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THURSDAY, NOV. 5, 1936
You’ve heard of landslides; now you
have seen one what is one.
Not all straws show how the wind
blows.
1
THE HOEY VICTORY
North Carolina will have in Clyde R.
Hoey as its chief executive a man who is fill
ed with human sympathy, capable and exper
ienced in governmental affairs and will ad
minister to the state as acceptably as Presi
dent Roosevelt does to the nation.
Mr. Hoey is never swayed by the little
currents of criticism. He knows how to in
terpret the wishes and needs of the masses
and his efforts will be to carry outk,he prom
ises he made in the campaign. Carolina citi
zens have given him a vote of confidence and
appreciation of his fine fitness for the office
to which he aspired.
The stale and the nation are on the eve
of a period of great prosperity and Mr. Hoey
can be relied upon to give an administration
that will not only add to the glory of the
state but to the crown that Cleveland wears
for having produced such a courageous lead
er.
THE PARTY MARCHES ON
In the “ten year ago” column of yester
day the Democratic majority in Cleveland
county was 2,300 and considered a record to
brag about at that time.
Yesterday’s victory was approximately
9,000, evidencing aeveral trends. In the first
place the party is winning strength by ren
dering acceptable service to the public.
In the second place, the policies of the
party are progressive and humanitarian. In
the third place, there is an aroused public
consciousness in affairs of government in
county, State and Nation.
The public reads more and is better in
formed on problems and issues and has con
cluded that the administration of political af
fairs directly effects the economic and social
conditions of our millions of people.
Hence, the party grows in strength and
power while the Republican party which held
sway from Grover Cleveland to Woodrow
Wilson and from Wilson to Roosevelt, has
lost its prestige and will have to undergo a
complete overhauling before it can ever hope
to contend seriously for recognition again.
LITERARY DIGEST MISSES
For once the Literary Digest has miss
ed predicting a national election based on its
nation-wide poll. We are not among those
who charge the Digest with having stacked
the poll. In our opinion the poll was entire
ly honest and was handled exactly as were
those in 1920. 1924, 1928and 1932.
The very fact that it was so handled
probably caused the error. People who used
to settle elections, of whom the Digest got a
cross section, do not settle them now.
However, it is impossible to resist quot
ing Parkyakarkus in Sunday’s Eddie Cantor
contest when he referred to the Literary Di
gest s poll as the Illiterate Indigestion poll.
Several years ago Will Rogers wrote a book
let which he called the Illiterate Digest. The
Literary Digest protested the name. We
wonder what, if anything, they will do about
this last libel.
PUBLIC APPROVAL
Question as to whether the public ap
prove# President Roosevelt’s policies is now
one of those things definitely settled.
Belief of the general public in the Presi
dent s sincerity, we believe, is the big reason
for the vote of confidence. His apparent de
sire to help the general welfare, his belief in
the right of the common man to live and his
courage in antagonizing arrogant wealth,
whenever necessary, have endeared him to
the public.
An almost unbelievable change in fi
nance has happened in the United States
since Roosevelt was inaugurated. Four yeats
ago the financial center of the nation was in!
New \°rk while the political center was in
Washington. There are those who sav, and
they are probably right, that the political
capital was subservient to the financial caoi-'
tab K
Today the financial and political capital
of the United States is in Washington Fi
nance can and will continue in New York
bat it will take its lead from Washington,
I where the federal government controls. We
j believe it much better for there to be politi
cal control of finance rather tfian financial
control of politics and the vote Tuesday in
dicates a lot of Americans think the same.
In all leading European nations such ar
rangement has long been true. Politics and
finance in England both center in London; in
France its Paris; in Germany its Berlin and
in Italy its Rome; even in Japan its Tokio
and Russia its Moscow. Washington, once
a slightly sleepy, semi-southern city lying
along the banks of the Potomac, now joins
the list of the great financial cities of the
world, while bookkeeping and details of fi
nance is being left to New York, which gets
its policy from the capital.
What Other Papers Say
ON “CATCHING COLD"
'New York Time*)
The season for common colds being Just around
the comer,” as Science Service reminds us—these
selfsame colds being one of the “most costly" as well
as most distressing of all afflictions of mankind—the
question recurs as to what can be done to protect
against them. The germs cannot aH be kept away.
The defenses must be within the Individual. Expert*
ments reported to the American Chemical Society
have sought to discover whether susceptibility can be
reduced. One hundred persons underwent the test
of riding a stationary bicycle. Only three reached the
top rating of ability (technically, to use 1.B00 cubic
centimeters of oxygen per minute for each square
meter of their body surface.) Then the number of
colds suffered by these hundred In the next seven
months was reported. The results showed that 04 per
cent of those in "good condition" got through with
one cold or less, while 80 per cent of those with low
er ratings had four or more colds. The results of
these tests merely suggest the advice is not new:
“Keep fit"—few "physical fitness" means that the
body's mechanism removes the geitps fa»er than the
organisms can grow. And victories over these ene
mies of human health are difficult to win in over
heated rooms.
AMAZING MAIZE
'Chicago Dally News)
K takes a year like 1934 or 1936 to bring home
to Americans the extent to which our civilisation is a
maize civilization. Critical news today relates to the
condition of the com crop. Because so much com
"walks to town” in the form of pig, even here in the
capital of the corn belt we are likely to forget the
economic importance of com.
But corn and coal are the two great sources from
which are derived the organic and inorganic energies
that move the muscles and the machinery which
must keep in motion if America is to remain a going
concern.
K is a sobering thought that this corn belt, the
organic powerhouse of America, has every year a
rendezvous with fate W we get 30 inches of rain be
tween June 1 and September 1, we have reason to
be a happy people. What would happen if we en
countered a series of dry years that wiped out both
orops and carryover of com?
Certainly drastic readjustment* would have to be
made because few crops grown either in the temper
ate or torrid zones yield so much usable energy per
unit of labor as corn.
We are accustomed to think of corn as a gift of
nature But corn, in its way, is as civilised as man.
So different is maize from the other grasses upon
which civilizations have been raised as to give rise to
to the suspicion that in the dim prehistory of this
hemisphere some master medicine man Burbank pro
duced it by artificial hybridization.
Nobody's Business
} — By GEE McGEE __
FLEA THE WRATH TO COME
. The wife’s cousin, Mrs. Hammerstein-Crittendon, U
a very high-falutin lady. She married Into a social
circle that has very wide lines; he. the hubby ... is
an Englishman with a title, I never learned what the
title was to: house, lot. or farm. But he wears a mon
ocle ever his irght eye.
Well to get down to the story Cousin Sue (that's
her real name) and her • title" came to see us not
long ago. They had just finished touring Europe
and New York and all the way down the coast to otr
house. They have been married only $ years, but
have 3 dogs, vizzlv 1 poodle. 1 spits, and I ftste but
no other children.
Everywhere oousin Sue goes, she takes "CrUty”
(that’s short for her husband) and the S dogs along.
The reason that I could guess for ’’Crltty” bring in
the crowd at all was that he looked after the dogs. He
had a very hard, difficult, uneasy task, as the dogs
must have their every whine and bark.
We have 12 rooms in our house, but neither of them
happened to be a dog room. That surprised cousin
Sue. All of the Elite now have special rooms in their
homes for canines, felines, and money-ines. We told
her she might use 1 of the up-stairs rooms for the
dogs. But she said sach of the dogs had to has* A
separate room, as it would never do to let them all
sleep together.
.The weather was cold, but the otd lady and 1 gave
up our room down stairs, and the kids decided to go
a-visiting: these and the extra companny room near
the sleeping porch furnished her pets a place to
snooze. We had to fix up several dainty dishes for
Felix. Skeelix and Skeezix: that's what they called
them. I yearned for a nice dose of strichnine to mix
with the food, but we had none.
Critty' bathed each of the dogs the next morning
in our bath-tub. wiped them with our best linen towels
and warmed them with my wife's hair-drying ma
chine. If folks want to come to see us. w« want to
put them on notice that we do not run a doggery
Their visit lasted 2 days. The hysterics the crowd
Rave us lasted 2 weeks I never cared much for dogs
| before, but from now on, dog-gone dogs.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Marine Strike
Is Approaching
Violent Stage
SAN FRANCISCO, NoV. ».—One
strike official foresaw “violence and
plenty of it’ ’as paralysis of ship
ping continued to spread today
over the country's seaboard as an
outgrowth of the Pacific maritime
walkout.
One peace move made late last {
night was considered a hopeful
sign. The Joint maritime strike
committee agreed to unload all
perishable foodstuffs from vessels
tied up here. Union labor will do
the work.
A deadlock still was in force on
the question of furnishing skeleton
"safety crews’’ for West Coast ships j
at the docks.
Assistant Secretary of Labor Ed- 1
ward F. MccOrady urged these
crews be supplied by the Unions,
to avert possibility of violence
should ship-owners attempt to put j
non-union personnel aboard. At i
Los Angeles harbor, five maritime j
workers were questioned concerning I
the asserted assaulting, kidnaping'
and robbery of two oil workers who!
declared their assailants wore:
strikers’ "flying squadron” arm i
bands.
In New York. International Sea- I
men’s Union officers proposed to |
put crews on vessels deserted by !
sailors who walked out in a sym- i
pa thy strike.
*T foresee violence and plenty of
It,** said Joseph Curran, head of the
striking seamen.
A truck was overturned in New
Orleans by attackers said to be
strike sympathizers.
Donkey Is Stake
* In Freakish Bet |
N*W YORK. Nov. 5.—<JP>— Said '
the Lieutenant Governor of South I
Carolina to the Lieutenant Cover- I
nor of Mississippi today:
“Let’s have the donkey.”
Oddest of oddities was this wager j
of the two southern executives on !
the national election. Each bet the i
other that his State would return 1
the bigger Democratic majority for !
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Incomplete returns showed South
Carolina's Democratic percentage
was 88.5, and Mississippi’s not quite
97 per cent. So to pay off the wager,
the loser will lead the donkey up
Pennsylvania avenue to the White
House, with the winnei astride. i
And here are some more entries
lb the dafflness derby that came to
suoh a resounding conclusion in the
national elections . . .
Two school trustees seeking elec- |
tion in Christ Church Parish. S. C.
got a vote each, Just enough for'
election . . . voters in Marion. N C„
stepped gallantly aside while the
election official. Judge E. H. Bry- '
sart, married two couples in front
of the ballot box . . .
A vote in St. Paul pencilled hi::
ballot as follows Adolf Hitler for
Representative. Fathei Coughlin I
and A1 Smith for judges of the ,
district court, Alf Landon for judge |
of probate court. Herbert Hoover 1
for clerk of courts .... In the j
height of the million crowd cele
bration in Times Square a Los
Angeles cowboy was arrested armed j
with a 22 revolver and a box of
blank cartridges...
MUCH ACTIVITY
SEEN IN NATION
BY RED CROSS
131,000 Families In
39 States Are
Aided
| The American Red Croas was
: called on (or assistance to I31,0t)0
| families as a result of disasters in
I 39 states during the past year, Dr.
i S. F. Parker, chairman of the
Shelby chapter of the Red Cross,
declared yesterday in a resume of
the year's work of that organiza
tion.
“On 105 occasions the Red Cross
J was called* upon during the year to
j render aid in stricken communi
i ties,” Dr. Parker said. "This in
I volved assistance as a result of
floods, shipwrecks, earthquakes,
fires, tornadoes, hurricanes, ty
phoons, forest fires, epidemics, ex
plosions, bombings, landslides and
other types of disasters.”
ur. pancer revealed that $5,232,
052.48 was spent the Red Cross loi
this disaster relief, although at the
close of the fiscal year relief work
in the spring flood and tornado
zones was not completed. Only nine
states In the union escaped some
type of catastrophe during the year,
he said. Assistance was also given
i’.: disaster; in insular territories.
"Since the Red Cross first be
Kau carrying out disaster relief 55
years ago,” Dr. Parker said, "as
sistance in the form of food, cloth
ing, medical aid, shelter, and re
habilitation of homes and families
has been sent to more than 1,900
scenes of disaster, and during this
time a total of more than $109,
500,000 have been expended in this
work of mercy.”
During the year 256.988 ex-serv
ice men came to the Red Cross for
some form of assistance, Dr. Par
ker reported. Through the same per
iod 222,693 persons were given in
struction in first aid, twinging the
total number of first aiders who
have been trained by the Red Cross
since 1910 to 1,173.494 persons. The
life saving service also enrolled 80.
961 person a life savers after their
completion of regular courses of in
struction while 10.339 persons were
reappoint: d after additional instruc
tion and examinations.
“The Red Cross carried out an
extensive program for the Improve
ment of health conditions through
out the United States,” Dr. Parker'
said.
I
HOME COMING AT
SAINT PAUL CHURCH
There will be a home coming at
St. Paul Baptist church on the sec
ond Sunday in November. All
friends and members are especial
ly invited to come and enjoy the
day, bringing a well filled basket
and enjoy lunch together. The pro
gram is as follows; 9:30 a. m. Sun
day school; 10 30 intermission;
10:40 singing by church choir; li
address of welcome, by L. H. Bum
gardner; and at 11:10 J. W. Rich
will introduce the visiting speaker.
Dr Amos S. Bumgardner of Char
lotte. Noon picinic lunch: 1:30 p.
m. singing by Fallston quartet and
others; 2 p. m. sermon by pastor.
Rev. E. L. McDaniel; 2:30 address
by Wyan Washburn of Shelby; 3
p. m. singing, 3:30 benediction.
Foreign Affairs
Of Grave Import
Face President
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—(VP)—
The new administration of Presi
dent Roosevelt will face in the field
of foreign affairs many problems fit
to test the skill of the ablest pol
icy-maker.
One of the most important, ac
cording to authoritative opinion
here, will be the task of determin
ing America’s future policy in the
Far East in the light of the fact
that treaties curbing the naval
strength of sea powers are soon to
expire.
The problem will be to decide
whether the United States is to
strengthen its fortifications in the
Pacific or continue its non-build
ing policy in that respect after the
termination this year of the
“status quo” provision of the naval
accords.
Bulking large also in broad ques
tions of policy with which the ad
ministration likely will deal are
neutrality and reciprocal trade.
New mandates from congress are
necessary if present lines on both
subjects are followed.
At the same time, most observ
ers predict continued efforts on the
part of this government to further
the much-stressed "Good Neigh
bor” policy toward Latin America.
Many look to the forthcoming inter
American peace conference at
Buenos Aires to provide a basis for
increasing cooperation with South
and Central American countries
toward the preservation of peace
and improvement of cemmercial
relations.
What Japan does in the future
with respect to establishing mili
tary defenses in its Pacific man
dated islands admittedly will be a
large factor in the formulation of
this government’s policy on out
lying fortifications, now prohibited
by the Washington Naval treaty.
President Roosevelt himself prob
ably will determine the final pol
icy.
Blind Commission
Is Making Survey
The North Carolina State Blind
Commission is making a survey to
ascertain the names and address of
all blind people in the county. As
soon as all blind people can be lo
cated, a complete statistical report j
I will be made of each individuals’!
case and aid will be given to them '
by the State Commission under the
Social Security Law.
| A field agent of the Commission
| is here working in connection with
1 this project which is being spon
sored by the Shelby Lions Club.
Citizens of the county are re
quested to report the names of
blind at once to Robert H. Cooke,
president of the Shelby Lions Club
or to J. H. Grigg. county superin
tendent of Education, so that the
survey can be made with the least
possible cost to the State. Coopera
tion of all the county people will
benefit greatly in this work.
LET
- Rogers Motors -
REFINANCE YOUR
CAR
— CASH WAITING —
Many Vital Questions
Remain To Be Settled
As Second Term Begins
The carefree motorist setting out!
to see the country with a house on i
wheels may find himself unex- j
pectedly entangled In a mesh of
laws.
A wide variety of rules pertain
ing to ownership and use of trailers
now appears on the statute books
of the 48 states, a survey by the
National Highway Users’ Confer
ence reveals.
Looking forward to a 150 to 200
per cent increase in trailers raanu- j
factured next year, the association ,
sent questionnaires to motor vehi- :
cle authorities in every state to find .
out what every trailer-owner should
know about such matters as regis
tration, size limitations, brakes,
taxes, lights and so forth.
Registration Required
All but six states, it was found. j
require special registration for
trailers. A few require permits only I
if the trailer is over a certain i
weight. Pennsylvania, Idaho, and1
Florida say trailers must be regis
tered, but charge no fee. Some j
states assess them at a flat rate;
some levy a tax according to ton
capacity; some according to weight.
Of the states reporting, 28 said they
require trailer-owners to pay per
sonal property taxes on them; 18
said they do not.
The general rule is that the man
who takes his trailer into another
state must comply with all the
laws and regulations of the state
whose highways he is using. Law
enforcement officers are especially
particular about light and reflector
requirements. Certain states, how
ever, do not require a visiting
trailer to comply with their laws
provided it is equipped according to
the laws of the state where it is
registered. States offering such re
ciprocity are Arizona, the District {
of Columbia, Michigan (if substan
tially the same as Michigan re
quirements), Nevada, New Hamp
shire, New Mexico, Ohio. Oklaho
ma Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia (unless highway safety is en
dangered). Florida gives full reci
pocity unless the owner is gainful
ly employed in that state.
Limit Set mi Sise
A number of states require trail
ers to be equipped with special
brakes, lights and safety hitches.
Almost everywhere there is a legal
limit in size to which they may
grow. Most states decree that these
road going houses shall not be
more than 12 feet 6 inches high,
from 40 to 60 feet long (car and
trailer) and 96 inches wide, though
these measurement vary consider
ably in various parts of the coun
ty, too. Under certain circum
stances if goo dcause can be shown,
state authorities usually are willing
to issue a permit for over-length
operation. />
A house trailer, for purposes of
the lurvey, was defined as , tt#
or four-wheeled vehicle with n0 a.
dependent motive power, towed h«
a private passenger car.
At present, conference office,
estimate, there are probably sboi!.
75,000 of them in use In the United
States. Other surveys have incll...
ed upward of 250,000 trailers 0n ,h
i Their recent spurt in P0p.'
larlty Is expected to end product!
; up considerably in the next n
months, making even more app.
I ent the necessity for uniform re,
istratlon, taxation and eqmpme‘'
Sharon Community
New* Of The Week
(Special to The Star)
SHARON, Nov. 5.—E. G. Blanton
is improving some. B. B. Blanton is
able to sit up a little while He has
been confined to his bed for two
weeks.
The Sharon - Shanghai - Beaver
Dam Woman’s club will meet
Tuesday afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock,
Nov. 10th. Every member is urged
to be present and would like to
have new members.
Norman Hawkins of Asheville
spent Sunday with his parents.
Callers at the Hawkins home Sun
day afternoon were Mr. and Mrs
Edgar Shytle of Shelby and Mr
and Mrs. Dewitt Hamrick of Poplar
Springs.
• Mrs. Uoyd Hamrick of Georgia
arrived Sunday afternoon to apend
some time with her father. Eurie
Smith.
Glenn White of Kings Mountain
was a caller at the home of Mr. g.
A. Smith Sunday.
Mrs. Towery of Lattimore spent
last week with her granddaughter,
Mrs. Zade Tessner and Mrs. Tesc
ner.
Misses Johnnie and Ila Mae
Morehead spent Monday in Gas
tonia.
The young people enjoyed i
Halloween social at the school
house Friday evening. Gamess and
contests were engaged in during
the evening. There were about 35
mmbers present.
Gold threads are made so line in
India that 1,100 yards weigh only
one ounce.
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showing that they were endorsed and paid, and
become your legal receipt.
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BLACK CATS and WILDCATS
Black cats do not bring bad luck, not even on
Halloween. That’s .mere superstition.
But years and years of bad luck, poverty, and
misery, may follow if a “wildcat” salesman crosse*
your path.
Money that it took you half your life to save, may
be gone overnight in exchange for worthless “in
vestments.”
Don’t worry about black cats, but be superstitious
all your life about “wildcats.” Never invest a ce,lf
with a stranger without first making a thorough
investigation. Your banker will be glad to help
you get unbiased information on any proposed in
vestment.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF SHELBY, N. C.