUT THIS AND
THAT IN DAY’S NEWS
WEDNESDAY’S Star carried the news of another disaster
W to add to Shelby’s list of distressing events, yet there
was good news to travel along with the bad. In one column
was the information that the Shelby hospital, after years of
striving to attain that aim, has been approved as a standard
institution by the American College of Surgeons. Quite a
tribute to the local hospital, and now shouldn’t we see to it
that the Duke gift is matched so as to increase the facilities
and benefits of the institution?
Another news story bearing good tidings was the one
telling that the Cleveland county booth won the first prize
at thfe State Fair for the third straight year, and that the
Lattimore community booth carried off first honors in the
community class. That’s a record to be proud of, if you care
to think it over. For three years the Cleveland county booth
has competed with and excelled the best booths to be offered
by the other counties of the state; and Lattimore’s winning
of the community prize is a far bigger thing than taking
top honors at a county faj,r. In connection with the county
booth's-first* prize local fair officials and others connect 'd
with the county exhibit say that much credit should be
given Eldridge Weathers, who for three years has taken
from his own time to aid the two county agents in preparing
these booths; and their view is that they could not ask for
a more capable assistant.
Other items of a cheery nature told of a new business
firm opening here—that’s another indication of good fall
business;- another informed that the 'possum hunting sea
son is. t8t and that’s really interesting news to scores of fel
lows over tlje county And to a few of the girls, too, believe
It or not* j
There’s in old saying about it being an ill wind which
brings good tol no one, and it’s an ill issue of a newspaper
when it carrWpo good news at all.
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Think of it! It’s only two months and a week until
1 hristmas. Do your—well finish it up for yourself.
WHY HESTER REFUSES TO GET
IN POLITICAL GAME
“COME, day, when the spell is broken and the people awake
to the realization of the fraud that the Anti-Saloon
League, Ku Klux Klan and W. C. T. U. have practised upon
them, this district will be represented by someone holding
my political philosophy” wrote John W. Hester, well known
North Carolina lawyer, to a lady in his congressional dis
trict who wanted him to become a candidate for congress.
Mr. Hester’s letter to the friends who urged that he 1 e
come a candidate, in which he refused to do so as long as
power and organization interests control the public, was pub
lished in the current issue of Plain Talk, a nationally cir
culated magazine; and it was a very interesting argument.
In explaining his political philosophy Mr. Hester said
"I do not believe that the habits and customs of 120 million
people of all races, classes and creeds can be standardized or
made uniform. . . You can’t make fools wise by legislation,
men temperate by prohibition, or women virtuous by the
suppression of the bawdy house. . . The home and school are
institutions which should handle matters of habit and
thought, and morals remain the duty of the home and
church, not of the state.”
In concluding, Mr. Hester, as lie says in t he opening
paragraph above, proposes to remain out of politics until
matters he speaks of are adjusted and changed. His philoso
phy is to a considerable degree our philosophy, but if every
one who realizes that political control now is not in the right
hands leaves the change of conditions to George, the
tranformation will never come. Mr. Hester’s philosophy is
good but, apparently, he lacks the courage of his convictions
to fight for it until it prevails.
If a minister would not accept a charge until every mem
ber of the church was a regular church attendant and regu
lar, also, in contributing, how could the charge be expected
“to get that way” by itself? If the pioneers who settled
America had refused to come to this country until it had been
settled? If a football coach would not; t;lke over a college
eleven until it was trained and functioning like a machine,
how could he expect the team to reach that status ?
Mr. Hester says he was “not born for such annihila
tion” as he would expect to get if he campaigned against
the interests in politics he objects to. If all others holding
similar views feel the same way, just how does Mr. Hester
expect “the spell to he broken” ?
Nobody’s
Business
GEE McGEE
Try These On Your Trlnkcr.
Mr. and Mrs. Flem Z. Jones hive
been married only 5 years, but they
h‘ave 2 of the cutest little poodle
dogs you ever saw, and while Mr.
Jones draws $35.00 a’week for
“holding a very Important position
with the Standard Oil,” he owes
only about $6,500.00, exelush e of
past due Interest and back taxes
(Fact.)
Mrs. Brown told Mrs. Redd that
Mrs. Green told Mrs. Grey that she
heard that the young man who had
been calling on the Wlston girl
had left town and many people ate
guessing, but of course Mrs. Brown
told Mrs. Redd that Mrs. Green
told Mrs. Grey that It was a se
cret and that no one must Know it.
as there Is a possibility that there
ain’t a thing in the world to it, hut
Suzanne does look powerful pale
under the eyes. (Gossip).
Old Mrs. Smith who lives on
| East view heard yesterday that
j her great uncle. Jerry Miah Brew
ster, had died in Kentucky and
left 'her over 2 million dollars, and
now she is planning to re-vamp
herself and 5 daughters and move
to a larger town where the fam
ily can have the advantage it Is
entitled to In the matter of getting
into high society. Qld Mrs. Smith
doesn’t remember anything at all
about Uncle Jerry-Mlah, but she
believes the fortune wttl be emp
tied into her lap within a few days.
(Fiction);
About 7 weeks ago when it look
ed like the entire community
around Bull Snort was goir.g to
turn to cottpn. Farmer Grunter
gave his crop the one-over and
drove to town and had a Cadillac
demonstrated to him. A few duys
later after dry weather had set
in and things didn’t look quite so
promising. Mr. Grunter was seen
riding around with a Buick sales
man, but the boll weevil struck
Mr. Grunter’s far late In August,
and while in town last Friday he
visited both the Ford and Chevro
let agencies, but when we talked
to him yesterday, he was wonder
ing what a set of second-hand tires
for his old lizzie would cost, (Dis
appointment).
I read 3 pages in an alm.mac
yesterday and when I came to the
place where It began to ask such
questions as: "Are you dizzy?”
“Do you feel a fullness after eat
ing?” and ‘Do you have heart
pains?” 1 began to suffer. It said
something abr : T B lingers
around such p’. ecs and ennee- is
a hidden death-bomb and diabetes
I
shows up in a man with symptom*
named, and before I knew it my
heart began to beat lrregulady and
I Just knew that my iiver hud a
growth on it. Xr worried along
through the day and spent a sleep
less night, hoping that X would
live through the following week
so‘s I could make a will ansofarth,
I went to my physician and he ex
amined me and said he found noth,
ing wron^ with me except possi
bly I was bathing a little too far
apart. (Imagination.!
Styles Are Astoundiugly Fickle
This thing you call style is a far
I reaching contagion. As previously
' announced, some women will con
| tinue to wear underclothes. This
| will apply especially to country
lasses who have to cross fences
and climb muscadine vines and
tote water from the spring during
the morning frosts, but the demand
is not so great among the city
flappers. You see. they have bed
room slippers.
Style keeps all of the men bust
; cd, broke and bankrupt from month
' to month, and the only change that
■ ever comes about Is—they suffer
; frequent relapses during what
| looks like a respite or an oncom
| ing period of convalescence.. He
buys a new car in July and be
fore August oozes into the calen
dar. his car has become antequat
ed—because so many changes and
Improvements have been made
since his down payment. The
stream-lines are longer and the
yellow stripe that was so popular
when he bought has passed out
and a checkerboard design has
taken its place, and tacky is what,
your old July car is and nothing
else
Even tooth-brush styles change
over-night. I bought 1 the other
day that had a celluloid handle and
9 bunches of hair in it and lo
and behold. I found out the next
day that bone handles and 8
bunches of hair were all the rage
I invested in a set of green ear
bobs Friday before the Fourth
Sabbath In June, and when she
wore them for the first time the
First Sabbath morning in Septem
ber. why. white glass pendant* had
become the only thin* decent in
ear-bobs.
And on it goes. The gun-metal
stockings of 4 weeks ago are as
out of place on the Southern ex
tremities as a preacher and a cock
fight The only hasp that can bp
(Continued on page nine.)
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