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THURSDAY, NOV. 26, 1936
SIGNIFICANT AND DRAMATIC
Award of the Nobel peace prize for 1935
to Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, is
both significant and dramatic.
I Significant because of the fact that he
has just been released from custody of the
Nasi government, which considers him a “no- !
torious traitor” and bitterly resents the
award as a “challenge and an insult” to the ,
new Germany. So strong is the Nazis’ re- ,
sentment, in fact, that they threaten to take
action against the Norwegian parliament
which selected Ossietzky for the award.
Again it is significant comment on the '
Nail government and the value which it
places on its citizens that the one man in all (
Germany considered worthy of the coveted ’
Nobel prize—the cash value of which, $39,- j
308, is no mean item—should be a man de
spised and persecuted by his own country
men.
The incident assumes dramatic propor
tions with revelation that Von Ossietzky is
a gravely ill man, a hospital patient whose
bills are being paid by foreign friends, and 1
whose ill health has, presumably, been ag- 1
gravated by his recent experience in custody 1
of the Nazi government.
His friends even see the incident as a 1
misfortune because, they say, without the
award, he had a “fair chance for recovery
having received the award it is doubtful
whether he can maintain the peace and ob
scurity necessary to regain his health.
| SOLVING THE SALES TAX
’ Govemor-etect Clyde R. Hoey has called
a meeting of representative merchants of the
State to be held on December 10th at which
time they will confer on the knotty sales tax
problem. Of course the revenue from the
sales tax is needed to help the State in meet
ing its running expenses, which are increas
ing year by year, but the method of collect
ing works a hardship on merchants and the
sight of the tax by the naked eye of the
consumer is objectionable.
This conference between Mr. Hoey and
the merchants will be interesting. They will
no doubt have various ideas about the meth
od of collecting the tax, yet out of it may
come a solution that will be acceptable to all
parties concerned.
The merchant may be allowed to “cover
up” the tax in the price of merchandise or
he may be allowed to “absorb.” Another
way would be to employ the fractional token
or stamp that is used in some states.
Whatever solution may come of the
method of collecting the sales tax, the man
ner at which Mr. Hoey is going about it is
commendable^ He is giving the critics an
opportunity to be heard and to make sug
gestions. People who criticise are apt to be
swayed by prejudices and this hearing will
serve to' reveal to the sales tax objectors
first of all the necessity for such a tax.
Mr. Hoey's entire public career has been
one of fairness to all sides of a controversy.
As a boy legislator he gave public notice of
his intentions before offering up a law and i
waited long enough to receive and ponder
the opinions of others.
Out of this conference, therefore, will i
come various suggestions and a better under- i
standing of the sales tax problem with a so
lution that comes nearer harmonizing all
views on the subject. i
A CONTROLLED BOOM i
After Beven years of depression and 1
gloom, we seem to be headed for seven fat
years of prosperity. Industry is not only an- >
nouncing wage increases but pouring out i
money to stockholders in such a fashion that 1
better times are bound to follow. >
When tiie customer has money to spend, '
times are good. The distributions of dollars
that run into the billions indicates a coming
boom and a shortage of labor and of capital 1
equipment. A shortage of houses has de- 1
veloped. Families that were doubled-up are ’
moving out in separate houses as fast as they 1
can be built. Steel plants are working near 1
eapacity. Textile plants are having bids for
merchandise which many are refusing to ac- 1
eept at the present market, knowing that
social security and increased taxes must re
flect themselves in their future prices.
Seven billion dollars foreign money is in
vested in American securities. Some say this
is “hot-money ” sent here to escape the tur
moil of war threats in F.urope. Others say>
that the foreign money is not hot or scared.
>ut is sane money coming to share in the
>rofits of American industry and commerce.
Whatever kind of money it might be, the fact
hat so much is coming to our country, has
Irawn the apprehension of President Roose
’elt who has a hunch that if Europe should
iecide to sell out and quit without notice, the
ludden withdrawal would precipitate trouble
lere.
We are not in the midst of a boom per
od as yet, but it is threatening and must be
:ontrolIed. A sustained prosperity is what
ve have been striving for, but if a boom does
:ome, it is bound to be followed by a collapse,
ience, measures will be taken by the gov
*mment, by business executives and by la
>or leaders to control the prosperity that is
ihead and make sure that we do not lose our
lead and our shirt like we did in ’29.
What Other Papers Say
Ini; HtHUUL BUDGET
(Chapel Hill Weekly)
The superintendent of public instruction has laid
>efore the State Advisory Budget Commission a re
juest for 126,000,000 for the public schools of North
Carolina next year. The proposed Increase of $5,000,
>00 over the appropriation for this year is mostly foe
salaries.
By the measure of needs, it is a moderate re
luest. The teachers of North Carolina are miserably
mid, and even if they receive the increase that Su
mrintendent Erwin is asking for them their pay will
(till be below a fair level.
Under the present schedule, the salaries of A*
trade teachers range from 187.80 to 1112.00 a month
rhla is on an 8-months basis, mind you.
Under the proposed budget the top salary paid
o teachers by the state would be 8185 for 8 months, or
11,080 for the year.
While we want to see the schools get the in
crease of 85,100,000—and they ought to have a great
er one—we doubt if it should come out of the state
reasury. The demands upon the state are so heavy,
or Its departments and institutions, and now for So
da! Security, that it would appear advisable to trans
er some of the cost of governmental services to the
iountles and the municipalities.
HOW TO GET ALNG WITH PEOPLE
(Morganton News-Herald)
It's simple, writes Dale Carnegie in his new book
How to Win Friends and Influence People,” to get
ilong successfully with people. Just follow the rules
md success comes automatically. Dale Carnegie
mows. He’s been showing people how for twenty
our years through his Institute of Effective Speaking
md Human Relations.
In his book he lists in the following order “Six
Ways to Make People Like You."
1. Be genuinely Interested in other people.
2. Smile. “A man without a smiling face must
lot open a shop.”
3. Remember that a man's name is to him the
sweetest and most important sound in the «ngn»h
language.
4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk
ibout themselves. “Many persons call a doctor when
ill *they want Is an audience.”
5. Talk In terms of the other man's interests.
6. Make the other person feel important — and
do it sincerely.
A BRIGHTER PROSPECT
(Sacramento Bee)
A New York physician warns that cold baths are
iiarinful. Now let some other doctor turn thumbs
down on morning calisthenics and vegetable plate din
ners and life will be 106 per cent perfect.
We withhold judgment on the authenticity of that
Mew Jersey witch until we are informed what she
let on the eighth race Saturday.—Chicago Daily -News.
Nobody’s Business
— By GEE McGEE __
CHURCH NEWS FROM FLAT ROCK
—a meeting of the members of the congregation of
'ehober church of flat rock met in the aunti-room
ast tuesday night to figger upon trading their pres*
sent organ in for a pianno, and it was discussed with
nuch venom, but nothing was reached towards a ver
iict.
—hon. holsum moore said that miss Jennie veeve
anith, the organist, had to pump twiste as much wind
nto the organ bellowses to make music as was ne
cessary onner count of its leaking, it plays do, ra,
nee verry well, but she can’t reach fa, la, sol at all.
le favvors a pianno.
<...mr. art square moved to table the pianno, as he
hought the organ could be vulcumised for 3$. he
dlso said a pianno was a step towards playing reels
n a church, and intennated that pianno music was
iot fit to be played at a funeral, he got no secant.
...rev. will waite, the pressent pasture of rehober,
avvors a pianno instead of the organ, and offered to
live 25$ on same provided it would be paid out of the
iallery due him for 1933. as the church is now try
ng to get red of him as its pasture noboddy paid any
attention to him.
—mr. bert skinner said that as be was deaf, it didn’t
nake no difference with him whether they played a
>rgan or a pianno. but he though monney was needed
vorser to cower the roof of the church when it leaks
o bad in the amen comer . , . than for a instru
nent of the dewil ansoforth.
- yore cony spondent. hon. mike Clark, rfd, stat
ed that he had benn talking to the "play-while-you
>a.v music house” and they offend to sell a pianno
for 300$ and allow 100$ for the organ, if traded in,
>r they would accept 200$ and let us keep the organ,
it looks like a nice price for the organ, the meeting
adjourned without nothing being done as usual,
yores trulie.
mike. Clark, rfd.
seeker-tarry of the bored
WE HOPE SO
Washington
Daybook
By PRESTON GROVER
(Associated Press Staff Writeri
WASHINGTON. -Which policy
la the shrewdest, that of President
Wilson, who went to Paris, worked
laboriously for a collective security
pact, and found himself unable to
have it ratified,
or that of Presi
d e n t Roosevelt,
who goes to Bue
nos Aires, pre
sumably expect
ing a pact, but
withdraws while
it is drafted?
To a degree the
world Influence of
the two presidents
each in his own
time, is compar
able. Wilson, vic
torious president
of a nation whose Intervention de
cided the World war, was at the
peak of his influence as he sailed
for Paris.
Roosevelt, new champion of the
"good neighbor” policy, popular
among the Latin American repub
lic as he is at home, also was per
haps at the high level of his af
fluence as he started for the equa
tor.
• • • •
Wilson Risked Prestige
There the parallel ends. Wilson
laid out the 14 points and proposed
a league of nations. But instead of
returning home at that point while
the give and take of that treaty
negotiation worked out, he stayed
on. His name became associated
with some of the compromises in
the treaty which made it bitter
medicine for some minor European
peoples, and a vulnerable target for
foes at home.
He lost the fight.
At the outset President Rooseveit
announced that his stay in Buenos
Aires, the scene of the conference,
would be limited to one day. He
would speak, but would not nego
tiate. He would leave to Secretary j
Hull, whom he called "wise and ex
perienced,” the negotiation of har
mony among the 21 Latin American
neighbors.
Harmonious as South American
republics are toward the United
States’ "good neighbor” policy, they
are not wholly harmonious among
themselves. Roosevelt is saving him-1
self from association with those
differences.
Principal hope of the state de-j
partment is for an agreement on a ■
policy at neutrality toward non-!
American wars similar to the Unit-;
ed States' neutrality policy. Like:
the league it will envisage collective
security. Unlike the league it will
lack compulsion, if present outlines'
are followed
P. D. R’s Advantages
Trade and other economic fac- >
tors will Inevitably be considered'
in connection with any such gen
eral neutrality agreement. Little
rivalries from such sources may
arise, but they will be associated j
with the negotiators, not with
Roosevelt. j
When the agreement is presented;
Social Security In Brief
As employers return question
naires to the Social Security board
on the old-age insurance features of
the Social Security act, interest
focuses on this portion of the act.
Workers are to receive their account
numbers beginning yesterday.
Old-age insurance is to be dis
tinguished from old-age pensions,
also provided in*the act. The differ
ences:
Old-Age Pen-ions
For “aged needy individuals,” 8$
or over. Until Jan. 1, 1940, states
may set age limit at 70 or over.
Finances: Federal aid to states,
so far, of $49,750,000 in 1935-36, and
Of $85,000,000 in 1936-37.
Pensions: tip to $30 a month with
50-50 federal aid; more if states
give it.
Eligibility;. Based on need. No
residence requirement permitted by
states, stricter than 5 in 9 years
preceding application, and one year
of continuous residence preceding
application. No exclusion of any cit
izen of the United States.
Old-Age Insurance
For retired workers over 66, re
gardless of need.
Finances: Old-age reserve ac
count in federal treasury started by
federal appropriations or bond is
sues, and kept up by taxes collected
from employees and employers in
all activities subject to the law.
Exempted activities are: Farm lab
or, private domestic service, casual
labor, service of persons older than
65t government employment and
work in non-profit organizations.
Taxes: Equally divided between
employees and employers in activi
ties where old-age insurance ap
plies. The combined rates on wages
after Dec. 31, 1936, up to maximum
wage of $3,000 a year, are: 1937-39,
2 per cent; 1940-42, 3 per cent; 1943
45. 4 per cent; 1946-48, 5 percent;
after Dec. 31, 1948, 6 per cent.
Payments: Start at age 65, when
workers retires. If, in part of any
month after age 65, a worker is reg
ularly employed for hire, he loses
that month’s insurance payment.
No payments to be made before
Jan. 1, 1942. Payments continue for
life. Unpaid balance goes to estate
of insured
Eligibility: Age 65 or over. Total
wages received from Dec. 31, 1936,
to age 65, must be at least $2,000.
Must have received wages for work
on at least five days, each day in a
different calendar year, in above
period.
Amounts: For workers reaching
age 65 before Jan. l, 1942: 1-2 of 1
per cent a month on wages received
from Dec. 31, 1936, to age 65, up to
$3,000 total wages. Over $3,000, add
1-12 of 1 per cent up to $45,000 and
above $45,000, 1-24 of 1 per cent.
No monthly payment to exceed $85.
For workers reaching afe 65 after
Jan. 1, 1942. Graduated monthly
to the senate and to the country by i
President Roosevelt, the prestige he
brings to it will be untarnished by
personal association with any of
the conflicts which had to be sub
merged in writing it.
Then, too, Wilson had to submit
ills product to a senate with a Re
publican majority. President Roose
velt has a senate overwhelming];
Democratic, and with its member
ship already on record for neutral
ity of a big part of the hemisphere
-all the 48 states.
payments, rising with salary and
years of employment. Minimum, for
$25 monthly salary during five years
—lump sum payment of $52.50. Min
| imum monthly payment, for $25
salary over 10 years, or $50 salary
for five years—$15 a month. Max
imum, $85 a month.
For workers passing on before
age 65: Estate to receive not less
than 3 1-2 per cent of total wages
after Dec. 31, 103$. If more than
3 1-2 per cent la due, and has not
[been paid before decease, surplus
| goes to estate.
Unqualified Aged: Hiase not quail
fled for old-age insurance (see eli
gibility above), may receive lump
sum, 3 1-2 per cent of total wages
from Dec. 31, 1936 to age 65.
How it comes: Payment will be
made direct from the Treasury at
Washington, monthly or on due
date.
No transfer: Rights of collection
of old-age benefits are non-trans
ferable. Benefits are also immune
from attachment, garnishment,
bankruptcy or Insolvency proceed
ings.
Penalties: Wilful false statements
cm old-age insurance applications
are liable for $1,000 fine, one year
imprisonment, or both.
TENNESSEE LOOKING FOR
ANOTHER OPPONENT
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 26.—
(A*)—The University of Tennessee
was searching today for a major
team as an opponent for the first
game of the 1937 football season.
Athletic authorities explained
that Southwestern College, sched
uled to play Tennessee in Mem
phis to open the season, has asked
to be released. It was explained
Southwestern would be held to its
contract unless another opponent
takes the date. Efforts to sign up
Florida or North Carolina had fail
ed. it was said.
CAN CHASE VICIOUS DOG
WHEREVER HE GOES
CHARLESTON. W. Va.—(A*)—A
vicious dog may be chased wherever
the chasing will do the most good,
under authority of the West Vir
ginia Supreme court.
The tribunal dismissed a suit by
Mrs. Edith Loudin Cockerill for
damages after a policeman chased
a dbg into her bouse and killed it.
“There is no difference in this
case and that of a fleeing crim
inal,” the court said.
AGED MAN APPARENTLY
THROWN FROM CAR
TARBORO, Nov. 26.— UP) —Ed
Gardner, aged Macclesfield man,
was foun ddead in a roadside ditch
here under circumstances which
Coroner J. a. Raby to say he
believed the man was thrown or
fell from a rapidly moving automo
bile. He said marks showed the
body slid 12 or 15 fet after strik
ing the ground.
Mrs. Canter Killed
NORTH WILKESBORO. Nov. 36
(A*)—An automobile struck and
killed Mrs Julia McNeil Canter, 60.
and police detained the driver. M.
L Whittington, pending an inves
tigation.
HOWS ifowt
HEALTH
The Strain Of Modem Life
It Is universally agreed that the
strain of modern life is greater
than that of the past. But as to the
cause or causes of the greater
strain, there is much disagreement.
Two points of view are presented.
One maintains that the environ*
ment in which the modern man
lives is more taxing. The other ar-!
gues that his environment is not!
much more exacting than that pre
vailing in former times, but that
mankind seemingly is more ‘on \
edge” and is less able to withstand !
the strain.
Phrased in another way, one
group places the fault outside the
Individual person; the other sets it
within the person proper.
The discussion is far from acad
emic. Its practical implications are
numerous. If we accept one view
point, then we must bend our ef
forts to ameliorating the environ
mental conditions. If we accept the
other, better mental hygiene is
called for.
The environment of the modern
man can hardly be contrasted with
that of his forebears. A century
ago, clergymen complained that the
noise of Sunday traffic prevented
their voices from being heard dur
ing divine service. But this has lit
tle In common with the strain of
the automaton performances” re
quired of many workers. The irri
tation produced by the noise of
wagons rattling on cobblestone
streets is not to be compared with
that produced by the shrill and
alarming automobile horn. The
complexities of modem economic
and social life, with their hurries
and uncertainties, are unique In
history.
Withal, the environmental /ac
tors do not entirely account for the
| strain of modem life. The indlvld
i ual’s capacity to tolerate strain In
fluences the ultimate issue. This
was clearly shown in World war
experiences. Most Instances of ner
vous breakdown in soldiers were
not due to shell shock and fatigue
but rather to the Internal emo
tional contest between the instinct
of self-preservation and the re
quirements of duty. Some could1
withstand the contest; others broke
down.
Since the war we have learned to
recognize many cases of "shell
shock” In civil life. Here again. In
herent pre-disposition and the pre
cipitating factors of environmental
strain effect nervous breakdown.
Not all cases of nervous break
down, however, express themselves
in the classical psychologic ways.
Many of them appear behind a
mask of functional difficulties such
as chronic headache, Indigestion
and heart irregularities.
The problem is hard for patient
Litigation Stop*
U*e Of Power On
k*ne*_in Johnston
RALEIGH, Nov. 26.— (/p, ___
Carolina Power and Light corner,
has completed construction 1
around 100 mUee of rural elect*
lines in Johnston county but
not energize them, it waa lea^
today, due to court litigation tT*
tween the Utility and the john^m
county electric membershin
poration. or*
The company proposed to <•«,
struct 170 miles of lines
county.
TTbe UtiUty entered mjunchou
proceedings against the memb^
ship corporation to prevent it w
building lines to parallel those !
the company and the membership
corporation entered counter suit w
restrain construction by the uti
lity.
In Wake Superior court last week
Judge Walter L. Small held that
the membershif co4x>rati<*i is,
Public governmental agency and
not a Vtillty and this decision hu
been appealed to the Supreme
court, resulting in indefinite ex.
tension of temporary restraining
orders stopping either the utilities
or membrship group from building
and energizing lines.
A hearing on the application of
the Caldwell county electric mem
bership corporation for a certificate
at convenience and necessity today
was set by the utilities commission
for December 18. Judge Small rul
ed that the Johnton county corpo
ration did not need such t certi
ficate.
COSTS $71 TO SLAP
GUILFORD GAL’S F.
GREENSBORO, Nov. 26.—(A>—
The question of how much it should
cost a gentleman to slap a lady's
face appears headed for further
debate.
Judge Gilbert Powell in civil
court awarded Miss Clara Murray
$75 In an action against William
Nix, her former employer, for slap
ping her. Both plaintiff and de
fendant appealed to a higher court
and physician alike, but the answer
lies in reducing the environmental
strain and in emotional and intel
lectual re-education.
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Looking Forward - - •
That boy of yours probably doesn’t ses
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.
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 our BANK
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our banks you receive a Monthly Statement, show
ing your deposits made dining 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 cancelled checks,
showing that they were endorsed and paid, sun
become your legal receipt.
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SHELBY. N. C.