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SHELBY DAILY STAR Published By Star Publishing Company, Inc. Mo. I East Marion St. Shelby. N. C. Ln a Weathers. Pres.-Treas. S. E. Hoey, Secy. Published Afternoons Except Saturdays and Sundays Business Telephone No. 11, News Telephone No. 4-J Entered as second class matter January 1, 1S05, at the poatoffice ln Shelby, N. C„ under an Act of Congress. March A 1897. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Bryant. Griffith and Brunson. 9 last 41st St New York City MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th» AMoetetAd Pr**» i« exclusively entitled to the use In subnotion of *11 ne»i dispatches IB this paper, and alto the local news puhllshed herein. All rlshu ol re-publication of special dispatches published herein are SUP reserved. SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE By Mail M Carolina* One Year.$4.50 Six Months.3.25 Three Months ...... 1.35 By Mail Oatsida The Carolines One Year.$5.50 Six Months.2 75 Three Months_1.50 Delivery By Carrier At Yonr Door In Cities, Suburban And Rural Districts One Year_$5 00 Six Months_2 50 Three Months_. 1.35 Pour Weeks _ .45 Weekly Rate_ .12 MONDAY, DEC. 28. 1936 AGRICULTURAL SECURITY Cleveland county farmers, suffering from a short crop, can take heart in the knowledge that every effort possible is be ing made b ythe administration to provide further security for farming in this country. Details of next year’s program, while not announced in detail, are due shortly and farmers are assured that the general tone of the plan will be one of constructive aid to agriculture. un tne wnoie, tms county nas protited greatly from the federal farm program and we believe that further co-operation on the part of our farmers will continue to be profitable for them as well as an aid to gen uine national farm recovery, on which, gen eral business recovering is largely based. PEACE AT HOME; MISERY IN SPAIN Christmas was a happy season in the United States this year. Few had cause to complain or grumble, and most of those who possessed very little themselves were fur nished with at least a temporary ray of brightness by the charity of some person or organization. But in war-torn Spain, there was little to he happy for. An Associated Presj story in Thursday’s issue of The Daily Star wrs an editorial in itself—the facts it presented portrayed so vividly and ao graphically the miserable plight of the citizens of Madrid and other cities that little editorial com ment is needed. We were happy with o»r Christmas trees, our gifts, our cards, our friends. But the Spaniards had nothing to be happy about. There churches were destroyed; their beau tiful works of art were ruined; their food supply was low; their friends were killed and wounded; their Christmas was merely an other day of horror. This particular day, which should have been the happiest of the year throughout the entire Christian world, emphasized more than ever the terrible consequences of war— civil war in particular, where brother fights brother and friend kills friend. As the time for the advent of the New Year approaches, may we all receive a vivid realization of the futility of armed conflict, and may the New Year bring a nearer and better approach to the idealistic conception of a world society free from the terrifying shackles of war. A SPLENDID AMERICAN YEAR This year 1936 which is soon to be over has, on the whole, been a splendid one for America. There have been innumerable things t.o deplore, matters causing worry and loss to many people, but it has actually mark ed an upswing of the human spirit as well as of happiness. . Great things, indeed, have been accom plished during the year, some of them the fruition of plans instituted in earlier years. In America in spite of bewildering and wor risome difficulties there has been retained the fundamental ideas of democracy. In Europe and Asia there is a different picture. The twin figures of fascism and bol shevism, so nearly alike as to be indistin guishable, clash every day. Threats have piled one upon the other and only the belief in the fundamental common sense of man makes it seem likely an explosion will not happen soon. Possible European war, confidently pre dicted by some, is now, as it has been almost all year, the darkest cloud hanging over the world. There is nothing America can do about this except to hope wisdom and good will will prevail and to make every arrange ment to stay out if it does occur. There have been varied changes but fun damentally- in this country they have been changes of a- natural sort; logical steps in development of human beings and of a na tion rather than extreme leaps into unknown spheres. All in all. it has been a good year and 1937 for America seems likely to be even A better one. COLLEGE DILEMMA An extremely unfortunate situation has developed in the United States in the past1 generation, partly due to faulty mismanage ment of the educational system, and partly due to the increased emphask. laid on the ma terialistic aspect of life in general. This sit uation was graphically illustrated recently in a North Carolina liberal arts college. A challenge was hurled to the Average American male college student by a professor in one of the larger middle western co-educa tional institutions in an essay entitled “The Co-eds—God Bless ’Em!” The professor praised the average female student, saying she was a better scholar and hinting that the male student spent all his time on vocational studies, neglecting the pursuit of the classi cal and cultural studies. Seventy-five male freshmen were asked to write a criticism of the essay. Out of this number, 74 were outraged at the implications against their sex. They were almost unani mous in making a statement similar to this: “The co-ed doesn’t need vocational and classi cal studies. The male student has to make a living, and should devote his time to better preparing himself for his future vocation.” While this is undoubtedly true to a cer tain extent, it nevertheless presents a sad reflection on colleges and upon society as well. Those same students have been blind folded; they have been taught that success, in their particular vocation—material suc cess—is life. The average college has lost its objective. It has developed into a tech nical institution, neglecting the cultural as pects of life. A college education is not knowledge in itself. It is nearly an approach to knowledge. If four years at college do nothing more than make the student realize how utterly insig nificant his learning is, how much there is to know, then those years have largely accom plished their purpose. Mfcy future decades correct this unfortunate situation and en courage greater interest in general culture; otherwise life will be shallow and common place. It won’t be life; it will merely be an existence. I I What uther rapers day IT HAS SOLD ITSELF (Charlotte Observer) As honestly as some of the New Deal's activities may fall within the range of legitimate questioning, there can be no other side to the proposition that the CCC enterprise has been all to the good. The public can, therefore, conscientiously endorse the statement of its director, Robert Fechner, that this valuable and constructive enterprise of the Fed eral government under Mr. Roosevelt to utilize an army of unemployed young men for the ends of con serving natural resources of the country, should be continued, unhampered in its splendid and achieving activity. PRACTICAL TRAINING • Monroe Enquirert Governor-elect Clyde Hoey, In a speech at Forest City Monday, said something that we hope will not be merely hollow words. The gentleman from Shelby urged the expansion of school curricula to take in more practical courses. He said he was not arguing for a lessening in cultural training but declared, "The 90 per cent of high school graduates who don’t go to college should be better prepared to make a living.” The governor-to-’ ■ mentioned the need for more courses teachitv >entry, masonry, architecture, among others We’ll go a further than Mr. Hoey and say that were willing to lessen the so-called "cultural training" a great deal if they’ll place practical train ing in its stead. Nobody’s Business — By GEE McGEE ••unvDi.il • nini n in kiamnu rLANS FOR ANOTHER YEAR the members of the flat rock conservation of re hober church met in exy-cutive session last night and formed their budgets for the next ensuing year as fol lowers, to wit: pastures sallery, if anny .. 166* furrin missions, if anny. 25* home missions ....._ 30* new organ .._.. 00* new pianna . _ _____00$ repairs to pressent organ _ 10$ missy-laneous, if anny_ 16$ it is possible that the pastures sallery of 156$, re ferred to above, can be saved, our pressent pasture., rev. will waite, has benn asked to resign, quit, move away, and disperse from thence; it is to be hoped that he will take a hint and seek greener pastors, we will then be vacant for sevveral months, possibly a year or more, if it is cheaper to do that way. bro. holsum moore is violently opposed to furrin missions, he says jappan and chinna and india and cally-fomy can look after their own nationals, both in religion, food, training, clothing, and churches, he thinks everthing sent to the furrin fields will go for : war materials instead of religious teachings anso forth. home missions hava slunk down to a low abb. the missionerry who worked in the county-seat on home missions and house-to-house eharrity almost starved to death, so she got a job in the clO stoar and noboddy has benn chose to fill har vacancy, that .lob will allso be canned, if possible, therefoar, if we have no pasture and no furrin miaetona and no home missions to bother with, our budget can be badly re duced. the 25* set aside for f noting the organ and missy - laneous costs oan be cut out without anny trouble, if we don't have a pasture or do anny missionerry work, we won’t need the organ repaired or the missy-Ian- : eous expenses, this will possibly prove the lowest fig ure that salvation has ever reached, as our entire cost of running our church will be narrowed iown to ex actly 000 00$ but the pasture is still in his manse , SUBSTITUTE FOR BUTTER Washington Daybook By PRESTON GROVER (Assoelated Press Staff Writer! WASHINGTON.—Bankers foresee little disturbance to come from the Increase of a billion dollars in re serve requirements expected to be HM ordered within the | next few weeks. The reason is I that the reserves! are well scattered! over the country,! held by the tndi-l vidual banks! whose reserve re- j quirements will be] increased by the] fedal reserve boar] federal reserve! board In i t scheme to check! the market boom FUSION L ClOVIf before it gets out of hand. In the late 20's, when the specu lative market had attracted huge loanable funds to eastern banks, a drastic increase in reserve require ments might have had a very star tling effect. Country banks, in or der to meet it, would have had eith er to collect many of their local loans or to recall money they had tent east to get in on the high spec ulative rates. It is a slightly strange condition that the present up-climbing mar ket has little use for bank funds. But reserve authorities expect the demand to come, and for that rea son have "locked up" already $1, 300,000,00 excess reserves. Tying up the additional billion seems likely to cause no greater disturbance than locking up the first amount, which was no disturbance at all. iwovae eivm tVio rocencc tVto board simply requires the banks to hold that much additional of reserves against deposits thus re ducing the amount they can lend. • • • • More |than merely the members ol ingress were interested in the pro posal of Rep. Alfred T. Beiter of New York to ask congress for $4, 100,000 to build a new apartment house to save congressmen from Washington’s high rents. If 531 senators and representa tives vacated their present apart nent. It might spell lower rents for many other harassed Washington ans. However, few expect the thing to get byond the dream stage. Washi ngton landlords have stymied that tind of legislation before. Anyway how would you get 531 tenators and representatives to live peaceably together? It is hard mough now, what with precedence tnd all, to get them into the same iff ice building. Imagine settling juestions of precedence in connec ,ion with the communal laundry acilities. Liberia has a coast line of 350 nttes. though its greatest depth is .70 miles. DONT LET YOUR CHILD GET COLITIS OR DYSENTERY Young chddree eae fee me daaj^reus ailment* if you unU pvt » little Ante vwn at the hr* »i*n of UMet ataeteb. ineeetUM t boo’d? You can tru*t Ante-: ermen bscaw* it iu been teeted for orer forty year*. and i* the ore tnpaon of a hne old family debtor who gave a lifetime f atudy to atomacb and bowel disorder*. Aak for \nte-Fermen and be certain of getting a reel medicine hat not only eoothea, but eeu at the cauw of the rouble. AUTO REPAIRS On AH Make Cars - Rogers Motors - HOWS qam HEALTH Uludtr, D>. I<» Qmtdum ft ,lu Nm V«A Aadmt* Hi Ami Bunions Races that go barefoot never have bunions. (Hence the conclu sion that this deformity is due to wearing unsuited footwear.) The technical Latin name is hallux valgus. Hallux means "great toe” and valgus means a deviation from the midline. The word "bun ion" really indicates a complica tion of hallux valgus, for it signi fies an Inflammation and over growth of the lubricating mem brane located about the root of the big toe. Bunions are much more com mon among women than men. The unsuited footwear which may cause them are stockings or socks which are too tight or short; shoes which are too short; or shoes with a badly saped cap or toe which i presses the big toe in toward the middle line. Individuals who will sacrifice their comfort for esthetic consider ations may deliberately wear shoes which are uncomfortably short. Consqquentlf they are apt to de | velop bunions. * j However, the vast majority of I bunion sufferers are not victims of their vanity. Their bunions devel oped because they paid too little attention to their feet, rather than because they deliberately chose misfit shoes. When a grown person has ac quired the habit of buying foot wear of a fixed size, he may con ! ttnue to do so for many years, even though his arches have fallen meanwhile. This condition, which commonly involves both the long and transverse (across the foot) arches, causes a considerable lengthening of the inner border of the foot. Therefore, unless the length of the shoes is increased proportionately, undue pressure on the big toe is bound to result. Women who wear excessively high heels may suffer from the same inw-ard bending of the big toe. In this case the weight of the body, instead of being distributed be tween the heel and the ball of the foot, is almost entirely transferred to the end of the big toe. Children, too, may suffer from bunions. Although their shoes may be properly fitted when they are purchased, some youngsters are permitted to continue wearing the same pair after they have become too small for the rapidly growing feet. This is particularly apt to' happen among children who have i long and narrow feet. I Ft. Leavenworth is one of the ’ oldest military posts west of the Mississippi. It was built in 1827 by pel. Henry Leavenworth. Wonderful relief for common colds and sore throat. Real prescription medicine Money.back guarantee! S5r THOXINE \ CLEVELAND DBUB CO. f PAINTING & PAPERING J. B. MEETZE Phone 121, Shelby — 715-W. Gaffney. ’•Better Be Sait Than Sorry" EVERYDAY LIVING Sentenced! ‘ Sentenced to Adventure,” is the story of Serge Zolo, a Russian refu gee, who had about as many thrill ing, hair-breadth experiences as ever fell to the lot of one human be ing. As a lad he fled from Russia, amid unbelievable hard ships and perils. He joined the Hudson Bay com pany in Canada, became a police man, then a Joseph Fort Newton smuggler, bootlegging Chinamen and liquor into America. Later, as a sailor he roamed the South Seas, and then as a reporter had an amusing encounter with Amy Mollison in Montreal. His story I is rich and racy, and does not lose in the telling. Yet through it all, despite some difficult and uncomfortablge exper iences, often dangerous and even desperate, he saw lif* as an an ad venture. and that gave a piquant flavor to his days. Sentence to adventure! Is not that true of every human life, pro vided we see it so and meet it as such! No fairy story was ever more fantastic than the humblest human life, if rightly told. An adventure, said Gilbert Ches terton, is a danger rightly consid ered; a danger is an adventure wrongly considered. It is all in the attitude of mind, how we take a thing and use it. The Prodigal Son, In the parable of Jesus, wasted his money in “riot ous living”, and burned his life up —blew it up. He had a big time, as he thought, and found himself feed ing pigs. Most of us. alas, waste our days in commonplace living—nothing ex citing. nothing thrilling, but just deadly humdrum. We lack imagina tion to see romance in the duties of everyday. In nothing do people differ more than in their ability to make life a story or a stolid stupidity. Out of the same materials one man make life an adventure, another a dull en- i durance. Life itself is an amazing adven ture—how can people drag through it like dumb driven cattle, in a world where there is truth to seek, love to win, and beauty passes with the sun on her wings? DR. BUTLER HITS AT IMPROPER USE OF TAXING POWER NEW YORK.—Citizens must not only be made aware of the possi bility of political revolution, but also they must not be permitted ‘•to overlook the possibility of a quiet, but persistent, revolution against their highest interests and their best service through a wholly improper use of the power of taxa tion,*’ Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, declared in his. annual report to the trustees of the university. Taxa tion, Dr. Butler asserteo, was the ‘ most subtle” type of revolution con fronting American democracy. Explaining the distinction be tween government and liberty, Dr. Butler stressed that in the later field it always had been character istic of the American people to co operate in establishing and main taining institutions for the public service, chief among which related to philanthropy, arts and sciences, public health and education. Attack On Public ‘ All this great variety of public service in the field of liberty has been undertaken and can only con tinue to exist because of personal benefactions,” he said. “If, there fore, government undertakes to adopt and to enforce a scheme of taxation which makes these bene factions for the public service im possible, then government is at tacking the public interest and the public service at their very founda tion. “As a general rule, government recognizes the public service charac ter of these undertakings and insti tutions by exempting from taxation the physical properties they occupy to carry on their work. It should also be required to exempt from taxa • •chest dir** ACTS TWO WAYS AT ONCE Sunday School Lesson Prolog of John’s Gospel uikiiuauuihu vouorni Sunday School Lesson for Jan. 3. Text: John 1:1-18 r ARGE fields, far apart, of Bible interest will be covered in the lessons of the coming year. The Gospel of John will be covered in the first quarter, followed in the second quarter by a study of personalities and incidents recorded in the book of Genesis. In the third quarter, we shall proceed through the book of Exodus to the story of God’s part in the making of a nation. Then, in the fourth quarter, we shall return to the New Testament for a series of studies in the Christian life. The first lesson for the year is from the prolog of John’s Gospel: The philosophical and mystical exposition of the reality of the eternal Christ, the Word that was in the beginning iden tified with God in character and creation, the source of life and light, the Word that became flesh incarnate in Jesus of Nazareth, full of grace and truth. John the Baptist was witness to this Bearer of Life and Light, whose way he had come to pre pare; and John, the author of this gospel, sets forth in this re markable book to bear witness both before and after the earthly ministry of Jesus. He has set himself the great task of record ing the things that Jesus did and said, the fullness of which, if they were all told, he suggests, would more than fill all the books of the world. Through characters and inci dents, he unfolds sentence by sentence, chapter by chapter, the testimony to Jesus, the Son of God, and to the reality of the salvation that He brought to men. • • • 'T’HE Gospel of John presents a succession of witnesses: The witness of John the Baptist, and of Andrew, and Peter, as ney ormg other* to Jesu» thlt they may hear His words of w the witness of Jesus Himself^ the great words of the a^: witness of S mighty works; the witness of S foes in the violence with whin! th«y opposed His work of hea, mg and salvation; and the w ness of the closing day* 0f Hit We in intimate association with His disciples, with aU testimony coming to a climax in His death and resurrection, and His ap. "™ Here in the prolog, like a well, ordered and careful writer, John thin^S?./^ his thesis' fi things that his gospel is going to prove: That Jesus came into the world as an incarnation of God, revealing life and light "ho receive ftm the right to become children of God, uplifting men into all the *lofy of their divine heritage and relationship. It is the story of a Saviour who dwelt among men, full of grace and truth, bringing some thing higher than law, in life and the fullness of truth and righteousness. “No man,” says the writer, hath seen God at any time * But with this unseen God there may be the reality of a deep communion, for the Father is not seen by mortal eyes, but the eyes of the soul have seen the beauty of Hit love and grace. TT is a marvelous thesis. But it is no more marvelous than the life that is its proof, for not only in this gospel, but in other gos pels as well we have the details of that early life of the Master. They may vary as to the na ture and meaning of that life, but the world has acknowledged its richness, its beauty, and its greatness; and there are masses of men, baffled in their efforts to discover God, who have found in Him the supreme evidence of i* divine and loving Father. tion the properties which they hold for investment when the income from such investments is applied to the public service.” May Wake Up Unless public opinion is instruct- ; ed on this fundamental subject, he j declared, the “American people may ! one day wake up to find that their j most respected, most beloved and most successful institutions of pub lic service in the field of liberty have 1 been either crippled or destroyed.” I When Woman Nood Cardui If you seem to hare lost boom of your strength you had for your favorite activities, or for your house work . . . and care lose about your meals . . . and suffer severe dis comfort a* certain times, ... toy Car dal! 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