The Cleveland Star
SHELBY. N. C.
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WEDNESDAY. OCT. 17, 1934
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TWINKLES
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Duke doesn’t want laurels for her victory over
Tech. Duke wants Rose Bowls.
Now the. Republicans are yelling because Demo
cratic candidates arc campaigning on the record of the
party. Any Republican want to campaign on the record
of theirs?
THE MAJOR MAKES A SPEECH
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A Democratic politician in North Carolina who
couldn’t make a pretty speech would bo, if ever such a
one existed, an anomaly. In fact, whatever had things
may be said about'all of our Southern politicians, from
the terrible Huey to the horrible Bilbo, we much admit
that all have a certain charm on tlje platform.
These thoughts were brought up by the realization
that Major A. L. Bulwinkle has joined the ranks of the
graceful orators. Friday night in Shelby, he spoke
briefly, with restrained force, and a great deal of quiet
conviction. Up to now, even his most ardent supporter
never claimed the Major was an orator. He was, rath
er, a plodder, a hard worker, and perhaps a shade too
remote in meeting people.
Well, sirs, he makes a pretty speech now, and he
made one here, and everybody was happy about it, and
said so. And what better place, after all, could the Major
have chosen, under the aegis of Clyde R. and 0. Max, to
make his debut as an orator?
CONSTITUTION AND NEW DEAL
Across the bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States the New Deal and the Constitution will
soon face each other after months of public argument.
The recovery program can stand or fall by the decis
ions of the justices, for theirs is the power to strike out
any or all of the plans, schemes and ideals of the Roose
velt Administration on the simple ground of “not con
stitutional.”
How sternly, or how dogmatically, the court will rule
on these great measures no one has any way of telling.
Certainly great issues 'stall for broad statesmanship,
broad interpretations, and for keeping the Constitution
adjusted to life today.
Nothing can be inferred from the personnel of the
highest tribunal, no sensible guess about its decisions
can be made. Nothing, of course, must be allowed to
impair or destroy the Constitution itself, yet on the
other hand, it is hard to allow possible legal technical
ities to obstruct the mightiest humanitarian measures
spoken and tried in centuries.
* But above all, the character of individual liberty,
cornerstone of American faith and hope and progress,
must lie preserved.
DONKEY BASEBALL
The series of donkey or burro baseball to be held
here Thursday, Fridsy and Saturday afternoon is first
of all a fun-making enterprise and as such fills a com
munity need. Along with serious matters of life and
the necessary attention to business details something
is required to get men’s minds off these affairs for a
few minutes, and from what we have been able to learn,
donkey baseball will do it. *
We understand that the Shelby American Legion
Post, which is arranging the donkey baseball series, is
proposing to sponsor regular games of what is known
as kitten baseball, the regular game of baseball play
ed, however, with soft.indoor baseballs. This, we be
lieve, would add considerably to the life of the city. No
doubt various clubs and organizations such as men’s
Bible classes would form teams which could meet in
tournaments.
It seems likely, however, that participants in the
donkey ball series will not be ready for any other sort
of baseball for awhile. It will probably 'take the.-e play
ers several weeks to recover their dignity, to say noth
ing of recuperating from any physical incapacities
they might have suffered.
COTTON PROBLEM NOT SETTLED
The problem of reducing the cotton crop until the
big surplus is absorbed is not settled and we . hear
rumblings of complaint throughout the belt, including
Cleveland county. We believe the great majont of
cotton farmers are thoroughly in sympathy with the
Bankhead control bill, but there are individual instances
of hardship which will no doubt be overcome when the
1935 crop is pitched.
There was certainly no intention of doing any plant
er an injustice in arriving at the allotment. The Gov
ernment and the farm agents had the best intentions in
the world to reduce the crop with fairness and justice
to all, but having no records of individual yields in the
three basic years, there was nothing else to do but de
pend on the veracity of each individual. Some object
ors go to the extent of saying their fellow planters arc
“liars.” In this we cannot agree. There were mis
representations to be sure. Here in Cleveland county
there arc nearly 4,000 cotton farmers and it is a mar
vel that so many could be personally contacted and have
explained the details of the curtailment program in the
short time it had to be presented.
The crop this year is estimated at 9,440,000. Be
cause of the carry-over it is not bringing a price com
parable to tobacco, a pure luxury. A higher loan rate
should have been fixed, but that was a dangerous thrttg
to do in view of the world surplus. Perhaps the indi
vidual injustices and inequalities of this year may be
eliminated in It will certainly be the intent of
the administrators to do this.
WK FIGHT THE BUGS
It was just 100 years ago this month, the Charles
ton News and Courier finds on looking back in its files,
that cholera spread an epidemic in South Carolina.
Planters were fleeihg from infected areas, frying to save
their slaves.
Today, of course, cholera is merely something we
rend about, a dreadful disease known a hundred years
ago when so many miracles of the test tubes had not
been performed, before patient, unknown scientists had
isolated certain germs, and others had invented the
right kind of anti-toxin.
Hookworm, (thanks largely to Rockefeller) pellagra
and malaria, typhoid fever and diphtheria are today in
excusable. Scarlet fever can be controlled. In fact, as
the control of disease has been achieved, as man as
serts some kifid of supremacy over the bugs, the South
has become one of the healthiest places in the world to
iv live. It has not always been so, in spite of our grand
climate, in certain parts, but it is so today because of
the gift of the doctors.
Yes, we’re freed from the dread diseases described
by the Charleston paper. But ah, if some good phy
sician would only—kerchew!—devise a way to cure the *
common cold!
Nobody’s Business
By GEE McGEE ‘ *
Bad News From Flat Rock
flat rock, s. C., ockt. 14, 1934
deer mr. eddltor: —
yore beloved corry spondent, mr.
mike Clark, rid, is barely able to
set up In bed and rite his collum
today, he and his familey were in
a bad wreck last night on the way
from the county seat where they
had gone to let his wife do some
shopping with her govvernment
check for rudd Clark who got shot
in the war.
yore corry spondent was at the
wheel while his wife was setting In
the back seat doing the driving as
usual, when she bellered into his
Tight year and said: “lookout there,
darling; you is meeting something.”
when he come to hlsself, a telle
gram post had been knocked down
on his familey ■ which he struck
with his bumper amidships.
four or five highway patter-rolls
happened to be close by and they
rode up on their motor-sickles and
hope everyboddy out of the car. and
it was found that the followerlng
cass-ualties had took place, to
wttt, vlszly:—
1. mike Clark, rfd; a badly sprung
nake and shoulder.
2. tiny Clark: a stove-in nose and
lick on the head.
3. scudd Clark: a bunged up knee
jlnt and a mashed hip.
4. mrs. mike Clark, rfd: a mash
ed boddy and a bent leg.
3. mudd Clark: a shoulder blade
mi .-ing . and one eye biffed.
6. katle lou Clark: half of her
hair pulled out by the radiator.
7. cootie Clark: a skint thigh bone
and a bumped stumniick.
8. doleful Clark: a wrenched arm,
leg, chin, and 2 ears bruised.
the rest of the familey, consist
ing of mesdames ludie, sudle and
rudy Clark, and jhon, capus and
spurge Clark, and fido and greas
ed hting (our 2 dogsi escaped in
jury with only minor scratches
from one end to the other. the
tellegram company will be sued for
putting their post too close to the
highway, eye-witnesses will testi
fy that it was only 6 feet from the
edge ’f the road when it was con
tacted.
it was a close rail ior me and my
little crowd, it happened that yore
corry spondent, mr. mike Clark,
rfd, owner and driver of the car,
had 'he presses’.ee of mind to slap
on the brakes just as soon as he
hit the tellegram post, and that, no
doubt, saved the lives of all per
sons concerned, the punmtive dam
mages, plus aetual dammages to
the human beings in the wreck, is
estimated at 75$, and actual dam
mages to the car itself will run
around nearly 4$. the tellegram
company will have to pay all of this
according to law. a pound of vice
and a pound of butter bought in
town were a total loss allso.
yores in pain,
mike Clark, rfd.
carry spondent
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A New Enterprise Has Been Started
In Flat Rock
dr. hubbert green, our local fissi
can, has invented a patent medison
that he Intends to put on the mar
ket at an early date, it will be call
ed "jimson weed yerb livver tonic”
and it Is guaranteed to be good for
everything from airy-slpelas to ty
phoid fever ansoforth.
he will allso sell stock in his med
ison company, but he do not hope
to get anny of the same sold to the
home folks; he says all medison
companies peddle tltFir stocks and
debentures at least 500 miles from
the medison factories, and newer
have been able to dispose of anny
of it to friends, relatives and na
bors.
dr. green has been working on his
livver subscription for about 10
years, but was only able enduring
the past 6 months to get it prop
perly ballanced so's it would be a
sure-cure instead of a sure-kill.
some of his tests have not been
verry sattisfactory, but most of his
patience who took same would of
dide anyway, so he says.
he wont tell everything about his
new medison, but the drug stoar
clerk says it is made out of the
juice from Jimson weeds, rag weeds,
turnip sallet, collard stalks, sassa
fras roots, salts, sody, allum, cas
cara, pepper, diamont dyes and
some ground up pills of which he
is overstocked with, it cured his
aunt a' few weeks ago of epper
lepsy and sour stummick, and his
uncle, John green, do not coff no
more at night.
dr. hubbert green's name will g<^
down jn histery as a pattent medl
json vendor of great merrit and he
hopes to incopperate a medison
Isecont to none, with a paid-in cap
jltol of 5000$; he will put his sub
I script ion t which the medison is
compounded from) in at 1000000; n
! preferred stock, and what he sells
: will be only a verry common kind
|of stock, all cash to come to him
j".l! his preferred stock is over-paid
in.
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he will appoint slick agents In
I the followering states to sell his
stock; gcorgy, cuby, japan, alla
barnma, ohio, floridy, mobile, chat
tar.oogv. richmond, new Orleans,
;texass, novar-scotia, france and
possibly raliy-fomla he will give
the agents one half of all the cash
they take in. and the stock will be
mailed on from his home off is in
flat rock, he will make his medison
in the back-end of his drug stoar
in a tub; all weeds used and other j
drugs in same will be handy to
him. we wish him much suckoess.
yores trulie.
mike Clark, rfd
corry spondent
Harry Gerguson, known on Broadway as “Prince” M':hael Romanoff,
finally has found a niche for himself along the Great White Way.
The “prince”, whom the federal government sought to deport last
year, and who has been posing as a foreign aristocrat, is said to be
considering an offer to act the role of a society imposter in a play
due for presentation in New York, City soon.
Pass In Review
Notes And News From Here And There About
Cleveland County People You Know
DIVORCES are not always com
plete and absolute when the de-1
gree Is issued in Superior court.
Certain court costs must be paid
and although the court grants the
divorce, neither party can go to the
marriage altar until these court
costs are settled. A few days ago, a
certain individual. granted a di- j
vorce six years ago. re-married. He
was indicted for bigamy. In order
to clear himself of the charge he
marched in Clerk Hamrick's office
and planked down the old divorce
C06tS.
PAUL WEBB, taking an idea
from the free acts at the fair, sug
gested that the best way to increase
Sunday school attendance would be
to advertise that John P. Mull
would Jump off the church tower at
9:30 Sunday morning. "That would
bring 'em,’’ said Paul. Whereupon
Mr. Mull said it would be O. X.
to advertise his jumping, but sug
gested that Paul do the leaping
first and John would take his leap
under advisement.
MISS RAYLE is making good as
soloist and director of young peo
ples’ work at Central Methodist
church. She has a beautiful voice,
clear as a bell and enunciates dis
tinctly so everybody can catch her
words. Not all singers do this. And
with young people, she's a marvel, j
The children love her and will do
anything she asks.
PEGRAM HOLLAND is a young
ster who enjoys playing pranks on
his friends. A short time ago he
made three telephone calls, dis
guising his voice so he wouldn't be
"mobbed." Calling Oscar Palmer
he inquired if Oscar’s grocery had
any loose pickles. "Yes, plenty of
them,” said Oscar. "Well, go chase
’em down,” came the retort. Then
Just Ten Years
Ago
(Taken from The Cleveland Star of
Tuesday, October 14. 1924.)
C. A. Williams, memDer of th :
firm of Williams and Shelton Co,
Charlotte, was the honor guest at
the Klwanis club on Thursday night
it being a privilege for the club to
have Mr. Williams because he lived
'in Cleveland for 11 years and made
a success in Charlotte as a dry
goods and notion wholesaler. He liv
ed at the old Aaron Beam place in
No. 5 township, coming there from
Mecklenburg in 1877 and he recall
ed selling chickens and eggs to Clev
eland Springs which was then oper
ated by Mac Poston and Mrs. Bre
vard. He recalled the old paper mill
at Buffalo and the only cotton mill
located in the county, at Double
Shoal?.
History will be mad? on the lmll
mile track at the Cleveland county
fair during the next five davs, but
what interests old timers more thin
anything else is that a son of old
Dan Patch, the race track favorite
of dim by gone years, is among the
favorites in the five day races. Dan
Patch probably had more follower?
on the turf in North Carolina than
any horse in racing history.
A. V. Wray on Monday purchas
ed the College Inn property from J.
E Webb at a price not given. This
property includes a lot 130 feet on
Graham street and 200 on Wash
ington street and the three story
to his aunt, he inquired, “Are you
the woman who washes?” Quickly
came the indignant answer, "No, I
don’t wash.” “You dirty thing,” and
up banged the receiver. The next
call was to his friend Ray Lutz who
runs the Auto Inn, “Do you have
gas?” Of course Ray does. “Well,
take a little soda In water and get
relief," said the voice from the
other end.
HAULING GAS by big transport
trucks is growing in favor, except
It Is a pain In the neck to the rail
roads. The state highway depart
ment, welcomes this method as it
produces revenue with which to
meet the road bonds. Washburn,
distributor of “White Plash” has
just put on a mammoth new truck
that brings in 3,500 gallons each
load. Chas. Eskridge, Sinclair dis
tributor, has been receiving his gas
by big transports from Charleston,
while the other wholesalers receive
their supply by railroad tank cars.
The gas trucked in comes from
Wilmington and Charleston ports
where it is received from tank
steamers that load at ports on the
Gulf of Mexico and swing around
the extreme end of Florida.
, DOWN AT THE ELLA mill Mrs.
J. K. Hamrick has a beauty spot in
her back yard. She dearly loves to
grow flowers, especially chrysan
themums and dahlias. Her back
yard is literally filled with bloom
ing fall flowers. During the grow
ing season she spends many an
hour pruning and cultivating and
now that fro6t has come she has
her “mums” covered with cloth.
Just now the blooms are opening
up and if you want to see a pret
ty sight, drive down some after
noon. Mrs. Hamriqk earns a little
pin money from her flowers but the
greatest joy is growing them.
brick building now being used as
a boarding and rooming house.
Jack Creed, a white man working
as a brake man on a Southern work
train at Shelby, lost his leg lost
Friday morning about 9 o'clock. His
leg got between a cable on the
spreader machine of the work train
and it was so badly mashed that
it had to be amputated just below
the knee.
F. W. Woolworth & Co. the larg1
est chain store organization in the
world has leased the Lineberger
Suttle building which is being er
ected at the corner of Marion and
LaFayette streets, the lease to run
for a period of 15 years. William and
J. D. Lineberger and Mrs. Julius A
Suttle, who own the real estate and
erecting five two story store rooms
on LaFayette and Marion streets
expect to have the building ready
for occupancy by February of next
year..
Relatives in Shelby have received
notice of the appointment of Chas.
C. Gidney jr., to the consular serv
ice in Havana. Cuba, and of his
leaving New York last week for that
port. Mr. Gidney is a son of Dr and
Mrs. Chas C. Gidney of Plain view,
Texas, and on one or two occasions
has visited his uncles. R. M. and
Lamar C. Gidney of this place
Weilmon Reunion
Will Be At Zion
The Weilmon reunion will be held
>n the third Sunday in October, atj
Sion church, five miles north of j
3helby. All relatives and friends of
his family are invited to attend j
with baslbsts filled for a picnic
spread at luKch time.
Gas Down Half Cent
Effective Here Today
Regular gasoline in the Bhelbj
area dropped a half a cent a gallon
this morning, making the retail
price 20 1-2 cents. At the same
time it dropped here, there was an
Increase of a half cent In Ruther
ford county where a price war
forced the price down to 18 cents.
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