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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Yy Mai!, per year ............._ $2,50 Carrier, per year ----..-$3.00 USE B. WEATHERS . President and Editor •. ERNEST HOEY ..............—... Secretary and Foreman ■tSNN DRUM -...—.....- News Editor L. E. DAI1, ..........--........ Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the post off io* at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1§79. We wish to call your attention to the fact that it is Rnd has been our custom to charge five cents per 11ns lor resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, DEC. 21, 1921 TWINKLES Three days after today in which to push your way to the bargain counters. At least one week in the year in which the value of football training makes itself evident. Somewhere—we thought the Republicans had thrown them all In the river—The Raleigh News and Observer found one of those Hoover-prosperity coins on 1928 and ran n photo of it on the editorial page. What an editorial in it self! Comment of The Greensboro News on preachers having to play checkers under assumed names in order not to of fend overly sanctimonious members of their congregations, who think a preacher should not enjoy himself in any man ner, is reproduced in The Star today. If read, it might start you thinking. HE HAS RIGHT IDEA ALL POWER TO the Democratic congressman who says he will block as best he may any attempt to start a pro hibition controversy in Congress before'something is done about economic matters. He is right. Congress will sooner or later come face to fkce with a decision about permitting the people to vote on prohibition, but just now—and in this case we’re willing to use the figures of the anti-prohibition ists—there are more people who would rather be assured of their next meal than of their next drink, if any. BRIDGE TOURNEY NEWS FOUND! A WOMAN who isn’t simply wild over bridge, or rather over this bridge tournament that is society’s battle of the century. In her Morganton. News-Herald Miss B » trice Cobb writes: "In our opinion some of the daily pa pers are getting ‘bad off’ for news by playing up the sense less Culberteon-Lenz bridge match.” How many husbands, we wonder, wish their wives felt the same way about it? But it’s a pretty good guess that Editress Beatrice plays al though she may not be getting much kick out of the big tourney. TWO LEADERS PASS THE DEATHS of Mr. Lawson Gettys and Prof. Joe Wray last week removed two native or adopted sons of this section who had succeeded in life and in doing so had won the esteem of their fellow-men. Mr. Gettys was prominent ly Identified with tvhat was then this section’s greatest in dustry, monazite mining. Since the monazite days he has been actively connected with other business enterprises. Prof. Wray had for many years lived in Gaston county, but his family connection and frequent trips back here were such as to make him well known even to the present-day genera tion. He left behind him a remarkable record of education al accomplishment. He established the graded school sys tem in Gastonia and was for two score years superintendent 'sf the schools there. Think how many careers he helped nold in that lengthy period of capable service. MORE MILD WINTER TALK AT EVERY TURN someone offers the prediction that it will he a mild winter, or, rather, will continue mild, and with the prediction comes several signs to back it up. On the op posite side are those who warn that it will be another 1917-18 winter, and they, too, can tell you why. One side of the argument must be wrong. Time will tell which. An Iredell county man, who must be a close observer of many things, writes The Statesville Daily that the ac tions of yellow jackets offers a pretty good indication that it will be a mild winter, or that real cold weather is some distance off. The yellow jackets, he says, are still rearing broods, but in the ordinary year they quit this in November. Take the sign for what it is worth. But (this being written late Friday) if we were to put down here that it is unusual ly nice summer weather for the Yule season, experience of the past shows that by the time it was read Monday or Tuesday it would be cold as blue blazes. And, by the way, how cold is that? Didn’t the expression come from one re ferring to extreme heat. And if this chatter hasn’t been interesting, do you never reach the point where you must talk of the weather or not talk? THE WONDERFUL HA BE IT IS THE SEASON OF YEAR when all minds turn with renewed interest and renewed hope to the most won derful story ever told. To those who are in that frame of mind wre offer the following Christmas sentiment as is so ably expressed by The New Outlook: “There are two places on which the world’s attention is focused a3 nowhere else: the manger in Bethlehem and the Cross on Calvary, the birthplace and the death scene of the man who “spake as never man spake” and whose teachings and Hfc are transforming the world. Both scenes are asso ciated with the world’s greatest joys; the first being radiant with the atigcl message of good will to men, and the second baing for aver linked with Christ's victory over death and *!■* grave. Christianity’s great festivals are seasons of re i joking which reach to all people and all classes, without dis tinction of age, or sex, or race,, or condition in life. God re veals himself to naen in them as the God of the people, the common people. “There is more than accident in the fact that the Sa viour of men was born in a stable, and had to lie in a manger for his first rough bed. This links the Christ, the Exalted One, with the very poorest and meanest of men; and it mak es it possible for men who are despised and rejected of their fellows to draw near to him with a feeling of kinship. The manger of Bethlehem teaches so plainly that all may read the fact that the great God does indeed stoop to the very lowest of men. The One who had not where to lay his head is kin to every homeless wanderer for everymore. “And the babe who lay so helpless in his mother’s arms tells also the story that God is Father to all men. He is the God of the weak and of the helpless; and he is especially concerned with the children. The helpless babe in Bethle hem’s manger may be poor and weak and ignorant, yet he is heir to all the fullness of God; and that baby hand, which now is too weak to clasp anything save perhaps the finger of his mother, is to sway the sceptre of the kingdom wihch is over all. Who would guess what power lay enshrined in that title-form, so weak and helpless? Who can guess what lies in the child of today for weal or for woe? , “But the chief story which the manger tells is of a love so great that it stopped at nothing in order to reveal itself to the children of men. In order to redeem men God must himself become man; and so the Christ came to live our life, suffer as We suffer, rejoice as we rejoice, and die as we die, that so he might be able to understand our nature and help us to understand the nature of the Eternal. Love stands re vealed in sacrifice and suffering as it cannot well be reveal ed in any other way. But when love impels, nil sacrifice be comes a joy. Christ did not come unwillingly to earth; he did not murmur nor complain at the price he had to pay for the salvation of men; and the men who follow him will be like him in this. We cannot reach men while we remain apart from them; only stooping to them can we lift them up; and the stooping is not hard to the man who loves. “When Christ said that it was more blessed to give than to receive heApoke out of his own experience. He received from his gifts the supreme satisfaction of redeeming men. And when we at Christmas time lavish our gifts on those whom we love we are but doing what our Master did so long ago. But he came to those who did not understand him, yet who most needed him. If our gifts are to resemble his, then they must be touched with the same spirit. They must go to those who need them most. This does not mean that we must forget our own flesh and blood but it surely does mean that we must not forget those who are in sorest need. “And the best gifts' are not those which cost the/ttyst in dollars and cents. If this were so then there would be a premium on the unsacrificial givings of the well-to-do. But this is not the case. The givings of the poor are probably much more fruitful of happiness than those of their richer brethren. The hand-made article which love fashioned at a minimum cost in money but a maximum expenditure of love, is the most valuable which humanity can produce. Christ mas is the festival of love and this is what makes it the most wonderful of the whole year. We allow ourselves to love each other at this time a little more freely than at any other, at least we express our affection more fully. Perhaps it might be better if we carried more of this free expression of love with us throughout the whole year! “Christmas should never be a season of worry. The giving of presents should not be allowed to become a bur den. The outpouring of our kindly thought should be free and unfettered. The feeling of compulsion spoils the whole period. We had better learn to give what we can afford, and to those to whom we can give with the best wishes of our hearts.” Preachers Playing Checkers In Match Greensboro News. It is difficult to believe that there prevails in North Carolina, espe cially that there prevails in the progressive county of Cleveland, such an untoward spirit as is Inti mated, if not directly stated, in the Cleveland Star's account of a checker tournament at Shelby be tween a team from York, S. C., and the cream of the crop from the Shelby area. While the description of tournament play and the large attendance which it drew are in teresting enough, it is this para graph which makes one’s eyes snap to attention: On the North Carolina, or Shel by team, were a couple of preach ers who played under assumed names with the knowledge that some parishioner might object to his parson playing the game. (Jan you imagine mat, a congre gation, two of 'em in fact, which objects, or even might object, to its parson's participation in a round of checkers? If the preachers’ fears were well-founded, the reflection ts no greater upon the churches in question than upon themselves. Puritanical congregations obvious ly have not received effective schooling in the ways of tolerance A shepherd who thinks that his flock might disapprove of certain activity, even to playing checkers, fawns obedience to or approval of : their rigorous requirements and Ithen galivants off down to a tour nament under an assumed name may find himself the center of a discussion in which hypocrisy is the central theme. But the whole thing sounds phoney. Identity of the er rant sky-pilots must have been known amongst some of the friends and admirers who gathered to sec them play, and any one knows how reports can get back to and 'spread in church, choir and missionary circles. The consoling attitude ts tn say there must be a mistake some where along the line, which may mean that there'll still a few moves left. And, until play is resumed, those interested may try to figure out what the two congregations in ques tion would think of their spiritual leaders should thfcy be so irreligious as to play a round of golf .take one of their lads, If any. a-Xishlng or to let forth a good, hearty peal ot laughter which showed they were Jactually enjoying life? Pay* Hi* Tax With 500 Pound* Pecans — Detroit.—All the way from Ocean Springs, Miss., came 500 pounds cf papershell pecans in payment on two houses owned in Detroit by Lorenz Sauer. Jr. “Several banks along the coast have closed their doors,” Saucr wrote to City Treasurer Charles L. Wiliams, “and It Is impossible to obtain money or credit. So I am sending you 500 pounds of first grade pecans for you to sell and apply proceeds against the last half of my 1931 taxes. ' ine treasurer announced ce would sell the pecans at 30 cents a pound to all comers. If all seven gunnysacks full of nuts are sold, he estimated, the proceeds will just cover the donor's taxes and pay ex press chargee. Man Use* Hearse For Bed At Night High Point.—Superstition meant nothing to an unknown unemployed hero'>tio picked out a second hand hearse in the yard of the Hign Point Junk and Metal company Wednesday night for sleeping quar ters. He was seen to leave the back doors of tills vehicle here early in | the morning by S, Aberman, prop rietor. The visitor seemed none the! worse for his berth, Mr. Aberman said Nobodys Business i By GEE MeGEE Where Are You Going? I have been trying to analyze sev eral kinds of people here of late, and I have come to the conclusion that two-thirds of us are crazy about certain things. I cannot find many people that are contented with their lot. If they have much, they want more, if they have noth ing, they want an automobile, and if they get an automolfte, they ap parently) are satisfied —for the time being. My idea of hell—for tome folks, need be nothing more no.- less than a fine place—with wonderful paved roads—beautiful field and forests— lovely landscapes—and thousands of nifty automobiles parked here and there and everywhere—theirs for the asking, with no ‘down” pay ment required BUT NOT A DROP OF GASOLINE TO BE HAD. No punishment could be greater than that for about half of our popula tion—and haven wont be heaven tff many souls unless .there are auto mobiles and plenty filling stations there. There's another clast of people that can b* punished without hav ing to swim about in a lake of fire and brimstone Think of a "here after" with palaces of gold and streets of silver—and ivory-top card tables—and scoring cards a plenty— and a crowd of anxious, hopeful, laughing auction bridge players and not a t.'ck of cards to be found. Wouldn't that be a horrible situa tion? Wouldn't it be terrible for a mil lion of our men and women to land at a place in the great "beybnd” where no cigarettes could be had? Can you think of anything lia'f as stopping at a joint—where you must spend eternity—without so much as one can of styuff or one plug of tobacco or one drop of whis key to satisfy your longings for such things? That would bs bad. Hell would be terrifying and tor tuous to thousands of our men and women—if it were a place with fine golf course—excellent golf clubs—. lovely club houses—with caddies al ways ready to go—but not a gof ball in all the region thereabouts—and think what it would mean if nil the highway patrols and speed cops that most assuredly will be down there —can't find anybody to over take and arrest—and have 'em fined $10. Gosh, how they would suffer! But mebbe we wont late our habits and our shorl-conhngs away with us. Perhaps we wont be able to think what has been. It is pas sible we will not have to do with out the things up there or down yonder that we craved so nflich here. But, to make a story .shorter-— it surely couldn’t be much worse in the iiwrong place” than the pres ent depression—with 6-cent cotton. 30-cent wheat, millions out of jobs, hungry mothers, naked children— and a republican administration wasting fortunes every day on use less undertakings. Well, this may be news from flat rock. "it" now’ for all I know, burned to mr. and mrs. jet.-" moore, at the residence of the bride's father, a bouncing baby girl and she will ancer to the name of cindy rilla. this is a new name in our community and it was found in a book where a girl could not get a pair of shoes to fit her, they are all 3 doing well. from the way folks are talking, a great mannny cars will not be run ning in the early part of the year 1932 onner count of they will hafter get new lisents plates and also a llcents to drive It—they always talk that way. but none of them will oe walking next year, excepp, mebbe, their grocer and doctor and pree cher mr. editor, in mr column last week, you spelt the following names wrong, so plese correct same; salie may brown’s name should of benii spelt "sallye mae browne,” and su die alice green is complaining about leaving some of her name off and it should of benn printed: "sudye alyce greene.” they say if they can not be spelt right, kindly leave them out; and i will do so, as i was nev ver teeched to use such spelling an soforth we thought we had suffered an other sad death in the hart of our little town last friday night when old mr. jode hoskins come home verry late and fell in the well, he thought he was climbing Into the house thru the kitchen winder, but he mistook the wel house for the said room apd wen he was drawed out, he didn't remember how he got Into the watter. his wife blamed the 2 smith boys who don’t seem to believe in the 18th amendment, but he will survive, to says dr, -carlv riser, hts ftssicaVi. yores trulie, mike Clark rfd. staTadvTpays Practical Christmas Gifts At Wray’s LADIES’ FITTED BAG Ladies’ Fitted Bags in Leather and DuPont fab ric— $4“ $16 “ LADIES’ HOSE Ladies’ Pure Thread Silk Hose, regular $1.00 val ue—Special, packed ip Christmas box, 2 pairs— $1.69 MEN’S DRESS GLOVES Men's Dress Gloves made of Genuine Pigskin, Capeskin, dressed and undressed, Kid and Fab ric Gloves, lined and un lined— 98c “ $3'"' MEN’S DktSS SHIRTS Give him a Shirt, the most useful tfift, made by Arrow and Elder Shirt makers— 1 98c to $193 Special Lot Manhattan Shirts— $1.89 LADIES GLOVES Ladies’ Kid, Suede and 1 Fabric Gloves, all new j patterns and styles— 50c MEN’S NECKWEAR Largest assortment of Christmas n e c k \v ear made by Cheney and Metcalf— 49c 10 $250 MEN’S SOX Men's Interwoven and Realwear Dress So;;— 19c 1 $1" Christmas package, '1 pairs to box— 49 c 10 $ 1 LADIES’ HANDKER CHIEFS Ladies’ Handkerchiefs in boxes and separate priced from— 25c t0 98c LADIES’ BED ROOM SLIPPERS Ladies’ Bed Room Shoes made of fine Kids, Quilt ed Satins and Felt, low and high heels— 39c t0 $298 MEN’S SCARFS Men's Silk Scarfs, an ideal gift, all new colors to match any Overcoat— 49 c t0 $395 MEN'S BED ROOM SHOES Men's Bed lloom Shcfes. Make it comfortable for him at home with a pair of nice fKruse Shoes from Wray’s , 98c 10 $3“ MEN’S PAJAMAS Men’s Pajamas, made of Broadcloths and Satins 98 c “ $3'95 MEN'S LOUNGING ROBES Men’s Lounging Robes, Silk Brocaded, Genuine Bottany Flannels— $4 93 to A. V. Wray tic 6 Sons Headquarters for Useful Gifts
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