SHELBY DAILY STAR Published By Star Publishing Company, Inc. No. 1 East Marion 8t. Shelby. N. C Lee B. Weathers. Pres.-Treas S. E. Hoey, Secy Published Afternoons Except Saturdays and Sundays Business Telephone No. 11, News Telephone No. 4-J Entered as second class matter January 1. 1905, at the postoffice in Shelby. N. C„ under an Act of Congress. March 8, 1897. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Bryant. Griffith and Brunson. 9 East 41st St. New York City MKMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publtestion'ol sll news dispntches in this paper sad also the local news published herein All rl*hts or re-pubitcattoh of special dispatches published herein are also reserved SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE By Mail Iif Carolina* One Year__ *4 50 Six Months ..._ 1.25 Three Months _ 1 25 By Mail Outside The Carolina* One Year *_ _$5.50 Six Months_ 2.75 Three Month* _1.50 Drliwry By Carrier At Your Door In Cities, Suburban And Rural Districts One Year - 45.00 Six Months ....... 2.50 Three Months_ 1.35 Four Weeks _ .45 Weekly Rate _ 12 FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1936 THREE CHEERS FOR MURDER A newspaper photo, circulated all over the world, shows a 12-year-old Spanish girl holding a gun and the story with the picture boasts—no other word fits the tone of the story—that she “killed five insurgents with the trusted rifle she is holding.’’ Of all the distressing pictures and stor ies which have come out of Spain’s Civil war —stories of unbelievable slaughter, starva tion and torture of prisoners, engaged in, ap parently, by both men and women—this strikes the saddest note. Here is a child, a lovely looking girl child, scarcely past the age of belief in Santa Claus, of an age still to be playing with dolls, and she boasts of having snatched from five men the priceless gift of life. Worse, she is encouraged to think the slayings commend able and so also are millions of other young sters who see the picture and read her story. And wre thought the day of glorifying war was past. TWO REDUCTIONS Two rate reductions announced this week will bring some relief to consumers in the Carolinas. The Duke Power Co. announc es another reduction in gas and electric rates to industrial plants and individual consumers and the Interstate Commerce Commission al so authorizes a freight rate reduction to ship pers in the Carolina area. These two reductions will effect savings to consumers in the Carolinas of $1,400,000 annually which is a right considerable sum in the family budget. North Carolina has always been discrim niated against in the matter of freight rates. Compared with Virginia which had compet ing water routes, North Carolina has been paying too much. Rates were not based on mileage but on the strength or absence of competition. That’s why Qlinehfield coal is hauled through Shelby and delivered in Char lotte for less than it would be dropped off here. Such inequalities are unfair and the I. C. C. is finally endeavoring to correct dis criminations that have existed for a half century. Since the Duke Power Co. can afford to reduce its rate to industrial and domestic consumers, it should be able to reduce to mu nicipalities such as Shelby. There is no par ticular difference in the cost of generating power for an industrial plant and for a city and if the Duke Power can supply its retail and its wholesale industrial customers, we see no reason why a municipality should not enjoy the same advantages. This matter of power rates set by a pub lic utility is governed by the Utilities Com mission in Raleigh and we should like to have an opinion from that body as to the why of the apparent discrimination. JAPANESE COMPETITION Since competition with Japanese textiles is one of the major problems of the Ameri can cotton industry description of factory life in Japan is of interest to textile manu facturing sections. In the current issue of Fortune, it is pointed out that the “pressure of men o» the earth has worn through to the iron rock; there is nothing but the volcan oes and the volcanic wastes that men have not handled, and there is no getting away from men anywhere. No toe-hold of advan tage over the land is ignored; a man will give months of the most painful labor to the con struction of heavy walls holding up no more earth than would support a patch of geran iums in ar*)ther country. Nothing is thrown aw’ay, nothing let go wild, nothing wasted. Following this depressing picture of an overcrowded country Fortune continues “the poverty of Japanese agriculture creates a situation in which a Japanese farm girl in her teens will do factory work for anything. A mill outside Osaka has an air suggestive of a cross between a school and an orphanage. The girls fresh from the farms are the re minders of misery. Most of the 1500 girls at this mill are 1 and 18; the youngest are 13. They all dress alike, in middy suits ot a dismal blue with black stockings and sneak ers. They are incredibly small. Their lives, while not exciting by Am erican standards, are not hard by those ot Japan. Wages over the average stay of IS months are 21 cents per day. Free medical attention and about half their living expens es are taken care of by mill owners. A gir who stays three years may expect to save I with bonuses, some $25. But many of them ! run away during the first year. This is the type of labor competition the cotton industry .is facing and why tariffs have been asked and granted to protect Am erican industry from such low labor, living conditions and costs. ; What Other Papers Say CONGRATULATION S (Salisbury Post.) Our congratulations are extended to the Cleve land Star upon announcement that will enter the daily field as the Shelby Dally Star, a name that rightly belongs by virtue of its location in one to the most progressive of the smaller cities of the state. The Cleveland Star has been a successful paper for 40 years, it having been published weekly at that time by Clyde Hoey, Democratic nominee for gover nor this year It went Into the semi-weekly field about 25 years ago when Lee B. Weathers, new head of the firm, began his association there, and ten yeans I ago became a tri-weekly. The paper is in one of the state's beat areas, and will be one of the few dallies In the large foothills section of the state. The full service of the Associat ed Press will provide adequate news services, and other features will be provided. Shelby and surround ing area will support the paper well, we are confi dent. Our congratulations go to Mr. Weathers, one of the stale's leading newsmen, and his eo-workers In their new endeavor. RUMORS OF DAILY CONFIRMED (By Carey Dowd. Jr., Publisher of Charlotte News.) Congratulations—and welcome. I am delighted to have definite oooMrmation of rumors going the rounds the past several weeks and to know that you step up t othe daily field with your Issue of November 2. You have done a marvelous Job in developing your field gnd I share your rejoicing that you now can see your way clear to go to a dally. It is quite a long step you are taking but past per formance guarantees good Judgment and continued success. The people of Cleveland county are to be con gratulated. You are doing an outstanding Job for them and an extremely good Job by them. SHELBY TO HAVE DAILY (Polk County News) Shelby. North Carolnia, one of the moat progrees . ive small cities In the State, is to have a daily news paper within the next few days, according to The Cleveland Star, which has been published three times a week for some time. No paper will be published there on Saturday for the present. Shelby Is a pros perous town in a prosperous county without even a dally bulletin of any kind. The possibilities of a suc ! cess Daily Bulletin In Shelby has been a great temp j Utlon for this editor for some time The business is ! there to Justify it. But we couldn’t leave Tryon! BURGEONS 'FORTH AS DAILY (By D. Htden Ramsey. Manager of AahevSle Citizen) It is most gratifying to learn that The Sati is ; now to burgeon for than a dally. You certainly have j our best wishes. I am confident that you would not have expand ed in this way unless you were satisled of a local need for a daily and your competence as a newspaper i man will take care of the rest. ! > Nobody’s Business — By GEE McGEfi i HOLS I’M MOORE SPEAKS POE THE DEMO CRATS IN CEDAR LANE lion holsum moore. speaking for the dimmercrats tn cedar lane laat week, enduring the last rally, aaid as follower*: friends and teller-citizens:— we have come to the IPst ditch of deaperation for the republicans, the campane Is nearly over, father coughlin is still coughlin. noboddy has yet been aide to find out what he Is the father of. his flatform is full of weak planks and knot-holes ansoforth, at his last speech, his mouth seemed to be fuller of mush than ever befoar. (hurrah for roeeyvelt). | the republican candy-date is going {daces and (•milling many mouthfulls. R is landon’s hands but it is wall streets voice. He will possibly carry the 3 doubtful states if he gets enough votes, but if he don't get off the dimmercrats policies, his own crowd .will forget who to vote for at the poles, (hurrah for roseyvelt.) plese page dr. townsend. he was last saw chasing broader, he started out with borah, switched to hoover, hopped to landon. Jumped to lemke. and it now looks like he is for al. smith, poor doc. he needs a doctor, by rights, his place is with daddy cough ling: they are twins in the bush, (hurray for roaey velt.'i folks, let s pull together bo’s we can gard against being pulled to peaces, our farm prices Is ok now and our children is getting enough to est and wear; our mills is running full time and paying fair wedges, and so far. noboddy has got hurt, the rich man is a-feared that he will have to pay more taxes, but if he's getting richer ever-day, what's he got to kick about, (hurrah for gamer.) friends, meet me at the poles next week with yore! mind made up to keep prosperity from dodging back around the republican oorner again. If we don! hold what we have got we won’t have nothing to hold tn a short while, talk to the back-sliders and fence | straddlers: If they vote wrong this time take down ! telly-foam numbers for future refference*. ihur-: rah for wallis. fartey and company.) yeeec tmlie. mike Clark rM > | staff reporter. SPIRITS ABROAD! Washington Daybook Bj PRESTON GROVER i Associated Press Staff Writer’ WASHINGTON. — State depart ment trade agreement negotiator.-, would have fewer uneasy moments if nnlr fnimiim- Av... Clous would exer cise s bit more caution. Trad* agree ments supposedly are worked out In secret. They are on this end. Man ufacturers and producers at flrat complained hotly at being left out of the negotiations Then they got wise to goings on overseas. • • • * Lists Sold Abroad From inside comes this story. A group of Jewelry manufacturers went to the state department, their Inner mechanism just buzzing with Indignation. They had learned, they ■aid, that duties on certain grades of foreign watches were being cut. Oh, no, soothed state department hands. Nothing is concluded yet Watches may not be Included. But the watch makers were armed with hot evidence. They unfolded right there a photostatic copy of the list of tariff concessions the United State had agreed to make. There was the cut In watches. How come? The state department had had foreign troubles before, so just blinked It off. The story learned was this. When the United States Is negotiating a trade treaty with a foreign coun try, the list of proposed American tariff concessions abroad—almost at once—at about $200 a copy. The United States protests in each Instance, and gets a quick re- ■ tponse from the foreign party to the treaty that it is simply beyond understanding how such a slip could have occurred. ■all To Get 96 A Day Secretary of State Hull will get $6 a day for living expenses at the Pan-American conference in Buenos Aires. 8o will his stenographer. The stenographer probably can get by on It, with care. Hull can not. Time was, before the 1933 econ omy act, when top flight delegates could nick the government for $15 to $20 a day. but not any more. New Store Room Is Being Erected (Special to The Star' BOlLJNG SPRINGS. Oct. 29 —G. T. McSwain started work last week in preparation to erecting a modern brick store in the center of Boiling Springs business district. The two new stores will be quite an addition to this little town and is evidence enough that this place is progres sive and constantly moving for ward. Mr and Mrs. Andrew Greene are having their home improved and repaired. Observations Of An Old Tinier -By J. K. OSBORNE You ought to be pretty well satis fied with your reputation, if good folks praise you, and the rascals hate you. It's no use to try to make a race hoss out of a jackass. It Just can't be did. Which is liable to the most cri ticism—waiting for a dead man’s shoes, or stealing the shoes before the man dies? If I was hunting a man who could successfully overcome a real difficulty, I wouldn't choose a fell er who don’t have enough grit and manhood to wltlistand the tempta tion a pint of rot-gut licker has to offer. You are on the road to success, young man, if you are making a lot of blunders and don’t seem to know it. I believe if we would send some feller to the legislature who would pass a law compelling everybody to tend to his own business, it would be a great relief to the country. If you find an old man who is plain, well informed, honest, joy ous and free—his life a benedic tion to the neighborhood, guess how he spent his youth. Looks to me like a feller is about out of a job when he gets busy tracking-out a cat’s pedigree. The love of money is the root of 1 all evil, so I hear, but that’s no re flection on the money you may have on hand, if you have obtained it honestly and are spending it virt ously. I have no inclination to criticize the Chinaman's idea of worship, or anybody else on that line, but I can’t understand why he would make his wooden idols, male and female. As Uncle Jake Craig would say: “that's a huckleberry over my persimmon.’’ Spend For Poor RALEIGH. Oct. 30—WP)~North Carolina's local governmental units spent (2.495.162 for the poor during the year ended June 30. Yarn Association Members At Play PINEHUR8T, Oct. 30.—