SHELBY DAILY STAR
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No. 1 But Marion St. Shelby. N. C.
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FRIDAY.. DEC. 18, 1936
* Yes, Marietta, women become shopworn
too during the Christmas shopping seaso'n.
chAng and chiang
Out of the censored reports coining frym
China about the amazing kidnapping of the
general with the “I" in his name, this much
can be understood: that things in China and
the whole Far East for that matter are in a
mess.
Kidnapping of the Chinese general might
be any of several things. It may have been
Japanese inspired for Chiang is reported to
have been resisting Japanese advances.
It may have been Russian inspired for
Russia wants more influence in China in
order to haye a buffer state against Japa
nese.
Or it may have been Chinese inspired.
There is a possibility that it is a Chinese
move to solidify national sentiment.
So the general with the “I” may be the
prisoner of the one without this letter in his
name. He may be dead. The Japanese may
have him, or the Russians. News from the
Orient, usually well colored, in this case is
almost entirely one of guess work. Results
may be anything.
SOLVING TENANCY
Now that the government has accom
plished something for the wage earner, made
it possible for the farmer and the city home
owner to save their mortgaged property, it
will next tackle the farm tenancy problem.
Tenancy exists in Cleveland county to an
alarming degree and if a solution is made in
the nation, it should serve to reduce the num
ber locally.
Last year 2,865,000 American farms
were worked by tenants and the number of
tenants has been increasing annually at the j
rate of forty thousand. The economic and so
cial dangers of such a trend is obvious to any
'far-thinking observer, but how best to change
it, is not easily answered.
The statement was recently made that
the condition of the American farm tpnant
is the same as our forefathers who inhabit
ed this country after the Indians were forc
ed westward. In this we cannot agree. Many
of the tenants enjoy high standards of liv
mg and many of the conveniences that land
lords have in their homes. They do not own
their own farm for the reason they have been
too shiftless or circumstances beyond their
control have work^l against them.
To farm profitably requires an outlay of
money, plenty of thrift and energy. One
great handicap to the tenant has been his
lack of credit. Secretary Wallace is approach
ing the problem with his wontedly realistic
sense. If an average of $4,000 dollars be re
quired to set up a tenant as an independent
farmer, he points out, more than $160,000,
000 would be needed to check the current in
crease in; tenancy in a single year. The cost,
therefore, appears so great, it is likely that
other ways to a solution must be sought.
Land prices are riling and if a farm
tenant has the ambition and the credit on
which to invest, this is certainly the time to
make a start.
IMPROVED MOVIES
A few' years ago when the motion pic
ture devotee ran her eye over the bill of fare
offered at local theatres she found offered
for her enjoyment, regardless of her taste,
such titles as “The Good Bad Girl," “Kiki,”
“Without Mercy,” “Red Hot Tires,” “Forbid
den Waters,” and “Outside the Law,” actual
pictures, which we remember, done by the
reputable actors and actresses, and living up
to the promise of their titles by being gener
ously spread with drama and sprinkled with
Jong embraces and longer kisses.
The present fashion in movies .as illus
trated by current offerings at local theatres,
seems a bit more wholesome and healthy.
For example: “Reunion,” the picture built
around the worMVmost famous babies, the
Dionne quintuplets; “Craig’s Wife,” a Pu
litzer prize winning play of a few years back
with a successful run on Broadway as its cre
dentials ; ‘Dodsworth,” another offering with
a highly successful Broadway background,
from the book by Sinclair Lewis; “In His
Steps”; and less recently “Midsummer
Night’s Dream,” and "Anthony Adverse.”
We could continue to call to mind innumer
*bla examples of the improved general tone
if asoOicn pickw offerings during the past
seven or eight years.
Whether the change has been brought
about by the censorship imposed on the mo
tion picture industry by the Catholic church,
by the industry’s own board of censors, set
up as a result of this move by the church, or
by the censorship of the public, whose taste
in pictures has perhaps changed as has its
taste in clothes and personalities, we do not
profess to know.
Whether the change in movie themes, as
brought about by censorship, has gradually
changed the taste of their public, or the de
mands of an ever increasing public for in
offensive pictures has changed the drift in
themes remains a question for speculation.
Regardless «f causes for the change,
however, it is true that we may congratulate
ourselves on the fact that improvement has
been and is being made, and that the movies
promise to serve more and more as an instru
ment for wholesome public education and en
tertainment.
What Other Papers Say
THE HOLDOUTS
'The Statesville Dally)
Mr Roosevelt's comment of the Western Hem
isphere will be complete If he will only make a good
will trip to Maine and Vermont
A CONTRAST
(The Montgomery Advertised
The last time he gave the people pf Germany an
opportunity to vote, Adolf Hitler claimed he received
98.2 per cent of the vote.
Josef Stalin, although finding it neeeuary to
execute a few of the people of Russia, is supposed to
have the devoted loyalty of his millions, excepting
only the dozen or so who happen to be on the way
to the execution grounds at any particular moment.
None of these men would dare leave their re
spective realms.
President Roosevelt received only a paltry 81 per
cent of the votes cast on Nov. 4, and therefore would
seem to have less support than any of the gentlemen
named. He is returning from a visit to the other end
of the earth. There appears to be little possibility
that he will find that Washington has been invaded
in his absence or been the victim of a coup d’etat.
IT PAY8 TO ADVERTISE
(Washington News)
The town of Belleville. N. J.. a suburb of Newark,
with 30,000 population, has spent $5,000 of municipal
funds in advertising the town and its advantages and
finds that advertising pays. Mayor William R. Will
iams announced that in the ten weeks’ campaign in
newspapers he had received about 300 inquiries con
cerning residential opportunities and about eighty in
quiries about industrial sites and community advan
tages.
Two concerns that made inquiries have already
located In Belleville, about 100 new homes, averaging
(5.000 and (10,000 each, are under construction, and
a New York group Is contemplating the erection of
two apartment houses with accommodations for 165
families.
ROADS FOR DRUNKEN DRIVERS
Oxford Public Ledger!
Superior Court Judges of North Carolina are
showing sternness in sentencing defendants eonvicted
of drunken driving. Although some judges on the
lower court benches have not made a hard and fast
rule to slap a road sentence upon such defendants.
Sew who go into Superior Court get out without a
road term. One of the first businesses of the 1937
North Carolina General Assembly should be to make
a road sentence mandatory for defendants convicted j
of drunken driving.
Nobody's Business
— By GEE McGEE __
LOST, FOUND AND WANTED
leer mr. edditor:—
plese run the followering claasiftde adds, for yore
friends in flat rock, and send this carry spondent. mr.
mike Clark, rfd, a detale bill of same after they are
printed and he will try to collect them for you on a
fifty fifty basin:
ror exchange—a nice caff with 2 horns and 2 eyas and
1 tail and 1 cowhide, gentle while nursing .for a 1
tube hetterdyne radio with outside arial ansoforth
rite or foam.
scudd Clark, owner.
for sail—foui nice fox hounds, trained for rabbits,
squirrels, thieves, birds, robbers, coons (both kinds),
or will exchange for 4 good casings for a moddle “t"
and 3$ per dog to bool, first come, fust served,
these dogs won’t last long.
mike Clark, rfd
ost—betwixt the county-seat and the all-nite filling
station in flat rock, 2 pints of rye licker with only
one-half drunk out of 1 bottle, allso 1 hat, 1 coat. 1
pocketbook with c50 in same, 1 sack of flour, and
1 fairly good ottermobee! reward if everything is
returned in-tact without wife finding tt out.
holsum moore.
'ound—about a dozen bad checks payable to bearer
and seweral other folks far various amounts from
U to 15$, all marked insufficient funds by the bank,
■dated 1934 and 1935 and 1936, signed by art square,
if lost, finder can get same by paying for this ’’add"
if throwed out the winder by the payee, newer mind.
dr. hubbert green, m. d.
mr. edditor. if you see anyboddy who wants to
make a nice 8 or 10 peroents loan on some household
soods and kitchen fumy-ture, plese have them get
n tech with the undersigned at once tt will be re
possessed in 10 davg from hence, unless.
yores trulie
mike Clark, rfd. )
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Washington
Daybook
By PRESTON GROVER
(Associated Press Staff Writer;
WASHINGTON.—Senate investi
gators have set out to present the
Van Swerlngen railroad empire as
a "made to order" sample of a sys
tem jockeyed
about by finan
ciers who know
little or nothing of
the actual opera
tion of the lines
they control.
It was not a
piece of investiga
tional blundering
that prompted the
senate committee
to call to the
stand first the
famous bottle
maker, George A. MBTON L CftOVET
Ball, who for a pittance had come
into control of a railroad and indus
trial empire with ramifications be
yond his dreams.
• * • •
“High Finance’ *
Here was a maker of bottles whose
name was as familiar to many a
housewife as was the name of her
favorite remedy for aches and pains.
Sudendly he somehow blossomed
out as an operator of railroads
How? Oh, high finance had tooled
him into the job, mercy knows how,
but certainly not of his own desire.
That is precisely the sore of pic
ture Senator Wheel, chief of the in
vestigation, wanted to draw. Testi
mony of security deals, of new cor
porations formed to govern dozens
of other corporations, of dribbles of
money somehow able to control
rushing trains loaded with coal ana
wheat and oil, all was intended to
arouse amazement that the whole
system should not collapse.
How does anybody remember to
put new ties in the roadbed? How
can a Cleveland bottle maker, as
tute as he may be in his own field,
understand that hundreds of re
frigerator cars are needed in Texas
in early January to handle the mid
winter turkey pool?
* * * •
Aimed To Promote Remedy
Wheeler, senatorial showman, ex
pects his picture of apparent confu
sion to result in public pressure on
his colleagues to vote for a remedy.
Whether actual confusion exists in
operation of the system doubtless
could be debated for months but the
Montana senator had a chance for
a graphic show, and made the most
of it.
He and many other public fig
ures have grown extremely restless
at the complex financial structure
that has been built upon many rail
roads. They look upon it as a trend
toward making the actual railroad
more and more and more of a pawn
in the play of big-time financial op
erators. and likely to injure public
confidence in railroad investments.
They will follow the show with
a remedy in the form of legislation
calling for stiffer government su
pervision of railroad financing, and
elimination of many corporate
wheels within wheels.
Government, ownership of rail
For COLDS A ud 0
Used by Thousands!
Neutrality Acts
Will Go Before
Convention Today
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 18.—<#>—
The proposed neutrality convention
coordinating existing American peace
treaties was ready today to be sub
mitted to the plenary session of the
Inter-American peace conference.
The proposal, jointly sponsored
by all 21 nations at the parley, was
unanimously approved by the neu
trality committee yesterday, paving
the way for its last step before be
ing turned back to each republic
for ratification.
Its purpose is to set up consulta
tive machinery among the Ameri
can republics to coordinate existing
American peace treaties.
Approved in the economic com
mittee, these resolutions were listed
for expected adoption at the next
full session:
1. A recommendation that Amer
ican nations abstain from decreas
ing their customs barriers, begin
reduction of tariff burdens and ask
the rest of the world to. cooperate
in efforts to improve international
trade.
2. A recommendation that all
American nations ratify the agree
j ments of the Pan-American com
| mercial conference at Buenos Aires
j last year where it was voted to es-,
tablish boards of commerce, foster
bilateral agreements against smug
gling, regulate international air
traffic and create a special Pan
1 American tourist passport as a
j stimulus to travel.
i--—_
roads is in the minds of a few, but
they won’t let that proposition come
too far forward yet, unless they
need it as a prod to put across thetr
more immediate legislation.
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as administratrix of
me estate oi Oscar M He.'ana, deceased
; of Cleveland county. North Carolina, this
is to notify all persons having claims
against the said estate to present them
to me properly proven on or before the
24th day of November. 1837 or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of any recovery
thereof. All persons owing the said es
tate will please make immediate settle
ment to the undersigned.
This 11th day of December. 193#.
NELL HOLLAND. R-3, Bhelby, Ad
ministratrix of Estate of Oscar M.
Holland, dec d, 6t dec lip
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Having this day qualified as adminis
tratrix of Cicero Eskridge's estate notice
is hereby given to all persons holding
claims agatnst said estate to present
same properly proven to the undersigned
on or before November 3#. 1837 or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of any re
covery thereon. All persons Indebted to
the said estate will please make Imme
diate payment to the undersigned.
This the 25th day of November. 1836.
KATHERINE ESKRIDGE. Adminls
tratri xof Cicero Eskridge s Estate.
B. T. Falls, Atty. for administratrix
8t nov 37c
ADMINISTRATRIX’ NOTICE
Having qualified as administratrix of
the estate of Sarah E McSwatn, deceased,
late of Cleveland county. North Carolina,
this is to notify all persons having claims
against the estate oi the deceased to ex
hibit them to the undersigned at her
home In Shelby on or before the 23rd day
of November 1937, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar oi their recovery. All per
sons Indebted to the said estate will please
make Immediate payment.
This the 3rd day of December. 1836.
MRS. DAISY GRIFFIN Administra
trix of Sarah E MeSwain.
Kennedy A Horn and Bynum E Weath
ers, Attorneys. 6t dec 3c
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LIVING
Life’s Tangles
Jesus bold the story of a man who j
sowed good seed in his field. But
while he slept, an enemy crept into ,
the field and sowed tares, and went
away happy about the injury he
had done.
The tares, ou
darnel, was so
like wheat that it
was impossible to
tell one from the
other — till it was
too late. A tiny
vine, it wrapped
itself about each
stalk of wheat,
and held tight.
As the harvest drew near his ser
Joseph Fort Newton
1
l
1
vants told the man what had hap
pened and asked him what to do.
A man of few words, he merely said,
“An enemy has done it,” and told
them to do nothing about it
“Let both grow together until the
harvest,” he said. Was he wise? Per
haps so, since only the angels of
God can ever untangle the twisted
roots of good and ill in human life.
We cannot do it.
One thinks of the dear old mink
in the Thornton Wilder story, who ,
tried to keep books for God. He used |
his best insight and skill, but he I
got mixed up and had to ask for- I
•giveness ior the mess he made.
How terribly life gets tangled no
one need be told. It twists itself
into queer shapes, ties itself into
all sorts of knots which irritate and
irk us. Its tangled growths baffle
our skill.
In a famous Hardy story a letter
is pushed under a door, but it went
under the carpet and was never
seen. If the letter had been read a
bitter tragedy would have been
averted—but it was lost.
Even then we use the best wis
dom we have we make mistakes,
and things get frighftully mixed.
Often they will work themselves out
if we let them alone, but not al
ways. The knot may be too hard.
How many things we should like
to unravel, but it is too late. Some
times, if we are patient and lucky,
and get hold of the right thread,
a knot that looked a hopeless twist
can be untied.
Are we to give up, then, and let
things go, like the man in the par
able? No, but we must know that
some tangles will never be untied
on this earth, and only a divine wis
dom can ever undo them.
The Russian press announces that
successful hothouse development of
orchids has been carried out In the
Arctic.
CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION
State of North Carolina,
Department of State.
To All to Whom These Present May Come
Greeting:
Whereas It appears to my satisfaction,
by duly authenticated record of the pro
ceedings for the voluntary dissolution
thereof by the unanimous consent of all
the stockholders, deposited In my office,
that the Stamey company, a corporation,
of this state, whose principal office Is
situated in the town of Fallston. county
of Cleveland, state of North Carolina (E.
G. Sperling being the agent therein and
In charge thereof, upon whom process
may be served), has complied with the
requirements of Chapter 22, Consolidated
Statutes, entitled "Corporations," prelim
inary to the Issuing of this Certificate of
Dissolution:
Now therefore. I. C. O. Powell, secretary
of the state of the state of North Caro
lina. do hereby certify that the said cor
poretion aid. on the 9th day or December
1936. Ille In my office a duly executed
and attested consent In writing to the
dissolution of said corporation, executed
by all the stockholders thereof which
said consent and the record of the pro
ceedings aforesaid are now on file In my
said office as provided by las.
In testimony whereof. I have hereto
set my hand and affixed my official seal
at Raleigh, this 9th day of December, A.
D. 1936.
(Signed) C. G. POWELL, Secretary of
State 4t dec 11c
TRUSTEE S SALE
By virtue of the power of sale contained
In a deed of trust executed by L. P. Meg
glnson and wtfe. Margaret Louise Meg
glnson, on June 13. 1938. to me as trustee
for the Shelby Bulldtng and Loan asso
ciation. said deed of trust recorded In
book 163. page 36, of the register's office
of Cleveland county. N. C., and default
having been made In the payment of the
indebtedness thereby secured. I, as trus
tee. will sell for cash to the highest bid
der at public auction at the court house
door In the town of Shelby, N. C., on
Satarday, Janaary 9, 1983
at 13 o’clock M., the following described
real estate:
Lying In the southwest portion of the
town of Shelby. N. C., and being a part
of the E. M. Beam—Carrie Bridges land,
and bounded as follows: Beginning at an
Iron stake m the west line of Carrie Brid
ges' tract 40 feet north 34 east from the
northwest corner of Zeb Beam's residence
lot recently sold him by E. M. Beam. It
being on north edge of a 40 foot street,
thence with north edge of said 40 feet
street south 68ti east 288.9 feet to an iron
stake in west edge of a new 40 foot street,
thence with said new 40 ft. street north
12 east 100 feet to an Iron stake In west
edge of said 40 loot street, a new corner,
thence a new line north 68Mi west 368
feet to an iron stake on west line of E.
M. Beam's-Carrle Bridges tract of land,
thence with said line south 24 west 100
ft. to point ol beginning containing 31860
feet area and being all of that lot con
veyed by deed recorded in book RRR page
38 In the office of the register of deeds of
Cleveland county. N. c.. to which deed
reference Is made for further Identifica
tion and description. Excepting, however,
that portion of the foregoing lot deeded
by L. P. Meggtnson and wife to R. t
LeOrand on May 35. 1933, bv deed re
corded In book 3-D of deeds, page 493. of
the register s office of Cleveland county
to which deed and the record thereof ref
erence is made for the metes and bounds
of said excepted portion.
The foregoing property will be sold
subject to any unpaid taxes or street pev
“»*»**emnente existing against same.
This November 30. 1936
4t «1« 3c CLYDE R HOEY. Trustee
OKDEB
BEAM’S
Coal
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Return Charge* In
Rock Hill Strike:
YORK, 8. C., Dec. 18.—(/Pi—The
ifork county grand Jury yesterday j
etumed presentments against 39
ormer employes of the Rock Hill
’rinting and Finishing company for
heir activities in connection with
he recent strike there.
The presentments, which Solid- j
or W. G. Finley said had the force
>f indictments, charged the men
dth conspiracy to commit breach of
>eace, rioting and preventing other
smployes from exercising their
•ights.
Suttle’g Drug Store offers
FREE Sample of new High
Blood Pressure treament
■very High Blood Pressure Suf
ferer in Shelby is urged to go to
Suttle's Drug Store and receive a
free sample of ALLIMIN Essence of
QarUc Parsley tablets fbr High
Blood Pressure as well as a valu
able booklet. These tablets are
made by a prominent Chicago con
cern and according to most reliable
reports ar being used with good re
sults by thousands «f sufferers. A
special new process by which AL
LIMIN tablets are produced makes
them both tasteles and odorless. A
two weeks’ treatment cost# only
SOS, <*dv.)
Mnk Porter Writing
CHARLOTTE, Dec. 18.—(JPj—M>.
William Sidney Porter, O. Henry *
widod, here to consult an oculist
revealed she is writing for mag*.’
zines In an effort to rebuild her
home at Weaverville, destroyed re
cently by fire.
Mrs. Henderson Hurt
GREENSBORO, Dec. 18—Mrs Jobs
Henderson of Hickory, former
president of the North Carolina
parent-teacher association, suffered
slight injuries in an automobile ac
cident near here.
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
*fo mttw how many medicines
you have tried for your oough chest
cold or bronchial ifatatSST&rSS
get relief now with Creomulston
Serious trouble may be brewing and
you cannot afford to take a char 's
with anything less than Creormu?
sion, which goes right to the seat
o£ trouble to aid nature to
soothe and heal the Inflamed mem
branes as the germ-laden phlegm
la loosened and expelled. *
Even If other remedies
failed, don't be discouraged rou?
druggist la authorized toguamteS
CreomuWon and to refund your
S3 ‘JJ™ ST5 not satisfied with
results from the very first bottle.
Get Creomulston right now. (Advj
WINTER TERM BEGINS
MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1937
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“Home-Town Patriot”?
It Is easier for you to succeed in a growing community
than in one that is going backward.
This bank, with its service and its loans to local enter
prises, is working to keep our community going forward in
wealth and prosperity.
The deposits which you and your friends make hers,
furnish us with the financial strength to carry out this
program.
We invite you to join us in putting home interests first.
You not only help us, but you help yourself and your com
munity when you do your banking here.
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NOTICE
To Farmer Friends
Reginntng 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