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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY SUBSCRIpTI0N pK1CE By Man, per year___....___........ $u.&o By Carrier, per year ____ jw.ou THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. (*EB B WEATHERS _ President and tdltor 8. ERNES'1 HOEY —...---... secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM —...........—................ News tautor U E DAIL--—......--- Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905 at tlie postottice at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March a, IH79. We wish to call your attention to the fact, that it Is and nas oeen our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect. ! cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice nas j been published. This will be strictly adhered to. WEDNESD’Y, MAR. 4, 1931 TWINKLES Antoher winner of the annual Hoey contest has been added to the list. Some day it will be exceedingly interest ing- to check up and see what those contest winners of other days have amounted to. Congressman Chas. A. Jonas, regardless of how some raeders may differ with him in other matters and regardless of how he may, by some, be questioned in his motives in this instance, deserves commendation for his efforts in behalf of the appropriation for the needed addition at the Shelby post! office. Paste this away for reference after the years flit by : A1 decade or more from now the legislative action of the present general assembly, modelled after the forward-looking policies of Governor 0. Max Gardner, will be recalled as today we look back upon Aycock’s educational plan as a igreat step ping stone in the advance of this commonwealth. To Gover nor Gardner has come the double task of reducing expenses' and taxes while maintaining, at the same time, a forward stride. I Josephus Daniels, able observer that he is, must have erred in this instance. The failure and passing of Pulitzer’s New York World he attributed in part to that paper’s fight against prohibition as is. That cannot be, remembering that, the majority of the successful New York and other metro politan papers are as bitter, if not more^so, against existing prohibition. Certainly that is no explanation when one con siders the growing circulation and popularity of the tabloids with their sensationalism based upon apparent prohibition failure, or upon the increasing grip of Liberty, Collier’s and other magazines which are avowed enemies of prohibition. JSifted to the bottom, The World, one of America’s greatest institutions, passed because of a lack of business acumen and the adherence to a principle which would never close an eye to wrongdoing in high places or graft among the mighty. Men differ in their versions of right, but tribute must be paid those who cling, to the bitter end, to their version. MME. QUEEN VS. ANDY BROWN JUST HOW MANY radios there are in Shelby and Cleveland county, The Star does not know. Just how many of those radios are tuned in early each evening on the Amos ’n’ Andy hour, no census has revealed. Yet to the radio fan we feel as if few written articles on recent months has so ably depicted the hold those characters of the air have upon America as a whole as has the following from the Richmond News-Leader: *'It was 2 minutes of 7. A hundred and sixty-five Richmond merchants in the ball-room of the Common wealth Club were just finishing the first course of their annual dinner. Instead of removing the plates, the wait ers silently drew back and stood in a line against the wall. Men looked at their watches. Vis a vis conversa tion lagged. The clatter of the room died out. Musicians laid their instruments by. A long pause. Expectancy. Perhaps a flutter of impatience. Then, from the stage, magnified many times, came a familiar voice—Thursday night, Feb’r’y twenty-sixth, Amos and Andy in person. Every man in the room breathed contentedly and set tled back for^fifteen minutes of undiluted enjoyment as Brother Crawford testified for Madame Queen and then delivered himself into the hands of Lawyer Collins for cross-examination. All over the United States it was so. Pedestrians dropped into cigar stores, if they were caught on the way home by th£ chiming hour. Family dinners were suspended: steaks were left untended on the stove. Bus passengers complained bitterly that the vehicles have no radio sets aboard. Motorists on lonely roads sped to the nearest filling-station. Dynamos were stopped in their buzzing interfered with reception. In the long history of American amusements, from the first fiddling at Jamestown to the after-midnight screening of the newest filth from Hollywood, there never has been anything like the popularity of Amos ’n' Andy in their newest climax. Of course, there is onh one such team, but their success ought to mean some thing to those producers who have the mistaken idea that American audiences demand tragedy and porno graphy. They want neither. Amos ’n’ Andy succeed because they are funny and because they are clean. THE NEWS OF THE DAY YESTERDAY, TODAY, and tomorrow we read in the head lines of the fall of this and that government, this and that cabinet Would not, asks the Baltimore Sun, similar current events of our own neighboring and community be more popular. Then the Sun goes on to list some of those possible community events as follows. The downfall of the Brown government was immi nent today when Mr. Brown was defeated on a vote of Jack of confidence a.^tho result of having failed for three days in succession to bring home the candles. The op- ; position, however; later withdrew its vote in order to | allow Mr. Brown one more day in which to make good. Strained relations continue between the Smith and Jones households. Failure of the Smiths to include the Joneses in an entertainment last evening was interpret- ' ed in Jones circles as being deliberately unfriendly. A i special envoy of the Smiths, however, is understood to j have made satisfactory explanations, pointing out that. ; the Smiths were not giving a party but just having a few friends in most informally. The automobile limitation conference, including re presentatives of the Smiths, the Browns, and the Joneses i continues. The conference is still looking for a mormula. The Smiths offer the suggestion that a new four cylin der car should be considered as the equivalent of a used six cylinder car. Other delegates have requested time to study the proposal. The financial crisis of the Whites continues to give concern. Mr, White holds the opinion that ultimate so lution lies in a system of longer hours and less money, j while Mrs. White inclines to the belief that buying on a large scaje at this time will at least give an appearance of prosperity which may lift the neighborhood-wide de pression. Mr. White is said to be contemplating a mora torium. This probably will meet with opposition from the doctor, the butcher, and other creditor neighbors. The insurrection in the Green household, according to last reports, has been surprised. Little Johnny has consented to go to bed and also offered an apology to mother on condition of being granted an amnesty. The league of neighbors, which meets shortly, has on its schedule such important questions as rice pudding control, contract bridge curfew at 11:30 p. m., coordina tion of party lines, and the suppression of traffic in measles. Its acJidn is awaited with interest. A PERPLEXING PROBLEM THE STAR, as ia the case of all other community newspa pers, is frequently called upon to'give, publicity to public performances, procedse of which are donated to charity or! public good. This paper has never refused to give a reason-; able amount of publicity to 1U() percent charitable causes.! Nor will it. No organization in the county has contributed more effort gratis to charity in recent years than this paper.! That flat statement we leave for verification to a check of The Star’s annual Christmas Stocking Fund, to the paper’s ever-ready response to aid the needy and the suffering. There come, however, very frequently the complaints i that you gave this or that more than you gave us. There are,! in fairness to the paper’s standards, several classifications: of public aid. Right often, too often, outside professionals; visit a city, stage a public performance under the auspices or. sponsorship of a charitable organization and then go away with a goodly portion of the net profits. These visitors are usually spotted, labelled and dealt with accordingly by The Star and any other newspaper. A play or performance in which the cast is local, the supervision conies from home tal ent and the full proceeds go to a charitable or public cause will receive proper publicity from this or any other reput able newspaper. But to give free advertising to a paid pro fessional who comes in and carries away a good portion of the proceeds of an entertainment is another matter. He has no more right—not as much—as do home-town theatre pro prietors. Neither does the show in which proceeds go to purchase articles and commodities from elsewhere that might be purchased in Shelby. The men who pay the freight are entitled to consideration, and will be so respected by The Star. In that connection, it should be remembered, first of all, that items for page one are selected, impartially, because of their appeal to the greatest number of people. A newspapr is a newspaper, primarily, because of the news it publishes. If a neighbor should whisper^ behind her hand, over the fence tomorrow, that*your school is planning a play, and your church a bazaar and then add that another neighbor’s daugh ter has been stepping out in company too fast for her, which would you inquire about first? The newspaper, remember, is first of all a newspaper. "\et no respectable newspaper will give more free boosts to a commercial itinerant than to at-home firms who exhibit and consider their publicity cost as a matter of overhead. What other fair poliev could there be? Lattimore News Of Current Week Boiling Springs Students It inner Program. Misses Morehrad And Weathers Entertain. • Special to The Star.) Latthnore, Mar, 3.—The Latlimore church was fortunate lit having a number of the Boiling Springs iutt lor college students and teachers give a program at the regular preaching hour Sunday .horning. The program consisted of the fol lowing two numbers by the ladies' quartet, composed of Misses Blanche Boyter, director of the voice depart ment, Madge Sperling, Lillian Whls nant, and Selma Davis. They were accompanied at the piano by Miss Canady, head of the piano depart ment, A vocal solo by Miss Boyter, and two very interesting talks by Mias Gertrude Phllbeck and Mr. Thomas Long. The ladies from Baltimore attend ing the district meeting of the W. ML U. at Boiling Springs Sunday ifternoon were: Mesdames Lawton Blanton, J. E. Morehead, J. L. Jol ley, Onnie Smith, L, C. Toms and Karl Jordan Young Ladies Entertain. Misses Maude Morehead and Nel lie Weathers entertained a number 3f friends Thursday evening St the home of Miss Morehead. Those pros* nt were: Misses Katie Mae Terns, Wiloree Calton, Katherine East :p. end Lyda Poston and Mesdames Cn qie Smith, L. C., Toms and Karl Jordan, Delicious home made candy was served during the evening. Miss Margaret Reynolds spent the day Sunday with Miss Edna Hr-u rill. Miss Lnla Martin, teacher in the Belwood school spent the week-end at home. Miss Ruth Humphries, of Mtmen. spent the week end with Miss • Vy.il cree Calton. Mrs. D. L. Greene who underwent a serious operation last week- in the Shelby hospital is improving nicely. Miss Carrie Rayburn of the Eli zabeth school spent the week end at home. Mr. and Mrs. Karl Jordan and Mrs. J. L, Jolley were dinner gues s Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Lynch at the Boiling Springs Junior cclipge. Miss Madge Sperling of Boiling Springs spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. N. B. Lee, here. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Harrtll of Les lie Visited Rev. and Mrs, I. D, Har iill Sunday evening. Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs of Shelby w ere dinner guests Sunday of Miss Wii oree Calton. Mr. and SttavA, U Caitoit *nd lit tle Aubrey Jr., had dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Wilson Sunjay. Miss MaSi A. Palmej ot Polkilh’ spent the week end with Miss Ka tie Mae Toms. Miss Katie Mae Toms entertained at her home Saturday night in hon or of Miss Mary D. Palmer. Bridge was played at two tables, Those present were Misses Palmer, Maude Morehead, Mattie Lou Johnson, Katherine Bastes and Katie Toms and Messrs Paris Weathers, Colin Harrill and Dr. Bridges. 30 Closed Banks To Re-Open Soon High Point, Mar. 2.—Thirty North Carolina banks which closed in No vember and December will be open ed again within a week or ten days. John Mitchell, chief state oank ex aminer, said in an interview here. A number of banks have already been reopened under depositors' agreements, some have been absoiti ed by larger and stronger institu tions and some have been taker, over by newly-organized corpora tions. the examiner said. About six teen are on the verge of reopnung; MR. BRIDGES GIVEN SFR PRISE BIRTHDAY DINNER especial to The Star ) Moores boro. Route 2. - Las; Sun day the children of Mr, S, D. Erld- ; ges surprised him with a birthday ! dinner, in honor of his 76th birth day. The table was loaded with good I things to eat and the white birth day cake with its seventy-six pink candles and green fern lent an air \ of festivity to the occasion. A good time was enjoyed by all. Those present were Mr. and Mr.' W. J. Wright and son Burgh) Mr. Holland Yande’l and children of Charlotte. Mrs. B. B. Wellman an 1 children of Do\cr Mill. Mr. and Mi ti. C. Bridges and children of Em!.* Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Bridges and chi!-- j dren of Zoar community, Miis Francis McSwain of Mooresboro. Seven children. • 17 grar-f^'.Vren i and t wo great grand children tv. re present. Dr. D. M. Morrison j — OPTOMETBIST — TELEPHONE 637.W Woolworth Bldg. Shelby, N. C j Office Ways: Wednesday And Fridays. Eyes Examined, Masses Fifte.l And ReiMfred. FROM COUGHS When children cough at night—it's a danger signal. Don’t wait until morn ing—give the cough in stant attention. Respinol gives quick relief. It stop* the cough —breaks up the conges tion and raises anv niu cus. Best of all, it lets the little coughers get their natural sleep—and gives nature a chance to aid their quick recovery. Pleasant tasting, but no sugar—no opiates—SafeI 50c in the three-cornered Ad: umriiriificint. DIVORCED BECAUSE NEARLY EATEN BY MOSQUITOES New Haven, Conn.,—Mrs. Hazel: Gilbert Miller received a divorce be-j cause mosquitoes and black Hies had i broken up her honeymoon in the] Adirondacks. She testified in her suit in the superior court that she and her husband, Hugh Miller, a local busi ness man, left New York City, where they were married on June 3. 1925, a happy couple but that her; husband brought on a quarrel be-j cause he refused to screen their cab-1 in in the Adirondacks where they! went for their honeymoon. She said that she was nearly eat en alive by the insects and that, I when they returned from their hon eymoon, they parted in the Grand 5 Central Terminal, agreeing that! their love had failed to stand the test of a honeymoon in a log cabin, -i According to Sir Henry Thornton of the Canadian National railways, students from the middle third in their classes are the most success ful in life. They are not brilliant enough to become professors, or dumb enough to have to work.~New Yorker. 666 LIQUID or TABLETS Cure Colds, Headaches, Fevei! 6 6 6 SALVE CURES BABY’S COLD j BAKING POWDER SAME PRICE for over 4o years hs double oclinq 25 OUNCES FOR 25* MILLIONS OF POUNDS USED BV OUR GOVERNMENT WILL THEY BE LEFT WITHOUT GUIDANCE? WHEN you are gone .. . Will your wife have to manage your estate her self, or rely on the doubtful judg* ment of a friend? If so, she and your children may soon be in want, help less. The modern business man. has a business-like way of protecting his family. He leaves his estate in trust, to be handled, with expertness, safe ty and honesty, by the officers of a reliable bank. You may consult with one of our officers at any time regarding our various trust plans. Union Trust Co. “The Trouble Is Due To Deficient Circulation 9J ... Easily Corrected... Like the human system, the economic system cannot function properly without good circulation. Money is the blood of the body eco nomic. It must circulate freely and regularly. There must be normal, sensible saving, and normal sensible spending. Hoarding and in discriminate buying are equally dangerous. At the present time, you can do much to hasten the return of Prosperity by SAVING and SPENDING wisely. $1 OPENS AN ACCOUNT HERE Firii National Bank SHELBY, N. C.
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