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The Cleveland Star SHELBY, N. C. MONDAY — WEDNESDAY — FRIDAY THE STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE By Mill, per year____—-... 13.50 By Carrier, per year---—*...*3 00 l ine a. WEATHERS ______ President and Editor a ERNEST HOEY ...__ Secretary and Foreman RENN DRUM .. New* Editor I* E DAJXj .....Advertising Manager Entered as second class matter January 1, 1905, at the post office at Bhelby, North Carolina, under the Act of Congress, March S. 1879. W« wish to call your attention to the fact that tt la and has been our custom to charge five cents per line tor resolutions of respect, cards of thank* and obituary notices, after one death notlo* has been published. This will be strictly adhered to. FRIDAY. AUGUST 10, 1032 TWINKLES Both political parties appear to he Prying in gm the. voter's mouth watering oyer the prospect of beer so that he’ll forget he’s hungry. Headline: "Railway Magnate Says America On way To Recovery." But, big bov, can you tell us how many comers there are left to turn along that road? The Lawndale fisherman who caught four fish on one line isn't exactly a champion if he remembers how many fish Hoover pulled in on his prosperity line in 1928. Now that the name of a movie actress has been hinted at in the Mayor Walker ouster case, there will be any number of people rea l' to tell that “1 told you there was a woman in if somewhere." The most optimistic report of the current week comes from Greensboro where an overall plant is going bark on full time. That must mean that somebody thinks the unemployed are going back to work and will need working clothes. Of course, if you’re pessimistic, you may interpret it as meaning that in another month or two everybody will be wearing overalls. Some of rhe higher-ups in the Democratic party are reported to be a bit prejudiced against .lack Garber be cause he is such a countryman. That means move votes for the Roosevelt-Garner ticket because a big portion of the voters have about decided they’d rather take a chance on country fellows than run and more risks with city slickers and professional men. WHO WILL BE POSTMASTER? Some of the Democrats are howling because officials of the Postmaster General’s department are urging post masters to help boost Hoover. That’s neither here nor there with us, but we bet that in Shelby and elsewhere there will he Democrats tearing their shirts for Roose velt with the hope that he, if successful, may reward them with an office with the lettering on the door read ing “Postmaster ” Of course, the fellow in office is not supposed to do any political work, but from the personal standpoint—the one that usually influences—it seems as if the fellow on the job has as much right to work to keep his job as the other fellow does to labor to get it. B. E. F. AND R. F C. Who yon are makes a difference. The members of the R :E. F. (the Bonus Expedi tionary Force) have been driven out of Washington, but the highpowered ‘'gimme" lobbyists of the R. F. C. (the Reconstruction Finance Corporation) are still there. The soldiers with tear gas bombs and guns haven’t been called out to disperse rhe latter group. The pert New Yorker puts it this way: “t'p to press time, the President had not call ed out the army to rid Washington of the mob which is trying to get handouts from the R. F. C, The big mistake the B. E. F. made was not putting up at the Mayflower." Regardless of how you may fee!*ahout the bonus, there is pointed truth in the observation above. This paper was inclined to disapprove payment of the bonus this time because we felt that the treasury could not well stand the strain. Rut. in view of later develop ments,, we’re beginning to wonder how a treasury rhat Couldn’t afford tn pay what it promised to pay a few hungry veterans, who offered their all to save the coun try, can turn right around and dote out big sums to rail roads and other large corporations. The B. E. F. has been driven back; the R F. C. holds its ground. THE ROOSEVELT WALKER AFFAIR When this is read there may have been a definite turn to the Roosevelt-Walker matter in New York, hut at, the present writing the probe by Governor Roosevelt of Jimmy Walker’s conduct as mayor of New York is the focus point of all those interested directly or indirectly in politics and public affairs. There are those who con- j tend that the outcome of the Walker case will either make or break Roosevelt as concerns his presidential prospects. That is a rather strong statement, because just now there are other serious problems in the nation, some of them calling for more atrention than the handl ing of the New York city matter. There is no argument about it. however, that Roose velt, will lose votes regardless of whether or not.he kicks Walker out of office. Likewise, he will make votes either way. The question is how many will he lose or win either wav. From the standpoint of popular vote Roosevelt, as we see it from a distance* may lose more popular votes by exonerating: New York's dapper Jimmy than he would bv hooting him out. On the other harrrl, the chances are that the Democratic presidential candi date would drop more electoral votes than he would gain by ousting Walker. New York State swings a heavy vote in the electoral college, and to the metropolitan centre of the State Walker is somewhat, of an idol, perhaps be cause he so typifies the big city. Re that rs it may, Roosevelt hv forgetting the effect of his action as it touches his presidential possibilities and by doing what, he thinks to he right, whether it is to exonerate or expel, can vise higher in the esteem of the nation as a man than in any other way. Exoneration of Walker may cost him the presidency, and ousting Walker may cost Roosevelt the same price. It, perforce, devolves into a wonder from the sidelines if Roosevelt would rather he right than president. Which course is the right one he is in better position to know than a majority of those who are discussing the investigation, and such is our opinion of Roosevelt that we believe he will follow the course he believes to he right, regardless of the effect on his personal ambitions. Either way he moves, there will be those who will disagree,,and for that reason the op portunity presents itself for him to further distinguish his name by impartial and unselfish action. Dins LOSING THEIR HERO? Has another idol crumbled with foot of clay ? Has another hero proven, after all. tr* lie merely human? Are the drys, now that Hoover has forsaken them, wonder ing where to turn—and to whom0 The news dispatches this Week brought the infor mation from Washington that despite the evident wet trend in both major political parties the present dry laws will lie strictly and rigidly enforced. Attorney General Mitchell, in outlining the decision to continue the present enforcement policy, was quoted as saying: “The department of justice will continue its present strict prohibition enforcement although persons WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER have sug gested ope il\ that more leniency he shown." Can that he taken to mean that Mr. Mitchell is in timating that President Hoover is the one who should know better? If not Hoover, to whom is the reference? While pondering that, think over this one—now j that both presidential candidates favor^a change to whom will the. irreconcilable drys turn? Isn't it possible that that query could he answered to a certain extent by de bating whether or not Hoover’s views about prohibition are adjustable to the public, viewpoint—and to votes? In 1028 the voters of rhe United States turned thumbs down upon a plan that would return the prohibition problem to the individual States. There were. Demo cratic States, including North Carolina, which preferred the Republican Mr, Hoover to Al Smith and a return to State Rights as it effected prohibition. When any course is considered worse hv the average Southern Dem ocrat than voting the Republican ticket then the altern ative must he a terrible proposition. In 1028 Southern Democrats faced the choice of going Republican or en dorsing a prohibition policy that would eventually her ald the return to State Rights. A big percentage pre ferred to vote the Republican ticket, something a one sided majority of them never did before. Now what are they going to do in 10.32? The man for whom they scratched the ticket -and that was a crime almost as heinous in the old South as for a deacon to carry on with a show girl hussy—-is now for turning prohibition hack to the States. The reader may he dry or he may he wet. This is no argument for or against, hut contrast the stands of the two aspirants for America's highest Honor: In 1028, Mr. Hoover was opposed to any change in prohibition. He didn’t say much about it. hut left the impression, with the drys at least, that he was their one and only salvation. He seems, remembering the manner in which he defeated Al Smith, to have sensed the feeling at that time. But 1932 began to approach. Even before this year's campaign was of enough interest to get into the limelight it was general knowledge that Mr. Roosevelt, later to become the Democratic nominee, favored a change in prohibition. He did not wait until he could read all the signs, test out the people and learn where the votes were going; he formed his opinion, an nounced it and gave all voters the chance of knowing just how he stood. Meantime, President Hoover wabbled about on his favorite sear astride the fence. He said nothing that would make the wets real mad. nor did he say anything that would infuriate the drys. But early in 1932 primaries held Imre and there over the nation began to show an increasing wet sentiment. Then last week Mr. Hoover decided it was time for him to slip off the fence. He slipped enough, presumably, to make a hid for the wet vote, hut he left one foot hanging on the fence, hoping, perhaps, to keep some of the drys in the fold by consoling them with the reply that ‘‘I’m not as dry as I once was but. you see, I’m not as wet as Mr. Roosevelt.” Why the change? Mr. Hoover apparently thought prohibition all right in 1928; anyway, he left that im pression with the drys. And if there has been a change in the enforcement since 1928. whose fault is it? If rhe country is wetter today than four years ago, whose ad ministration has had charge of the enforcement? Isn’t it possible that the Republican candidate merely slid over the fence with rhe hope of being returned to office, hv luring the wets and modificationists as he lured the drys in 1928? Wet or dry, it is a good question to debate as you start forming a decision about your vote this fall. BI T WITHOUT USING BAIT 'Frorr> The Greensboro News' Fishermen Garner and Hoover appear to be more interested just now m throwing their hooks into each other ANOTHER CULBERTSON FOR WOMEN (From Tile Greensboro News) What many husbands probably wish is that Culbertson might be per suaded to write a cook book.) Doldrums * * 1AKHEEE WRITERS, TWO COMING ONES. BONERS, 'Oi r bob; Singling out any one of North Carolina's numerous editors, news papers writers, columnists and con tributors as the bets of the lot would he a nonsensical undertak en Tt would be so if for no other reason than that, each has his or her own particular following, if any. Some men prefer low shoes, others hightop shoes Women dif fer likewise, about the colors and mode of their dress. Human nature Is that way. A certain percentage sticks loyally to Odd McIntyre as the best of the writers. From their viewpoint. in pleasing them bv writing down their creek or in their favorite style, he may be. On the other hand, those who prefer serious, spmi-philosophical reading uphold Arthur Brisbane as the peer of the lot And so it goes In North Carolina each of many writers'.have their following Among the favorites »«■« say among be cause all cannot, be named and there is no intent to injure by dis criminating) are such as Ear!0 Oodbey and R R. Clark, of the Greensboro News, tile Charlotte editors. Col. Harris and Julian Miller; the fireeater. W. O Saun ders,, of Elizabeth City; the schol arly Pulltizer prize winner, Robert Lathan, of Asheville; the Beasleys and Eugene Ashcraft, of Monroe; art. Ben Sronce, of Statesville, ■Jo nston Avery, of Lenoir, and a ■core of others Practically all writers, even the common garden variety of newspaper writers, have a style all their own Some are studied imitations of others. We say that with no intent to insult because the average newspaperman starting out as a rub us trained by ome older and experienced writer and naturally, to a certain extent, assumes the style of the instruc tor. All of which Is a prelude, an un necessary one perhaps, leading up to the simple announcement that in prowling about an exchange desk day after day we have of more recent months (that, period of time ran, if essential, cover sev eral years) been attracted to the writing style o." two of w>hat. be classed as younger writers They are Tom Pridgen, the Notebook columnist, of the Charlotte News, and George Beasley, Jr.', who pens ■ occasionally on a linotype) his Notes bv the Wavside for the Monroe Journal Both seem to hav° an individual style Perhaps the two styles were annexed some where, but that somewhere has not come under our reading eye. Pridgen And Beasley. Pridgen's column is what might be railed different. He hasn't any set manner of going about it. To days style may differ as much from tomorrow's as todays peeka boo bathing suits worn by the sweet young things differ from the long hose and flowing—skirt swim tor, rather, slnki suit mother wore in the gay nineties. His hobby is telling fish and snake stories That's a pretty good reader-appeal idea. Find a group of ten men any where and the odds are that seven of the ten enjoy a fish or snake yarn, the wilder the better Jules Verne would be better known to day had he devoted his imagina tive wrjting to snake and fish yarns, Young Beasley, on the other hand, <and we say young Beasley because we presume he is young In that the paper on Which he writes is manipulated by two senior Beas leys who appear to be turning over the reins to the offspring) is of the philosophical type. Not that serious, and, to us. somewhat bor ing manner of philosophy, but an unruffled method of going about the recording of his observations, views conclusions and inner per sonal thoughts about- minor and major matters. His style is kin in some respects to that of Mencken, a compliment, perhaps, which may or may not be appreciated Meaning that he can pick up some, more or less trifling and inconsequential topic and make good reading of It because h* puts his words in the thoughtful, personal-appeal style of two men sitting together, whittling, on a country store porch, discuss ing matters half to themselves and half out loud. Peculiar Pleasure. Mention of young Beasley re minds of a jab he took recently— a regular uppercut, in fact—at men who introduce public speakers. Think back over the occasions on which you have gone to. hear a public address and recall. if you can, how many introductory speeches did not include the. state ment "It gives me peculiar pleas ure to . . . , ” The majority of our introductory speakers seem to think that sentence as necessary as having the blessing, or grace, be fore each repast Chances are that few of them have ever stopped to think what the world peculiar” means Here's what Beasley says about it in labelling that bit of taffy as a boner "Whenever a Writer or a speaker says that it gives him a peculiar pleasure to have the opportunity to express his view's, or to appear be fore the particular audience or to| I lmroduqe a notably distinguished j orator, the essay or speech will es cape me for I know that my ima gination is about to cut a flip and stand on its head Peculiar actually means that the pleasure is not enjoyed by many, but I can never take the meaning in its accepted sense when It’s hooked up with pleasure. When, for example, a man has the peculiar ! pleasure of introducing a speaker [of note, I always look to see If the speaker or the gentleman who in , troduces him isn’t .’. earing Scotch 'pl^.ds and a ten gallon nat , "If they are not there to give rise [to the strange pleaseure. I do not give up. Instead, I look again, and more carefully, to see if one of the participants in the odd delight isn’t inhaling snuff or twiddling his thumbs at candle flies. "Peculiar pleasure, my eye! When ever I hear such expression of un j usual rapture, it's goodnight to the rest of the speech so far as I am concerned. I spend the remainder of my time seeking futllely for the source of the peculiar pleasure. When the speech is over I find myself thoroughly exhausted with out ever having dissevered why the pleasure was peculiar. If Bishop Cannon could have, the peculiar pleasure of Introducing a ‘wet senator, or vice versa, I could un derstand.’’ When "Oor Bob” Cimr. His concluding reference anent the possibility <a remote one> of Bishop Cannon introducing a wet senator and making the, line run true to form for once, reminds of a local incident with some connec tion—the visit to Shelby in the early part, of the first primary campaign of Bob Reynolds. As wc recall it, Pat McBrayer did the in troducing of the man now general ly known as ' Our Bob. ' Whether or *vt Pat said "It, gives me pecu liar ; * js.ire to introduce ...” we do op- know, for we arrived late But. If there ever was an opportune and fitting time for the 'peculiar pleasure” clause, that, was the time. Not as it. applied to Pat par ticularly, but as it would have ap plied to any one who might have been prevailed upon to handle the introduction. We sav prevailed be cause it was necessary to do some prevailing. The trotting out of that skeleton may bring a howl, but make the best of it for we know. I having helped do some of the pre 'vailing. At that time a majority of | the introductory , experts about Shelby were either head-over-heels in a campaign of the»r own. or they were a little leery of being con sidered too friendly with Bob Anyway, no one was trampled in the rush to introduce him Cam. v'know. might, win, and Roosevelt might, win, and somebody might want a 10b at the pie counter, Why explain further, you know what we mean? But once the first primary was over, there was a transforma tion. Bob. had he returned to whoon up the boys in the second cam paign. could have had his selection from 20 or more introducers. That band wagon was rolling merrily along We sincerely hope, of course, that this doesn't reach Bob's ears; and should it, it is only sensible to assume that he knows enough about polltits to understand. But, after reading the Beasley remarks, we can think of no moie ideal occasion for the use of ' It is a peculiar pleasure” than upon the occasion of the first Reynolds vijit, when there were those who didn't know whether Robert R would get anywhere or would just put on a good show. Somehow we hope Pat. bubbling over as he is with a phrase-making vocabularv of his own, used the old stereotyped line that night. • R D. St. Paul New* Of Late Interest Ber.'neH And Houser Conduri Re vival, Prof. King To Teach Bible Class. (Special To The Star.) .St. Paul. Aug 17.—Our pastor, Rev. J. W. Bennett Is helping a former pastor, Rev. J. E B. Houser of West Jefferson in a revival meeting. Prof. Ponds of Rutherford College will preach at St. Paul Sun day afternoon at 3 o'clock. Prof. C. M. King of Waco will teach the young men's Bible class at the regular Sunday school hour next Sunday The Ladies aid society m«* t the home of Mrs. S S. Harrei.vm Wed nesdi - afternoon. Nearly ell the members were present along with several visitors. Delicious refresh ments were served. Miss Maggie Dalton of Gastonia is visiting her cousin Miss Essie Dalton. Miss Bain Camp* entertained a r.uir.ber of her friends last Thur? day night with a tacky party, Essir. Dalton and Reid Harrelson won tit prize for being the tackiest. Abe 50 were present and all reported fine time Mrs W. N Harrelson accompan ied by Mr and Mrs. Brec-'u. Ear"-, and son Robert Everett and Mis* Louise Eaker spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. AM* H'-rretson of Henrietta Mrs Edwin Cline who has be" visiting her parents of Salisbury returned home Monday. Mrs. W. A. Canipe and daughter, Bess, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Alexander of near Shelby Mr. B. T Harrelson and daughter Virginia of Gastonia visited his mother, Mrs. Lucy Harrelson Sun day. Mrs. Let tie Ann Harmon Is spend ing some time with Mrs. Sue Dal ton of Gastonia. •Mr. and Mrs. B R. Moss and family of Kings Mountain spent several days last week with Mr and Mrs W. N. Harrelson. Young Minister To Preach At Palrti Tree Rev. Lawrence W. Lee ts to preach at his home church, Palm Tree. Sunday morning at eleven o'clock Mr. Lee received an A, B degree from High Point college this last ‘June. It 1s understood that he will enter the School of Religion at Duke university In September where he will work toward an A. B. degree. Don’t Guess About Your Eyes Don’t trTHp with eyesight—it’s too important to health, youthfulness, and earning power. How much better to arrange for a thorough examination today than risk the regrets of many tomorrows! If you are advised to wear glasses, the best professional service is important—a skilful examination, and custom fitting of the glasses to your face. Both require special study to assure best vision, and best appearance. DR. D. M. MORRISON, Optometrist Woolworth Building Offire Days Each Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. OUR ROOTS Are In The Land! THERE is a dignity and importance in the work of a farmer,. He fol lows the oldest and most basic of all industries. He stands as a symbol of security, for though investments may fail, the regular rotation of seedtime and harvest continues. His is the most tangible of all returns—food—and Ihe most powerful. It is our function to aid him in directing this power so that it may be diverted into the most fruitful channels, not only to himself, but to the country. As an aftermath of the turmoil in the business world the past years it will be proven that good well located land, bought at reasonable prices, will stand a better test over other investments, for if properly cared for it can’t run away. For the you.lg man, willing to work, an investment in a farm, will always give him and his family a living and in many instances a good return on his investment. Our great desire is to see Cleveland county maintain her agricultural prestige and continue to be a county of independent, small land-owners. FIRST NATIONAL BANK SHELBY, N. C.
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