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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year.. $a.ao By Carrier, per year....__ $3.00 t'EE B. WEATHERS--—.. President and Editor 8. ERNEST HOEY .- Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM ....—---.— _. News Editor I*. .X. BAIL -....- Advertising Manager Entered as second clasa matter January 1, 1906, at the poet office at Shelby. North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March S, 1819. We wish to call your attention to the fact that It la and has been our custom to charge five cent* per line lor resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1931 TWINKLES Too many p«opl« absorb flattery, knowing: it to be flat / ten. A1 Capone seems to have been placed on a spot where, after so long a time, he must realize that money cannot buy * r some things. A young Shelby man, we learn by The Charlotte Ob server, is assembling data for a book on the depression. Why not use a deflated bank book and save the trouble? When it is possible to see over the telephone the re fined people who never say anything back when the line is busy may become better known to the hello girls who can see their faces. Futile dashes to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow may yet influence Governor Gardner to call a spe cial session of legislature, but his serit us and sincere efforts not to do so will be remembered as the months to come un fold their story and reveal the lack of wisdom of such a move. It is tragical that political power in America is often so potent that a misguided populace can overrule the better judgment of men who are reluctant to being stampeded into what they consider folly. But the people rule. ADDENDA THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER comments upon the manner in which Cleveland county had a big portion of its cot ton crop picked this year despite the shortage of pickers. Two thousand school children were turned out, remarkes The Observer, to aid in the work. Correct as far as it goes. But for a number of years Cleveland county rural schools have opened six weeks earlier in the summer than other schools so that school children might take a six-weeks re cess at cotton-picking time and help In the WPrk. And around seven or eight thousand school children, instead of two thousand, help with the job. DR. MITCHELL DEATH ,HA$ STRUCK Shelby several heavy blows in the recent months and the last few years. Many depend able leaders have been called, and the passing of men who know by experience how to advise their younger fellowmen is always a blow to any community. Dr. W. F. Mitchell was not an old man as years go, but for over 30 years he had practised medicine here. In 30 years of practice any phy sician in a rural section and in a small city builds up ties, friendships, and dose relations that are valuable! A phy sician in such a section is second only to the minister. In addition to this professional quality, Dr. Mitchell had a per sonality, that won friends. His passing breaks another link that joined the struggling dayB of a county seat town and the more prosperous days of a hustling little city. MIGHTY GOOD IDEA SOME READER MAY get the idea that The Star is*“hyped” on eliminating a few railroad grade crossings, because of the reiterated comment about the Southern crossing near the Dover mill. It may seem so, but if all citizens could see the wreckage of one crossing crash—debris of automobiles and wagons and broken and crushed human bodies—they would come nearer realizing the value of such changes. Reports are that one of the preliminary surveys of the proposed Shelby-Marion highway will eliminate both South ern grade crossing on the present Polkville road just west of Shelby. The first crossing is just east of tho city water station and the second just east of the Dover mill village. The Shelby-M&rion highway should mean much to this sec tion, but if it did no other good, the elimination of those two crossings would within a few years justify the highway at this end and the changes made. LEADING ONCE AGAIN THE LATEST cotton-ginning report informs thar Cleveland county Ul once again ahead of all other North Carolina counties in cotton production. More than likely the county will retain its lead through the remainder of the ginning sea son, but this year it is a cheapened honor. Leading the State in producing something that fails to repay the produc tion cost is nothing to become overly enthused about. A gratifying angle, however, is the fact that a major percent age of Cleveland farmers this year produced an abundance of food and feed in addition to their cotton. What cotton they produced may bring very little on the market, but, thank goodness, the majority of them will have something to eat and something to feed their stock. In the coming years this year should be remembered. Think how prosper ous the farmers of Cleveland would be with 50,000 or more bfles of cotton in a year when cotton is selling at 15 or 20 cqgts and with enough food and feed produced along with the cotton to eliminate in purchasing, with cotton money, of food and feed produced elsewhere. TOPNOTCHERS by Kbt • WNt 75%ep« IHKgPlb fivbpf GSDttP Mfi EACTH n ftp WOHOVIAM Winnie mae’ of Oklahoma m. THIRTEEN HOPS KEEPING THE MUSIC IT IS ENCOURAGING to learn that Shelby parents are re sponding to the movement to maintain musical instruc tion in the city schools. This year the school budget,'due to economy slashes, did not provide for the return of O. B. Lewis, instructor in that department last year. Mr. Lewis, however, came back on his own book, believing that enough parents would pay private tuition for their children to as sure the continuance of the band and orchestra and general musical instruction. Reports are that he has met with grati fying results. Last year his band won first honors for the State in its class .and the orchestra and individual musicians did honor to themselves, the school and the community. That was worthwhile work, not to mention the more important angle of giving the necessary instruction to Shelby young sters who have musical talent. From a more material view point, the support of the tuition plan might have been ex pected. Parents had already invested hundreds of dollars in instruments for their children and it is nothing more than economy to conserve the use of those instruments and in doing so to advance the musical training of the students. THE TRUNK MURDERESS FREQUENTLY, when there seems to be nothing else to complain of, someone takes a crack at the newspapers for publishing crime news. The Star does not believe, and subsequently does not endorse, the exploitation of crime news and sensations. No decent newspaper does. Yet news is news and the reading public demands it. In fact, the crav ing of a big percentage of readers may be behind the heavy exploitation of crime hv some of the more sensational papers. Take the Arizona trunk murders in which the young Mrs. Judd shot two of her feminine friends, dissected their bod ies, packed them in trunks and shipped them to Los Angeles. Already she is selling her story, at so much per word, to the glary-headline newspapers and magazines. Soon there will be a ludicrous and tragic little song of the double killing on the market in the form of phonograph records, and pos sibly a movie based upon the gruesome slaying. These things would not be paid for and offered to the public if the public refused to pay for them On occasion When criticism is off ered because of crime news and similar-matters it might, be well to remember that there wouldn’t be so much of it if the public did not demand it and clamor to pay for it. The depression and other events of the ages, you know, have not altered the law' of supply and demand. Go to the source of the trouble, or the rottenness, if you care to put it that way. CLASS JUSTICE MR. COATES, the University law professor, in his address to the Shelby Lions club, at a recent law observance program, said sevei%l things that should be said. It is foolhardy, when the actual evidence is not at hand, to say that justice is bartered in North Carolina and else where as sacks of corn are sold and purchased. It isn’t like ly, to be frank, that such is done to any noticeable extent, if at all, but the general public for some reason is inclined to believe that the more fortunate class of people fares better in law violation, or enforcement, than other classes. Prof. Coates is reported to have said that not a single man of out standing prominence has ever been electrocuted in North Carolina. We do not have the necessary facts at hand to endorse that statement, but we do know that no great num ber of prominent people have been roasted in the death chair. It isn’t necessary to restrict such observations to North Carolina. There’s A1 Capone, chief of the gangster. chief tains. Until his recent sentence the average citizen had reached the conclusion that ‘Scarface Al” was immune when courts started grinding. *They had every reason to reach that conclusion. While Capone was making a fortune with his bootleg and extortion rackets, poor white thieves and negroes were being sent up for dealing in short pints and for petty larceny. Certainly, the sentence of Capone should do much to increase the respect for law. More power to judges who look upon all defendants as violators without discrimination because of their backing, their wealth, or, in some instances, their social prestige. But Prof. Coates, according to the report of his talk, said another thing which is equally as deserving of public attention. There are judges, he declared, who are known as hard judges and others who are not so hard, or, in other words, judges labelled as “soft.” Lawyers, as he says, have > a habit of attempting to delay their cases until they can have them tried before the so-called “soft” judges. To a certain extent a barrister cannot be criticised for doing so as his in terest is that of his client. The solution, if any, probably lies in a strict code of punishment for certain violations no mat ter who or what the defendant may be. Circumstances be hind the scenes, not generally known, we admit, have an important bearing on court hearings. In some cases there is a certain amount of justification, in others none. The Coates suggestion, in summing up his remarks and offering a remedy, was that regular conferences be held at intervals between all agencies of the law—the officers, the judges, and others. Such a plan might prove valuable despite the at * ways certain element of human nature. It should do good for officers to be told occasionally where they overstep their proper bounds or are delinquent in other respects. It should, likewise, be worthwhile if a few frank-talking officers could have the opportunity of recalling incidents they considered errors on the part of the courts. And it would be equally as beneficial, we believe, to bring in the public, if the aver age citizen could be persuaded to get the inside of some ar rests and trials before offering criticism. Try New Stunts To Get Business Gain In County Merchants And Business leaders Try Every Trick In Bag To Produce. W ashington.—American business men, with business not so good, have been stimulated to try out a l sorts of new stunts and other ef forts designed to attract trade, one finds in reports which the Depart ment of Commerce picks up here and there. Hotels are developing the idea of providing room, meals, sightseeing shows and other entertainment at .> combination rate for the entire service, increasing their flow of guests. All-expense week-ends are becoming more popular and were offered especially In resort hotels during the summer. ‘'Miniature” trout-fishing has suc ceeded the pee-wee golf craze in some states and Fisheries Commis sioner Henry O’Malley thinks it may become generally as popular | as the pee-wee enterprise did for awhile. Concrete pools and race ways are installed and stocked with legal size trout obtained from com mercial hatcheries. The ‘‘player” pays a fee for admission and use of tackle and then so much an inch for such fish as he catches, He can keep the fish, of course, to eat. Suitable surroundings and water supply are necessary, however, lim iting the possibilities of this new' "industry” In the cities. • • • * Eight merchants In one city com bined to persuade everybody to throw away straw hats and buy fall hats Sept. 15. They got the mayor to proclaim an "official fall hat day,” released from airplanes old hats tied to parachutes and gave new hats to the finders when they presented them to the stores from which they originally came. A beverage firm in the northwest Is using “living billboards," with live models, to attract customers. Big crowds gather before them and business at nearby soda fountains has picked up surprisingly. Grocery chains are extending their closing times and many may now be found open from 6:30 p. m., as In Washington, to as late at 10 p. m„ a closing hour reported from some western cities. A New York department store has been promoting a "Dress-of the-Month" scheme, carrying “the smartest dress in New7 York priced reasonably" and in a limited edi tion, for a month %t a time and no longer. Many “national weeks” are being ballyhooed, most conspicuously "Na tional Wool Week,” beginning Nov 9 and designed to Interest consum ers In products made from wool. Booksellers are offering trade-in allowances after the fashion of automobile dealers. Many of them allow 25 cents for clothbound. sec ond-hand books on the purchase cf any new book, although the book traded in has to be considered sale able on second-hand tables. A sports shop has an annual “best-dressed golfer” contest In con nection with the annual city tour nament, stimulating s^les for golf ing outfits. Another store during the summer gave away four free swims In a local pool with each bathing suit sold. A Canadian mail order house is; Issuing a new catalogue every two months instead of each six months and a mall order house in the United States has inaugurated a monthly publication to supplement its catalogue. The National Association of Shirt i Manufacturers has asked the Bu reau of Standards to establish r. practicable shrinkage limit for shirts and determine prevalent practice as to dimensions of shirts of pre-shrunk material A south western department store, to dem onstrate non-shrlnkabllity ar.d wearing qualities 0f a new line, had several shirts laundered 26 times in succession and then displayed them Fresh frujts and vegetables wrap pc*i in transparent cellulose oove! tng are being pushed by a grocer chain. Cauliflower can be kept a week longer and tomato spoilage reduced materially, it Is claimed. Minneapolis— Speedy work by firemen saved Matthew Sutton, 9, from suffocation when he was bur led in a cave-ln of a tunnel In which he was playing. Imagine a speaker telling the un employed that “time is money." If a farmer be one who grows hi food and feeds there are very lew farmers in this section of the woods HOME OWNED STORES CO u X O H co THERE’S NO WITCHCRAFT «• about the abiltty of the Quality-Service Grocer to serve you with your daily kitchen needs quietly, quickly, and — economically! Give him an opportunity to serve" you. More than 2,000 or the bouth t be»t grocer* are member* of the OSS organization! Our (tore* are filled with the bc*t in Food* ... and itockcd with all *ea*onal items. Luxury Pineapple £X£* « 25c Pillsbury's BEST FLOUR f'orget luck in baking—use this “bal anced’' flour! 24-lb. bag .. 85c SHELBY PURE PORK SAUSAGE 20c POUND WATAUGA FINE FLAVORED Kraut 3 N°-2 1C SHIVAR’S Ginger-Ale 3 BOTTLES Kraft’. Cheese i Lb. Package 20c Cakes w Crackers oven-fresh: FLAVORY! THEY’RE GREAT! Banquet TEA i Lb. Can . 25c SNOW KING Baking Powder - 25-oz. can ... 23c S. & P. PEANUT BUTTER - Lb. Jar .23c O’BOY Sliced or Regular BREAD - Loaf .9c CLEEN-MADE MACARONI - 2 Pkgs.. 15c (NOODLES OR SPAGHETTI) RED SEAL CORNED BEEF - Tin.23c FRENCH’S MUSTARD - 2 Jars ...25c EAGLE CORN MfcAL - 10-lb. Bag.. 20c DUKE’S MAYONNAISE - 8-oz. Jar.19c WHITE HOUSE COFFEE - Lb. Tin .37c ISAAC SHELBY FLOUR 24-Pound Bag .. 55c SUNSHINE Cakes & Crackers 5c Packages 25c STAR WASHING POWDER OR STAR SOAP “Old Friends Are Best.' A 3 FOR IOC Palmolive BEADS — 3 pkgs.25c FAMOUS SILK MANUFACTURERS REC OMMEND PALMOLIVE BEADS FOR WASHING FINE FABRICS. OCTAGON TOILET SOAP MOST REFRESHING FOR Q 10c OQ TOILET AND BATH! O Cakes£OC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FANCY ICEBERG LETTUCE LARGE HEAD_10c LARGE GOLDEN BANANAS l POUNDS ..22t U. S. NO. 1 IRISH POTATOES 10 POUNDS 20c FANCY SWEET Potatoes, 6 lbs. 12c V. SHELBY 10—30—31 filUMJITY- iERWIII EE-STORE! a c 2 fr C S 2 tr C w w C a; tr cr HOME OWNED STORE?
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