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WEDNESD’Y, FEB. 26, 1930.
TWINKLES
Did you ever notice that these girls who cover their
legs with big insurance policies seldom have them covered
with anything else ?
Cleveland farmers catching up with their work during
the typical Spring weather of the latter part of last week
and early this week are not over exuberant, because they re
call years gone by when the groundhog had the last laugh.
This is the week of the annual Hoey oratorical contest
while next week the Webb recitation and essay contests will
be staged, and it is at this season of the year that the school
boys and girls who excel in something other than athletics
get momentary attention, if no more.
Sheriff Allen tells a story indicating that times are so
hard that old-time blockaders and moonshiners are going
out of business. Perhaps, sheriff, it isn’t because the de
mand for intoxicants is falling off; it may be, you know, that
purchasers are finding it cheaper to get their kick out of
rubbing alcohol, canned heat, and other alleged beverages or
medicines which may be purchased legally at public business
houses?
AGENT SHOFFNER feels that. Cleveland farmers
in their desire to economize this year will cut down on
their fertilizer without cutting their cotton acreage, «nd
fearing such he is urging that the acreage be cut in propor
tion with the decrease in use of fertilizer. It is a sound
argument, leading farmers will agree, and instead of work
ing so many acres with little fertilizer and a low yield 4,t
should pay better to cut the cotton acreage, use the custo
mary amount of fertilizer, and devote the remaining acres
to food and feed crops.
SHOFFNER’S ARGUMENT
CHARLOTTE-SHELBY RIVALRY
IN YEARS GONE BY Charlotte, the Queen City, ami Shel
by, the "junior capital/' have often been friendly rivals in
athletics and politics, and both, it might be said for the
comfort of everyone, have good records on both scores. Re
cently, however, there has been a contest between Shelby
and Charlotte which, to our Way of thinking, has proven and
will prove more beneficial to both cities than any of the ath
letics or political contests of the past. An attendanoe con
test between the Ivey Bible class of the First Methodist
church of Charlotte and the Hoey class of the Central Meth
odist here has just closed. During the contest, which lasted
over a period of weeks, approximately 600 men and young
men attended the two Bible classes, and if that number of
men, equally divided, can be kept in Sunday school the con
test has certainly been worthwhile. The Shelby class won,
perhaps because Clyde. Hoey’s able teaching has been build
ing up the class here for many years. At the outset there
were no prizes offered, the main idea being to get more men
to attend Sunday school without offering them prizes to at
tend, but now that the contest is over Mr. Ivey, head of the
Charlotte class, has invited the Hoey class down to eat with
him. And he sends word that he doesn’t want juBt a few—
he wants all the members who attended the Hoey class all
through the contest and enabled that class to win.
THE REPUBLICANS OF TARHEELIA
ARE LOOKING AHEAD
QONSIDERING ECONOMICAL conditions and the fact that
the political party in power usually gets blamed for ex
isting poverty or praised for prosperity it does not appear to
be an opportune moment for the Republicans of North Caro,
lina to be planning big things in the immediate future. Yet,
after listening in on sub rosa rumblings, it seems as if
shrewd Tar Heel Republicans have high hopes of holding
their own, even if they do not better themselves, in the 1930
election.
These rumblings have it that the North Carolina G. 0.
P. hardly believes that both the ninth and tenth congress
ional districts, taken from the Democrats in 1928, can be
held this year. This rumor is supported to a certain extent
hy the announcement from Congressman George Pritchard,
of Asheville, saying that he will not be a candidate for re
election, although he may seek to be the Republican candi
date for the senate against Mr. Simmons or Mr. Bailey.
Having some doubt as to their ability to hold the tenthdis
trict in their column the Republicans will likely—and are so
planning, according to rumors—to concentrate on the ninth
district and the returning of (’has. A. Jonas to congress.
That, seemingly, is good strategy on the part of the G. O. P
leaders, as they argue, presumably, that it will be better to
concentrate on the ninth district and win than it would be to
divide their ammunition over the ninth and tenth and take
a chance of losing both districts.
But that is not the lone hope of Republican leaders. They
are even more ambitious. As The Star hears it the Republi
cans are making their plans to give up one congressional
district, hold another—the ninth—and win a senate seat,
the one now held by Mr. Simmons, to replace the congress
ional berth they may lose in the tenth. The latter hope of
getting a United States senator instead of a congressman
depends, of course, upon the manners and fellowship shown
by the Democrats of the State in their primary setto in
June. But despite the concentration of their forces on the
ninth district Republicans leaders are none too confident of
sending Mr. Jonas back, or it is, at least, so indicated.
A bad break, for them, in the failure of the Hoover ad
ministration to abolish poverty, seems to be the thing that
is undermining their confidence. Mr. Jonas has been active
since taking office and he has been wise enough to see that
every bit of his activity received favorable publicity. But
it is not his personal activity that worries the Republican
campaigners; it is the background of the Jonas victory over
Bui winkle which comes back as a ghost out of the past to
torment and trouble them. When district Republican lead
ers gathered at Cleveland Springs here to nominate Jonas
they argued that this, the ninth, is an industrial district and,
therefore, should be represented in congress by a man who
is a member of and stands in with the administration. Our
textile industry, they argued, must be given an equal break
with the industry in other sections and such cannot be done,
it was contended, with a Democratic congressman making the
tight tor the center of the industry in the South. And it
was upon that plea that Jonas made his fight against BuL
winkle. “Send a Republican to congress from this district
and watch our textile industry flourish—We’ll have to have
a Republican there to protect the interests of our indus
try," was the appeal made to voters of the district, many of
whom own stock or have other interests in the textile in
dustry. It was a good appeal; it left the impression that
with a Republican representing the district in Washington, a
representative chummy enough to breakfast and talk with
the president, the mills of this section would flourish, orders
would be too numerous to fill, and the section, essentially
one of industry, would flourish. And so Mr. Jonas was elec
ted. Perhaps the plea that he would not only get our indus
try on its feet but would, furthermore, have it galloping
prosperously about, may have had something to do with the
Bulwinkle defeat, and it may not have. But it was upon that
plea that the Republicans fought for Mr. Jonas. And now
;he textile industry is far from prosperous. It’s going'to be
a hard thing, mind you, for the Republicans to explain. Of
course, The Star readily admits that Mr. Jonas has not per
sonally closed any mill doors in bankruptcy, nor has he caus
ed a falling off in orders, curtailments, and lowered ^ages.
But in campaigning his argument was that industry of the
section would benefit with Republican representation for the
district in Washington. If he is not to be held responsible
for the textile slump, then he should not have argued to the
textile interests of the district that he could bring prosper
ity to the textile industry. In other words, the voters of the
district may want to know why business is' on the toboggan
when it should have been rushing according to the argu
ments of the Republican party in campaigning the district
in 1928. As we say, it may be rather embarrassing to ex_
plain.
It is for that reason and others that The Star takes some
stock in the report that the Republicans of Piedmont and
Western Carolina will make no big fight to hold the tenth
district, but, instead, will rally their strength about Con
gressman Jonas and the hope of returning him.
Nobody’s
Business
GEE McGEE—•
Census Figgers.
Speaking of the 3 babies that
were accidently born in Hollywood
last year, and the importation of
9,666 pet monkeys, and the 55,55:,
poodles that were shipped In Iron
other sections of the country, we
are ready to say that the talkie
and single and laughtle industry
looks very promising, but all or
this proves that Hollywood is not
raising her own actors and actress
es.
Farm Lemon-Aid.
1 was very much surprised to fin*',
an old fanner In town last week
who had really and truly believed
that government farm relief was
actually going to relieve the farm
er. He said that he might be by
himself in holding on to this hope,
but he saw no reason in the world
why fertilizer should not be 10 to
15 cents a ton lower this year in
sympathy with cotton, and turnip
greens ought to fetch 11 cents a
gallon in April instead of 13 cents
today. Hope—that eternal ‘‘thing’
that makes us continue po desire to
live.
About Water Expected.
Congress has decided to use the
Muscle Shoals dam for a fish pond
Some nice little fishes will possi
bly be ordered from Norway and It
wont be long now before American
grown sardines will be on the mar
ket. The upper end of the lake will
be rented out to picnicking parties
for swimming holes ansoforth. The
power house will be turned into a
tape factory which will make noth
ing but red tape—the kind used by
the government so extensively. Aft
er all—the 10-mlllion-dollar in
vestment looks like it is going to
pan out some fish at least.
Speed, The Undertaker^ Friend.
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IT* OWH
V. H. CLINE, DeaLr
SHELBY. N. C.
It looks like it is gett.'.ig justabon
as dangerous to ride in an alrpla"’
as it is to live in Chicago. I’ve got
my doubts about so much spee j
helping this old country of ours
anyway. It doesn’t matter mucn
whether a letter gets to me in two
days or four days, especially if It’s
a bill. If a person wants to go to
New York on Friday, he needn’t
wait till Friday in order that ne
might use a flying machine. Ho
could start on Thursday, and xyould
possibly reach thpre in time to do
anything that ought to be done
Saturday. This rush and hustle and
oustie hasn't done anything but
kill a good many of us. end run lot*
of us crazy, and bust the rest of the
population. I’m in favor of taking
my time myself—unless somethin or
nuther gets after me—like a dog or
a snake.
mike Clark's broad cast,
hello, everybody, this Is station
r. f. d. located on top of my bam
by reason of the federal radio com
mission and 1 am running on a
wave length of 275 square inches
1 have been asked by the short
dress faddist (Including mostly
men) of the flat rock, s. c., com
munity to give my views ansoforte
on same to the radio world.
at the beginning of the scram
ble for short dresses, i was some
what agin them onner count of how
some of my family looked in same,
but i soon forgot them and looked
elsewhere for pleasure and a muse
ment. i am hartly in favor of
dresses being at least as short as
they now seem, and it anny change
la made, they should be about l
Inches shorter onner count of san
tatlon ansoforth.
the doctors and sine lists all say
that ultre violet rays Is helpful to
the skin, and therefore the legs an
soforth that short dresses exposes
to both the sun and the people at
large means bigger and better legs
for the upbuilding of the human
race which is badly needed as our
flsical boddles can’t stand up'under
the load of eating sa'ad dressings
and setting up so late at night
without ass sistance from some
source pervlded by nature.
and furthermore, the less cloth
in dresses the less monney must bn
spent for same. No man or set of
men could a ford to buy clothes
now at the pre vailing price of siik
In the skirts dragged the ground
as they did befoar the world war
which brought about a great
manny changes for the better, such
as bobbed hair and paint and pow
ders, all of which was used only by
the doubtful class prior to same.'
short dresses has furnished more
real pleasure to the laboring man
than has anny other kind of a
musement heretofore brought
about, he la so blzzy at work trying
to make enuff monney to run a
family and a ford on that he does
not have a chance to go to no legs
shows ansoforth, so when he wants
to enjoy hlsself, all In the world he
has to do Is to put on his specks
and walk out on the street comer
and stand there till Ills eyes com
mences to burn and then he can gs
on home and go to bed
so kind radio friends If you Use
my pro grammy, plese rite or foam
this station and i will tell you at
this same time next sadday nigh?
what 1 think of you and others who
might do the same, until further
notis, 1 am signing off.
yores trulle,
mike Clark, rfd.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS IN
NO. ELEVEN TOWNSHIP.
Notice Is hereby given that It Is a viola
tion of the law for land owners to collect
surface water by terraces and ditches
and discharge the same into nubile hgh
waye maintained either by the count- >r
the state. Those parties who are now sc
conveying their water into the highways
are notified to change same at once si i>s
to comply with the law; as It Is the
duty of the road officials to see that the
law la enforced.
A. M. PRUETT. Chairman.
JOHN S. HUNT. Secretary.
Board of Road Commissioners No 11
Township. Feb 38-Mar 13-1#
"Shall I Insure?"
That.'
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The quest
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"How mud
Insurant
do y o v
need?” Tin
answer is:
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vide money to replace fully you
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Not forgetting that since 1918 re
placement costa have Increase <
101%.
Be sure you have enough. Let
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Insurance Of All
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