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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY - WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, pei rear __._. _ ga.oc By Carrier, per year ______ *a.ou THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. LE& B WEATHERS_...___.... President and HXUtoi 8. ERNES'l HOEY _......_.... Secretary and foreman RENN ORLTM -........._.... _ Newt EOltoi U E OA1L —---------...... Advertising Managei Entered as second class matter January l, 1905 at the pos tot rice •t Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act ol Congress, March i. tB'lu We wish to call your attention to the fact that it it and nai*. oeen our custom to charge five cents per line for resolution* of respect cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice nas been published. This will be strictly adhered to. X MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1931 TWINKLES Another puzzling thing is that very few hitch-hikers are among the hundreds of pedestrians killed by autos each year. Very little has been heard of the boll weevil this year. Perhaps cotton is so cheap the weevil will not be bothered with it. Wonder how W. 0. Saunders, the independent editor of The Elizabeth City Independent, feels now that the women have taken up his day-time pajama fad? Mr. Hoover is this week going on a speaking tour of the farming belt in the west. Wonder if he will have any thing to say about farm relief, prosperity and full dinner pails? There seems to be a dearth of breaks in the news photo business. Ever notice how many of the talkie stars are get ting their pictures in the papers these days—and their pub licity gratis? They’ll dress up—or undress—in a bathing suit or something .like that and, presto! along comes a pho tographer. DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT THIS FROM THE GASTONIA GAZETTE: “You can't down a man who works six full days a week, keeps out of debt and spends lefts than he makes.” Plenty of horse-sense in those lines. The trouble with the country today is that too many of us are just hanging around waiting for prosperity to get around the corner with out our help just as we always expect opportunity to come drag us out of bed instead of merely knocking at the door. Earlier closing Saturday WHY NOT HAVE EARLIER closing hours for Shelby busi ness houses on Saturday nights? As it is now many workers in the business district are forced to remain on the job too many hours on Saturday for their own physical good and another result is that Sunday school and church attendance is hurt by the late Saturday night hours. A number of those interested in a change, and the number includes workers, employers and ministers, be lieve that an earlier closing scale could be worked out with out disadvantage to anyone. A suggestion offered is that general mercantile houses close at nine, grocery and food stores at 10, and barbershops at 11. Under the present method barbershops are kept open, because of a late rush of patrons, until midnight and later. Many of these late pa trons are employes of other business that do not close until a later hour and for that reason they cannot get the barber shop earlier. When there is no set hour for closing many people put i joff their shopping and other business as long as possible. This works a hapdship on scores of employes and employers in the buiness section who go through their heaviest day on Saturday. If all cutomers and patrons of business houses knew that the stores and shops would close at a certain hour jregardless, they would do their shopping and transact their business before that hour and no trade would be lost. Business men might pick a lull hour some day soon and talk the matter over. TEXTILE MILL BASEBALL IT IS ENCOURAGING to note the interest being shown in textile mill baseball about Shelby. At least four of the local villages have good baseball clubs, one club is in an or ganized league and the others participate in regularly sche duled games each week. The majority of the teams are m^de up of youths from the mills which they represent on the field and it is that angle which is deserving of encour agement. Residents of the mill villages and of Shelby in general will take more interest in the games when they know the boys and work with them every day. There is no drawing card in sports more valuable than that of home tal ent. At the same time it gives the local youngster a chance to show his ability. Here and there in the mill villages of America major league baseball players are frequently un covered. “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, who ranks with Tris Speaker, as one of the greatest players of all time, came from a mill village and started playing baseball on a mill team. There is still another angle of merit to textile mill clubs. The old adage “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” still holds true. There is no amusement or sport which can excel baseball as a point of interest for an entire textile community. Saturday is one of the few days in the week ir which all workers have leisure time to enjoy themselves and baseball gives them something on which to center their in terest. Find a textile community which lias a good ball club and where enthusiasm is high in a sportsmanlike manner \ and you will find a textile community that is happy and con tented. It is difficult to breed trouble and unrest in such a community and the interest Shelby textile officials are show ing in their mill clubs makes it evident that they realize the general value of the clubs to the business. Just a year or [ two ago when other textile sections were seething with un L . rest hundreds of Shelby textile workers were swarming to the city park here to witness baseball games. They were too engrossed in home runs and fast fielding to be bothered with Communistic propaganda. GEORGE AND GEORGIA FOR HIM LONG BEFORE THE 1932 Democratic convention is sche duled to assemble Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New York, sems to have a far greater portion of the Demo cratic South lined up for him than did Governor A1 Smith on the day the convention assembled in 1928. That may be a! matter of encouragement to those who hope for a Democratic victory next year. In 1928, it will be recalled, Democratic delegates fromj four Southern States were given a sight-seeing tour overj Atlanta, while en route to Houston, and later banqueted at1 an Atlanta club in a hospitable manner typical of Atlanta. It was apparent, however, that the big idea behind the enter tainment was to sell the four State delegations on Senator George of Georgia.. A speaker at the informal banquet men-; tioned the fact that a majority of the delegates were in-1 structed against Smith or were opposed to him as first; choice even if uninstructcd. The wise move to make then,' he pointed out, was for all the anti-Smith delegates to unite! their strength behind one candidate and put him over rather j than divide among several candidates. His candidate ,of ■ course, was Senator George. The North Carolina delegation,! however, was instructed for Cordell Hull (remember that?) ancf other delegations were instructed for other candidates. As it turned out later Senator George polled more conven tion votes at Houston than any other candidate except Smith, the nominee. Indications now are that Atlanta and Georgia next year will not attempt to concentrate Southern strength behind a Southern candidate. That is surmised after reading a state ment from Washington in which Senator George, runner-up at Houston, is quoted as saying that Georgia is very favor able to Governor Roosevelt. The statement indicates that the senator himself is for the New York governor. That a big portion of Georgia is already in the Roosevelt column is generally known for it was at Warm Springs, Georgia, that the New York man first began his physical come-back and since that time he has retained a place in his heart for Georgia and Georgia for him. Early reports from other sections of the South offer similar indications. More of the entire South is now ready to accept Roosevelt than it was to accept Smith. Over the nation the same situation prevails; new strength is attach ing itself to the Roosevelt boom each day. But with the South splitting up for the first time in 1928 it is our opinion that the favorable talk for Roosevelt “down in Dixie1' will be more cheering to nation-wide Democracy than in bygone years when it was assumed at the outset that the South would go Democratic. Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS By ttENN DKUM. Jo-Jo, the weather prophet for The Charlotte Observer, popped out! with this paragraph in his weather report one day last week: "Stenographer Sue says she will have to do without a bathing suit this summer. A moth ate it.” And the next day a note came to this corner from a young man about town readtng as follows: "Will you please ask that other news paper monkey what beach Stenographer Sue Is going to?” THIS GUV WRITES <&JR TICKET IN VERSE Newspaper columnists have tome things in common although the majority of us cannot wear high, choky collars and eat some of the things Odd McIntyre does. Tor Instance these lines by "Radio Bell, Rialto rambler for The Concern Tribune: I sit and type my llle away Writing this stuff day to day. And on and on the clicking goes For how much longer, goodness knows. I sit here writing this and that ''Occasionally record an unportant fact But the funniest thing about it all Some folks actually read It all. golly: you wets may AS WELL GIVE UP If there are those m the audience who dream of the days when they once again may blow the suds from a foaming mug of real beer, they might as well begin dreaming about other Spanish castles. The editor of the Kings Mountain Herald takes the following method of saying pro hibition Is here “fum now on": Prohibition is here to stay. It can be moved from our Con-* stltutlon as easily as you can turn over the Rocky Mountains with a tooth pick. Whenever a humming bird becomes able to fly to Neptune with Mt. Mitchell tied to his tail then the wets will be able to annul the 18th amendment. Now. who was it that said this corner was readable only upon oc casions when ideas were borrowed from writers who had them? Shelby Shorts: Give Miss Vera Arwood. of Polkville and formerly of Shelby, a hand. For several years Cleveland county has been showing the state how to grow cottou and Miss Arwood Journeyed cfown to Char lotte last week and rendered an essay on how to market the cotton after it Is produced—and she won the prize .... Jiggs got a big hand-clap ping In Shelby t'other day when he walked out hi his old-fashioned night shirt to go with Maggie and the daughter, all dolled up In pajamas, to a party ..... Milky Gold, the best prospective footbal star this section has developed In years, has not decided as yet what college he will lug the pigskin for next fall. That should be tip enough to the alumni who look after such things for the dear old alma mater .... "The m'nlature golf course would have some more players and the baseball games would draw larger crowds," says H. W . "if admission prices were slashed Wouldn t It be better to have the course covered with people and the stands filled at reduced rates than to have only a few at higher rates?” . . Say 8helby isn't right much of a country town yet it you so desire, but at the curb market they'll tell you that the two things most in de mand are trytng-slz* chickens and homemade cakes. Any man who ha-; .lived on the farm more than a year doesn’t think it is a Sunday dinner without those two delicacies. Draw your own conclusions .... GEE! GEE. WHY SPEAK OUT IN PUBLIC? Gee McGee, rival ot “Ike's Talc" and this corner lor coiumntstic honors, If any, In Tlie Star, lives in South Carolina, but they have legis latures down there just like we do up here—long-drawn out ones, too. If you don't believe it, turn to the last paragraph In his "Nobody's Business" today. <P. S. Maybe It would be better if Senator McSwain and Represen-1 tatlve Edwards wouldn’t look). It will br rather cool for swimming by fair week but from afar conies this message: “I'm coming back to the old burg for the fair week home-coming and I'm going to show you birds that I can swim up through the rocks at Chapel's Bend.’’ The remainder of you old Shelby boys, scattered from Connecticut »o Leavenworth, better get In training. It may be best, too, while getting your ducks In a row for the trip back home not to say anything to he wife about the Initials on those old trees out there. TWO RAILROADS THAT WERE NEVER BUILT Just seventeen years ago this month a bond issue carried in Clove land county by 302 votes to take *80.000 stock in two railroads to be built in the county. One road was to be built from Shelby to Casar via Beam, Mill, Belwood and Fallston; the other was to be built from Kings Moun tain to the South Carolina line via Shelby and Boiling Springs. Now try to buy a railroad ticket to Casar or to the South Carolina line by way of Bolling Springs. Tut, tut! Maybe we shouldn't have re membered that. * • • • • That tame year Shelby folks figured that by now the news for Tlie Star would be set on a Cade machine instead of a Linotype. • * • • June, 1914, was quite an eventful month about Shelby. The Dover and Royster families were on a big trip to Washington and New York and j a writlng picture postcards back .... Mr. and Mrs. Ogburn Lutz and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Washburn were away honeymooning (they didn t! go togetheri. • • * • A SIGHT TO SEE; IT MUSTA BEEN In those days, seventeen years ago, automobiles were as much of a rarity as airplanes are now—maybe more so—and motor trucks hadn't come along. We gather all that from reading a little item tucked away in one corner of The Star. Mr. Ephriam Stroup, well-to-do Cherryville citizen, came to Shelby about the middle of June and purchased a calf from Mr. W. H. Blanton. And the editor wrote "It was a sight to .see Mr. Stroup riding along the streets with that calf in the automobile with nim.” • , • • • Of course some one will hop up and say, "Why bring all that up so let’s call it a day and go over on the court square and whittle til dark. I DO YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL? I a Use Classified Advertising In The Star. J ■ 20,000 Readers and the Minimum Charge r ■ for a Want Adv. is Only 25c. Phone 11. r o ■ b ■ a»aua ■■■■>si3iiibibbi;> Diarrhea, Dysentery and other forma of dia ordcred stomach and bowels, respond quietly Vo and imd relief from ANTI-FERMENT. For more than II generations it has been used by adults for up-set stomach and by mothers fori their children to avoid Colitis. % At all ! drug stores 60c and 75c. n 1 Build With Brick DELIVERIES FROM PLANT TO JOB When in need of FACE OR COMMON BRICK write us, or phone 75m, Mt. Holly, N, C. 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