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The Greater Offense (From The Wilmington Star) A nine-year-old girl In New York wrote this letter Friday to her "Lit tle Mother:’’ Dear Mother: Hurry up and get better. I can't eat without you. Grandma says you are still sick. She says site doesn’t know whether you will be home Christmas But anyway, Mother, here is what I want: You know the big doll you gave me two years ago. That dress is all worn. You have to make me another new dress for Dolly. I would also like to have a little doll’s house. I hope you get better. Love, etc. Poor little innocent, writing that letter to the Mother she believes if ill! Sonner or later she will have to learn that the illness which )■ keeping Mother away is net a phy sical ailment, but a moral one Dear Ol Grandma telling the wistful child she doesn't know whether Mother will come Christmas! Grandma knows—but can’t bring herself to tell—that Mother will not come this Christmas nor next nor anytime, for the Little Mother to whom this I touching letter was directed is Mrs. Ruth Snyder, and unless the Gov ernor Intervenes she will be dead at 1 (he hands of the law within a few more weeks. Little Lorraine is not old enough to understand that it was Mother, and not a bad man with a mask who had Daddy dubbed to death while he slept one night last spring. She thinks her Little Mother was made ill by the tragedy, and will return as soon as able. It is such incidents as this that add the greatest horror td murder. One may find forgiveness for the spilling of human blood. One may atone to man for such a crime and even receive a Divine pardon, but to one who so disillusions and dis appoints a little child can barely hope for clemency on earth or else where. It, isn't (he spirit of Albert Snyder, a husband never loved too well, that will haunt the guilty wife in the shadow of the electric chair. If she is human—and one who could in spire that Ipve and faith in a baby must possess some redeeming quality -it will be the wistful little face of Lorraine that brings the most poig nant shock. Make & sure of CHRISTMAS DELIVERY mm™ rrm DON’T wait until a few clays from Christmas, before ordering your Orthophonic Victrola. By putting in your reservation now, you will avoid any possibility of delay. Visit us and sec our line of Orthophonic Victrolas. Wc have a variety of models—to suit every taste and every pocketbook. Have us play you the Christmas carols on ihe instrument you like best. Convenient payments raw be arranged, if you desire. Come in—todtyl W, A. PENDLETON ‘The Music Store.” o those who seek the unusual in Christmas Gifts Those whose problem it is to seek some* thing unusual in the way of Christmas gifts will invariably find a happy solution in an extension telephone. As a gilt to the family a second telephone instrument, com veniently placed, will return a. full measure of satisfaction and contentment through out the year. To assure an early installa tion place your order with our Business Office today. 6/ * SOUTHERN HELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY .Incorporated 101. Flaps Wings () i »; *I. >fi f\ I in ft t i .1 P n o it of ~l P.ill* . rl «f » •»oi V »»i <-• rl»** »»rli*r <l;iv nv fi'V 1111? from Hor. mi *• n;<i rir* M•'* ijinf). iriti i r*port<».•$ ah<* liopoi] m r,imv,ve h• *r P‘»2d in Hi* <rl i rip a .1 v CflFlIW “ HE ON not Some Opponents Hold, However, California Now Is Too Large Los Angeles—California proposes to reduce the United States to 47. There Is a strong desire to incor porate more territory within the state’s boundaries. This ambition need not cause Mexico worry. It is Nevada that patriotic real tors have their eyes on. Annexation of Nevada is a dream that more than one Californian hopes may be come a reality. Stephen Barson, California state real estate commissioner, is one ol the most outspoken advocates of the plan which would dissolve one star lrom Old Glory's firmament. "Nevada stands as a barrier to California." he says. “Our splendid arteries of highways reach to the borders of her sand and mud. Out private capital and credit would transform those barren wastes into cultivated fields and our highways would extend another 500 miles eastw ard to the very treasure vaults of Utah.” No state in the union has annexed so much territory. Nevada is sixth in size among the states and the least populous. Set tled in 1850, and admitted to the union in 1804, it is oflicially creditec with 77,407 population, which is much less than one person to ths square mile. However, there have been boon' times when the number of residents was much greater. Nevada probablj has more "ghost towns" than an} other state. There is sectional criticism of th< proposal by persons who feel tha California already is too large; tha division of its present territory inti two states is necessary. The claim that a combination o California and Nevada would pro ducc a commonwealth too unwieldl; to administer efficiently, Is met witl i the rejoinder that the combinci j areas of the two is only slightl; ■ larger than Texas' 305,000 squar miles. "California still has large section of unsettled or sparsely settled ter ritory," critics further contend. Annexationists point out tha large chunks of El Dorado tcrriior have been set aside ns nations parks and forests, and thus ar closed to settlement. In Nevada there are nearly 1,00 acres to each inhabitant; in Califor nla less than 29. California's popu iation is estimated by tire census bu reau to have increased from 3,480. 000 in 1920 to 4,316,000 in 1928. The annexationists feel that tli combine would be of benefit to Hi entire union, by promoting settle ment of land that is virtually :dli and increasing national wealth: b providing employment for counties persons; by reducing the cost c government while increasing ta revenue; by developing thorough ! fares that would make trans-con I tinental travel easier. There is, however, no false opti mism over the liklihood of the an nexation being accomplished. Oppo sition of Nevada's officeholders an political parties is to be expected. The whole matter now is most] “talk" but advocates of the proposs hope to see it develop into some thing concrete within a year c two; and eventually into the Dig gest real estate deal since the Louis ana purchase. ONE OWL PITS THREE TOWNS IN DARKNES: Palestine, Tex—An owl that sa on a high-power line and peeked a another with his beak before dawi was responsible for darkness in threi towns in the early morning. The owl shorted the wire, whicl burned out, leaving Elkhart, Grape land and Crockett in the dark, «nc it took the greater part of the daj to repair the lines A plane has been invented to flj straight up in the air. It will bt used at the navy department wher Admiral Magruder writes anothei article?---Virginian - Pilot. WINTER AS IT STALKS ABO IT in this section sure is hard on the coal dealers. About the time a coal dealer gets ready to have a good laugh at the rain and sleet the sun comes out and wipes the smile away and puts on a frown. FOOTBALL ISN'T WHAT IT used to be if you care to listen to a gridiron yarn told down at the Key club by Connelly Eskridge, local grocery salesman. Some fan who attended the recent Tech Georgia game in Atlanta was tell ing about the mud and rain inter fering wdth the play when Esk ridge interrupted: “They known nothing about a muddy field now adays. I remember w:hen football was so rough that on a muddy field you had to blow bubbles in the water to keep 'em from piling on you all day." The story of a game between Shelby and Westminster in the old days when the back carrying the ball had to yell "down” before the | opposing players would quit piling j on or the referee . would blow his whistle. j "Up at Westminster that day | there was so much water and mud I on the gridiron that when you got | tackled and your face split the puddles you couldn’t yell ‘down’ and j the referee had to watch for bub ! bles on the water or listen for gur i gles to know w hen he should toot ! his whistle," Eskridge said, i That was back in the day when ; 'ootball was known as rough. SINCE THE HOT STOVE LEA gue season is on in Shelby, for the baseball and fcotball fans must fill in some way until Spring, many good sport stories are heard. One of the best ones is told by a fan who keeps up with statistics and dates back to the summer when Shelbv was in the Blue Ridge League. A big pitcher, whose name the colyum cannot recall, reported here to twirl for the Shelby team, but proved a better hitter than a pitcher—anoth er Babe Ruth as it were. This pitch er. so the story goes, was at bat 10 times here and hit 10 three-baggers on 11 pitched balls in all. The other 1 ball was too high too hit with the i proverbial ‘10-foot pole. That's one for the books, we say. AMONG THE THINGS WE haven’t heard is the name of the fellow who will get the Shelby posiofficc if A1 Smith is elected. A METHODIST TAKES OFF time to let us know what would be real news by handing in the follow ing clipping from the Uplift: "The Monroe Journal's story of a Me thodist minister refusing fried ■ chicken does not apply to this age. I Such an event in this day would ‘ | certainly be a piece of news." OF COURSE THAT PARAGRAPH ’ for juggling words does not com r pare with the one from the Rock Hill Record about dresses—and the ’ Rock Hill editor should know as he has been located near Winthrop J college and all those girls for years. - Says The Record: "In other days j they wore their dresses down to their insteps and now they wear 5 them up to their step-ins.” __ THIS COLYUM NOTES WITH t interest that "Doc Sib" Dorton is > being talked for secretary of the t State Fair. The movement may end J up with nothing more than talk, but | if the Shelby man should land the 31 post the state may as well go " ahead and charter about half of the Atlantic ocean to put the ' crowds in—that is if Dorton can draw them to a state fair in s:anns as he does to the county j. Jhiit And we believe he could. " I PERHAPS THAT FORI) WHICH y tried to knock a locomotive off the s track here the other night was at j | tempting to let the new flivver Ikncw that it wasn’t the whole show. - j IF SANTA DOESN'T BRING j you what you think he should bring - j why not get out a recall petition - land get a new Nick? i I AMONG THE NOTICEABLE omissions: Those newspapers in cer y tain cities which did not publish 1 the official All-State high school " football eleven. Some of 'em were 1 large cities and they didn’t have as many players on the eleven as did Lexington, Shelby and some of the other one-horse towns. 5 "I WANT TO GIVE HIM A chance," Governor McLean is said . to have said Saturday when he • paroled a 14-year-old white boy l | from a six-year prison sentence for » murder and sent him to a reforma tory. A good move on the part of i the governor, we agree along with Robt. A. Hoyle, who calls attention to the matter, but what about, the 14-year-old negro boy who was sent to the State prison froirf Shelby some months back for an attempted attack on a colored girl? If he has : oeen given a chance, or even had i [ one in his life no one has heard ■ j about it. | ‘‘The prison is for men, not boys,' the news story had Governor Mc lean saying. Of course the Shelby boy was a black one, but Alfred Denton, the boy killer from Nash county, could not have had any more meagre chance than the grinning little imp who left Shelby to stay in Raleigh almost as long as a prominent Shel by citizen will go there to stay some of these days—not at the same place, of course. JOHN R. DOVER LOCAL TEX- j tile manufacturer must have been a Boy Scout in his youth—which was not long ago if you happen to be talking near him. Meaning that Mr. Dover believes in being prepar ed. Not long since he said to Max Gardner “I've told the employees that I'll have the governor for speaker at our banquet after next. Now if it suits you we'll not disap point them." So far as is known it is the first speaking date made for Governor Gardner. IF YOU SHOP EARLY TAKE the smelling salts along., for the store folks—it'll surprise 'em. Funeral Story Classed As Best Ioncl Bratiann Moved Among Kings and Princes hut in Death Preferred the Humble Raleigh. — From adjournalistic standpoint, the best newspaper story of the last si:: months is the Asso ciated Press dispatch of November 27 from Florica, Rumania, telling of the funeral of lonel Bratianu, the dictator of Rumania who moved among kings and princes but in death preferred the humble funeral of the peasant, Stewart Robertson, chairman of the department of En glish, North Carolina State college, believes. He made the award at his latest gathering of advance students of journalism, held one night a week, to which forum high state officials, active newspapermen, retired man aging editors, prominent visitors, graduate students, and research pro fessors and heads cf State college attend. Mr. Robertson's zeal in his favor ite study—journalism—carries him far afield. He has prepared several papers from research work covering the nation's press and he combines academic study with practical finds. Holding up the first page of the Raleigh News and Observer of No vember 28. he read to the “class' the Associated Press dispatch and point ed to the objectivity, slow cadence, and restraint of the simply worded news story. Queen Marie appeared to the bottom of the dispatch. "I am afraid that had the funeral been held in this country, a number of writers would have had Queen Marie all over the story," he said. I An AP correspondent present, an swering inquiry, said an American wrote the dispatch, as Americans write all foreign "stuff.” The item in question began: "Six huge white oxen, led by fifty priests in medevial ! robes, today bore the body of lonel Bratianu from the funeral train .to its last resting place in the little Byzantine church which the late Premier built here himself.” Several teachers in the class said they had read the story in their cur rent history classes. Mr. Robertson brought out that the interview form of writing “is an American invention of but several years ago" and is a great step in be half of independence of the Ameri can press. Liquor Dealings Take a pack Seat; 74 New Inmates Received In November (News and Observer) Liquor dealings bad little to do with repopulating State's Prison last month. Killing and stealing was responsible for getting the majority of the new inmates behind the bars. Most of the prohibition I law violators draw short terms j and serve them on county roads ! or in county jails. Negroes showed more success in staying cut of prison last month than did white people. It wasn't the black who did most of the killing and stealing. In all 74 new prisoners were received in November, Superinten dent George Ross Pou reported. Of these, 49 were white. One was a woman, unmarried. Thirty of the white men were married, and thirteen of the 25 Negro prisoners were married. Rutherford county, which sent down a bus load of 13 prisoners just when cotton picking time was at its height, led the counties in the number of inmates. Guilford sent over five, and Wake only two. Ten of the new prisoners got in for manslaughter and seven foi second degree murder. Nineteen were caught in the larceny net. Whiskey dealings accounted for only seven. Violation of the state banking laws accounted for one. Of the 74 November initiates, 27 gave their occupation as labor ers, 14 as farmers, 12 as textile workers, and the others various occupations including nothing at all. If our souls enter animals when we die, the slain pedestrian must find a grim satisfaction in being a porcupine.—Washington Past. Unwise To Attempt To Arbitrarily Dictate To Children, Says Writer New York —Today's parents must earn to be comrades to their grown ihildren instead of keepers and judges if they expect to get happi less and satisfaction out of their jobs. That, at least, is the opinion ;rown out of the experience of one if them, Albert Payson Ternune. acted author. In brief, Mr. Terhune asserts, :imed have changed since today s iO-year-old were 21. and to the re quirements of parenthood have changed with them. Parents who fail to realize this, lie holds, are loomed to be embittered by their ihildrens reactions toward them. "If we insist on remaining par ents and iii exacting the reverence and obedience that were ours when Dur children were babies, we shall not get what we demand.1’ he says, writing in the Shrine Magazine— ‘and we shall lose everything else worth while that our grown oil spring could and would otherwise give us. “When we parents were young, the world was rolling at a leisure ly pace and mankind was working ten hours a day. Now the world is spinning at top-speed and man kind somehow has more leisure than ever before. “When we parents were young there were few theatres, no pic ture houses, no motors, no golf, al most no country clubs. A trip to England was more unusual than is a world cruise nowadays. Tire home bulked big and so did the church. Both home and church were mightily on the side of pa rental authority. There were few places except home and church where the young could go for rec reation and help. Hence in .hose days parents had everything their own way.” B.ut today's youth, having learn ed self-confidence and the ways of a rapidly moving world at an early age is likely to become re sentful of the parental restraint to which youth of preceding gen erations was subjected his Shrine article asserts. The better today’s parents do their job of bringing their chil dren through the early years to a point where they can master life's pioortms "iiie sooner the c are in a position where they " longer need their parents," he non out, 1 "Then father and mother - out of work as parents. Of old v‘ renewed their parent days helping to bring up their gn„ children. But the mother of t clay is too wise in the modern u bringing of children to let grand or grandma spoil them or gue the unhygienic coddling. “But even if we can no lone be reigning parents there a a million fine an comforting thin we can be. Once let our gro, children rid themselves of t idea that we are keeping dna proving tabs on them and let the discover that we are more hum than parental and there are g0( chances of real chumship and mutual good times. “Meeting on terms of enti equality and with parental aut.i0 ity gladly and mutually jUnke there is a brilliant chance for friendship which shall brighten a our fading years." The tobacco flea beetle can d successfully controlled by the use c the trap bed. If the beetles or bui arc kept from the young plants an killed, they are not so likely to at tack the crop in the field. iAtmtnZ For Comfort Relax Yo^r Feet The man who studies every evening needs absolute foot comfort to concentrate or} his work. This felt Moc casin has a neat plaid collar and soft cushion sole. 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