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Falstaff’s View Of New York j One of the most, interesting newspaper columns in America is that which F. P. A. (Franklin Adams) has con ducted for 28 years in the New York World under the title of The Conning Tower. Each year F. P. A. takes the month of July for his vacation. This year Jake Fatstaff, Cleveland newspaperman, substituted for him during the month. At the end of the mouth Falstaffj In his final column, entitled "Pippins and Cheese,” had the following to »ay about the American metropolis: I take my text today from the eighth verse ot the seventh chapter of Ecelesia.-trs, wherein il.c preacher says: Better is the end of a thing than , the beginning thereof; and the pa tient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. By patience, O my helmed, .vou have come through a heat wave and a Ptppins and Cheese wave. Relief from the heat, wave arrived yester day. Relief front the Pippins and Cheese Wave was definitely promis ed for tomorrow. Those who fled the city may now return. From those resorts where iin the words ot (he Immortal Bantf advertisement) the lithe map fit tennis, the languid tea on the ter race. they may return boiuiy, know ing that Adams ts in his tower all's right with The World Thr theatres may open up again Out. of a wounded spirit 1 breathe the assertion that they really need not; have taken the precaution which they deemed-necessary. T usually sit. la an aisle seat, and Iran out- ; ward. 1 always take along a towel to muffle the cracking of the rca nut-sbells, The mere fd'-l that 1 come from Ohio docs not necessar ily prove that I do not know how to behave. However tediously the month passed for you, it was big stuff for me. These are things 1 shall remem ber out of if: Tire discovery that subways don’t bite. Tire spectacle of a storm brewing over lower Manhattan, seen from the window of Ferd Rev her t. tower tn Brooklyn Ferd Reyher’s twenty-elght-ln gredient salad "The qreen Pastures.’' w r.leh mov ed Hampden’s “Cyrano de ’Bergerac" Into second place In my catalog of theatrical thrills. The week-end In Woodstock with Franklin and Be.atrire Booth, and Hanson Booth, and Harvey Emrich. i Near Woodstock there Is a, place where the Titans who (aired the decorations upon the sui t ace of earth, having practiced their trade in all parts of the world, set their seal upon the finished lob by lay ing down a miracle of pure form Tt is as If six obedient beasts from the Apocalypse had knelt dow n wltjh their heads together,' (In Woodstock there are artists who went there in search oi a place where they did not need to be spit conscious. They are surrounded now by persons with whom self-con sciousness is. the prhiclpc.i satisfac tion > The list must continue Bessie Smith singing ulus* in the Apollo Theatre in Harlem The luscious blonde SQubrett-e at the American Burlesque House, The beer and steak m a certain political club downtown The cheese cake at tuchows, which !s a morsel utterly ;.npossible •f Improvement. The spaghetti at The Bit in Greenwich Village. Monet ta’s, / The dally opening of the mail, which is an adventure like the dis covery of a new country or the breaking of a new deck of cards. (The five persons who cent threa tening letters let it go at that- as writers of threatening letters usu ally do. The person who srnt in n cliping of the Chaconne with "Aug. li“ written after, "Yet I am sure that I shall kiss you yet," will have to come to Cleveland to make good. Last year there were at least a dozen letters from Honest Miner: this year only two. Honest Miner writes splendid Rabelaisian letters His strong point is knowing my weak points. He was wrong only once— when he picked me lor an Anglo phile. The persons who always, send j clippings of cute poems to column conductors with the request "Please reprint this In your column and ob- i llge” did not ignore me. Most of : the persons who sent ,n stflrtped j and self-addressed envelope.-, with j their verses got their manuscript-1 back; the rest will go to their graves certain that I stole the stamps. The dog lovers may rest assured that they put me in my place. The per sons who sent in columns with the "Pippins and’ marked out of the masthead may take solace in the fact that many other persons thought of the same tiling. The persons who did not see their poems in print may take such com fort as they can from the fact that 1 had two dozen accepted poems left over when the column closed.) Ori with the list’: Igsistrata - * a a The afternoon on which I neg lected my work to read Tiffany Travers 'Thirteen Men; ' a fine job. The spiritual indigestion I got iroin looking at the sky line from a roOf in Brooklyn Just before I un dertook a day's work. The tonic greetings of Mill Gross, en route to the Sunday nwm. The visits with Rollin Kirby, The poker party at the house, of Henry B. Humphrey, Jr., where Og den Nash composed a iimfrtrk about William Soxkln. The punning orgy which was started by Harvey Emrieh when lie told of the two South Americans in a restaurant, who were having an altercation. The waiter, he said, ask ed them. What, are you Argentine about?” The list will have to ri d short, of its completion. After all. New York ir New York. A month is t month. I. retuim now' 10 two places—to C!r\"IbivI and to Chanticleer farm stead. At Chanticleer, as at. all other farms, the doing;* of cows and pigs and horses is as good gossip as the things which any clique of human beings know and fell about each other In Cleveland, as elsewhere, leg mat tel! rewrite men. "This joker was walking along with another pigeon when a couple of moutiks came up and put a rod on them if you're ever out our way, you! must stop in and see us. ton JAKE PALSTAFP, I This Era One nf Competition < Fxmpt' from The Business Week) The Diamond (Match company furnishes an interesting example of a merger of peculiarly assorted businesses that was grown. not made. Because it had surplus lum ber, the company established 40 lumber yards This put it Into the building supply business' Some of the lumber still left on ITr hands it started to make Into toys and bee hives The latter sell better with other bee supplies, so now the com pany Is- In the apiary business, too seeking to produce an income from ope oi its cleared lumber tiacts, it ptanted prunes thereon, which puts it also info the fruit, business.' Sugar cane waste ran be made into r=>von It contains a higher per centage of cellulose than spruce— 54.R per cent as against 53 percent in spruce Hitherto the woody cane stalks, crushed and (le-sugared, hive been used as fuel. Lately a process for converting them into fine paper has been developed but the market for paper is already sup plied as cheaply. But. toe rayon market is growing apd in real need of raw materials. Here erne would not merely displace some ether well established source. The new process may become an important element in the battle between sugar cane and sugar beets. Anouncement that, Air Ferries, Ltd., of San Francisco carried 11. 378 passengers the first month was hailed by aircraft leaders as evid ence of the popularity of air feryy service, establishment of which is pronounced one of the. most signi ficant recent aeronautical develop ments. Check of 30 days’ operation across San Francisco Bay shows that 35 per cent of passengers had because .habitual patrons, that 71 per cent were bound or business rather than pleasure, that ■ 37 per cent chose the air ferry in prefer ence to other transportation because they were in a hurry, and that 5, 400 persons were carried • who: had — SPECIAL — EXCURSION FARES TO GEORGIA. ALABAMA. LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI FRIDAY, AUGUST 15TH, 1980. ROUND-TRIP FARES FROM: SHELBY, N. C. Atlanta, Ga. _ $6.75 Chattanooga, Tenn. _ $8.75 Birmingham. Ala._$8.75 Mobile, Ala.. $21.75 Biloxi, Miss. __$21.75 Gulfport, Miss._$21.75 New Orleans, La. __ $21.75 Wonderful Opportunity To Visit The Gulf Coast. ASK TICKET AGENTS “TRAVEL BY TRAIN” SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM ~ ".-l ■■ •' i-j-u'........ never been up before. The Simmons company u> making bedsteads of peanut sheds, Zalmite, a hew plastic material made up in to furniture of al sorts Is manufac tured out of phenol, creosote, or even asphalt as its plastic cleintpit; pea nut shells, old burlap, and other waste material as filler. Simmons can make Zalmlte for ‘five cents a pound and expects to cut that. It is strong, durable, resilient, takes a fine color and polish, and is expect ed to become a real competitor of steel and wood for furniture,' The Detroit Edison company ts attempting to do with the electric range what Henry Ford aid with the automobile—take it out of the luxury class and put it within reach of the multitude. Hess than a month ago it placed on the market an elec tric stove priced at $85, about one third what an electric range used to cost. Already the company reports 70,000 unfiled orders, and the price has been reduced to $75. Hitherto, the use of electricity has laggrd be cause of high Initial cost and high cost of operation, and because most electric stoves heat more Wuwly than gas ranges. So Detroit Edison engi neers got busy. They discarded at once the idea that an electric range must resemble a gas range and set out to produce something new, some thing that would be simple to oper ate, quick to cook, handsome in ap pearance, and of such construction that It could be marie at an attrac tive price. The new stove in no wise resembles any other cooking appara tus, but the oven comes vp to 400 degrees ini five minutes and uses much less current than electric stoves of the old type: As was to be expected, range manufacturers look with great, disfavor upon Detroit Edison's manufacturing venture, The Ford ear .Hulking plant in De troit is aparently proving success ful. Ford is reported in negotiation for an 80-acre site in Buffalo where he plans to erect the latest metal reduction plant, in the East. If plans go through, he will buy j inked cars throughout the East, ship them to Buffalo, chiefly bv watei and re duce-them to usable meials in the electric furnaces to Inst a I'd in the new plant. Bank Of Gaffney Will Pay $560,000 Gaffney. S. C.~Depositors of the defunct First National bank of Gaff ney were paid a first dividend of 50 per cent Thursday. C. H. Dixon, the receiver, anounced. The dividend checks will total around $560,000 Depositors of the American State bank received a* first, dividend of 26 percent aggregating aoout $120, 000 on July 1 HJt* Scotch. London—Reverberations of the. slock market collapse have reached the Scotland moors the smallest American representation in years has resulted in many of the moors and forests remaining uniat for the opening of the grouse shooting sea son. I | U. S. Gunner’s Error Fatal to Guardsman Surf man Gleo Faulkingham 1 (above), of the Plum Island Coast I Guard Station, was with Boat- | swain’s Mate'Louis A. Pratt when the latter was killed by machine gun fire from a Coast Guard pa trol boat from Base Y, Gloucester, Mass. The tragedy occurred in Ipswich Bay. The crew of the pa trol boat evidently believed the petroling surfhoat containing Pratt and Faulkingham was a rum runner. '•tesaac.eaal Ntnr*•»; JULY 15 HOTTEST MONTH ON RECORD from July 4 To July 31 Not A Sin gle Bay Passed Without Temperature Of 100 , Washington- July, 1930 passed tn-'i to history with preliminary figures at, the weal her bureau indica ting it was the hottest month ever record ed. While reports from all of the wea ther stations have not been analyzed a compilation of temperatures reg istered at the large stations sbpws it was hotter for a longer time and over a larger area, than in any prev ious period since temperature rec ords were established Prom July 4 to July 30 not. a. sin gle day passed without a tempera - ture of 100 or hotter being officially registered at some place in the country. This was exclusive, wea ther bureau officials said, of such points as Phoenix and Yuma, Ari zona. where 100 is a summer com monplace , The coming of August brought, no sign of relief from the rrop^-devas tating and water supply menacing drought which also has set. a record for duration and extent of territory affected. The July hot- spell was the worst the South ever experienced. Fort, Smith, Ark,, with 17 days of tem peratures of 100 or higher, set the pace for the nation. Shreveport, La, with 12 days of century marks, was second and Little Rock, Ark , and Lincoln, Neb. tied for third with 11 days each, GRANDMOTHER’S BREAD 16-oz. loaf, wrapped .. 7c 21-oz. Pullman loaf 10c (PERSONAL) The money you spend like the money you in vest, should briny? you 4rood returns. Spent in A. & P. stores, your mon ey pays you large divi dends in savings and sat isfaction. Special sales days at A. & P. stores are extra dividend days. IONA BRAND CORN LIBBY’S SAUERKRAUT IONA BRAND PEAS 3 No. 2 cans .. 25c j A. & r. PLAIN OR SELF RISING FLOUR 24-lb. bag 85c 148-lb. bag $1.65 | DEL MONTE or LIBBY’S PEACHES, sliced or halves, Ige can 23c INDIA-CEYLON-JAVA OUR OWN TEA, 1 -2-lb. pkg. ... 25c j LOOSE j MEAL or GRITS, 3 lbs.....10c j POST TOASTIES or KELLOGG’S ! CORN FLAKES, 2 pkgs..;. 15c j ENCORE BRAND Stuffed OLIVES, 4-oz. jar ....... 23c CHEESE, Whole Milk, I lb. ....“.29c SURE DEATH TO FLIES OR MOSQUITOES FLIT or DETHOL, Pint Can .... 59c OTHER A. & P. NEWS ON PAGE THREE THE GREAT I' ATLANTIC * PACIFIC TEA CO. ... . i .. i hi,.. .. Cleveland Keeps Taxpayers “Wise” Boo'll Given Publicity System Of This County By S. C, Paper Gaffney Ledger Star. Shelby, quotes Mr. A. E. Cline, i chairman of the Cleveland commis sioners and county auditor, as say ing: •'There is nothing about the op eration of the county government which the commissioners and other officials care for all citizens and taxpayers to know, and with that in view we are planning on publishing each month every item of expense the county has. Continuing. The Star further quotes Mr. Cline as saying: "We not only have no desire to keep anything secret, hut think It far best for all concerned to know just what is going on." Cleveland, according to The Ledg er’s recollection, is one county where reports on the handling-of public funds have been published with greater regularity and consistency than many others. And there have befin no scandals in connection with the spending of tax money In Cleve land county that The Ledger re calls. Cherokee county taxpayers can well give thought to this important question. It has been many years— something like a dozen—since any department of the county has pub lished an official statement, with the exception of one published a few months ago by Former Treas urer Joe Hall at his own expense. In compliance with a law passed at the last session of the legislature and with a decision of the county commissioners under this law cer tain statements were posted on the bulletin board at the court house in July. How many taxpayers have had the time and opportunity to ex amine and study these reports? How many will ever see them? The legislative delegation is the agency that has the authority to order financial reports published. Cherokee county will nominate the senator and two representatives in the primary August 26. Will the people select men who believe as Mr, Cline of Shelby does? Negro Benefactor Mays Landing, JJ. J.—In his quar ter of a century as owner of a candy store, John Underhill, negro, amassed $100,000 from pennies spent by school schildren for candy. In his will be directed that the money be turned back to the. children in the form of equipment to the high school gymnasium and improve ments to the town park. SPECIAL CHICKEN DINNER EVERY DAY 50c SERVED FROM 11:30 A. M. TO 2 P. M. Operating Under New Management As an introductory offer for you to try good home cooked foods from Shelby’s newest cafe, we are offering this special dinner for 50c, every day in the week. —Open Every Day From 5:30. A. M. TO 1 A. M.— CENTRAL CAFE EVERETTE DELLINGER. Manager West Warren Street — Opposite Hotel Charles SERVICE * COURTESY * CLEANLINESS TRY STAR WANT ADS FOR RESULTS CHEVROLET .ANNOUNCES DE LUXE WIRE WHEELS at no extra cost Chevrolet again adds extra value to the Chev rolet Six! Those who prefer may now hare any passenger model equipped with beautiful de luxe wire wheels—or no additional cost! Designed especially for Chevrolet, these wheels incorporate many Important features that have won favor on cars much higher in price. The ornamental hub caps are unusually large, and are finished in sparkling chromium plate. The bolts that hold the wheel in place are located inside the hub—thus assuring a smarter; more clean-cut appearance. The spokes are short and sturdy—the wheel con struction is extremely rugged. Moreover; there Is an unusually large number of spokes —for extra strength and durability! ' A variety of attractive new colors In addition to this de luxe wire wheel equip* ment, Chevrolet now makes available a wide choice of new color combinations on all models —colors that are rich and distinctive. You are invited to come in—NOW—and attend the first showing of six-cylinder Chevrolet models with these striking new colors and wire wheels. Sport KouUtcr... .$M5 Cooch Cioopo-Z-$9*5 Sport Coop*-- H55 Oak W «4»n _ -HAS -*675 -*725 U wirt whmlt ttmxuiard •a Xptdmi Mm ) •OADSTER or PHAETON *495 SaduLXfetfrar.*5<M UghtAeBwry , a—*.*3M RaMbterlMtTaT. ^ CWct-up bom aarm', rViToo Cluuafe-*52# Witt, Cab......1625 Prltxi f. «. fc. FJhn. Mich. Sr»cM •qvipment mctra CRAWFORD CHEVROLET CO. Shelby, N. C. Phone 265 SIX-CYUNDEB SMOOTHNESS AT LOW COST
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