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FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1930
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TWINKLES
' The best farm relief sign Ye Twinkler can sec in the
offing is the blackberry crop.
V The poet who wrote that line about. “Men may come and
nut may go” must have had the husbands of the Holly
wood movie stars in mind.
Here's hoping the highway patrolmen change that verse
about the little pig going to market into severe sentences
•bout the road-hog going to slaughter.
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Irvin Cobb said North Carolina needed a press agent,
fcSSthe cannot say that about the Methodist church so long
as#hey have a publicity getter of the Cannon calibre.
The Greensboro News believes the outcome of the sen
atorial race is pure guess, and the Rocky Mount Telegram
thanks Heaven that there is something pure about it.
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Next .week is the big week for several score boys and
gjSS-s who will graduate from the Shelby high school, and
judging by the attractiveness of the commencement program
It is to he a big week for all Shelby.
The Charlotte Observer editorially commends Shelby
Upon leading the State in growth since 1920, being the
“fastest growing town in North Carolina.” Yessir, Colonel,
almost-grown up to the point that wc want to wear
tons similar to those w’orn in Charlotte 10 or 15 years
ago, buttons which proclaimed “Watch Charlotte Grow.”
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WEAR YOUR POPPY
WHEN WE OBSERVE MEMORIAL DAY this year it will
W be nearly a dozen years since the American armies
f&fcght their big battles in France and the lists of the dead
and wounded were crowding the trans-Atlantic cables. We
havjp iml 'opgotten these great victories and the gallant men
wTuTitueiT":o inake them possible. On Memorial Day we will
pay tribute to them. We will hang out our flags, deck their
Sraves with flowers and wear poppies on our coats in their
onor.
But side by side with the men who died marched other
men to whom fate dealt a different form of cruelty. Their
lives were not taken but they were called upon ‘to sacrifice
the things that make life most worthwhile—health and
strength. Instead of the honored sleep of a soldier’s grave,
their lot has been the suffering and mental anguish of years
of sickness and poverty. When we pay our annual tribute to
the memory of the dead let us also remember these living
victims of the war and give them also the honor and the help
which they deserve.
- Honoring the dead and helping the living is happily link
ed in the memorial poppy sale of the American Legion Aux
iliary, to be conducted in Shelby Saturday. By wearing one
of the little red poppies which the Auxiliary women will sell
we can pay an individual honor to the men who gave their
lives for America in the war. Through the purchase of the
flower we contribute to the relief of the disabled veterans
and their familiesv Every penny of the money paid for pop
pies is used by the Legion and Auxiliary in making life
brighter for the men. women and children who are still pay
ing the price of our World War victory in suffering .and
hardship. The bulk of it will be expended by our own Legion
men and Auxiliary women right here in our own city. We
all should wear a poppy Saturday and we should pay for it
with the biggest coin we can afford.
REPUBLICANS IN PRIMARY
DEPORTS CONTINUE TO BOB UP with the information
' that many Cleveland county Republicans plan to, or,
rather, hope to take part in the Democratic primary in June.
The Star would take from no one the American privilege of
voting, but it is not right that Republicans should participate
in Democratic primaries, or that Democrats should partici
pate in Republican primaries and private affairs. Neither
is it commendable for a Democratic candidate to work Re
publicans into the primary to vote for him when he knows
that they are not doing so with the best interests at heart
of the Democratic party. A Democratic candidate who does
so is not a man or woman his party should be proud of.
These reports have it that many Republicans in Cleve
land county plan to let the Republican voters of other coun
ties decide as to the Republican nominee for the U. S. Sen-;
ate. They do not plan to vote in the Republican senatorial
box for that would bar them from voting in any of the Dem
ocratic boxes. Instead, they hope, by not voting for one of
their senatorial candidates, to participate in the Democratic
voting for county, State, and senatorial nominees. Many
Republican voters here, and elsewhere, would rather see
Senator Simmons win the Democratic nomination than Mr.
Bailey. They have a reason for that sentiment. Uninten
tionally or not, let that be as it may, Mr. Simmons aided in
sending North Carolina into the Republican column in 1928.
The Republicans cannot be blamed for desiring to show him
some courtesy in return. But if they should help nominate
him in June, will vhey vote for him in November against a
Republican candidate? No.
in all fairness, ihe reports coming to The Star do not
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indicate that any Democrat is attempting to bring Republi
cans into the Democratic primary. He would be a sorry
Democrat should lie do so. The movement seems to origi
nate among the Republicans themselves; they are fond of
stirring up as much turmoil as they can in the Democratic
party.
Fair-minded Republicans of Cleveland county, we be
lieve, will follow no such procedure. This week the execu
tive committee of the Republican party named that party’s
county nominees to oppose the Democratic nominees in Nov
ember. No Democrats tried to tell the Republicans what
candidates to nominate. The Democrats left that to the Re
publicans as they should have done. It was a Republican
affair—their business. So is the Democratic primary in
June. Has a Republican any more right to go in the Demo
cratic primary and say who the Democrats should nominate
than a Democrat had of going to the Republicans and saying
“you should nominate so-and-so7” Not at all.
Permit the two parties to nominate their own candi
dates. If a member of one party docs not admire the nomi
nee of the other party, lot it be known in November. That is
what the general election is for. This paper thinks very
little of a Democrat who would meddle in Republican affairs,
or a Republican who would meddle in Democratic affairs, and
it thinks even less of a spineless, selfish Democrat who would
urge Republicans to meddle with Democratic affairs, or a
Republican who would invite a Democrat to come in and
make trouble in his party.
BEATING BOOTLEG BY ADVERTISING
I ITS ILL EFFECTS
yllE STAR IS READY AND WILLING to shake with Sen
ator Ilenry Allen, of Kansas, on his excellent theory of
enforcing prohibition in America—perhaps because his
theory is similar to a view expressed some time ago by The
Star.
Speaking to a national gathering of advertising men
Senator Allen declared that he believed real prohibition
would soon prevail if ten percent, of the money now spent in
the attempt to enforce prohibition were spent in advertising
the ill effects of drinking bootleg liquor.
The view' coincides with the statement made recently by
this paper that wide newspaper publicity give “juke paralys-'
is” and the opinion that sugar-head corn liquor brought on
pellagra had done more to curb drinking than the combined
efforts of all the prohibition enforcement officers and ap
propriations. We stick to that statement in elaborating upon
Senator Allen’s views.
‘‘I believe,” tbe Kansas Senator declared, “that ten per
cent of the sums which have been devoted to enforcement
would have virtually ‘cured’ the drinking population by this
time if spent in advertising.”
Allen recalled signing four pledges by the time he was
ten years old, although no alcohol was being sold in his
Kansas neighborhood.
“I had been frightened into t his act. of self-preservation
by the pictures I had been seeing in the textbooks of livers**,
tha^had been affected by alcohol,” he said. “I would like to j
see a liver today that had been operated on by some of this I
modern alcohol.”
The Star does not recall the vast sum of money the:
American government spends each year in attempting to en
force prohibition. It is such a great sum that it staggers
the imagination of the average citizen, yet how much has
this gigantic expenditure wrought in curing America of the
strong drink habit?
If the American government would, as Senator Allen
says, take ten percent, of the annual appropriation for pro
hibition enforcement and use it in display advertising each
week in the newspapers of the country, think how much good
it would do.
Think of the hundreds who are poisoned by. rotten whis
key in America each year? Of the hundreds who are now
suffering with “jake paralysis?" Would it not be easier to
cure the drinker by educating him to the danger of drink
than by attempting to force him to cease drinking?
A cigarette advertising campaign by depicting how
sweets tend to make one fat has scared thousands of Ameri
cans to such an extent that they not only have given up
their sweets but have taken to cigarettes to avoid corpu
lence and that “future shadow.” Would not consistent'mews
paper advertising, showing that many people are poisoned
and many die from drinking bad and synthetic whiskey,
have a tendency to decrease dHnking? Wonld not cartoons
portraying the pitiful condition of “jake paralysis” victims
cause many to quit taking chances?
Would not, as Senator Allen says, a photo of a liver, re
peated and repeated again in the newspapers, showing how
bootleg liquor works upon the liver, bring many people to
the conclusion that they could no longer endanger then
health and their lives?
The mother by force prevents the small tot from run
ning in the path of a speeding automobile. Yet when the
tot grows lip the mother is not always there to protect by
force. What the mother has done is to educate the child to
the danger, and in after years the child remembers the
warning, because to him, or her, has been pictured the
mangled form of some careless child struck by a speeding
automobile. A prohibition officer cannot be at the side of
every person just at the moment that person starts to take
a drink, and, therefore, cannot step up and slap it out of the
drinkers hand with the statement “that stuff may poison
or paralyze you, and it is a violation of the law to drink, any
way.” Why not put the warning, display the crossbones and
skull, before the drinker each day in the newspapers and
magazines he reads?
TELL THEM YOU SAW IT IN THE STAR)
Patterson Brothers
At Patterson, 111
Geo. Patterson Better, Bat llaync
Patterson Still Very III.
Personals.
Patterson Springs, May 22.—We
are very sorry to say that Mr.
Hayne Patterson is seriously ill
again at his home in Patterson
Springs.
Misses Geneva Hendrick and Edith
Allen spent several days with
friends and relatives at Blacksburg
last week.
We are indeed glad to sec Mr.
George Patterson able to be out
again after a serious illness of about
two weeks.
Miss Edith Allen had as her
week-end guests of Misses Ruth and
Gladys Dover of Blacksburg.
The many friends and relatives
of Mrs. M. A. Bowen honored her
with a birthday dinner Sunday. A
large crowd was present and a de
licious dinner was spread.
Messrs. Keneth and Talmadge
Mayhew returned home Sunday
from Chapel Hill where Kenneth
had helped Shelby to win the in
teresting baseball game.
Miss Willie Sue Borders was the
spend the night guest of Miss
Gladys Thrift Monday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Palmer of
Shelby were callers in the village
Sunday afternoon.
The new Biakemore variety of
strawberry is reported by J. F. Wil
liams of Mt. Olive to be more pro
lific and vigorous than the Mission
ary variety.
Caswell county tobacco growers
report a probable reduction of 15
percent in the tobacco acreage this
year due to lack of plants and the
campaign for more food and teed
crops.
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Quality
Service Stores
Specials For May 23rd & 24th
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BEACON LIGHT COFFEE, Per Lb.29c
SUGAR, 18 POUNDS FOR.98c
COLUMBUS PACKING Breakfast Bacon, lb. . 37c
STALEY’S SYRUP, 5-Pound Can.39c
DUKE’S MAYONNAISE, 8-oz. jar........ 23c
PALMOLIVE SOAP, 310c Cakes for ... 25c
KRAUT, LARGE, CAN.. —.,. 14c
BORDEN’S MILK, large can ....10c
BORDEN’S MILK, small can.5c
COMO LILY FLOUR, Plain, 24-lb. bag .... 95c
ISAAC SHELBY FLOUR, 24-lb. bag, S. R. . 95c
EAGLE CORN MEAL, 10-lb. bag.33c
GREAT NORTHERN BEANS, 3 lbs. for.... 25c
BLUE KROSS TOILET TISSUE, 3 10c rolls. 23c
OLD MANSION COFFEE, Per Lb.45c
BOST’S BREAD, 3 Loaves For.25c.
VIRGINIA DARE CAKES, per lb.!.. 24c
SUNSHINE SALTINES, I -lb. Pkg. for.22c
SUPER-SUDS, Per Package.9c
JERSEY CORN FLAKES, 3 10c pkgs. for.. ,72~5c
GREEN BEANS, 3 Pounds for.29c
BANANAS, 3 Pounds for. 25c
2 LARGE HEADS LETTUCE.25c
CELERY, PER BUNCH.. 15c
Q. S. S. Markets Feature Good Meats At Low Prices
All Q. S. S. STORES FEATURE CHERO COLA
List of Merchants of Quality and Service Stores
SHELBY
T. B. Mauney
Baber Grocery Company
- C. H. Reinhardt
Keeter Brother*
R. B. Keeter
R. H. Champion
Moser Bros.
Jacksons Cash Grocery
GROVER
tl; S. Keeter & Company
LAI TIMOR E
Hunt & Hewitt
CLlFFSIDf.
T B. UiHkius
AVONDALE
r. F. Ward
J. D. Wells
MOORESBORO
D. C. Wright
ELLEN BORO
I. I- Culbreth
T. P. Tisdale. Jr.
II. L. Green
FOREST CITY
J. W. Sanders
Jones Grocery Company
W. C. Ellis
Spu>(idle Grocery Cempas
hparks Sc Faroe)!
Green Grocery Company
iRCTBERFOBOTO.V
K. E. Simpson
J. Cal Williams
Williams Brothers
E. Justice Sc Sons
T. L. Johnson
K. W. Sparks Sc Son
RUTH
E. H. Walker