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A Plan To Make The Eighteenth Amendment Effective In U. S. A. (The following Is the plan sub mitted in the Durant contest by John M. Shannonhouse of Shelby. It will be remembered that Mr. Durant offered $?5,000 foi (he best prohibition plan, the winner being Major Mills, of New York.) To make the eighteenth amend ment effective need not call for revolutionary or radical methods. It is not the enactment but the en forcement that creates lespect for law. Nothing is to be gained by passing more stringent laws unless they can be enforced. We know that all the violators v ho are caught, tried, and convict ed, do not quit their die; al activi ties. We know that all the viola tors who are caught and tried are not convicted. We know, further that not half the number of those who violate the prohibition laws are ever caught and many ef them go unmolested. Of course there must be some de fect in our governmental system to account for this condition. Let us consider the main obstacles to strict enforcement. Many violators who have been caught and convicted continue their illegal activities because their pun ishment was not sufficient to deter them. The penalty was not equal to the prospect ol further alluring profits. The national prohibition law provides increasing degrees of punishment for first, second, and third offenses. It may be that, ome Judges hesitate to impose ex treme punishment, or violators arc more careful not to got caught sec ond and third times. For violators who arc tried but not convicted, there may be several reasons. The evidence against them may be insufficient: the prosecution may be only half-hearted, or the Jury may be in sympathy with the accnsed. But th-3 greatest obstacle is uuu* which enables so many violators to escape tho law's clutches. It is this fact that brings prohibition and its enforcement laws into disrepute. The fault even here is not, in the law but in the influences that con trol its execution. In some instances there is lack of cooperation between state and federal officers, As the national prohibition forces are not large enough to cover entire states, patt of the work Is left to local officers, who are sometimes Inclined to the federal government. When lo cal officers are not in sympathy with prohibition, they make little ii any effort to run down violators. Investigations have disclosed cor rupt practices among both federal agents and local officers. Federal enforcement agents have bear dis missed from service for being in the pay of the bootleggers. ■And lo cal Officials, high end low. have bean indicted for bribery to keef) silent while speakeasies plied their trade. As serious as these obstructions to law enforcement arc. they are not so detrimental to the ultimate success of yrohibition as is the op position of considerable public sen timent—an opposition that does not dinsctly violate the law, but seeks to-v nullify its force by dis crediting prohibition. This senti ment is piade up of several ele ments. First, there are former brewers, distillers, and saloon keepers. Their number may be trivial but their in fluence is powerful, and as they usually work under cover their ac tivities are not easily detected. Second, there are the confirmed .drunkards, habitual drinkers, and those who take an occasional drink. Of course all these are fighting prohibition because it takes away their liquor. Third, there are those who do not drink intoxicating liquors but look upon prohibition as a restriction of personal liberty. They seem un mindful that every liberty taken from the Individual is for the bene fit of the many. Has society not a better right to restrict individual liberty than the individual has to infringe upon the rights ol oth ers? Fourth, there are those who are misled by the propaganda that conditions are worse under prohi bition than they were under legal ized lifluor. This contention has been refuted by authoritative sta tistics as well as by fair-minded w observers who come in close contact with actual conditions in various parts of the United States. From the foregoing reasoning it appears that the major difficulty confronting prohibition is the vast number of violators that escape prosecution, and the principal cause ►of this condition is the opposition of public sentiment. There are oth er factors, already mentioned, but they are influenced largely by this main cause. --; If, as has been shown, effective law enforcement is frustrated by an opposition that does not itself vio late the la\£ but which is the chief nullifying influence, there are two ways to deal with this opposing fac tion. We can grant w’hat those who constitute this opposition want, which is modification, or we must convert most of them to the pro hibition view. Modification that would satisly those who want intoxicants would not only violate the eighteenth amendment, but defeat the purpose of prohibition, Even it modifies!- j tion were possible under the con- j stitution, we could not have legal ized liquor in some states and strict prohibition in others. A situation of that sort would multiply the present difficulties of enforcement. So the practicable way to deal: with this hostile sentiment is to convert it, Persuasion has always I been prohibition's best method. We can prosecute and punish violators i but we cannot indict a public sen-, timent that is beyond the reach of j law. Let us take our cue from the way health departments cope with a situation when a germ-spreading disease breaks out. That is to say, while we are prosecuting violators, we should do something to chock, the epidemic of lawless influence. We need to bring out public senti ment back of prohibition and law enforcement to counteract that sen timent which is leading encourage ment to violators. If wc who believe in law and order are not evading our duty. We all know the power that our press wields and the In fluence that our most respected citizens have over others of their communities. Do these feel no ob ligation to combat this lawless sen timent? Do they believe that a public attitude which encourages disregard for law is doing no harm? Shall we keep silent while the re bellious influence continues to spread? We cannot expect, to convert former brewers, distillers, saloon j keepers, and present bootleggers, i nor can we do anything with con 1 firmed drunkards, or much with | habitual drinkers; but we can ap j peal to the others by showing them i what prohibition has accomplish | rd economically and sociologically \ wherever It has been given a fair j trial. If we can remove the an ' (agonistic • fling which the goocl intentioned elements hold against prohibition, law enforcement will ; show a decided improvement. Even I this Implies no small task requlr j tng education and discussion, but it can be carried out. When the con ] sclent ions people now opposed to j prohibition, because of -tpe person al-liberty-idea or the unenforce able-view, are convinced that pro hibition lias been written into the constitution and cannot be repeal ed or modified without a revolu tionary upheaval in public opinion, [ they will be more willing to con sider the situation with unpreju diced minds. The question for them and tho rest of us to decide is whether the eighteenth amendment shall we become in fact, as well as we become a law-abiding nation commanding world-wide respect, or shall we become 1 nfaet. as well as by reputation, the most lawless country on earth? . The unquenchable thir't~for al choliolic liquor is not confined to pcopfe of any particular area; the craving for intoxicants, cultivated by hhbitual drinking, is universal. Prohibition, therefore, demands no greater personal sacrifice from peo ple of one section than from those | of another. That intoxicatmg 11 : quor is not essential to cur health, j prosperity, or happiness, we know because of the thousands, even mil ! lions, who do not touch it. An im | port ant part of our present task is j to implant in the minds of young ' folk the benefits of abstinence so j that we may raise up a generation j which will not have acquired the , thirst for intoxicants. If we can achieve that much, we shall be well j on the way to success. I Now let us .summarize our tieeas. We need fewer small fines but more prison sentences with manual labor , for violators, especially for those i who by their continued violations and enormous profits have grown I powerful and defiant. We need pro ! hibition enforcement laws in every j state, and the cooperation of state ; and federal officers in running down and prosecuting violators. We need as judges, enforcement offi ! eers. and other officials, courageous, ' incorruptible men who are in sym pathy with prohibition. But no matter how efficient our • government unless we who hold 1 no public office recognize and live up to our responsibilities. We need schools that will teach children the i physiological effects of alcohol i we need in wet areas prominent ; families who will set good examples i by banishing liquor from thetr homes; we need men and women of high standing in business and ■ society who will give evidence against violators; we need men and women of influence In their com munities who will serve on juries; we need newspapers and other ; journals that will condemn specific ; violations not only by the obscure, but by those who move lit high places. In other words, we need loyal, patriotic citizens, who are willing to serve their government ; in a peaceful manner by lending i their influence to uphold our na tional constitution. I _ One of the eight cruisers author \ ized by congress, and now under construction, has been named Chi cago. And still we talk of peace.— ; Judge. The case of a man who develop ed a body temperature of 110.6 de grees and survived is reported in a western medical journal and is said to be the highest authentic record of this kind ever reported. Flu Epidemic Subsides. Will Open Lunchroom. Junior Order In Fine Shape. Casar, Jan. 15.—Mr. R G. Car penter spent Saturday night with j his daughter Mrs: O. E. Whisnant! of Shelby. Mrs. Clyde E Powell of Lawn-1 dale spent n fi-.v days last week here with her parents. Mr. and i Mrs. A. E. Elmore. Mr. and Mrs. Oleman Ivester of Shelby spent Saturday night here with their parents, Mr. Crowell Ivester. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Lutz, spent Sunday with Mrs. Lutz's parents,; Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Elmore. Mr. and Mrs. Demey Carpenter spent Saturday night with Mrs. Carpenter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Horton. Mr. Law'rence Walker and family, and Mr. and Mrs.'Oleman Ivester visited friends in Morganton Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Cook spent Saturday night with their daugh ter, Mrs. R. L. Carpenter. Mr. and Mrs. Gurry Elmore visit ed at the home of Mr. N. L. Car penter Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Walker spent Thursday night with Mr. and Mrs. Gurry Elmore. Mr. Frank Newton of Forest City, spent Sunday here with his mother, Mrs. John Newton. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Elmore spent Saturday night with their daugh ter, Mrs. Clyde E. Powell of Lawn dale. Mrs. Lawrence Walker spent a few days last week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Crowell Ivester. Mr. Glen Warlick. Mr. Joe Bass and Miss Mangle Walker of Mor ganton spent Thursday with Miss Walker's father, Mr. Joe Walker. Mr. and Mrs. N. O. Elmore, spent Saturday night with Mrs. Elmore’s parents, Mr. Marvin Eaker. Little Miss Sibyl Elmore spent Saturday night with her little friend Miss Mabel Warlick. We are glad to report that Miss Mary Beth Warlick, who has been sick with pneumonia has, recovered and will return to High Point col lege Thursday where she Is a stu dent. Glad to icport Mr. Adam Walker’s family improving with flu. At this writing Mr. Pink White who has been very sick is still Im proving. Wc are glad to learn that Mr. 'Mar> in Baker's family who have been very stek with flu have al most recovered. Mrs. A. A. Horton who has been suffering from Injuries received from a fall .is still getting along nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Walker visited Mr. William Elmore Sunday night. Mr. Coyet Tillman spent Sunday afternoon at ■ the home of Mr. R. L. Carpenter. Mr. Twitty Green was the supper guest of Mr. Ruffin White Sunday. Mr. Gurry Elmcre, Mr. U. O. El more and fir. Lawson and Law rence Walker motored to Forest City Monday on business. Mr. A. E. Elmore spent Monday in Llncolnton on business. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Elmore and Mr. and Mrs. Gurry Elmore mo tored to Charlotte Tuesday. Mr. Roscoe Cook motored to Shelby Saturday on business. Mr. Lawrence Queen has pur chased a part of Mr. A. C Bracket's store building in which he will open a new lunch room. The Casar Junior Order members held their regular monthly business meeting in the Junior hall here Saturday night and report the lodge in fine sharp and a stronger and better lodge for the coming year. We are glad to report the flu epidemic as being almost subsided in our community. Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Richard last Wednesday a bounc ing boy. Figures For Happy Marriage Are Given Rev. Ciinton Cox, pastor of Drexc’. Park Presbyterian church, Chic ago, sent out questionnaires to 150 couples whom he married. They were 18 questioned contained in the questionnaire and these ques tions and answers make interesting reading. They are as follows: 1. What was your greatest mis take in courtship? Extravagance. 2. Do you favor long engage ments? A long courtship and a short engagement. 3. Is married life all you expect it to be? Absolutely, and then some. Are in-laws still a great problem? Emphatically, yes I 5. What to you causes the most trouble in the home? Lack of fair play and the tendency of one to dominate the other. 7. what is the supreme joy of married life? Babies. 9. Should one marry secretly, or against parents’ wishes? Only when the objections of parents to the marriage are unreasonable. 10. Can one .Uve with his or her people and be happy? No. 11. Do you have Bible reading or; prayer in your home? No. Attend 1 church? Regularly. Home Happiness 12. Is a girl with a home as hap-: py as the single girl with a posi tion? Par -happier. 13. Is the single man really hap pier than the married man? Great as are the responsibilities of the married man, he is invariably the happier. 15. What 'is your attitude toward mixed marriages? Mixed marriages should be avoided. 16. Does owning a home increase happiness? Yes, if the debt incur red is not too great. 17. Do you save systematically? "yes” and “no," just about fifty fifty. Cleveland Cloth Mill Personal Gleanings j (Special to The Star.) Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Adams spent the week-end in Greenville, 8. C. with her parents Mr. and Mrs. W M Shockley. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Ross enjoyed an oyster supper given by Mr. and Mrs. Wade Ensley on last Satur day night. Misses Ola and Beatrice Haiott r.fpnt the week-end in Kings Moun tain with friends. Mr. and Mrs. Buford Teale are back with us again after being aw'ay for a short while. Little Miss Lucille Jones has been very sick with influenza but is better now. Mr.-and Mrs. C. B. Walker spent the week-end with her mother in Fingerville, S. C. Mr. George Cadell an employee of Cleveland Silk mill is building three nice new houses on Oakland Drive. Mrs. Oscar Bridges is visiting her father and mother of Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Enr.ley were visitors in Newton on last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Reynolds of Spartanburg, S. C. visited his moth er over the week-end. Mr. E. T. Switzer his just re turned from a business-trip to New York. No. I Township News Of The Current Week (Special to The Star.1 People of this community are getting better with the flu. Mrs. J. E. Price of Gaffney, S. C. r»ri?nt the week-end with Mr. Rcme Dims and family. A number of our people attend ed the funeral of Mrs. William Humphries at Cherokee church last Monday. • Miss Bcola Bailey spent last Sunday night with Miss Inez Davis. Mr. Jay Dobbins has been visit ing his sister Mrs. Voil Bailey. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Humphries of Gaffney spent the week-end with Mr. Humphries' father, Mr. Thamer Humphries. Mr. and Mrs. Wofford Hicks of Mt. Pleasant and Miss Onie Flay and Coy Humphries of Grassy Pond, S. C, spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Dee Byars. Miss Connie Bailey, formerly of this community, but now of State Line and Mr. Baxter Befcson of Cliffside were married Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Blain Davis spent last week with Mrs. Davis’ parents. 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ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE Shelby Hardware Co. — PHONE 330 — “WE SERVE TO SATISFY.” visited their brother, Mr. 'Colbert Bridges of Boiling Springs last wpek. Mr Gold Jones who is at the Rutherford hospital i.s getting along line. Miss Missie Jolley who teaches at Prospect has been on the sick list the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Gill Lyter of Con verse. H. C spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Willie Byars. Mr. and Mrs. Blain Davis and Mr. Jack and Miss Nan Ellis were Shelby visitors Saturday. Dr. Bridges Returns Home From Hospital After Holiday Injury. (Special to The Star.) Lattlinore, Jan, 16.—The Woman's club met in their regular monthly meeting Thursday afternoon In the home economics room at the school building. A study of meats was taken up and Mrs. Wallace, the home agent, was present and dem onstrated how to broil beef. Miss Winnie Blanton of South Shelby spent the week-end with Miss Bleaka Blanton. * Among the out-of-town teachers to spend the week-end at their homes here were Misses Carrie Ray burn. Lola Martin, Lilia Crawley, and Mada Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Canipe, Mr. Lolon Canipe and bride of Forest City visited Mrs. W. T. Calton Sun day afternoon. Miss Vertie Walker spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. P. Z. Harrill of the Trinity community. Mr. Joe Humphries has purchas ed the O. M. Mull farm near Lat timore and moved his family there last week. Mr. Humphries former ly lived in the Beaver Dam com munity. Prof. V. C. Taylor and Mr. A. L. Caltofi left Monday for Raleigh to attend the grand lodge of Masons. Miss Gladys Hawkins had as her dinner guests Sunday, Miss Winnie Blanton of South Shelby, Misses Maude Morehead, Anny Suttle Bleaka and Genevieve Blanton. Friends of Dr. D. T. Bridges are glad to know he is Improving rap idly from injuries received in an automobile accident during the holidays. He was brought to his home here from the Shelby hospi tal one day last week. Flu seems to linger in our midst. Among those sick at present are: Mr. Howard Hamrick’s family. Mrs. John Blanton, Miss Annette Blan ton, Master Kenneth Blanton and Miss Grace Walker. Miss Patsy Stockton who has been sick for the past two weeks is improving. Mr. S. C. Rayburn celebrated his 67th birthday Sunday. His children came in to enjoy the day with him and help eat the bountiful dinner given in his honor. Miss Zepher Ree Lovelace, of Ellenboro spent the week-end with her parents Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Lovelace. Miss Euphra Ramsey spent Sat urday night with Miss Pearl Har rill. The operetta "In Old Louisiana" which was postponed before Christ inas on account of flu will be given at the auditorium some time soon. Duke Will Leaves Much To Charity Churches, Orphanages And Aged Treachers Benefit In State. New York, Jan. 14.—Benjamin N. Duke, retired tobacco manufactur er and philanthropist, who died January 8. left more than $1,000, 000 to charitable organizations, most of them in North Carolina, his native state. The bulk of the estate, the value or which once was estimated at from $50,000,000 to $200,000,000, goes to Mrs. A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., of New York, a daughter. The Angler B. Duke Memorial, Inc., at Dur ham, N. C., an educational cor poration founded in memory of the capitalist's son who was drowned in 1923, receives $580,000, while $585,000 Is divided among southern religious and charitable organiza tions, chiefly Methodist institutions. Mr. Duke and hi* father and brother were credited with having given $90,000,000 in philanthropies during their lifetime. Mrs. Sarali P. Duke of New York, the widow, receives the life use of two homes, one on Firth Avenue here and another at Durham. After her death the property goes to Mrs. Biddle. Duke said in his will that his wife's bequest was no larger be cause of the "ample manner” in which he had provided for her previously. The document provided for the disinheritance of any beneficiary who attempted to break the will, and reversion of that person’s be quest to tlie Ansier B. Duke mem orial. Thrilled With Pride Over His Home Folks In a letter front O, Max Gardner to Editor Lee B. Weathers, he says in part:: “I wish I could properly impress upon you the deep appreci ation of the splendid contribution you made to my inaugural. The book of letters has already develop ed into the most interesting docu ment in the governor's mansion, and I would not take any Sum of money for this volume. “I v/ould thank you to express to the people of Cleveland county, through The Star, my everlast uig gratitude for their attend ance upon my Inauguration and for the fine impression they made upon the people in Raleigh and throughout the state. I have heard so many compliments about our Shelby crowd that it makes me thrill with pride. I would have my home people know that I shall never forget their sustained loyalty and support.” [ ’ ___: ASHEVILLE GIVEN 72,000 POPULATION IN DIRECTORY Asheville.—The population of the city of Asheville is 72,200 according to figures made public by the Com mercial Service company, which has just finished compiling data for the new cify directory. This places Asheville as the third city in the state with only Charlotte and Win ston-Salem showing greater popu lations. Spooks! The proposed change in the calendar would give us 13 Fri days the 13th.—Toledo Blade. A Ray Of Sunshine. <Meda Cash Orlgg.) A tiny ray of sunshine fell they say In the heart of a flower happy at play It traveled and traveled quickly away And oh; the joy it scattered that day. As it danced along the pathway of life. It blotted out sorrow and blotted out strife It peeped in a window, with the curtain all tern, And saw a dear face all wrinkled and worn. No one to cheer the cld lady in bed Her heart was hungering with love, to be fed The little ray sparkled a time or two, The dear old soul smiled, her pale fare looked new. Beaming and shining, the ray slip ped along To seek out another to cheer to song. In a room that wrs close and cold * and hare It found a cripple but ro sunshine there. The little ray glowed In its splendor grand; It cheered the cripple, then quickly it ran To find another to brighten, to cheer, To lighten a load or some burden bear. % If one ray of sunshine can make life bright With its glowing sparkles from morn till night Oh! What could we, in our golden tasks do To make a life bright—To make a sky blue. JCPENNEYC0 Shelby, N. C. 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