SHELBY DAILY STAR Published By Star Publishing Company, Inc. Wo. 1 Eut Merton St Shelby. N. C. Ln B. Weathers. Pres.-Treas 8. E. Hoey, Secy. Published Afternoons Except Saturdays end Sundays Telephone No. 11. News Telephone No. 4-J Entered as second class matter January 1, IMS. at the postofflce ln Shelby, N. C„ under an Act of Congress, March 8, 1891. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Bryant Griffith and Brunson, 9 East 41st St. New York City UIMUR or THX ASSOCIATED press Th» Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news dispatches In this naner and also the local news published herein. All rights ot rs-publleatlon of special dispatches published herein are SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE By Mail IN Carolina* Oab Year ...$4 50 "Six Months_jv„ 2.25 "three Months_1.25 By Nail Outside The CaroNnas One Year..85.50 31* Month!__ 2.75 Three Months_1.50 Delivery By Carrier At Your Door In Cities, Suburban And Rural Districts One Year_$5.00 S'x Months__2.50 Three Months_1.35 Pour Weeks ...— .45 Weekly Rate- .12 THURSDAY. DEC. 24. 1936 V a THE HUMAN TOUCH OF CHRISTMAS Tomorrow we again celebrate Christmas, the birthday of the Christ, the climax of the year. And tomorrow, as happy children go through their lumpy stockings and as adults exchange their more or less useful gifts we shall be looking beyond the stockings and the gifts, seeking that which is more signifi cant of the real spirit of Christmas. Looking about us, here in Shelby, in North Carolina and in the country as a whole we find this real spirit of the first Christ mas, the spirit of sharing what we have, the spirit of giving, more in evidence than it has been in many, many years. In many years, throughout the country, Christmas will be a brighter occasion because of wage increases and distribution of divi dends by a number of large corporations which have moved to share increased profits prior to the holiday season, thus enabling their employees to meet the increased ex penses attendant upon it. In Shelby, many of the homes of the unfortunate will be bright ened by gifts of food and clothing, fruits and toys, shared by those whose lot in life is happier. The Salvation Army, in cooperation with a number of other organizations, is putting on a drive to see that there will at least be food on the tables of those who might other wise do without on Christmas day and are also Striving to furnish toys and some of the less necessary Christmas joys for children in these homes. Members of the local Ki wanll club are “adopting” for Christmas two need* children each to whom they will play Santa Claus. Each of the local Lions club will take into his home on Christmas day a child from some other home where Christ mas promises to be a not very happy day and shard with that child the good things prepar ed for his own children. Members of book clubs and Sunday school classes are prepar ing baskets for distribution to the poor or “adopting” families in a manner similar to civic club members. And so it goes. In Shelby at least there seems to be a renaissance of the Christmas season. The spirit of Christianity, of desir ing to share blessings in order to enjoy them the more, which is the true spirit of Christ’s birthday, is abroad and promises increased joys for both those who give and those who receive. The Star sincerely hopes this spirit of service and good cheer may reach hito every home in Shelby and Cleveland county to bring you all a Happy Christmas. o 1< g t ll F ll d b 8 t S b a t c a \ c £ r v 9 \ t t c C t I t ( I c SHOULD GRACE BE ALLOWED? It is license buying time again for mo torists and more than a half million motor ists are warned that if they do not have the new 1937 tags on their cars by January 1st, they will not be allowed to use the highways. This strict regulation is not the law of the revenue department, it is the command of~the General Assembly. January 1st be ing the beginning of the calendar year is a suitable time for the new license plates to begin, but it is most inconvenient for the majority of motorists to dig up the price of a license tag immediately after having run the gauntlet of Christmas buying. A number of other states have changed the date to April and find that they have worked a definite convenience to the public without mussing up the collection machin ery. Whether North Carolina does this too is a matter for consideration by the legisla tors. What we are concerned about, however, is the fact that no grace period is allowed for purchasing. A 1936 tag allows a car the privi lege of the highway to December 81st. It is not fair to expect every motorist to invest in a new plate before the expiration of his old license. Suppose the first 15 days of Janu ary were allowed as a grace period for buy ing new tags, he would be paying for the whole- year because the price remains the rene for the first quarter. The state would lose nothing in the way of revenue and the motorist would find the grace period a con venience and a courtesy to which he is en titled. HOW SHALL IT BE SOLVED? c l € t Q a y p o « o t< si 64 P e: n t< tl b n v b o V f f t c -The ever-present problem of what to do ' about, the liquor question in North Carolina is causing daily discussion, now that the re orts of the Liquor Study Commission have een filed. Dr. Poteat, dry leader in the state would ave another state-wide referendum, quali ied voters from all parties of course being rivileged to say whether the state should upervise the sale of liquor or whether the late should remain divided, some wet and D*eN|ry. This leader as well as others ould nave a majority dry vote, abolish the quor stores in 18 eastern Carolina bounties. The wet counties of the east are draw ig their customers from dry counties, hence ley prefer that the balance of the state re tain as it is. No doubt, our neighboring tates of South Carolina and Virginia would ind it to their advantage for a majority of le counties of North Carolina to remain dry a they could continue to profit through ales. If the matter is left for each individual aunty to solve in its own way, we would ave the same situation that obtains with eference to our wet neighbors. Some coun ies would have ABC stores, others w’ould ave the bootlegger, thus presenting an en arcement problem beyond the control of the fficers. Whatever steps are taken will be a hodgepodge.” Sentiment will always be di ided with neither side willing to concede nything to the other. What Other Papers Say OU11 SNAKE FRIENDS (Spartanburg Herald) Dr. H. K. Oloyd, director of the Chicago Academy f Science, thinks that of all wild creatures snakes are iast understood and most maligned. In the United tates there are few venomous snakes except the rat ers and moccasins and, strange to say, they are unted down and destroyed by the harmless and non oisonous varieties. Ever since that snake incident which happened 1 the Garden of Eden men and snakes have been eadly enemies. Yet, in destroying many varieties in forth America, man really destroys his friends. The arter snake, the king snake, the blacksnake, the wa ;r-snake and many other varieties in the United tates are non-venomous and should not be killed ecause they destroy insects, mice and other pests nd some of them are bitter enemies of the rattler, lie moccasin and the coral snake. Ninety per cent f the snakes known to naturalists are non-venomous nd there are more than 1,000 species of them in the rorld. It is unfortunate that mankind has such a hatred f snakes that all families are marked for destruction, dentists have been telling us for many years that lost snakes are useful but their knowledge and ad ice cannot check the slaughter. We ]ust don’t like nakes LOW BOND* (Greenville Piedmont) In Buncombe county, North Carolina, a Green tile youth is held under $3,560 bond because he was he driver of an automobile that struck and fatally ijured a pedestrian near Asheville. The case gives reminder that bonds in South farolina criminal cases are extremely low. Prisoners harged with murder often are released under bonds s low as $1,500 and $2,000. In northern states bonds s high as $25,000 are not uncommon. All too often South Carolina deals loosely and ?niently with those charged with the moet serious f crimes. Nobody’s Business — By GEE McGEE __ THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS IN FLAT ROCK eer readers:— well, friends, i and the other assistant sandy laws are setting In front of the fire and medder-tat ig. big socks and little stockipgs Is hung from one nd of the mantleboard to the other, all waiting to e filled by deer old sandy. the wind is howling outside, and It has blowed the Id quilt down which hung up against the back door, nd the newspapers and the 2 old pillows that we had ;uck into the broken glass winders have allso benn anked out by the breezes ansoforth. the pile of wood over in the corner of the tin lace has shrunk to only 4 peaces, and no more is cut utside. this situation fetches forth much pain and orry onner count of the roomy-tism of the pressent Id sandy claws, it Is hard for him to stoop and twist > the tune of a axe. old sandy olaws has done his best this year to low his love and affection for his off-springs, each >ck and stocking will receive one-half stick of nice sppermint. 2 brazeel nuts, a handful of raw goob •s, and a tooting horn for the small fellers, we could at go verry far with our relief check which amounts > not much. old sandy claws has slipped a nice pressent under le cover lids of the bed for his wife, viszly: a pink lanket for our comfort, and she has washed up and (-decorated the much-tash cup she has benn reglv ng me for years, that is—ever since the fe.dderal land ink took over our farm. our old rooster has benn baked and is setting out n the back piazza shelf waiting to be et tomorrow, e will also have some turnip sallet. the world looks lirly bright to us tonight, but 1 have only half a lug of tobacco in sight, our clothes la thin, our pan ry is empty, but we are all as happy as a famtley ould possibly be while on relief. If the wpa keep* up, 'o will make the grade yores tnilie. mtkc Clark, rtd i it i r^rHilr i ■ -*■ Washington ||Davbook By PRESTON GROVER (AMoeiated Press Staff Writer! WASHINGTON.—Long after the depression Is over Its problem child —the unemployables—will remain to trouble and perplex both local and federal adminis trations. It has been at least six years since a man could get a Job about any place and any time he want ed it. Six years Is a long time In the 30 or 40 year work ing period of a man's life. What may have hap pened to him in those years? MfSTON L CftOVCT Economists, welfare workers and employers have had experience be fore with depressions and their aftermath. They know it takes some thing out of a man to be without a satisfying job for an extended per iod. Morale falls and skill dimin ishes. • • • • Holdover Problem The net effect on a once skilled man, three to six years away from his trade, is to make It hard for him to get back the job he once had. Na turally it is toughest on the le. s skilled, the “marginal” worker, who had employment at his trade only when times were fair to middling good. With his skill diminished from disuse, several years added to his age, he represents a holdover prob lem to worry relief agencies long •Iter many loose ends of the de^ presslon have been gathered up. When Administrator Harry Hop kins turned back to the states the care of “unemployables," a million more or less, he had reference large ly to aged, 111 and lame whose con dition could scarcely be chargeable fully to the depression. But what about the "moderately employable" man who can’t quite cut his way back into private em ploy even when better days Bring more jobs. » Looking at that spectacle, relief experts predict a dozen years hence public money—federal, state or lo cal—will be dribbling out to veter ans of the great war of the depres sion. NYA Jobs Go Begging Some colleges in Washington have not filled much more than half of their quotas of $25-a-month jobs under the National Youth Admin istration. Many students hunt out full time patronage jobs as elevator operators for congress, or as capi tal police, then go to school on the side. N. C. Lowland Are** Are Under Water RALEIGH, Dec. 24.— (/Pt —Large lowland areas were under water to tlay as the Neuse river continued to rise at Kinston. Lee A. Denson, head of the wea ther bureau here, said he expected the rise would halt late tonight. The Kinston - Wilmington road was under water at Harpersville but highway officials estimated dam age was slight. When Leland Stanford, Jr„ died in 1884 in his seventeenth year, his parents founded the university of that name at Palo Alto. Calif as a memorial. HOW'S i/aui U E ALTH ft kr gA# Nm ¥•* 0*. !•#* rf 'W»«* Bookeeping Health Statisticians have been roundly abused for long. Many people re sent the cock-sure certainty of sta tistical figures. One somehow feels so helpless when up against “the | facts” mathematically expressed. But the fault is seldom with the figures and mostly with the Interpretation. In public health statistics, these difficulties are encountered. And be it borne in mind, the subject is not one of mere academic interest. On the contrary, vital statistics, as they are termed, serve as the basis for many medical and public health ac tivities. They therefore touch ev ery man’s purse, in taxes and ev ery man’s health and welfare in numerous ways. Tuberculosis, for instance, Is w comunicable disease, each case of which physicians must report to their local department of health. Why? Basically because each ac tive case is a real or potential me nace to all those around him. The oretically the state, in self-defense can when necessary protect its peo ple by forcefully quarantining the infection-spreading Individual. Fortunately such drastic proce | dures are but seldom necessary, i Either the individual freely with draws into his own home and learns to live without hazard to nfhArs e\r- Via volnnt.ftHlv t/i ft tuberculosis sanatorium. And here Is a pertinent point. Without sta tistical knowledge of how man) persons in a given community are sick with tuberculosis and the sev erity of their illness, the responsi ble agencies would be without guid ance as to how many clinics, tu berculosis hospital beds and tuber culosis sanatorium beds the com munity requires. Stallstics~oft' illnesses and deaths according to causes also point out the weak places in health work, and serve as a guide in concerting re medial efforts. They measure the effectiveness of health work and the respective values of various techniques. They are in a word the valuable accounting of our vital accounting of our vital resources. Correctly interpreted vital statis | tics are as frequently reassuring as | they are alarming. This has been ! witnessed recently in the case of cancer an dheart disease. Crudely understood, the increasing number of deaths charged to both points to an alarming rise in these disease categories. But. critically evaluat ed. the figures reflect rather a de cline in the death rates from other diseases. This allows for a larger j number of persons to live "long | enough” to die of the diseases which are more common to the ad vanced age group. In Jerusalem's 33 centuries of history, she has endured over 30 sieges and blockades, about 18 re constructions and six changes from one religion to another. cneeM COLDS FEVER ,, _ .. . first ythinK less than Creomuh °* tji16 tron^l COUGHS DUE TO COLDS " *0 3 For Sale By CLEVELAND DRUG CO. Winter Terms Begins January 4, 1937 Write for Catalog — Information SALISBURY BUSINESS COLLEGE Efird Building Box 236, Shelby, N. C. Miss Margaret Linney, Instructor Are YOU a “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 here, 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. FIRST NATIONAL BANK INSURED DEPOSITS SHELBY. N. C. A Peco^d And Receipt When you pay by check you have: An accurate record of all your money transactions. A legal receipt for every payment mad*. It’s the modern, businesslike way of do ing things. UNION TRUST CO. ' * INSURED DEPOSITS Shelby — Fallston — Lawndale — Foresl ( it.' Rutherfordton