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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. <J. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year--—......, rj.oo By Carrier, per year----,-».iuu THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY,. INC. ‘ LEE K WEATHERS ____President and Kdltoi 8. ERNEST HOEY -- Secretary and foreman RENN DRUM ...._.. ..News Editoi U & DAJL_....__—___... Advertising Managei Entered as second class matter January U IUO&, at the postoitice at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act ot Congress, March S. 187V. W# wish to call your attention to the tact that it is and has oeen our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions ot respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, alter one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, JULY 6, 1931 TWINKLES At least ten aviators have spanned the Atlantic. Name them. Miss anything out of some of the daily newspapers the last day or so? What, and Mr. Coolidge taking a vacation with his column! If the depression has bumped the bottom as many times as that movement has been prophesied then it is several ups and downs ahead of an elevator. Another Fourth is now history—and today Shelby, that part of it which celebrated, is recuperating from the excite ment. Which is to say. that Shelby stores and business hous es w'hich remained open Saturday for the convenience of week-end shoppers are today taking their holiday., If today’s Star is not up to the usual Monday i&sue, just remember that the force took a brief vacation on the Fourth, one of the few opportunities in the year thut newspaper folks may relax for an hour or so, and wr feel sure our readers I will understand. NEW-GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE? IS A NEW FACE about ready to show itself in the several cornered gubernatorial race North Carolina has in pros pect for 1932? ■ ____ Already a number of candidates are officially or unof ficially in the running. If you don’t happen to recall the names, but most of you will, they run something like this: Ehringhaus, Fountain, Brummitt, and Cox. And possibly Maxwell, Jo. Daniels and several others. But rumors flitting over the State bring in a new name. This prospective candidate chanced to make a trip across the State last week and as a matter of course dropped off at Charlotte, Shelby, Asheville and other points for short chats with friends. The trip referred to may not have any politi cal significance. Don’t bank too strongly upon our hunches. Yet do not be surprised if an announcement comes forth some of these days in the not so distant future that Willis Smith, of Raleigh, speaker in the house in the last general assembly, will compete with Messrs. Ehringhaus, Brummitt, Fountain, Cox, et al for Max Gardner’s job. BUT WHAT OF THE DEVIL THE LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, that sprightly weekly in Cald well county edited by Johnston Avery, takes a new way of expressing its wonder if Bishop Cannon isn't taking too much time off religion for politics. In Charlotte last week the bishop declared anew that he is and will be opposed to all wet presidential candidates, par ticularly and of a group that might be connected with Smith, Raskob and Tammany. The News-Topic gives the church man to understand that he has spoken in a clear enough man ner and then adds: "He is against all of these, we understand, but what of the Devil? Has the Bishop no fight with the Devil at all? In all of his long interview, and in all of the others that we recall, he has outlined no program of war against the iniqui ties of Hell. He has told us of no great zeal consuming him for the spreading of the Christian faith. This seems passing strange to us. We had thought it was the chief function of a bishop to do something about religion, rather than devote his entire thought to the next-President and politics.” GAFFNEY’S BOOTLEGGER IT ISN’T MUCH OF AN HONOR, if any at all. but just at this moment it appears as if a bootlegger is the best known citizen in Shelby’s neighboring town of Gaffney. E. B. Bolin, debonair and jaunty, was convicted ol doling out whiskey for monetary gain and sentenced to the chain gang for a run around the calendar. Prior to this last conviction it seems as if Bolin had built up quite a reputation as a dispenser of rum and was not in the least popular with the law-abiding citizens of the Cherokee capital, but officers had a hard time getting him with the goods. Soon after his conviction South Carolina's new governor, Ira C. Blackwood, paroled Bolin with the provision that he pay a $500 fine and pledge himself not to sell whiskey again. The parole did not meet with the approval of Cherokee citizens and a storm of protest voiced itself at a mass meeting held in Gaffney. Governor Blackwood naturally received considerable criti cism. That was publicity item No. One. About the middle of last week Bolin announced that he would not pay the fine to avoid the gang sentence because he did not want to pledge himself to quit messing with whiskey. That was publiigty item No. Two. Then on Thursday, the final day in which he had to meet the provisions of his parole, he walked into the Gaffney court house and paid the $500 fine. He would rath er do it, he said, than sen e the sentence—first, because cer tain citizens would get too much satisfaction out of seeing him on the gang, and, second because he chanced to know that the county of Cherokee was in such financial condition that his $500 would be worth more to the county than his services on the rockpile and along the roadways. Just how much of hia purported consideration of county finances was tinged with sarcasm we cannot; say, but we do notice that very little w'as said about the prohibition pledge. And, too, we often wonder how much value may be attached to the pledge of a whiskey-dealer or one who has been a whiskey dealer. If the pledge in this instance isn’t taken any more seriously than often happens, it is our idea that the widely publicized Gaffney dispenser of bootleg can easily make back his $500 and be on the profit side of the ledger long before his original sentence would have expired. As the months roll by we await news from Gaffney. THE POST-GATTY - ADVENTURE THERBi WASN'T THBJ thrill and color to it that was packed in the Lindbergh flight to Paris, but aviation experts rate the Post-Gatty nine-day flight around the world as the premier adventure in the history of aviation. The Interesting phases of the remarkable flight by the one-eyed pilot and his expert navigator is well described in the following comment by*The Charlotte News: Transatlantic flights arc no novelty to this air-pio neering world. Endurance tests of men and machines have been made until the round of the won! is sufficient to arouse a positive apathy. The:t will r.ever again be that first thrill of “He’s there; he’s in Paris”; never again another Lindbergh. Nevertheless, ye readers of newspapers, before your eyes has been unfolded in the last ten days one of the most venturesome, exciting tales of history. Two men, one a pilot, the other a navigator, have ridiculed dis tance .and danger and two oceans. With a deft sureness that would indicate all varieties of skill, with a precis ion that tells of days and days of planning, and with the luck of the gods in their favor, Wiley P«#t and Harold Catty have flown their good ship Winnie Mae from New York to New York, via such places as Berlin, Moscow, Kharborovsk (on the edge of nowhere), Nome, Edmon ton, in Canada, and Cleveland. They have covered in all about 16,000 miles, many of them water miles and many more over such country as would afford the least chance of rescue in case of disaster. They have covered those miles in less than ten days. Personally, we’ve no intention of sitting down to figure how many times their single motor has turned * ~ over, how many wear revolutions the propeler has been pushed to. Doubtless the noise of the engine towrads the last of the flight Avas removed from their consciousness, just as beachcombers are oblivious of the surf’s pound ing. Doubtless, too, they had forgotten that there was anything more to this Avorld than an instrument board Avitlv many dials, water or mountainous terrain beneath them, the clouds for companions, and strange people speaking strange dialects to break the monotony of fly ing on their occasional stops for fuel, rest and food. Just what sort of contribution they have made to the advancement of aviation is a doubtful matter. Some one might try it upon the assurance that it has been done before, only to fail or to have his plane fail. Someone will do it, more than likely. But the adventure—the days and days of flying on uncharted, unmarked routes, the rapid succession of foreign countries, the drawing near er to the goal and the aivful fear that something might intervene itself in the last day or so! The skill of the voyage, the tangible proof that by touching there and there, Germany, Russia, Siberia, Alaska, and New York again, they had done exactly w'hat they set out to do! The triumph of the motor, the faithful performances of man and machine!—-those, the adventure and the con quest, are great trophies, not to be begrudged Messrs. Post and Gatty by a Avorld that should proclaim them heroes and their flight the outstanding air adventure of history. Nobody 3 Business GEE McGEE— hiatry of flat rock, by re quest deer mr- editor: t have benn asked to rite up a histry of flat rock and publish same in yore valuble paper, and 1 will do so as followers: flat rock was diScovvcred by the Indians onner count of it had a big flat rock in its mist, and they there foar named the place winnle-wawa, which means flat rock in the united states language. flat rock was used for a good manny years to crack hicker-nuts and engllsh wonnuts on, but later on. some of it was blasted up and cut into stones and the ressy dents bill chlmbleys out of same, and they used some of them for tombstones ansoforth. flat rock was first settled by the browns, but a dry year hit them, and they moved off In It and 90, then the Joneses was the second set tlers, but a wet year hit them, and they busted too. and they moved off, and then the Clarks entered upon the seen, and nothing has ever benn able to bust them, but henry ford has hurt the hole f«m bly a right smart. flat rock is noted for her fine poultry and eggs and *llso for her high class beef which is sold by yora umble corry spondent, mr. mike Clark, rfd. she sent 2 stalwart men off to the war and both of them got a nice bonus not long ago, and now they each own a pretty car apeacc and bill draws a pension of 40$ a month onner count of smelling some gass at the battle of chatto therry In europe. and sam draws 26$ onner count of a mule kicking him in texas. flat rock has 2 stoars and 3 fill ing stations and a school house with a steeple and 2 teechers. and allso 2 churches without reglar pas tures, but' some visits us and preeches when-never we can raise enuft monney to pay him his per diem, the popperlatlon various from 24 to 26 onner count of deaths out exceeding the births from time to time. flat rock is composed of nice, quiet ango saxton white folks with a strong babtist leaning, but has a sprinkling Of metherdlsts, as well as a few without faith and order, she has 1 poleesman who has newer shot noboddy. if l think of anny thlng else to say about flat rock, 1 will rite or foam It In befoar you go to press. yores trulle, mike Clark, rfd Heme, James. M" wife s Aunt Collie would have us spend last week-end with her at her mount*in eettage which is sit uated only 23 miles from Asheville, 824 miles from Miami, and 14 mUes from Hogback. I had heard so much of that delightful “summer home" that I looked forward with eager ness to the time when we could re taliate on Aunt Dollle for the many surprise—visits she had paid us. I had pictured Aunt Dollie's cot tage as a beautiful green bungalow parked beneath shady oaks and en twined about with vines of all kinds, and I could imagine myself reclin ing In one of her "easy chairs” on the front porch where the Blue Ridge mountains could be seen in all of their glory for miles and miles around. Of course Aunt Dollle never did exactly say that she cooked and lighted her “summer home” with electricity and that she had run ning water and showers In every room, and that her food was well cooked and plentiful, as well as delectable and various, and that servants were so numerous that they worked in 4-hour shifts. I saw nothing but comfort and pleasure and downy beds and soft pillows, nothing but bliss and just oodlings of that—at Aunt Sallie’s before we got there. We arrived Friday afternoon after searching 4 mountain sides for “The Honeysuckle." That’s what she call ed her shack. It was a thing worthy of an artist's water colors. It had nearly 2 rooms, Including the pan try. It was covered with tar paper. It was made of boards that never saw a saw or a square. I dropped my specks through a crack in the floor the first thing, and she oc cupied the other chair. The lovely kitchen (in the left hand comer of tlie setting-bed-din ing room) contained a wonderful 1 burner kerosene oil stove, but she was out of oil. The place was lit up with a lonely lantern that hung to a lonely rafter that threatened to cast Its last beam evei'y minute The running water I was expecting to fetch so much joy and cleanli ness was running in a little stream down the mountain side about 75 yards from the bath-room which was also 75 yards from the main I building—in the rear. We had potted ham and crackers for supper. We had salmon balls and grits for breakfast. We had grits and salmon balls for dinner and for supper we had some more potted ham. Aunt Sallie and my wife slept in the bed. Me and my baby slept on a blanket on the floor. It rained on my middle and lower extremities nearly all. night. The lantern fell down and busted while we were undressing. We left Sun day morning for church and never went back. May the Lord deliver me forever-and-ever from summer cot tages. Bad Food Is a Cause of Botulism This Serioup Disease Is Usually Traced to Food Improperly Preserved, Warns Authority By R. S. COPELAND, M. D. U. S. Senator from New Tork. Former Commissioner of health, Hew York City. BOTULISM i* a serious dis ease the result of food poisoning. It* is caused by the presence of a dangerous germ in the food. .— interest in botulism in the United States is stimulated b y periodic o u t - breaks of this disease. In the cases recently reported, the infection has been traced to t h e consump tion of home canned food. At one time it was believed this disease Dr. Copeland could b« caused only by eatm^io fscted meat It has been proved that infected vegetables, par ticularly ripe olives, canned string beans, asparagus, corn, apricots, ♦lives and cheese, may cause botul ism. Botulism Is traced to food that has received inadequate treatment in th» process of smoking. canning, or pickling. It is never caused by freeh food, or by food that is served after boiling. I EssentlaJ^Precaullons. | In home canning, the food is often a few daye old when "put up." This gives time for the germs to multi ply. Further, the temperature main tained In the home process la usu ally insufficient to destroy the germs of botulism. When these germs are not destroyed, the disease is sure to appear. In preserving foodstuffs only fresh and clean food should be used. Heat ing is absolutely essential and should be kept at a temperature of I’Q de grees for at least 10 minutes. Canning is safe only when the contents of the can are actually sterilized. The cans should be air tight and boiled at a sufficiently high temperature to destroy ell germs. This is often difficult to do at home. To be assured of safety, buy only commercially canned foods which are prepared under the most rigid precautions. Cooking is net a sufficient precau tion against food poisoning. Plages remember that if allowed to stand, any food is well suited for bacteria! growth. Place all cocked food m th.s icebox to avoid any contaminates and germ growth. In this matter, toe it is vital to knew the refrigerator actually re frigerates. A temperature below 4# degrees Is essential to safetv. Cawrifht. 1931. b> ,npw.o*1hi Fcvtu*} S*nk«, 1m. I Vanderbilt Plans New Exploring Trip * * * * * * * * * Millionaire Sportsman Fits New Yacht for World Cruise of Eight Months to Seek Rare Fish for His Famous Marine Museum. Yacht * Ala/aT Wr.aW Mrs.Vll/L'IAKiKvVANDER.&Iur South Seas Iguana. The Vanderbilt yacht Alva, recently completed at Kiel, Germany, ia undergoing final touching at New port Newt, Va., in preparation for a round-the world cruiae. a The yacht will be commanded by the owner, William K. Vanderbilt, who will be accom panied on hia eight month'a tour by hie preaent wife, the former Mre. Rr.aamand Lancaster Warburtoo. % ■ The object of the cruise is to obtain rare iptcinen^ of fish for the Vanderbilt museum on Long Island, N. Y. In a former voyage through the Sevan seas, Mr. Vanderbilt, who is a Lieutenant-Commander in the United States Naval Reserve, brought back rare specimens of marine life and birds of • scientific value. The trip will start early in July. Just in time for the Fourth f Now! Lowest prices ever offered on a tire of this quality by anyone, anytime, anywhere! Equip your car NOW for vacation! Save money! Trail Blazers are made by one of the World'* Largest Tire Companies! Millions are in I use! the fairest. A They are backed by strongest tire guarantee ever written — without limit as to time or mileage. Trail Blazers have ALWAYS sold for less than any other tire of the same quality; and NOW you can buy them at the lowest prices in history! Free Tire Mounting Service at Any Ward Store! Montgomery Ward 6 Co. 139-141 SO. La F AY KI TE ST. 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