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SHELBY DAILY STAR Published By Star Publishing Company, Inc. Me. 1 But Marlon St Shelby, N. C lat a Weathers, Pres.-Treas 8. I. Hoey, Secy. PubUshed Afternoons Except Saturdays and Sundays Badness Telephone No. 11, News Telephone No. 4-J Mitered as second class matter January 1. ISOS, at the postoffice In Shelby, N. C., under an Aat ot Congress, March 8, 1897. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Bryant, Griffith and Brunson. 9 East 41st St. New York City lauus or thk associated press lbs Associated PrtM is exclusively entitled to the use fsr publication of all nave dispatches In thla paper oaS site Ilia local nava published herein. All rlghta ol ro-pabUeatlan of spsolal dlapatchea published herein are •lop repaired. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE 1*7 Mail M Carolina k Ona Toar-$4.50 Six Months.355 rhrae Months .... 1.35 Hr Man Outride The CaroHnas >na Tear..$5.50 Mx Months_.... 3.75 rhraa Months .... 1.50 Delivery By Carrier At Tone Doer In Cities, Suburban And Rural District* One Year_$5.00 Six Months.2.50 Three Months_1.35 Pour Weeks.45 Weekly Rate. .12 FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1936 MUST HUNT NEW TAX Common dense indeed is the statement in an Associated Press dispatch from Ra leigh that the budget commission must eith er find new sourced of revenue or pare some of the requests made of it for increased ex penditures. The budget commission, an advisory body, brings to the legislature its recom mendations. For the past several days it has ban receiving requests from various state bodies for funds for the next two years, hi each ease, a substantial increase over for mer appropriations is sought. At the same time most of those who ask laager appropriations have been, at least to some extent, in favor of abolishing the sales tan. With requests such as are being re ceived, it would seem that instead of elimi nating present taxes somebody will have to get mighty buoy to devise some new ones. THE WOMAN’S VOTE Women votes were responsible for at least half the majorities piled up for Hoey and Roosevelt in North Carolina. Mrs. J. B. Spilnv&n thinks, and she is probably right. Mrs Spilman is vice chairman of the state Democratic executive committee. Women voters of the state were easily aroused this year. In both the state and na tional election they had men whose cam paigns were based on pledges dear to the hearts of women. Mr. Hoey has always been keenly interested in aid to institutions of value to the unfortunate and in increased at tention to education. His championship of free text books came as no surprise to those J ho have long known of his attitude. His very campaign statement was a reiteration f his known views on humanitarian matters. In the national race there was similar iuss for women’s interest, the attitude of le Roosevelt administration toward want >.d suffering among the less fortunate. OUR DUTY TO THE RED CROSS The annual Red Cross roll call is on this week in Cleveland county, with a goal set for raising only $1,600. This should not be a hard task when we realize how generous our people are to those who suffer in disas ters. Last spring when the storm struck Gainesville, Ga., voluntary contributions roll ed in and amounted to more than is being asked in the roll call. If we could do that much then, we can do even better now. A greater portion of the roll call money is kept at home and will be used to secure a Red Cross nurse to work directly in local homes. The work of a Red Cross nurse is of in estimable value in teaching sanitation where it needs to be taught, in teaching the meth ods of first aid in emergencies, in teaching the care of the sick, etc. A Red Cross nurse is urgently needed in this... community which boasts of leadership in practically everything else except public health. In this, we are woefully behind, yet it has been demonstrated that we can afford the cost and a survey reveals that the need abounds everywhere. CLEARING OUR LANDS Looking down from an airplane high nough in the air for the eyes to sweep •\round and aee the towns of Shelby, Patter son Springs. Earl, Grover. Kings Mountain and Cherryville from one position, one is im pressed with the larger amount of cleared land in this territory. Flying by plane from Washington to Spartanburg, this rather appalling fact stands out: there is more land cleared for cultivation in Cleveland than in any county in this entire distance. Here we have been strong on farming and have ioasted of being the largest cotton producing county in North Carolina. We produce not only because our farmers work hard and use scientific methods, but because w« have so much land in cultivation. Natur ally this presents a need for soil conserva tion. We cannot allow our tillable land to waste away and in order to hold the rich top soil, it is imperative that we maintain our terraces, build water drains and plant soil building crops. Without these protective measures, we could easily lose our present high rating in crop production and land val ues. It is segssttehts to aee that many Irnal it farms do not now have enough wood to fur nish fuel for the home. Should wt continue, to clear our land with timber to put it to cul tivation, we might become a section of sum mer storms and intense heat. THE SELF STARTER A luncheon was given a .few days ago to Charles F. Kettering in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his invention of the self-starter on automobiles. Mr. Kettering deserves every good thing that was said about him. It was the self starter that made it possible for more women to drive automo biles and it was the self starter that has sav ed many an arm-break and back-breaking twists. Tribute should also be paid to the men who perfected the electric generator that makes it possible for a car to generate its own electric power and thereby travel at night as well as in day. Then we should not overlook the men who are responsible for safety glass and steel bodies. These have saved many lives. Even the refined carburetor, gives twen ty miles to a gallon instead of nine. The gasoline supply furnished by mother nature won’t run out quite so soon. The progress that has been made in pro ducing rubber that goes ten to fifteen thous and miles or more without a blowout is just as marvelous as any of these we have men tioned. A little carbon and surplur and the cotton fabric in tires have saved untold mil lions of dollars and countless Hves. Science marches on. I What Other Papers Say CIVIL WAR PENSIONS (Asheville Citizen) The Charlotte News has recently brought to light some very interesting as well as enlightening figures regarding the Civil War pension situation In North Carolina. According to theee statistics there are forty-four veterans of the Union side In the struggle between the North and South now residing in this state and receiving pensions here from the Federal Government totaling $58,787 a year. This works out on an average to about a hundred dollars a month apiece. At last counting there were 3M old Confederate soldiers left in North Carolina. They receive from the State treasury a pension of a dollar a day apiece, or a little less than a third of the amount that the Union man gets through the mails each pay-day. As the Charlotte paper observes, there Is little that one can say about this situation. But it is one of the interesting side glances upon life that come in the dally round. WHY? • Greenville Piedmont) South Carolina ranks 36th among the Mates In population tout over the past week-end It ntnkad tint in automobile fatalities. In very recent years South Carolina's motor acci dent rate for the oountry as a whole has declined In some months and Increased only slightly in others. Drunken driving cases tn this state, for lnatance, are up some I per cent, while for the nation as a whole they have declined about S per cent. Why? Nobody’s Business — By GEE McGEE __ THE LAST STRAW it looks like the membership of rehober church is hawing a verry hard time getting red of their pres ent pasture, rev. will wait*, they have had sevveral trial preechers to come and fill hie pullplt, but rev. waite lias newer took the hint to lookout for greener pastors and bigger fields for hiaself. onner count of monney being needed worser for other things than preechlng, the congregation feels tnat it could get along a few months with a vacant Pullplt and they have give up hopes of getting a pas tiae that will work for mought nigh nothing, so they would be glad for rev. waite to pick up tabself and femilej and leave his pressent manse. bv reason of a 4-yenr agreement with him. they can’t turn him off. but now they are resorting to gos sip to get shed of him. mrs. holsum moore told mrs. sam skinner, a sister member of the baraca class, that mrs. waite has benn saw smoking a cob pipe, thru her window, and while she mougnt of learnt how to do this while in college, it is verry bad for a pasture’s wife to puff the weed. 9 art square says he learn thru a verry conferdent tal soarce at the county seat that rev win waite ia gambling on stocks and barns at a broker-house, as he was saw to enter one a few weeks ago; they did not tell him what rev. waite la using for monney an soforth. they all so are whispering around that he winked at miss Jennie veeve smith while she was play ing the organ at prayar-meeting on a recent date. -—tom head’s wife is tracing up his pcddigrse whsre he was horned, she thinks he is the same wait* that was ketched stealing a wattermilllon out of her dad dy’s patch enduring 1893. she says his was bert then .and he Brought of changed It to “will” since he entered the minister, miss lucy km green says she set by him at church one night and she thinks she heard a pair of dices rattling In Ms pocket. --- thu gossip is being allowed to penetrate the house hold of rev. waite thru his children in schoH. It is told to them with the hopes that they will tell their m» end thus start the ball rolling, manny other big morsels of gossip is being started here and there, and this will possibly prove the stunt that will move rev. waite away- from rehober. yore* tnihe. "•* miUe Clark, rfrl, quire leaoai i THE TIDE FLOWS OUT % 0 /'WCiVA/m^ Washington Daybook By PRESTON GROVER (Associate* Proas Start Writer) WASHINGTON. — No spot in Washington gives a person a more solemn, throat-choking , sensation than that grayish white stone cat falque in Arling ton cemetery in which lies the body of the un known soldier. Photo graphs show its shape, in design not unlike an armored car. But to feel its emotional wrench you must be on the spot, sense its strange isolation tUSTON L GftOVfT and see the guard slowly pacing back and forth as detached as the ancient moving figures of an old worth cathedral clock. You must read that powerful epitaph, “known but to God,” and above all know that at about eye-level, separated from you only by a few inches of stone, lies that body selected to rest in state for all time as the silent spokesman for unknown dead of the world war. • • • There are other tombs for un known dead of other wars not far from this one. But either the years have robbed them of the almost dread solemnity of the World war unknown, or It was felt only by generations now gone, or almost gone. Down stream three miles along the Potomac in old Alexandria, Va. lies the unknown soldier of the Revolutionary war. A few call there, not many. Two hundred yards up the slope from the tomb of the World war unknown Is another strange monu ment to unnamed dead. Beneath a six foot high square of rock lie, all tangled together, the bones of over 60 dead, Including men from ranks of both the blue and gray, brought to Arlington from Gettysburg. On certain summer afternoons a group of half a docen women, delegated by some local Civil war auxiliary, will gather round the tomb. They sing a hymn or two, deposit a wreath and offer a prayer. Their service often as not Is ignored or drowned out by the playful cries of young sters. But rarely at the tomb of the World war unknown is a voice rais ed, not even a child’s. The tomb is out ot sight of Washington, across the Potomac. At th« first SNIFFLE.. Quick!—the unique aid for preventing colds. Especially de signed for nose and upper throat, where most colds start. Vicks Vatronol >0« double quantity 50c From Arlington house (home of Robert E. Lee until he left it to Union occupation while he led the southern armies) both Washington and the tomb of the unknown may be seen. The Lee home, now a shrine, faces down the slope toward the city. It was already a famous landmark while Washington was yet a mos quito bog. The tomb is on the reverse slope, looking away from the river. Presi dent, ambassadors, war veterans, and ordinary folk unnumbered lay wreaths or sprigs by it. Visit after visit fails to abate the uncannily pwescSne atmosphere of the place, the feeling that there lies a man, dead, but brooding, nev ertheless, over the waste of years that were his, but snatched away, for what good? SOUTHPORT OFFICER IS FIRED ON FROM AMBUSH SOUTHPORT, Nov. 13—(^-Of ficers today sought a man who fired on night policeman Melvin Lewis from ambush. Lewis said the man, whom he could identify, stepped from behind a building, 60 feet away, fired once, dodged back into the darkness and disappeared. A telephone cable laid between Germany and Sweden permits 84 conversations at once. • LET Rogers Motors - REFINANCE YOUR CAR — CASH WAITING — WHEAT PRODUCTION IS LOWEST SINCE 1922 ROME. Nov. 13.—VP)—The Inter national Institute of Agriculture to day reported the lowest estimates i of world wheat production since 1922. Prospective crops in Russia. 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Looking Forward - - - That boy of yours probably doesn’t see much beyond play-days, although his im agination may carry him away in dreams of stunt flights, and football tackles. It’s up to you—his parents—to look for ward to his future. Establish a bank account for him today. It will grow with him, and remove the un certainty from futurity. First National Bank ADVANTAGES of a CHECKING ACCOUNT at oar BANK When you have a CHECKING ACCOUNT at any of our banks you receive a Monthly Statement, show ing your deposits made during the month, and the checks paid out. This enables you to see at a glance how much you have .been spending; and you can easily regulate the amount you wish to spend in the future. With this Statement are sent oancelled cheeky showing that they were endorsed and paid, and become your legal receipt. UNION TRUST CO. SHELBY, N. 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