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SHELBY DAILY STAR , Published By Star Publishing Company, Inc. N*. 1 But Marion St Shelby. N. C Lee a. Weathers, Pres.-Trea». S. E. Hoey. Secy Published Afternoons Except Saturdays and Sundays Telephone Ho. 11, Hews Telephone No. 4-J Entered as second class matter January 1. 1MB. at the poetofflce In Shelby. N C., under an Act of Congress. March 8. 1897. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Bryant. Griffith and Brunson. 8 East 41it St. New York City MXMBXR or THZ ASSOCIATED PRESS TM Associated Pt»m Is exclusively emitlrd to the U«* for pub Motion of oil neve dispatches in this psner tad tlso th# local newt publlshrd herein. All ri*hte ot co-publication of special dlspatchaa published herein are also rsoorrod SITBSCRimON RATES IN ADVANCE By Mall IN Carolina* One Year.*4.50 Six Month*.2.25 Three Month* 1.25 By Mail Outside The Carolina* One Year.*5.50 Six Month*.2.75 Three Months .... 1.50 Delivery By Carrier At Your Door In Cities. Suburban And Rural District* One Year ..*5.00 Six Months_.' 2.50 Three Months_1.35 Pour Week* _ .45 Weekly Rate. .12 THURSDAY, DEC. 17. 1936 Shop early and avoid having your corns trsmnled on. LESS WANDERING There has been a noticeable decline in, the number of unemployed wanderers drop-j ping into Shelby and soliciting alms at the hands of charitable minded people. One of the most alarming features of the depression, it will be remembered, was the] phenomenon of the so-called wild boys and j girls on the road. Of course the advent of winter has tended to slow up the number of I t ransients, but there are other causes. In May, 1933, for instance, a federal sur vey revealed that more than 60,000 boys and girls between 16 and 25 were in the trans ient centers, cared for by already overburd ened charitable agencies. Now it is revealed that the problem has melted- *way- under the return of better times.- The National Youth Administration, the CCC camps and regular jobs are reclaim ing these w-andering youths. They have ceased tramping and started working. THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW From the many editorial comments which followed on the heels of the school bus accident near Fayetteville last week, which resulted in four fatalities, we select, and sug gest as compulsory reading, an editorial in i hp Winston Salem Journal, in which is pre sented what sounds like a workable plan for lessening school child tragedies. It follows in part: “A contributor to the Public Opinion column, however, describes how one school district solved this problem without benefit of law*. Each bus driver, or a delegated old er student, is his own traffic cop. When the bus is being loaded or unloaded he stands in the middle of the highway with a red flag until the children are safely out of the way. Naturally, no motorist, except possibly one who is too drunk to know what he is doing, will pass that signal. That is a simple and sensible plan for reducing to a minimum the hazards in the matter of loading and unloading school buses. It should be adopted in every district in the State, where it is not already observed.” We would go further than suggesting its adoptian.and suggest that this precaution on the part of school bus drivers be required by law. It would be easier to impress the im portance of its observation, as well as to en force its' practice, on the limited number of drivers of buses, than to enforce precaution ary laws, already enacted, on the unlimited number of careless and thoughtless car driv ers who infest the highways of the state. RECOURSE NEEDED Suppose you are driving along a state highway at a reasonable rate of speed. Sup pose out of a side road comes a big truck at a high rate of speed, running into your car, tearing it up, injuring you so you have to spend several weeks in the hospital. Suppose this happens in such manner there is abso lutely no question that it was the fault of the truck driver; that you are entirely blame less and can prove it. Suppose the truck driver is working for a big and going con cern which owns lots of property and which • an and does meet all of its obligations. And then you find out you can’t collect a cent. Does that make sense? Maybe not, but that would be your plight today if you were damaged by any motor vehicle owned by the State of North Carolina. Your only chance for redress would be through a special act of the legislature, and you may have some idea how much trouble an dexpense that would be. The state carries no insurance on its ve hicles and an individual can’t sue the state without the state’s consent and that consent has not been given. Owned and operated by the state are several thousand vehicles. They are oper ated-^ the highway department, by the schools ~n»d- by various other state depart ments.- Maybe the state should carry its own liability insurance rather than place it with an insurance company, that is a matter we are not arguing about. We are not arguing about. We are arguing, however, that a ci vilian. injured or damaged by a state-owned motor vehicle through no fault of his own should be entitled to recourse. NO KINGSHIP FOR US "George Becomes King With Heavy Heart,” reads a headline and there will be those who doubt that statement, who will be lieve that any show of sadness on the part of George VI at taking over the throne vacated hv the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII. is an assumed role. There will be those, perhaps, who will take for granted the fact that George VI is overjoyed at coming into the honor and power and prestige which his kingship represents. Not so with us. We can easily imagine that His Majesty accepts his new role with real dread and heaviness of heart. In fact we cannot imagine any individual in this year 19.16 who would assume the medieval trappings of any kingship, without protest. To be a king: to be always a public fig ure; to be denied the privacy deemed occas ionally necessary to other men; to be told what to do and say and wear, on all occas ions, because one must follow tradition in all things; to be photographed and stared at anw spied upon where ever one goes (as proved by many of the informal pictures of the former King Edward recently published); to require sanction by parliament for one’s every action; to move constantly in a world which is unreal, would be a tremendously high price to pay for the dubious honor of being addressed as His Majesty. Regardless of the real extent of Ed ward’s concern with Mrs. Simpson or of sterner reasons which might lit undetected behind his abdication, we dare believe that giving up his throne was a relief to Edward personally, just as we believe ascendancy to that, throne is a cross to the quiet and unas suming George VI. What Other Papers Say CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS (New York Times) Drastic laws against large campaign contribu tions are predicted Just when It has been demonstrat ed that large campaign contributions do no harm. In the late unpleasantness or pleasantness, according to one’s party sympathies, the Republicans spent twice as much as the Democrats; and much good it did them. Instead of going after the Rockefellers and the Du Ponts for their big gifts' to the Republican campaign chest, the Senate investigators ought to encourage big checks to future Republican campaign funds. It does the Democrats no harm and puts money in circulation. Campaign outlay by all parties seems to have amounted to $13,000,000. If this should turn out to be a record, it must be remembered that this year saw 7 000,000 more votes cast than in any previous elec tion. or an increase of nearly 20 per cent. On a total poll of 45.000,000 votes it figures out about 30 cents a vote (New York Times) Postmaster General Parley is hungry for an Ameri can newspaper. He says he cannot understand the headlines in the London papers. But the truth of the matter is that Mr. Parley has been spoiled. His idea of a good headline is the kind that appeared in all American newspapers on November 4. Nobody’s Business — By GEE McGEE __ FOLKS, MEET SAMPSON NUMBER TWO deer mr. edditor;— since 1 rote that peace last week about my friends in flat rock who seemed entitled to be in yore "who is who" collum. i have had sevveral letters from ad miring friends asking me to tell more about the fa mous Clark genneration ansoforth i do not want to seem to be bragging, and i al ways try to stick to facts and figgers. i belong to re hober church, am a pillar in same by night and bolster enduring the day. allso sing in the quire and pass the hat: therefoar, i must stick to the truth Jude Clark is only a distant nephew of yore corry spondent, hon. make Clark, rfd. but he is the strong est man in the world, so he says, he was driwing a truck loaded with 18 bales of cotton last week when him and the cotton and the truck fell off a bridge in to a rivver 24 feet deep, he just dived under the truck and toted everthtng up to the highway on his back he. meaning jude Clark went to a circus last fall, big pete, the ellephant, poked his snout out and took a bag of goobers from Jude’s hand. Jude reached over and ketched the said ellephant by his 9 tushes, and carried him outside the tent and hung him up in the forks of a tree, it took 8 men 4 days to get the an nimal back to earth. jude tried to flag a train down a few weeks ago betwixt stations so’s he could ride to town, but the engineer wouldden’t flag, so jude Jumped at the sec ond coach when It sped and knocked the whole train 14 feet off the track, the conductor got mad at him, so Jude apologized, and grabbed the entire train, en gine and all. and set it back on the rails and rode to town with them jude Clark u a hero, a big tree fell acroet main street, last fall at 4 o'clock, by 41 minute* to 6 o'clock jude had cleared the tree away and had twtated It in his 2 hand* into a pile of kindling 21 feet wide by l# feet thiok. he hell his right arm out of a window of a buss while enroot to the county-seat thursday and knocked down 85 telly-foam and electric light posts which cost his daddy 28$ in checks, he's a power to be hole, all of the above is from the mouth of jude Clark hisself so it must be true. yores trulie. mike Clark, rfrt •orry spondent Washington jjjDavbook By PRESTON GROVER (Associated Press Staff Writer! WASHINGTON.—If all the dod- 1 ges members of congress use to es cape unwelcome callers were laid | end to end you'd body aver got into . the inner sanc ! turn. Some senators see all comers. That usually is the case when the s e n at o r doesn't have many visit ors. Few except the busiest of house members will dodge per sistently. They have to go home and ask help every two years, which is quite often. Ten seconds in the front office ought to give you the tip on wheth er your senator will see you. If the' front office secretary tells you cold- j ly the senator is out .you don't rate very high there. If you are told he is out but will be back at a certain j hour, things are looking up • • • • Look Out For Skids When the secretary sets out to find what you want and begins shuf fling you off to some department with explanations to see so and so and then come back and see the senator later, look out. Your visit's on the skids. If for your own per sonal prestige and for the sake of the boys back home you simply "must" see the senator, don't tell too much. The iob of the secretary wonder how any (often it's a woman) is to impress upon you that meeting the senator is as difficult as buttonholing a Cabot in back bay Boston, If the secretary asks you to sit down but later arrivals are ushered j into the inner office ahead of you, | your chance is poor, but not hope- ■ less. One classic concerns Miss Cora Rubin, Senator Borah’s secretary. A magazine writer asked to see the senator, who was very busy. "He’s not in," said Miss Rubin. "Where is he?” “Out in the park with his horse. * Out went the writer, but as he passed a closed door down the cor ridor he heard the .senator’s voice Almost at once Borah came out. the writer had at him for a few questions, then returned to confront Miss Rubin "By the way,” he remarked, ”1 just met the senator galloping down the corridor on his horse ” • » ♦ • One Keeps A Hideaway In Senator Black s office you will be met by the Alabaman's younger brother, with a manner as gracious, as ever crossed the Mason-Dixon' line If you don't rate an audience,! you wtil be told, honestly enough, "The senator is not in.” Those who are to meet him will be invited on! some casual excuse into a back room J and there told where to find the senator, who has a hideout two floors down As a last resort you can go over ' the senate and send in a card by bun down Stones For The Kiddies Santa Answers By MARY GRAHAM BONNER “Christopher Columbus Crow,” said Santa Claus, "I’m delighted you've asked such a question. At first I thought you had got into! some mischief—but even so—even so—” and Santa never finished that sentence. He merely twinkled. "No one would be punished by Santa Claus to such an extent that he wouldn’t be visited on Christ mas Eve. "Sometimes parents, Christopher, lovely though they are, can annoy rtie. I don’t like to hear them say. as now and again they do, that Santa won't visit the children un less they're very good. “I don’t like to be a threat to children—I don’t like them to be good because they think I’ll be an gry and punish them if they’re not.' “Oh, I’m very glad, Christopher i that you’ve asked your question, j very glad indeed. “I like children to be good—not1 in a goody-goody way—but because they want to do all they can to make things jollier, more fun. I like them to be unselfish and kind and good sportss and loyal and never tattle-tale. I hate to hear them whine and show-off, but I don't expect them to be perfect.” Christopher was enjoying this conversation immensely. “I am so glad you don’t expect perfection.” he cawed. Santa smiled. “Even grown-ups aren't perfect,” he continued. "I wonder if they know that Santa! realizes this; and children have toj be allowed time in which to im- j prove. And I'll tell you something | more. Christopher.” Christopher was all crow-atten-1 tion. REFORMATORY MUSICIAN GETS RADIO JOB GRANITE, Okla.—(A»l—E. R Jack son did so well developing the state reformatory orchestra here, he’ll lead one on the radio on "the r -t side.” Gov. E. W Marland, in announc ing commutation of Jackson’s two-1 year term for receiving stolen prop-, erty. said Jackson already has a radio contract to lead an orchestra; for a flour mill. OIL FIELD'S "TO QUIET" FOR WOMAN VETERAN CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas.—(iP)— Mrs. Ethel Jester, who has operated cafes for 16 years in Texas oil fields, thinks "oil booms aren’t what they! used to be ” I "Everything is too modem and, quiet.” she says. ‘T remember when you couldn't see the derricks for! mud I have seen many men killed by falling crown blocks, but I wouldn’t call that exciting—it happens too often,'- \ ; a page asking the senator to see you. that wont help much, for even if the senator comes out his mind may be occupied with debate. But he may make an appointment to see you later—and even the sec retary hesitates to override that. If nothing else works, you can always go home and try to beat him in the primary. EVERYDAY LIVING The Failure* It is amazing how many letters reach me from people who are reck oning themselves as failures. Thej have lost faith In life; nothing mat ters much to them because they themselves do not matter. Young people are afraid of life. They Jeel unequal to it. The strug gle terrifies them. The middle-aged are disgusted with it, bored by it. Older people are . disappointed and Far* Nbw‘“ saddened by it. Leaving out of account crises when some love affair has gon« wrong, or some pampered egotist cannot eat his cake and have it too, surely this is a strange and appall ing state of mind and heart. To be sure, one of the terrors ol unemployment lies Just here. A mar feels that he is not wanted. Hii help is worth nothing. Society hai no use for him, and the iron enten into his soul. But many of those who writ* themselves down as failures haw gained for themselves what otheri would be glad enough to have, el they have come to the conclusior that they do not count. For some reason life has not giv en them what they wanted most Their dreams have not come true They have fallen into a pit of dis may, wondering what it is all about and if it is worth while. Pacts seem to have nothing to dc with this mood. Many to whom life has been kind are as sulky and sour as those whom it has treated harsh ly—often more so. Life is simply de flated. * They see themselves too small, be cause the world has trampled or them, or. it may be. because not very long ago they saw themselvei too big. No matter, they expect from life more than it has to give. It is always so when religious faith grows dim. Life loses luster, it* music falls to a lower octave; it be comes a humdum. Life is no longer outgrowing but ingrowing—and sc it goes stale. Self-defeated, they think life is a failure. Too self-centered, they have become self-cynical, and think of themselves too meanly. What all of us need is to get outselves off our hands! NIGHT COUGH mTak* Thosine; help* protect deep from ycoughsdqe to coMaMooey-barkm* rente*. THOXINE A CLEVELAND DIDGCOf ORDER BEAM’S Coal High—Heat—l.ow—Ash Stevewood PHONE m Just Ten Years Ago <T»h«a From Tho Cleveland Star Of Wednesday, December 16, 1926) The semi-annual pension checks for 186 veterans and widows in the county have arrived at the office of Clerk of Court A. M. Hamrick and are ready for distribution. On# hundred and nine of the checks are for widows of veterans who have passed on and 79 checks are for veterans still living. Two of the 79 for men are for two old col ored men who served with their white masters during the Civil war. The long predicted cold spell for this section sems to be en route. \ | This section today noticed a con I siderable drop in the temperature j that Amtinued throughout the day. j Local weather prophets predicted ; a snow today or tomorrow, but the ' steady drizzle of early morning has held forth all day. Cotton was quoted on the New1 | York exchange at noon today: Jan. j 12.09, March 12.33, May 12.56, July1 | 12.75, October 12.94, Dec. 12.45. i New divisions of the Kiwanis in i temational organization In North Carolina and South Carolina were i announced by Felix Harvey, jr., re | tiring district governor today. | Division No. 1, with J. D. Line- j berger, the lieutenant-governor, in charge, will have headquarters at Shelby. Chickens, cows and hogs to bal ance the farm see-saw with cotton is the solution of Cleveland county’s farm problem with the biggest crop of cotton ever to sell at a price be low production coet, according to the opinion of O. Max Gardner, farm leader and organizer of the Cleve land county farm board. Urges X-Ray Of Criminals COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,— Dr. W. W. Cogswell, dentist suggests that an x-ray of every criminal's teeth might be included in Bertillon records. He explained they are useful in identifying per sons and bodies. PRACTICE HANG NOOSE STILL DANGLES IN r\FiT0L OKLAHOMA CITY._(/p, __ ^ io«se tied by state officials prsctic mg for the hanging last jUne 19 n{ Arthur Oooch, convicted kidnaper still is tied and dangles m a''cur.' tain cord at the state capitol. Gooch's hanging was the first m Oklahoma since statehood officials were noviees at tvn noooses. ' They gathered in the capitol of fice of L. M Nichols Oklahomi board of affairs chairman, &nri watched as he fashioned a samp., noose in a curtain cord. LET - Rogers Motors - REFINANCE YOUR CAR — CASH WAITING - Used Cars BARGAINS - AIL MAKES NORRIS LACKEY MOTORS FIRE Crackers AT THE SNACK SHOP WINTER TERM BEGINS MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1937 SALISBURY BUSINESS COLLEGE, S. LaFayette St., Efird Building Phone 650 or Write for Catalog MARGARET LINNEY, Manager GIVE A TYPEWRITER FREE while they last a Portable Typewriter DESK with each portable typewriter. For Young or*i)ld—A lasting gift, a pleasure conven ience and profit to students. 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