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1 People Will Continue To w Live In Better Style t Collier's Weekly) Automobiles are pleasant posses ions. An Arab tribesman l)as only to see a motor car scooting over a * desert trail to realize that camels ar2 outmoded. Wherever in this world men see something better they desire new things. We can talk as much as we please about the sim plicity of the good old days, but most of us prefer the complications of comfort. We'd rather telephone than walk We like radios and talking pictures We enjoy electrical conveniences and labor-saving gadgets. What ever our race, origin or tradition, very quickly we take up with the best wc and our civilization can aford. A dozen years ago old fossils thought it was funny to see labor v ers drive to work in automobiles. The* silk shirts of workingmen and the silk stockings of their daugh ters were the occasion of jokes, We quickly learned, however, that the joke was on the conservative old gentleman who looked askance at the social changes they witness < *tl. The material standard of living established in this country between 1922 and 1929 was in truth high, but we liked it. All of ua want to go on enjoying life as we were be ginning to have it before 1929. - We were realizing the benefits of an economic democracy. Nearly everybody who had any kind of skill had a job. Money to buy necessities and luxuries was widely distributed. We had leisure to use what we possessed. That standard of living was a sound ideal. All the world per * ceived that it was good for those who had been poor to drive their own motor cars, to listen to their own radios, to wear better clothes, and in general to share in the com forts and luxuries of a highly in ventive civilization. We learned also back in boom times that the soundest kind of business was based on selling good things to everybody. A million customers are a better market than a hundred thousand. The world h a better trading place than the village or county. We are not going to forget there * things. On the contrary, we have just started. In the years to come Jhe standard of living in this coun try and throughout the world will be greatly improved. All sorts if manufactured product* will be made , for universal consumption. Markets will be expanded beyond anything we have ever known. We had a setback but we have not changed the direction in which we travel. We don’t intend to set a new destination. We are going to move on toward economic de mocracy. Actually we have no other choice. We have so much in. the way of skill and productive ca pacity that we are destined to build tip a steadily rising standard of liv ing in which all classes and con ditions share. It is important at a ' time of adjustment such as this to keep this fact clearly in mind. We are not going to progress forward from the point at which we left off two years ago. There was nothing wrong with the new economics in so far as it wae new or economic. These words meant an increasingly high stand ard of living for everybody. Better living was based on mass produc tion which made useful articles to large quantities cheaply. Price? went down as production went up and there was revenue to pay high wages. Woriyu-s were customers or a large scale* The new economics rested solidly on invention, science and the facts of human nature. Our troubles did not come from an expansion of human consump tion. It Is a good thing to provide workmen with motor cars and bet ter homes. The man with a car is more mobile. His range of ac tivity, his usefulness, is enlarged It is a good thing to distribute home comforts to those previously en slaved by drudgery. What we have been suffering from is a hangoyer of the old economic' and not an overdose of the new. Unsettled war debts, tariff barriers, frenzied speculation, chicanery to the security markets, were not new These things are old, very old. Raising tariff barriers so high that the curreiats of international trade are dammed is certainly no part of modern wisdom. Greedy worthless securities are by the same speculation and the issuance of token not new offenses. Yet it was from these things that our diffi culties came. Necessity will compel us to clean house. We shall make adjustments which ought long ago to have been acomplished. Gradually we shall recover from what ails us. As wc get well we shall carry on where we left off when confusion hit the stock market. The intelligent manufacturer, will build the best product he can devise and seH it for the lowest profitable price to the largest number of con sumers he can reach. Wages will again tend upward and the hours of employment will diminish. A hundred years ago we achieved the forms of political democracy. This time the same forces are operating in the economic field. The nineteenth century gave us universal manhood suffrage. The twentieth century is giving us mass consumption. The men and the institutions •vnich prosper in the years im mediately ahead will keep in step with their time. The people of this world are go ing to live better and not worse than ever before. Manufacturers. : merchants, all are concerned. Those who keep that reality in mind, who adjust their businesses to the serv ing of the largest number of peo ple the best possible way, will 8e the leaders when again we have hit our stride. Orange Seed Kills Carcvna Youngster New Bern.—Choking to death when some orange pulp and an orange seed got into her windpipe during an attack of whooping cough Sarah Jessica Whitehurst, seven year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Fred Whitehurst, died within If minutes at her home near Bridge ton. The child was just getting over [the whooping cough, and was eat ing the orange in her back yard. | She started coughing, and part of Ithe orange became lodged in her j windpipe. Her mother and other | relatives did everything they could in a vain attempt to dislodge the [seed. WEBB THEATRE TONIGHT and THURSDAY — SHE IS HERE! a NEW STAR is Born 'igsmmz " MARIAN MARSH Under Eighteen With Warren William, Anita Page, Regis Toomey. Bargain Hour 10c Until 2 O’Clock— Then 10c and 20c. ) Don’t Miss This Great Show WEBB THEATRE LOCAL and* •PERSONAL News Friends of Miss Mary Suttle will, be sorry to learn that she has been ill and confined to her bed for the past several days. Misses Mary and Adeline Line berger returned to Asheville Sun day where the former Is a student at the Southern Workshop and the letter at Fassifem boarding school. Miss Minna LeGrand and Miss Ruth Van Manten, the latter of Missouri, returned to Queens-Chi cora college, Charlotte, yesterday after spending the Christmas holi days here with the former's par ents, Mr. and Mrs, R. T. LeGrand. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Liner have returned to Canton after visiting the latter's sisters, Mrs. Talmadge Gardner and Mrs. Herman Esk ridge at their home here. Mr. Louis Roberts lias retured to Durham where he is a student in the medical school r.t Duke Uni versity after spending the holidays here with his parents, Capt. and Mrs. J. F. Roberts. Mr. Herman Best spent a part of last week at Davidson visiting his grandmother. Mrs. Potts, of that place. Mr. Frank Powell, of Lenoir, was the guest of Mr. Albert Suttle here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Edwards and Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Eskridge visited relatives at Scotland Neck and Lewiston during the Christmas holidays. Miss Sara Best lias returned to Red Springs to resume her studies at Flora McDonald college after spending the holidays here With her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Bert. Miss Kay and Margaret Giles re turned to their home in Marios on Sunday after visiting Miss Mary Virginia Lefler here. Misses Mary Virginia Lefler. Miss Peg LeGrrnd and Miss Zelda Wash burn, who spent the Christmas holidays here with Miss LeGrand, left Monday for Raleigh to resume their studies at Peace Institute. Messrs. Hewitt Dellinger, Carl Dellinger, Alfred Eskridge, Grorge Blanton, Jr.. Robert Gidney, Pal mer McSwain, John Best, Jr., and J. L. Suttle were among the uni versity students who left Sunday to retam to their studies at Chapel Hill after spending the holidays here with their respective parents. Miss Ozell Kiser, of Kings Moun tain, spent several days last week here as guest of Misses Mary and Adeline Lineberger. Miss Sara Dellinger and her guest. Miss Pat Dorsey, have re turned to Raleigh to resume their work at Peace college i fter spend ing the holidays at home. Miss Suzanne Bynum.- of Chai lotte, and Miss Sampson, of Staun ton, Va., were luncheon guests of Miss Elizabeth Ebeltoft and Mrs. T. W, Ebeltoft here on Saturday, From here they went to Lincoln ton to visit their relative, Miss Kate Shipp, who is ill in the hospital there. Both Miss Bynum and Miss Shipp are well known here. Miss Edith Reid Ramseur had as her guest Monday and Monday night Mis>s Katherine Buff, of Bald Mountain. They with Miss Grace Walker returned to Queens-Chicora college in Charlotte yesterday aft er spending the Christmas holidays at their respective homes. Mr, Jack Hewitt, of Henderson ville, Visited Messrs. Carl and Hew itt Dellinger here during the holi days. Mrs. W. J. Hill, Miss Hudlow Hill and Miss Marian Cannon, of Con cord, spent several days last week here with Mr. and Mrs. Williem Lineberger and family. Mrs. Charl es Cannon, mother of Miss Cannon, dame over for the day on Satur day and Miss Cannon, Mrs. Hill and Miss Hill returned to Concord with her. Miss Montrose Mull is recovering at the Shelby hospital from an op eration for appendicitis which she underwent this week. Mr. J. Lawrence Lackey is spend inging a few days In Atlanta, Ga., attending a meeting of Buick sales men. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. McBrayer re turned a few days ago from Vir ginia where they visited Mrs. Mc Brayer's relatives over the holidays, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ingram, of Albemarle, spent several days last week here with their daughter, Mrs. L. J. Candler, and Mr. Candler. Mrs. Candler was formerly Miss Pauline Ingram, who worked in Shelby several years prior to her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Champion spent the day yesterday in Spar tanburg as guests of Mr and Mi's. Boyd Elam Mrs Brandt Smith spent a part of last week in Kings Mountain visiting Mrs. Claude Rhyne and in Gastonia visiting Mrs. H. H. Groves. * * Mrs. Ida Andrews, of Ml. Gilead, arrived in Shelby yesterday for a visit to her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Logan re turned home Sunday from their wedding trip through western North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Summie Spangler are moving out of their house on N. Morgan street this week and will go soon to Hickory where Mr. Spangler will take work in the Montgomery Ward store. Their house will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beckham who are mov ing to Shelby. Mr. Beckham to be agent at the Southern station here. Misses Florence and Minda Seism of Double Shoals spent several days here last week visiting at the home of Mr. J. P. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Toni Lattimore, of Spartanburg, S. C;, spent the day in Shelby yesterday visiting friends and relatives. Mr. Ralph Gardner, who lias been spending the holidays here with Mrs. J. L. Webb and Mrs. M. Webb Riley, has returned to Chapel Hill where he is a student at the Uni* : versity. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hord spent the day Sunday in Charlotte with | tlie latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. ! J. J. Thompson. i Misses Kathleen and Mabel Hord. Mr. Harris Ligon and Mr. T. B. jGold went to Charlotte yesterday 'to a show at the Carolina theatre. Judge and Mrs. E. Y. Webb spent yesterday in Charlotte. Misses Marietta Hoyle, Ann El more and Maggie Murray McGow an have returned to Davenport col lege at Lenoir after spending the holidays here with their respective parents. Mr. and Mrs. M. A, Carpenter, Mrs. T. B. Carpenter. Messrs. Milos and Joe Carpenter, all of Gastonia. Mr. Newtcn Eubanks, of Aiken, 3. C., and Mr. and Mrs. Watson Wright of Johnston, S. C., spent tfie day here last Friday as guests of Mr: and Mrs. R. E. Carpenter. Mrs. Wright was, before her marriage Miss Lillian Eubanks, of Aikeri, who has visited Miss Mary Frances Car penter here on several occasions. Mrs. W. F. Mitchell spent the day j Monday at Mount Holly with Mr. j and Mrs. Burton Mitchell. j Miss Helen Roberts has returned to her studies at Cullowhee Normal, j Cullowhee, after spending the holi I days here w ith her mother. Mrs. Will M. Roberts. Dr. Pressley Wilson, of Charlotte, spent the week-end here with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. H. D. Wilson. Miss Betty Suttle returns today to Asheville, where she is studying at the Southern Workshop, after spending the Christmas holidays here with her parents, M". and Mrs. J. A. Suttie. Mrs. Will M. Roberts visited her sister, Mrs. W. A. Lyles, and Mr. Lyles In Spartanburg a few days last week. Among the students who returned to Duke University on Sunday after spending the holidays here with their homefolks were: Miss Sara Thompson, Mr. Henry Lee Weathers and Messrs. John and “Snookie” Ltneberger. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Davis, Miss Lil Kerr, Miss Melissa Kerr, Mrs. Will M. Roberts and Mr. Grady Poston went to Gaffney yesterday afternoon to attend the funeral of Mr. T. H. Robbins who died at his j home there on Monday. Belwood Circuit Sunday Services I Pastor Snow Gives Service Houi; At Churches On Belwood Circuit. ! For the past two Sundays visit ling ministers have occupied ths i pulpits of the Belwood Circuit. Rev jJ. W. Hoyle preached on the fourth i Sunday in December and Dr. C. H. I Trowbridge the First Sunday in | January. Sunday the pastor of the | Circuit, Rev- Br E. Snow will hold | the three regular preaching services ■at Kadesh at 11 a. m-, St. Peters [3 p. m„ and Lawndale at 7 p. m. jThe text at each service will be I “Let this mind be In you, whlen | was also in Christ Jesus ’” Both I the Sunday School and preaching attendance has been improving on the charge since Conference and each member is urged to attend [both Sunday School and preaching 1st their churches Sunday. Those [who have never professed faith in , Christ are especially invited to ail services on this charge Roosevelt Men See Wets End Think Raskob I'lank Will Not Re [.aid Before Com mitter. New York, Jan. 6.—Tlie opinion whs expressed this week among ad visers of Governor Roosevelt that tile meeting of the Democratic Na tional Committee in Washington next Saturday would be far less eventful than was expected carltoi In the winter. They declared It to be very doubtful In the wet plant of John J. Ra.skob would be placed before the committee meeting in any form that would require n vote, states an article in the New York Times. It was made clear that tills- opin ion was based not on assurance from the Democratic national chair man or any of tils close followers but on the belief that Mr. Raskob realised that he. faced a hopeless battle if lie tried to get the national committee to take up work that properly belonged to the nation-) convention, namely, the drawing ->f the party platform for the campaign this year, x In anticipation of the wet plank' presentation by Mr. Raskob for r vote by the*natlonal committee, ttr Roosevelt advisers had cast about for votes to block the adoption ot such a plank and found that almost two-thirds of the national commit tee members, whether they wc-t committeed to the Roo evelt can didacy or not, were against plat form-making by the national com mittee. In the Roosevelt camp this is a'. | tribute*! to the desire l>y Democra tic leaders to win in 1932 and the leaders arc said to feel that, to win, an open split on prohibition ouch as occurred in 1928. ma t be averted. A “knock-down and time out'1 battle on the subject is all the can prevent a suitable Democrat from winning according to” opinion in nearly all quarters, it was said Mr. Raskob's course, it was pre | dieted, probably will be to submn to the national committee a report on prohibition, with the results of his poll in it, but In such a manner that no vote by the committee will be required. From informavion available yes terday, it appeared that the con i sensus of liis advisers was that the | movement for Governor Roosevelt to declare his candidacy has not yet been reached. He lias been ad vised for months by some clj.e friends that his candidacy mtgh* just as well be in the open, that tb* lime for the choosing of delegs f in a number of States is already : Burke County Has The Largest Families In State; Gain In N. C. Raleigh. —- Twenty-seven North Carolina counties ran pounter to the National trend toward*.'mailer fami lies in the decade of 1920-/30 cov ered by the last Federal census and 22 had the same average number of persons to a family as 10 years ago. North Carolina is known as a State of large families, and the cent us shows that Burke County with an average of five and one half persons to a family, is the champion big family county of the North- State. But champion Burke was one of the counties slipping] backward, losing one-tenth of a per on in its average in the las' decade. Burke was also the cham pion county 10 years ago. On the other extreme was New | Hanover, with an average of 4 3 'persons to the family, the same that |it had in 1920. i Ranking next to Burke with big family averages were Caswell Greene, Hoke. Jones, Persian, and Warren counties with an average of 5.4 persons to a family. Pressing New Hanover for the smallest average family record were two other eastern counties, Curri* tuck and Pare, with a 4.4 person average Cacti. Mecklenburg, boasting the larges i number of famine —28.363. an in crease from 17,322 in 1920—was near the low mark, in the average number in each, 4.3 persons. Guil ford. ranking second with 27,387 families, had an average of 4.9 per sons in each. Forsyth placed third with 24,378 families and an average of 4,5 Ir. each, a decrease from 4.9 hi 1920 when tire county listed only 15. 739 families. Buncombe, ranking fourth with 21,053 families could show an aver age of only 4,5 persons In each, whereas back in 1920 it had ou’.v 13 329 families with an average e>l 4.9 The average for each family re mained constant at 4.9 in Wake despite an increase during the de cade to 19,455 families from 15,227. Wake stood fifth in the State ta the number of families. dost* at. littnd and that he could not be hurt by an avowal at thts time. However, the Governor himself 1* understood to have been listening to those who have held that his candidacy is progressing, with the governor far In the lead, and that there Is no need for action tha' might prove to be premature. Friends of the governor were be lieved to have been Instrumental in having "deferred" a dinner on December 31 arranged by an organi zation of Democratic women. The dinner had been planned as j ‘‘Roosevelt for President dinner"' Another date for the dinner lnt« been tentatively set for the end of this month. A definite announce ment la expected in the next few days. Whether this will meet with, tire approval of the governor's ad visers was not known yesterday. No Public Funds In Closed Grover Bank AH Public Funds of County mid City Arc in Turn Shelby Hanks. Protected. Die e were no public funds of tli< eounty or any of its subdivisions in the Dunk of Grover when It closed for liquidation about two weeks ago, according to a statement obtained from A. E. Cline, county account ant, "All public fund., of the county sue in the two Shelby banks, the First National and tlrS Union Trust Co., and are fully protected by In demnity bonds as required by law,' added Mr. Cline. Both local banks have excellent financial statements and in addi tion to their safety because of strength and conservative manage ment, public funds ate required by a state law to be protected by in demnity bond in North Carolina and the law is adhered to not only with county funds, but with city funds, i Railroad Emoloyees Accept Wage Cut I New York, Jan. 4.—The. Southern Pacific company announced today ithat approximately 8 000 employer, i or about one half of the personnel I of Southern Pacific Lines in Texas | and Louisiana, he ac accepted an unconditional 10 per cent reduction jin wages, effective January 1, This is in addition to about, 13. 000 Southern Pacific shop workers who, it was announced last week had accepted 10 per cent reduction also effective J; nuary 1. Things have got so bad that .tine i than on the street says stock mar jket tuckers are waiting for a re I bait. SHELin ^ pWELANI) pOUNTY AFE ** Conservative C “nseientiou* BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION A Good New Year’s ! Resolution I » Resolve To Save By Carrying Building And Loan Shares New Series Now Open ! ' Let U« Start You Right for the New Year ‘ ' Shelby and Cleveland County Building & Loan Association R. T. LeGRAND, Pres, JNO. P. MULL, Secretary, j T Depositors Hold Up Cashier, Get Closed Bank Money South Carolina Men Were Determ ined To Get Money From De funct Bank. Moneks Corner, 8. C.—Two de positors In the branch of the Peo ples State bank of South Carolina which closed Saturday, held up the assistant cashier here Monday, op ened the vault and eicaped with an undetermined amount of money. Sheriff C. P. Ballenttne. of* Berk ley county, said the men were H. H. Miller and Blcasc Woodward, both of Moneks Corner. When they entered the bank Miss Maggie Wiggins, the assistant cash ier. fainted and on hour later had not sufficiently revived to indicate how much had been taken. She was not subjected to any violence. Sheriff Ballentlne said the men were depositors who weTe 'determ ined to get tlieir money.” Botli men surrendered to county officers here later and said they had hidden their money. Sheriff Ballentine said the amount taken was about $3,000. the amount the men had in the bank when it closed. Room In Business. Madrid—1There's a boom in the haberdashery business here because President Alcala Zamora, like Mayor Jimmy Walker, is a nifty dresser. A New Kind Of Talking Picture When Father and Son are rivals in love ..... 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