The Cleveland Star SHELBY. N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mail, per year... *25t> By Carrier, per year ....................---- *300 t.nr. b. WEATHERS.. President and Editor 8. ERNEST HOEY ................_Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM ........ News Editor I* E. DAIL . Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1. 1905, at the post office at Shelby. North Carolina, under the .Art of Congre. a. March 3. 1819. We wish to call your attention to the fact that it Is and has been our custom to charge rive cents per liii3 tor resolutions of respect, cards of thanks and obituary notices, after one death notice has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. MONDAY, JULY 25. 1932 TWINKLES y 'And here's a rawberry for the weather prophet who predicted that we’d havp such a cool summer after the win terless winter. Isn’t it remarkable how the conventions, the depression, the heat. etc., caused us to forget the .Japanese war danger almost overnight ? ( After last week, it is a shame if there are still living any of the nitwit type who can think of nothing to say ex cept "Is it hot enough for you’.’’’ News stories of the damage done crops by the drought and heat of the last two weeks would indicate that North Carolina is not as wet as it seemed back when Bob Reynolds ran off with the run-off primary. Divorces increased and marriages decreased in Cleve land county last year. Dangerous propaganda that is; it may cause some of the younger folks to get the idea that It’s all hunk about two being able to live as cheaply as one,j particularly when the going is a bit rough. i Shelby’s silver-tongued orator, our favorite tri-weekly informs, is to make campaign speeches in three Southern States this fall for the Democratic ticket, and it’s a pretty good guess that he doesn’t anticipate having the blues over, the outcome this year to the extent he did after the same! tour in 1928. ^ A report has it that it may be difficult—perhaps too j difficult—to reduce the local tax rate because of a big de-j crease in valuation of personal property. Those perturbed! bv the report might pause and recall that tailing to list some things-automatically adds to the burden of those things which are listed. A NEWSPAPER EXPLAINS POLITICAL MOVE IF AN AWARD OR HONOR were bestowed for the best ex ample of brevity and to-the-point writing, the distinc tion should go this year to the New York W'orld-Telegram. The paper is owned by the Scripps-Howard newspaper or ganization. and in 1928 that chain of newspaper supported Mr. Hoover in preference to A1 Smith. Prior to the Demo cratic Convention this year some observers, recalling 1928. were more or less surprised to find the Scripps-Howard pa pares enthusiastically boosting A1 Smith over Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sens ing that its stand might be surprising, if not astounding, the W'orld-Telegram explained itself in the following editorial: “The Scripps-Howard declaration for Smith as against Roosevelt has brought from many sources this query:—’If you think so much of Smith today why didn't you support him against Hoover in 1928?" The answer is. we wish we had.” The W'orld-Telegram might have taken up two or three columns of space in making a verbose explanation of why it believes the man it turned down in 1928 to he the best fitted for the same position in 1932, but in no other method than that shown above could it have put over its point with the same convincing punch and zip. "We wish we had’’ does not leave itself open to double interpretation or possible misin terpretation. TO 00 A HEAP O' RUNNING CLASSIFY HIM AS YOU DESIRE, Out it must he admitted that Col, T. Leroy Kirkpatrick, the Charlotte barrister and one of Mecklenburg's State senate nominees, does not do things by halves when he gets started. Some of the irrever ent may boh up at this juncture with a loud “Amen” and re call how Col. Kirkpatrick, then mayor of Charlotte, intro duced Woodrow Wilson on the occasion of the President's visit to the Queen City. But reference here does not hark back to the past; instead, we are at this moment contemplat ing the future. A year or two ago the Charlotte man stepped out with the announcement that he would be a candidate for gover nor in 1936. That's the year, you know, when following a geographical custom the governorship comes again to the west. Whether or not he. will succeed in that ambition we cannot foretell at this time. We do remember, howbeit, that several other men have similar hopes, or are reported to have such, among them being Judge T. L. Johnson, of Asheville ; Judge Wilson Warlick, of Newton, and others. Anyway, the Charlotte man has announced. Of more recent weeks, as these remarks are brought more up to date, Col. Kirkpatrick made another announcement. It was, in effect, something like this: 'T am still an announced candidate for governor in 1936, but I will also be a candidate for the United States "Senate (the seat now- held by Cameron Morrison and to be held soon by Bob Reynolds) in 1938." This second announce ment was fortified by the explanation that he would be a candidate for the senate in 1938 no matter how he comes •ut in his 1936 race for governor. If he doesn't win the gov cmorship in 1936, he will be footloose, of course, for the sen ate race in 1938; if he docs win and then wins the senate race in 1938, he plans to emulate Huey Lon?, Louisiana’s own Kingfish, to a certain extent and permit his lieutenant governor to mo.o into the Raleigh mansion while lie moves on to W i Youth is matted hair and a stubble of beard on the chin Bui didn't he shave only three days ago’ it. is leaping into a car and dashing down the road at fifty miles an hour, with horn playing a tune, and dashing back again for no apparent reason. It is "O K." and "Oh. veah?” and "Listen big boy ” It is "Can you spare a dollar' to go to the movies with some other fellows?” it, is a call at 3 o'clock in the morning to announce that the car ia in a ditch, but nobody has been hurt and neither has the car. It is a sudden and feverish desire to ship as an able-bodied seaman on a freighter putting out for Pernambuco or Tampico and will Father please call up his friend who is in the shipping business and sec if it can be arranged? It is the decision, when that desire is thwarted, to go on a three-day camping trip instead, departing at 4 o'clock in the morning, and can Mother spare some potatoes and eggs and a jar of jam and ° few' canned tomatoes ’ It Is reappearing at 9 A M. to report, that the car broke down fifty miles up the road and he has hitch hiked back horn? to get somebody else s car It is deciding to go for a swim at 11.30 P M It is a sw;n dive a jeeknife. a game of tag and a ride back with wet bathing suits on the plush seat of the car. It is crawling up ihe side of a wall and over twenty feet of tin roof to crash a dance, it is hohking horns in the street at midnight until somebody in the neighborhood threatens to call the police. * It is asking a girls mother if her daughter ran go with you seven miles across country to obtain a book that it is extremely important for you to get that night and a promise to drive very carefully. It is returning at midnight after having forgotten to get the book It is up until A M four nights in succession until ahxious parents set their feet down firmly and declare that this thing has got to stop or somebody will be a nervous wreck before the end of Summer. It is being ordered to stay at home for just one night. It is breaking the tragic new* to the gang, who express then- sympathy by dropping in and joining in a game of poker unil the wee sma' hours of the morning. INTEREST—MOUNTS—AND HOW! 'From the Wall Street Journal’ In a discussion of the causes of depressions, a brilliant mathematician associated with a mid-we tern university, said that the amount of mon»v owed as interest, all over the world becomes in time so great, that it cannot be paid. Illustrating his point, he said that ~ne rent, loaned at s per cent I compound interest from the birth of Christ to the present time, would j amount to a solid ball of gold whore diameter would be 73 time:, the distance from the earth to the sun RUN-OFF OR RUNAWAY? (From The Greensboro News.) it proved to be a run-off primary for Cap'll Bob all right. Notable Price Gains Scored In Farm Group-Steel Trend Up 'By International Paper Co t The chief factor inducing a more cheerful outlook is the sustained rise in certain commodity group*, principally the agricultural group. The following individual commodities have scored notable price gains. 1932 Low 3.15 .039 ,16 . 13 . 16,25 04 71 0257 . 42 3 .05 Hogs—Cwt __... Lard—Lb ........_.... Butter—Lb. .... Eggs—Doz. ..v..........i.rf... Pork - Bbl. *........ Hides -Lb ... Petroleum—Bbl. _._ Sugar, raw—Lb. ................ Corn— Bu. ..... Cotton—Lb... The rise in the prices of farm commodities of all kinds should add enormously to farm purchasing power. The rise in live stock prices alone is said to represent an increase of $500,000,000. Cattle prices, not shown in the above list, are up about 45 per cent from the low level 5f eight weeks ago and are now at least winter’s averages. A Chicago report states that available supplies of cattle are the smallest for this July « 4.96 0535 16 3-4 14 1-' 18.25 04 86 0395 45 1-4 062 13 July 4 75 .056 18 .15 1-2 30.25 .05 86 0305 46 7-8 059 time of the year since 1884. Another important development Is a substantial rise in bond prices, rhe Dew-Jones average has now advanced for seven consecutive, days, yesterday’s advance of 0.41 bing the sharpest in a long time. The im provement, in the bond market has brought a sharp rise in new financ ng Bond issues totalling $40,709 000 are being offered today. Stock prices have now been steady for five to six weeks. All groups ire somewhat higher than on July 1. Steel operations are now at 16 per cent of capacity oompared with 12 per cent a week ago. Some observers forecast a rise* to 30 per cent during the next few weeks. Productive activity having fallen to a level which is believed to be out of all proportion to the decline in consumption of goods an auto natic, upturn is looked for in many industries, fti this respect, the :otton mills should show early recovery. Rayon buying has revived somewhat in \ie past, few days.” How Oldtimers Cast A Vote LibelBy Will The New-Yorker. A man who knows this country backward and forward, and who has been travelling around w|fi his ears open, tells us that there is one de pressing angle to Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy—or it may be an en couraging angle, if you look at it that way. It seems that a lot of people in Darke County, Ohio, and in Kansas, Louisiana, Oregon, etc., think that one of the candidates for President thus fall Is the late Theodore Roosevelt a man who, they feel, is greatly needed at the helm of State in these times. These people include, says our informant, that appreciable host of Americans of voting age who have barely enough brains to get around, and that almost equally great host of venerable and lovable dreamers w’ho live in the curious shadowland of advanced age w'here all great men who died and all wars which ended still go on. To line the latter fac tion up solidly for Roosevelt—no matter what Roosevelt—is, we hap pen to know, beyond the power of all the Farleys in America. Take our Great-Uncle. Jabe We have accampanied him to the polls at every Presidlntial election since isl and on each occasion he has seized a ballot and firmly and vigorously written in the name of Ulysses S. Grant. And so have be. THE LAST LAUGH In making out ones will, a pas time that engages everyone’s atten tion these days, it is a good thing to remember that a mans w\Jl af fords the only opportunity he will ever have to libel someone with impunity. It is a way of getting something out of one's system. "I hereby leave ten dollars to Andrew Twig, who is a malicious, conniv ing pig-headed fool.” Or "I here by leave the sum of $4,000 to Miss Abigail Jones, feeling it my duty to make such a bequest in view of the fact that she probably is my illegiti mate daughter.” If one has enough spleen in ones system, there is no limit to the amount of vilification that can be spread on paper, cover ing everything from right fielders to secretaries of war. Time may change this. A friend of ours who is a barrister tells us that, in one or two instances, courts in Georgia and Tennessee have permitted ac tions to be brought against an estate for libel. So you had better get in while the libelling is still good. Mother Die* And The Shock Kill* Married D aught el’ Bennettsville. S. C-Mrs. Mary Jana Odom, wife of the late Thomas Odom of the BrgnehvUle section of the county, died Friday afternoon She was 75 years of o.ge and had been In 111 health lor several months. Her daughter, Mrs. Arlendo Stan* ton of St. Paul, came to visit her mother last Sunday She was in good health Friday afternoon, Just as her mother expired, she threw up her arms and died. She was In the room with her mother causing her death. Best Tonic Is To Keep In Good Humor Keep in good humor. It is not great calamities that embitter ex istence, it is the petty vexations, the small jealousies, the little disap pointments, the minor miseries, that make the heart h*avy and the temper sour. Don't let them. An ger is pure waste of vitality; it is always foolish, and always unwor thy, except in very rare cases, when it is kindled by seeing wrong done to another, or a dumb animal abus ed; and even that seldom mends the matter. Keep in good humor. Benjamin Franklin's leady smile and indomitable good humor did as much for his country in the old Congress as Adams* fire or Jeffer son's wisdom; he clothed wisdom with smiles, and softened conten tious minds into acquiescence. | Man Wears Female Dress For 40 Years ! Story Of Order By King For Man To Live As Woman Is In vestigated. Paris—The amazing story of the Chevalier D'Eon who, by order of his king, Louis XVI, donned female dress and lived for 40 vears, till his death, as a woman, has been in vestigated by M. Coryn, the author. D’eon, a brave soldier and a clev er swordsman, had served with dis tinction in the French Army. Then he was sent by Louis XVI on a secret mission to London, arid from there stories reached the kings ears of how successfully the Cheva lier had been in passing himself off as a woman. The king sent word to him that henceforth he was always to appear as a woman .and was to remain one for the rest of his life. On the day that he finally bade farewell to his masculine self, the Chevalier prepared to make his bow before the throne clad in wig and pettier?—. He shaved himself almost to bleed ing point and heavily powdered his tell-tale chin. He was laced into a rich brocade dress. He put on tor taring slippers, powdered wig. and all the rest of the costume He went through the ordeal of presentation successfully and the King expressed his amusement and pleasure at his new toy. And for 40 years afterwhrd, poo, D'Eon was a "'woman. It was not ! until a post-mortem was made or his body many years af.er his death that it was proved that he was in deed a man. Girls In “Shorts” Win Court Battle Chicago.—Superior Judge Marcus Kavanagh last week granted an in junction restraining Irving park commissioners from chasing women clad in "shorts" from the tcnnt courts. Dr. Herman N. Bundrsen, city . health commissioner, was among those who testified benefit was to be derived w faring shorts to expose more of the body to health-giving rays of the sun "There is nothing immodest in these shorts. No one would look at these girls’ legs twice these days Twenty years ago they might be exciting but, times have changed " the judge said. Make Your PASSBOOK Your PASSPORT Is this summer's vacation to be the usual sort .... a couple of weeks at some near-by resort ? Why not plan now to make next year’s vaca tion the real adventure of your life ... a trip abroad or where you will. A savings fund started now and added to weekly will make possible what has always seemed intangible. Let us plan with you. UNION TRUST CO FROM these factors we have built a structure CONFIDENCE that has abided between us and our patrons throughout the entire period of difficult conditions. 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