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at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress. March 3. 1879
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FRIDAY, APR. 3, 1931
TWINKLES
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There will be much interest over Cleveland county, The
Star suspects in the naming of the new force of deputies who
will go into office under Sheriff Irvin Allen when lie is sworn
in Monday.
OTHER MEN’S WIVES
GOVERNOR GARDNER has received a letter from a writer
who urges that he pass a law to stop married men from
running around with unmarried girls and the wives of other
men. If other legislation is too congested for the Governor
to comply with the request, he might write hack and sug
gest that married men could not run around with unmarried
girls and other men’s wives if the girls and wives refused to
go. Takes two, you know, to make a trade.
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SECURE GOOD SPEAKER
IT IS ANNOUNCED in today’s Star by high sehool officials
that Hon. Dennis G. Brummitt, attorney general of
North Carolina, has been secured to make the address to the
senior class at the Shelby High sehool commencement the
latter part of next month. The sehool and the graduating
class are to be congratulated upon their success in bringing
Mr. Brummitt here for the biggest occasion of ihe year for
the school and one of the major occasions of life for the
young boys and girls who will that day be leaving high school
forever. Mr. Brummitt is an able speaker, a leading states
man and for some time has been considered a prospective
candidate for governor of the State in 1932. All this section
is naturally interested in all of the men talked of as possible
successors to Cleveland county’s first governor, O. Max
Gardner.
A MASTER SPORTSMAN PASSES
KNUTE ROCKNE, “Old Rock,” was to football what Bobby
Jones is to golf, what Lindbergh is to aviation, and what
Rockefeller is to finance—and more. And with a blinding,
almost unbelievable suddenness, Rockne died this week in an
airplane crash in Kansas.
The Norwegian boy who came to America and scaled
the heights of fame was without doubt the greatest genius
the various branches of the sport world knew. Only 12 times
in 13 years did his great football teams leave a field in de
feat. For years America has thought of football in terms
of Rockne as the nation thinks of baseball and Babe Ruth
simultaneously. But Ruth is a mere player; Rockne was a
psychological inspiration. His genius, his belief in the
rhythmic combination of physical speed and quick thinking,
his advocacy of clean living and fair play* have spurred
thousands of American boys onward on the gridiron and
into the game of life. Few, if any, deaths could have left a
bigger gap, one felt more generally throughout a nation, in
any class of modern civilization than that of the famous
Notre Dame coach.
In paying final tribute to a sportsman unexcelled it is
recalled that in the realms of monarchy it is “The King is
Dead! Long Live the King!” Rockne was undoubtedly the
King of Football, and the one consoling thought emerging
from the clouds of gloom now enveloping the world of sports
is that Wallace Wade, Duke University coach, stands head
and shoulders above the many who may aspire to Rockne’s
place as the psychological leader of the great gridiron game.
WOULD HELP THE WEALTHY
SUPPORTERS OF THE general sales tax or the luxury tax
methods of providing funds for the State support of
schools in North Carolina would make the little man believe
that the imposition of either tax with the removal of all land'
taxes would relieve him and place more of the.burden upon
those more able to bear it. Such, as Governor Gardner de
clared in his masterful address opposing a special tax, would
not be the case. The tossing out of that variety gf propa
ganda to the little man is merely the following of an ancient
custom of bunkoing the little fellow into putting another
yoke about his neck.
Those who read the Raleigh News and Observer are lead j
to believe that all of Eastern Carolina is up in arms to put
over the MacLean measure in any manner possible. But the
Raleigh paper does not have the full support of the press of
Eastern Carolina in that view. Read this from the Elizabeth
City Advance, a paper that keeps in close touch with the
people: *
The News and Observer would apparently leave the
impression that this (the sales tax) would mean a lift
ing of a burden of $332,811.28 from the backs of the
small farmers and home owners in the foregoing coun
ties. It would be interesting to inquire, however, how
much of this relief would go to the Norfolk Southern
railroad, how much of it would go to the Roper Lumber
company, how much of it would go to the Richmond
Cedar works and how much to other big absentee land
lords? How much of it would go to wealthy owners of
eity real estate that is paying a fair return on the money
ipvested in it? Moreover, it is not contended that the
MacLean act would reduce the cost of schools.! If the
railroads, the lumber comnanies, other big corporations.
and the absentee landlords are going to pay less taxes
than heretofore, it stands to reason that more money
than heretofore for the support of the schools is going
to come out of the pockets of the plain people?
The people of this section who know A. 1). Mac
Lean of Beaufort can not help hut smile when they see
Mr. MacLean hailed all over the state as the champion
of the tax burdened farmer and small home owner.
They know MacLean as a corporation lawyer. They
know him as division counsel for the Norfolk Southern
railroad and the Roper Lumber Company. They
know him as an astute Scotchman. But they never be
fore heard of him hailed as the friend and champion of
the small home owner and dirt farmer. They just can’t
escape a suspicion that when Mr. MacLean talks of the
tax burdened landowner he is thinking of the impover
ished Norfolk Southern railroad and the land poor Roper
Lumber company that under the ad valorem system are
contributing so largely to the support of the public
schools in North Carolina.
Mr. MacLean in the heat of debate the other day in
timated that in his speech before the general assembly
against the sales tax, Hinsdale or Day; Governor Gard
ner had either made a jackass of himself or assumed
somebody else was one. Well, according to an ancient
authority, the ass knoweth his master’s crib. And if it’s
a question of whether O. Max Gardner or Angus Dhu
MacLean, js making an ass of himself in this sales tax
fight The Advance will have to vote for Mr. MacLean.
It should be noted, also, that the Elizabeth City paper
is not the only Eastern Carolina newspaper which differs
with the Raleigh paper.
The Wutmngton btar says btop the sales tax ana save
the State.”^Th^Wilmington News terms it “ a shackle on
business and industry.’' The Durham Herald says “There
is no fairness in either tax.” The Kinston Free Press,which
supports the MacLcan bill but not the sales tax method of
raising the needed revenue, says “The Free Press is in ac
cord with Governor Gardner in opposing the sales tax.” And
the Fayetteville Observer joins the others in commending
the Governor for his stand.
In conclusion, it is generally known that the press and
people of Piedmont and Western Carolina are opposed any
form of special tax. All these look to the upper house ot
the general assembly to save them this week from such an
unjust method of taxation. This may or may not be done
when this is read, but the widespread opposition to either
form of special taxation is set down here as a matter of
record.
Around Our TOWN
Shelby SIDELIGHTS
By RENN DRUM.
Perhaps you hadn't noticed It, but times have been hard ever since
the town clock stopped running.
That observation ought to cause the next grand jury to say some
thing more about getting the old tlck-tocker going.
Just a memory tickler: How many rainy ends of the month have
there been since last September.
Shelby Shorts: Somehow we had hoped that the bill collectors would
do a little April fooling Wednesday morning, but they didn't; by 9 o’clock
the stairway was filled ..... One of the comely entrants in the Miss
Shelby contest Is of the opinion that T. H. Is the best looking fellow en
tered In the Mister Shelby corner.. That might be a good idea: Let the
Miss Shelby entrants vote on the best looking man. and In turn have fire
candidates for the Mister Shelby honors say just which lady should be
Miss Shelby . . . . . And a young girl, who claims to abhor dates, is posl
i tive that J. T. Bowman is Shelby's handsomest man.The students
of the No. 3 school should be careful; they may cause this colin to be
come unduly egotistical by inviting us to be a judge ih triangular de
bates and such as that. Still they haven't informed how many of them
could tell, without looking It up. who was the candidate for vice presi
dent when J. W. Davis ran for president oil the Democratic ticket . . . .
Ever see Bill Osborne, the hardware man, without a cigar? Or Jim Aus
tell when he wasn't willing to talk about dogs or chickens? . . . . There'll
be a lot of chatter about Mrs. So-and-So’s hat this time Sunday after
noon. And any amount of exclaiming about the form-fitting, eltng-to-me
dress that Miss Jokfonle Doe wore . . . . Wonder how many Shelby men
will wear spats In the Easter parade?
Clyde Hoey gave the superior court room a good laugh this week. The
popular attorney hasn’t been In the court room regularly this term, but
he halted long enough to relate this one:
A cook, he said, in a Shelby home had picked up the evening paper
and was reading it while the family ate supper. After the meal the
cook asked her mistress, "What's all dls here 'companunate marriage’
dey talkin' so much about in de papers?"
“Oh! that means,” the lady of the house replied, "that a couple de
cides to live together and try out married life for awhile before deckling
whether or not they will marry for keeps.”
"Lawsy me!" exclaimed the cook. "You white folks is gittin' mu' lack,
us cullud folks every day.”
Jimmy Love, the man who gave the land on which Shelby is built
to the new county of Cleveland for a county seat, was not a harness
maker, but a farmer So Informs Mr. Sam Andrews, who, being a direct
descendant, should know what he Is talking about
This from Mr. J. L. Putnam, an esteemed reader of the colra:
“Tell the No. 3 school children that the Queen variety of sweet potato
makes a bloom occasionally, but they are late in the fall. I have never
seen any seed. I have seen many Irish potatoes seed on the old unim
proved varieties. Possibly that is the reason you had so many reports of
little tomatoes on Irish potato vines.
“Ask the No 3 students these questions:
1. —Which way does a bean vine wrap around a stake?
2. —Which way does a watermelon seed point-—to the heart or
to the rind?
3. —Is there any fruit or vegetable, growing above ground, that
produces without bloom or tassel?
4. —What is the sunny side of an ©Id cow with her tgil to the
wind?
'And here, if readers ts 01 try to answer the questions before reeding
on, are the answers
I —A bean vine followa the sun. A hop vine goes the reverse.
2. —In some cases watermelon seed point both ways.
3. —A fig Is said to produce without a bloom, but it has what
w- rail a bloom on the Inside and nroduccs an abundance of seed
■1 —Tlie outside of the cow "
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A little o' thls’n* that-, but not much of anything: There will neve:
be another Knute itockue R. L. Ryburn, dean of the Shelby bar, i*
back from hts annual winter siesta in Florida . . Odd McIntyre was
wrong. The last syllable of the movie title •'Cimarron" is not pronounced
"roon” but “ron.” That’s how we thumb our nose at the big boys—when
we know they never see it.The April Fool announcement saying
that McMurry and Dorsey had withdrawn front the race for mayor and
that Lon Hamrick had won the cigarette prize caused more talk than:
any feature story Die Star has published this year . . How many peo
ple know wllat subject the nigh school debaters are arguing about in
their annual triangular debate this week . .. Lindsay Dail, The Star's
aa expert, was a trained actor In the Little Theatre at Rocky Mount, but
he is being called upon too much for Ills services in that line in Shelby j
to permit him enough spare time too look about and find THE main ;
reason why a man who once eats a peck of corn meal in Shelby always
stays here “fum now on".The husband of Ruth Turner, former :
Shelby girl, is Wilton Garrison, of The Spartauburg^Herald, one of the
best sportwriters in the Carolinas ....
Just, one more before supper: How many chimneys on the Court
view hotel building.
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