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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. €. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. * SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mull, per year __.... ... 12. By Carrier, per year._. $3 LEG B. WEATHERS ...-- President and Editor 8. ERNEST HOEY —__Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM ----- News Editor L. E. BAIL —.......-— . Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January i, 1905, at the post office at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congre.'s, March 3, U79. " We wish to call your attention to the fact that it is and lias been our custom to charge five cents per line for resolutions of respect! cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. WEDNESD’Y, OCT. 14. lOftl 8 8 TWINKLES Imagine, after that last long-drawn-out session, anyone In North Carolina being foolish enough to think the legisla ture can work wonders just now. “Mr. Hoover's Plan (the one to liquidate frozen assets) Not Infallible” is the heading over the comment of one edi tor. Remembering how numerous Hoover plans have work ed out to date it seems as if the editor is, at least, on safe ground. Too many people have reached the point where they are from Missouri when a Hoover plan is mentioned. ANY SLEEPING AT THE SWITCH? TWO THINGS the citizens of this section are beginning to get curious about: The proposed new highway link be tween Shelby and Marion, and the needed addition to the post office and Federal building in Shelby. What happened to the two projects? It was months ago that an appropriation was made in the government building fund for increased working space at the Shelby post office and a third floor to be used as a Federal court room. How much longer before the custo mary red tape is to be brushed aside and construction work started ? Not long after the present State highway organization took over the road system in North Carolina, officials were impressed with the need and importance of a highway link ing the county seats of McDowell and Cleveland and open ing up a fertile section touching Rutherford county as well a> the two others. It was said then that the route would be surveyed right away, after which construction work would start. So far as The Star knows a sunev hasn’t been made as yet. When? “ASSOCIATION TIME" OF YOKE ANNUAL RED-LETTER events and occasions with the pe'o* * pie of today are somewhat different from what thc\ were in the old days. Living at faster tempo, new in ventions and conveniences, modern entertainment, and moie rapid modes of transportation have combined to overshadow occasions that were eagerly anticipated a decade and more ago. Now we can go to New York in the same time it onc< took to visit the mountains or the sea of this State. Our world has broadened out ; there are more things to do and sfe, more places to go. As a result the nearer-home event of 1915 is no longer the event it was. In some respects, the transformation, wrought by progress, has hail its good ef fects and its value; in others, the changes have tended to erase, or, at least, minimize, high spots in the year that were very essential to the better growth of a community. It is heartening, however, to note that a faster mode of liv ing and a broadening world has failed to undermine two or three institutions in this section. No one thing, The Star believes, has the potentialities of making life more worth while than the annual family and elan reunions held in Cleveland couifty each year. Instead of being gradually sub merged by the machine age. they have been bettered. Now relatives living in distant points can come to the yearly as semblage far easier than in the old days. And another thing worthy of note is that the annual gathering of the Baptist association remains a highlight of the year. Not so many vears ago "association time" was a very important period :>n the calendar. The meeting of the association of more recent years isn’t talked as much, perhaps, as in bygone days, l)Ut the large attendance at the recent session at Zion makes it clear that the yearly meeting of an organization which embodies in it the power of 12 church congregations retains its rightful place and prominence among the hap penings of the year. FOLLOWING LIKE TRUCKS TOO MANY PEOPLE think that the only reason they should not follow a fire truck to a blaze is that they have been requested not to do so. That is an erroneous be lief; the custom, one that is too popular for safety it) Shel by, is against the law. Fire Chief Robinson is attending a meeting of fire chiefs this week in Havana, but while he is away a chance obser vation reveals that the law says fire-truck chasing is illegal. Time and time again he and other officials have asked that the custom be stopped in Shelby because it slows up the fire men and thus increases fire damage and also because it en dangers the life and limb of firemen and others along the streets. Here is what the 1931 North Carolina motor law says about following fire trucks; “Section 20—What to do on approach of police or fire department vehicles, (a) Upon the approach of any police or fire department vehicle giving audible signal by bell, siren or exhaust whistle, the driver of every other vehicle shall immediately drive the same to a po sition as near as possible and parallel to the right hand edge or curb, clear of any intersection of highways, and shall stop and remain in such position unless otherwise directed by a police or traffic officer until the police or fire department vehicle shall have passed. "(b) It shall be unlawful for the driver of anv ve hide other than one on official business to follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm clos er than one block or to drive into or park such vehicle within one block where fire apparatus has Slopped in answer to a fire alarm." With the fall season approaching, which means the fir ming up of many furnaces, it is likely that fires will be on the i increase. Right at the outset it might be well to take up several for the violation of that law and thus make it clear ito the general public that the law must he obeyed. Nothing is to be gained by violating it. You may delay firemen get ting to your house until it is too late to save the building, and some speed-mad idiot dashing after the truck, just to be dashing, might hit your child. Think it over. A COTTON SESSION A SCATTERED demand continues to be heard for a special session of the North Carolina legislature to attempt some plan for cotton acreage reduction next year. So far Governor Gardner has made no formal move. He has al ready stated that he must as yet be shown that the farm ers, a major percentage of them and not just a scattered few, desire such a session. He must be assured, too, he has said, that if called the special session would confine itself to cotton curtailment. In advancing those conditions he ex pressed the personal opinion that he doefe not see how legis lation can help at this time. Many sound thinkers, among them farmers and others, agree with him in that view. Meetings have been held in a number of counties over the State. A majority of these meeting have asked for a special session. Who, we might ask, are behind these meet ings? Who called them? Who maintains the impetus of the drive to force a special session? Are they enemies of Governor Gardner, or could it. be interests that probably might profit by an acreage cut brought about by a law that may not be constitutional? One of the few newspapers in the State openly advocat ing a session is The Raleigh News and Observer. The others fail to see how any good would result. Certainly, it is gen eral knowledge that the Raleigh paper and-the Governor disagree more often than not. Perhaps one does not await until the other takes a stand before disagreeing, but, never theless, there is usually disagrement. There might have been a presumption, because of The News and Observer stand, that the Mac Lean stand, that the MacLean school fac tion was urging the special session. But that presumption, if there was such, was knocked cold last week when Repre sentative A. D. MacLean, leader of the MacLean school forc es, and Senator Hallet Ward, a supporter attended a meet ing in their county and declared that a special session nowr would not be wise. So much for that. Not a one of the meetings held, judging by press re ports, has been attended by any large number of farmers. That offers considerable assurance, then, the meetings have not been spontaneous results of overwhelming opinion on the part of farmers. Where did the urge originate? From where came the printed circulars calling the various meet ings? The meetings held to date, attended by crowds ranging from 50 to 150 people* cannot be construed as positive knowl edge that a majority of the people desire a special session. And. as we see it, it would be the height of folly to call an expensive special session on no stronger expression of pub lic sentiment. A suggestion offered by. The Greensboro News seems to contain far morewisdom. That suggestion is that a special session not be called unless a major portion of the representatives to the last legislature, who would be the representatives to a special term, make it known by written request that the people of their section demand a session. The representatives and senators over the State know far better how the people of their counties feel about it than can scattered meetings attended by small crowds. Admittedly, the opinion is divided, but every indication is that the majority oppose such a session. The Star con tinues in the belief that a special session would be of'little avail—in fact, not worth half the expense; bu.t even if a ses sion is called, it should not he called until it is assured that the citizens of the State, a majority of them, desire it al though it may be worth less than n copper cent. Nobody’s l Business L By (JEK McGEE Hat rock, news! mr. jlion Jones is thinking oi rlt ing mr. hoover to loan his 1000S so's he can tare down his lion e and bild it back with the nionney so’sj he can give his 5 boys a Job who i; l now out of unemployment miner j count of the cotton mill cut oti night work, lie says he understands that that Is the way the govern ment does when it wants to hepp j anyboddy. a tight took place betwixt the town pump and the depot yestid dy when a fine dog was run ovei and crippled by bill brown in the left hind leg while lie was coming down the street in his ford and he tried to cross it in front of him aft er a cat which belongs to mrs green and the dog belonged to joe wheel er and the sed fight was hell uy him and bill brown, but the polees i mail woke up and got there befoul any dammage was done excepp to his head with a brick bat. well, the legislatures have met in a good maiuiy states and passes1 several laws against cotton and they have put it down to nearly c5 and if they keep on trying to hepp us poor farmers, we will »!! be ruin*, legislatures are not made to benny. 1 iwlv frtJVw it ever hepps is the men who run it, and their ass sfetarits and door keepers and clerks and pages ari se furth instead of abolishing cot ton, 1 think it would be a good idea to abolish legislatures for 4 years and abolish pollyticks from now on a big quilting party was put on by the ladies aid at the home of QW deer pasture's wife, mrs mit tie lee green, and it was enjoyed by all concerned, it started at 10 a, m. and ended at 4 p. m. dinner was served by the ladies aid and it was spread on the ground under the big oak and the blessing was asked by rev, green and he asked such a long one, the dinner almost got too cold to eat. the (jilt will be furnished later on and will be given to mrs. green Chrisamas as a surprise gift to her. mis saddie lou pate has al ready told her about it. the swimming pool has closed for the season and Jerry simkins has dreened it off. he found a good tnanny things in the bottom of same that he was not looking for. but they are too techlous to men tion. but he cannot understand why they pulled them off and throwed them in It. he enjoyed a good sea son and took in about 14C and c75. he will open for blzness again next summer. yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd . corry spondent. Are You The Judge? It ain't nice to judge other folks. The Good Book says. "Judge not lest ye be judged," so I know I ought to be careful about what i say concerning others. But (here couddent be much harm in trying to (I'aeimM "Oft*in human heines : that I have met from time to time In my travels up and down this ola earth It a man gets mad or irritated when a baby cries, there’s some thing wrong with him and he ain't 'the kind of timber for use in a church In the capacity of deacon or elder. All babies cry, and the guy who fuses about the noise they make in expanding their lungs in natures way surely forgets that he cried when he was a baby. If you hear a man fume and cuss because his grocer sent him a dun, it’s a pretty good idea not to extend credit to that man. The grocer should have got mad and fumed and cussed when he asked for credit—instead of letting him have it. If a man braks about how good he is about paying his debts, you'd better steer clear of him, and if he boasts of the great amount of religion he possesses, you’d better watch him. Religion always does Its own talking. The man that kicks an innocent dog or sic s a bad dog on an innoc ent cat ain't the type of man that makes a kind father. It he's mean to dumb animals, you can just bet your bottom dollar that he's mean to his wife and younguns—and they don’t have to be dumb for him to show forth the brute that is in him. And the man that ignores the chil dren that come about him—seeking some small favor, ain't going to be on the inside of the pearly gates when they are closed. A child never forgets a favor or an Insult. Nearly everybody knows every body else. If you are a business man, Dun & Bradstreet know how you pay your debts, how you treat your family, how you feel toward your customers, how much or how little booze you drink a day. how much you owe on your car. how you got that scar on the side of your head, anw how far you may be ex pect to strain your conscience. They've got your number, and so has your boot-black, and your fill ing station man. You can’t hide anything. I believe nearly everybody is honest under normal conditions. My long-suit has been trusting people. I have dealt with thousands of men, and I do not believe that I can point out over 2 or 3 that took ad vantage of me because they had an opportunity to do so. (I did not in tend to try to preach a sermon, but I forgot all about being funny or foolish when I started thik article. Did you ever notice that most of the folks who get rich and stay rich have pretty good moral characters? Well, that seems to be the case.) Single Standard Gets Girl Free In Court| Rosa Lee Bass Gets High Point | judge To Reconsider His First Decision. High Point.—Rosa Lee Bass, who said that she came from “cotton mill folks in South Carolina.'' in her faltering sobbing voice and in j her own simple way won freedom j at the High Point bar of justice for which organized women have been fighting for years; a single stand ard of morality for both sexes. She had already received a five-; month jail sentence at the hands! of the court on a charge of im morality. John Wright, the co-de fendant, had been released on ac count of physical informities. The officers had- bidden her to rise and make ready to go to her cell When she turned to Judge Lewis Teague ! “Judge. I don't think I ought to be punished unless you give him something. He was the one who asked me to live with him H i promised to marry me but when I i found that he didn’t have money, 1 just went on with him anyway. Tears rolled down her face as she] continued. “He is here where he lias got friends and my mother Is down in South Carolina. She can't get to me.” Judge Teague reconsidered hi; first decision and suspended the sentence on condition that she go back to her people in South Caro lina which she promised to do Cause For Grief. The visitor to the small traveling , circus found two of its junior mem- ; bers weeping bitterly. “What's the matter?” he inquir- ' ed, kindly, of the boys. "The elephant's dead.” they sob bed. “Did you. then, love the big an; mal so dearly?" asked the visitor. 1 “Love him nothin’," said the two, j together, “the boss has just told u-j we've got to dig his grave.” Declared the greatest of all football pictures __ “SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAME” hnt.ertainment— thrills! Inspiration for every body. CAROLINA COMING MONDAY 10c 25c THE NEW SPORT COATS ARE DISTINCTIVE — YET INEXPENSIVE At NASH'S It isn’t necessary to pay a yreat deal for your coat if you’ll come to Nash’s. They have been carefully selected and most reasonably priced. $14.95 to $29.50 With and Without Fur* THE Tweed Suits < ARE HERE $10and $16.50 We consider our Suits absolutely out standing in Valu%s and style. Our customers are telling us so too. DISTINCTIVE Silk Dresses Just Received $10.00 Of course you'll find dresses every where for $10.00 and much less but you won’t find such distinctive styles as shown here. We are just as careful in our selection at this price as we’d he in better garments. SOMETHING NEW EACH WEEK NASH'S rnovE# j i at New low Prices | Here’s an event that will interest everyone in guest of gualitv I s^ves. It offers stoves and heaters of the highest type at prices which haven’t been approached in years I Rebecca Washington RANGES 384.50 Values Priced $49.50 HERMITAGE RANGES M5 Values Priced $39.50 Other ranges priced propor tionately low. an COLE'S HOT BLAST HEATERS Priced $12.95 to $19.95 ESTATE HEATROLAS The Genuine $82.50 to $132.50 New Low Prices! If you are interested in a stove of any type and price, see % Shelby Hardward Co. ‘WE SERVE TO SATISFY” — PHONE 330 — mm, -jv
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