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Suburban And Rural Districts One Year --...$5.00 Six Months_2.50 Three Months ..... 1.35 Pour Weeks -- .45 Weekly Rate.12 TUESDAY, DEC. 8, 1936 IT COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR It would seem that the calendar set-up this Christmas is just right to give working folks, and particularly those who work in stores, an extra day off. Nothing could be deader than the day after Christmas from the standpoint of doing business, and since that day comes on Saturday, with Christmas day coming on Friday, no business man’s trade will suffer much if he closes shop Thursday night and stays closed until Mon day morning. In the first place, no one has any money to spend the morning after Christmas; in the second place those who don’t have to rise early to go to work are too tired to get up town at all; and in the third place, the wom en haven’t had time, by the day after, to de cide which gifts they’ll exchange. Considering the fact that holidays are, of necessity, rare for all workers, it seems only fair that, this Christmas when the days are arranged so favorably for it, they should be given one long week end sufficient for a holiday visit or a real rest. FARM REPORT Of great importance to the entire coun ty is the annual report of J. S. Wilkins, farm agent. He calls attention to the necessity of continuing the terracing program, he empha sizes the advisability of training young peo ple to take the place of our older farmers who are rapidly passing away and discusses the necessity of better seed, good cattle, and continuation of the entire farm program in the county. Despite our industrial advance, every Cleveland citizen, whether he lives in the city or county, is intensely interested in agricultural conditions here and is likewise intensely affected by these conditions. Coming at this time when there is con siderable worry about the short cotton crop the agent's report, which calls attention to the grain and hay raised in the county, more attention will and should be paid to bis find ings and his advice, which are unquestion ably based not only on his own opinion but on the opinions of many of the leading farm ers of the county. SOUTH CAROLINA LIQUOR Advocates of licensed liquor stores hold them up as the solution of the liquor prob lem, but South Carolina finds that bootleg ging still thrives. North Carolina's next session of the General Assembly will give consideration to the ever-present problem of handling liquor and may authorize the establishment of stores in this state. Before that is done, however, a study should be made of the ex perience of other states. Solicitor W. Gist Finley of the Sixth South Carolina district, addressing the Busi ness Men’s League of Rock Hill said, “We have as much or more illicit traffic in liquor as we ever had and the existing law relating to the handling and sale of stamped liquor is a farce and practically unenforceable.’’ “A bootlegger or blind tiger,” declared Mr. Finley “can have in his place of business, filling station or hot dog stand, hundreds of pints or half pints of stamped liquor and under the present law you cannot touch him unless you can prove an actual sale or. be yond reasonable doubt, that he had it for il legal purposes.” And so it goes. Law makers think they have hit upon a solution, try it out for awhile to find that it does not work. The cure of the curse rests upon the people themselves— those who are determined to take into their system a drug strong enough to stupefy 'heir minds and render them irresponsible for their conduct. Legalized Hquor stores do not .-upplant the bootlegger in South Carolina. Neither wjll they prevent the illicit dealer from op erating in North Carolina. WHAT COULD HAPPEN The king may abdicate the throne and marry Mrs. Simpson. A new crowned head may come upon the throne. Parliament may be dissolved. Lots of things could happen abroad just now, but the worst that could happen would be dismemberment of the Britislv_Empire. The crisis in England could become more alarming than any of the above events. Sup pose the crisis should cause the provinces ol the Empire to seek independence from the British crown. Suppose Canada, Australia, Scotland other countries under England’s wings should use this occasion to demand and get their independence and the greatest maritime and military power on earth should become dismembered over this trivial love affair of a king and a commoner. England with her present great strength is the peace guardian of all Europe and Asia. By peace pacts and trade agreements she is tied up with other nations and togeth er they must be considered before any other nation with warlike intent will shoulder arms to go out and acquire new territory. Such would not be the case in the event of dismemberment of the British Empire. Let her lose her colonies and her numerical man-power and Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini would immediately set out to acquire by force of arms any country that is too weak to successfull defend itself. That may or may not happen. However the situation in England just now is so acutr that it could easily result in changing th( map of the world. What Other Papers Say SISTERS UNDER THE SHIN (Asheville Cttisen) The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot reports a pleesar little Incident which one 1* inclined to ten could hav take nplace in no other country in the world excep the present day United States. It seems that a Norfolk school teacher was spend lng the Thanksgiving holidays with relative* in New York and while there attended a theater in the Broadway district. Much to her surprise she found herself seated next to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President, who by chance had purchased the ad joining ticket. The democratic Mrs. Roosevelt herself opened conversation between the acts and upon discovering the calling of her neighbor to be teaching, the two ladies chatted away during Intermission about that and kindred subjects. All teachers will understand, of course, that only the outer fringes of so engrossing a topic could be touched upon in so short a time, but the incident does seem symptomatic of the spirit of the New Deal. GIVE THE MAXIMUM (Anderson Independent! The menace of the drunken driver in Greenville county worries The Greenville Piedmont. It says: By the papers we see that in Spartanburg Coun ty magistrates fine drunken drivers $100 for the first offense, whereas in Greenville the fine customarily is $35. Does anyone have any idea why Spartanburg County has fewer drunken driving cases than Green ville County? The fine for drunken driving in the City of An derson has been boosted to a flat $100 or $0 days by City Recorder Broad well, it should be that amount, and more, for second offenders. This has served to discourage the menace in the city itself. Anderson’s magistrates have a reputation for cracking down on drunken drivers, too. Until something more severe is provided under the law, courts and judges should hand out the maxi mum to the man fool enough to drive while drinking. INTERNATIONAL ADVICE mrs waUie simpson. c-o king edards the 8. great brittan, london. deer mrs. simpson:— i am riting you as an unknown friend to beg you to be careful who you marry the next time, and avoid as much arris-tocracy as possible, the young man you are going with mought not suit you better than yore other husbands, and the higher you go up into society the harder you will fall. i think king edards is a verqr fine fellow and will make a nice king, but don't let him make you his queen till you have a finnal understanding with that you will have a voice in his government, you mought prevail on him to consider his war detts to the u. a if you handle him right, we eould use our monney now very well for the social security bill and other investments. be sure that you love him with all of yove hart befoar going to the altar with far the purposes of being tied up, mebbe far life this time, it mought be harder to get red of a king than it was for Just a gentleman or two. if you want to hire a first-class amertcan vallet. pleee rite or foam the undersigned as soon as you take up house-keeping la bucking ham pallaee. 1 note with pleasure that the brittan umpire has ballanced their budgets, that was not a verry hard job: they used only one side of the ledger, and that was the taklng-in side, i ballanoed mine last week by marking out everthlng i owed alien, but after you have showed them how to run an americaa gower ment, 1 fell like they will be able to pay the > or 4 billion dollars they owe us. 1 am riting only aa a friend. M you love him, and are willing to marry a man that don't hold no bigger offis than king of great brittan. why, just go ahead and take him for better or worse, ft will turn out all right, and he will do well to get you. i had a cua>in once that married into royalty: he was a member of the leggis-lature. him and her got along fine and lived happy ever afterwards, i hope you will both be happy If you decide to except him. he seems to be a verry nice boy from over here. yore friend. mike Clark, rid. THE COURT OF FINAL APPEAL Washington Daybook •t FRBSTON GROVER (Assaslaledi treat Staff Writer WASHINGTON.—Poor Madame Butterfly. The etete department has cut her off now from any hope that the dashing young American will set tle down and be serious on the marriage question. Madame But terfly's handsome young uniform was not a foreign service official, but the spirit of the thing Is in part the same. No longer can the brown - eyed, flat cheeked second MtfSTONi, G»OV«r secretary of legation arouse a ser ious flutter among the alien debu tantes of the foreign diplomatic circle. He has stamped upon him as plan as everything: "No can marry, lose Jobbee.” He may marry all right, If his slender resources can be stretched out to take care of a wife, but to keep his place in the foreign serv ice he must find an American girl. • • * • Many Foreign Wives When the state department pub lished the presidential decree dis approving marriages of foreigners by American diplomats, it was an nounced that 127 of the 684 foreign service officials already had mar ried alien women. So had 202 of the 724 American clerk In the for eign service. Clerks, however, were exempt from the order. No further details were an nounced, but ws learned that no foreign service officials had mar ried Japanese, Malays* or Chinese. One found his wife in Jamaica. Csechs, Hungarians, Spanish, Rus sians and no end of other European nationalities were among the for eign wives. One source credited Ambassador Bullitt with touching off the order with a more or less chance remark. It was recited that he gave g din ner for his staff in Moscow which resembled a league of nations, not an American wife among them. • • * • MeW Resign To Wed Alien The state department made it amply plain it was a handicap for an Inspiring foreign service of ficial to have ap alien wife. For in stance, would a German wife do so well In France Just now, or a Rus sian wife In Tokto? A little digging disclosed that two Officials with Russian wives had been turned back from good ap pointments recently when their turns came. If ever there was a paragraph framed to chill the love ardor in the diplomatic breast it was the one In the new foreign service "cupid" regulations It said: Each request for permission to marry an alieu shall be accompan TROTSKY TO GET MEXICAN REFUGE Mexico Offers Haven To All Political Refugees MEXICO CITY. Dec. Mexico* government opened Its doors today to Leon Trotsky, the modem man without a country. Granting of asylum to the oft "exiled former Bolshevist leader t ; was “in line with Mexico's tradi 1 tional policy of giving refuge,” without questions, to all political refugees.” Eduardo Hay, Mexican Foreign Minister, declared. It had no political significance, i Hay said, confirming reports cur j rent here for 10 days that friends ! of Trotsky, who soon must leave j his exile in Norway, had sought permission for him to live in Mexi i co. Asylum for Trotsky, Hay assert ! «d .did not “presuppose, of Itself, ! affinity of thought, of purposes, or i of tendencies between the country j which concedes it and the individ ; ual who benefits by it.” By granting a haven to Trotsky the government disregarded the powerful confederation of workers of Mexico, openly sympathetic with the regime of Joseph Stalltn in Rus sia. The confederation announced last week it would use "every means” at its command to keep the exiled leader out. Trotsky was deported from Rus sia seven years ago by Stalin, sec retary general of the communist | party and a bitter opponent of Trotsky's tenets. Excluded by all European coun tries and nearing the end of the period of grace allowed him in Nor way. a statement issued by Hay said. Trotsky would have faced the necessity of returning to Russia, whose government is hostile to him Because his life would be "in grave danger." Hay declared, a permit would be extended to him “as soon gs the formal petition is presented." WeaJthv Men Are Held By Wardens ELIZABETH CITY. Dec. 8.—(jP) —Joseph P. Knapp, millionaire sportsman and his two guests, Giles Whiting of New York and Lee W. Maxwell, of Greenwich, Conn., will probably appear at the ! Spring term of Federal court in i Elisabeth City on charges of violat ing the Federal migratory wild fowl game laws. The sportsmen were caught, say j Federal game agents, Friday morn I ing at 11 o’clock in a blind in one ■ of the ponds on Mr. Knapp’s prop erty on Mackey’s island with 45 ! dead ducks and with bait in the i form of yellow corn all around the blind. The game limit is ten ducks a day. led by the officer’s resignation from the foreign service for such action as may be deemed appropriate.” EVERYDAY LIVING The Devil’s Art The late Lincoln Steffens, my friend for many years, made e very Wise parable about the devil, and how he does his work. We were walking in the street one , day. he said, the devil and I, and we were talking. That is to say, I was talking; 1 was asking Satan some questions which he had promised to an swer. "I will answer truly any ques-' tions you really ask me,” is the way he put it; “I will tell you anything you can understand.” Yet when I asked him questions he seemed un willing to answer. “How do you manage to defeat the great prophets,” I asked him. “How about the great labor move ment, which has shaken the world again and r.gain? What’s the mat ter with organized religion? Satan answered none of these questions. ria, did not seem to hear me. He was look: across the street ; —his attention fixed on one spot. I I looked where lie looked, and what I saw startled me. a > wa^uig in the sunshine, , reached up and grasped a piece of | me truth. It was a little bit of a i piece, but it was truth. No wonder | the devil was interested, and maybe a little alarmed. ‘ Did you see that man get that piece of truth?” I asked. He nodded, but he made no reply. “You don’t ■ seem to be disturbed by it,” I said. ! “No,” he answered, absently, and I we walked on. “But you see how it would hurt j business, don’t you?” I urged. “Yes,’’ j he said, casually. “It would ruin my business,” he added, and smiled. “Well, then, what will you do?” I persisted, impatiently. ’ Oh." that is easy,” he replied; “I shall tempt higi to organize it into | a movement, a church, or a cult. Then it will be quite safe, and will i do no hann to my business. That is a part of my art.” “Instead of denouncing, attacking or resisting a truth,” he said, “all I have to do is to get them to make it into a movement, and then tt| does not move. There is no further bother." Wise old devil, and the trouble is that his wisdom works his will. Flints of human workmanship have been found in the sands of the Somme river, France, at depths indicating they were dropped 400. 000 years ago. oton BEAM’S Coal High—Heat—Low—A at Stovewood rHONic m* Fort Newton t Church Program Each Evening Of This Week (8pecial to The Star.) PLEASANT RIDGE, Dec. 8.—Mr. Barnett speaks this week on Stew ardship at the church. The service starts each night promptly at 8:30 o'clock. Roland Lovelace and daughter and granddaughter from Knight dale spent a few days this week with his brother, Fred Lovelace. The relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Yates Webb and son re gret to have them moved below Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. Shelton McSwain moved in their new home Saturday. Mrs. Author Kook’s mother is very sick at her home. Miss Velma Webb entertained her friends with a birthday party Fri day night. There were fifteen pre sent. They played many games and contests. Marie Martin and Robert Lovelace were contest winners. Mias Webb received many useful gifts. They served cakes and candy and Russian tea. South Mountain Sing Enjoyed (Special to The Star.) ST. PAUL, Dec. 8.—A large crowd was present at St. Paul Baptist church on, last Sunday at the Singing convention. Mo6t all of the churches in the South Mountain association were represented and a number of choirs and quartets from neighboring churches and commu nities also took part. Mr. and Mrs. Preston Miller and children Joyce, Elizabeth and Wil liam and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Whitesides and little son, Edward Lee, all of Hickory, spend the day Sunday with their aunt, Mrs. W, H. Warlick and Mr. War lick. They also : went for a short visit with their grandfather, C. P. Wellmon. Mr. and Mrs. Burt Westmoreland |ahd son Gene of Grover spent Sun day With Mr. and Mrs L. T Tun* Mrs. Hoyle Allen and child*!' David. Doris, Dean and Harrill « Shelby spent Thanksgiving day with Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Turner. Mr. and Mrs. Emit Norman and children spent the week end in Morganton with Mr. Norman s ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence „ * man. Mr. and Mrs. Ramon Rlchlr4 and children of Shelby spent Sun. day with Mrs. Richard s sister Mu. Bruna Justice. Miss Dessie Waters ot Mortai spent the week end with Miss N&. dine Carpenter. Miss Carpenu, gave a party at her home on a? urday night. A large crowd attend Mlv“d eVWy0ne enJ°yp