Han bam Habit May Bum Up The
Brain, English Writer Thinks
Sun Rays Good For Body Not So
Good For Mina. Talk* Summer
Resort Habits.
It Is very comfort,In?, as one
clings like a s*randed %clam upon
these scalding locks at Cannes us
remember that the sunlight Is stim
ulating the corpuscles, encouraging
the lungs and definitely averting
the danger of rickets, write Beverly
Nichols In the London Dally Mall,
That is to say It is comforting if
one considers only the welfare of the
body. But If one occasionally con
siders the welfare of the mind—a
low habit which, happily, is sternly
discouraged by modem society
sun Is not quite so comforting.
For It la clearly evident that the
sunburn habit Is rapidly developing
Into a mania. By all rights the
summer season should be over,
was one of the principal reasons
why I came down here.
But ft is still in full swing. Wives
wboM husbands axe dictating longer
and, longer telegrams every day de
manding their return are deliberate
ly throwing chose telegrams away
(they an usually mutilated beyond
comprehension in any case), and
«pgF«i»/Hng themselves out in com
she u era iip
HOPE, SJ STATES
“It is simply astonishing the way
I began to gain strength and feci
better with the very first few doses
of this wonderful Sargon.
MBS. HONDA HARBIS
"For four years my stomach was
tut of order, my food didn’t digest
light and sometimes I’d feel like
I’d suffocate with the gases that
would form after meals. I was so
nervous at right that I seldom slept
mdn than an hour at a time. Con
stipation and headaches gave me
lots of trouble and rheumatic pains
were so had that I Just about gave
up hope of ever being well. Since
taking Sargon, my stomach doesn't
give me the slightest trouble, I’m
not nervous either, and am so much
more active and energetic my
friends hardly know me. My rheu
matism doesn’t bother me like it
did, I sleep good and get up In fine
spirits. Sargon Pills are wonderful
and regulated my bowels perfectly.”
—Mrs. Minds Hands, 37 3rd ave.,
Greenville.
Sargon may be obtained in Shelby
at The Cleveland Drug Store.—adv
plet.e oblivion upon the sand to taste
the last biting kisses of the sun
before It fades. •
It Is like the last act of Ibsen's
“Ghosts." where the curtain de
scends on the fevered words of a
madman: “Give me the sun. . . give
me the sun!” It is not a mere pass
ing phrase, people are definitely
planning their lives eo that the tan
will never leave them. A new snob
bery has been bora—the snobbery
of tan.
Malice In Atmosphere.
Of course, at really formal and
dressed up affairs, where the men
wear tops to theii bathing suits and
the women wear lip-stick with theirs
the primeval passions of jealousy
and hatred are temporarily moder
ated, for the simple reason that
there Is not so much bare skin In
evidence.
But on all other occasions the at
mosphere is charged with malice
Watch any little group of women on
any of the craay terraces which are
h?wn from the solid rock all along
this fantastic ccast. Study them dur
ing the entry of one of their sisters
who has flushed a deeper shade of
brown than any of them. An expres
sion of sickly loathing gradually ap
pears on all the.r faces. Their Ups
droop, their eyes water, and their
nostrils curl 1'he object of thelf
hatred, who is perfectly aware of
the misery she is causing, discards
as much clothing as is permitted by
the Code Napoleon, and struts round
purring patronage.
She goes up to a friend, who Is al
ready so dark that In London one
would be tempt'd to suspect her an
tecedents, and says, “Darling. If this
Is your first day. do be sure not to
overdo It.”
To another, who Is glowering In a
corner like a crimson danger-signal,
she says, “Angel, what a relief to see
a natural skin fgaln. Poor me. . . ”
and waves In front of her a coffee
colored arm which the crimson
woman would lake supreme pleasure
in biting.
But these episodes are only the
minor examples of a general mad
ness. I believe the sun Is actually
burning up the brains of many of
the people who are offering them
selves, like human sacrifices, before
it.
Do you remember the mesalliances
of the war. . . the matchea which
were solely due to the glamor of a
uniform? In the early days of peace
the cheaper divorce courts resound
ed with the confessions of disillus
ioned wives who admitted that when
the puttees had been folded Into the
ottoman, love had flown out of the
window. . „
The more exenstve divorce court*
told the same tale, oqjy In these
cases the dlsJiuslonment was de
scribed as "allsnation of affection.”
Exactly'the same thing Is happen
ing down here, except that the
glamor of the uniform Is replaced
by the glamor of tan. A brown
youth drifts Into the life of a bored
woman. In this iococo setting, where
the chimes of the clock are only
heard In the rattle of a cocktail
shaker, where the days are a bril
liant bewilderment of blue and the
nights of deceptive Interlude of
purple, romance blooms as easily as
the clematis on the scarred cliffs.
And as easily dies.
Card Of Thanks.
We wish to thank the people of
this commututy, also the nurse and
doctor. Miss Ophelia Hames, and
Walter J. Lackey, for their kind
ness and loytrty through the sick
ness and death of our dear mother
Mrs. A, D. Hamrick. May God bless
you all.
—THE CHILDREN.
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DEBT 3RD HIGHEST
Raleigh.—With the thl/d larg
est grass bonded debt In the
United States, the state of
North Carolina will have taken
up all of her present outstand
ing bonds by I960, provided the
state Is able to meet her obliga
tions as tbe bonds mature and
provided the stale debt Is not
Increased to any great extent In
the Interim. _>
The Raleigh Times, In a story
based on figures complied for It by
W. F. Moody, deputy state treasur
er, and O. M. Jones, sehlor ac
counting clerk In the office of state
treasurer, says that bonds now out
standing against the state of North
Carolina total $188 340,000, and that
this Indebtedness Is only exceeded
by the states of New York and Illi
nois.
If bonds authorised, but not Is
sued, were added to the authorised
and Issued bonds, the state debt
would reach a to'al of $182,297,000.
The bonds authorised but not is
sued total $16,987 0$0.
The huge debt cf the state was
brought about In the main by the
Issuance within the post 10 years of
$111, 000,000 in highway bonds—
which was used to build In this
state one of the finest networks of
good roads to be round In any state
In the union. The last general as
sembly authorized the Issuance of
$4,000,000 In highway serial bonds,
to mature from 1942 to 1948, but
this Issue has not as yet been Is
sued.
With the exception of $46,000,000
of the bonds, the state sinking fund
will retire $65,000,000 of the high
way bonds along with bonds authoi
tzed lor other state purpose., Mr.
Moody said. The $45,000,000 In bonds
that have no sinking fund provi
sion will be retired as they mature
from funds collected by the highway
commission.
Ike’s Tale
Deer Star Readers:
Hit wuz a cold nite but we had a
good fire tu set by fur soan as Sal
got dun washing fur Gus Richard
she hurried home an toted up enul
wood tu do til mornln, which Is a
part of what every woman ought to
do.
We gtnerally set up purty late If
we have a good fire and can think
of anything tu talk about X like tu
set thar an sarter lean over agin
the chimney jam and chaw tobac
cer with'my eyes about half shet
and think stout the devilment me
and Decatur War lick use tu du
when we wus young. I’ve about
quit my meanness now, but Decatur
Is Jlst as bad as ever, they say. I
sat thar tnther nite and watched
Sal dip snutf and a spurtin spit all
over the back-log till she liken tu
a put the five out and I say unto
you that she Is a dura site uglier
than I ever thought she wus—she
will git worse tu, as she gits older,
I’m afeerd.
Strangers air allers a tbrowin hit
up tu me that Sal must a bln rais
ed down at Unelby, she is so plain
and homely looking. But she Is of
the stock that cum from way back
above here in these South Moun
tains. How cum me tu find her and
git acquainted wus one time Jlst
before Christmas, like hit Is now,
Frank Morrison went up In thar tu
see If he couki trade off some dollar
bills fur some good corn whiskey,
and he run up on Sal a helpln her
daddy make sum moonshine, fur he
wus a glttln old an broke down and
heeded her tu help fur all his boys
wus grown up and bad good Jobs on
the chain gang. Frank brought
back such u good report of that
mountain country and of the In
habitants thereof that I got me two
Jugs In a sack and started out, not
knowing whither X went, like Ab
raham of old. So. this Is how m3
and frame round sai, and uus
thing got started but no one can
know when or how It will end, but
1 will say this much and risk the
consequences: Durn Frank Morri
son fur ever making that trip up In
them mountains?
Sal can’t read and hits a good
thing she can’t or she wood a side
swiped me long ago. I guess, fur
tellin things this way. But what else
can a feller ac but talk? Trouble Is
sorter like the tooth-ache—hit gits
worse If you don’t do sumpthln fur
hit She run me off agin tuther nlte
—rite out in the rain and Bill’s
folks let me sleep In thar bed Oil
about time, and soon as 1
got sober I went beck home and I
told Sal what I thought of her and
about everybody else. An now I sor
ter dreed hi: fur Christmas Is a
coming an purty dose and I know
bow 1 am. _^4§j_
Z bate tu ax the Governor tu or
der out troop* tu Cesar tu keep Sai
often me through Christmas; so if
any of you know of any lady that
wants Sal tney can have her If they
will pay the teight on her. But t
don’t want em tu cuss nor abuse
her, if they • an help hit, fur she has
done had enough of that.
IKK
Soon A Freak Will Be Man Not
Named On Hoover Commission
Washington.—It won’t be long
now before the newspapers are
printing photographs of tne man
who doesn’t belong to one of Mr
Hoover's commissions. The fel
low's distinction doubtless will &•*
so unique and solitary that he will
be offered movie contracts.
But if there should happen to be
any unsolved problem left which
has no commission of Its own, the
president doubtless will disqualify
him from future claims to fame by
repairing that error of omission.
There are, of course, millions of
Americans who ate not yet mem
bers of a Hoover commission and
quite a few problems with which
no committee has been appointed
to deal. But lust give the president
time. He's organising commissions
as fast as he can.
He’s Keeping Hts Promises.
His message t<? congress bristled
with reports of commissions al
ready organized and the promises
of more to come. Both he and A1
Smith were Dusy promising all
kinds of commissions in the last
presidential campaign and now Mr
Hoover is giving an astonishing
demonstration r-i the fact that a
president cannot only keep some
of his campaign promises but can
also go far beyond them.
The president'believes that It is
far better to have one man to boss
a Job than a group of two or more
men with equal powers. But he
loves the commission idea for all
sorts of research, study and recom
mendation.
He reports a difficult problem in
Haiti, “the solution of which is still
obscure.” So with the approval of
congress, he wculd send a commis
sion there to study and try to ar
rive at “some more definite policy”
than Is represented by our 700
marines now stationed In Haiti.
Mr. Hoover mentioned to con
gress the-way he had been callbu
meetings/of business man and
others recently with the idea of
heading dff a business depression
and although be did not refer di
rectly to hi* pian for organizing
permaneht ’pioeperity councils” ot
bustn*i labor and agriculture
ther.. 1 be more commissions or
boara? crowing out of that plan.
If tt isn’t a commission it s a
romnrttee. The president also told
how * had appointed an inter
departmental crn.mlttee consisting
of the secretary of the navy, secre
tary of commerce, postmaster gen
eral and chairman of the shipping
board to survey mail contract poi
ses with reference to the merchant
, marine.
j Turning to banking, he urged
careful investigation of varlou
problems and suggested a Join
commission of members of c.ongres'
and other appioprlate federal of
ficials to study and report. \
He recommended a new 'edira
power commission, holding that th«
secretaries of interior, war and agri
culture now jomprislng the com
mission could not give power prob
lems proper attention and that full
time commissioners should replact
them. The radio commission, too
he said, should be reorganized inti
a permanent commission instead "ol
i? ng allowed to die.
Talking about Muscle Shoals, h»
went on to ‘ .suggest that congress
create a special commission" with
authority to negotiate and complet-i
some sort of contract or contracts
on behalf of the government”
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DECEMBER 21st
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where and when it is needed
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