Today’s SMALL TALK - By MRS. RENN DRUM HOYLE LEE, PROPOUNDER OF THE IMPOSSIBLE problems passed on to you in this column earlier this week, probably suspecting that I should never be able to work ’em, has submitted the answers but no solutions, so today I’m sending him another S.O.S. Answers to problems mean al most nothing to the real problem worker unless he knows the route by which the answer was secured. I swers, regardless of solutions, he says,' “The smallest number of nuts In the “men-monkey-nut problem Is 3121; and In the "How-Old-ls Ann, problem Ann’s age Is 16 13.” One of the nicest Christmas par ties I’ve heard anything about Is one which doesn’t belong In the social columns and yet It likely meant more fun to the sixteen peo ple present than any of the bridge parties or teas on the social pages ever mean to the folk who attend them. This was a family movie party at which a young man who works in Shelby was host to members of his family living in the oounty. Na turally movies aren’t as common place to those who live outside the city limits as to those who live in, because they aren’t as accessible, aside from the fact that people who Hve in the country have too many other things to do and think about to be forever having to seek the relief from boredom which the movies represent. The party included parents of the host, a number of sisters and brothers and four nieces and ne phews, and none of the little folks had aver before seen motion pic tures. The show selected was ideal for it Included "Reunion” with those delicious scenes of the quin tuplets, and the technicolor come dy about the little brown and black velvet puppies who found their des tinies Intertwined with a fox chase. Of courses the point at which the puppies outran the fox and the ound found himself out on a limb other point at which the yellow and had to stcul Tafzan’l thunder to get back to earth were not as funny to the small fry In the party as to their elders but they follow ed it well enough and the eyes of those three and five and eight year olds in the group were as round as Betty Boop’s. They liked best, and so did I, the scenes of the little Dionnes eating their lunch and playing the piano. That trip to the movies will knock the shine off Santa Claus this year and they'll keep talking about- it after his visit has been forgotten. Holiday buying note: White Santa Clauses buy the negro baby dolls and colored Santa Clauses buy the white dolls. Some parents say their children don’t want any doll at all unless they can have one of the black ones. Vocabulary puzzle: What Is the difference between prone and su pine? Prone means lying flat on the face, supine means lying flat HELPS AVOID MANY COLDS Especially designed aid for nose and upper throat, where most colds start. Used in time, helps prevent many colds. Vicks Vatronol on the beck. It’s a surprise to me too but I I was Anally convinced. Mrs. Elisa Roberts, who has re turned to Shelby after spending some months with her daughter, Mrs. R. G. Liner, and Mr. Uner in Canton, recalls the days when she thriftily made her son’s suits out of ( the worn out suits of their father , and grandfather. , One day, when her son. Ben, now of Durham, was very small, she was , inspecting his wardrobe and re marked, "Son, I’m going to have to make you some new trousers.” To which Ben replied, “What outen. Mamma?” Mrs. Roberts still chuckles over his naive acceptance of the fact that small boys’ trousers could only come from one source and his won derment at how she was to And an other pair not already cut down. STATE REVENUES REPORT IS MADE Department Has Col lected Large Sum RALEIGH, Dec. 18. —-(^V—• The state department of revenue has collected $453,171,605 since its in ception in 1921-23, Commissioner Allen J. Maxwell reported today. Collecting only $5,073,422 In 1931 W the receint* have crown until ; there were five times as great, at $26,666,191, during the first five months of 1936-37, as during the first fiscal period. Not until 1926-26 did the collec tions go above the $10,000,000 year ly mark, when additional general fund receipts sent collections to $11,108,246 and the first .highway taxes brought In $12,213,492. The collections showed a steady Increase from the start of the de partment until 1928-29 when a drop of over $2,000,000 was recorded, with declines In both general and highway fund receipts. That year total receipts were $30,820,373 as compared with $32,862,819 in the previous fiscal period. In 1929-30 receipts totalled $35, 214,497 but declined to $31,669,808 the following year. The fluctuation continued tor the next two years but beginning with 1933-34 the first year In which the sales tax was le vied-receipts Jumped to $44,335,533 and have continued to mount since. During the 16 years the depart ment has operated general fund receipts have totalled $229,851,551 and highway figids $224,320,054. BONDSES, DIVIDENDS AT GREENVILLE MILLS GREENVILLE. S. C.. Dec. 18—Opt —Greenville county textile plants will pour nearly $1,000,000 into Christmas trade channels in the next few days. In addition to pre-Chnstma* pay rolls and bonuses, eight plants whicl$ have reported will pay approximate ly $600,000 in dividends. DRIVE UP FOR QUICK CURB SERVICE There’* Always Plenty of Parking Space at Hopper’s New Barbecue Ob EAST WARREN ST. EVERYTHING NEW AND CLEAN EVERYTHING TO EAT AND DRINK OPEN DAILY FROM 7:30 A. M. TILL 12 MIDNIGHT. JOHN STAMEY, Mgr. PHONE 207 FOR QUICK MOTOR DELIVERY Sundown Stories For The Kiddies Santa Continues By MARX’ GRAHAM BONNER “Christopher,” continued Santa as he painted names on sleds and ex press wagons and boats, “when children are In homes where they are taught to be polite and kind, but where they are never treated unjustly, they behave so much bet ter than where they are spoiled Dne moment and abused the next. "I believe that every one wants to i lo the best he or she can, I don’t ;hink any one gets up In the morn ing saying: i " Tm going to be mean and sel Ish and bully those smaller than i t am all day long.’ i “There is fun In mischief at i jtmes, and you know that well,” Christopher cocked his head on me side and gave a cawing laugh. ‘I know that,” he admitted. I “But Santa Claus thinks of ev srything. He does not Just think of nistakes of bad moments, he thinks : >f the good moments, the unselfish icts. Yes, I do, and I think that svery child everywhere deserves to lave me come and visit. I “I’ve never known a child who i lidn’t deserve to have a visit from ( ne,” Santa repeated. “And I visit ;hem all. Never would I stay away.' “And Christopher, because the ' :hlldren, I think, feel this, they try : a be as fine as they can be. I think ;he devotion they give me, the love ' ind Christmas spirit that is in :hetr hearts is something pretty Ine. It makes me happy and gives ne that glow that keeps me from ; growing older, that keeps me so : strong.” , And Christopher gave Santa an iffectionate peck with hte beak. He understood in his crow mind why Santa had always been loved—why be would always be loved. Hollywood I Sights And Sounds By ROBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD—Eighteen pounds slimmer than when she left Holly wood, Bette Davis is at work again, putting into effect her idea that; hard work ought to "fix every thing." ■ The -oung rebel, who lost her fight to make pictures in England regardless of her Hollywood em ployers’ wishes in the matter, says she "worried it off” during the months of her fight. Anyway, she’s a sleeker Bette, and even more a delight to the studio designers than formerly. She returned — for her role in “Marked Woman’’ — without a trace of English accent. This she regards as rather a feat, feu* It is not easy, she says, to stay in Eng land six months and not acquire one. Exercising great self-control in the matter brought about her tri umph. “The American-made picture is still the favorite with them,” she says, “but not the gangster type. They are frankly mystified when our screen toughs start talking. Many of them say they don’t un derstand a word of such pictures.” Jimmy Still ’Virtuous’ Which should be good news to that other Warner rebel, James Cagney, who was successful in his court fight. Jimmy, who was pretty well free of the smart aleck toughie roles even before he fought free of his contract, continues on paths of virtue in his first Grand National film, “Great Guy.” He talks straight from the shoulder but not from the side of his mouth. He plays Johnny Cave, battling deputy in a big city’s department of weights and measures, who. fights the nefarious forces of graft to a showdown. Mae Clarke is the attractive leading lady, employed by Henry Kolker, the head man in the enemy camp. Edward Bro phy, as a reformed bootlegger, James Burke as Irish blarney, Joe Sawyer as a big bruising crook, and Bemadene Hayes (a newcomer) stand out in support. i ui au umv, mv lag in pace more than a Cagney picture should. (A personal opin ion which Cagney boosters may at tribute to my dyspepsia). ‘Stuffed Shirt’ Score* Alan Mowbray, a Jolly gent |Dd famous for enlivening the atmos phere of the movie sets, is really a shrinking violet—where his own films are concerned. When I mentioned to him that he had broken the rules in the Bobby Breen picture by endowing a stuff ed-shirt character with human quirks and thereby getting himself noticed when he obviously wasn’t meant to be, he confessed. ‘1 haven’t seen it. Pact is," he! said, “I can’t take it. I’ve seen my ; self in wily one picture in the lasti two years. That was ‘Ladles in i Love’ and X had to see how those card tricks looked. I don’t go as a rule because I always remind my self of a fish gasping oc a hook!" Collage To Cloao GAFFNEY, Dec. 18. — The ap proaching Yuletlde season is much anticipated at limestone College. The students will leave for the holi days Friday at noon and will re sume their regular aollege work January * at 8 am. HOUSE IS BURNED IN NO. 1 TOWNSHIP Miss Macie Greene Weds Clyde Jones NEW PROSPECT, Dec. 18.—Miss Vfacie Greene and Clyde Jones were narried Saturday In Gaffney. Mrs. Jones before marriage was the at ;ractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs Bert Greene. The groom is the son >f Mr. and Mrs. John Jones. Maurice Harmon’s home was jurned on Thursday evening about sight oclock. The origin of the Ire is unknown. The family had ;one out to a neighbors house to tay a while. Only a few things were [otten out. Rev. B. M. Strickland was the 3aturday night guest of Mr. and Hrs. Howard Simmons and Sunday ;uest of Mr. and Mis. Tell McCraw. Miss Grace Hamrick spent the veek end with Mr. and Mrs. Ira Slmore. The Lottie Moon Circle No. 3 met vlth Mrs. V. L. Jolley on Friday iftemoon. A good program was riven. Eight members were present md one visitor. The hostess assist id by Mrs. Hal Hawkins served de icious refreshments. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Elmore had Phursday dinner guests as follows: Hr. and Mrs. J. V. McGinnis and family of Cliffside, Mr. and Mrs. Dscar Elmore, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Horehead and children, Bobby and Frances. Mrs, Hal Hawins of Lattimore spent a few days last week with ler mother, Mrs. Sallie Davis. Mrs. Fletcher Huskey and chil dren visited Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Kirby, Sr., and family Sunday. Just Ten Years Ago (Taken From The Cleveland Star of Friday, Dec. 17, 1926) One human life a day was the lutomobile’s grim toll in North Carolina in 1925 but it will be| treater in 1926 for figures made t public by the vital statistics bureau j1 show that more than 365 persons \ | lave died in automobile wrecks on j; lighways and at grade crossings in ; ;he first eleven months of the pre- j sent year. | George Blanton, active vice-. president of the First National ‘ bank, was elected president of the i j Kiwanls club for the ensuing year at the meeting held last night. B, Dixon Hall, president of the Atlanta Business college was in j Shelby yesterday in conference with J. C. Newton, secretary of com merce, with a view of opening a branch college here to teach four courses of study, stenographic course, secretarial course, commer cial course and commercial type writing course. C. S. Young, one of the officials of the Associated Charities which was organized less than a year ago, but which has never functioned be cause of lack of funds, made a re port to the Kiwanis club last night and the club made a contribution to the organization to help the poor through the Christmas season. Mr. and Mrs. Val Thomasson and their family, prominent farmers of the Earl section, have moved to Shelby. They occupy the Paul Woo ten house on South DeKalb Street, which Mr. Thomasson recently pur chased. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hardin will celebrate their fiftieth wedding an niversary at their home near Mount Sinai church on Christmas day. 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