SHELBY DAILY STAR
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THURSDAY. DEC. 24. 1936
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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.
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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?
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-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
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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.
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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.
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in the year is quite so full of eerie
bewitchment as Christmas eve.
Greetings on Christmas morning are
well enough, but they lack
secrety joy.
No, Christmas
Eve is the magic
hour, when the
earth arOund us,
the sky above us
and the heart
within us are holy
and happy. If it
makes us divinely
foolish, ’tis then
a sly.
that we are truly
Jntlk Fort Newton
wise.
If you have doubts, and would re*
kindle the dying embers of a faded
faith, go stand on the restless cor
ner of a city street on Christmas
eve, and watch the procession of
faces as they go by.
Yes. some of them are marked
with anxiety, but it is anxiety for
the haDDiness of others! For a brief
time that throng is moved by the
spirit of giving, and their faces
cannot hide the wonder of it.
Some seem half ashamed of their
unselfishness, and try to look self*
possessed and nonchalant, as if It
were a kind of childish game of
make-believe. But that is all just a
bluff.
Even their smile betrays a wist
fulness, a longing to be free, if only
for an hour, from the binding,
blinding wisdom that is so hard, so
dry, so weary withal, which makes
life such a bore.
l If you still doubt, just follow
fthem home and you will see them
tip-toe along the hall, as if hiding
some awful secret, while Joyous
thoughts are tugging at their hearts
with all the pull of playtime.
Later, men and women, other
wise sensible, even dignified, will
creep up the stairs at midnight,
with elongated bundles in their
arms, listening at bedroom doors,
where little children dream.
It is the one winged hour in the
heavy-footed year—an escape from
grey haggard realities into the love
ly land where what ought to be true
is true, and the impossible things
that love can do.
God be thanked for an hour of
magic, mystical and mellow, made
holy by memories of days that come
not back, and happy with the ten
derness that shakes the poison out of
all our wild flowers.
State Recognizes
Social Needs Now
Thinks Mrs. Bost
RALEIGH, Dec. 24.—(JP)—Mrs. W.
T. Bost, state welfare commission
er, said today that the "greatest
advancement” had been made in
public welfare work in North Car
olina in the past two years.
"An aggressive awareness of the
social needs of the people on the
part of the local communities and
county officials,” Mrs. Boot report
ed in her biennial summary of the
department's work, "has become a
moving force in securing increased
budgets for relief and general wel
fare purposes.”
Mrs. Bost noted that Governor
Ehrlnghaus aided in securing a
federal grant of $225,000 for the
department, which enabled it to
establish active welfare service in
each of the 100 counties.
was sharing in certain phases of
the federal social security program
but needed legislation to enable
complete participation. She added
that if counties wished to share In
the full benefits “they will be ex
pected to put up funds to match
state and federal appropriations to
meet the needs of certain under
privileged groups and to share in
the administrative expenses for
these services."
Why experiment with neuy
home remedies when there A
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way to relieve your
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the itching. Clean, quick,
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FIRE
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PROTESTS CRACKERS,
SPEEDING AND LIQUOR
To the Editor of The Star:
Allow me to thank you for your
editorial relative to fire crackers. II
we have law, why not enforce it or
repeal it and let each person fight
for his own existence.
Its not the duty of enforcement
officers to wait for public sentiment
to drive them to their duty. Ita
within the province of their duty to
help create sentiment by enforcing
the law.
There-is too much lawlessness in
to her respects. We need attention
paid to the smart fellow who is
continually disturbing people by ex
ploding gas In the muffler.
Then there is the menace of
people driving at night with only
one light. A few without any light,
Would I like to be pulled for every
little infringement? No, but society
must be protected, and this terrible
menace of breaking speed law in
our city limits. A very fine young
man was killed a few' Sundays ago,
Well, who was to blame? Can all
the blame be placed upon the driv
er? Who will be the next? This fast
driving can be stopped, It must be
stopped. We have the law, why is
m noi emorcea?
A few months ago, our courag
eous county judge put the gambling
machines out of business, for which
every right thinking person should
be thankful. But why do away with
the tables and allow other things
as bad to run and curse our young
folks as well as older ones who
should have more sense.
I know the question arises in the
minds of the people who are do
ing these things. How much of
your business is my business. Its
just this, no good man will under
take any enterprise that will curse
his patrons. Some of our people and
a very great number of them, are
engaged in trying to help rim the
churches and Sunday schools, and I
don’t mean these church members
who sell beer and wine, that is no
better than running a gambling
den, or running business on Sun
day, in order to make this town a
place where it is a little bit easier
for the boys and girls to live right.
Now I ask the question who has
the floor? How long good people will
continue to pay money into and
give their time in the interest of
church work, and put up with some
things in this town is about the
biggest question confronting us
right now.
Who is it that don't know that
it is a violation of our laws to sell
goods on Sunday, subject to a pen
alty of one dollar per each sale.
No one could afford to stay open
and pay that fine. What’s the
trouble? Big business says you must
stay open if you do business for us.
Thus the little fellow, in order to
hold on must violate the laws of
his state and his own conscience for
those who care nothing for our
■^TT.I M IIP
Sabfcwth day.
And wljere does the fei,ov
absolutely will not work on Sunk,
come In? No provision made fnr
him. He Is penalized for doinI
right the business he should have
an dwould get on Saturdav or Mon
day goes to the fellow who ‘st.„
open on Sunday and violates ti~,
Uw. I Y*ow many rather good
lows who would be glad to *t.v
closed on Sunday If all would clov
That would be perfectly (air to all
We hear a-howl about being able to
purchase gas on Sunday There are
the fewest who could not buy
Sundays supply on 8aturdav Then
If the doctor or the tourist come
along, let them secure a script from
the police department and get his
gas. These are rather crude ex
pressions but my feelings are stir."
red deeply. Something should be
done and right now Is a very fin,
time to start. The liquor question
Is bound to come up right, soon and
the Christian people of our great
county should not wait to let the
coming legislature know where we
stand.
Shelby, N. C. A CITIZEN,
LINESMAN IS BURNED
AS HE ^OUCHES W(R|
j HIGH POINT, Dec. 24. - pp, _
j Wayne Connor, 25, a linesman, was
burned so badly when he contacted
I a high tension wire that one leg
! and one arm were amputated
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in 1539.
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Box 236, Shelby, N. C.
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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.
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