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The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — Kill DAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Bj Mali, per jeer ... • ........ ----I3 &0 9j Carrier, per year-.. .----tt>00 THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. lee a WEATHERS ............. President and Editor & ERNEST HOEY ..._...__... Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM...... News Editor A. O. JAMES___.........._____Advertising Manager Entered aa second class matter January t, 1903. at the postoffice At Shelby. North Caro Una, under the Act of Congress, March 3. 1879. We wish to call your attention to the fact that it ts and has been our custom to charge flee cents per line for resolution* of respect, eartla of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice ha* been published. This will be strictly adhcrred to. “ MONDAY, OCT., 217 1929 TWINKLES Chicago has had 104 bombings this year, and one dud* the Cubs in the world’s series. Simmons should be able to turn the tobacco prices or something up; he did a pretty good job of turning the Demo cratic party down. A headline in The Charlotte News says that 01’ Vir ginia will Democratic in the oncoming election. A Byrd— Harry—told ’em. Yelling, says a medical authority, helps to cure dizzi ness. Then a lot of the folks we’ve seen at college football games weren’t so dizzy we guess, as they appeared to be— or, perhaps, they were taking the cure. A week or so more of warm weather similar to that sev eral days last week and the prophets, who were so pessi mistic. two weeks back about Cleveland county’s cotton crop, will be changing their tune. Forest City is making plans for a'big Armistice Day celebration, and the fireworks are assured—Ex-Governor Cameron Morrison is to be the speaker. There’s seldom ever anything dull about a Morrison speech. After all, there’s very little difference between this fel low Shearer and Arthur Brisbane. Both have been beseech ing the government for years to build more ships, Brisbane’s eolumnistic lobbying being for airships. - “Roosevelt,” informs the Raleigh $e\vs and Observei speaking of the New York governor’s visit to the North Carolina Fair, “Talked More of Football than Politics.” Dip lomatic, we call it; North Carolina has done better in foot ball in the last year or so than in politics. WEATHER PROPHET GRANT MAY v DOPE IT OUT AGAIN pRIDAY The Star published a prediction by the Chefctei weather prophet, J. Martin Grant, stating that a killing frost might be expected in this section a week from tomor row. Numerous local weather dopesters in r eading the pro phecy were inclined to give it the laugh. Perhaps they arc right, but it might be well to recall that Prophet M rtin Has scored several hits in months gone. The Gastonia Gazette remembers his last hit and says of it: “Old man Grant rang the bell on the last big rain and storm that hit this section. He hit it to the day, and bis announcement, or prediction, was made about a week or Ion days before the eventful September week.” HOPING FOR A NEW CLEVELAND SPRINGS HOSTELRY -THE stockholders in the hotel destroyed by fire, due to their 1 heavy loss, may not be enthusiastic about rebuilding Cleveland Springs, but, after lending an ear to the talk about town, there is in Shelby a prevailing hope that the hotel be rebuilt. This hope for the most part may center about senti ment, for through several generations Cleveland Springs came to be a Shelby institution. However, there are other angles upon >vhich this desire for rebuilding is fostered. The civic and social life of Shelby and surrounding sec tion has for many years hinged about the big hotel on the wooded hill at the edge of town. Civil clubs have always met there, large banquets are staged there, important visitors are always taken there so that they may get a touch of Western Piedmont climate and scenery,, and in many other ways the hotel was an integral factor.in Shelby life, not merely as a hotel but as a friendly gathering place for She! byites and visitors. For years many citizens have argued that Cleveland Springs is the proper setting for another Pinehurst. With all due regard for the Eastern Carolina resort, Pinehurst has nothing on Cleveland Springs for year-round climate and scenery, and Pinehurst has no mineral springs to compare with those at Cleveland. It may be now that outside in terests will see this and build something far greater than Shelby has ever known at Cleveland Springs. Be that as it may, if Cleveland Springs is never rebuilt it will be many years before Shelby will cease to miss an institution that tame to mean much to the town in the passing of years. NEW GROCERY STORES IN THIS SECTION ARE EXPLAINED A LTHOUGH there has been talk of the Quality Service ^ Stores taking ov4r, or, rather, forming a series of stores 5n this section by cooperating with local grocers, the exact idea of the Quality Service plan is not as yet clear to the entire section. Next Thursday night grocers of Cleveland and Rutherford counties, it is announced, will form a dcfiniV organization under the chain plan, and in that connection the following comment upon the Q. S. S. stores in The Char lotte Observer should be of interest: "Mrs. C. L. Lowder, executive secretary of the Gaston County Merchants association, contributes an article to The Carolina-Virginia Retailer, describing how the Gastonia re tail grocers have met the chain store competition by organ J : izing a chain grocery store system of their own, known as Quality Service Stores, distinguished by a vivid red—red dcclacomanias on windows, bearing the Q. S. S. sign emblem, standing out boldly in gold letters; large signs of blue smaltz background, with the words “Quality and Service,” stand ing out boldly in gold letters 12 inches high, windows neatly trimmed and standard lines of foods; these articles price tagged and two-color streamers calling attention ot the pass ers-by to the specials being advertised within. “Gastonia got the idea from Lynchburg, where the sys tem has been in operation for three years, reducing operat mg costs and increasing trade, and Mrs. Lowder says simil .r organization is now under way fdr Spartanburg and Green ville, and for Concord, Salisbury and Winston-Salem. It is mentioned as “one decided asset,” to the proposition (hat it \ costs the grocer only $1Q as an application fee to join and that all expenses, including the painting of the store, signs, advertising and window-service man arc paid for by the ipan ufacturers. This brings in about $12,000 annually from out side manufacturers which is spent locally.” i Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— , Additional Extravagance. When it comes to serving a good purpose, and appendix lias it on an investigating committee, especially if politics have any thing to do with the appointment of the committee that is to do tl n investigating. Out of 15,456,897 in vestigating committeemen who have been paid the sum of $876,543,275, 00, irregularities reported in ac counts of public-office holders have amounted to exactly 75 cents. Only about 3 per cent of the In vestigating committees ever make a report. All the others are lest in the shuffle or are forgotten as time rolls along without informa tion from them. Probing for graft Is like fishing for whales in a 'stand-pipe. Really the subject is so ludicrous. It is actually very fun ny. Does a bootlegger carry his booze around on his shoulder? No? And neither does a mini ente" in the general ledger or his petty cash book how much his last rake off was on that purchase of ma chinery ansoforth. " Graft begins and ends in the j back room or in a hotel suite. Mr. j E. Z. Mark gets elected to office | and he Immediately becomes a rower In the world of finance and begins to buy stuff for his county or town or state. Mr. O. U. Bird meets him by appointment wr.erc no dictaphones are ear-drums pre in avidence. They take a drink or two. Then Mr. Bird passe-, a few hundred or a few thousand in beautiful greenbacks under the table to Mr. Maik. and Mr. Ma 'k signs on the dotted line and within a few days, n nice bunch of 12-thousand dollar merchandise or machinery rolls into the freight yard and the county or the town or the state forthwith sends its check ! for about 15 thousand dollars in ; settlement of the acount. Oh, no, my dear Mr. Taxpayer, the crs‘ I of the equipment, and not'the sot' money is entered on the books. When a case has gotten so bad that the legislature or congress ap points an investigating committee then I know the matter is settle 1: for all time. The usual work ot I such a committee is to White- I wash the guy and his friends who did the stealing. Frequently that requires the use of a few political white-wash brushes that can be bought for a song, and another son? or two will pay for having the st>-ff plastered on. An investig itim committee never gets beyond the fly-leaf with its facts and flggers. All defalcations will turn up in time if books show them, but graft is as hard to trace as a wig gle tail. X am not in lavor of investigat ing committees. When anything looks like it ought to be invest gated, I say forget it, and star* all over again. If your politic''! friends are not honest, you are simply out of luck. I do not be Ueve however the statement that over 25 per cent of the taxpayers money is either stolen or wasted or squandered: I think it is near er 24 per cent. American Women Run Greater Risk In Motherhood Chicago.—The opinion that the average woman in America take; twice as great a risk with her life in becoming a mother as the peas ant woman in some remote Swedish village, was expressed by Dr James Hcyman, Swedish radiologist who was here to address the eleventh annual congress of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Heyman said the lower mot tality rate in Sweden v. as due to the fact that the Swedish government takes an active hand in the regula - tion of the medical profession, w hile in this country regulation is lar?<>!j left to the profession itself 'In every province?! hr she ‘Sweden maintains physicians who h;uv most of their pay from the jovernment, supplemented by what small fees the poor people can •ray them. Because so many people of Sweden live in remote places, un able to consult specialists, every one of these men must be specially trained to obstetrics. He spends four months of his training period in independent practice in lying-in hospitals. "The obstetrical training of Amer ican medical students is sadly in adequate." stop’dosmg’ ^COLDS -tiMCH year since the introduction of Vicks VapoRub, more and more people have given up “dosing” colds and turned to the better way of treating them externally. To day, the trend of medical practice is a way from needless “dosing.” Just rubbed on, Vicks acta through the skin like a piaster, it also gives off medicated va. pors which are nhaled. Ever-growing demand again changes the fam ous Vick slogan —there are now Over 26 Million Tars Used Nearly.” VICKS V VarcRub I COTTON ( PRICES Make up the difference by buying at The Paragon— What you lose on cotton you make up the loss here, during our closing out sale. The fields are white but it will pay you to slip off and come here to buy your win ter needs. SHOES, CLOTHING, | Ready-To-Wear DRY GOODS FURNITURE EVERYTHING! Lowest prices ever offered in Shelby on such High Quality merchandise. Hur ry along thrifty buyers— don't wait. THE | PARAGON Try Star Wants Ads. RECEIVED TO-DAY 50 NEW DRESSES REGULAR $16.50 TO $19.50 VALUES TO GO AT i NO TWO ALIKE SIZES 14 TO 44. These Dresses came today and are positively won derful values At this price. They come from New York’s leading dress house. Consists of Satins, Crepes and Prints. PARAGON’S GOING-OUT SALE ( ALL MILLINERY MUST GO Tables are loaded with New Fall Hats that must move out. Every one has been greatly reduced for this Closing-Out Sale. All marked in plain figures and so displayed you can wait on yourself. 98c $1.98 $2.98 & Up $1.50 HUMMING BIRD HOSE $1.00 Closing out entire stock of $1.50 Hum ming Bird Hose at $1.00 pair. All new stock received this fall. Matrix Footwear $10.00 and $12.50 Values Choice of any Matrix in |he house as long as tKey last at just, the pair. $5.95 CLOSING OUT COAT SALE FOR WOMEN, MISSES AND CHILDREN $2.98 $3.98 $9.85 $ 14.85 & uP Cases and racks are jammed full of new Fall Coats and we must close them out at once. They’re all marked for quick clearance. A complete size range, style range and colors. In each a bargain in Coats. BETTER COATS I y4 to y2 price i All our new high grade Coats ranging from $69.50 to $149.50 have been marked way down. ^ Rare bargains in good Coats if your are need ing one. PARAGON DEPT. STORE
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