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The Cleveland Star MONDAY SHELBY, N. C. — WEDNESDAY FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LEE B WEATHERS —... - President and Editor a ERNES'I HOEY.-..- Secretory and Foreman RENN DRUM .——.. News Editor L. E DA1L_-__-.-.— Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1. 1903 at the postottico at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3. 1070. We wish to call j’our attention to the fact that It Is and has been cur custom to charge five cents per line lor resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, alter one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7. 19:il TWINKLES SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year ...-—...s“ M f By Carrier, per year —.1—...—*... $:i0U 1 A bracing nows item in Star ads : The capital,.surplus and profits of two Shelby banks total well over a million dollars. Speaking of business conditions, did you notice that item In the “Ten Years Ago” column of Monday's Star in which a county merchant offered to trade a bushel of ( n for a dozen eggs? ^MORBID CURIOSITY MANY PEOPLE, some of them with the best of intentions, criticise newspapers for publishing crime news. It is an odd. and from our standpoint an unreasonable, view. The other day Otto Wood, North Carolina’s colorful criminal, died in Salisbury with his boots on. Before the body was sent to West Virginia more than 35,000 peoplei visited the Undertaking parlor to view the body. Would not that public exhibition, a ghoulish glorification, of a crimi nal’s body do more to instill criminal tendencies in the youths among the 35,000 than the news stories telling of his death? But overlooking that angle, what would the 35,000 and many others have said had no news of Otto's death appeared in the papers ? Two sidelights of the end of the State’s best known criminal, one glorified to a certain extent in the Billy the Kid manner, are deserving of commendation. One was the floral wreath sent by an anonymous mother to Otto’s mother,! and the other the contributions of Salisbury citizens to send the body back to Mrs. Wood so that she might bury the man who was once a child at her knees for whom, as is true with all mothers, she had high hopes. To her he was still her son, and there is no gap a mother’s love will not bridge. HE KNEW HIS OWN MINT) THE PLACE OF Marshal Joseph Jacques Joffre in the his tory of France and the world has not been definitely es tablished by the historians. Yet to the majority of his fel low countrymen Fere (Papa) Jofl’re will always be remem bered as the savior of France. Ho followed his own counsel, awaited what he thought to be the proper moment, then staged the l>attle of his life—the battle of the Marne where the German drive for Paris was halted. Thus he became the hero of the Marne, but hail he lost he would have been the goat of the world’s bloodiest conflict. Closer and closer the German army crept to Paris. Steadily Joffre dropped back, prepared, and bided his time. In Paris there were many officials who thought he was postponing the clash too long. Already the German guns could be heard by the townspeople. Why did Pere Joffre hesitate? Would he not strike hack until the Germans swarmed into Paris? Persuasion would not alter the policy-of the veteran general. “When I am ready, l will go into bat tle,” he said. After that delay had he lost, Paris would have been lost, and along with Paris the Joffre reputation. Finally he struck. The Battle of the Marne is now history. The Germans were driven back. Papa Joffre became the idol of the day. the hero of Marne, the savior of France. Later, of course, he was given the higher title of marshal and removed from active command in the field, but his valiant yet losing battle against death last week again brought him to the attention of his countrymen and the world at large. Another of the great leaders of the world’s bitterest conflict has joined his comrades. THE WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION ACT THE STAR FAILS, and fails utterly, to get the attitude ot Senator Peyton MeSwnin regarding North Carolina’s Workmen's Compensation Act. Speaking recently at Kuth erfordton he denounced and criticised this new legislation. There he was quoted as saying that no one favored it. that was news to us as it was to The Greensboro News. Admittedly, every man has the right to his opinion. W e grant Senator McSwain that privilege, but when he enters the senate hall at Raleigh this week does he go there to carry out his opinions and wishes, or those of the thousands of people in this senatorial district who elected him to office-.’ How many men. other than lawyers, have you hoard criticise and denounce the Workmen’s Compensation Act? Monday’s issue of The Star carried a news story from M. R. Dunnagan, The Star’s Raleigh correspondent, regard ing the act in question. In that article Mr. Dumiagan in formed that officials of industry and labor throughout the entire State favor the act. He was not merely guessing; he quoted from messages sent to Raleigh by representatives of labor and of industry. If the men who own and operate industrial plants are satisfied with the act, and if the men and women who work in industrial plants are also satisfied, why should Mr. Mc Swain or any of the rest of us be troubled? The Star would not bring any such indictment against the legal profession as a whole, but stop any man. working man or manufacturer, on the street and ask him who, if any one loses by the compensation act. Nine times out often hi? reply will be “the lawyers.” That reply is more or less true, Under the present method, when a workingman is injured, hi;-, plea for damages is taken up and passed upon by a corn in' ■ sion named by the State. It1 he is awarded damages, lrom 10 to 50 percent of the award does not go to a lawyer. The commission rays how much the lawyer gets out of the case, and as a result the injured worker and the firm that employs him both come out of the affair belter off financially than by the old method. The big slice of the damages to the legal counsel is eliminated. The act. as it is now administered may not be perfect. The Star does not contend that it is. Very few important legislative acts are perfect until altered and improved. The compensation act is new in North Carolina. Perhaps there arc certain defects that, could and should be ironed out; but, certainly, the basic idea of the act is sound and fair. Before I he dental profession reached its present efficiency an ailing tooth was immediately yanked out'. Nowadays a man who has a tooth pulled because of a slight decayed place is con sidered foolish. Slight details of the compensation act may need clarifying and adjusting, but when Senator McSwain’s automobile develops a slight knock, does he junk the entire car? Hardly. If Senator McSwnin and the other men in the legislature and senate do what we think a majority of the citizens of North Carolina desire them to do, they may correct certain defects in the act, but they will not hit the act itself. If they do attempt repeal, they will not be doing what they are supposed to do, carry out the will of those who elected them. JW1 WWV «TW» W-WS- WW. -W Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS By UENN DRUM. vuv vw M .*-*-*. •*.*,*» *VW nr»-» ■ ’ Those of you who With this col yum enjoyed the late Kin Hubbard's philosophy as expressed through the medium of Abe Martin will get much out of the following verse to Hubbard as written anonymously in \ The Chicago Tribune: Vale Tlu> whole world halt? to mourn; with you, Abe Mifttin. and your kindly crew Of neighbors, standing mute before Kin Hubbard’s silent, crape-hung door. The whole world halts to drop a i tear, Here in the twilight of the year. For him whose pungent paragraph Each morning made the whole world faugh. We must go home and do our chores. Turn to our offices and stores. Consigning to the shadows, dim. " Bz Pash. Tell Blinkley—you—and Him. We must go home; and so, adieu, Abe Martin and your kindly crew. Last, of-your race of Hoosier sons, Of Riley’s folks and Eggleston’s. Looking over the papers, we note that football officials are hav ing quite a hulabaloo over the point after touchdown. Our observation, however, is that many football fans arc not half as much Interested in the point after touchdown as the pint between halves. Utile things—may be not .so lit - tie. alter nil that inspire those of us who slouch through life grum bling at every bad break: -Clint Newton’s game battle against odds that would have caused the majority of us to lie down and whine long ago. •—The knowledge that One of the i gayest, most nonchalant young sports about town denies himself a number of p'ea"ures in order to aid a sister who is a patient in a tuber cular hospital. —The modesty of a man who never had a chance to attend col lege in never raying anything about the fact that he is seeing that a worthy young relative gets his de gree. —Tire heroic Courage of a colored woman who works day and night to support her family, and throird) it all finds enough joy in living to ••lng and laugh the whole day through. —Tlie set chin and steady look 'n the eyes of men and women, rv era! of them well along in years, who last the savings of a life-time in bank crashes in nearby counties. 1 All around us courageous people ■whose unsung fighting spirit shame, t base of us who would be quitter., at the first bad break. Do you know the proper pro nunciation of the names of the two treat French marshals, Joffre and Foch? They're “Yoff" and “Fuc!v” A number of readers about town have been debating the 1 question asked in this colyum: “Is it legal for a man to marry his widow's sis ter?" One young lady answered it by -aylng. “Sure it is. if she’ll have v'in>.'' Now, isn't that a woman fur you? Well, to get it ail straightened >ut, a man cannot marry his wid ow's sister unless she dies and. goes where he Is, A man cannot have a i widow, y see, until a tombstone has ;s“en erected over him m the ceme jtary j flow, here's another to ponder on: If your peacock should lay an egg In my field, whose egg would it be? Shelby Shorts; "Maybe," chimes in a reader, "Will Carroll is the youngest looking man fof his years in Shelby, but Huss Cline runs him a close second. Despite the fact that lie has a grown daughter, he's as young and sheikiesh looking as any fellow in town” .... Wallace. Wade reports at Duke University this month and that may mean that several Shelby latys will soon be deciding where they’re going to college next year .... Two more Shelby puls of the Uamon-Pythias type—Jack Dover and Earl Ham* rick .... Two Shelby men who have been office pals for many years both turned their backs in the last year upon the opportunity of ac cepting high offices I. . . . It may have been just a coincidence, but, but when a carload of stolen chick ens was taken into custody here last week two of the three uptown min isters were, within a few minutes, among the interested onlookers . . , Johnny McKnight, the pleasant young chap who started his new., paper career on The Star, will go this month to the Associated Press bureau in Havana, Cuba. A good break that for a deserving lad How are your resolutions holding up? .... . Remember, back in the World war days, when you pur chased Liberty Bonds and wr.r sav ing stamps, 1931 seemed a million years In the future? . . .'. The most beautiful woman in Shelby, so says a group of young men who consid er themselves connofceurs, belongs to the world's oldest profession among women ..... An Interesting story is that one which old timers | can relate to you about the time ! Clyde Hoey spoke at Casar and the j meeting wound up with gun play i and plenty of It. A watch is said | to have saved the life of tire late ; Police Chief Ed Hamrick who ac 1 companied the silver-tongued ora-' i lor to the speaking. t - This from The Laurinburg Ex change, published by Odus Moore, native Clevelandite: "Pointing to what he sees as con clusive evidence (4 the collapse of ! business under the Hoover admin j istration. a Laurinburg colored man observes that before Mr. Hoover be 'c.ime president Laurinburg had six ■ passenger trains a day. And now he | says, "Just look at it what we got— nothing but a motorcycle." He re fer of course to the new motor ' driven single car combination pas senger. baggage and express train the Scftboard is now operating be , tween Hamlet and Wilmington and ] which constitutes Latuinburg's sole passenger train service." 1 Kt MH .S 11 ISAM OK 1 V\D IB Virtu* of the power vested m me as trustee in a certain deed of trust, ex ecuted by A, H Hopper to secure an lit debtedneas ua described in this certain deed of trust, dated November 3d. '1929 and recorded m boo* lea. page 93. of the register's office for Cleveland county, N C and default having been made lit the payment of the indebtedness and demand having been made on the trustee to ex ecute the trust, 1 will re-sell lo the high est bidder at the court house door in Shel by, N c., on Xatarday. January 31, mi. at I? o clock M., or within legal hours, the fol lowing described real estate Beginning at a stone in the MV. Stnal meeting house branch, and running thence south *5 west 581 feet to a stake. Hal comb Putnam's corner; thence with his line, south 8 east IIJO teet to a Poplar. Illlis corner; thence with J M Putnams I.ne. now Diggerstaff's line south 96 east 1037 feet to a stone and pointers In said ime a new comer; thence a new line north 4 east 1785 feet to a point in the ■ oranch one foot south from a poplar on | the north bank of the branch; thence j down the branch as tt meanders to the | eginuing, containing 50 acres; more or. (less. I Terms of rale CASH [ Bidding will begin »t 1300.00. ! Phil the 7th day of January. 1931 W. G GRAHAM' Trustee. 1 It Jan 7c Legion Sponsors Long Awaited Bout Between Spangler And Babe Carr; Boys Training Hard limit Here Saturday Night Hast fight Fans On Toes, flood Prelims. Ilf tier boxing exhibitions may have been stated in Shelby in the past, but no bout has at- j tracted more advance interest | that *he clash Saturday night between Babe Cart and Jerome Spangler. The leather slinging program will 1 answer Its first gong at 8 o'clock in j the Thompson building. The Warren Hoyle Post of the American Legion is sponsoring this] scrap between two home boys and] Matchmaker Dick Blanton has ] charge of the card. Support Divided. The interest in the Carr-Spangler | o is cine in part to the maimer in j hieli fans look at it. Many believe j lie chunky, ducking Spangler can I ck the popular Babe. On the other; iand there are scores who will rgue 24 hours in the day that the ■ Sabe’s smile cannot be rubbed oil. iy anyone in the Carolines except | lm Swlnson, the lightweight champ -and some of these days the Carr lackers say their favorite will be! poking down upon the champ when j lie referee counts up to 10. Carr, of course, has the best rec ird because it is the longest. Neith :r has lost any fights to speek of. Arthur Sides introduced the east Shelby boy to the fight fans here everal years ago. and since that fine Babe has been wading through ipponents much like Alabama’s Crimson Tide flower through Wash ngtori State. It. was just a year or ;o later that there was a vacancy »n a local fight program. Young Spangler offered to fill in. He knew j ittle about the fine points of tft° Tame but the manner in which he waded in, anxious to swap upper iuts or anything else, made him an immediate favorite. Since then he Has been polishing off the oppon ints Matchmaker Blanton has sent I nto the ring with him. Spangler's followers have been i clamoring for a shot at Carr some i time, Carr has not been adverse j to It but has been engaged almost ; full time fighting in Charlotte where he is an idol with fans. Now that they’re going to meet at last, the fight frns hereabouts are squirming with eagerness as they await Saturday night. Some of the boys who enjoy ’em fast and furious are helping to create a good psycho logical atmosphere. They've been to Spangler and told him that Babe says you are not la his class. Any one knows how that would sit with Spangler who may get flattened 20 times and still come back and stick out his chin for another. Then the brllyhoocrs ease around to Babe and tell him that Jerome Is going to knock your block off. Babe thinks It over and remembers that the Caro lina champion tried the same thing and did not do a first-cless job, Fun and action seem likely in the prelims. “Bear" Huffman, the battering ram, meets "Tuffy" Grif fiths, of Cherryville, in the semi prelim, Matchmaker Blmton says, “If you don’t get some fun out of this bout, go see a doctor.” Other bouts will see “Purp" Bar rett and Bob Dover mix. Jim Pear ion and “Kako” McSwain go on in another. Clyde Hoy and Bob Me Curry In another. An unconfirmed report has It that two former college lootb&ll stars may meet In another prelim with the Idea of mussing up each other's good looks. Jack Blanton, CUffslde's veteran rlngster, will be the third man In the squared circle. LACE IS A VERY SMART TRIMMING With tiis re turn of fem inine modes, lace has come beck to favor. In the frock Mlustra t e d you sea it very charm ingly used. EXCELLA FhSHION book far spring 10c The spring mode from Paris is shown in ali it* love ly smartness in this new number of the Fashion Bock on tela at our Pa* torn Depart ment. E 3350 iJjjl 25c lV EXCELLA PATTERNS 15c 25C 20c Cohen Bros. Basketball Double Bill Friday Night Basketball fans, minus their favorite sport fitter before Christmas, are to be served a double portion in Shelby's “tin can" Friday night. The Shelby High boys' quint and tlie Shelby High Kiris' sex tet will clash with two teams representing the Cherryville High school. Both Cherryville teams are reported to be fast cage outfits and closely-contest ed piny is anticipated. Union Sunday School Elects New Officers lire Lawnrinld Union Sunday - school elected the following officers, for the year 1931: Tod R. Caldwell, j sup!.; . R.. A. Warlick, asshdant .supt,.; Junior Duggerhart, secretary and j •;ras.; Mamie Lou Forney,. Asst, | c. and treas.; Lee Champion.! choir leader; W. M. Smawley, asst, choir leader; Elizabeth Wilson, pianist; Mrs. Reid Blackburn, asst, pianist. . ADMINISTRATOR^*NOIll t. Having this tiny' qualified as adminis trators u( the estate of J. t irardin. de ■ ea.-eil uf Orover. N. C, tills Is to notilt ■ill Persons having clnims against the e». ■ ■ ol the: deceased, to present them to t:s properly proven on 01 before the fed fe-. «l December 1931'or this notice w,tl or pleaded in Oar cl any recovery thereof All persons owing tile said estate null Pd'ase make immediate settlement to the' ttridr.rsigned. This Dec.- 2nd. 1930. V J at.'! M. I HARDIN, drover, od lU'nUtralots of J. 1 Hardin dec'd. (it Dec h3 HOSIERY HOSPITAL, Inc j (Of Charlotte N. C.) ftraneb At Virs. Harmon's Hemstitching Shop (t’oder Chm-olat* Shop' Uojietf and Knitted Goods Neatly Repaired. All Iloite Must lie Laundered. MUST GO THIS WEEK OUDSMOBIUK TOURING Good Rubber $50 Good Curtains CHEVROLET COACH Good mechanical condition. Good Tires_-_ $65 $45 FORI) COUPE, 1920 Good condition. Good rubber _ FORT) TOURING, 1921 $10 FORI) TOURING, 1925 $25 FORD COUPE, 1927 Motor $15 JACK CRAWFORD South Washington Street WATCH THE CROWDS THAT GO TO THE John M. Best Furniture Co. They’re Hauling Away Loads Of Bargains Every Day | Complete Stock OF Home Furniture GOING AT l/z Price And Less DON'T FORGET THAT THIS IS A COMPLETE CLOSE-OUT SALE. JOHN M. BEST Furniture Co. Shelby’s Oldest, Largest And Best Furniture Store. A READ THE STAR. IT NOW GO£S INTO 5,000 HOMES EVERY OTHER DAY. $2.50 A YEAR BY MAIL. FOUR WEEKS FOR A QUARTER BY CARRIER BOY.
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