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March S, 1*79.
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WEDNESD’Y. SEPT. 7, 1(1,12
TWINKLES
The Raleigh News and Observer is right: Labor Day
this year was certainly an ironic festival; men without
jobs called upon to celebrate a holiday.
Robert Quillen, champion of the paragraphers, said
it: "An old-timer is one who can remember when table
•craps were chicken leed instead of a salad.
All exhibit space for the coming Cleveland county
Fair has been taken, and with free admission we antici
pate rha* all standing room will be occupied by mid-aft
ernoon of the opening day.
“What is Smith'.'" asks The Asheville Cui/.en. the
editorial, referring, of course, to the Smith of Smiths, Al.
Well, in reply, it all depends on your politics. To one ' lass
he is a traitor and a pout ; to another lie is still Ameri
ca’s most outstanding personality: and to a third class,
in the South, he's another one of those "l-told-you-so's. ’
THE NEWTON PHOTOGRAPH
The preftentalion. by rhe Newton Bible class, to the
First Baptist church of a portrait of a former teacher
of the class, .1. Clint Newton, was an event of more than
passing importance as was evidenced by the attend
ance of more rhan 800 people. In a short talk, Attorney
P. Z. Newton, former law partner and kinsman of the
deceased teacher, said: “There must be something in a i
man's character when he develops from a poor country
hoy into a citizen as popular as he was, a man who died
penniless hut with such a wealth of loyal friends as pre
sent his portrait to the church." That statement caught
the unanimous appyual of the hearers, and that, it might
he said, in brief, was ample proof that “there was some
thing" to Clint Newton.
•MI ST AROUND THE CORNER"
The weatherman doesn't seem to realize it — the
dratted cuss with his 00 degrees and above every day I—
hot fall is on the.way.
Watermelons are getting scarcer and scarcer. I'hc
fodder is pulled. Practically all cotton, the tarrpers are
saving, will be open in another fortnight, the ginners
have set their prices, and loaded wagon arc awaiting their
turn in the gin lots. Three weeks from today the Cleve
land County Fair will be in full blast, and just a week
thereafter the Kings Mountain Baptists will be gat tier
ing for the annual association—-one of the big events of
the year for this section. The signs are to he seen on
every hand. In spots the leaves are turning purple and
brown. Ere long conversation will veer to Thanksgiving
and then to Christmas. Hut. frankly, someone—and
that, someone may hv the time this read, we’re hoping
should tip off the weatherman.
Prosperity may he a block or two back up the street,
hut while Rabson and the shrewd ( ?) economists tell
vou about that, take it from us that fall is just around
the corner.
TALKING TO COLLEGIANS
It was only last spring, and it's something that
comes on almost every spring, that this paper wondered
if all the advice handed out at commencement time to
graduates really does any good. Some youths may be
stirred with ambition by these annual deliverances of
puerile platitudes and trite maxims, but we're inclined
to the opinion that no great number of them are moved
thereby: they hear them too often.
After that assertion, cynical as it may sound to
those of opposite viewpoint, we dare offer a bit of ad
vice to the boys and girls going' away to school this
year, the majority of whom have already enrolled. Our
advice, however, is not comprised of excerpts from the
lore of bygone philosophers and wise men. It is, instead,
just a simple admonition to the boys and girls, urging
them to play fair and tote square with the father and
mother back home.
Several score Cleveland boys and girls are enrolled
in college this year. With conditions as they are the
majority of those boys and girls are being given an edu
cational opportunity only through sacrifice of their par
ents. Any number of dads are having to dig a little
harder and a little longer to give their boy or girl the
chance he may not have had; any number of mothers
are having to skimp and save this year to keep their
children in school. Not a one of them, we believe, re
grets doing so. Parental affection is accustomed to sur
mounting handicaps like that. But what we re trying
to get at is that the boys and girls for whom parents
are putting forth extra effort this year should be mind
ful of that effort. Being mindful they should get every
thing possible out of the year's work, if that is done,
no father and no mother will he disappointed. To do
otherwise is to betray the trust of those who place more
trust in youth than any other.
The average dad hasn’t the money this year to pay
cut a year's expense for a few fraternity pins and con
tinuous rounds of whoopee. That’s plain talk, but the
thoughtful, considerate hoy and gir' will not mind far
mg the fads,
MOON EIt \NT) THE 15. E. V.
President Hoover, of course, is not the only leader
in the two major political parties opposed to paying the
bonus, but the chances are that the bonus stir will react
more against him than against any other. He happen
ed to be in the White House at the time the order was
given t'o drive out the Bonus Expeditionary Force, and
many of the boys refuse to forget the incident.
The field marshals of the Republican campaign are,
as a result of that incider, somewhat worried about the
approaching American Legion convention at Portland,
Oregon. A censure motion directed at Hoover because
of the driving out of Washington of the B. E. F. could
bring from the Legion gathering such a sweeping wave
of sympathy that Hoover would run the risk of losing
the Pacific Coast States. Such an outcome would likely
bring victory to the Democratic party, no matter how
New York goes.
As the Republicans and Mr. Hoover mull over that
dangerous probability they surely will recall Rudyard
Kipling's lines about the popularity of Tommy Adkins,
the British soldier, when there is fighting to do and his
jack of popularity when no war is at hand. Kipling put
ir this way:
it’s Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an’
'Chuck him out. the brute.”
But it’s savior of 'is country when the guns
begin to shoot.”
A majority of the State delegations to the national
convention of the Legion are instructed to vote for im
mediate payment of the bonus. When that motion car
ries, the probability is that some veteran will seize the
opportunity of criticising Hoover, and with that in view
Republicans are justified in lining alarmed over pros
pect ivc developments.
FARMERS RALLY TO THE FAIR
With the- annua! Cleveland County Fair just three
Weeks in the of tins: Secretary Dorton and other fair of
ficials cannot help but tie pleased by the splendid spirit
of cooperation being shown by Cleveland farmers and
their wives and also by business men of Shelby and other
points.
Early this year it was decided that the fair, t'he
largest county agricultural exposition in the South,
would be put on this fall despite the depression. Realiz
ing that, money was scarce fair officials knew that even
a reasonable admission charge would keep people away
from the fair who would benefit more by the educa
tional exhibits than any other class. Then it was de
cided to open the gates to all. admit all comers without
charge. If became necessary after that decision to fig
ure out some plan of lowering the expense of the event.
Secretary Dorton declared that the entertainment and
amusement features should not be cut. If people ever
need something ro get their minds off every-day matters,
it is. he contended, at a time like this. So the usual stel
lar entertainment features were booked. Only one plan
was left ; that was to reduce or cut out. for this year, the
. cash prizes offered for the many exhibits.
"We believe," fair officials said, ‘‘that the farmers
and the farm women of this section will stick by us
They know how important it is to maintain our morale
and courage in such a period. Heretofore we’ve offered
them, generally speaking, more and better prizes for
their exhibits than any county fair in the South. We
are of the opinion that for this one year, t'o help us tide
over and (<> give our people their anticipated big week,
that they'll bring in just as many and just as fine ex
hibits as heretofore. They will do it, we think, because
of the pride in their achievement and their winning.”
The fair officials in that manner expressed the con
fidence they had in the people of the county. Now comes
the word that there will be as many exhibits at _he fair
this year as ever before, and perhaps more. That news
is topped off by the information that merchants, indus
trial plants and business men have already leased every
hit of display space in the commercial exhibit halls.
Five communities are already preparing community ex
hibits of the excellent type which has done so much to
make the fair the success it has been.
Why shouldn't fair officials he pleased at" this re
sponse? And what reason is there for us not to tell^our
friends and acquaintances elsewhere that the Cleveland
fair this year will be equal to those events of the past ?
It's high time to spread the word. When we-build up a
fair unequalled by any one county and then invite the
world 10 take it in without charge, what better adver
tisement could there bo for a county, especially with con
ditions as they are?
Roost the fair!
HIGH ALIMONY DIVOR< I. <M
(From Tlie Gastonia Gazette)
Judge Herbert l Carpenter of Providence, R I. just about hit th*
nail on the head the other dav when he said, in ruling on an elimonv
case, that one of the reasons why divorce is so popular is that ex-wives
get more nvonev than wires.
In reducing a landscape gardeners alimony from $28 to $10 a week
Judge Carpenter pointed out that the man had earned just $716 sine;
! February, and that his ex-wife had collected $28 each week.
Simple 'arithmetic shows that the ex-wife had received just aboul
the total amount of the money he: ex-husband had earned 1n si)
! months of hard work
If we had more men Hke Judge Carpenter on the bench, we shoulc
have fewer divorces
MAY SHOW PACK OF LIARS
t F rom The Statesville Record >
Calling Caiolma farmers ’One-crop Gamblers is just another wav
j of saying ‘.ha’ they are not living at home but *hev have a wav of prny
, mg their nee'.:*ers are a pack of liars.
so WATER HAIL MAD* HER*
R R. Clark, Greensboro News)
llie stranger who entered the bank at Pine Level, a„ked !<•. a driiii
[of water and walked out with $1,000 didn t make a water haul.
Doldrums
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< Al TIOLS '-CAL
TOO MANY < ASKS
HOOVER TO LOSE?
A ( (tuple >arn'
On Cautious Cal
I Calvin Coohuge, a* we've a:l
heard, exeeeding'y cautious about
his expenditures?
It is an old story, that one about
him having several of his last
checks still uncashed when he left
the White House, and many other
yarns have been spun about the ty
pical New England lightness exhib
ited bv him. He may or may not
squeeze hir> pennies until the In
dian; thereon let out a flock of
warhoops. but we were amused, ami
perchance you may be, by the fol
lowing concerning the ex-president
as recorded by the sprightly New
Yorker:
A fellow who has been summer
ing up Vermont way dropped in
with a couple of yarns about Cal
vin Goolidge. Says that this spring,
when it was announced that the
old Coolidge homestead was to be
tricked up—rooms built on. plumb
ing added, electric lights installed
it created quite a stir. Commend
able, folks agreed, It would make
jobs, help business. The Woodstock
Electric. Company and the Bridge
water Electric Company both hop
ed they'd get the. order for supply
ing and installing the electric-light
fixtures. After some suspense, the
Bridgewater people got the break
a call for a pair of electricians. Two
men were sent down right away
primed to make estimates and talk
things over. Arriving at the Cool
idge house, they were startled at
the suggestion that they start right
in wiring the place They hesitated,
looked around, and in one corner
saw the explanation. The wire and
fixtures were all there. Had just
arrived from Sears, Roebuck
' Nother day. while Mrs. Coolidge
was shopping in Woodstock. Mr
Coolidge, who accompanied her to
town, decided to get a haircut. Citi
7.ens saw him saunter into Luccia's
harbershop. Tliis was unusual
Hitherto he had patronized Tony
Sabatino s shop. Well sir, the news
spread and quite a bunch of the
boys was standing around gassing
about it and looking at a ,-ign in
l uccia's shop window which said
i Haircut -35c.' Tony Sabatino.
everybody knew. charged fifty
■ cnts. Could it be ? But then one
Vermonter reminded the others
i hat it was morning and that Tony
never opened his shop until after
l noon. It seeihs he's an artist and
(eels he can t do his best work in
the morning
"W-a-a-a-I. the whole mailer Is
! undecided. The boys calculate to
I keep an eve on Cal the next time
j he gets a haircut and see w heth°r
j he goe> back to Tony s or keeps on
I with Luceia."
1 What? The Court*
Bring An Kcho?
Wp vp often wondered if anyone
ever ' pays any mind” to a column
such as this on an editorial page,
lor for that matter anything that
\ appears on the average editorial
| page. There are times when we
| think one way, and times when we
* are moved to the opposite opinion.
Imagine, then, our pleasant sur •
prise to hear that a thought—the
S thought of somebody else—presented
here brought some action in a lo
cal court roonf.
Just the other day, remember, we
had something to say about what
Judge B T. Falls had to say in a
speech before the Shelby Lions club.
The veteran banister intimated—
and a somewhat frank intimation
it was—that we have too many lit
tle laws and far too many trivial
cases in our courts these days.
Well, Solicitor Speight Beam, he
who prosecutes the defendants in
county court, read the comment
and on the following day "cut
loose" in the court room about the
over abundance of little minor
matters that should never have
been taken to court to add to the
expense of taxpayers and luckless
defendants who must settle the
bills of cost. Reports are mat Soli
! cito Beam talked in rather slinging
terms, and it is a known fact that
when he gets to uncoiling a touch
i of satire he can make a Missouri
I mule driver wince and quiver.
Now that that much has been
achieved no telling to what dizz;
heights our ambitions may soar.
Says Hoover To
Carry One State.
Since Doldrums, acting merely as
an information bureau, passed along
a tip as to how the licensed betting
concerns are offering their odds on
the presidential election, several
loyal L.mocrats have filed pro
test. It's all foolishness, they say, to
hint that the odds could be in
Hoover's favor. In order, therefore,
to get back in their good graces wc
present the following opinion in
The Raleigh News and Observer d>
John A. Livingstone:
“The only state I concede to
Hoover In the November election
is Vermont. If my hunch proves
i correct, then President Hoover
will be the worst defeated can
didate in American history,
heating even President Taft’s
record of having carried only
j rtah and Vermont,”
I If, by chance, you do not know
i Mr Livingstone, it suffices to say
(that he is a former Raleigh news
paperman, now associated in some
capacity with the supreme court
He was once Washington correa-j
pondent for his paner and should I
hasc a pretty good basis, trom cx-j
penence, upon which to offer fii. j
prediction. With that belated intro I
ductory, well permit Mr. Living
stone to elucidate further as fol-|
lows;
"I make this prophecy with con
fidcnce in the face of defeatist j
propaganda, which is being spread)
in Democratic ranks in North Caro ,
lina. As far as I can learn. North i
| Carolina is the only state in which j
this propaganda is being widely cir-i
culated among Democrats. Republi )
cans in other states, with few ex
ceptions already concede Roosc-|
velt's election.
‘Defeat of Senator Shortridge in
the California primaries was a re
pudiation of the Hoover adminis
tration, for he was a regular of rrg
lars, a staunch defender of the
president. If Hoover can t carry his
own state in a primary, then cn
t a inly it is too much to hope that;
he can carry New York.'’
Now. in all sincerity, we hope you
feel better about it. But if some of]
the Republican rcadeis, if an' !
hould object, we supose it will be j
necessary to scout around and dig
up a prediction that will suit them j
Such a task should not be difficult |
campaigners to the light of us and
'more to the left are offering all
manner of predictions favorable to
their particular party. That’s why.
| between us, we toss a grain of salt
on all the prophecies, and will keep
doing it until early in the morning
after the votes of the November
election are counted. —R. D
Blue Laws Prohibit
Shaving On Sunday
; Petition Passed Asking That Bar
bers Be Allowed To Ply Their
Trade.
Statesville. Sept. fi.—Statesviil
| "blye law” prohibiting a mah to
'shave on Sunday will hold good for
(another 30 days at least.
An ordinance was passed long ago
! against shaving in local barber
! shops but lots of citizens now wan*
it made legal for a barber to ply
| his trade Sunday mornings.
! A petition was passed and pre
sented to the board of aldermen
who were asked to fix the law ;o
shops might remain open an hour
or so on the Sabbath to accommo
date those totally helpless in the
matter of shaving themselves.
One barber protested repeal of
the law but said he was willing to
go a neighbors house and perform
the tonsorial necessities
Mulling over the matter, the
board decided to take up the mat
ter again next, month.
Victors in California Primary
fc If.
Hpts are the two political warriors who will carry the G. 0. P and
Democratic senatorial standards for California in the comine election'.
U left is William Gibbs McAdoo, war-time Secretary of the Treasury,
ho won the Democratic nomination by defeating Justus t. Warded, of
an Francisco, bv a huge majority. At right is the Republican nominee,
■slate ■senator Tallant Tubbs, also of San Francisco, known as a “dripping
wet,” who led U. S. Senator Samuel Shortridge by more than 20.000.
THE IMPORTANT
PLANK IN OUR
PLATFORM
THE one outstanding need—a balance be
tween income and expenditure is achiev
ed through consistent saving. Follow this
policy and you will win through to success.
UNION TRUST CO.
OPEN..
ADD TO
YOUR surplus funds may not glitter in terms
of thousands, yet they merit carefdl watching;
for they predesign your future. Your ultimate
success or failure will largely depend on
whether those seemingly inconsequential
funds were dissipated in speculation or turned
to the safest possible investment.. . the happi
ness investment. . . which takes the form of a
savings account, maintained with week-to
week regularity.
First
National Bank
SHELBY, N. C.