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The Cleveland Star MONDAY SHELBY, N. C. - WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By M*U, per year.—. By Carrier, per year.-.— *250 *3.00 THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. T.inr b. WEATHERS_.—.President and Editor 8. ERNEST HOEY ._......_Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM.News Edltm A. D. JAMES...Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the postoffice 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 cur custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect cards of thanks and obituary, notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adherred to. MONDAY, JAN. 13, 1930. TWINKLES Life has its peculiar twists. Some folks who live high ire really deep in debt. Another oddity of modern life is that the judge charges the jury, but the defendant always pays the bill. Another grand jury has asked the Cleveland county commissioners “Have you the time of day, atop the court house ?” In the old days the male patrons of a barbershop enter tained themselves by looking at the pictures in the Police Gazette; nowadays, however, they see about the same thing In life by looking at the lady in the chair in front of them. P. S. It might have been a good pun if sprung before this long dress fad came along. I “More Poverty Here Than “fever,” informs a Star head line referring to Shelby conditions, and visitors say that th Section appears to be one of the most prosperous in tY State. Then another headline informs that “N. C. Sper Over 59 Million Dollars For New Autos In 1929." The read dr may, or may not, make any connection he or she pleases. I A magazine article reproduced in The Star last week (discusses at some length “What Our Descendants Will Look Like." If auto mishaps continue to increase, they’ll more than likely resemble something the car ran over, or, else, something found amid the wreckage. Which is merely our Sdea of how all the space devoted to the above topic could have been saved. AL SMITH STILL INTERESTED IN HIS COUNTRY AL SMITH defeated for president and likely out of politi. ^ iorever is still interested in good government, perhaps because most of his life has been passed in public office. Anyway, it is one more thing to Yorker in that he is not sulking tempts to aid where he may. be said in favor of the New over his defeat and still at f Those who were opposed to Smith in the last election for one reason or another will, and would then, generally ad mit that few men living today are better acquainted or more familiar with the operation of a governmental machine than Smith. Therefore, very few men know better where the weak spots are. Speaking over the radio recently Smith passed out several suggestions which might well be follow ed by the average citizen everywhere. . Many leaders argue that the foremost duty of all citi zens is to vote. Smith, in his talk, agrees with that view, but adds that the average citizen’s interest in governmental affairs should not end when he casts his ballot. Talking along this angle he says: “Apathy, lack of interest in public affairs, is the one thing that can give opportunity to the demagogue or the dic tator. # “Become acquainted with your representative and cor respond with him; then vote. “The young man who citicizes the way his city or state is run and who never takes the trouble to register has no standing in my eyes as a responsible citizen." Think it over and you must agree that the former New York governor is right; constructive suggestions are far more beneficial than destructive criticism. Any real man In Shelby who sees that the water spigot by the side of his neighbor’s house has been left open will immediately notify the neighbor so as to enable him to halt the waste. Any real farmer who sees that his neighbor’s horses are out in the eom will immediately notify that neighbor instead of going into his own home, taking a seat and saying to himself that “John is a fool for not knowing his horses are loose." Why not apply that principle which w’orks so well in private life to public life? If a city water spigot is left open or some thing else about city affairs is going wrong, why not let the proper authorities know about it? When such is the case you are not only benefitting your neighbor, but saving your own money for you are a partner in your city government, your state government and your national government. If there’s something wrong, do your best to help remedy it be fore you go out on the street and berate officials who cannot hear you. A good illustration of our view took place in Shelby re cently. There has been much talk of littered streets in the city. A lot of talk about the condition has been carried on Where officials could not hear it. But the other day a Shel hy lady wrote a communication to The Star about it. She Was not overly critical about it ; she said she believed things could be remedied if both the officials and citizens would do a little better job of it—in other words cooperate. City of ficials took note of the communication, assured their best efforts and asked the cooperation of all citizens. Out bet is that Shelby will be cleaner and the litter on the streets will not be so noticeable hereafter. That’s the way to accom nlish things. OLD TIME PRE ACHER COMES IN FOR DESERVED PRAISE QF RECENT MONTHS throughout the country there has been a tendency to compare, or contrast, the real achieve ments of the old time preacher with that of what most con gregations seek nowadays—a “live wire and a “good mixer.” North Carolina to a certain extent took up the discussion nfter one of the speakers at the recent State Baptist con vention in Shelby declared that the modern congregation is eliminating the real preacher by setting up a style-plate of a “live wire” to which prospective ministers must mold themselves. In connection with that trend the N. C. Christian Advo cate, Methodist periodical, notes that Prof. William Lyon Phelps, of Yale, thinks “that the iron blooded prophets of old were superior t othe present mush-mouther peddlers of of soft words who keep busy patting folks on the back.” Then Pro. Phelps is quoted as follows: “I wonder what Jonathan Edwards, Cotton Mather, Cromwell, John Milton, and other hearts of oak, would have thought of the back-patting gospel? These men were free from the taint of self-pity. They did not have to jack them selves up with signs on the wall imploring them to work or commanding them to smile, nor did they bellow their cour age in the bathroom. They rather said: ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner.’ I believe that an acute consciousness of sin is more needed now than an enormous accession of conceit. The old theologians, with all their dogmatism, got down to the bedrock of human nature; they believed in the reality of sin, and they did their utmost to convict their audiences; some hearers walked out of church realizing their short comings and determined by the grace of God that something must be done to improve the situation.” Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— THE RELIEF AGENT. A professional rat and mice ex terminator called to see me today and outlined his modus opperandi. He had testimonials and letters of lecommendatlon from the western end of Alabama plumb on up to within 35 miles of Richmond, Va. Evidently he was an avowed enemy of vermin. In fact, he said so. Well, as my firm was Jnterestlnng inrlddtng Its premises of rats and ilce, we took a rat and mouse cen -.is. We found that we had In stock .345, grown rats, counting a pair s only 475, and 77,777 mice, count ing half grown mice only once and each wall squeak as a nest full. The exterminator took out a long lead pencil and figured that each rat and each mouse destroyed 3 cents worth of merchandise every day. or $587,999.35 per year, which Is slight ly more business than we do in a year, so that would make the rats and mice our biggest customer. The rat fighter's terms seemed reasonable they being as follows: fer and In consideration of the sum of 55 dollars and 75 cents (in ad vance), he would give me a nice printed receipt and come back to our town next February at 4 o'clock and put a dab of his exterminator in every nook and every comer of each of our 3 warehouses, and would also go to the back end of each building and make a mouse like a cat so's the rats and mice would run up to the other end and eat the poison. In case the varmlts did not eat his medicine he agreed to come and catch them of his own free will and accord, and fill a hyperdermlc with his poison fluid and squirt a good large dose of same betwixt the heart and liver of every one of tl.em that happened to be making our ! Home their home at that particular time. He had killed 564,788 rats In Brunswick and twice as many, plus 45 In Charlotte. They were piled so high (the dead rats were) In one town, a steam shovel had to be Im ported from Japan to get them out of the way. He was a Baptist by profession, a Methodist by belief, an ex-drug clerk by strategy, and a rat-kUlcr by practice. He played a fiddle some, had done a little bit of tignt rope walking, liked onions and shrimp, chewed tobacco, smoked cigarettes, talked thru his nose and spat thru his mouth. He had never worked on a farm, but understood what the farmers should do to over come their worries and troubles. He was a Hoover Democrat but believ ed Wall street was busted. But I didn’t give him any con tract. I told him that I had a joj sin In the rat-slaughtering business and I felt that it was my duty to let him kill our rats, that is—if we decided it was morally right to kill them. I further explained that wc had 2 cats that stayed on my desk and in my chair all day long and loafed around up town all night and mebbe we were well eno igli protected from utter ruin by reason of these encumbrances. He looked at me like I was a fool and I rec1 procated. and then he left. MY FIRST TARTY. I was *17 rears old before I ever went to any kind of party, but when I got home one night from pulling fodder, Bailie Green's brother Bill met me down at the barn and told me that him and Sallte was going to have a candy breaking the fol lowing Saturday night and they wanted me to be there. There I was, Just a-fixing to -■ounce into society, and nobody will ever know how happy I felt. I al ways liked Sallie but had never been bold enough to tell her so, tho I squera her hand a little bit one time when her and I were toting a bucket of water from the spring to the school house, but I don't think she understood what I was driving at. I didn’t have any store-bought suit to wear, but I knew none of the other fellers had any either, so I took the broom and brushed off my old jean coat and britches and washed the gravy spots off of my knit shirt which had a pretty little red string laced up and down from the throat nearly to the waist. I think I was the only boy in tnat community that had a knit shirt. It cost me 23 cents, cash money down I almost fainted when I realized that everybody had to take a pound of candy to that party. I saw no chance to get any candy for the oc casion, but just while I was so per turbed, an old rooster walked around the corner of the cow-stall and be fore he knew what kind of hawk it was that ketched him, I had him under my arm and was on my way to the country store, only 4 miles from home. I swapped that roo&icj' for 3 pounds of stick candy. I ate ever half of it before I got back home. I was ail excited when Saturday night came. I great my hair res’ nood with some lard and shined nr old brogana with skimmlngs fro1' dish water and to make the tola* think I had on underclothes, I got an old white cloth and tied it around my waist Just above inv britches and it fool them all right My socks were not mates and I haJ a dickens of a time not letting an* - body see both of my legs at the same glance. I proved to be the nicest partner any girl had there. I would catr my end of the candy close-like so she would break over two-thirds e: the stick and they all liked tl a* Then I'd help her eat her part. C and took it home with me and l hid mine down in my shirt «boec re nursed a little piece of candy off an on for two weeks.) After the cand\ breaking, we played “Go out an-3 in the windows" and “Stealing Par-’, ners" and "Thimble" and a great many other funny games. The spell of Joy finally endc.1 along about 9 o'clock and we al went home, very, very happy. 1 squezz Sallle's hand a teeny-wecnj bit just as X left her standing or the back steps and she smiled, an^ before I knew It—my blood pressure jumped up to 343 In the sh.tde Those were good times. I smoked s little newspaper cigarette of rabbil tobacco on my way to the trunkli bed and I aged several years that night. I had suddenly become 0 man and then wanted to take u(. chewing tobacco, but didn’t do so as I could npt get gny to chaw. A 1 etter Of Wi The Gov. Is Very Proud Charlotte Observer. The father of O. Max Gardner, governor of the state, was a fire ype of that class now become al most extinct, known as "the country doctor.” The Wake County Medical association held a meeting in Ral eigh, Thursday, and invited the gov ernor to make a talk. This gave Governor Gardner opportunity to say a word in praise of the country doctor and to bring out the point that the father whose name he revers was of that class. When Gardner’s candidacy for governor was first projected he received nany letters from the people of his home county. These he preserved in a scrap book and brought out one tn particular for use before the Wake doctors. It was the letter which he prises beyond valuation. It was from an illiterate friend of his father and ran to this effect: "I am hole soled and body for Maxle because his fa was a doctor and had been to al most every home in the county to live medicine and comfort to the sick for he went when called day or night to help the sick. He never turned down the rich or poro, wh.tc or black.” Gardner submitted this simple dpistle to the doctors and "the brightest tribute and a monument more enduring than marble or brass to the memory of my beloved fa ther." With that, Gardner stood uncov ered in the presence of the country doctor, holding him up "that you may see and feel again the *nflu ence of his unselfish life and ic dedicate yourselves to tha high Ideals that actuated him In his humble and utterly unselfish allev iation of human suffering.” The governor further reminded that in every crisis of the state the doctor and the nurse have risen to great heights. "In 1918, vhen so many of our doctors were in Prance, an epidemic of influenza, like a destructive tornado, hit the state. Thousands were smitten on beds of sickness and death stalked in the streets and countryside of North | Carolina. The state has never wit nessed a finer exhibition of supreme human service than that displayed by the physicians of North Carolina in this critical period.’* Thirty head of registered Jersey heifers were recent’ purchased by 28 farmers of Pers j county. MEN’S SUITS Dry Cleaned ■'nd Pressed “One Day Service” THE WHITEWAY “Quality” CLEANERS — DYERS 105 — PHONES — 106 I I IT'S HARD TO | || BaMEVE . We know of a florist, in. a srby tom that surely , keeps p with hfs ilog'n: “S~y it with 1 were” for every time he s;mis >ut Ilia monthly strtem-nts he ‘ends with each one a bunch of forget-me-nots.”____ We w'sh It were possible to end a bunch of for^et-m'-mts 1th this mes aTe: SINCLAIR GAS and OP A* INE OIL d:fy even the most crlt'cal tests. , |) Their p i'y and quality is su erlative. Let us suggest that ou try these products as a _ ana of proving the validity ot / claims. I Clcve!:n3 Ci! C Mooresboro News Of Current Weak Miss Violet Patrick And Mr. F. S. Fails Married In Shelby Fri day. Personals. (Special to The Star.) Mooresboro, Jan. 13.—Mrs. W W. Greene, Misses Frances McCardwcli and Iris Rollins and Mr. Pete Green were Charlotte visitors wst week. Mr. Webb Ellis of Greenville, S. C., who has been ill with influenza at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. B. P. Greene, is much improv ed. Miss Nola Patrick who is team ing at Alexander spent the week end at home. Misses Iris Rollins, Frances Mc Cardwell and Hazel Deaver spent the week-end with their parents. One hundred and twenty new books were added to the high school library last week. Mrs. R. W. McBrayer who s in the Rutherford hospital suffering from a fractured hip is reported to be resting comfortably. Funeral services held here Friday for Mr. Beulah G. Scoggins of Char lotte, were conducted by Rev. I. D. Harrlll. Quite a number of Char lotte people attended as well as a large crowd from nearby towns. Mr. Scoggins was a native cf Mocresboro. Miss Violet Patrick and Mr. F S. Falls were quietly married at l:;e home of Dr. Zeno Wall of Sheloy, on Friday. January 10 at 3 o’cl /ck. Immediately after the ceremony they left for a short trip in W ist ern North Carolina. Mrs. Falls is the niece of Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Jol ley and is well known as a gradual* cf the Shelby hospital training school. Mr. Falls Is a young business man of Lawndale and Shelby. Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Jolley enter tained at dinner on Saturday even ing in honor of her niece Mrs. V»ss Falls. A delicious four course jin ner was served. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Vates McBrayer and Mr. and Mrs. Jolley. Rev. Oscar Bolch of the Beilins Springs Junior college delivered an excellent sermon in the Bapnst church at 11 o’clock Sunday morn ing. Walter Cales of Birmingham, Eng., hungry for two days, "broke in to a church and ate the sacramen tal bread and drank the wine. He then surrendered and was sent to Jail. London Physicians Are Testing Diets London.—Important discoveries concerning the gastric functions of the body are hoped for as the result of tests being made at Charing Cross hospital on six medical students ".'ho have volunteered to take sptcUl diet. They are submitting themselves to various tests to show the effect of different types of food on the un man system. After a complete fast of 24 horns they eat a carefuWy prepared meal and each take a different kind of food. Meals have been chosen widen contain known quantities of albumt n and carbohydrates. The scientific Investigators are observing how the digestive system reacts to various meals. Eggs from the staple diet for some and others are given fo'd which consists principally of oatmeal either in the form of porridge or gruel After a meal a thorough examin ation is made and the. results re corded. There is a possibility that these tests will help medical mer. when treating serious illness brought about by the weakness of tne stomach. Gentlemen! Don’t Let The Price Fool You Like the famed gentleman from Missouri, our suits are here to show you. And if you’re the type of man who likes to see what he is getting, come in and finger our suits yourself. Gentlemen don’t let the price fool you the value’s there. Men’s Suits IN BROWN, GREY AND FANCY PATTERNS. SOME WITH TWO PANTS $12.95 to $19.95 NEW BROADCLOTH PRINTS FOR SPRING \(n a C^rgeout * Qf Colorful Pattern*. Give ’em the Once Over. 25c YARD 25c YARD Don’t forget our sale of BLANKETS and OVER ^OATS at Give-Away Prices. DRUID SHEETING 38 INCHES WIDE, YARD.. 10c A. V. Wray & 6 Sons — YOUR LEADING HOME MERCHANT —
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