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MONDAY, NOV* 25, 1929
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TWINKLES
Cleveland farmers will in all likelihood make a record
cotton crop this year but they certainly have had their ins
and outs in getting the cotton picked. There have been very
few weeks during the season when pickers could stay in the
fields every day in the week. ,
Now they’ve made a hunter out of Governor Gardner. A
dispatch from Raleigh states that after making a speech
last week at Belhaven that the Governor accompanied a
party on a hunting trip to Lake Mattamuskeet and killed five
geese on the lake, the legal limit for the day, withift five
minutes.
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OVERLOOKED SOMETHING.
JUDGE RUFE CLARK, Greensboro News editorial writer,
** has long been of the opinion that our courts have too
much red tape attached to their proceedings and are in many
ways antiquated. Here is an incident he cites:
♦ “In Superior Court at Fayetteville the'trial of a negro
for larceny had reached the jury charging stage when it was
discovered that the grand jury had not returned a bill. And
that isn’t surprising to anybody who has observed the lack
of system in court procedure.”
* A STERLING CITIZEN. 1
IN THE PASSING of J. T. S. Mauney, merchant, farmer and
public spirited citizen, Cleveland county lost a valuable
man. Stonewall Mauney was not of the type to have his
name appear in the news of the day. There was nothing
sensational about him as he moved along in life, attended his
own business,, and extended a helping hand where needed,
but of such men a real citizenship is made. He served where
called and served well as a business man, a father, a neigh
bor, as a county official, and in other capacities. The Star
extends sympathy to the Union section which has lost one
of its best men. ,
KIRKPATRICK WILL HAVE HARD
TIME FORGETTING.
WfHEN ANY PERSON in the public eye pulls a “boner’’
these days it is termed a “Roy Reigels” because Iasi
year In the Rose Bowl football game the California gridiron
star picked up a fumble and ran the wrong way. Reigels
play came long after 1916 but it was that year when Col. T
Leroy Kirkpatrick, of Charlotte, staged a Reigels which will,
in all likelihood, bob up to pester him 20 years later.
It was in 1916 that President Woodrow Wilson came
to Charlotte to make the Twentieth of May address. Gover
nor Craig was to introduce the President and Col. Kirk
patrick was to introduce Governor Craig. Some 60,000 peo
ple were milling about impatiently as they waited to hear
the man the Democratic South considered one of America’s
immortals. Then for an hour Kirkpatrick spoke in intro
ducing the introducer. At the end of which the Governor
rose to his feet and made the following brief speech: “Ladies
and Gentlemen, Fellow Countrymen, President Wilson.”
In 1936, twenty years after tha? introduction speech
which lasted an hour, Col. Kirkpatrick, according to recent
announcement, will be a candidate for Governor, and during
that campaign, the editorial writers are predicting, he will
spend many hours trying to forget that one hour a score of
years in the past.
KENNEDY HOLDS HIS TRIALS
* v IN THE OPEN.
A POLITICAL STORY appearing in The Star last week
l?ore one item of considerable interest where it was stat
ed that County Judge Horace Kennedy might not, if rumors
are correct, seek office again when his term ends. One of
the reasons assigned or rather, one of the flaws certain por
tions of the public finds in his style, is his method of trying
all cases in the court room and refusing to hear pleas for
sentence changing after court adjourns. Judge Kennedy
when he entered office was one of the youngest jurists in
the Sta£e and it isn’t any secret to say that there were those
who were somewhat dubious of his judicial ability because
of his youth. But if the above report is the only criticism
which can be made of his court procedure, then it is our
opinion that citizens of the county who respect equal justice
and favor law enforcement would be glad to send him back
to the recorder’s bench. And, believe it or not, there are
more of that type than of the other.
Along the streets—and this may be news to Judge
Kennedy—a complaint has been heard that after he leaves
the court room and returns to his office he refuses one and
all pleas from friends of defendants and their lawyers to sit
and listen again as they beseech that so many months be
taken off this sentence or so many dollars off this fine. This
criticism would suggest that t{iere have been times when
sentences have been changed. But Judge Kennedy is right.
Youthful ideals are often shattered when they buck against
realities in life, but if the recorder prefers to return to the
practice of law rather than to win a certain popularity by
giving in to something he does not think exactly right, he
will not lose the respect of a county, which, if he cared to
use that lone criticism for a campaign would likely send
him back to office. Popping a heavy sentence or a stiff fine
on a defendant in the court room for the benefit of court
spectators and the records only to modify the sentence a fter
court is over is, if you think about it seriously, one of the
basic reasons why modern courts in this country dr, >v: no
more respect.
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COLLEGE FOR WORKERS, ONE ALSO
FOR BUMS.
QF LATE YEARS there has been considerable conlio . .
in this country about the future of colleges and the fou!
ish method of sending just every boy and girl after a higher
education. This paper has joined in to express the opinion
that there are many boys and girls now in college who arc
doing very little good but because they are there many de
serving boys and girls who would make use of an education
instead of enjoying a fast social life cannot go. Now there
comes a suggestion that two types of college be established,
fine for the society group to use-as a social gathering place
and the other for the real workers. The Asheville Citizen
notes the trend for a change in colleges as follows:
“Novel predictions as to the future of college education
in American have filled the air during the past few years,
but two pronouncements, made simultaneously within the
past few days by prominent educators, are more novel and
interesting than the usual run of such academic observa
tions.
“Establishment of special colleges for prosperous young
men and wofcien who come to higher institutions of learning
primarily for social activities and opportunities is forecast
by Dr. David Snedden of Columbia university in an inter
view published Sunday. Dr. Snedden, former commissioner
of education for the state of Masscusetts and a fertile pro
ducer 6f sensational opinions, asserts that the same school
cannot serve the best interests of real students and "coon
skin coaters” at one and the same time and predicts that the
present overstandardized college will eventually be differ
entiated‘into two unlike institutional types.
“A somewhat similar suggestion was recently made by
Dr. Max McConn, dean of Lehigh university, who would
establish what he calls a “gentlemen’s college,” a kind of
super-kindergarten for the sons and daughters of leisure ^vho
seek only cultural education, reserving other colleges for
serious-minded students seeking professional or scientific
training. Both McConn and Sneeden agree that the out
standing difficulty with the liberal college in America Today
is its attempt simultaneously to serve God and Mammon,
that is, “to offer composite programs of studies which are
neither quite good fish of professional training nor the fowl
of genuine cultural education.”
“From another quarter, on the same day comes a pre
diction that the days of the small, independent college are
numbered and that the next step in American education will
be the merger of small schools with the larger universities.
Dr. Bernard Bell, warden of St. Stephen’s college, Annandale
on-Hudson, New York, declares that tljp academic isolation
of the small college limits and handicaps the powers of the
teaching staff. Undergraduates in these schools he holds,
are exposed to the influence of men who have almost no re
search opportunities and only occasional contact with th(
leaders and authorities in their various fields.
“American colleges are very evidently approaching a
transition. As to what the change will be, one guess its al
most as good as another, but it would appear that these two
are getting “warm.’ ”
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Nobody’s
Business
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Notice Of Incorporation.
The books of subscription will be
open at the office of the .undersign
ed on November 15, 1929, for the
purpose of subscribing stock to a
company to be known as The Moon.
Inc., said incorporation to be gov
erened by the laws of South Caro
lina, and under the following agree
ments and restrictions, to-wlt.
A. . . . There will be issued 5,
432,789,000 shares of common stock
with no par value and a like num
ber shares of preferred stock, the
par value of which is to be deter
mined later. (These shares will
have equal rights to the man In the
moon.) . , at
C. . . . The purpose of the com
pany will be to manufacture and
sell moonshine (not the distilled
kind, as that would be an Infringe
ment on rights already conceded and
assigned), moon-beams and light
rays. (The present values of this
company are made up'of the moon’s
orbit, both when it Is full, new or
quartered, and its effect on the
tides.)
D. , . . The main offices of The
Moon, Inc., will be on the earth, and
it shall be the purpose of the board
of directors to try to merge this
concern as soon as it gets agoing
with the Sun company and Milky
Way, Inc. This will be done with a
view to stifling competition, as the
companies named are now produc
ing an article similar to that which
shall be put out by the corporation
herein referred to.
E. . . . The foremost thought in
the minds of the incorporators is to
get the stock of The Moons, Inc, list
ed on the New York Stock Exchange
so that it may be distributed
Seller Of Liquor
A Felon, Buyer Is
Accomplice, Ruling
Buyer Of Boom Who Does Not Be*
port It Termed A Felon By
Illinois Judge.
Peoria, HI.—Every person who
buys a drink of liquor and doe3 not
report the fact to the proper au
thorities is, under the Jones law,
a felon. Federal Judge Louis Fita
henry declared from the bench as
he upheld the constitutionality of
the law.
In an opinion on a question raised
in prosecution of Bertley Smith for
the alleged sale of liquor In 1927,
the court said: "Manufacture, sale
and transportation of liquor, hereto
fore a misdemeanor, is now a felony,
by an act passed by congress in 1790
any one Rowing that a felony Is
being committed and does not make
proper report of the matter is a fel
on himself, subject to the same
punishment.
"Any person who buys a think of
liquor from a bootlegger and does
not make a report of the matter to
authorities has committed a felony
and is equally guilty as the person
making the sale. Anyone who knows
that a neighbor, friend or relative
possesses liquor for beverage dim
poses and does not report it to of
ficers of the United States, is a
felon.
i "Whether it is wisdom to make
this change, which makes thou
sands, perhaps millions of persons
felons or whether it is constituoion
al is quite a different thing. The
new law operates entirely outside
and beyond the national prohibi
tion act.”
NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUB
LICATION.
North Carolina, Cleveland county.
In the Superior Court.
William Roland, Plaintiff
vs.
Maude Roland, Defendant.
The defendant above named will
take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced In
the superior court of Cleveland
county. North Carolina, to obtain a
divorce absolute on the grounds of
five years separation.
The defendant will further take
notice that she to required to appear
and answer or demur to the com
plaint now on file in my office in
this action on or before the 23rd day
or December, 1929, or the plaintiff
will apply to the court for the re
lief demanded in said complaint.
This the 23rd day of November,
1339.
A. M. HAMRICK. Clerk
Superior Court
Byron E. Williams. Atty for playHiil
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Something To Worry About.
Every time cotton and wheat have
a bad break, the farm relief ooard
threatens to loan the farmers some
money, and the market Immediately
goes hack up a few points, and
doesn’t decline again for a day oi
two.
Mussolini exercises almost as
much power as the chairman cf a
highway commission. Dresses are
shorter in front and longer iwiind
than they were this time last year.
The tail of a tad-pole does not dis
appear until its hind-legs are as
sured.
It is not true that Tom Helflln and
Oscar DePrlest were seen in the
Union Station at Washington during
the same week. But DePrlest is
helping to make some mighty good
Democrats cut of Smith back-slid
ers in Virginia. Did you ever hear
the one about the old woman and
her fourth husband at Niagara
Falls? No? Neither have I.
i nave notning to say against
chain stores, but were It not for the
old independents, this would be a
miserable world Indeed. Somebody
has to sell groceries on credit so‘s
the majority of the folks will have
some money left to buy gasoline and
oil with. The trade Journals now
say, however, that the public won’t
bust a credit merchant within 30
days of the date he opens up: It
takes about 45 days.
But automobiles have done won
ders for our hospitals and surgeons.
It is estimated that over 30 per cent
of the patients in our “human re
pair shops” today are there because
somebody ran into somebody else,
or a Ford tried to climb a telegraph
pole or jump to safety down a 20
foot embankment; and then—there’s
several thousand who were not
satisfied with 55 miles per hour
while en route to some place where
they could catch up with their sit
ting down.
They tell me freckles are coming
back. That’s going to be a jo*t to
the face-cream manufacturers. And
it wouldn’t surprise me if artificial
moles and warts don’t re-appear be
fore the season is over for spots.
Ear-bobs are already reaching down
so far they are tickling the shoul
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der blades, and what’s more—l t
a woman the other day wearing out
ol those little smelling bags trial
were so popular back yonder whkn
they had corsets to lodge in. And,
believe it or not, garters have r*.
turned in some sections.
It ain’t nice now to call lunch
dinner or dinner supper, and if you
don’t know all about tee-tag off af d
niblicks and 18 holes, it is stnv’v
impossible to borrow any money at
a bank, and if you complain about
paying for 82.20 for a ticket to a
footbal game, you are a cheap
skate, and If your wife can’t win at
bridge, her standing in the churc.i
is practically nil. But I ain’t wor
rying. I still wear long underwear
from October through April.
One Congelation.
A circus man pranced lo a negro
woman’s home and asked her ii she
didn’t have some beys who would
like to distribute some nand bills fer
passes into the show She remarked
that she “suttin’ly did.” She rri 1
she had “foah" sons—and she yell
ed for them to come out of *-e
house and go with the circus mm.
Three of the boys cam* forth but
the fourth delayed making his r,p
pearance. The negress j-elled at lun
with all her zest:
“Rastus, you triflin’ niggah, why
you all doan come on an’ go wid dis
gen'lman.” Rastus continued to ling
er behind. The negress lookrd ac
him with disgust. Then she re
marked to the circus gentleman:
“I swan, Mistuh, dat nigger :% ce
triflin’es’ ro-count nigger X eveh •
seed. He gits moah like his paw
evah day o’ his life. I suttin’ly u
glad I didn’t marry dat man.’’
Sure Cure.
“How provoking that baby should
fall asleep just when we wont to
take his picture. What shall we
do?”
“Put him in the dark room for
a few minutes,” suggested the
father: :“he’ll thiqk it’s bedtime and
there's no danger of his sleeping
then.”
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