SHELBY DAILY SJAR
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MONDAY. DEC. 14, 1936
A HALE ( HOP
The latest gin report for Cleveland coun
’\r InHinulovo ciolil fhic vc.ir nf onnenvimnte.
y half of the crop we made in 1935. This is
liseouraging and disappointing. Naturally
t has its effects on business, but it cannot
rtean that our farmers have only half as
nuch money as they had a year ago.
The price has risen and quality cotton
s bringing a premium. To the premium we
'an add the higher price for seed and the
soil conservation benefit payments due to
trrive early next month.
Instead of holding first place among the
North Carolina cotton growing counties, we
lave dropped to fifth position. This does
lot mean, however, that our farmers do not
enow how to grow the staple. Weather con
iitions were unfavorable and directly caused
he biggest drop in our cotton yield in the
listory of the county. ,
Fortunately, the textile business has im
iroved and the 4.000 or more employees are
■>ack on full-time, thus making up a weekly
mv-roll which offsets to some extent the
‘ffects of a short cotton crop in the markets
if retail trade.
PUBLISHING DRUNK DRIVERS
If an auto driver is convicted of driving
bile drunk and his license is revoked, his
>me town paper may overlook the court
item, but it never escapes the Raleigh News
and Observer. Periodically the capital city
paper publishes the complete list, whether
they live in Raleigh, Murphy or Manteo and
keeps up with the statistics.
Since this law has been in effect, 7,398
drivers have had their licenses revoked for
reckless and drunk driving. The law has
been on the books for nearly two years and
some! of those who were deprived of the
privilege of driving have lived to see the per
iod of their penalty expire and their license
restored. Last week 82 were re-licensed. .
It is the policy of most newspapers in
North Carolina to publish the names of con
victed ones—not merely for the sake of add
ing shame and humiliation to the guilty par
ties—but as a warning for the other motor
ists to avoid them. A safety campaign can
not be successful unless the public aids the
officers in seeing to it that habitual drunks
ire not allowed to take the steering wheel of
a high powered motor and pilot it along a
public thoroughfare, endangering the lives of
others.
ou, ii a aruiiK urivei « name escapes tuc
home-town paper, it is sure to make the
columns of the News and Observer. The re
porter’s daily check-up of the State High
way Safety Bureau.
WHAT AILS MARRIAGE?
Caroline Miller, Georgia novelist, won a
decree of divorce this week from her hus
band, Will D. Miller, which brought final
confirmation and settlement to rumors to
the effect she would divorce him which be
gan soon after she became suddenly famous
four years ago when her first novel, "Lamb
In His Bosom” won the Pulitzer prize.
In the course of the divorce proceedings
she charged “mental cruelty and incompata
bility,” and her husband testified that he
had been a "faithful and affectionate hus
band” and that the two had gotten along
well together for thirteen years before his
wife’s success went to her head.
The chances are both told the truth.
Every marriage has its moments, even its
hours or days, of incompatability, of mental
cruelty, when husband scowls wife down .be
cause she ignores his two-bid or leaves him
holding the bag on one-doubled; but, just so,
every marriage has its happy hours when
faith and affection exist, when husband is
kind and patient with wife who can’t cook,
and when wife darns socks and sweeps up
ashes when she loathes both.
Perhaps Caroline has forgotten the
years when Will shared his none-too-sturdy
bank account with her and worked with her
over the manuscript of the book which gave
her economic- independence. Perhaps suc
cess did go to her head. On the other hand,
it may be that Will is a small-minded, small
town, ultra-conventional school man whose
mental development has not kept pace with
that of his wife, and that there no longer
exists any community of interests between
them. -
Whatever the truth about the mattei
may be, the final divorce which breaks uj
home for three growing children and ends a
marriage which has made sufficiently satis
factory adjustments to weather thirteen
years of life together makes one bite one’s
lip and wonder which is at fault, the institu
tion of marriage itself or the human race in
general.
What Other Papers Say
POVERTY
'Raleigh News and Observer)
There is» undoubtedly truth about ail of us in the
statement of Sinclair Lewis that "there never will be i
a time, no matter what system of government we
have, when a large proportion of the people will not
think they are poor no matter how much they have.”
Hunger Is absolute, but poverty may be an entirely
relative matter. Sadly enough even the millionaire
may have to come regretfully to the conclusion that
he Is too poor to possess that second steam yacht.
And much further down the social scale there are
plenty of well-fed men and women who In lesser
things must wistfully compare desire and pocketbook.
Such a poverty growing from the faUure to meet of
the ends of what we. want and the ends of what we
have may be eternal and inevitable as Mr. Lewis sug
gests. But if there is any reality in the promise of
our progress, it ought to be possible to envisage a
time when nobody is so poor that they have not
enough to eat. nobody is so poor that they lack a
roof to keep out the rain, nobody is so poor that he
need lack clothes to keep him warm, medical care to
keep him well.
Poverty as a state of mind may be not only In
evitable but also valuable as the Itch that keeps us
stirring; but poverty as a social disease should never
be accepted as Inevitable by a civilisation proud of Its
achievement and determined on Its progress.
FOR A UNITED STATE
'Winston-Salem Journal)
Governor-elect Hoey does well In pleading for a
united state. It is only through co-operative, har
monious effort that North Carolina can rise to high
er levels of prosperity.
But let us all remember that unity implies a
meeting of minds; that before the State can become
thoroughly united it must resolve the grievances and
difference of opinion which now exists in the cruc
ible of equity.
So long as the East holds a balance of power in
the legislature while the West polls the preponderance
of votes, there will be sectional friction. So long as
our tax system is inequitable, those whom it dis
crinRnates against will sound a protest and friction
will exist.
It must exist, it must make itself heard, for true
unity can never be attained on a base of injustice.
That foundation is sinking sand which will cause the
whole structure to tumble down. If we are to seek
unity, then we must build on strong and sure founda
tions which embrace justice and equity in the rela
tionships between classes and between geographical
unite. -
SIC 'EM. DAVE!
< Greensboro News*
David Clark says the request of State college
students for his removal from the athletic council is
"silly and asinine.” Tubbe shore, Dave, tubbe shore;
in fact, it reminds us of some of the suggestions you
have made to the University trustees concerning
Frank Graham.
Nobody's Business
— By GEE McGEE „
GONE. BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
- .No family anywhere, white, black, red or yellow,
ever has any more ups and downs than we have at
our house all circumstances considered.
-About 30 days before Thanksgiving day, we In
vested in a great big, broad-chested, 43-pound turkey
gobbler. He looked like an ostrich. He was indeed
a fine bird.
.We put this Thanks-glvlng offering In a pen In
our back yard where we could feed him and water
him and fatten him. He could out gobble any ani
mal I ever heard of If I had not been "deef," he
wt*uld have proven a nuisance (That's what some
one said*.
— Days came and went. Ever once in awhile. I
would ask the colored boy who eats at our house and
pretends to work occasionally if he was looking after
the turkey: he always smacked his lips and said:
‘‘Yas-sar, I sho is ” (I’ve been wondering what he
did for this fowl*.
We planned the biggest Thanksgiving dinner that
had ever been staged in our block, or any other part
of town as for that matter. We invited all of our
kinfolks but 9. and they lived in Australia.
----1 event went so far as to invite my > living friends
to this feast, and told them to fetch their wives along.
Everybody that I mentioned these to generously ac
cepted the invite.
The day before Thanks-giving, we received the
shock of our lives. The cook, the boy, the wife, the
kids, and I went out to slaughter that mnstrous gob
bler. We entered his pen. There he lay dead as a
doornail on his back with his feet in the air.
.Death had overtaken him before we did. He had
passed on to turkey-heaven where they possibly cat
| cabbages for Thanks-giving. My *11.30 was gone
Tears began to roll down cheeks that had never known
tears before. What a calamity: folks, relatives, peo
ple. and friends coming to eat a turkey that ain’t.
: We got by tho: I bought 3 chicken hens and 2 roosters.
i\Ve devoured our stuff without complaint or dtscus
Ision. but I'm cured of buying big gobblers ahead ot
I time.
FRANKLIN COMES HOME
;
Washington
j|3 Daybook
By PRESTON GROVER
(AinonlaM Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON.—Many adminis
tration figures were annoyed at the
tough break President Roosevelt
had on world publicity he might
have expected from his South
American visit.
The Simpson
ease at
crowded the
Roosevelt stories
off page one
far inside to
“wrapped around
a prune ad,"
the saying goes.
His principal
break was
the Simpson story
did not hit
full stride
after the speech HBTOH L Gtovtf
in Buenos Aires opening the Pan
American peace conference. Tha
allowed full play of his pronounce
ment that land hungry or war ma<
nations had better hunt elsewher
than in the Americas for satisfac
tlon.
• • • •
Italy Answer* Sharply
All in all, however, the reactioi
at large was to accept the presi
dent's speech as marking a rea
epoch in international affairs. H
wanted trade. And he said the
American republics were in a hand
some position to show the othe
three continents that here were tw<
continents enjoying a Democrat!
form of government in reasonable
peace of good neighborliness.
Upon this theme there was i
startling development. Mr. Roosevel
said that If the Americans couli
continue successful operation o
their form of government, “It wil
spread and supersede other method
by which men are governed.”
"Only a day or so later, Fulvii
Suvlch, new Italian ambassador t<
the U. S., In a speech before thi
national press club In Washington
said:
“Italy likes fascism. * * Trouble!
start when countries try to divulgi
in other countries living under othei
systems ideas they cheerish anc
practice at home. * * * You als<
have highly thought of institution;
and they fit your needs. We certain
ly do not dream of suggesting tc
you to change them.”
It was explained afterward that
Suvich. his speech prepared day;
In advance, had no intention ol
thus sniping back at Roosevelt
That was for the record. Inescap
ably it represented the official Ital
ian reaction the president's sugges
tion.
League Foes Pleased
League foes like Roosevelt's state
ment that "this is no conference tc
form alliances.'' World court critics
who have been fearful the presi
dent would take advantage of the
prepondemat Democratic majoritj
in the senate to again urge ad
herence to the court, hope those
seven words mean he now Is more
wary of foreign conn ret ions, anc
will not.
ADULT EDUCATION |
PROGRAM IS NOW !
MAKING PROGRESS
Is Operating In Nine !
Nine Centers Of
County
i An increase in atendance and in
the quality of work being done in
the nine centers of Adult Education
i in the county was reported today
• in an interview with Mrs. E. B.
Olive of Kings Mountain, director i
of the program.
In one small town in the coun
ty, unnamed for obvious reasons,
Mrs. Olive said a prejudice against
schools and education in general
has been removed, and that the
center now has a parent teacher
association which works through
! the entire community.
Attendance at school of chil
i dren of persons on relief or those
i who are in some way being aided by
the government has in five of the
nine centers been increased 100
. | percent.
"Better homes” has been a slo
11 gan and a model house had been
• | projected, but until the first of the
I year efforts are being directed to
ward Christmas programs.
Enrollment in the county for Au
gust was 253, September 303, Oc
i tober 316 and for November 392.
■ General attendance was 173; llt
1 eracy classes has 245 and home
; making classes 141.
i Hitherto underprivileged persons
- are now studying what needs to be
■ in a good wardrobe, learning to
> read and to write, taught physical
; and mental health and many other
! practical things which they had no
chance to '.earn when they were
i young. Mrs. Olive said.
1 Hungary Women
'Want Positions
On Police Force
BUDAPEST — Hungarian women
. want to undertake work with the
Hungarian police' detective force,
. and thy base their demands upon
1 the success achieved in such work
by Miss Claudia Majdan, who re
cently passed on.
i Miss Majdan was the first and
only woman detective in Hungary
and carried on her duties in Buda
1 pest for the last 10 years silently
and without attracting notice from
the ordinary public.
Only personal friends caught!
glimpses, now and then, of the kind i
of work which passed through her 1
hands; of her genuine sympathy
for those whom she herself brought
to justice; of the understanding
which enabled her to persuade the !
authorities of her city to set up a j
workshop, where men and women j
due. by police regulation, to be!
transferred to their own districts.1
or possibly to the frontftr. might be1
usefully employed during the time1
they waited for their removal.
A 1935 Iowa agricultural ceusus
Just reported shows that a majority
of Iowa farm operators have been
on the land they now occupy more
| than five years.
EVERYDAY
LIVING
Spirituality
“Often you use the words spirit
ual, spirituality, and the like,” writes
a young man, “and I wonder what
you mean. No, I’m not trying to be
smart, but the words are just empty
sounds to me.
"They must
mean something,
but I do not know
what it is. If a
man has spiritual
ity, what does he
have; if he lacks
it, what does he
lack? Please do
not think me itn
pertinent—I want Jo'eoh r°rt N,wUo
to know.”
It is a fair question, and my read
er has a right to ask it. But it is not
easy to answer it because we have
such vague, misty ideas of the sub
ject. Or we just use the word with
out any meaning.
A Chinese student said to Stanley
] Jones: “Do not tell us to love our
i enemies, preach spirituality to us.'’
To him spirituality was a soft pious
emotion which made him feel cozy
: on the inside.
I But that may not be spirituality
I at all. To be sure, it may stir us
deeply, but spirituality is more than
emotional excitement, or someting
quite different—and far more worth
seeking.
The Bible tells us that the fruits
of the spirit are love, joy, peace,
kindness, patience, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control. Here we are
nearer the truth, and the words be
: ffinc fn haua mcanlvan
Put plainly, a spiritual man is a
man who is alive to the value of
life; its true values, not the things
which people mistake for values. It
is a right estimate of the real worth j
of things.
All things, that is. not merely re- I
ligious things—art, automobiles,
i books, banks, music, politics, science,
sport and the rest. Spirituality is
the insight which sees what is real
ly worth while.
All these things have value, each
after its kind and in its place, but!
they are not the things that have
the highest value. The spiritual man
put the highest things first, and
everyting takes its place.
The highest, value in life is a I
sense of values. If a man lacks it,!
he mixes things and makes a mess, j
If he has it. he is not to be fooled
in the midst, of noise, fashion, fads,
and unreality.
I LET
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REFINANCE YOUR
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M’KINNEY NAMED
ALUMNI LEADER
Troy McKinney, member of the
class of '32 and county auditor, was
elected president of the Rutherford
Oleveland Duke Alumni Association
In its annual meeting and dinner
held at Kings Mountain last Fri
day night.
Prof. F. M. Bigerstaff. principal
of the Kings Mountain high school
was made vice-president and Mlsf
Bara Kate Ormand of Kings Moun
tain was named secertary-treasurer
Mrs. Paul Mauney of Kings Moun
tain is the new representative tc
the alumnae conference.
Dr. J. W. Harblson of Shelby if
the retiring president of the body
Dr. Raymond CrispeU of the Dm«
University faculty was the speaker
fox the dinner, an enthusiastic gath
ering. Dr. CrispeU traced the origin
of education In the south and North
Carolina, Duke University's connec
tion with the progress since I83g,
and prophesied for its passible tu
ture.
“Education should fit the timet
i he said. “We live in a new age ana
i a new day, I believe Duke wtu in
that new need.”
Dr. CrispeU reviewed the succest
of the Duke football teams and de
fended the athletic policy 0f the
school. At the same time he said
there should be the continued lead
ership In libraries. “The libraries
| should keep ahead of athletics "
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Cold Easily?
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Whether you are a business man, a housewife
or a young fellow just staring out in the world,
you’ll find here every banking service you need.
We have the facilities to aid you in all financ
ial matters, and a willingness to give you the
best of service.
Checking accounts and loans are invited.
Or you might wish to use our interest hearing
certificates or savings accounts.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
SHELBY, N. C
CONDITIONS ARE BETTER
Had you thought of how important it is to lay
aside a few dollars each week?
Create a little nest egg with which to build that,
home, educate that child, purchase real estate or
make some investment that will bring in a return.
A few dollars put away each week in our Sav
ings Department will increase faster than you real
ize and also draw interest.
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NOTICE
To Farmer Friends
Beginning December 14th I Will Gin Picked
Cotton On
TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
and Snapped Cotton On
WEDNESDAYS and THURSDAYS
Of Each Week.
Let Webb pick your snapped cotton, with the
latest additional equipment—just installed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, SEE
TOY B. WEBB
! DIVIDEND NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that a second dividend of Ten f 10%'
per cent is available to holders of Participation Certificates 1*
Trusteed Assets of certain assets placed In our hands as Trustees
at the reorganization of the First National Bank of Shelby, N. C
j on June 27th, 133. Sufficient collections have been made on these
• assets to enable us to pay a second dividend of ten <10'~c> per cent
on each Participation Certificate issued on waived deposits.
We have arranged an office in the First National Bank of
Shelby. N. C.. for the bookkeeping of our funds, Mr. C. S. Mull. t«
pay the dividends. Bring your participation Certificate to Mr. Mull
at the First National Bank after December 1st, 1936. and receive
your dividend check. You must bring your certificate so that the
amount of the dividend check can be credited on the back of the
certificate, and payment cannot be made unless you tiring the
certificate. After the dividend credit is entered, your certificate
will be returned to you to hold for future payments.
We also call your attention to the fact that Mr. Mull hM
funds with which to pay in full all original certificates of $5.00 c
less, which have not yet been paid. Full payment is provided onlT
where the face of the original certificate is for the sura of
or less, and all certificates in this group must be delivered to Mr
Mull when the payment Is made, so be sure to bring your certifi
cate when you call to get your money.
This November 30th. 1936
R T LeGRAND, C. S. THOMPSON. THAD C FOB it
Trustees