society;
NEWS
MRS. RBNW MWTU, MHn
Vetepoone The Star no 4-J keh Morn tog • To M O'clock
Ur* Drum can to reached to bar ho me, Phono H9, afternoon and nights
liNATT/MNABl.r
Perhaps T owe vou something. - Tou
have been
Through desert years * beautiful
mirage.
a tantalising phantasy of *m
A dear disturber of my dull meat
age
Mirage —not art oasis. Nevei that.
Always you tricked me with a phan
tom spring;
Oboctiv the palm tree* in who*
shade we aat.
illusory the date* that you would
bring
To mitigate my hunger. Bull. 1 say.
Perhaps 1 owe you something after
all.
The dream persists, realities decay;
The lovely vistas we attain to pall
Upon pm fancy Ult. we count them
cheap.
Vou were a dream that I can a 1 -1
wavs keep
loaeph Upper
Ishpentng Club
Meeting Postponed.
Attention of lshpenmg dub mem
bers is called to the fact that the
tegular meeting scheduled lor
Thursday afternoon ol this week,
with Mrs. Draper Wood has been
postponed until next week on ac-1
count of the fair Further art-]
nouncement of the date will or
made later
First Division Of
rtnh To Moot.
The first literary division of ll>
Woman's club will hold its repul. r j
■tooting on Thursday afternoon .it
S SO at the club room with Mer.
Oamee Evans Shull. P M Wash
burn and Miss I.aura Cornwell act
ing as joint hoste.tses. Ml member
are cordially invited and urged to
be present
Mr. Sod Mrs. Schehck
Hosts To Ct»b.
Mr. and Mrs. Jean Schenck cor- ,
dial tv entertained members of the'
Fortnight bridge club at their home
in Cleveland So rings Estates or. I
Friday erehir.g Budge was played j
at three tables and when scores
were added Mrs Sam Schenck was
winner of ladies high score award
and Mr. W. L. McCord of the gen
tlemen'* prtee. simple refreshments
were Served during the evening
Birthday Celebration
For Mri. Ledford.
The family, relatives and friends
of Mrf Q Monroe Ledford met at
her home in the county near here
yesterday and surprised her with a
birthday dinner on the occasion of
her 7?nd birthday. About 75 'friends
and relatives were present to do her
honor. A large birthday cake with
randies was placed before the lion
nree who was asked to blow out the
randies. Afterward a bountiful pic
nic dinner was enjoyed.
I .Oct nr* Sponsored By
Honk CTnb la Footponed.
Anffouneements have been made
in some of the city's literary clubs
nf a lecture. being sponsored by
member: of the Contemporary book
club, which was to have been given
by Mrs Albert Lathrop on October
*. at the Woman's club here. The
club regrets to announce that the
date of this lecture has been post
poned due to the illness of Mrs.
l.aihrop Further announcement
concerning it will be made later
Mrs. Julius Suttlr
U Club Hostess.
Mrs. Julius Suttlr graciously en
tertained members of the Twentieth
Century' club at their first meeting
of the fell club season on Friday
afternoon. The feature of the aft
ernoons program was an interest
ing discussion of "Television and
Other Modern Means of Commun
ication' given by Mrs. \V. M Line
berger. Mrs. F. R. Morgan gave a
short talk on Current Topics. Dur
ing the social half hour deliciou
refreshments were served bv the
hostess
•ridge Dinner At Club
h Mach Enjoyed
The bridge dinner given at the
Country club by members of the
two golf clubs on Saturday night
was well attended and proved a
very attractive affair. Flowers wen
arranged throughout the club room
and a delightful two-course dinner
was served by a committee of club
membera. After dinner bridge was
played at seven tables during the
evening, at the close of which prizes
were awarded to Mrs. Earl Hamrick
and Mr. Charles Williams for high
scores, Mrs. Hamrick receiving e
deck of cards and Mr. Williams a
carton of cigarettes.
Pruett-Cotev
Wedding Announced
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Goforth an
nounce the marriage of their
daughter. Lucille Pruett, to Wil
liam Lee Coley on August 32. 1931,
at York, South Carolina.
On Monday afternoon a few in
timate friends were invited to (he
home of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Oo
fnrth. After the guests assembled
marriage of Miss Lucille Pruett and
Mr. William Lee Coley which was
solemnised August 33.
After extending congratulation*
to the bride the guests were served
a delicious Ice course.
This wedding comes as a surprise
to their many friends. Mrs. Coley
i« a graduate of Kings Mountain
high school in the class of 1931.
They will make their home with the
brides parents for the present.
Curtis- Velton
Marriage Announced
Announcements are being issued
this week of the marriage of Mi.,s
Mary Lou Yelton to Mr William
Edward Curtis, ,jr. the latter of
Newport News, Va . which took
place yesterday at Lawndale The
young couple left immediately aft
er the ceremony Tor a Ijrief wedding
trip by motor. after which they
will make their home at 2303 Par
rish avenue. Newport News.
Mrs. Curtis is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. J. Yelton, of Lawndale,
and is an attractive and talented
young woman of that community.
Blanton- Butler
Marriage In Greenville
A marriage which will Be of in
terest to friends here was that, of
Mrs. Ellen Butler, to Mr. Arthur
Blanton, both of Greenville S, C.
which i Ook place there at the
home of the bride’s sister. Mrs D
1 lewis, on Friday evening at 8
o'clock in the presence of only a
few relatives and friends, Immed
iately after vhe ceremony Mr. and
Mr,. Blanton left for a wedding trip
to Washington. New York. Niagara
Falls and other points of interest
While away they will visit Mrs.
Blanton's sister in Jacksonville.
Michigan. They are expected to ar
tive in Shelby the latter part of
this week to visit relatives here be
fore returning to Greenville where
they will make their home. ,
Mr Blanton, who is a soil of Mrs
Liraie Blanton, of Greenville, 8 C
is a native of Shelby. being a
brother of Mr. Hershel Blanton, ol
this place. He is m present employ
ed a:- a conductor on the Southern
railroad.
Mr. And Mrs. Hover
Celebrate Anniversary
The celebration of the 44th wed
ding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs
J* R. Dover, arranged by their chil
dren, for last evening, came as a
complete and delightful surprise to
Mrs. Dover, Mr. and Mrs. Dover
with their son. Mr. J, R. Dover. Jr.,
and Mrs. Dover, had spent the day
yesterday at Lake Lure and return
ing last night found other memly'i5
of the family and a few friends as
sembled at the home on S. Wash
ington street to celebrate the occa
sion at a dinner. The table wa
decorated with pink roses and tall
white candles, lighted white can
dles being used also on buffet and
serving table. A large white wed
ding cake graced the center of the
table An elegant four-course din
ner was served
The children of Mr and Mr.
Dover who were present /or the
occasion were: Mrs. DeWitt Quinn
and family. Mias Katherine Dover
Mr. Charles Dover and fam
ily, Mr. J. R. Dover, junior, and
family, all of Shelby Mrs. Frank
Love, with Mr Love and children,
from Lincolnton Mesdames Char
les Roberts and R. G. Laney, with
little John Dover Laney, of Red
Springs, and Mr. Toms Dover of
Richmond. Vn Other friends and
relatives, of Shelby, who were pres
ent and were also present at the
wedding supper 44 years ago. They
were: Mr. and Mrs. S. A. McMurry.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H, Quinn. Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Toms, Mr. Stowe
Wrav Bnd Mr. Joe Buttle. The chil
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Dover pre
sented them with several hand
some gifts.
Makes Successful
Test On Tobacco
CON TIN USD PROM PACE ONE I
another money crop and enables
him to diversify. And Burley is the
cheapest kind of tobacco to grow
because it does not require a heat
ed barn in which to cure Mr.
Elliott is not investing much in
labor and curing barns, realizing
fully that to make a profit now re
quires the strictest economy and
lowest overhead. One of his newest
sheds, built hard by the old Dr
Cabaniss home which is 100 years
old. was erected at a cost of *15. He
used lumber from his own timber.
Tobacco has been grown profit
ably in Cleveland in the past. The
soil is well suited and at one time
there were many tobacco barns
here on the spots near Eastside mill
and where the C. C. Blanton resi
dence now stands. One reason for
its failure was the lack of a near
by market, but with good roads and
trucks the cost Is small to carry
tobacco to any ot the markets in
this and adjoining states
Many farmers are visiting the
Elliott plantation and investigating'
[his experiment*.
DePriest Flays
Hoover Tactics
A ndProhibition
CONTINUED 1- ROM PAc.t ON* ,
in* public confidence, public coin
age and general prosperity.
“Tlie time has come for some
strong man t oarise and point ou*
to the people, that which they dimly
but none the less vividly realize,
namely, that 'panics of fear like
this are unnecessary and could be
prevented. It was thought for years
that the Federal Reserve System
had made panics impossible That
system, if handled properly, prob
ably could be made a watch-dog, a
protector and a preventer of ‘depres
sions '
Federal Reserve System At Fault.
"As it, is, I sincerely believe that
much of our present 'hard times; are
due to the dumbness of the admin
istration of the Federal Reserve
system. It treat* its member banks
like so many step-children.
"Thousands of good member
banks have failed because of frozen
assets,’ In a near-by city a fine
bank, with a gigantic skyscraper as
its chief frozen asset, was permitted
to close-up. while the Federal Re
serve system, with billions of Idle
gold available, could have and should
have saved it. Of what good is the
Federal Reserve system, if not to
help banks when their assets do not
liquefy quickly enough?
"A niggardly, parsimonious and
Shy lock spirit was never contem
plated by the originators of the
Federal Reserve system
"Tire Federal Reserve system has
never lost one cent of monev. but
has made billions Better that it
should have lost a thousand million
of its profits, in the laudable effort
to stifle a panic, than that this ter
rible depression should have descend
ed upon bur country.
“Our limps are out-oi-joint And
rail for drastic measures to put thorn
back 'in joint- again
I.earn From Russia
“Have we in this countrv no
statesman great enough (o see the
necessity of taking a leaf from the
book of the soviets? Now. I am no
bolshevist; I hale communism; but,
III the Russian government can take
over the entire farming Industry of
Russia and make « success of Its
production in terms of hundreds of
millions, on the one hand, and then
right on the oilier hand successfully
sell and distribute their enormous
agricultural production, ought not
our government directly, or indi
rectly through some federal sales
system, handle our entire cotton,
wheat and corn crops, so as to as
sure to the humble planter that the
products of his sweat and toll and
money-investment should not be
each and every year a gamble—al
ways a fear in his mind each spring
and summer that fall and winter
may find him bankrupt by loo-low
prices and facing starvation?
“The raising of cotton and wheat
and other needed products ought not
to be a gamble. The communist
would take out the gamble by hav
ing the government own everything
produce everything, sell every
thing. But capitalism—the principle
by which a man shall have the
right to own that which lie produc
es—is the basis of civilization. If we
wish to preserve civilization, we
must save capitalism. But capitalism
has many defects—6-cent cotton and
>0-cent wheat are two of them.
Tiiere are good features in both j
systems why not combine them?
Let the government assure that |
I he farmer who produces shall hav*1
a decent reward for his efforts. The
state 'the government > can make
prosperous the farmer who produces
In plenty And. in the entire his
tory of the world, the prosperity of
the farmer has never failed to re-1
suit in the prosperity of bustness
and industry!
"Hoover and other fogey states
men have never realized that the
age of machinery has brought en
tirely new problems on the world.
They still plow with wooden sticks
in their political philosophy.
' Another great Issue before the
For ‘Control’ Of I.iquor.
people is the matter of government
al control of intoxicants. I am for
control. Attempted suppression tthe
so-called ‘prohibition’i, termed by
Mr Hoover a ‘noble experiment,’ has
failed, and its failure grows more
colossal day by day
"Eleven years of failure are enough.
I am speaking of the nation as a
•whole. Why should North Carolin
ians say to New Yorkers what they
shall not eat and drink? New
Yorkers don’t bother us about the
14th and 15th amendments? Why
not abolish the 18th amendment
and let the states work out their
own solution of liquor control?
T boldly assert, and have the sta
tistics to prove that North Carolina,
under State prohibition—from 19081
to 1919. had far less crime, fewer
courts and fewer prisoners, in pro
portion to population, than it has
had during the era of national ’pro
hibition’
"While 1 would like to see North
Carolina temperate and yet liberal
on the matter of drink control, my
concern is with the enormous evil
which the 18th amendment has
wrought upon the great metropoli
tan and industrial centers of ouv
country, north and west even more
than south—the reign of the boot
legger. the gangster and the en
riched criminal classes wliich have
arisen on the wings of -prohibition
The taint of crime, fostered by pro
hibition in the great cities and pop
ulous states, is gradually spreading
and penetrating the rural Southern
and Western states We are becom
ing infected
People Are Anti-Prohibition.
“The level-headed citizens of the,
north and west have seen for some
time the evils of national prohtbi-j
tion.
“They would have elected Smith
but for his pronounced Catholicism.
As It. was. lie reduced the Republi
can vote and percentage materially'.
Purbling Indeed must be the Re
publican who can not see thp de
struction of his party, if it persists
In championing the unpopular ‘dry’
fanaticism.
"The Republicans steadily lost
New Jersey until that. State put up
wet. Republicans.
“On a straight-out ’wet’ and ‘dry’
issue in 1930, the Republican party
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH IT?
Three Proportions are Open to You:
(1) Sell it now at the lowest price in 26 years, a
i>rice far below the cost of production, and help to run
prices down to still lower levels;
(2) Haul it back home, throw it out on the ground,
uninsured, and subject to fire and theft risk, and loss *
weights and country damage, and put no money into
circulation in your community; or
(3) Pool your cotton now, avoid fire and theft
tisks, avoid loss in weights, avoid any damage, draw
> our advance within one cent per pound of market value
plus amount due for better grades and staples, help put
money in circulation, and still hold your cotton.
There is a far better opportunity for cotton to ad
\ance beyond the 6c level this year than there was for
it to advance above 10c last year or 16c in 1929.
: Information gladly furnished by oui* Field Man,
Receiving Agents, and \yarehousemen, or write the Ra
leigh office. C. C. Horn, field representative. Shelby.
Association’s interior classer at Planters and Merchants
Warehouse. Shelby, Monday. Wednesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
NORTH CAROLINA COTTON
GROWERS COOPERATIVE
ASSOCIATION
RALEIGH. N. V.
lost wherever it was 'dry.’ won
where it was "wet’ and saw the
Democrats, championing the wet'
cause, triumph overwhelmingly in
the great pivotal Republican states,
such as New York. Massachusetts.
Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana. Illinois,
Missouri, Kentucky, etc. California.
Wisconsin, New Jersey etc elected
wet Republicans.
' I would vote loi a mudiiicalion
ol the Volstead act, the amendment
or repeal of the 18th amendment,
and stand for referendums on the
question in both state and nation.
Canadian System Superior.
' 1 believe the Canadian system is
far superior to ours. Sale of spirits
by the state—sale of wines and
beers by hotels and restaurants
(with mealsi; sale of beers by gro
cers and druggists.
"Canada has the same kind of
people as the TJ. S A.-a highly
mechanised civilization. Superb
roads, automobiles as thick as here.
But her method of liquor control'
does away with bootleggers, gang
sters. racketeers, and reduces crime
to a minimum. No drunken people
in public; practically no drunken
driving; far fewer automobile acci
dents than here.
I believe liquor can be and
should be ‘controlled.’ Its attempt
ed total suppression is a farce: and
brings other and better laws into
disrespect.
I would advise those who make
‘prohibition’ their religion to pray
that mother nature should abolish
the law of fermentation. Until fer
mentation stops, men will drink;
more people drink now than ever
before; more boys, more girls,
mores the shame!
The fanatics have never forgiv
en Jehovah for not putting ‘Thou
shalt hot drink' into the Ten Com
mandments.
Thank God the people have
awakened. The Literally Digest poll
showed it and last year’s elections
prove it.
'T have great faith in the wisdom
and goodness of the American ijeo
ple. They see clearly the vast evils
engendered by national prohibition
—the crime, the murder, the insan
ity, the intemperance, and they re
gard as fools those who say these
things are not an issue in the next
election
' As for Mr. Hoover. 1 feel as does
ex-congressman and Editor C. L
Knight of Akron, Ohio, who wrote
in his paper: 'The poor man in the
White House does not know what it
Is all about, He is a dead cock
in the pit. . It Will be suicide for
the Republicans to nominate him’ ”
It Pays To Advertise
Shot Meant For
Another Strikes
Odis Ledbetter
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. i
day morning County Judge Weath
ers placed them under $500 bonds
each on the charge of assault upon
young Ledbetter. All the prelimin
ary cases are scheduled to be heard
Tuesday, October 6.
Just what all took place in the
Ledbetter yard while the tragedy
was being enacted will not likely be
known until the hearing. Some re
ports have it that one or more 01
the Russes had hold of the Ledbet
ter youth when his father fired ft'
them and killed him. Another re
port is that the Russes had started
for their cur when they saw the
elder Ledbetter emerge with hi'
gun.
Mr. Ledbetter was stricken with
grief at the tragic turn of the night
and the mother of the youth near
collapsed. The entire Buffalo sec
tion was shocked by the accidental
shooting and It is .still the talk rl
the section.
Funeral services tor young Led
better were held at the home, just
beyond the mill village, Sunday and
a mammoth crowd attended. Bur
ial was at Cherryville. Both fam
ilies are well-to-do and generally
known over the county and have
the sympathy of their friends in
the tragedy which darkened two
households.
At The Theatres
The Webb took the lid off a
brand new bill of entertainment this
afternoon, featuring "The Bar
gain,” a heart-warming domestic
drama—of the sort that might hap
pen in any home. Starred in the
cast are Lewis Stone, Charles But
terworth, Evelyn Knapp and others.
"The Bargain" is filmed from the
Philip Barry prize play of the
same name. Short subjects of var
ious entertainment value complete
the program, today and Tuesday.
Rose Hobart is the popular star
at the Carolina today and tomor
row, in "East of Borneo,” considered
by critics to be among the most
unusual pictures ever filmed. Char
les Bickford, who played with
Greta Garbo in "Anna Christie,” ,'s
doing the lead opposite Rose. Miss
Hobart recently appeared in "Lil
liom” with Charles Farrel, and
more recently in "Death Takes a
Holiday." The story exposes many
very exciting struggles betwen man
iand jungle beast, through nine
I thousand miles in the tropics
Federal Court 1*
Continued To 19th
'CONTINUED PROM PAUE ONE '
3 general summary of federal laws
and the increasing importance
thereof due to the fact that mod
ern transportation and invention:
have brought the world closer to
gether and have eliminated isolat
ed regions. Any number of evils, he
declared, can be haudled only by
the federal courts and there are
numerous crimes with which only
the United States court and its ol
ficers can cope. He particularly
stressed the enforcement of the
prohibition law as long as it is a
law, declaring that it should be re
spected and obeyed just as any
other law.
"I am not here io tell you, ‘ ns
said to the jury, "that the prohibi
tion law is a wise law or an unwise
law. I am here to impress upon yc-j
that it is a law and that you should
do your part to see that it is enforc
ed as long as it remains a law. A
citizen of the United States has a
right to oppose the passage of any
lawr and the same right to criticise
the failure to pass a law. The citi
zen, too, has the privilege of belie\ -
ing that the prohibition law should
be retained or repealed, but he has
no right to violate the law. He may
not have favored it at the start and
may not favor it now, but that gives
him no authority to infringe upon It
or to violate it. Since we have the
prohibition law it is your duty as
jurors and the duty of officers to
enforce it as well as the duty of
citizens to obey it.”
In his opening remarks Judge
Parker paid a compliment to the
ability of Judge E. Y. Webb, for
whom he was substituting, and to
the record of the late Judge James
L. Webb.
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Negro Shot Sunday
Near Brook’s Chapel
Ned Gldnft Shot By Boy Hattrrv.
Latter Makes Getaway After
Shooting.
Ned Gidney, colored \va.s serious
ly shot, in a brawl Saturday night
near Brooks chapei Roy Hatlen.
colored, who is charged with doin'!
the shooting escaped and has not
been captured.
Gidney. shot in the tomach, is a
patient at the She lb; hospital
Jewel Hamrick, colored was
slathed on the arm in anothet Sat
urday night brawl.
Penny Column
WANTED TENANT FAMILY lO
help gather crop. House furnished
See Max Wilson near Cleveland
Springs at once. 2t 28c
OCT. 8
Community Players
In
"The Florist Shop"
And
"The Valiant”
High School Auditorium
Curtain at 8:30
Welcome—Fair Visitors
Come see our selection of famous nationally advertised
brands of Shoes—
WOMEN’S
$1.95
ALWAYS
MEN’S
$2.95
ALWAYS
Ladies save up to Sli.oO on som,e of the world s be«l
shoes.
— THE BEE HIVE —
‘‘The Bargain Center of the County”
SHELBY, N. C.
You Are Welcome
TO REST, EAT YOUR LUNCHES, AND
Make Yourself At Home
With Us At The Fair
In Our Big Tent Just Outside The Middle Door Of The Exhibit Hall—
West—The Same Location We Had Last Year.
HELP YOURSELF TO OUR
FREE ICE WATER
Plenty Of Chairs To Rest Yourself As Long As You Like.
FIRST AID SERVICE
If You Can’t Find Our Homey Tent, Just Ask Somebody in the Exhibit
Building
COME REST AWHILE WITH US. Leave your coats and packages
with us, see the Fair and have a good time.
Lutz & Jackson
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
PHONE 72