SHELBY DAILY STAR
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No. t Shat Marion 8t. Shelby, N. C.
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WEDNESD’Y, DEC. 16. 1936
_LOW COST HOUSES
There is a manifest demand for new
homes for people of limited means but the
demand is not being met with any degree of
promptness. The family with the limited
means is inclined to indulge themselves in
things Other than a home while the investor,
particularly in Shelby, holds back because the
rental return is insufficient.
Oor.observation has been that the sfnall
type five room bungalow can be erected in
ftneiDy as cneap or cneaper tnan in any otner
city. When this type home is equipped with
sanitary arrangements, electric lights and is
located on a lot, convenient to water, sewer,
paved streets and schools, the tenant expects
to pay only $15 or $18 a month. After paying
taxes and up-keep, the investor does not
have a sufficient return and hence the build
ing program is slowed up.
Spokesmen for the National Lumber
Manufacturing association say that low-cost
homes of real beauty and charm and equip
ped with basic modern convenience and ne
cessities, can be built in lumber at costs rang
ing from $2,500 to $3,000. This of course is
exclusive of the lot. Such homes, if built
will demand not less than $25 per month. As
an approach to a solution of the home short
age, the lumber association proposes that
demonstration home units of from one to
three houses each, be built next spring in 1,
000 cities of the United States, using local
labor at regular market prices for materials.
Certainly there is a demand for homes
but this demand will not be met until rentals
advance, or new home owners first deny
themselves of other things. With materials
and labor constantly increasing, property is
also on the up-swing. The family that has
ambition -to own a home in the future will
find it to their advantage to make the sacri
fice now while money is cheap and real estate
has not had its full enhancement.
DISMISSING JOQ HOLDERS
Kerr Scott, newly elected Commission
er of Agriculture is causing a furore in Ra
leigh % dismissing nine of his employees.
At least he is giving notice to them that they
will not be retained in his department when
he assumes office on January 6th.
Dismissals have come in such numbers
that some' have gained the impression that
Mr. Scott will rid his department of all em
ployees that worked for Mr. Graham. Such is
not the case. Approximately 100 persons are
employed by the Commissioner and so far
less than ten per cent have been dismissed
Those who are forced to quit are no doubt
capable employees who performed satisfac
torily under Mr. Graham but the attitude
that Mr. Scott takes is that he has in mind
workers who are more in harmony with what
he hopes to accomplish and that his choice
and selections are better for the purpose than
inose ot Mr. uranam.
It is quite natural that Mr. Scott can
more successfully revolutionize the depart
ment and cause it to serve the farmers more
acceptably with employees of his own choos
ing. He promised in his campaign that the
department would function differently and
thtat that he would adopt new ideas and
ideals. Changes in personnel of key men are
in line with expectations.
Mr. Scott does not take delight in fir
ing. No executive with the right sort of
heart gets pleasure out of dismissing em
ployees, but when they have served in pub
lic offices for a long period of years, it is
nothing but right to retire the mand employ
new blood.
NO SEASON FOE FIRECRACKERS
Before the approaching holiday season
Is over, much will be said and written about
the mis-direction of Christmas celebrations
Leaving to others discussions of the misguid
ed spirit of Christmas giving, etc., we ask
leave, however, to launch the attack by voic
ing loud protest against the shooting of fire
crackers as a means of making merry at
Yuletide.
Of all the Christmas customs, this one
of fillmg the air with earsplitting and nerve
jostling'explosions through the entire montl
of December and topping it off with a gram
finale of bangs on Christmas day and th
few days immediately preceding and follow
ing it, fs the worst. In fact, the business o
sidestepping carelessly thrown firecracker
up town sidewalks, of trying to slee
tame of popping and crack
ing, and of bracing one’s nerves against the
sure-to-come report when one sees a smoking
cracker in the offing, are real drawbacks to
the enjoyment of the Christmas season and
are sufficient argument for a city ordinance
restricting the practice.
No where else except in the South is this
a feature of the Christmas celebration. In
other sections of the country the use of fire
works are confined to Fourth of July cele
brations when, due to the fact that the holi
day season is shorter than at Christmas, they
haven’t opportunity to become such a nuis
ance.
Perhaps, as more and more people, raise
objections to the custom it’s practice will
lose caste altogether and the South may fol
low the lead of other sections of the country.
SPEED IN SHELBY
Reasonable speed should be allowed on
city streets but reports that cars are doing
60 and more miles per hour down South La
Fayette street by the LaFayette Street school
at the time children are comnig out of the
schoolhouse, indicate a little slackening of
the pace is needed.
Regulations of 16 and even eight miles
per hour put in effect years ago were the
cause of complete disregard of speed laws
by the general motoring public which real
ized such speed limits were foolish. With this
attitude, there naturally grew the idea that
the proper speed is the one you can get away ;
with. . •
A speed of up to 30, maybe 36 miles per
hour, out of the business district is one about
which arguments may arise. It is probably
safe on a clear street. But there can be no
argument about 60 or even 50 miles per
hour. Its entirely too fast. A car going at
that rate of speed is completely out of con
trol, when conditions that are liable to arise
at any minute on a city street, such as child
ren crossing the street or cars coming out a
side street, are considered.
What Other Papers Say
A BOOM CHRISTMAS
(Concord Tribune)
Unless all signs fall, we are about to have the
merriest Christmas—commercially speaking—that we
have htad since the high old days of 1939.
Figures compiled by the Business Conditions
Weekly of the Alexander Hamilton Institute shows
that retail sales In December should amount to slight
ly more than $6,800,000,000. This is a Jump of $800,
000,000 over last year's December, and a rise of $8.
276,000,000 from the depression's low in 1932.
No one needs to be told that this la a most ex
cellent bit of news. It is just one more solid Indica
tion that we are out of the woods at last, and that
prosperity is returning In a way we have been long
ing for it to do for six long years.
BOTH WRONG
'Milwaukee Journal)
It is* time for somebody to speak sharply to both
employers and employes concerning certain phases of
social security legislation. Some emcjjkers, notably in
New York, are complaining becauflhlhe benefits of
social security legislation would be paid without re
quiring “a pauper's oath” on the part of the recipient.
Some labor leaders, on the other hand, are complain
ing because the employe must pay half the "tax" for
federal old age pensions. These employers want a
pauper’s oath. These employes want to get out of all
contributions to pension funds Both are shortsight
ed. Both are wrong.
Nobody’s Business
... By GEE McGEE
-A man rarely ever begins to look over the obitu
ary page in the newspapers till he begins to consider
himself growing old. This feeling starts anywhere be
tween the age of 47 and 87.
——At age 20, the boys and girls read only the sports
and society column, glancing occasionally at the mar
riage license reports and the movie news
-Around 36. after he’s gone in business for him
self, a fellow begins to find Interest in the stock, cot
ton and grain markets; he likewise studies up on for
eign exchange, prize-fights, and election returns.
.Women, heads of families, turn immediately to
the “Who’s Who” page in tehlr newspaper, inspect
bridge results, find out who had a party, where it
was held, and why they were not invited.
-Doctors enjoy the accident news; undertaken Join
them in their hilarity. Auto, salesman and repair
shops delight at first-hand information concerning a
wreck 01 a blowout. (Generally front-page news).
__
-Crutch-makers and rolling-chair manufacturers
keep the names and addresses of all speeden and
drunks reported in the “Here and There” news. Down
and-outs scan the "Help Wanted,” but rarely ever
find the kind of Job they want, so they Just keep on
a-scanning.
-Bargain-hunters read all the ads. Unlucky folks
read the "Lost and Found" notices day in and day
out. always hoping that somebody has lost something
they might find, or have found something they might
claim. Dogs furnish most of the ready cash to the
newspapers in this department.
-But, speaking from purely personal angle. I read.
’ first, the. front-page headlines; second, a few selec
tions from the “Funny Pages”: third, the local news:
| fourth, the corn and wheat "openings and closings”:
| fifth, the editorials; sixth, the date of the expiration
' of my subscription, and seventh, "NOBODY’S BUSI
P NESS”, Just to see how many mistakes the llnotyp-ist
and I have made, that is—if the paper runs this fea
ture. Some don't, and some do. but I don't know why.
1 'Most errors found arc; “shrdlu and etaoin'».
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Washington
H Da\book
By PRESTON GROVER
(Associated Press Staff Writer;
WASHINGTON.—The senate has;
the makings of a filibuster even be
fore it has met.
U lies in the same group that1
repeatedly threatened such a course
last session but gg
never carried It
out— the Nye
Clark-Bone group.
The subject also
is the same. They
want a more dras
tic neutrality act
than was written
last session and
the session before.
Now talk of a
filibuster this ear
ly, six months or
more before the
probable end of a HISTON L CkOVCf j
congress that has yet to convene, i
may sound fantastic. But there are
“angles." On January 31 the re
construction finance corporation
lapses. A day ahead of that, Janu
ary 30, the president’s power fur
ther to devalue the currency ex
pires.
Last Act Sliced Up
Those are important deadlines. I
They are not entirely satisfactory j
deadlines against which to conduct
a filibuster. But senators who want
to put pressure behind some legis
lation may be willing to risk the
displeasure they might encounter
from discommoding the administion
by permitting some of its import
ant functions to lapse for a time.
“I think the most important
thing before the country is the en
actment of a permanent neutrality
law.” said Senator Clark. "I am
satisfied there are a certain number
of senators, of whom I am one, who
wll actively push the question to
the floor for the very earliest con
sideration in the new congress.” |
Last session the neutrality act
proposed by Clerk and his muni
tions committee associates was boil
ed down in foreign relations com
mittee and parts of its were sliced
off by adept state department car
vers. Clark :„nd his associates want
ed, and did not get, an outright em
bargo on credit to warring nations.
In addition to an embargo on muni
tions and war materials, which they
got, they sought unsuccessful an
embargo on food other commodities
sustaining a war. They wanted, and
did not get, a provision that Amer
icans touring or trading in danger
sones should be warned to get out
and should be left without protec
tion if they failed to get out.
....
Holds Drastic Law Needed
Drastic wants, are those, and j
there is much senate opposition. 1
particularly against the last one, i
on the grounds that American trad-1
ers should be protected wherever1
In the world they wished to carry
the American flag.
Clark thinks enough is happen
ing in the world to make very clear
now that more drastic neutrality
legislation Is needed.
However, Senators Borah and
Johnson, principal oritics last ses
sion of the propc a) to withdraw
| protection during war time from I
Sundown Stories'
For The Kiddies
Christopher’s Questions
By MARY GRAHAM BONNER
Christopher Columbus Crow tap
ped on the window. “Come in," said
Santa Claus, as he sat on the floor
fixing some train signals.
Then Santa realized Christopher
could not get in until he opened the
window, which he did at once.
"I'm sorry to disturb you, caw,
caw, caw,” cawed Christopher, "but
I knew the others would not be
here now and I had some very im
portant questions I wanted to ask.
“The others are making some
stew or some soup or a mixture of
both, for you. At least Willy Nilly
is making it and the others are
giving advice and suggestions. I'm
not disturbing you, am I?”
"Oh, no,” Santa answered, “I’ll
go right on working and talking.”
“Well, caw, caw, caw,” said
Christopher “I might say I have
only one question to ask—or per
haps several which all amount to
the same thing.”
“Yes?” returned Santa.
“I want to know,” said Christo
pher, “if someone who has been
very mischievous, even bad, would
be punished by you and not have
any Christmas at all?”
“You’e not been up to any mis
chief, have you, Christopher?” San
ta's blue eyes twinkled.
“No," said Christopher, “I have
n't, and that's the truth. But as
I’ve flown around the countryside
I’ve heard parents say: ‘If you’re
not good, Santa Claus won't come
to visit you.' Just how bad would
anyone have to be for you to stay
away, or how good must they be for
you to have them on your certain
list?” •
Santa Claus actually looked
pleased at hearing this question.
Is Interested In
Folks Behaving
KINSTON, Dec. 15.—(^—Con
stable Seth Croom said here today
he was more interested in keeping
people out of jail than in putting
them in, adding that a hard life had
made him particularly interested
in peace.
In his 18 years as an officer
Croom has been shot twice, nearly
downed once, and went into uncon
sciousness four times in dealing
with iftules. One kicked him, another
trampled him. and two teams ran
away with him.
Subsequently Croom became
known throughout the countryside
as a champion peacemaker.
"And I'm working hard at it," he
added.
adventurous traders, are still in the
senate.
Nothing in the neutrality agree
ment proposed by Secretary Hull at
Bueno6 Aires would interfere with
the United States going as far a;
It likes in it* trade or monetary
embargoes, against non-American
nations.
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EVERYDAY
LIVING
About Prayer
"Why do people pray?” asks a
young man. "What do they mean by
it? Do they expect to change the
order of the world by talking? Does
prayer do any good? If it is mean
ingless, why go
on with it?”
Men pray for
the same reasons
that birds sing,
because they were
made that way
and cannot help
it. Seeking, de
siring, asking, lis
tening. is a force
of our nature and
law of our human life.
To deny the efficacy of prayer is
to deny the efficacy of effort, of
desire, of faith, of thought of any
sort. If our desire for the highest
and best things is futile, then all
desire is futile.
Of course we cannot change the
| order of the world by talking. Our
I business is not to change the order
of the world, but to learn what it
is, obey it, and fit ur little lives int
it.
| By learning the law of nature and
i obeying it, man does change the
i face of the earth. In the same way,
i by learning the law of the best life
j and following it, he may master
himself and win power.
All men pray; all prayers are an
swered; be careful what you pray
for—so Emerson told us. He meant
that the deepest desire of a man,
his ruling wish, is his life-prayer—
it is what he asks of life.
Such a desire, whatever it may
be—what he really wants, not what
i he thinks he ought to want—or
ganizes his life, gives unity to his
energies, and drives all his powers
on toward its fulfillment.
The prayer of a man may be for
wealth, fame, or power, or truth, or
i beauty, or goodness. No matter; that
(is what he is seeking, and if his
desire is strong enough it will be
nnsw'ered in some degree,
i The man of science seeking the
secrets of nature is working out his
; desire, or prayer. The saint seeking
I to know the will of God and how to
| do it, is obeying the same law in
: another field.
The character of a man. his spirit
and tone of personality, is the sum
of his answered prayer. The certi
I ficate of the answer is written in
his face, whether he likes it or even
knows it.
! Robert Southey, the English
poet, was expelled from school in
! the 1780's for writing an essay
against flogging.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICK
Having qualified aa administrator of the
estate of Ltsste Lattlmore. deceased of
Cleveland county, North Carolina, this Is
to notify all persons having claims agilnst
the said estate to present them to me
properly proven on or before the 35th
day of November, 1937 or this notlee will
be pleaded in bar of any recovery there
of. All persons owning the said estate will
please make immediate settlement to the
undersigned.
This 25th day of November, 1#3«.
J. O. LATTIMORE. Route ♦. Shel
by, N. C„ Administrator of Estate of
Lizzie Borders, dec'd. St nov 25p
SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTT
Under and by virtue of the authority
conferred upon us In a deed of trust exe
cuted by R. O. Mauney and wife, Marie
Msuney, on the 4th day of August. 1920,
and recorded in book 141, page 131, we
will on Saturday, the ,
19th day of December, 1936
12 a'clock noon at the court house door
In Cleveland county, Shelby. N. C , sell
at public auction for cash to the highest
bidder the following land, to-wlt:
Being lot No. 3 of the Marcus M. Mau
ney lands, and being that tract of land
conveyed to R. Orady Mauney by deed of
D. H. Spangler and wife, et als. dated Ap
ril 30. 1925, which deed Is registered In
the office of the register of deeds for
Cleveland county. N. C., In book of deeds
3-P, page 367. Said land being Joined on
the north by Chevls Spangler, and M. B.
Mauney. on the east by S. J. Green lands,
on the south by Z. C. Mauney, on the west
by Brushy creek and the lands of Tom
Oreen and Chevls Spangler, and being
described bv metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning at a stake and pointers on
west bank of Brushy creek, old corner and
oorner of Chevls Spangler, and runs thence
with line of Chevls Spangler. N. MV* E.
9.73 chains to a stone; thence N. IS W.
10 chains to a stone on east bank of
small branch. M. B. Mauney's corner;
thence with line of M. B. Mauney, N. 73 V«
E. 29.03 chains to a stone In line of S. J.
Green’s land; thence with said line 8.
311k E. 13.50 chains crossing a branch to
a stone and pointers, corner of Z. C.
Mauney's land: thence with line of said
Z. C. Mauney, B. 57'k W. crossing road
13 chains to a atone; thence 8. 40'i W.
34.09 chains crossing rushy creek to a
stone on old run, corner of Tom Green’s
land; thence with old creek run as It was
In 1045, N. 14Vj W. 3.40 chains to a stake
on west bank of present creek channel;
thence N. 13 W. 6.68 chains to a stake on
west bank; thence N. 3V4 W. 4.50 chains
to a stake on west bank; thence N. 121 k
W. 3.06 chains to a stake on west bank;
thence N. 321k W. 6 00 chains to the place
of beginning, containing 78 acres, more or
less.
Together with a right-of-way form the
lands above described to the public road
leading from the Shelby-Polkville road to
the Shelby-Lattlmore road, said right of
way lying across the lands of W. T
Weathers, and wife, Ossie Weathers, and
the. lands of Z. C. Mauney and wife.
Gladys Mauney and being described In a
certain deed from said parties to R. Grady
Mauney. dated April 17, 1935. and re
corded In the office of the register of
deeds for Cleveland county, N. C. in book
3-P, at page 367.
This land Is sold subject to all unpaid
taxes.
This sale Is made by reason of the fail*
! ure of R. O. Mauney and wife, Marie
I Mauney, to pay off and discharge the in
debtedness secured by said deed of trust.
A deposit of 10'o will be required from
the purchaser at the sale.
This the 9th day of November. 1936.
INTERSTATE TRUSTEE CORPORA
TION, Substituted Trustee, Durham.
North Carolina.
Joseph C. Whlsnant, Atty. 4t nov 35c
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICl
North Carolina, Cleveland County
Haring this day qualified a* admin
tor» of the estate of William Linebe-.i'
deceased, late of Cleveland count \ mImI
Carolina. thU la to notify all personal*
Ing claims against the estate of the
deceased, to exhibit them to the umw
signed for payment at Bhelbv. North oil'
ollna on or before the 4th day of N„„*
ber. 1937 or this notice a 111 he
In bar of their recovery. AH persons m
debted to said estate will puts* Li'L
Immediate payment of said obliv«tme.
This 4th day of November 19iV
J. D. LINEBEROER. MATTIlr a
LINEBEROER. Administrator, l
dh.:..E.edate 01 WU1Um *■•»«>«.£
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