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TUESDAY, NOV. 24, 1936
HOEY’S SHOES
For several years, Clyde R. Hoey's hair
has been the subject of some comment here
and there about the state but now they’ve
started talking about his shoes. It started
out of the state, too.
Says the Asheville Citizen:
What does Grover Hall of the Mont
gomery Advertiser mean by calling up
on Governor-elect Clyde Hoey to shift
from high-top shoes to law-quarters?
If the governor-elect makes any
change our suggestion would be just
the reverse of that put forward by our
Alabama contemporary. We should not
mind seeing Mr. Hoey get himself a pair
of good, old-fashioned, high - topped
mountain boots.
We have an idea that there will be
—and certainly there should be—some
strain upon his footwear in the early
months of his administration and we
should like for him to be as stoutly
equipped as possible for what he has to
do.
REASON FOR THANKSGIVING
As Thanksgiving Day approaches this
section can well be assured of plenty of reas
ons for observing the national holiday.
Hardly a community in the world has been
as fortunate during the years of depression
as has Cleveland county. Hard times, yes,
but on a‘Comparative basis this county hasn’t
realized what the depression was.
There has been suffering among indi
viduals. The federal relief policy probably
kept us from having genuine distress as well
as other sections but the general trend of
business, of the condition of life in Cleveland
county never has reached any $uch levels as
were experienced by many parts of the Unit
ed States.
We have also been fortunate in our
crops. For several years there was not
much money made but we have had no crop
failures and our farmers have at least got
ten some return from their investment and
labor.
So, altogether, we should pause Thurs
day in a spirit of reverent thankfulness for
the fortune that has been ours.
MAKING FRIENDS
Action of officials of the United States
Chamber of Commerce in advising business
to quit fussing with the administration and
to be slow in criticising, is well timed. Of
course we expect the size of the vote had a
little bit to do with it. We still believe if the
election had been close there are those in big
business organizations who would have been
a little slower to suggest making friends with
the administration.
But it seems fine. The President has an
nounced that he has no hard feelings about
the desperate type of campaign waged
against him. Those who waged the desper
ate campaign say they are going to be a lit
tle slower in criticising, so everybody ought
to be satisfied.
Senator Watson, of Indiana, subscribed
to the theory “if you can't lick ’em, join ’em.”
Says the Statesville Daily:
“That may be the chunk of wisdom that
te in the back of the heads of at least some
of the big boys. It worked with Jefferson
when they pretended to string along with his
liberalism until they were able to make the
Democratic party more and more conserva
time. It worked with Jackson when the mon
ey power and the interests hopped on his
band wagon and got hold of the reins. It
even worked with Abe Lincoln when Demo
cratic conservatives allied themselves with
his liberal trend and gained and maintained
conservative control of the government al
most uninterruptedly up to Roosevelt.
“Industry and business admittedly gang
ed up on the Roosevelt administration, but
lost. Business has seen the new deal pro
gram" TtjJproved by the people. It ought to
come-now,-with its tools, to co-operate in put
ting the program in effect or offer some sin
cere and consistent reason why it can’t. But
if it comes to chisel, it ought to be thrown out
on its nose.”
OF IMPORTANCE
Why. says a reader, do you carry sc
many words in the paper about Spain? No
body much around here has ever been tc
■paifij fiaababljr nobody in Cleveland county
is much interested one way or another.
Granted. Nor do many people in Cleve
land county know or care much about South
America. But today Spain and South Am
I erica are the most important places in the
j world to Cleveland county people.
In one war brews. In the other, peace
I is sought.
The explosion that has been threatening
in Europe for months is fast centering in
Spain. The revolution there, if it could be
confined to Spaniards, would be of little in
terest or importance. But when the line-up
is carefully studied, the makings of a catas
trophe are easily discernible. The fascist
nations, Italy and Germany on the one side;
Socialist France and Communist Russia on
the other and England, as usual, in the mid
dle of the road but worried by events, such ;
condition, we reiterate, is important. Foi
war in Europe will affect us all, even if we
don’t get into it.
In South America, there is a different
story. Apparently convinced there is no
hope to avoid the clash in Europe and its pos
sible extension to Asia through Japanese
Chinese-Russian squabbles, ^President Roose
velt is attempting to get all American na
tions, both north and south, in a sort of al
liance that will keep them all entirely out of
European and Asiatic affairs. Success of
this plan is of the utmost importance. The
President’s realistic acceptance of world con
ditions bodes well for the country if there
is an explosion, for Cleveland county young
sters have no desire, we believe, to get mix
ed up in another war that is none of their
affair and about which they know nothing
and care less.
So, we say, events in Spain and in South
America are of the utmost concern and im
portance to our folks right here at home.
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I What Other Papers Say
i1
OUT OF DATE
(Labor)
She stopped to gaze in at the window of the big
store and her eyes caught sight of a high-priced fur
coat.
“Darling, that reminds me,” she said to her hus
band, “I’ll be needing a new fur soon.”
"What! he cried, “But I only bought you that fur
you're wearing two seasons ago.”
“Yes. dear.” she replied soothingly; “but you must
remember that the fox wore it three seasons first.”
SHOW-OFFS
(Milwaukee Sentinel)
Diplomacy has reached the deplorable condition
where each nation tells the other nations how well
it is equipped for war. It’s like a small boy asking
other small boys to feel of his muscle.
FRIEND OF MAN
(Atlanta Constitution)
That inend of male America—the one who dis
covered that cigar ashes are good for the rug—Is out
with another. He finds that dead leaves benefit the
lawn.
Haile Selassie has received an offer to act In the
movies. Probably In a film version of “Paradise Lost.”
—Seattle Times.
Nobody's Business
— By GEE McGEE „
MIKE CLARK EXPRESSES HIMSELP QUITE
SYMPATHETICALLY
go. a. m. landon,
topeky, kan.
deer gov:—
plese do not take it to liart about getting beat. 1
offer my sympathy in yore loss, i, too, asspired to
offis in my own county enduring the month of aug
ust. we had a hot camp&ne. i was asking the deer
peeple for the offis of kurrlner. but i got beet onner
count of a slate.
you made a fine run in 3 states and that is some
thing to be proud of. i headed the ticket myself for
kurrlner in the first race, and it looked like i was go
ing to be eleckted in 3pite of my manny friends and
a sound flsslcal boddy, but the second race left me
out in the cold.
art square, a citison of flat rock and a verry deer
friends of yores befoar the poles were hell, has made
a public statement that he do not believe that hon al
smith hope yore cause when he turns dthe empire
state and hisself over to g. o. p. crowd, they seemed
afeared that he mought turn back to the dimmercrats
as soon as he got what he wanted.
it now looks like the fine help that lion, duponts
and hon, rass cobb gave you went for naught, as that
is about all you got out of dellyware. it seems the
public could not vissilize roseyvelt tearing up the con
struction and turning our country over to russia and
jappan. but they will find out in time what it was
all about.
you have made a good public servant In yore
state and you have something to fall back on besides
the republicans, won’t you kindly ask yore depart
ment of agger-culture to plese send us some sunflow
er seeds. The few followers you had down here did
den’t have none of same to wear; that mought of
hurt allso.
we all hope the new add-ministration will get
down to brass tax. cut out waist, keep the farmers on
their feets, including the kansai farmers too. as In
the past, and work in harmony with big bimess as
well as little bizncss and make arrangements for the
rltch man, who owns non-taxable bonds, to help us
pore folks pay the taxes, after all. us consumers are
toting the load, kind regards to you and col. knocks j
yore* as ever.
mike Clark, rid.
THE MEAT AND THE GRAVY
tteMA&D Htoge,
one MW&vej
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Washington
P) Daybook
By PRESTON GROVER
(Associated Press Staff Writer!
WASHINGTON.—So fast do the
nations c( the world breed warriors
that the armies they could put in
the fight right now would outnum
ber — man for
man—the armies
in the field at
close of the World
war.
The end of the
war found on
duty 31.,237,000
ioldlers of the
seven principal
belligerents, not
including naval
forces. That lists
nearly all as ac
tive, since in
war there usually fMSTON L CftOVtr
are no “reserves” in the peacetime
sense. Japan had 2,000,000 World
war reserves, however, with an ac
tive army of 293,000 men.
• • • •
Millions In Reserve
In active service now are 4,415,000
soldiers. But in the same seven na
tions .trained to a degree to permit
quick induction into the firing lines,
are 20,981,000 reserves. Added to
the actlvies, these make potential
armies of 34.396,000 men. Austro
Hungarian forces are not included,
since after the war that country
was divided.
Here are comparisons, the present
with 1918: (Figures given are in
thousands, so add three ciphers to
each).
Active Reserve 1918
United States . 138 300 3,674
Russia .- 1.185 14,590 6,000
G. B.. 437 632 2,002
Germany _ 437 1,850 4,200
France. 635 5,500 2,794
Japan - __ 280 1,895 293
Italy. 1,313 5,214 2,274
Total . 4,415 29,981 21.237
The striking power of all armies
has increased, that of the United
States being reflected in improved
aerial units and motorized infantry
and artillery.
Perhaps no country is fully equip
ped with supplies, arms, transpor
iration and other essentials for a
war-size army in the field but in
dustry is being geared, especially in
Europe, to provide these essentials.
• • * *
What It Means To U. S.
What does such arming abroad
mean to the United States? A num
ber of things, including:
Increased pressure of delegates
from the United States to have all
American republic at the Buenos
Aires conference adopt neutrality
acts similar to this country's.
Increased pressure from prepara
edness advocates, includUig the army
and navy, for larger congressional
appropriations for partially match
ing overseas building.
Increased pressure by pacifists
upon congress to do nothing of the
kind.
Washington hears much talk of
budget trimming for the next con
gress, but little of its centers around
GRANGE STATES
RURAL CREDIT IS
FARM NECESSITY
13 - Point Platform
Announced by Farm
Leaders
COLUMBUS, O., Nov. 24.—(JP)—
The National Orange announced
today a 13-plank platform for agri
culture in 1937.
L. A. Taber, master of the frat
ernal organization, said “we look
forward to greater growth and pro
gress on all front in the Grange’s
effort to obtain equality for agri
culture.”
The platform Included:
A sound program of soil conser
vation, controlled by farmers.
Crop Insurance under federal su
pervision, providing for voluntary
participation by farmers, to protect
them against drought, flood or
other disaster.
A tariff designed to safeguard
American markets for American
farmers, repeal of the “favored na
tion” clause, and provision that
reciprocal treaties be ratified by
the United States Senate.
Sound currency, based on a dol
lar of constant purchasing and debt
paying value.
Continued aid for agricultural ex
tension and research, vesting con
trol of school systems in the States.
A cooperative rural credit sy
stem based upon ability of the far
mer to pay and returning majority
control of land bank boards to far
j mer borrowers.
A rural rehabilitation program
| that will aid worthy tenant far
mers and sharecroppers to own
their farms.
A transportation system that
: permits farmers to use cheapest
| and most efficient form.
Extension of rural electrification
as rapidly as possible.
Gas Trailer Hits
Car, Three Dead
DEMING, N.ldTNov. 24.—<£>>—A
woman and three children were
dead and nine other persons lay in
jured, five seriously, here today aft
er a heavily loaded gasoline truck
and trailer crashed into tourists
grouped near the scene of a high
way crash.
The dead were Mrs. M. Daniil,
Prescott. Ark., her son. Jobie, 14,
and daughter Margery, 9, and John
Allen Tasley, 4-year-old son of Mr.
1 and Mrs. Lee Tasley of Port Worth,
! Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Tasley, their 6
inonths old baby. N. M Danilll and
Louise Daniil. 16. were listed as the
most seriously injured. Mrs. Howell,
head nurse of the Deming hospital.
Isaid all were expected to recover.
| A stone coffin, believed to be
more than 1.000 years old, has been
unearthed at Coombe Down, near
Bath. England. It is believed to be
a relic of the Roman occupation
of England.
the army and navy budgets, which
again are exp; ( ted to pass the bil
lion dollar level.
Bandages Fail To
Stop This Couple
BOYDTON, Va.— (JP) —Th«
bride wore a heavy bandage
instead of a bridal veil and the
bridegroom limped to the altar
wearing a rakish patch on his
chin, but the wedding went on
just the same.
Immediately after the cere
mony, the bride fainted and
was taken to a hospital.
The Rev. W. L. Burks, who
performed the ceremony, said
the couple had been injured in
an automobile accident as they
drove into town from their
North Carolina homes, but in
sisted on going through with
the ceremony after receiving
first aid.
He wouldn’t tell their names.
Odd But
TRUE
)y O. Max Gardner, JV ‘
The only American poet who has
,a bust of himself in the halls of
Westminster Abbey is Longfellow.
There are twenty-six places that
claim that Columbus was buried
there, but the real final resting
place of Columbus is in the Cathe
1 dral of Seville in Spain.
J The nearest town close to the
I North Pole is Hammerfest, on Kvalo
Island, Norway.
Ink is not modem. It was used by
the Egyptians and Babylonians
about four thousand years ago.
A zebra is a white animal with
black stripes, not a black animal
flth white stripes. This has been
proved.
Brazil is bigger than the United
States alone .but should all the
United States possessions be added
. the United States would be slightly
bigger than Brazil.
Think Death Total
In State Is Lower
RALEIGH, Nov. 24.—i/P)—State
Highway Safety Records indicated
that North Carolina’s 1936 death
toll from automobiles may be below
the 1934 total of 986.
Through September 31 the death#
this year totalled 689, a decrease of
11 per cent under the similar per
j iod of 1935, and prliminary figure#
based on the monthly report of the
State Board of Health, indicate the
decrease was continued through
October.
Last year 1.095 persons died from
automobile accidents in the State.
7? MORE DRIVERS
LOSE THEIR LICENSES
RALEIGH Nov. 23.—WP>—The
highway safety division announced
revocation of drivers’ licenses of 77
' more persons today, all following
1 convictions for drunken driving, to
pitsh to 7.023 the total number of
permits taken away for law viola
tions since the law became affec
jtive November 1, 193&t
Delivery, Not Price, Asked
At Chicago Furniture Show
FORGOTTEN MEN
IN PRISON NOW
ARE ALL LISTED
Find Many For Whom
Nobody Had
Interceded
RALEIGH, Nov. 24.—yp>—Gover
nor Ehringhaus and Parole Com
missioner Edwin Gill revealed today
that more than 1,200 "forgoten men”
had been found among the felons
In state’s prison—“Men in whose
behalf no living person had ever
asked clemency.”
Gill announced than an inten
sive study of the entire felon roster
of the penal division had been prac
tically completed with the inter
view of 1,190 men about whom the
parole office previously had no in
formation at all. The study revealed
there were around 100 to 150 other
men to be interviewed.
“I am greatly pleased at the prac
tical completion of this survey which
I originally directed,” Governor Eh
ringhaus said. “Its primary purpose
was to eliminate the tragedy of for
gotten men and insure an orderly
and certain consideration of every
felony case upon the basis of an
intelligent and thorough case his
tory and prisoner background.”
'“When this work shall have been
completed,” Gill said, “for the first
time in North Carolina the parole
office will have in its files a con
tinuing study of every felony in
captivity. This work has been of an
emergency character and has taxed
the facilities of the parole office to
a maximum but will never again
be necessary under the new parole
system all felons committed since
October 1935 have been interviewed
by this office and flies set up on
their cases.”
“This program,” Gill aded, “guar
antees that in the future the case
of each felon will receive the same
careful study and insures that there
will be in the future no forgotten
men.”
The commissioner expressed ap
preciation for the coopertaion given
him by court and prison officials,
welfare officers, the public and fed
edarl authorities.
Some of the men allowed to talk
for 30 to 40 minutes to the parole
investigators had not in years ex
plained their situation to anyone
except fellow-prisoners, Gill said,
as he expressed the opinion the new
system had already contributed
much to the improvement of prison
morale.
Once a part of a huge swamp re
gion, Putnam county. Ohio, is now
an important agricultural area. Or
ganized January 3, 1834, it was
named in honor of Gen. Israel
Putnam.
Cl CAGO, Nov. 24.—"When can
the chairs be delivered?" not ‘ Ho*
much do they cost?" was the uni
versal question at the mickeas™
furniture market here this nionT
It was characterized as a "seller""
market, in contrast to the market*
of the last four or five years which
wee designated as “buyer's" mar
kets. mar'
For a long time the price oi the
j item was the main topic of debate
and sellers had to take what thev
could get, but now the tables art
turned and the buyer is willing to
pay almost anything so long as he
can get the goods delivered. These
were the reactions at the American
Furniture Mart in Chicago, where
the number of buyers broke all
records for a mid season market «
is reported.
Buyers came from more than 35
states, Canada, and Mexico. Prom
every section the same story was
told that business Is better and
that people are purchasing better
merchandise.
The volume of orders exceeded
any previous mid-season market,
according to Lawrence Whiting,
president of the furniture mart,’
who also maintained that the pros
pects for the furniture industry are
better than at any time since the
depression.
Factories are behind their pro
duction schedule with orders on
hand which cannot be filled for
I several weeks, it was said. Accord
ing to a firm of certified public ac
countants which makes analyses of
the furniture Industry, the number
of unfilled orders at the end of
September was 74 per cent greater
than a year ago.
There is to be no drop in furni
ture prices, wholesalers agreed. On
the contrary, it Is believed that by
January, prices will have advanced
from 5 to 10 percent.
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That boy of yours probably doesn’t see
much beyond play-days, although his im
agination may carry him away in dream*
of stunt flights, and football tackles.
It’s up to you—his parents—to look for
ward to his future.
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It will grow with him, and remove the un
certainty from futurity.
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