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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. 0. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mail, per year ------- $2.50 By Carrier, per year ...—-................... $0.00 THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. TEE b WEATHERS .... President and Editor 8. ERNES! HOEY.... Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM .-. News Editor U E DAIL.... Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1. 1905. at the postoitice 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 our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. Tills will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, JAN. 12. 1921 TW1NKI.ES What, we wonder, are the men who played Santa Glaus for the department stores, doing for a living? Poor California, Florida has the laugh! Einstein pur chased a raincoat before going to that sun-kissed land. It’s difficult to beat that Robert Quillen version of the "middle class,” which, he says, could be in either other class if it had a little more or a little less money. "The future of America,” says Mr. Hoover, "depends upon the children.” Can it be that it was just back in 1928 that Mr. Hoover was saying the future and prosperity of America depended upon the election of Republican candidate: to office? The breaks of life are often queer and mysterious. Con sider this one: Robert H. Hunter, of Chicago, had a life time desire to visit London and see the sights there, includ ing the famous London fog. Finally, this month, after he had succeeded to a certain extent in life and Tiis insurance business, he packed his bags and started to fulfill that desire. Then he dropped dead in the station where he went to catch a train to New York, and from there to London by ship. * DIRTY LEGS, DIRTY NECKS THE PRESUMPTION may be true that the ladies, or the girls, do not read editorials. If they do we're wonder ing how the following remarks, by 'Gene Ashcraft in The Monroe Enquirer, will sit with them? Mr. Ashcraft has a subtle method of getting to his point in all of his .writings, just as he does here: “Girls are giving up the hare-leg fad. Silk hose re searchers report that girls would rather wear stockings than wash their legs. And from the looks of some of their necks the collar manufacturers ought to take courage. We never could understand why a woman prefers powder to soap and water. “No doubt they're just like the rest of human nature: we’re all more or less on the surface. But admitting that, why do we neglect our surfaces? “Why not, like the paint manufacturers, then ‘save the surface and save all ?’ ” STANDING TO OUR GUNS THE VIEW OF THE STAR regarding the Workmen's Com pensation Act is being talked again. Such was expect ed, Senator Peyton MeSwain, an avowed opponent of the act as The Star is an avowed supporter thereof, home for the week-end, hears that The Star has been “jumping on him’ regarding his views. That is hardly the correct term: when Mr. MeSwain, as a practising attorney, differs with the view of another barrister in the trial of a court case, he .would hardly regard the other attorney as “jumping on him.” Attorneys as a whole have been cut at more severely and more frequently in the court room than this paper ever has or ever will in disagreeing with the views of another. Certainly as every man has a right to his opinion, there are others who have an equal right to differ with them. Which is to say that we are not riding or jumping on Mr. MeSwain; we merely differ with him. He does not like the Workmen’s Compensation act: we do. As a discussion of the advantages or disadvantages of the act, The Star has covered that angle thoroughly hereto fore. As we have fairly sated in these columns, the act may need certain modifications and a certain clarifying. It is not to be expected that an entirely new act or law should be per fect. Present day models of automobiles are far from what they were 10 years ago. Is that not so? Suppose that pro gress had junked the first cars because they were not per fect? If there are weaknesses in the act referred to, amend and correct them, but do not junk and repeal one of the most worthwhile laws, basically speaking, in the State. If it is not, why is it that the majority of the States in the Union have such acts? When The Star stated that it disagreed with the views ot this district’s senator it was expected that there would be disagreement. So far, however, The Star has not been ques tioned on its views except by' three men, the senator with whom the paper differed and two of his friends—all lawyers. There may be others, as these say, who are lighting the act. It merely happens that the only major criticism The Star has heard against the act came from lawyers. It is not a charge, but a plain, generally known fact, that the compen sation act removes to a certain extent a source of income for lawyers. In the mills and among other working people, Mr. MeSwain says, are to be found many workers why can see no good in the act. We grant that, but are they in the major jy? The Star’s information along that line is based upon statements made regarding the act by representatives of labor as well as of industry. Labor organizations have been quoted as favoring the act with certain modifi -"tions and changes. Representatives of organized labor, we -franklv he al U ■ • ' « Hove, are in bet ter position to know what is good for labor as a whole than scattered workers who may be swayed and per suaded by politicians and others. “The way it is now.” one lawyer says, “the doctors and insurance companies benefit.” To a certain extent that state ment may be correct; we do not say definitely because we do not have the concrete information at hand. But our view is that lawyers, doctors or no one else should have what an injured worker is entitled to. If a man loses an arm while employed by some industrial firm that man should have the value of that without having to split what aid he receives with either lawyer or doctor. It is only fair, of course, that both professions should be paid for their services, but not out of proportion to the value of those services. By the old method, and most men admit that without question, a com p'aint for damages usually ark d for considerably more than the actual damages. Why? So that legal course! might take care of themselves financially. Wonder if there has ever been a case where an injured worker did not get as much of his damages as did his lawyer ? The doctors, as some opponents of the act contend, may now be getting a part of what the lawyers once got. If so, that is not as it should be. The physician should have ample pay for his service as should the lawyer. That is why The Star says, and sticks to its guns, that the act should stay but be so ame dad that the injured man or woman benefits and no other. Why shouldn’t he? Isn’t he the one who suffers? And why not have a State commission to d cide how much he should have so that he need not split his damages two or three ways after he gets it ? Nobodj *s Business GEE McGEE— Starvation Vs. Progress. Tliis old country has been won fully benefltted by reason of the many industrial mergers during the past few months, for Instance; Since the bakers have consolidated their Interests, loaf bread has de clined from 10 cents per loaf to a dime per loaf, and because of that merger, home cooking has vamoos ed. The biggest help has come about in conectton with the merging of canned foods interests, ns follows; We can now buy 2 cans of peaches for 30 cents, whereas. be'fore they merged and turned off about 65,000 men, women, and grain- paws, we were having to pay 15 cents per can for the said peaches. The salt companies have all gone into a combine. Heretofore, the housewives had to pay 5 cents for a package of salt, but now they can buy all they want at a nickel per package. The chocolate manufactur ers have combined; up to just a few months ago, we were paying 25 cents a pound for chocolate, but Just think of It; a baby boy can walk into most any store and get 2 pounds of the : ame stuff for 50 cents. The railroads are practically all two roads now, and how great has been the result. Disregarding the 275,000 men who have been laid oft for the purpose of saving money i for the owners.) freight rates that were formerly $1.06 per hundred pounds have shrunk to $1.06 per hundred pounds. The Pullman rates have declined since 1!) and 20—from $5.73 for an upper north berth to Punkinsvllie to $5.75 for an upper berth from Punkinville. And the shoe manufacturers got together also. You can now buy a pair of ladles' slippers tl part leather. 2 parts card-board, and 1 part junk) for only $11.98, and just imagine—before they submerged ithc publict those so-called slip pers were fetching anywhere from $11,97 to $lt 98 per pair. Only about 20,000 travelling salesmen are loaf ing by reason of this community sperrit. But the biggest economic move (as Mr Hoover would say came about through the amalgamation ol the breakfast foods interests and the coffee meters and the coconut busters and the cocoa canners and the tea shippers. Inasmuch as about 50,000 drummers have succumbed to idleness by reason of these changes, the public saves the difference in selling costs, lor instance: 3 boxes of shredded pine needles can now be had for a quarter: before the deluge, this junk was selling at only 3 boxes for 25 cents. As soon as America un-merges—and tries to cut down all of this so-called efficiency—and puts her folks back to work, we wifi be all right. Overtures. Our republican congress passed a at iff bill intended to make slaved of foreign countries, but it back fired and made paupers out of the home-fplk.v What that bunch need. !is guts enough to admit their mis take and repeal the infernal law Cotton Letter. New York, Jan. 12.—Spots eased , if 24 additional points when Uv rpcol came in past due. Spinnings I akinr.s were off 25 prr cent lor | December 5s compared v th the L ’•:*<tvh in V '* r - y ’ I .'addling was in evidence. Curtail .ent is back to normal, and night .ark is now indulged In only by i possum hunters, speak-casics, cab arets and gangsters: that accounts for so many of the unemployed be ing Out of work, except in Chicago and South Georgia. Tinges, dog tails and petticoats are weak be cause of southern selling. We advise a Democratic administration. Willie B. Hurt had (500 dollars fall into his hands from his father’s es tate 3 years ago, and his brother, Howe I. Hurt, likewise Inherited 600 dollars from the same source, Willie bought 40 acres of land with his money, but Howe bought himself a Chev-lay-Coop. Howe is now living with Willie. His car is worn out, and the only thing he has to show for his money Is a bu ted right leg which he absorbed In a wreck. We have not noticed that the up keep of an automobile has declined any in sympathy with cotton, corn and wheat. Of course the garage man. will dust off your gasoline guage fo^ 1 dollar and tighten the nut on your fan belt for 2 dollars and test out your coil for 3 dollars. Working on cars is a dirty task, and we don't know that there is any thing wrong in a 6-weeks-experiehce mechanic charging a guy $1.50 per hour while he piddles with his car. Over-alls cast money. Paris and New York both decreed several months ago that, dresses must be longer. Since that decree went forth. I have noticed a few evening dresses and one or two morning dresses that reached to the ankles in spots. The good-look ers and high-steppers are still on kneesy-street with their garments. ! There really ain't any visible ex cuse for skirts to be so long inso far as real art is concerned, but I wish somebody would please tell me why it sill costs $1.50 to have the fame 25-cent prescription filled the second time. Mail Plane Pilot Down Near Maiden Andre Wandered For Several Hours In Dense Fog—Found Break As Gas Gave Out. _—.— j Charlotte, Jan. 9.—Finding one i small hole in the fog which blank jeted North Carolina. Frank Andre, lair mail pilot, early today set his I plane down in a rough field near ! Maiden without injury to himself or his mail cargo. The ship flopped over, hut was little damaged. Residents of the vicinity aided Andre, one of eastern air transport I corporation's younger pilots, to c-s 1 cape from his plane. Removing the | mail pouches, he brought them im mediately to the Charlotte airport, i where they were held to await the arrival of a special ship ordered from Richmond to move the mail northward. Leaving Atlanta shortly after mid night. Andre said he became fog bound in North Carolina and flew blindly for several hours. Just as his gasoline supply gave out, he said, the break in the fog appeared and he landed safely. False Pretense* A Kansas city man received a •ever® scolding from a pair of ban* ! aits who found only 50 cent* on him whfn they he’d him up. Ho wa Tlrn :th a v.a :n? to can more _ mon*v hereafter—Kansas CHv Rr:>!. Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS By KKNN UHI M. You’ve all heard these after-din ner speakers who get up and state that they have no formal speech but will merely make a few scatter ing remarks. That’s the condition ill is colyum is in Just now. So !f you're not disposed to get tangled up in a tirade of haphazard chat ter, you may as well get your hat and head for the door. First of all, we ll do business With Jur questions and answers depart nent Remember the query : “If my pea ;ock should lay an egg in your field, ./hose egg would it be?” Don’t get all huffed about it now; ft was broken off the same way in is: "A peacock doesn't lay eggs—it akes a peafowl.” Another thing: T'other day this icilyum innocently passed along the jossip that some of the fellows ibout town had said that Shelby’s nost beautiful woman was a mem ber of the world's oldest feminine profession. You'd be surprised to know just how many people—including men and women, the ages of the men running from 16 to 65—have asked her name since that was published. Frankly, and not because the better 35 percent of the family might chance to read this, we do not •v ,v the name, or if the report is frue. Shelby Shorts: Until last week Shelby haJ never seen a Cord front vvheel-drive automobile, then two :ame to town in one week. B. H. JePriest was driving one; he had enough sense to see that there was no great amount of cents in the news writing game .... No court week has been more widely discuss ed hereabouts than the one last week . . .. Hope he doesn't see this and come back after us, but many court spectators placed Judge Cle ments in the "hard-boiled” classifi cation .Shelby is one of those towns in which nearly everybody has a nickname . . . . and a town in which the men who have them never get to wear their Tuexdos uu less there’s a big church wedding . . . . . but feminine Shelby has step ped so far along in the social world that evening dresses may be seen flashing here and there about town nearly every night of the week . . . . It was in a dream more than 21 years ago that "Major Bob’’ Bab tngton got the Idea of the Ortho paedic hospital which he founded in Gastonia. One of the finest and noblest of institutions in the world, a place devoted to curing “Tiny Tims” whose parents cannot afford to have their twisted and warped limbs straightened. He ought to have a front-door pass key to Hea ven for that if he never did any thing else for humanity . . . . Won der if Shelby will ever have anoth er governor, and, if so, who will he be? .... John Wynn Doggett is back in the old burg and that means another cheery laugh along the streets every day. No town Is ever a loser by having a good-natured. Jovial man as a citizen ... It still doesn't seem right not to see “Uncle Andy" Miller at his high chair in the building and loan office . , . and some of the best historical stories we ever heard about Shelby of the old days were related by "Uncle Doc" Suttle, the Confederate vet eran who joined his comrades re cently .... From a fair young co ed at Lenoir-Rhyne college comes the request for some information about Shelby’s best known charac ter, Ebeltoft, the bookstore sage. She intends to write an essay about him. Now we’re getting called down. Recently this colyum stated that the proper pronunciation of the names ot the French marshals, JoX fre and Foch, was "Von'" and "Fuch.” From Lincolnton—just think how proud we are of having a reader that distant from where we try to round the court Square—comes a letter informing that we're wrong. The dictionary, no other than Web ster's latest model, the reader in forms, says that Joffre is pro nounced ‘'zhofr” with one of those dunce cap marks over the “o ’, and that Foch is pronounced as is with the "o’’ sounding as in Ford. (Right there, before we go ahead with this pronunciation, is a good chance to ihsert a wise crack: We've heard many kipcls of "Os” in Fords, from rumble seats and elsewhere.) The reader who corrects us 1s correct about Webster citing the pronunciations as quoted above, and frankly, we’ve always pronounced Joffre as ‘‘zho’fr”. The pronuncia tions of "Yoff” and "Fuch,” how ever. are those used by Floyd Gib bons over the radio, so go and try to out talk that boy. What's more some of the fellows about town who were over in France several years ago. acting as animated targets for Way German shrapnel, tell us that he Fr'nch ca’led them ‘Toff’ and • h.” And it m*^”' be that cunlvovc* might be up by sayine that the Webster w?> ';t1iA Am»*rU‘ T'V’i ivr the other method is the French pronunciation. Fact is, what we know about pro nunciation would be harder to dis cern with the naked eye than a modern sheba wearing cotton hose. But the reader who stepped forward with the correction is urged to come again; such things help fill this space. A contemporary typewriter tickler over on The Lincoln County News tells this one: "We were discussing the which-' ums of the whereforums the other day with two of our esteemed friends from E. Lincoln when the subject of dinner came up. (No, not the dinner.) After a careful perusal of matters financial, it was discov ered to be a fact that each of the three of us had exactly eleven cents apiece. One of the three termed it a coincidence, another termed it H— This one is for men only: (•sum n jmjM aas oj it .wop apjsdn spj) tunj pjno.w stna snojana ano^ msuji aw ‘osmoo JO) ‘Aiouti oj atni p,3M ttuaq) junoo oj Ajj ja.\a £-)jhjs .wau e uj a.iotjj ojb surd Ktttstu ,woh As far as we have observed every i ’sttlement In the U. S. claims the best ‘‘climate” in the world, and 25,000 municipalities can't be wrong. CRAPE MEN SEE A WAY 10 FIGHT BOOZE DEALERS California Producers Come Foward With Plan To Save Fruit In dustry From Disaster San Franciso,—California grape producers came toward with a plan they said would jar the bootleggers and at the same time benefit 15i). 000 person-: and “help cave the $350,000,0000 (.rape industry from financial disaster.” The plan is contained in a book let circulated by Fruit Industries, Ltd., a government sponsored co operative. The booklet implies Mrs. Mable Walker Willeprant, Former prohibition prosecutor tor the de partment of Justice, became counsel tor Fruit Industries, Ltd., to battle the bootlegger. The booklet points out that the Volstead law does not permit fruit juice in the home and pays "the fulfillment of this plan will save a $350,000,000 industry from financial ^ disaster. There will be vast human benefits, continued and new employ ment of scores of thousands of men and women; the redemption of thou sands of farm homes which are threatened with extinction by ove: w’helming mortgage debts; the pre servation of an American standard |for living throughout a great state; 'the help of law-enforcement through | closing of present sources of supply . to bootleggers and racketeers; prac tical proof of the feasibility of the Federal Farm Relief program; and the bringing to almost every Amer ican home at resonable cost of a :healthgiving, delicious food product, now for the first time made avail able the year round." Red Lights Bother Trains. i Salem, W. VaT—The red lights j atop Salem's community Christmas •tree had to be changed to yellow i because the tree was so situated | that when trains came around a bend engineers became confused, (thinking they were signal lights. Girl's Mistake Dangerous. 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