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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mall, per year - 13.50 By Oarrler, per yeer ----*3,00 t.rw. B. WEATHERS ___ President and Editor S. ERNEST HOST __ Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM __ News Editor U E narr....... Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at tha post office at Shelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress. March S. 1879. We with to call your attention to the fact that It 1* and has been our custom to charge five cents per Una tor resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, tfter one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1032 TWINKLES Tt Is about time for some pessimist to bob up and ask what we’re going to celebrate on July Fourth. The summer of 1932 will go down in the books as the summer in which more people were trying to quit taking a vacation instead of trying to figure out how to get one. World war veterans of Cleveland county are going fo have a big rally out to the fair grounds on June 28 and they plan to eat ‘‘slumgullion,’' camp and pal together as in the old days. And it’s our idea that they may enjoy it more than are the boyB camping with the bonus army in Washington. Just a neutral observation: Some of the Morrison sup porters and likewise some of the Reynolds supporters are predicting majorities for their candidates with all the opti mism of Frank Grist., and that’s optimism as is optimism as we recall. Hoover’s economy plan is that of a vacation without pay, and since he mentions it, he should be forewarned that that is just what the'people of the United States are plan ning to give him and his party in November. And a long vacation too. The State Democratic convention left. Candidate Foun tain without, a leg to stand on or a platform to run on, but^ a man who demanded a second race after trailing by more than 40,000 votes in the first race will not likely be worried about a few little things of that type. COOLIDGE AND HOOVER THE REPUBLICAN national convention seemed as scared of the name of Coolidge as some of the Democratic State conventions in the South were of the name of A1 Smith in 1928. There isn’t much about the calm, unruffled Coolidge to excite enthusiasm, but, there is even less about Hoover and the mention of Coolidge at an opportune moment, might have started an embarrassing stampede showing just what the Republicans themselves think of their 1932 standard bearer. NORTH CAROLINA FOR ROOSEVELT IT IS A MATTER OF PRIDE to the average North Caro lina Democrat to know that the delegation which goes to Chicago to represent, him and other Democrats of the Stata will cast North Carolina’s 26 votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt. For weeks prior to the State Democratic con vention last week it was clearly evident that the majority of Tar Heel Democrats were loyal and enthusiastic supporters of Roosevelt, just as, it might be added, the majority throughout the country seem to be. The instruction of the North Carolina delegation for Roosevelt should have the psychological effect of swinging still other delegates behind him and enable Roosevelt! to win on the first ballot or at least on an early ballot. And it will be pleasant to North Carolinians to khow that their support will JQ tQ Chicago for the man this nation will in all ability turn to for dependable leadership for the next four yean. There is something about Roosevelt which catches the admiration of all classes and his plea for conditions en abling the little man to have an even break at life has made him a favorite in a day and time when many little men are troubled and worried over the outlook of continuance under present conditions. ECONOMY IN ACTUALITY, NOT THEORY The news article in Friday’s Star telling of the finan cial condition of Cleveland county schools contains facts which deserve consideration and command attention. It is doubtful, judging by the figures cited, and figures do not lie, if there is a more economically and wisely-man aged school system in North Carolina than that of Cleveland county. The schools of Cleveland, the report shows, measur ed up to all State standards last year and did good work. To carry on that work and to measure up the tax-payers of the county were not forced to dig down and pay out a single cent above the amount set aside bv the State. In fact, according to Supt. J. H. Grigg, Cleveland county had around $2,000 left from the amount allotted to the county by the State. That means not only running within fthe budget, but slightly under it. Such news is interesting news to tax-payers and school patrons alike. One reason that school costs are not so burdensome in this county as in others is that the county board and officials have been economical and conservative in the past. As was pointed out. in nearly every adjoining county there is a single school building which cost the tax payers of those counties more than the total school indebt edness of Cleveland. Indebtedness means additional taxes, and in Cleveland taxes have been held down by the refusal to go in debt unless it is absolutely necessary. That school record •measures up to another official coun ty record. In comparatively recent years Cleveland built a new jail, remodelled the county home and made other im "Now, Everybody’-Hip-Hin-Hoo-Ray''' r X . ism) oua HERO ! provements out of the current county income without going in debt a single cent. Those are some of the basic reasons why today only one of the TOO counties in North Carolina has a lower tax Tate than Cleveland. Economy to achieve its real goal must be practised regularly and not spasmodically. HOEY AN INDEPENDENT PACIFIER CLYDE HOPIY has about reached the point where he is the pacifier and breach-mender of the Democratic party in North Carolina. And for a peace-maker he is unusually plain-spoken and independent in upholding his own views when it becomes necessary, in his opinion, to express him self. Warring factions will listen to him when they are in clined to listen to no one and they respect his views when those views differ from their own. The reason in all likeli hood is that they know him to be sincere in his opinion and men respect and admire sincerity no matter how much they disagree with an opinion. His hold on North Carolina Dem ocracy is further strengthened, it appears, by the fact that: the majority of the Democratic voters in North Carolina know that he advocates measures with the interest of the party at heart, and not to gain public favor or honor because, of his reiterated declaration that he does not care for party! honor or office. Last week the only row at the State convention devel oped over the majority and minority prohibition planks. In the final analysis, there was no great difference between the two. The offering of a minority report merely served the purpose of bringing into the open an increasing wet senti ment in the State. When the time came to defend or attack the majority report, a report that assured the right of the people to express their opinion on prohibition and other laws but likewise assured that so long as a law remains on the books it should be enforced and obeyed, Hoev lost no time in standing to the report. The modificationists and repeal ists were already booing and yelling. It was a rather dan gerous time to speak. A few scattered boos from the wets met Hoey as he arose to express the opinion that North Caro lina delegates should not. be sent to Chicago in direct oppo sition to prohibition without permitting “the hundreds back home,” those not at the convention, to express their opinion. His was a reasonable argument. He declared openly and frankly that he was a dry. His frank declaration and his logical argument served to calm a meeting that was getting riled and unruly. When he sat down a great cheer filled the auditorium. Tactless remarks or too much sliding around without open declaration could have incited an uproar. The incident reminded of another four years ago when the same man stepped into a breach at the State conven tion and dared defend A1 Smith by a plea of tolerance in a convention that was antagonistic. That day every speaker had adroitly sidestepped any chance of mentioning Smith’s name because there was dynamite in it. But when the crowds yelled for Hoey he stepped up and expressed his ad miration for Smith “with apology to no one.” When he con cluded an impassioned plea a convention that later voted against Smith cheered him for 30 minutes. The convention knew he was sincere then and it knew, too, that he was a dry and a church leader. The same sentiment prevailed last week. The noise-makers at the 1932 convention appeared to be as determined to make a change in prohibition as the 1928 convention was to crucify and bury A! Smith. Hoey, called to the platform of both conventions, dared speak against what seemed to be the prevailing sentiment of his hearers, and both times he nor only got by with it but won the con ventions applause and respect and did much by diplomatic frankness to forestall what could have been a stormy scene at both conventions. 16TH IN CIRCULATION IN NORTH CAROLINA The Star is 16th in circulation of all the newspapers in North Carolina. It exceeds the circulation of 160 weekly newspapers and exceeds the circulation of 20 of the 35 daily newspapers. No other form of advertising is more economical or effective. Around Our TOWN OH Shelby SIDELIGHTS By RENN DRUM. SHELBY SHORTS: The absence of younger people on the streets of Shelby on the morn ing after a dance Is noticeable. But some of them who have to get out, and work, hoof-it ’til 4 and 5 in the morning and are on the job at 7 or 8 . . . . Girls, their bathing suits un der their arms, hitch-hiking to the Cleveland Springs swimming pool . . , . Sena.tor Josiah Bailey is im proving as a politician; he claims to read this colyum. Ebeltoft had a name for that stuff—“taffy". Snook Webb,' who had the breaks against him in the junior tourney last week at Greensboro, will make a bid for the senior Carolina golf crown at Raleigh this week Who started the rumor about Mayor McMurry? . . . . Jess Washburn, one of High Point's Andy Mellons, in Shelby enrolling his former pals in the Crusader organization . . . . One of the city’s biggest howlers about oppressive taxes does not pay any land tax at all. Life's that way . . .. Cage Ellis' real name is Cajah It's blackberry time and the pickers are selling them cheaper than in many years. Along the roads about town one sees men and women who haven't done such things in years out picking berries for their own pies Walt Winchell's expression. “Okav, America!” is fast taking about town .... The Bull Durham ad on the billboard on the Cleveland Springs road, the “her hero” ad y'know. reminds that Dave Sink, Lexington columnist, thinks it the silliest sign he ever saw. Silly isn't the right adjective. IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS The older folks have many dis criminatory remarks to make about petting as modernly carried on, in sinuating of course that such was not done in their day. Eugene Ash craft, Monroe Enquirer columnist, says otherwise. "Yes.'* he writes, “us boys tried some pettin’ in the old days, too. but the girls were fastened together with so many pins it was like fightin’ a wild cat." STREET OF WOMEN AUTHOR KNOWN HERE The talkie, “Street of Women" which was at Webb theatre last i week was taken from the book of1 that name'Written by Polan Banks and Banks is a cousin of two Shel by men. They are Leon Schneider and Ale* Sherman down to the Schneider department store on South LaFayette street. Banks, they in form, is only about 25 years of age. He had to go to work before he completed high school, but he was determined to write. He kept plug ging away, as he was the sole sup port of his family, and finally he clicked. Today, as they say on the street, he has plenty of potatoes soaked away in the bank and the family lives on easy street. And the successful young writer is not mar ried. IT'S ROSE-VELT The remarks in this comer re cently anent words that are com monly mispronounced reminds that hereabouts the average citiaen mis pronounces the name of the out standing candidate for the Democra tic presidential nomination, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The one and only Teddy, a distant cousin of the Dem ocrat, once was asked the correct pronunciation of his name “The first syllable." he said, "Is pronounc ed ‘rose.’ You drop one 'o'.” STAMPS ON CHECKS The two-ceftt stamp tax which goes on all checks this week is not, we learn, anything new. John S. Mc Knlght, the wholesale grocer, has in his possession a cancelled check of 1899. It was made out by the private Blanton banking firm of the old days and on the back of the check is a two-cent Spanish-American war stamp. Incidentally, it is rumored shout tow nthat hereafter several firms will employ bill collectors and not mill their bills any longer. The rea son is the increase in price of post age stamps from two to three cents. Seemingly the government is not go ing to get any great amount of new revenue from the increase. The addi tional cent on each stamp will be offset by the decrease In use of stamps. The increased price of stamps may, at the same time, en danger Shelby’s first-class post of fice rating. Heretofore a big portion of the deliveries made by the Chick asaw thread agency of thread made in local plants was by mall. With this and other business diverted to some other mode of delivery, total receipts at the local office may not go much above the required $40,000 mark. TUNEFUL PKOFHECY One of the ardent Democrats about Shelby sends along this per tinent comment: •That was a very appropriate I song they roared out up at Chicago just after nominating Hoover. You' remember the Hoover demonstra tion was led by a band playing ‘Cal ifornia. Here I Come.’ What a tune ful prophecy! Certainly, California may as well prepare to welcome Mr Hoover back after November." A SHOCK FOB ANG8L GABRIEL The pun, as we recall, has been, recorded in this corner heretofore j but since a reader requests it and: since there la very little humor or anything else In the department to-! day, here it, goes again: An old lady in New England was about to die. She sent for her niece, land said: "Grace, I am going to die and I don't want anyone to be foolish about it. When you come to lay me out. I want to be laid out in my! black silk; but take out the back panel and make yourself a dress,” ‘‘Oh, Aunt Mary, I don’t want to do that. When you and Uncle Char lie walk up the golden stairs I don’t want all the people there to see you without any back in your dress.” "They won t look at me,” the old lady replied. “I buried your Uncle Charlie without any pants." Nobody’s Business By GEE McGEE the picknick my wife, being the seeker terry of the mission nerry society, his benn requested to rite up the church pleknick which was hell under their auspices last friday afternoon at king’s spring, and as she is not verry facile with the pen, she has passed her burden on to me and i will do my best, as i was there as a guess j and a deacon. the pleknick in question is an an nual event and is hell nearly every year enduring June, at this occasion, a big crowd was pressent, some with well-filled baskets and others with well-empty stummicks. my wife says that there is always a few wimmen in the society who comes prepared, but there are others who parrysite on us from year to year. the dinner was spread out on the ground and the ants and bugs was kefot out of same verry wen indeed considering, while bro. kismet was asking the blessing, the 6 brown boys et up al of the fried chicken on 3 plates: everyboddy had their eyes shut but yore corry spondent, but as 1 am in politicks, i could not afford to stop them and possibly lose 2 dozen votes, (the browns are right strong at the poles). they had some nice beef on the menu and i could tell it was from a peace i sold jerry atkins a day or so ago and it will surprise me if l ever get pay for same, it was por ts rhouse off the cows lions, some of the custard pies were not fitten to eat. and the worst choking i ever saw showed up at this meal, the 2 chockerlet cakes tasted fairly well not to have no sugar in them, they were fetched by mrs. klnda tit* and she is thh stinger to use sugar. a nice talk was made on the ‘ pro gress of the wOrMT by mr. Clark rfd, one of the leading citizens of this community, he is always first in any kind of matters that will help the country at large, he was cheered as a great speaker, but he finely sat down a few mlnnets aft er he could not think of nothing else to say. they had 2 other spee ches from mr. grace and prof, smith, but the crowd gradually dis persed enduring these talks. these ptcknicks do a world of good in getting the chureh folks together and if all of them would fetch something to eat, the peopla who do fetch stuff would not have to go home hungry, my wife says that it looks like our mothers have quit teaching our younguns anny manners while eating, a few songs were sung by the Clark quartet which consist of mr. mike Clark, rfd. and his 3 sons and 4 darters and they wear enjoyed by all. yorge trulie, mike Clark, rfd, corry spondent. For Eeonemv’s Sake What this country needs is some county-owned newspapers. They are spending thousands upon thous ands of dollars—advertising land and other property for sale for taxes—whereas, if they owned the newspapers they could save all of that money. Pussie No. 5*4,771 'There's something 'funny about 1 tills tax business. I hear every day where this town and that county and your state have slashed sala ries and wages and appropriations, but damaged K I have yet found where the tax levies have been re duced. In other words, with all of this lying about economy the poor old taxpayer la paying more and more and more—instead of less and less and none. Lanatk-lsm The governments Re-distrution Finance Corporation has proven a great help to the creditors of rail roads. dirt roads, busted enterprises and Wall street. The republican administration thinks the "way out" Is thru borowing and spending To illustrate: If you own a house worth $2,000.00 and owe $2,000.00 on the said house, you ought to bor row $1,000.00 more on the house In question and add an extra bed room (that you don't need) to same so’s you can give your 3 hoys a job In other words, if your left arm is cut off, why, cut your right arm off also. You will still have your legs to cut off later on. Cotton Letter New York, June 21—Spots went up and futures went down, and the bulls and the bears ran ’round and round. The shorts were long and denims were weak; the straddlers are straddling, but they look mighty meek. Boll weevils are busy down in Alabam—but the farcnert are loaf ing—and don't give a slam. It rained In Texas and thundered In Maine; the farm board Is aellng and causing a pain. The mUis are cur tailing—folks have lost their jobs, but the Red Cross is feeding ’em. and you can t hear a sob. Mold, if you can. and listen for the bell: if she hangs around 6 cents we are all going to helL (Poetry). Out-Of-Date Animals 1. Street cars. 2. Bustles. 3. Clean politics. 4. Unselfish politicians. 5. Passenger trains. fi. Much underwear. 7. Protracted meetings. «. Good jobs (except government). 9. Good judgment. 10. And petticoats. State Has Million Dollars On Deposit Raleigh. June 16—With a cash balance of more than $1,000,000 on hand in the state's general fund, the financial condition of the state Is in better financial condition right now than it has been in some time, according to State Treasurer John P. Stedman. In addition, the state has $5,862,342 already cn deposit in New York to meet its payments of principal and intnere6t in this amount that falls due July 1. Sted man pointed out. Use The “Stones Of The Pathway” Wise men use the stones of the pathway to build their foun dation for success. 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