The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY suBsooPTiorTTiticE By Mall, per year _..._____ *12.50 By Carrier, per year__..._......__ THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LEE B WEATHERS... President and Editor 8. ERNEST HOEY .. Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM ..... News Editor L. E. DAIL ........___. Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1005. at the post.otiice •t 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 Deen our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect,, cards of thanks and obituary notices, arter one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, JAN. 19. 19.‘U TWINKLES Eleven years ago Friday whiskey was officially banish ed from America. Officially, We said. The Nye senatorial committee which has been investi gating campaign funds is now without funds itself. Wonder who will contribute? A California scientist says Einstein is another Moses. Well, one thing about it: If the Israelites didn’t know any more about what Moses was doing than the average man knows about Einstein’s theories, we think them foolhardy for following him into the wilderness. A prominent writer is suing for a divorce because his wife frequently declared before guests that she was "the brains of the family." Many husbands will await the out come of that suit; their wives may not say it in so many words but right often they manage to leave the impression with guests. ONE OF LIFE’S ODDITIES CONSIDER THE CASE of David Doan, 75-year-old Illinois farmer, who would never have anything to do with an automobile: He had never, in all his life, permitted a gaso line propelled vehicle to travel upon his farm land and he never took a ride in an automobile. He attempted to have mail planes routed some other way so that they would not pass over his farm. In brief, he hated motors. Last week he died and it was fate’s last slap at him when the motor hearse that carried him to the undertakers was his first automobile ride. Truth is often stranger than fiction. Mortal mentality does not seem able to create anything in the imagination to cope with the oddities that bob up in life’s pattern. CHEERIO! IT WILL SOON BE SPRING MAYBE THERE WAS A TRACE or two of snow to be seen along sheltered hillsides over the week-end. Perhaps the coal-bin is about empty, and it may have been the toughest winter in years, but it can’t be so long any more until Spring. Have you been hot icing the sport pages ? Will Babe Ruth regain his home run throne from ham mering Hack Wilson this year? Can old Connie Mack and his Athletics repeat, or will the Yankees handled by Joe Mc Carthy step back to the forefront? Can the St. Louis Card inals come out on top over the Chicago Cubs beaded by Rogers Hornsby, or head of that ball-bustin’ Brooklyn bunch, or those New York Giants of John McCraw’s who flash a lit tle championship form every year ? Will the veteran l)azzy Vance; Robert Moses Grove, and Young Wes Ferrell show the way to the other big time binders this summer? Well, it's time to begin asking those questions. Very soon now the major league clubs will be heading South for their Spring training. It just seems like yesterday that we were trying to get our Christmas shopping done in time, and now the first month of a new year is pretty well shot. So— O, well, it can’t be so long now until the amateur poets will be penning their verses about the bursting buds and Spring flowers. Cheer up! LAND BUYING TIME NOW NOT LONG AGO Clarence Poe, the efficient and able editor of the Progressive Farmer, declared that now is the time for young men to purchase farm land. The man of this gen eration Will never live to see, he declared, land selling as low as it may be purchased now. The Poe view might well be applied to city real estate. Basic values of real estate are permanent and cannot be tak en away except temporarily by depressions. Men who have made money out of real estate have made it by purchasing at low-ebb prices. This seems to be a low-ebb. Any lot in Shelby is actually worth as much now as at any time in the past, although not a lot would bring as much if placed on the market. More people, many more, are living here now than 10 years ago. They may not be as prosperous now as they have been. Some day, however, they will be. The person who buys now, particularly real estate has nil the odds in his fa vor so far as the eventual reaping of profits, and good profits* is concerned. Think it over for yourself. Just two or three years ago men could be heard saying that “I could have purchased that lot, or those lots, for one-tenth that price.” Ten years from now you’ll be hearing the same thing. Some will be wish ing; others will be profiting. IF NOT RASKOB, WHO? NEWSPAPER READERS for a week or more have been en tertained by a controversy between John J. Raskob, that muchly cussed and discussed chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee, and Frank R. Kent, the well known Balti more political writer. Raskob, Mr. Kent wrote, “brought the Democratic par ty out of bankruptcy, but it through the receivership, stood it on its financial feet and then dapped a first mortgage on ! 7~ ' ..'.... Democratic party,” Kent, continues, “ought not to let any rich man so completely finance its activities and pay its bills, jit, isn't self-respecting, it isn’t democratic, arid it isn’t good." After reading the Kent view, The Asheville Citizen ad mils that it may not be so good for the party, but The Citi zen goes in a little deeper and wonders just how the party would get along without its “sugar daddy,” and if it isn’t better off in several ways than it was. .Says The Citizen: “Of course, it isn’t (good for the party.) But the blame for that rests not upon Chairman Raskob but upon the Dem ocrats who have permitted this situation to develop. The money that has been spent in financing Democratic head quarters at Washington during the past year or two has been very effectively spent. The Democrats have never gotten as much helpful publicity as during this period, and it is to be remembered that this publicity was hard to get. The press of the country is dominantly Republican but the Democratic Publicity Bureau in Washington has been so capable as to put forward the Democratic viewpoint in such a way that it could not be denied prominence in newspapers the country over. i “Hut Mr. Kent is right when he says that it is unfortu nate for the party to be under such heavy financial obliga tions to Mr. Raskob or to any other one man. The Republican party, it is true, has been tinder like obligation almost con tinuously to a relatively small number of wealthy men and [corporations; but that fact has influenced Republican poli cies in a way that has been very harmful to the country. “What to do about such a situation is the question. The legitimate expenses of political organizations have become enormously heavy. As regards presidential contests, the rec ords show that victory goes almost invariably to the party with the heaviest purse. These funds are never secured from the rank and file. The bulk of the money comes al ways from a few rich men. The party in power enjoys a great advantage in passing the hat; and since the Republi cans have normally been in power it has been easier for them to keep the wheels greased. “Without a fairly substantial amount of money it is frankly impossible to maintain an effective Democratic na-j tional organization. The Democrats have been letting Mr, ! Raskob arrange for getting this money. Concedediy, this is bad; but, if Mr. Raskob does not do it, where is the money to [come from? That is the heart of the thing. The question awaits answer and unless and until it is answered fulmina-j tion against Mr. Raskob is likely to remain futile.” Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— flat rock news. the bread line in our little town Us growing longer tmd longer onner count of its costs so mutch to get ! licenses for the fords and chevver ■ lays that they don't have annythlng [ left for food. Joe green drives his j machine up and parks it behind the i black smith shop and walks into town to get his stuff—he Is afraid [that they would not give him but j mighty little if he drove up close to ithe citty hall where the poor te be - | ing fed. sammie smith, my wife's cousin jack's boy, who come over to spend Christmas .'with- nir. and Mrs. mike Clark, rid., went home yestiddy. he ocviddently thought Christmus comments dec-ember the 24 and end ed januwnry the 14. he is a harty boy and his stay with the Clark’s no doubt cost them a rigid smart, nearly everyboddy’s else kinfolks went home in time for the new year, and while I don't want to say noth ing personal In the news from, this town, when my wife's kinfolks come over to visit they mean u rail visit. two bad wrecks was hell on main ■>treel last week, jnrs. brown's fine jersey cow run over a trim-down moddel “t" as she was fetching her from the pastor behind the gard house and broke the dash and the 2 radium rods and stove in the radiator and the only danminge she suffered was she strained her milk and it was only 4 quarts that night mated of 6 quarts as usual, so site finished it out with waiter, its she always sold 7 qts. and dkident want to miss no customer. the moddel “t" was pulled in by his mules, the other wreck was 2 fords with only 5 men and wimmen iturt. a bad thing took place in the p. d. q. pool room sadday night about U p. m. it seems that someboddy had filled a billard bal full of pow der and slipped it onto the billard table and all at once, jim Jones cued it and it busted and burnt 35 in stallment collectors and 24 insur ance agents pretty bad. the mana ger and the other 2 men and 9 boys in there dtddent get hurt exeepp when they rah out the door and run over 17 more insurance agents who was just coming in. the guy that played that so-called smart trick had better keep it to himself, as insurance agents and installment collectors Is purely business men and don't take no foolishness. by selling all their corn and fod der and ruff ness, the farmers of this community mannaged to keep the wolf away from the garrage ’.oor, but of course—If they farm, hey will hafter buy some feed from j he drowth sections and have It j -.hipped In. several tcnhentc qfi j it lasted; the pink dot filling sta tion gave 3 gallons of gass and 1 pint of oil up til last week. and then they quit fetching same. mr. editor, rite or foah when you fail to get my weakly news-letters from flat rock. yores trulie. mike Clark, rfd. Imaginary Advertisement. Last year was a wonderful year In many respects for "My Town." We had public entertainments galore. To tell the truth we had something wonderful In our midst every month, as follows: January. . . . The human fly came from parts unknown and disappeared the following day in the same direction. He climbed the west side of the court house. Some firm paid him 3 or 3 hundred dollars for that stunt—and they called it advertising. (Just think of the good newspaper pub licity they could have got for that much money.) February. ... A corn doctor gave a show on the public square and wemoved sev eral corns in the presence of wit nesses. He had an awful crowd. But the city made 1 dollar out of him. March. ... A western gu