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The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N C. MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year -....-..........-.......... Sa&u By Carrier pci year ..-.. 0,1 THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LEE B WEArHERS ... President and e-ditoi B ERNES'l HOEV . Secretary and foreman RENN DRUM ..... News Eaitni L E DAIL _________ Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January l. 190:> at the pnstomce at Shelby. North Carolina under the Act of Congress March 3 I87U We wish to call your attention to the tact that tt ts and nas oeen our eastern to choree five cents pet hnc for resolutions of respect cards ol thanks and obituary nV"es arret one death notice nrs been published This will be strictly adhered to MONDAY, FEB. 2, 1C31 tv, ink i m The next presidential comm >n w’’ 1waged around three “P's”—Prosperity, Pro’ i' iiion, a d P.Q or. Perhaps Chicago is so nonrha' nt r' out the rn"Z k M ings there because the gangsters arc kill ug off each other*, j — The modern idea of makirg your nr'-k m the world is to be able to place the dollar mark in Lo.it of a long row of figures in referring to your fortune. Maybe President Hoover kmv what he was doing w' en he appointed a man with “sham” as the la it syllable of his name to head that, prohib.tion investigation commission. Frank Page’s opinion «’ out l> Gr ’rar highway pro posal must have sounded as cheer Til to Col. Kirkp k as does the merry lay of the first r;/ in of i ^i. g to a coal dealer. Everybody forms to be ridb " t’ a V." sion. But, at that, hadn’t t’ e V/l-keri' r a making a report, even one that contradicts it: than some of those other comnri:vims wo about or from since they we e appo'ntul? co nmb h h in "If, done more haven’t heard Gan. Pershing, reports have it, r mlv 1 more than f100,000 for his memoirs of the World War, and, after read ing several installments of it, we ren-hly admit-that it is a remarkable story. Yet the boys who nr h up the Pershing a my—through no fault, of corr e, of th r commander— have never received the bonus America promised' tu,,m for their part in the war. GARDNERS ROAD 1T.CC?. AM WHEN GOVERNOR GARDNER advocated the trtlci.rg over of all highways by the State th re w re those, including Col. Kirkpatrick and John Sprunt Hi’!,' who ha 1 much to say about the utter foolishness of the Governor’s plan. Mr. Gardner, they said, good man that he is, did not know what he was talking about. Some anticipated a flare-hack out of the Governor. It did not come hut two days later out of Raleigh there came a dispatch quoting a letter from Frank Page, the man who built the North Carolina highway sys tem. stating that Governor Gardner was right, and his pro posal the only course the State should follow. It was a master stroke on the part of the Governor, a knockout as the sporting fraternity puts if. As he contin ues to battle for his legislative program, still others may learn that he has beeii in public life, in the service of the public too long, and is too level-headed to go off half-cocked on any proposition. KEEP IT IN THE HANK OVER IN A NEGRO residential section of Shelby there is a colored woman who knows that it is best to leave what money you have in the bank. Last week, as a news story in The Star related, the woman had over f.330 stolen from her by a wandering gypsy fortune teller. The moral of the story isn’t that wandering fortune tellers will steal. Instead, the moral is in the events behind the stealing-. The money] ■would not have been in the woman’s home to be stolen had she not withdrawn it from the bank. Had she left her mon-| ey where it was it would have been drawing interest. As it j is she has neither money nor interest. Some weeks ago aj rumor was bandied along the streets in the colored woman’s section that the bank might he weak. She immediately with drew her money. Now she hasn't any money. The bank is still doing business and will be. There isn’t much left to say, except that the present legislature should create laws, and the courts should enforce them, that would make it hard on people who scatter rumors about financial institutions. —* SALARIES OF TEACHERS GOVERNOR GARDNER is certainly to be commended for his determination to oppose the reductions of teachers’ salaries to the exclusion of other classes of state and county officials. Teachers should not bear the brunt of economic depression in North Carolina nor be the class on whom the state economizes. In proportion to the investment made and the service rendered, the state is certainly not lavish with its remuner ation when the average salary of a teacher in North Caro lina is only $819.41. The perpetuity of a democratic state is dependent upon universal education. The most capable men and women both now and for the future are needed for such a task. Nothing {should be tlone to keep promising young men and young women from entering the profession. Teaching, unlike office holding, is a permanent work. Office holding is for short periods of time and carries with It both the honor and obligation of public server. Se'-ry1 for office is re dly incidental. As a rn’e tl > p r ha; other interests on which he depends for a livelihood, he h««i a vocation or profession to which he can go. Although he should not be called upon to sacrifice in order to serve, still he can better afford it) do so than teachers, because of the nature of his work. It is, therefore, the part of wisdom for Governor Gardner to stand by the teachers in this crisis. Tllfi FIRST ROBIN OF SPRING LAST WEEK WAS A TYPICAL Spring week. An April week minus the April showers. This week, when this is read, winter may have swooped down upon us again. Many of the old-line weather prophets say that it will. Bitter weather, they contend, always follows on the heels of mis laced Springtime. There are those, however, who disagree. It's just an old-fashioned early Spring, they say. The robins on their way bade north have been heard. Commenting on harbingers of tipring, The Raleigh Tim es says: “Accorm: g to our personally conducted bird calendar, a robin was hoard and then scon on January 22. Jle was sit ir;T in a birth tree in the suburbs and giving out the unmusi cal note that be -emits when he is nothing more than a gre T’Tj -us a iuv.l erl'ng for unromantic co npatiy, It will be ewe months s'hi until the ro’ in f:’'s for a Jane and gets Ids ro: g on a lyrical and..sentimental scale, “We a”e perf c y aware that t'o~e who hunt may be 'in led to te’l us th t, down in the dc-p branches rurnng hrotigh thick limber, t’ e rob’n stays with us throughout the winter. Eat that ccace ’ d, it is a'•res' ‘ng to find him out in the open spaces giving his ce ll. This has been a consistent ly hard winter, hard on coal-bins. The weat’ er man admits hat he is no lorg-dirtan-e prophet. But the robin must know, who ventures out in advance of the vernal nrgrations of the tribe, which par e with us in February and March. “Abo rs a bit of weather optimism would we call at "cnt-ic-n to t' e tufied tit-mouc.s. This boy is a winter resi Irt, hut w'un he hr s ro love in his soul he says nothing. But when ho finds a cut'e, he proelams the fact in the clear er,' a‘d mo t beautiful of wh' t’ s, let the t kermrme'er do a di ,e or rat as it w’ll. For the benefit of tho^e who cannot : ■ e tify tl is cl Ach, let us cay that he is the ‘Peter Bird’— iie far-cany- g clari et that says ‘Poter-Pcter,* on frosty po-’n-ings. \.1 cn you he r Km you may know that Peter Bird’s heart is warm and that lie already has set up house keeping in some distant hollow. “(>."c the goo;T-! ore was considered a weather prophet, but the habit of eating that moat luscious of birds (if prop er'y prepared) In gone out of fashion. We trust the in stincts of the robin, of the tufted tit-moure, of the mocking birds who have co far awakened as to try an occasional note o predict that despite the legislature in session we are go ing to have an oldrfasliioned spring.'' “Better signs that any of t’ e above,” remarks The Gastonia Gazette, “are found in the fact Policeman Niell, a veteran gardener, is p’ nting his spri g Irish potatoes. Others have put out on on and cabbage pi nts; others are •irepnring to plant sugar peas, and other early garden “sasa;” Bulbs are shooting out of the ground and the eager garden er and flower grower is itching to get his hands in the dirt.” Nobody’s Business GEE McGEE— School Days Ami School-ways. tt so happens that. I am trustee treasurer of; our city schools. It is some trouble to be connected with schools, but I enjoy it—that Is, most of it. You sec, I graduated in about the eighth grade-in a country school and I don't want anybody else to ,;ro\v up a- ignorant as I am, But; The other day, a lady called me an too phone. feme tirst wanted to ..now for n iact that she had the right number, I could tell, from her .net 2 words that she had not Just got up from her prayers. The re ceiver I had to my best ear fairly sizzled. She said she wanted to tal,; .o me, and I found that out, as fol lows; Her—Who's (hat? IWo—~Cue Mcia.e. Her—Ain't you a trustee of the chaol here? Me—\e—am, I suppose so, l.er—Well, tul i ve wot to say, is —if you are as sorry a trustee as jjmc oi your up-Vart trainers is uauhcr.,, I tn.n.v you ougnt to re „i„,i at once. Oi ail tne low-uown i ever hau Happen to me was i.io way sue treated my oame jane, ..nd— me—But, Madam— her—d l had my way, I would turn her o,f tomorrow and rim ner aUt of town. ta.iie Jane (feus the name of be .ng the smartest girt in senool, and .,ere s that huzzy giving her omy 45 on rlthmatlck. and— I.-8— Hut. pi— I,_r—Don, but me. I know what „aine Jane can no. une repealed tne aUy-cLm berore she was 6 and she ..as read through 3 baOks and write., „.. r ievs.r her ua.Uy ever write* to us store customers, and 1 urine more I.;e—Hold on a—— Iter—And she only give her 50 on joggerfy last month, but X never jaid a word to nobody, but I want! you trustees to know that we folks who pay the taxes ought to have a vo.ee in a few things, *hd besides that—she «r,a '.e Sa'lle Ja '-e set in wr.au.se she missed only 7 words m : tn-' si", ho i she he n>i* lir the flap’.• lid* *t i . | ten to her, and— Me— Well—e—er— Her - It's a pretty como on when \ teacher can't give her eehollar: better marks than 45 and 50, and if they don't make better marks -han them, who in the thunder is to blame but the teacher, and I want you to know— Me—Wait a min— Her—Most teachers ain't teaching to learn anybody anything—all they want to do is get married, and oe sldes that—Sallle Jane studdies every night except Monday night and Tuesday night and Thursday night and Friday night, and .he comes ju.t about as near knowing FROM COUGHS Never Ignore a cough. Stop It at the start with Retpinol. Respinol soothe* the Inflamed throat tissue* and brings up the troublesome mucus. It relieves spasms of cough ing—allows you to forget your cough by day and to get your proper sleep by night. Pleasant tasting. Contains no opiates— no sugar or syrur. 50c in the 3-comered bottle. ,cr lessons us some of them young uns that that teacher grades up in the 90s. She does that to stand in with them baptists, and— Me—Won’t you pie Her -When I went to school, I 'cad every ela s, and Sallie Jane takes after me; everybody says so, and she’s as bright as a pen point, and according to me and John, we head new trustees as well as new .earners, and if— Me—Kindly let me ex Her—Aw, stop breaking into me. Aang! (I felt muchly told that lime.) The Re-Bound. Well, People—our pre. ent repub lican administration has played thunder with the country. Natural ly, and properly so—we democrats believe that they are responsible for the depression. They daddied the .tariff bill and it back-fired. Even poor old ignorant China is hitt.ng back. She has placed a tar iff of about 600 percent on manu actured cigarettes. But our oig Americans say—"Why, we’ll just go over thsre and build factories and make cir.arettes.” And they will do it, too, and employ Chinese labor, not American. That will help— China. And Henry Ford and Gen. 'Motors will likewise build “Over There.’’ All of the foreign countries have Sot It in for us. They have passed boycott measures and import duty laws and tariff restrictions that have done us more harm than a couple of wars could do. It will take 50 years to get these things straigh tened out, and it must be done in time. But the present bunch that strutted itself won’t have the pleas ure of fitting the puncture. Brains,1 not politics, will be employed to un do the blunders they have made. But let’s talk about something cl e. I saw in the paper last week where a man had married a new wife every 6 monhts since 19 and 2. Only 34 of them are still living, however, to bless him out. They have him in jail: he ought to have been in the asylum all the time. And he said it was love. And 32 of the wom en insist that he made a nice hus band as long as he lasted. Another thing I read about wa —two airplanes collided up in the air. You see, there ain't much room up there, so they simply couldn’t meet. Evidently both' pilots held ou their hands. Our only hope is air traffic lights. Somehow or other, l, can't have very much sympathy for | folks who get killed doing show-off .tunt.s or trying to fly a few oceans for the name of it. Li ten, Friends. We are all happy at our house again. You remember we went back into the chicken-and egg raising business about a month ago? Well, we got an egg last week, and are expecting another tomorrow of this week. The other 15 hens arej filling out, and pretty soon, meb-j be, we will be getting possibly 2j eggs a week. The present egg cost: us only $16.61, but it's a beauty:! yellow nearly all aver except a few freckles. This wife of mine ought to have charge of n big hennery at an expcr.mcnt station during an egg laying contest. Hens just cackle to get to lay tor her. She dearly loves: her fowls. The 6 roosters arc getting along very well, I thank you: how are you? ’^rv’lierford Farmer Found Dend In Bed Rutherfordton.—W. L. Bland, 75, a well known farmer and citizen who lived ubout eight miles northwest of here, was found dead in bed Wednesday morning. Mr. Bland has been in ill health for some time. Funeral services and burial were held at Piney Knob Baptist church Thursday afternoon with Rev. Z. D. HarriU of Ellenboro in charge, as sisted by H. C. Culbreth and T. M. He ter, Spindale. and B. M. Ham rick, Shiloh section. DePrIest Attends Hoover’s Affair Negro Congressman Congr-'tidated On Presence At White House Party. Washington.—Representative Os car Depriest, of Illinois, only negro member of congress Friday receiv ed "scores of telegrams of congrat ulations," according to his office force, because he and his wife at tended the president's reception to members of the house Thursday night. DePriest had indicated before the reception that he was undecided as to his course and would leave the decision to his wife. They were among the early ar rivals for the reception, to which hundreds we~e invited, passed along the line, were greeted by President, and Mrs. Hoover, and then went to1 the east room. The DePriests were greeted by many other membe -s of the house and their wives, chatted with them, and then went home. It was the Illinois congressman’s first social engagement at the white house, the reception having been cancelled last year, the member's wife previously having attended a tea given by Mrs. Hoover. fry Star Want* Ads SAME PRICE FOR OVEP40 YEA^S 25 ounces for 25c MILLIONS OF POUNDS USED BY OUR GOVERNMENT. First—in the dough. Then in ihe oven. You can be sure of perfect bakings in using— BAKING POWDER CALVIN COOLIDGE —said: “In it* essence, thrift is self control. Industry and judgment are required to achieve it. Contentment and economic freedom are i t s fruits.” “Thrift is the price of freedom.” If you are in debt, you are not free. Neither are you free if you have no means with which to take advantage of opportunities. It pays to save, sensibly and syste matically. You will find this bank a good place for your savings. UNION TRUST CO. DIRECTORS CHAS. C. BLANTON •J. T. BOWMAN E. B. HAMRICK J. H. QUINN J. K. DOVER J. F. SCHENCK, Sr DR. L. V. LEE C. C. HAMRICK L. S. HAMRICK C. H. SHULL i J. F. ROBERTS GEO. BLANTON FORREST ESKRIDGE Wm. LINEBERGEll R. E. CAMPBELL Z. J. THOMPSON H. F. YOUNG ,T. L. SETTLE J. A. SETTLE C. RUSH HAMRICK Save Sufficiently Save Surely Save Safely STEER YOUR FINANCES by the tried and true Savings Chart SEAS may be rough, winds may be fierce and head-on, but you’ll soon reach the harbor of financial independ ence, if you guide yourself by the Bank Book, by syste matic, week-in and week-out Savings. What is more, you will discover that each day of your journey is sweeter because you have the feel;ng of security that a Savings Account alone can give you. OPEN A SAFE SAVINGS ACCOUNT TODAY First National Bank SHELBY, N
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