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The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY - WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year .....___.........._................ $Z!>P By Carrier per year -----SJ \ THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LEE B WEATHERS..-... President and Editor B. ERNES'l HOEY___Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM __..._............. News Editor L. E DAIL .t.....AdvertisinR Manager Entered as second class matter January 1. 1905. at the postoitice at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress. March 3. IB7H We wish to call your attention to the fact that It is and nas oeen our custom to charge five cents per tine tor resolutions or respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice nr.a been published This will be strictly adhered to. WEDNESD’tfi FEB 11, 1931 TWINKLES The Hoover puzzle: Is he as dry as the drys hope he is, or as damp as the wets suspect him to he? Just a few more weeks and the baseball players will be training in the South—and the pewee golf courses will open again. If this highway commission controversy isn’t settled ere long, Col. Kirkpatrick may be accused of talking almost as much as he was accused of talking when Woodrow Wilson visited Charlotte. With prospects bright for Charlotte to land a new post office building and with a similar outlook at Morganton, The Charlotte Observer is tempted to remind that “all things come to persons who wait, as well as to towns.” That being the case, it might be well to reiterate that Shelby is still waiting for the needed addition to the office here. TOO MANY FIELDS NOW THE STAR DOES NOT KNOW the inside of the situation other than the report that the Cleveland Springs air port will this year go Into cultivation as farm land, but there seems to be something amiss, or a slip-up somewhere. Already the news that the Shelby airport will be turned into farm land has spread, and already Shelby is being marked off the routing maps used by pilots. Without going into the value of an airport as fin asset to a modern city—all know' that—it doesn't seem as if this county is in such dire need for-acreage that the few acres used as an airport should be cultivated. If there is anything wrong with this county, now% it is too much acreage in cultivation, particularly in cash crops. When it w'as decided to farm the property, of the Cleveland Springs Estates it seems as if it would have been possible to except that portion used for a landing field. Pehaps it isn’t too late yet. OUR BOW TO WILL ROGERS HATS OFF TO WILL ROGERS, a real fellow as well as the outstanding humorist in America! Out in the mid-West many States stricken by the drought are in dire need. Men, women and children are hungry and poorly clothed. Livestock suffers from a lack of water and pasture land. Conditions are deplorable in many sections of those States, yet Congress dwaddles about and argues much in the manner Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Contributions to the Red Cross relief fund have been none too plentiful. If conditions there do not improve and if Congress keeps on marking time, there’ll be little need soon of food and clothing. Tombstones will serve best. With such a situation existing the cowboy humorist se cured' Capt. Frank Hawks, one of the world’s greatest avia-' tors, as his pilot, crawled in the Hawks plane and started making a tour of the country, giving his humorous entertain- [ ments en route, the proceeds going to the drought sufferers. When he finished up his tour in his native State of Oklahoma, among “the folks back home,” last week he had I received approximately $90,000 from them to give the needy I in the drought areas. Already his charity performance in Texas had netted $80,000, making the grand total of his! benefit barbs and wisecracks run over $170,000. Now he is! going into Arkansas to continue his schedule. He knows that those sections need help, and those sections already know that no other man has done as much for them in their plight. The long tour, hopping from point to point by air plane, has near exhausted the humorist. Physicians have said that some sleep and rest will do him good, but the in imitable Will replied that he could catch up on his sleepin’ and restin’ after “this thing is all over.'’ A man with a humor unexcelled, home-spun philosophy unequalled, and n heart of gold, America today thinks more of the former cowboy, and should, than ever before A SMATTERING OF MANY THINGS THE COURT MARTIAL of Gen. Smedley Butler, who is al-j leged to have said something naughty about Mussolini, has been called off. It should be a good lesson for the assert-1 ive marine; hereafter if he desires to say things, including most any old thing, about people, even prominent and power ful people, he should get himself elected to congress or the | senate. The voters of Alabama are the only ones who ever coertmartialed Tom-Tom Heflin. Eleanor Nichols, an American girl, was given the undi vided attention of the Prince of Wales at a d<jnee in Panama! City one night last week. After the dance, she declared he was a charming man but that his brother, Prince George ) was a better dancer. At that, we wager she didn’t walk off! from H. R. H.t or express too much curiosity about his horse back riding. ' Seems a* if Governor Gardner checked a lock—a full house over a flush—into Col. Kirkpatrick’s highway talk.! Frank page and other highway experts endorsed the Gov ernor’s proposed change in the highway system of the State, but that endorsement did not appease Col. Kirkpatrick. [“Why,” he asked, “hasn’t Leslie Ames, formed highway en gineer, had anything to say about the Governor’s program,” And the next day the Governor published a letter in which Engineer Ames praised the proposed change. Sc-r,?one said, when Governor Gardner first began replying to his critics, that it was evident ho isn't of the type that goes off half cocked, not knowing what he is doing. Really, by this time his road opponents must believe that he not only does not go off half- cocked, but that ho is also, using a rapid-fire auto matic. This anonymous fellow who peeps through the political keyhole at Washington and writes things for Collier's cer tainly isn’t any slouch. Senator Morrison hadn’t been in Washington any time hardly until the keyhole fellow was telling his readers that North Carolina’s Cam chaws tobacco. A Kinston business man is going to see that some North Carolina frogs are entered in the international frog jumping contest in California this year. Here's hoping, in order to do Tarheelia proud, that he gets some of those irogs from down in Pasquotank where they jump from bank to bank. If we had a few more rival newspapers in the big cities, we would be having more stories from World War generals as to how it all happened. Meantime, many of the buck privates and underlings in the conflict would be more inter ested in having some of the higher-ups write about that bonus the vets are clamoring for. WHAT IS WRONG ON THE FARM? THERE MAY BE THOSE who tire of hearing The Star re iterate the need for more food and feed crops in Cleve land county, but it is a matter of vital importance to the fu ture welfare of the section, and one that, to our way of thinking, deserves reiteration. If we “shoot the works’’ again this year on cotton and do not produce enough food ami feed for home consumption, we'll be needing some more new buildings at the county home. No farmer should fail to read the following article by David It. Coker, the famous seed breeder of Hartsville, S. C., on “What is the Matter With Southern Agriculture?"—heed as well as read : We buy one billion dollars worth of food stuffs from outside the South. We should raise most of it. We borrowed too much money when the borrowing was good. Wo got fifty ceht dollarr and are now trying to pay the debt with hundred cent dollars. We depend too largely on cotton and tobacco—six months’ crops — and are idle too much of the time. We do not usually produce the best quality and maximum quantity per acre In our money crops. We do too little rotation. We need to develop the live stock industry and build up our soils with legumes, pastures and animal manures. We need to quit planting many millions of acres of our poorest lands and put them back into forests. We need to learn more of the new' and proved fact- of scientific, agriculture and demonstrate them more widely. We depend too largely on the negro. The "balance of trade" Is against us. We need to buy fewer luxuries and produce more n . : until we have reestablished a favorable balance. Thousands of banks have had to close and land values have almost disappeared in some sections because we have sent out, largely for luxu ries and food, more money than we have received for our products. In judicious foreclosures of laud have aggravated the situation. On good, properly handled soli, using well bred seed and correct methods of cultivation and fertilization, hundreds of fanners are mak ing from one to two bales of excellent cotton per acre. (Mr. E. D. Hughes of Kosciusko, Miss., wrote us that he produced this season three bales, weighing 498 pounds, 512 pounds and 500 pounds, or a total of 1510 pounds on one acre using a pedigreed strain of cotton.V By using Extension Service methods, yields of 300 to 500 bushels of sweet potatoes, one of the world's most valuable foods, are now often raised in this section. Pigs can be made to weigh 200 pounds to 300 pounds at six months of age by feeding a balanced ration, including corn and tankage or fish meal, with grazing on rape and rye in the winter and soy beans in the summer. It is not difficult to produce from 15 tons to 20 tons of corn silage per acre two have averaged over 18 tons during the past three years.) It is not hard to raise 500 bushels of turnips per acre, a useful and palatable food for man and beast twe produced 780.4 bushels on one acre this year not counting over 15 tons of tops.) Scrub seed, scfub live stock and scrub methods are largely what have brought many southern farmers into their desperate situation. Clear thinking and courageous action are needed to redeem our splehdld country. We must devise ways and means to put our sound, industries farm ers back on the land under conditions of financing and instruction which will allow them to have fuel and shelter, to produce their basic food and feed crops, with some money surplus for other essentials. But, that is too big a proposition for me to attack here. Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS By UENN DKUM. Remember when: Sam Morriaon started Shelby's first “jitney” service, a nickel a ride from tire square to South ShelBy or to the end of North LaFayette street ? That was 13 years ago,'just a dozen calendars back, but Shelby Isn't the same old town it was then. Some firms in business then but not in business now, at least not under the same name, were: The J. L. Suttle company, Riviere Drug company, Hull Brothers, Wray-Nix company, Evans E. McBrayer, Hoyle Az Fanning, and W. C. Whisnant. In those days— Dr. J. S. Latterly was an eye, ear nose and throat specialist with of fices in the Royster building. Dr, Sib Dorton, the veterinarian, had Just arrived in town with his college sheepskin. Rev. W. A- MeWurry had just been installs:! as pastor of the Fjes byuritn church. H J. Fite wgs Mliing Briscoe automobile* an* the Roberts ridge meter company was selling Republic tpiQi Cleveland county farmer* had just started using nitrate of aeda. 'And see what they did: then they made oniv 14.000 Dales of cotton, a' little better then one-third of the modern P?,0O0?.b«le crop ) a Dob Hord was a cadet at a Virginia military school. The flu epidemic was just subsiding, but late in January of 1919 ap proximately 150 cases were reported at Boiling Springs, Some of the boys were just leaving Prance for home, and others were writing that they'd be headed back soon. The boom had just started which eventually resulted in building 01 the Shelby hospital. Cotton was selling at 29 cents. D. D. Wilkins and his son, Mac, were in business together. ^he Paragon Furniture store had just opened for business. Louis Hamrick named the store for Messrs. Hennessu, Lineberger and Span gler, and received $10 for doing it. Just last summer (11 years later) Louis named George Wray’s golf course the "Peter Pan” and won another prize. Max Gardner was lieutenant governor. D. Z. Newton was state sena tor, and Odus M. Mull was the county representative. Jtev. Chas. A. Wood wa3 pastor of Central Methodist church. Top buggy advertisements were still being published in The Star. Gloria Swanson (My, that gal doesn’t show her age) was showing In "Every Woman's Husband” at the Princess theatre, Doesn't seem that long ago, does it? Maybe, however, those recol lections will bring in a string of "remember wherts.” A little bit of everything, but, In truth, not much of anything: Never try to explain how a black eye was received; no. one will believe the ex planation . ... . Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and Marlene Dietrich are. the favorite talkie stars among Shelby men. Perhaps you knew that . . Two of the biggest crowds in Shelby this year came to see Leo the lion and Tom Dixon's ' Birth ol a Nation” In sound pictures.Come Spring Shelby may be the home of an airplane ..... Wonder just how many male hearts skipped a beat or two when the announcement of one of Shelby’s most charming girls was published t’other day? . . . . If Dr. Harbtson would write his name as college professors do their names, he would have all these letters after it—M. D„ F. A. C; S ... Dunteskus what four of ’em stand for . . .. . Every rainy day we can see the ground hog thumbing his nose at the weather prophets who gave him the horse laugh .... Printers usually are not highbrows, but The Star force lunches regularly at 4 o’clock on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday after noons. That's after they put the paper to bed . . One of the Cleve land county soldiers who received decorations for bravery in France was a doctor who established a first-uid station in a little shrine 13 yards in front of the front line trenches ..... Every visitor to town says noth ing could look more ghost-like than those charred white columns in front of the skeleton of what once was Cleveland Springs hotel. \ Total value —- .»• selenitic di«»vcr' appetite and .^jg £©. \ cievetett® 11 phone «5 [pcu^yiSis^: ■’..and crush your wife for this woman? \ I CRIED AT MY SON ...Afather s own story of how his son climbed fool’s hill and how he finally found salvation in the lashes of a rawhide whip “TISTKN, my son—’’I shook I j with rage. “You’ve got to make a decision right now. If you take back your wife, we'll pray to forget But if you take this woman, then you go—out of my home, my business—out of my life!” Neal’s face sank — paled — then hardened with grim T, the Latemm tm ra Mr TKVE STOft r Km*, tfw Tba «o4t~arm| M~>~ tram tba March taawa at T»U» KTOIY Mitum will ba brovlHN tkia MMl ia tba TBU* rro«T Hoar whiah Im aa tba air aaah VmUr eight at * a’aioah EaMcra Ti—: 8 a'daafc Caaaral T—a. MT BON‘1 BN TMB FAMILY TYBAWT MY MAD AMBITION MB THOUGHT MB WEBB SO MODBBN The Marah TIUI rrOIY i arwraraaila aag b tba arwaasaaaa aad br gatttag roar aoBr ai oaca aad .radial ia agraaca iba alariaa la ba hcaadaaat, raar —it—a* W tbe bora will ba graarir decision. Slowly he walked toward me—slowly, desper ately he spoke—“I take—” Did Neal take back Faith ! — finest wife man ever had? Or did he burn her pure, sweet love — his father’s devotion — his own self respect, career and happi ness in the fires of this unholy passion? Read for yourself MY SON’S SIN — a father’s own true story of how' his son climbed fool’s hill and how he finally found salvation in the lashes of a rawhide whip. Read MY SON’S SIN and nearly a score of other astounding real-life stories, including titles such as “Ruled by the Dead” and “Strange Rivals” — all in March TRUE STORY MAGA ZINK. Your copy—get it— read it—TODAY! A DEFINITE PART of earnings—something each week ui each pay day . . . put into a Savings Account in the First National, backed by commanding resources is like a trading ship, seaworthy and able to combat the Cements . . . sailing to foreign lands, markets ot other nations. ... and returning with profit t<^ him who sent it forth. First National Bank Don’t Leave THEM Adrift On Life's Ocean! Life offers no sadder spectacle than the widow and children of a man who refused to face the future ... a man so lacking in foresight as to neg lect the developing of an estate that would permanently ^provide for his dear ones. The Savings Account is the keystone of estate-building. It only takes a dollar bill to start one here. / — START SAVING TODAY — UNION Trust Co. “IN ITN'ON THERE IS ST*»*N6TH J
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