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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 <hington.
It. is, as we ,-iatcd in the outset, an ambitious program
and nothing of the half-way type, and we will be interested j
in watching its developments. The Charlotte man has the
; knack of being interesting and of catching the attention, rfc-j
gardless of w hat attributes you may or may not care to ac-1
credit him with.
HOW THE NEXT BOOM WILL COME
FOR MONTHS we have read and heard innumerable ex-plan*
ations attempting to set forth the cause’ or causes, of
what history must surely record as the Great Depression.
These theoretical charts likewise make an effort to explain
what is necessary to touch off the starter for the next boom,
or whatever you prefer to call the period which will follow
the depression. Various and sundry ideas, if they may be
called that, have been advanced with confidential gusto on
the part of the prophets. Somehow a vast majority of these
cures have failed to impress us, since we are inclined to ad
here to the homely belief that the depression is only a major
duplication of the rut which follows all overindulgence. In
dividuals. communities, this country and the world—all—
went on a joy ride, and now we’re paying for it.
Somewhere recently, however, we chanced upon a
thought that struck us as having something behind it. The
essence of it was that to get out of the depression, or “to
yet off the hog.’’ if your prefer street parlance, we must
have a new invention or the advancement of a new indus
trial and economical era. Expressing it in those words does
not, of course, bring conviction pf the idea. Let’s go at it
in another manner. We have had depressions before, and
before and after depressions there were booms. The de
pressions as a rule follow' the booms, then something must
hob up to switch the boom’s aftermath, or depression, back
into another boom. What things have accomplished that
goal in the past ?
Many years ago business was stagnant. Industry and
work were at a standstill. Then tame the idea of canals foi
bringing shipping points closer together—in fact, a plan o1
bringing all men and their products nearer each other. Canal
building. consequently, led the country out of an aftermath
into a boom. Another lull forward. Then men with vision
and foresight conceived and started building a network oi
railroads across the continent. The railroad-building era
brought another boom. The next lull was ended and the
slack in economic conditions taken up when the automobile
industry ushered in the latest era of prosperity, a good
times wave that was extended to a certain extent by the
radio and airplane. Following this period came the thing wc
call the depression. What will be next?
A prosperous era, as recounted above, is inaugurated by
a new invention or change bringing forth something that
people and condition? will demand in large numbers, thus
providing work for thousands and by providing them with
work, providing them also with an income to purchase or
take advantage of that which they help produce. What will
be the successor of canals, railroads and automobiles in
bringing about a change? Unless history, for once, fails tc
repeat, the change will he brought about in such a manner.
Numerous answers have been made and will be made to that
query. One commentator, in the Home Companion we be
lieve it was. expressed the belief that sound-proofing would
be the backbone of the new day. It may be and it may not.
we do not know. It could be rhat, insofar as we know, as
readily as something else, for every advance, every Tome
back. has been hinged upon something cheap enough for the
average person whereby the comfort of the human race has
been increased.
YOUTH
' From the Baltimore Evening Sun >
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.
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