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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. U. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY - KK1DAY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mali, per year _ _ By Carrier, par year_ «.UU rM> THE star publishing COMPANY. INC. LES B. WEATHERS ...... .. President and sonoi B. ERNES'! HOEY-—--—. Secretary and foreman RENN DR DM..—--... Nears Editor 1* E DA1L-———-— --— Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January l, luoa, at the poatotrica at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act ot Congress, March S. umr. We wish to call your attention to the feet that it is and ties oeen our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect, cards of thanks end obituary notices, after one death notice haa been published. This will be strictly adhered to. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1931 TWINKLES And we are informed once more than Clyde Hoey does flbt choose to say whether he chooses to run for the senate. Double simile: As numerous as prospective governors In North Carolina or prospective candidates for the Demo cratic presidential nomination. Einstein, you know him if not his theory, says that everything in America is arranged to save energy. Correct, sir, but that s what is making it hard these days on the folks who devote so much energy to finding some method of dodging energetic work. Road Commissioner Will Neal, a news dispatch in our favorite tri-weekly informs, is “a firm believer in good roads.’* Goody! Now. Commissioner Will, what about a nice paved highway from Marion to Shelby, opening up a modern outlet for people that are the real sale of the earth? THINK THIS OVER WH\ SHOULDN T THE city of Shelby increase the ap propriation to the public librray? In the economy slash ing movement this worthy appropriation was cut in half. Unless it is increased by city fathers \his year, the library may have to close shop. What a boost for a city of 10,000 people! If a few dollars more per month, given to the library, will break us, then we have scant consideration of our chil dren and the better things in life. The resulting increase from such a move would be so great that the average tax payer would have to cut a copper cent in two several times to pay the difference once each year. THE BONUS AND THE MORATORIUM? PRESIDENT HOOVER’S MORATORIUM m<?ve is within it self commended by The Star. We believe that America is simply able to get in behind and carry out the debt delay for the sake of world-w’ide economical adjustment. It is the one outstanding move of the Hoover administration and there is no intention of making an attempt to belittle it. With the prelude, however, we cannot restrain from expressing curiosity why President Hoover and Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury and Republican boss, take one side of a principle one day and another the next. Of what do we speak? If you should be an ex-service man, or a relative or friend of a M orld war veteran, you should know. Not many months ago Mr. Hoover and Mr. Mellon bucked and kicked against paying a bonus that had been promised to American soldiers who served in the World war. Many of these veterans, who were heroes in war days, were in real need due to general conditions, yet Messrs. Hoover and Mel lon expressed strenuous and repeated disapproval of any such move. * Paying out a big bonus, said Mr. Mellon, custodian of Uncle Sam’s purse strings, “will bring on a big deficit for this country.” And Mr. Hoover stood to him. National leg islators, howbeit, driven on by an aroused people that be lieved the veterans should have a few thing promised them, said the bonus, or a percentage of it must be paid. In the fight to put the bonus measure through—and here is the vital point—it was pointed out that America had been financially able to lend money to other nations with which to pay their veterans bonus, yet America, or Messrs. Mellon and Hoover, thought it unwise to pay a bonus to our own veterans. Then came the moratorium and all nations will hold up payments on debts for a year. AND A PORTION OF THOSE DEBTS IS MONEY OTHER NATIONS BORROWED TO PAY A BONUS TO THEIR SOLDIERS. Mr. Hoover and Mr. Mellon could see where it was all right, from a financial standpoint and otherwise, to lend money to pay a bonus to soldiers of other countries, and they were the major leaders in the moratorium movement to ease up on collecting for a year, but they shuddered at the hole we might get in should we pay a bonus to our own soldiers. The deficit of the Hoover administration was blamed, in part, upon the bonus, W'hich Mellon said we could not af ford. If that was not an alibi of a weak nature, then why wasn t Mr. Mellon scared to death of the moratorium and more deficit? He wasn't scared in this instance; he was the man who kept hanging on to the French government until France finally agreed on the plan. How consistent! THE BATTLER WINS IT’S THE FELLOW who doesn’t know how to quit, the bat tler who wins. That statement is an old story, an ancient urge that many may think has been overworked, nevertheless it is in disputable. Writing his weekly article in Collier's Grantland Rice. America’s foremost sport writer, points out that a big per centage of the outstanding athletic champions had to have an extra bit of fight in their systems because it v as their lot to overcome unusual obstacles. He then pointed out sev eral examples of men who became champions because they refused to buckle up and whimper at one defeat and then another. " hen Gene Tunney came out of the navy his ambition *as to be light heavyweight champion. Gradually he built himself up. Then he was matched with Harry Greb. The latter gave Tunney such a thorough walloping that Tunney could hardly talk until the next day. Such a licking would have sufficed for all times for some boxers, but Tunney'f ambitious spirit was not crushed, although his body was battered, and he was more anxious than ever to fight and keep fighting until he got somewhere. That next morning, through battered and swollen lips, he muttered “I want Grcb back; match him up again.” And Tunney topped off his light heavyweight victory by later defeating Jack Demp sey. The fighters you hear of today and forget tomorrow are those who would have changed professions after that licking by Greb. Bill Tilden, a gangly hoy, played tennis for eleven years before he attained fame. He was not one of the many who become <j#*eourgaed in a year or so and resign themselves to the dub class. A young Atlanta student started entering national golf tournaments years ago. He placed in the first flight the first year but did not win. Next year he entered again and lost. And the next year he did the same thing1, and he kept entering and losing for eight years. How many men would have crumbled and quit in that time? But the Atlanta boy seemed to have in him the spark described in the story of the spider Robert Bruce watched—the spider that tossed its web time and again for a rafter and failed, but kept trying until it landed. Today it is difficult to realize that the youth who battled gamely, never discouraged, for eight years before he won national fame was none other than the peer of golf ers of all time, Bobby Jones. The name of "Buzz” Arlett is familiar this year to fol lowers of major league baseball because he is among the foremost hitters in the game. Fourteen years ago Arlett was a pitcher in a minor league, and a good pitcher. He had am bitions to get in the big game on his pitching ability, yet the chance never game. As the years passed by Arlett grew older. One day his pitching arm became lame. He was through as a pitcher. To the average player it would have been the end of the trail, or, at best, a few lingering years in the bush leagues, then oblivion. But not Arlett; he had his heart set on going places in baseball; if he couldn’t go as a pitcher, he’d build himself^into a hitter. He went at it seri ously, pugnaciously. Soon he could hit balls from each side of the plate, and he became a hitting star in a minor league for other years. Finally the obstinate fight that would never relax had its reward; today .the pitcher of Wofld W'ar days, a minor league pitcher, is one of the greatest hitters in the major leagues. Men have battled their way over handicaps in all walks of life. What of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, the men who flew around the world in eight days. Shut one eye and try to gauge the distance from one spot to another. It can hardly be done with one eye, but Wiley Post piloted an air plane across the Atlantic ocean and completely around and he has only one eye. He knew he was handicapped but he made the best of it and. as they say on the street, and how! Gatty his pal started studying navigation years ago. Few men who travel in air lanes today are better navigators. The fellow who directed the Post flight did not do so by acci dent. He trained himself, waiting for his big moment, until he knew exactly, or as near that as humanly possible, just what he was doing. Several years ago this same Gatty was the man who attempted to fly the Pacific with Bromley; and he’s the same man, too, who taught the mother of the "Lit tle Eaglet,” Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, how to fly. He kept fighting the odds, kept training, and his moment came. The majority of us may have no ambition for athletic fame or achieve renown in any game, or in aviation, but all of us are playing the biggest game of all—the game of life. In whatever role we are cast, although it may be an humble one, R is the same story—the fighter wins, and generally the fellow who is not discouraged when the breaks go wrong. A man without fight, Grantland Rice wrote, is like an automo bile without gas—"Can run downhill, but never up.” Re member that when the breaks go wrong and plans awry, when the clouds are dark and the outlook blue; luck isn’t the mainspring in the makeup of a winner. Instead, it is the sheer courage to laugh at the tough luck and keep moving with the idea that something better is ahead. Around Our TOWN Shelby SIDELIGHTS By HifiNN DKUM. ^x%-^^xvn>x - NOW THAT YOU KNOW, WHAT OF ITT These queries came in recently by mail, althou«h such a barrage of questions causes us to think they came from a female: "1. You haven't said a word about the moratorium. WHY? 2. You’re listed all the nominees made by others for the Miss Shelby contest; why not name your pick? 3. Instead of asking which Shelby policeman is the largest, why didn't you pull that old ditty gag and ask which has the largest feet? A Where do you get all that stuff about Shelby In the old days? 5. Being one of those wandering (and no ’count) newspapermen before you struck Shelby, do you hope some time to go back to the bigger cities? 6. Do you get pay for writing that colyum?” All right, miss (or madam), tilt your chair back against the wall and listen—here are the answers: 1. We haven t chirped about that moratorium (don't-pay-your debts-until-another-year) plan because it does not apply to eolyumists. nit-wits, parachute jumpers and other half-cracked or commonplace individuals who have never been out of debt. <But, between us two and the gatepost over there—If you have a friend nearby—if things don'* pick up we ll have to declare a moratorium of our own no matter what Andy Mellon, Herb Hoover and France may si- about it—or Frank anat either, for that matter.) 2. How do you know we haven't listed our queen anonymously’ And then you know Flo Ziggfeld Is the only living married man with the audacity to step out and say “she’s the purtiest gal I know of.” 3. The police department is next door to the pfaoe where we work_ I and write this. 4. We go out evenings and sit in the chimney corners and smoke I clay pipes with 'the old codgers. They tell us all those things nights l when we catch them at home and not out dancing, necking and blowing I yeast bubbles off homebrew. 5. No, we ll be here "fum now on'—or, at least, until they repaint ; Sunset. You see we’re one of those self-contented rolling stones, with a lot of moss embedded on it, that prefers to be a miniature minnow In a little pond to being Just one of millions of tadpoles In a big pond. 6. No. But we do enough other work around here by starts and ■ Jumps to pay the grocery every other month or so. | WHY SOME OF US ARE 1 poor, heh: heh: A worker behind a Shelby soda fountain where the youngsters pull j their fast lines says that he plans to hang a sign in his place reading | like this: "No wise cracking, If you're so blooming smart, why aren’t you rich?”j -- Shelby Shorts: Speight Beam, the solicitor, Is such an expert con ; nolsseur of delectable food that hla mouth waters every time he reads j descriptions of some of those things Odd McIntyre eats and writes I about.R. E. Black welder, the Western Union manager, knows every thing that happens in Shelby about two shakes after It happens_And, by the way, where did that expression "two shakes" come from?_No more black cats have been reported missing lately hereabouts.A well known young South Washington street man, S. B., puts fresh water In his front-lawn bird bath every day or so and he has learned that the honey bees are wise enough to know when the water is changed—and they get there soon thereafter.J. N. Dellinger has been selling groceries In Shelby for two score years. What a story It would make, and how It would be read. If he would announce the names of all those who did not pay their bills or were slow about paying them during that time. But try to get us to publish the list before we get over yonder on the other side of China. NO STARVING NOW; PIES, WINE, ETE. All Welfare Officar Smith has to do with his bread line these days is to furnish ’em with baskets and buckets and head ’em for the wide open spaces. Get up early some morning, drive (or walk, if you prefar) to the edge of the city and see the stream of colored people, with a sprinkling of white boys heading for the country. % Blackberries are ripe! JUST A FEW THOUGHTS, OR SOMETHING. We don’t believe the widow Henrietta Zander is going to marry Tom Carr. If the comic strip guy meant for her to, why didn’t he pull It off in June. (Between us, we wish Tom’d find about that hair "trans formation.” A big golf tournament without Bobby Jones playing has as much kick as a New York Yankee baseball game with Babe Ruth out of the lineup. ' _~' ' ~ ' . _____ The Moratorium (this seriously) can do very little good other than cheer everybody up, and that’s what we need. Or maybe we're dumb about all of it. There’ll be plenty of joy about Cleveland county this fall. The fertiliaer bills will not be half as large and the taxes will be cut almost in half. TODAY’S ODDITY. A young married man of Shelby went to Reno this week. No, that’s not odd. But, here’s the point, his wife went with him. And they are going to live there, for awhile anyway. WHY EXPERIMENT WITH UNKNOWN FLOURS? ctJMUlU MADE l ' icl > asouwr SUPERLATIVE Ptsuft tAGLF ROLLER MILL CO. SHELBY. N.C. UMVil -A.. YOU CAN BUY NO FINER FLOUR AT ANY PRICE. ALWAYS UNIFORM. EAGLE ROLLER MILL CO. CASH FOR POULTRY THE FOLLOWING CASH PRICES WILL BE PAID NEXT WEEK: HEAVY HINS___ 12c LEGHORN HENS_._" 8c COLORED BROILERS (2 lbs. and up) _” 18c LEGHORN BROILERS (2 lbs. and up ).14c LEGHORN BROILERS (under 2 lbs.)_12c BROILERS (barebacks)_ _ 13c COLORED BROILERS (under 2 lbs.) 13c ROOSTERS.. ’■ 4c ducks. 4c GEESE _ __ 4c TURKEYS......." 13c EAGLE Poultry Co. F. fe. ROPP, Manager PHONE 149 — SEABOARD DEPOl SHELBY. N. C. First National Bank . SHELBY, N. C. STATEMENT OF CONDITION JUNE 30TH,1931 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts._.$2,868,265.83 Overdrafts _ __ 216.34 U. S. Bonds to secure Circulation_ 250,000.00 Other U. S. Bonds owned_ 51,893.43 N. C. State Bonds_ 55,295.82 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank.. 22,500.00 Other Stocks and Bonds _ ...113,201.00 Real Estate owned _ __ 111,740.82 Redemption Fund_ 12,500.00 Cash on hand and due from other banks_612,278.20 T0TAL. $4,097,891.44 --TP LIABILITIES Capital.__ $250,000.00 Surplus _ .. 600,000.00 yndivided Profits_ 76,579.37 Accrued Interest Reserved_” 39.857.02 Reserved for Taxes_15,000.00 Circulation.. ~250.000.00 Dividend No. 56 15,000.00 Notes Re-discounted with Federal Reserve Bank _ .. 269,500.00 Deposits. 2,681,955.05 TOTAL.-...$4,097,891.44 Our statement above reflects improving conditions in this section and our people have muck to be thankful for from a financial status. Business along all lines seems to show some improvement and individuals and firms are proceeding witH caution and economy, which plan will utimately lead to financial independence and stability. We invite your banking business and co-oper ation in every way. First National Bank SHELBY, N. C. Capital, Surplus and Profits Eight Hun dred and Twenty-Six Thousand Dollars. UNION TRUST CO. SHELBY, N. C. STATEMENT OF CONDITION JUNE 30TH,1931 Including Branch Office* at Lattimore, Lawndale, Fallston, Mooresboro, Rutherford ton, Forest City and Caroleen. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts_$1,144,644.4*2 Overdrafts _ _ 93*45 N. C. State Bonds_71,619.12 United States Bonds_72,10o!oq Other Stocks and Bonds___”” 11,500.00 Banking Houses ..__ 66,528.16 Other Real Estate Owned_ 34,579.40 Furniture and Fixtures_:_II 26.861.03 Cash on hand and due from other banks_ 317,297.37 Advances on Farm Expense —_____ 1,028.65 TOTAL....$1,746,256.66 LIABILITIES Capital_ Surplus_" Undivided Profits ____ Reserves for Interest and Depreciation Bills Payable and Re-Discounts Bonds Borrowed ____ Deposits_ $150,000.00 . 150,000.00 - 12,989.40 .. 41,172.72 184,033.66 - 28,000.00 1,180,060.82 TOTAL . $1,746,256.60 The trend of business is improved and each week and month brings a more optimistic outlook. With economy and conservation as watch words, the custom ers^! Jhe Union Trust Company should go forward and strive by team-work, economy, frugality and saving to bring about an even greater financial stability through out our section. We invite your banking business. UNION TRUST CO. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
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