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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By oamar, par yaar, MM THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. l a WBATHBRB Fraaidant and Editor a bwwt nan--gacrotary and fauna Rim DRUM ,, .....Km Editor 1 a JAMEE.. i m HMBd otaM mattar January l, 1009, at tbs poatoCflea At Shalbgr, North Carolina, uodar tfa# Act at Oonyraaa. March t, 1*79. Wt with to oall your attention to tha (art that It la, and haa boon our cut ton to ebaarps Ora oanta par Uaa for roaoluttena of raapsct, cards of thanks and obituary nottoaa, aftar ona doatb notleo baa boon pubUabad. TWi will ba strictly adbarrad to. WEDNESD'Y, NOV. 13. 1929 * ‘_i3S2tL± TWINKLES If, as some of them are saying, the senator* and solons at Washington do attend numerou* booze parties, then we ran understand why the cartoon* are alway* picturing them *» sleeping through the day* of the law-making sessions. Washington, according to an investigator, uses 32,000 gallons of whiskey per week. That's more than one and one half millions gallons each year, yet it waa less than a year sgo we were being urged to keep the uncouth, wet Al Smith nut of the White House for fear that he would insult the nation by permitting booze traffic there and elsewhere. Via The Greensboro News we learn that Carter Glass, the Virginia senator, does not swear and that his worst ex pletive is “Dad bum it!” and all we can say is that if Bishop Cannon’s ranting in Virginia brought no more potent ex pression from Senator Glass, then, dad-gummed, if his re •igion hasn't stood a remarkable test. ALL OP US “COUNTRY” MISS BEATRICE COBB, the Morganton editress, declare* that “When the sound of the fire siren ceases to excite the entire population, then a town has entered the city-fied class.” Regardless of your habitat, avers Miss Cobb, one ii a country man If excited by a fire siren or fire engine. U Miss Cobb’s definition is to prevail, then The Star frankly believe* that we are all “country folks.” Blase Broadway will jam traffic for several blocks and look when another mar looks up, when an auction sale is going on, when a hole it being dug in the grdund, or when the fire engine shrieks by It was only the other day that some one gave Odd Me Intyre, the popular columnists of little ol' New York, a swift kick in the pants while he milled and shoved about with * curious crowd at an open-air auction sale. It's curiosity in stead of “country,” Miss Cobb, and curiosity isn’t confine* to the rural folks and to towns of the size of Morganton ant Shelby; it’s to be found everywhere and in all classes. WHY THE STAR IS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE COTTON THERE are those who still remain curious as to why Th< 1 Star lines up with the optimistic prophets and expect* Cleveland county to make close to 60,000 bales of cotton this year, if not more. Permit us, then, to drop back a year ane explain our position. A year ago last Monday The Star puublished the coun ty ginning report up to November 1,1928. This report had it that 28,537 bales had been ginned to that date, and alonj with the figures was the following statement: “Local cot ton men and fanners stated that in their opinion, after hear ing the November 1 total, that the 1928 crop would hardly reach the 1927 crop, but would likely hit about 45,000 bales for the ye^r.” Despite these predictions the 1928 crop did go far beyond the 1927 crop and in doing so set a new county production record of 63,000 bales. To November 1, this year, 30,611 bates had been ginned in the county, or over 2,000 more bales than to the same date in 1928. The crop is as late, or later, this year than last why should we be pessimistic? WASHINGTON SOCIAL WAR MAY VIE WITH INTERNATIONAL PEACE PRESIDENT Hoover and Ramsey MacDonald, the British 4 Premier, gave international peace a good boost by their recent conferences, but unless President Hoover secures what The Asheville Citizen terms a “competent social secre tary” he may yet bring down upon Washington a social war that could be more vicious than an international conflict of arms. Washington was hardly out of the throes of a social skirmish centering about the proper seating of Mrs. Gann, Vice President Curtis’ sister, and Mrs. Nicholas Longsworth at social functions, until, for some reason or another, Sena tor Hiram Johnson, of California, who is to the Republican party what Tom-Tom Heflin is to the entire Senate, failed to receive an invitation to a White House function given by the President. Mr. Hoover apologized and Senator John son played the role of a good sport, but, as the Asheville pa per says below, something seems to be lacking in the Hoover array of helpers: “President Hoover having apologized to Senator Hiram Johnson for the failure to invite him to the White House din ner given to Ambassadors Dawes and Guggenheim Tuesday Plight, when all the other members of the Foreign Relations tfomsuttee of the Senate were guests, the war cloud which hung over the national capital when the news of the sup posed slight to the California senator became known has hasp-lifted. “Two things only remain to be said. The first is that in this affair Senator Johnson himself behaved surprisingly well. When the excitement was at its height he kept hii mouth shut. After he had received the President’s letter oi apology he declared that under no circumstances would h< have commented upon tat discussed the incident and added “In the preamt situation, of course, it is wholly ended.” *£We would add to that nothing except the suggestioi that President Hoover, who used to have a reputation for efficiency, must have realized by this time that in official Washington the first essential to the preservation of such a reputation is a competent social secretary.” . IS MODERN MINISTER BEING MADE AN ORGANIZATION ROBOT? 'THE address of The Reverend Charles H. Dickey to the ^ North Carolina Baptist pastors’ conference here Monday in which the Williamston minister warned of the danger making our preachers to conform with a style-plate may have caused the lifting of brows upon the part of some, but, as The Star hears it, the opinions he expressed seem to be generally held of recent months not only by ministers of his denomination but of others. There may be those who will argue that the minister should be just a cog, though an important one, in the or ganization machinery of a church. To those holding that viewpoint the late day tendency in that direction must be gratifying. But to those who differ as does Rev. Mr. Dickey, and with whom The Star more or less agrees, there is a danger in the tendency to organize and keep organizing— the danger that the cold, heartless machinery of organiza tion may drown out the personal and spiritual appeal around which church progress should center. It may be all right to demand that our ministers be “live wires” and “good mix ers,” as Rev. Mr. Dickey says more and more congregations are demanding, but will those attributes and nothing more suffice to keep step in reaching the ultimate aim of the church? A good mixer and a live wire may draw large con gregations and make them feel content and self-satisfied, but in that path is the menace the speaker warns of. A self satisfied congregation content with the smooth-working ma chinery of its church organization can be of no great spirit ual value in a community, and when the congregation molds its pastor into just another cog of that machine it loses what chanca there might have been of straight-from-the-shoulder spiritual advice and admonition which occasionally shakes a church and keeps it awake and at work. Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— Bottled In Bond-SkL In some respects, It must tee ■ mighty nice to be a rank Oom I muntsU. They don’t have any hell I to worry about, nor any Ood to fear. They can will or steal and break all of the 10 commandments and the only things that they need bother their minds about are the civil and criminal laws. It must be wonder ful to be able to commit a sin and not have a conscience to disturb you ! afterwards Then, if they want, they can eat and aleep and drink with the negroes and etill hold their self lespeet and command respect from ethers. One man la good as another, and if there’s any difference, he's a darned sight better according to their ideas and visions. . . regard less of color, character, morals, or disposition. Fut her more, a real Communist leader la the stuff. He can always find folks willing to work for hun and keep him well dressed and bountifully fed and comfortably housed while he runs around and raises hell among other folks who arc trying to earn an honest living and serve the Lord. It certainly mould be great to be able to tear up all our law books and cuss out all our Judges and shoot all our police men. and then pick out the house and lot that suits us best A red Has la • pretty flag. I al ways did like red but I must con fess that I aint the kind who wants to see red, but personally— I think Uncle 9am has Just about the finest looking flag In the whole world, and I have got used to admiring it and respecting its dignity and power. It aint good enough for everybody. If a man likes the Proletariat of Rus sia and believe* that Russia has solved the problem of self-govern ment, then he has a perfect right to be a Communist and holler f ->r them and fight for them, if neces sary, but ha ought to go to Russia to pull off such stunts. He would be at home "over there.” I am not opposed to organised labor by any manner of means. I hope the time will come when labor can be sensibly organised, that it— organised for its own and the coun try’s betterment at the tame tune. The country is full of worthy work ingmen and among them, there arc leaders worthy of a large following. A fuss can’t be settled with brick bats and pistols, and Instead of labor ought to lock arms. Our leaders should be home-folks. The South will soon recover from its spasm of riot and turbulence. Christian people inter-mingled with the masses for all of us to be led entirely astray. Most any of us are willing to try out a scheme, but we generally have sense enough to realise in time whether or not a ' scheme is a good one or a bad one. . Bight and not fight will win out in time. Daagar Signal*. I have been cheeking up on who’s libit and where’s he going for the past lew days. I have learned that the fastest drivers are the boys who run trucks for the dry cleaning shops. They average about 45 milee around comers and 5 miles between traffic lights and 85 miles where the street or roads Is clear for a dis tance of 50 yards. X guess they have some clothes to clean and are In a hurry for fear they will spoil before they get where they are going, Next to the dry cleaners trucks and cars come ambulances. They run the risk of killing every corpse or invalid they haul. If a man sticks a splinter in his little finger, an am bulance grabs him up and hurts down the street through traffic like a skeedaddle and it’s a wonder half of the folks in town don’t get run over and mashed so flat they’d have to be picked up and turned over with a batter-cake paddle. On the heels of the vehicles just enumerated comes Jimmies or Cam mie Cake Eater in their daddy's in stalment plan. They are always making all the lissics will stand for, but are not going anywhere’s in 'particular except to the devil. They squirt around moderate drivers so fast the other fellow thinks a bee martin dived at him. They go even faster when a Ducoed flapper is hanging onto 'em by the neck anso forth, and it is dangerous for any thing to meet 'em except a freight train. That type is the chief asset of our hospitals and tombstone agents. We must not overlook some of the big chain store trucks that hog half the road and pick their half from out of the centre thereof. They look neither to the right or to the left, but hold to what they’ve got, and woe under the man, woman, child or Ford that tries to pass them. And then there are other big trucks tnat are as bad or worse. A special highway ought to be built for box cars and freight trains that inhabit our highways to the exclusions of smaller tax-payers. And here comes the fire-truck. It runs fast and It should . . . but later would give the fire much more advantage. We can excuse 1*. however, but those other nuisances and Irregularities auto to be sum marily dealt with. But, listen folks: automobiles and trucks killed more people last year than the American Army lost during the world war in number that is gipped into the sweet beyond every day is not greater. Half the fools are in the asylum, and the other half are driving trucks and automobiles. More Hard Top. From The Stanly News-Herald. The Conoocd-Albemarle highway will soon be hardsurfaced. Xt can be travelled all the way from Con cord to Albemarle now with the ex ception of a short detour about four miles out from Albemarle. The com pletion of this work will fill an Im portant link in the state hard ; surfaced system. new production economies Day in and day oat, for months, Majestic has been producing and seffing up to 6000 complete radio sets each day. With 15^)00 employees, Majestic operates 8 great plants on a scale of efficiency which has constantly amazed the entire world industry. Continually improving production methods, without in any way relaxing on gtwato-y, Majestic has now effected tremendous new ~ economies tx> be paeeedon to the public, in Sensational new low prices on the latest Majestic Models of Come fit and get yours today, and wewflSbetpiip it with Majesticlufoes, Ih&uiing] finest quality of tone and amazingy tctte^eproaaction. Famous Model 91 Formerly $133150 Leas'Tube* , NOW Famous*. Model 9E2 Rwix-fly NOWf Pendleton V Music Store Exclusive Music Dealers In Shelby For Twenty Years. — PHONE 272 — THE j. w. mckinney ESTATE AT-AUCTION TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19th 10:30 A. M. ELLENBORO, N. C. On the above day and hour we will sell at absolute auction for a division among heirs, the J. W. McKinney farm. This farm is located on State Highway No. 20, just east of Ellenboro, N. C., and only about 1 mile from the Cleveland and Rutherford County line and has been sub-divided into several small tracts, each having a good road frontage, some with necessary buildings. The land is fertile and lays good. The entire frontage is one lar$e grove and will make ideal building site*. We consider that this is one of the best farms that we have ever offered under the auction hammer. This is an opportunity that does not come every day. We are urging you to look this fine farm over before the day of sale, and be there in time for the sale. -IT’S GOING UNDER THE AUCTION HAMMER NO STRINGS — NO FIXED PRICE — YOUR PRICE IS OUR PRICE. BARBECUE DINNER FOR 3,000 PEOPLE — BE SURE *AND COME. VAL UABLE CASH PRIZES. -LIVE WIRE BRASS BAND-LIBERAL TERMS YOU ARE INVITED — THE FAMILY IS INVITED — COME BRING ALL YOUR FRIENDS. J. B. NOLAN CO., Inc. SHELBY, N. C. — SELLING AGENTS
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